@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caMerlin just pointed out that my favourite #nokings sign was obviously (I totally see it now!) a GenAI creation, and this just makes everything worse but I am glad for the realization. 😢 🤦♂️
#genAI #beCreative https://sciences.social/@merling/115401547653609193
@timbray@cosocial.caHuh, spam from 1Password offering me “Early access to Comet, the new AI browser from Perplexity”. I’m perplexed all right, about why 1Password, an outfit I mostly like, is doing this. I want a serious relationship with my security-technology providers, not a spammy one that flirts with sketchy totally-unrelated products.
#genAI
@timbray@cosocial.caThe weird thing about the #genAI bubble is that everyone who's even moderately well-informed knows perfectly well that it's a bubble. I read quite a bit of finance journalism and skepticism/cynicism dominate there. In that respect it’s more like 2008 than 2000. Like they say, “the market can remain insane longer than investors can remain solvent”. But surely not that much longer?
@gla@mastodon.socialOh the irony
#microsoft #copilot #genai
@timbray@cosocial.caHey, just a reminder that Thursday 18th there’s the “IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025”, a free Zoom event open to all. I’m a speaker (focusing on #C2PA). It looks like it should be interesting for anyone interested in the tangle of issues about media provenance, #genAI, publishing workflow, social media, and…
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@teledyn@mstdn.caInstagram story from the daughter of Robin Williams: please stop sending me ai videos of my deceased dad
#posiwid #GenAI #itiswhatitis
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/796870860936003584
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialImagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
@rachel@norfolk.social @timbray@cosocial.caIn which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #GenAI: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions
@gla@mastodon.socialOh the irony
#microsoft #copilot #genai
@mapto@qoto.orgI would rather define myself as a #GenAI sceptic (I've documented the reasons in my publications at https://www.zotero.org/mapto/publications), but here's what a professional adopter, i.e a founder of a GenAI…
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgTeaching students from both fields, linguistics and engineering—separately, no shared courses—I witness two kinds of growing resistance towards the use of #GenAI:
- low quality output needs too much effort to fix manually
- low quality output is not worth the high amounts of energy it costs
Future linguists argue with efficiency, future engineers with resources. Ethics comes muc…
@johl@mastodon.xyzDer Vortrag von @… auf der #Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe im Juni ist extrem lehrreich und unterhaltsam: „Entzaubert generative KI — warum der Staat auf Linked Data setzen sollte statt auf IT-Alchemie“
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@paulusm@scholar.socialMy takeaway: DS faculty have no more idea than anyone else where we are headed in this brave new world of the LLM 🤔
#genai #datascience #academia #academicSky
@timbray@cosocial.caMan, I try hard to stay neutral-ish on the whole #genAI landscape, on the assumption that once the bubble pops, there’ll be gold nuggets in the rubble. But I read things like this and voices in the back of my head are shouting “burn it with fire!”
@compfu@mograph.socialIf you want to show how cool generative AI is, please don't use an astronaut in the desert. This is becoming a bit of a cliché I think.
A skateboarding lion is also a close runner-up in the slop olympics.
(warning, link goes to a page for a proprietary tool that creates three "AI agents" that are told to act as a photography team which is tasked to generate a text prompt that in turn is used to generate an ugly
@timbray@cosocial.caThe IETF’s “AI-CONTROL Workshop Report”: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-iab-ai-control-report-02.html
Where by “AI-CONTROL” they mean “dealing with LLM-building scrapers”.
@timbray@cosocial.caThe Human Only Public License: #genAI
@timbray@cosocial.ca1/2 I asked Google a question the answer to which was a list of numbers. Of course, it offered me the list of numbers at the top of the results page, uncited. This is a total waste of space because OBVIOUSLY I’m not going to quote AI-generated numbers without tracking down a source.
#genAI
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