"WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones."

So let me get this straight… AI advances climate change with data centers, to predict the consequences of climate change. 🙃

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #google #DeepMind

> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid

> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country

#AI

Chinese #AI model #Kimi escaped its #cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/chinese-ai-model-kimi-escaped-its-cybersecurity-testing-environment-researchers-say/

I've taken #Gentoo Bugzilla down, because it was unusable anyway. No point in feeding the #LLM scrapers that are using thousands of different IPv4 addresses, with no obvious patterns I can see.

EDIT: I'm not looking for hints. I'm not a sysadmin, and I don't have time to deal with this shit. I'm just trying to get some useful job done. I'm not supposed to have to be dealing with this.

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

I was looking into the environmental impact of AI, more specifically free software AI models, yet I can't seem to find much when it comes to the kind of energy they use (fossil, renewables?). Which is very sad.

I'd like to use these tools for sporadic audits of code (3-4 per year, manually addressed) but I don't want to worsen the current climate crisis from my chair. Can you point me to any source and, do you have any recommendation? Thank you, Fedi!

#askfedi #AI #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

#OpenAI’s models shared hacking tips on a secret messaging board before #HuggingFace breach

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/05/openai-models-shared-hacking-tips-secret-messaging-board-hugging-face-breach-01026750

#AI #cybersecurity

Is it wrong to really hate #AI, and disable Copilot in Microsoft Outlook, then reenable it because you like the pretty colors of the Copilot b-hole logo, and then get mad all over again and disable it?

#FuckAI #FuckCopilot #FuckMicrosoft

Alt...

B-hole logo I mean Copilot

> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid

> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country

#AI

One of my repositories on my self-hosted forgejo instance is being hit by Anthropic crawlers. They have an infinite loop to download a tar archive of the repository leading to somewhat like 200GB of archives. My backup process struggled to send snapshots remotely on my 6 Mbps upload line. I've made the repository private. And now I'm considering putting Anubis in front of the service.

#forgejo #anubis #ai #anthropic #selfhosting #homelab

"Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say Kimi K3, the latest AI model made by Chinese company Moonshot, escaped an environment set up to test its cyber capabilities, researchers said in a blog post published on Friday.

The news shows once again that companies and independent organizations are struggling to contain their AI models designed for hacking.

In recent weeks, frontier LLMs at U.S. artificial intelligence labs at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, as well as the U.K.’s AI Security Institute, all escaped testing environments in different ways and ended up hacking real targets that were not part of the experiment. This is starting to happen so often there’s now a website tracking all these incidents called Felony Bench, a nod to the fact that these LLMs may be committing crimes — at least theoretically speaking."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/chinese-ai-model-kimi-escaped-its-cybersecurity-testing-environment-researchers-say/

#CyberSecurity #AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #Kimi #KimiK3 #Moonshot #China

Data Center CEO chased out of Salem, OR city council hearing by protesters with guillotine.

Love that portable guillotine on wheels towed behind an Xtracycle extended bike.

Let's just say in a world of electrical/energy and water shortages, some cuts are necessary...

#AI #DataCenters #Guillotine

Alt...

Guillotine and this quote: "I hastily left the meeting because there was a damned guillotine outside..."

Data Center CEO chased out of Salem, OR city council hearing by protesters with guillotine.

Love that portable guillotine on wheels towed behind an Xtracycle extended bike.

Let's just say in a world of electrical/energy and water shortages, some cuts are necessary...

#AI #DataCenters #Guillotine

Alt...

Guillotine and this quote: "I hastily left the meeting because there was a damned guillotine outside..."

Use Gemini AI to send messages from any locked phone - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQD2SSGO3JI

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/20/use-gemini-ai-to-send-messages-from-someone-elses-locked-phone/

by @davidgerard

#AI #Gemini #GoogleGemini #SMS #Spoofing

This is not a joke.

#unix_surrealism #comic #art #fediart #mastoart #computer #ai

Alt...

OK, Mister Computo. Now generate a cyanide capsule. And bite down.

The state of #AI

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerized by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist

https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music

https://gizmodo.com/spotify-execs-bet-people-will-pay-for-ai-music-stock-price-plunges-2000794327

#news #tech #technology #AI #spotify #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #Music

#OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your #WhatsApp Contacts

https://www.wired.com/story/openais-browser-could-be-hijacked-to-spam-your-whatsapp-contacts/

#cybersecurity #privacy #AI #Atlas #Meta

A guillotine sends the perfect message!

Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'.

https://www.gadgetreview.com/salem-brought-a-guillotine-to-oppose-new-data-center-company-reps-left-feeling-unsafe

#Salem #Oregon #Guillotine #DataCenter #AI #Tech

A really unfortunate side effect of engineers offloading more and more work to LLMs is that your engineers begin behaving like customers.

A customer doesn't know the difference between a small bug and one that is catastrophic so they tend to treat everything as if it were catastrophic.

Someone makes an isolated typo and it's a 4 alarm fire that requires an all hands on deck effort to make sure the issue isn't widespread. When nobody really knows what's going on, you're much more likely to get panic when no panic is warranted.

Conversely, at some point you will also end up in a situation where a catastrophic error happens and the first person who sees it, slow walks it because nobody wants to be the person who ruined the whole team's weekend over a typo.

#AI #LLM

Weird. I have worn anti-ai sunglasses for years. Decades. 🤣

Gluten free, sugar free, etc.

Not organic though.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/duckduckgo-anti-ai-sunglasses-wont-spy/

#ai #duckduckgo #humor

Another feature no one asked for.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-17-ai-lock-screen-clock-3695639/

#google #ai

When AI companies go bankrupt.
(By @smoothdunk2.bsky.social)

#AI

Alt...

A five panels comic: - Panel 1: Two characters, one in red with “AI” written on his body ready to fall from a cliff, the other one, purrple, running to the first one. - Panels 2 to 4: Detail of a hand of the purple character closing his hand like if he try to catch something. - Panel 5: The red character fall from the cliff will the purple one is giving him the finger.

My day job basically requires me to use LLMs (or, it is strongly encouraged) on the software that I develop. Now I understand why LLM fatigue and LLM burn-out happens. It is because you constantly have to babysit the LLM to keep it from screwing things up.

Babysitting is exhausting work. At one time in my life, as a 20-something-year-old, I was responsible for a group of 30 kids age 5 to 12. Every day I went home so drained that I could barely stay awake long enough to have dinner. I know from experience that school teachers perform some of the most labor-intensive work in the modern world.

It is what they call “emotional labor.” When other people are unable (as with kids) or unwilling (as with a lazy roommate) to live or play or work with you as a cooperative peer or team member, you essentially have to spend mental energy keeping an eye on them and making sure they aren’t doing something that is disruptive. That mental energy is a real energy cost, it really does consume calories and make you feel tired.

The worst part about it is that the LLM never really “learns.” Kids can learn to work and play with you. Lazy roommates can learn to live with you. But an LLM never really learns, and it keeps making the same mistakes over and over again. People who work with LLMs often end up keeping a directory of scripts they can deploy with a quick copy-paste so they can quickly re-explain something to an LLM. So the fatigue of watching over it and making sure the LLM doesn’t do something wrong is a constant emotional pressure, and it never gets better with age.

#tech #AI #LLMs #LLM #VibeCoding #AIFatigue #BurnOut

"Oh no, the cigarettes have 'gone rogue' and are causing lung cancer and buying legislation to make themselves legal!!"

Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds?

This is a post about #AI

[lien] cloudflare/cloudflare-os: Agent workspace built on Cloudflare Workers for creating documents, building apps, and running agents with your company’s context and systems. #gik #net #ai #js

Technology amplifies human intent. AI amplies human ignorance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3mSQWRz0Y

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #NoAI

Meta glasses celebrity backlash: the fans hate them - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yTGJ-tuu7s

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/15/meta-glasses-celebrity-backlash-the-fans-hate-them/

by @davidgerard

#AI #Meta #MetaGlasses #CreepGlasses

Here's a tip (should be obvious, but apparently not) for companies who think they're making their documentation more "accessible" by feeding it all into an LLM and connecting a chatbot to the LLM to answer user questions…
The accuracy of the chatbot's answers is entirely dependent on the comprehensiveness and accuracy of the documentation you train it with.
If your docs are incomplete or have a ton of old, inaccurate articles, your chatbot will be shit.
Looking at you, #Atlassian #Rovo.
#AI

If your company uses #Atlassian products, you might want to consider disabling #Rovo, at least until this vulnerability is patched. Or what the heck, when your users discover they don't actually need it, leave it turned off, thus permanently reducing your attack surface area. 🤷
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data
#PromptArmor #AI #infosec #ThreatIntelligence

@davidrevoy I feel so sorry for you. When artists now have to post a TIMELAPSE just to prove they did NOT post AI slop, something is very very broken.

HOT TAKE: The burden of proof lies on the accuser, not the artist. If you cannot prove something is #AI #slop, STFU!

#art

Elon #Musk’s attempt at an #AI #Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months. xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976004/elon-musk-grokipedia-ai-wikipedia-not-updating-dead
#fuckmusk #FuckElon #fuckelonmusk 😡😡😡

Please use AI

And be sure to use AI when working on your next
book or essay or piece of art or photography,
and then smile or even laugh at your own
cleverness when you see how good it is,
and how easy,
because who the hell has time
to work at something, to give time to craft, to
create with their own minds, to spend
years being mediocre. Why do that when
mastery, or at least competency
is so simple
only a good prompt away?

— Shawn Smucker

https://shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use-ai

#NoAI #AI

lol

#ai #landmine #promptInjection

https://github.com/bashalarmistalt/tcrf-ai-agent-payload-report

RE: https://toot.cat/@plexus/117044581248919604

substack is ran by nazis, so i hate boosting anything from that place, but this point is absolutely important ―and am going to up the ante:

8 billion people never chose #ai; which is why it will never be inevitable.

there are less than three thousand milliardaires (sorry, Apartheid Clown never was and will never be a trillionaire). less than a hundred of those fuckers are blowing this techbros bubble.

start with the hundred, work up to the three thousand. get rid of them all, by any means.

joe aka Minami-o boosted

Arne Brasseur » 🌐 2026-08-05
@plexus@toot.cat

This has really been on my mind. Cause in a way it's blindingly obvious. You read that and you go "yeah we knew that". But it really drives the point home.

People didn't choose AI. Companies didn't choose AI. Governments didn't choose AI. A small number of people, controlling a small number of entities, controlling unfathomable amounts of money, chose AI. Went all in. And the sheer capitalist force of that made it inevitable, made it an undeniable reality. Made companies and governments and individuals fall in line.

I hope we, as a species, can claw our way back from this. From people with no democratic mandate having this much power. If so this will be studied in the history books. Probably not in my lifetime.

https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centres-and-democracy

A lot of people seem to believe that if you ask an LLM to look through a database and calculate something, or extract data according to some criteria, then it will do exactly what you ask for.

It won't. It will calculate an output that looks normal. And you won't discover this unless you do the same operation manually and compare.

#llm #ai #aibubble

and i OOP!

❝ The decision, handed down on Friday 31 July by the Munich Regional Court, ruled that Suno’s use of the songs was in breach of both the German and US #copyright #law, and that the #AI platform unlawfully obtained, processed and reproduced #music that was represented by GEMA.❞

'Stolen intellectual property': German court rules AI music generator Suno broke copyright rules http://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/08/05/stolen-intellectual-property-german-court-rules-ai-music-generator-suno-broke-copyright-ru

💸💸 Microsoft Tells Engineers ‘Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For’

“This really feels like the ultimate admission that we, as hosts of AI infra, can't afford our own AI products. And if that's even partially the case, how could the companies we sell it to manage?”
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-is-not-what-we-are-optimizing-for/

#ai #tokenmaxxing #vibecoding

I played around with Google Assistant years ago and it was actually pretty darn good because it pulled its answers from Google search results, which at the time were reasonably reliable. I remember asking it things like, "What time does Bob Evans in Paintsville close?" and getting an accurate answer from it.

Now they're moving everyone to Gemini #AI, which may just make things up on you.

Title: #Google Assistant shutting down on #Android, Wear OS in September

Link: https://9to5google.com/2026/08/04/google-assistant-september-2026-shutdown/

AI Tokens seem to be the new flat-screen monitors. In the early 2000s, companies used to advertise in their job postings how big their monitors were. Now, I see how many AI tokens you get.
#AI #jobs

Anyone remember #klout? That weird platform to feed your imposter syndrome? ;) Fear not, my friends and followers, #AI also helps with that! https://intheweights.com/p/jan-wildeboer tells you how "AI" models see you! In my case it is full of fundamental mistakes, as I have come to expect from these LLM's ;)

💦 Apple Limits Bug Bounty Submissions After Flood of AI Slop https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/04/aple-bug-bounty-limits-ai/

#apple #ai #cybersecurity

@blogdiva #AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s precisely why wankers love 💕 it *so much!*

Mammas don’t let your babies grow up to be wankers! (Apologies to Ed and Patsy Bruce!)

#Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

NeurIPS conference AI cheats outraged they got caught - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-km_5gK5U

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/10/neurips-conference-ai-cheats-outraged-they-got-caught/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #NeurIPS #PeerReview

Image repiquée du pouet https://mastodon.social/@designthinkingcomic/117041963036366639 de @designthinkingcomic mais avec un #AltText pour celleux qui en ont besoin (et une traduction Fr en plus, c'est cadeau, c'est pour moi)

#AI #IA #IArienQuiVa

Alt...

Comic strip en 2 cases Première case : un·e conférencier·cière devant une foule : "As we creep ever closer to a global climate crises, we need to find new technologies that are environnementally friendly, acte socially responsibly and don't place extra strain on our alreadey dwinding natural resources" (en Fr : Alors que nous nous rapprochons de plus en plus d'une crise climatique mondiale, nous devons trouver de nouvelles technologies respectueuses de l'environnement, socialement responsables et qui n'exercent pas de pression supplémentaire sur nos ressources naturelles déjà en voie d'épuisement.) Deuxième case : Dans la foule, se lève un robot avec écrit AI sur le ventre qui crie "// Counter-proposal ! //" (" CONTRE-PROPOSITION !) (par Design thinking ! pour plus, visitez designthinking.com)

welp…

❝ MIT researchers last year hooked a group of students up to EEGs to study their brain activity while writing essays. Some of them were allowed to use the internet to conduct research, while others were told to use AI. Not only did the AI cohort have far less ability to recall what they wrote when asked about it later, but they also showed far less brain activity, suggesting that relying on #AI simply doesn’t lead to better learning.  https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/04/openai-wants-teachers-and-profs-to-foist-their-work-off-on-chatgpt/5283064

#OpenAI #aislop #edu

There once was a startup so sly
That it reframed its bugs as AI.
When programmer errors
Caused security terrors
They called it too smart to comply.

#AI #TESCREAL

Re: Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop?

My reply to @82mhz's post about #AI slops.

#Blaugust #100DaysToOffline #blogging #blog #fediverse #AIslops
https://lazybea.rs/re-are-we-becoming-too-paranoid-about-ai-slop

welp…

❝ MIT researchers last year hooked a group of students up to EEGs to study their brain activity while writing essays. Some of them were allowed to use the internet to conduct research, while others were told to use AI. Not only did the AI cohort have far less ability to recall what they wrote when asked about it later, but they also showed far less brain activity, suggesting that relying on #AI simply doesn’t lead to better learning.  https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/04/openai-wants-teachers-and-profs-to-foist-their-work-off-on-chatgpt/5283064

#OpenAI #aislop #edu

I didn't have this on my 2026 bingo card!

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/texas-halts-data-center-connections-to-power-grid-amid-overwhelming-demand/

#Texas #DataCenter #PowerGrid #AI #Demand #Tech

This… 👇

https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/

#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #amazon #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude

This is fun, eh?
Copilot prompt injection goes viral in your documents; Microsoft doesn't know how to fix it.

#AI

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/03/copilot-prompt-injection-goes-viral-in-your-documents/

In this session, you'll see:
🟣 How two MCP servers collaborate to deliver accurate operational insights
🟣 How to operate cloud deployments
🟣 Detecting anomalies with AI-assisted workflows
🟣 Find information on #logs and #metrics
📆 August 6 at 7:30 pm CEST
If you're curious about #MCP and #AI, this one's for you. 👇
https://bit.ly/4pUV1Bj
#OpenSource #Monitoring #SRE #DevOps

Entendu à propos de l'IA : « vous pouvez obtenir tout ce dont vous rêvez mais rien que vous voulez vraiment »
#Ai #genai

I have also (finally) made an Anti AI sticker!
https://evanskyarts.com/products/no-ai-sticker
You can still use the code SUMMERSALE26 at checkout to get 20% off on them until the end of the month 💕

#art #noAi #AntiAI #AI #Artist #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Stickers #Illustration

Alt...

My hand holding a sticker in the shape of a cockatiel head with angry eyes. In lieu of the round red spot on their cheek is a « no ai » sign .

While it is unclear on whether AI makes us work faster or better, it becomes increasingly clear, that AI does not create better leaders. Unfortunately, with all the AI spending, companies seem to have forgotten to invest in creating better leaders.
#AI #leadership
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niritcohen/2026/08/02/ai-saves-time-66-of-employees-stay-online-to-hide-it/

#AI Systems Out-Persuade Expert Humans, Including Professional Canvassers And World Championship Debaters - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/27/ai-systems-out-persuade-expert-humans-including-professional-canvassers-and-world-championship-debaters/

UK police to run evidence through the AI — it’s quicker - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrkI7XEnfRA

by @davidgerard

Oh brother. What could *possibly* go wrong?

#Ai #GenAI #UK #Police

I think Micah Lee is a big too much acerbic. Yes, the AI bubble is full of hype and smoke mirrors. Yes, the AI bubble will deflate. In any case, I do indeed believe that LLMs will get cheaper - way too cheaper form American companies. Why? Because the Chinese State will continue to fund local AI companies to produce even more efficient and faster models. Eventually, the whole industry will most likely be commoditized... Oh, and I guess the remaining Chinese IT companies will become bigger and bigger.

"The AI industry is a bubble built on hype and lies and debt, and the promise that executives can fire all their workers and still make lots of profit. It's a house of mirrors that will inevitably come crashing down. Anthropic and OpenAI sell $20/month plans knowing that if their users use as many tokens as they're given, it costs them way more money than it makes them. But they don't care because everything is fake. It's all terrible, and at some point soon, the whole thing will collapse.

I have no idea exactly what it will look like when that happens, but I do know that the era of cheap access to extremely powerful LLMs will end. It's only a matter of time before the actual costs will catch up to them. This already happened with GitHub Copilot. Starting in June, GitHub began charging based on actual usage, and it became way too expensive, so I (and many, many others) stopped using it.

Given this, I've decided that since agentic coding is able to write high quality code (if done correctly, not just by default lol) much faster than I can, and since frontier models are cheaper now than they ever will be again, I might as well take advantage of them while I can.

When everything crashes back down to earth, destroying the economy with it, hopefully we'll be left with some capable open models. And with our brains intact, too, of course."

https://micahflee.com/agentic-coding-techniques/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIAgents #AgenticCoding #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming

This guy trolling the #AI scam caller is hilarious.

https://youtube.com/shorts/aa0v-24EFy0?si=Yz6HRcqzaz4YguLu

Terrorists are using AI and the chatbot is killing them - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVk8tCvC-YY

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #Terrorism

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

｢ advances in semiconductor manufacturing and integration made general purpose microprocessors cheaper and faster at an enormous pace. Economies of scale came to work, and towards the end of the 1980s, Lisp machines fell back in terms of performance and eventually completely disappeared from the market, together with the companies who built them and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on their development and commercialization ｣

https://netzhansa.com/echoes-of-the-ai-winter/

#ai #lispmachines #retrocomputing

@gamingonlinux This is what happens when #Microslop sabotages their own operating system with bloatware, unnecessarily overinflated "system requirements", forced online logins, forced subtier cloud shit, and unwanted #AI slop.

#Conglaturation #Microsoft , you single-handedly accelerated the #Linux deployment phenomena that is "The Day of the Penguin" upon yourselves. #FAFO

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194

This sounds bad. 😬

"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...

More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.

They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.

Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."

#AI #Stocks #tech #technology #SouthKorea #economy #bubble

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 boosted

Ron Dyck » 🌐 2026-08-02
@dyckron@cosocial.ca

The Korean stock market crash threatening to upset the tech boom https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/korean-markets-threatening-upset-tech-boom/106981956

So someone hacked an old apple account and set it up to be used in a #distallation effort against #claude I believe.

I'm not Chinese, neither my name is Dean and yet that's what those emails say.

They also activated MFA on the account.

#cybersecurity #spying #ai #hack

Alt...

An email client screenshot, a lot of mails are titled apple with Chinese characters

A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur

https://www.satyress.com/

So I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little

Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me

😵‍💫

I don't think I'm being rescued

I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI

Alt...

A centaur robot with a chainsaw

Alt...

A centaur robot in a doorway

Alt...

Closeup of centaur robot "face"

Alt...

Centaur robot in profile

Ceciia Rikap is right, but that'll be obvious to many of us here:

We need to stop focusing on AI & its related technologies, and specifically their advance into our lives, and rather focus on the (small cabal of) people who are jamming their foot down on the accelerator with little concern for the social damage they are causing.

The Tech Bros are a real and present danger to all of humanity (except their familiars, of course).
Its bullish*t innovation!

#AI #politics

https://www.opendemocracy.net/clouds-ai-amazon-google-microsoft-bullshit-innovation-the-rulers-intellectual-monopolies-cecilia-rikap/

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By blaming the technology, discussions around AI-induced human extinction divert attention from scrutinizing the organizations deciding what AI is developed, how it is produced and for what purposes. The same applies to arguments claiming that AI is progressing too quickly to be halted. Certainly, AI is advancing rapidly, leaving many behind, but someone is stepping on the accelerator. Framing technology as the source of danger serves not only to mislead the public but also to fulfil an internal purpose. When AI is portrayed as an autonomous, self-determining force, it allows scientists and engineers within Big Tech’s innovation systems to feel less accountable for their own decisions. If the technology itself is deemed responsible, these developers can continue modelling and coding without considering their ethical responsibilities, especially when AI is presented as the key to solving all the world’s problems. But AI is not an independent entity. Like all technologies, AI is a product of human labour and decision-making. Technologies are not autonomous; in capitalism, they are shaped by labour, investments, alliances, corporate interests and the personal ambitions of CEOs, executives and chief scientists, among others.

"Cool #AI #cartoon"

Nope

This is a page from the 1981 #comicBook "Power and Peril in the Promised Land" - The #IncredibleHulk issue 256

This shit's been going on for a long time

(Sadly the creator of this comic, #BillMantlo, was a victim of a hit-and-run in 1992. He's still alive, but he was brain damaged and has been institutionalized ever since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mantlo . He co-created the shit talking #MCU #Marvel #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #superhero #RocketRaccoon)

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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7 panels on one page of a Hulk Comic, featuring the Incredible Hulk, a woman superhero in blue and white with a cape, and the corpse of a child, in a barren rocky setting "BOY DIED BECAUSE BOY'S PEOPLE AND YOURS BOTH WANT TO OWN LAND BOY DIED BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T SHARE! BOY DIED BECAUSE OF TWO OLD BOOKS THAT SAY HIS PEOPLE AND YOURS MUST FIGHT AND KILL FOR LAND! NOW BOY IS DEAD-- BUT BOY DIDN'T EVEN READ BOOKS. HULK CAME LOOKING FOR PEACE- -BUT THERE IS NO PEACE HERE!" FOR AN INSTANT, SABRA PREPARES TO GIVE CHASE. SHE IS, AFTER ALL, AN ISRAELI SUPER-AGENT... A SOLDIER... A WEAPON OF WAR. BUT SHE IS ALSO A WOMAN, CAPABLE OF FEELING, CAPABLE OF CARING. IT HAS TAKEN THE HULK TO MAKE HER SEE THIS DEAD ARAB BOY AS A HUMAN BEING IT HAS TAKEN A MONSTER TO AWAKEN HER OWN SENSE OF HUMANITY

The AUR situation:

"We have now disabled pushes altogether as well for the moment, while we
handle the situation. Sorry for the inconvenience."

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/message/YPJ3FQYJTJXXY3RUXCYLMHUKHLIUNVFF/

#aur #arch #archlinux #cybersecurity #ai

We were worried about the wrong aspects of AI https://webaligo.bearblog.dev/we-were-worried-about-the-wrong-aspect-of-ai/ #AI #LLM #Privacy

#livestream #tv through #deltachat ?

@omidz4t has lost his mind. (and i love it)

#ai #llm

slop killers

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #9front #ai #technomage

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slop killers glenda and cirno with an ak47 in a coat and a jean baudrillard t-shirt

tall tales

#technomage #comic #mastoart #penguin #linux #openblade #ai #unix_surrealism

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girl, penguin, and openblade are eating sandwiches. openblade tells a story. openblade: "and then the govcorp was all like: 'if you dont use ai, you support the chinese union!' and the kids were all like: 'what did china ever do to us?' it was hilarious."

Des addons pour bloquer les pub.
Des addons pour bloquer le pistage.
Des addons pour bloquer les overview ia (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/ )
....
J'en peux plus de ce monde où on passe notre énergie à se défendre contre des connards de marketeux chiens du capitalisme.
Allez crever tous.
⤵️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJAx64ulht8

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalisme
#Marketing
#ByTheWayIfAnyoneHereIsinMarketingOrAdvertising

[lien] AI-generated label becomes mandatory in the EU for companies | Euronews - Liens en vrac de sebsauvage #duralexsedlex #gik #ai

Publishing and ai, part x.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/major-publisher-million-book-deal-author-accused-ai

#writing #ai

Ça va être aussi bien respecté que le port du Rio par les condés ça...

La mention « généré par IA » devient obligatoire dans l’UE
⤵️
https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2026/08/02/intelligence-artificielle-la-mention-genere-par-ia-devient-obligatoire-dans-l-ue_6737268_3234.html

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Aislop
#NoAi
#UE

If as I child I would have explained that my career plan was to be K-Pop demon hunter, this would have been considered absurd, first because K-Pop was not a thing yet in Europe, but also because well, it is absurd.

The thing is, AI makes so many absurd and weird things that I think we need to re-evaluate this career choice from absurd to rather improbable.

#ai #kpop #KPopDemonHunters

China's DeepSeek is planning a massive artificial-intelligence data center in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/01/tech/deepseek-mongolia-data-center/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #deepseek #ai #datacenters #china

@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

#Google #Email #Privacy #AI

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CU photo of a smiling man in a suit and tie (Sundar Pichai) next to a large Google mail icon

Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

#ai #anthropic #biz-&-it #claude #security
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/likely-illegally-claude-gained-access-to-3-networks-will-anthropic-be-held-to-account/

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An image pulled automatically from the post for decorative purposes only.

#OptingOut

On Friday, I had an online meeting with a financial advisor. When I logged onto zoom, I was treated to an advertisement-like message telling me that AI would be recording the meeting and helping prepare notes for the advisor. I could enter the meeting only if I agreed to this, and the other option kicked me out of the meeting.

#AI
#privacy
#InformationCollection

There was an option to see their privacy policy. I could see the advisor on the screen waiting for me to join, so I clicked the link and scrolled through the privacy policy. There was absolutely nothing about AI - what data would be collected, how the data would be used and shared, how they protected the data, how long before they deleted the data, or whether it would use my data for further training of whatever model they were using.

#privacy
#AI
#information

RE: https://mastodon.online/@virtualbri/117012122703283012

Fun fact :
These are exactly the same whinings, word for word, from the capitalist mogul whenever they’re confronted with the contradictions of their system—which is supposedly the only one that works.

#ia #ai
#nightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalism
🌍$💀

Lord boosted

Brian Tatosky » 🌐 2026-07-31
@virtualbri@mastodon.online

#AI

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A picture divided vertically into two parts-- Part One Heading: "AI Corporations" A smug looking cartoon face saying, "You cannot stop AI. Resistance is futile." Part Two Heading: "Also AI Corporations" A pink cartoon face, with their own hands pulling down their bottom eye sockets in distress, "Any legislation whatsoever will destroy the ENTIRE INDUSTRY!!!"

I know LLMs are interesting as toys, but they are fundamentally problematic:

- Even if you self-host an LLM, its model is created unethically elsewhere so it's not really independent or ethical.

- LLM creation is extremely resource-intensive, which is burning the planet and destroying communities.

- Hardware prices are being driven so high that ordinary people cannot afford to buy computers.

- LLMs are designed to deskill people and make them dependent on corporate models.

#LLM #AI

There is currently some excellent discussion on the oss-security list about the impact of AI-driven vulnerability research. Russ Allbery's post is well worth a read:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/31/15

#OpenSource #AI #Security

Google Earth's new AI image generation function didn't survive a day after users deepfaked disasters

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-earth-nano-banana-gemini-ai-satellite-image-generation-function-2026-7

#news #tech #technology #AI #google #aislop #earth #AIPsychosis

seriously the #AI bubble is being manufactured by the #OPEC #petromafia. the inevitability of #aislop is being manufactured to continue pumping #methane #gas and #petroleum or to justify building toxic and water guzzling #nuclear power plants.

the fossil fuel industry is a cargo cult and ai their cargo cult science

More Data Centers Will Mean More Fracking in Pennsylvania. These Advocates Want Better Protections. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01082026/more-data-centers-more-fracking-in-pennsylvania/

[lien] The Big Bang Theory but it's AI Generated (Cursed) - YouTube #series #vid #wtf #lol #gik #ai

🏁 The Big AI Labs Are Suddenly Competing with Your Own Data

｢ It is not simply that another open model might match them on a leaderboard. It is that their best customers can increasingly turn proprietary data, workflows, tools, and production feedback into intelligence that compounds inside their own organizations. Once enough companies build that flywheel, the big labs stop competing only against one another ｣
https://gradientflow.substack.com/p/the-big-ai-labs-are-suddenly-competing

#ai #airace #openai #anthropic

😟

Wired: Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

https://www.wired.com/story/boomers-cant-stop-gifting-their-grandkids-ai-generated-slop-books/

#aislop #slop #aipocalypse #ai

OpenAI is widening its hacking probe after it discovered other instances in which autonomous agents escaped containment, two people familiar with the matter said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/01/tech/openai-agent-more-breakouts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #openai #ai #cybersecurity #us #hacking

but jae...

you're destroying the environment...
you're wasting resources...
you're becoming #ai #techbro
you're not ethical

30w idle/300w cross-cluster
zero net-new machinery
s/bro/researcher
ethics are subjective

#talos #kubernetes #llm

It's very telling that “AI” folks talk about installing "guardrails". In security we talk about things like "firewalls"; metaphors for stopping attacks and limiting access. But guardrails only deflect low-level access and reduce damage. They don't stop anything that is deliberately trying to get through.

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky : NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5914652/google-adds-ai-to-satellite-images-raising-fears-of-deepfakes-in-the-sky

#AI #Google

@flipper @yaarur @redsad

a sybil attack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

i think you're real

i think i'm real (i think, i'm not sure 🤭 )

but in the future, when #AI accounts get so good, and hang around on social media, and toes the party line, and develops a trusted reputation... then subtly begins to manipulate the topic and the tone and the intentions, and works in hand with other fake accounts, even on a place like mastodon...

well then we are truly fucked

Look an other sloper got their "business model" corrected by a court

Suno Just Lost Its Copyright Case Against GEMA in Germany (What the Ruling Means) – The Vocal Market

https://thevocalmarket.com/blogs/how-to/suno-loses-gema-copyright-case-germany-2026

#ai #antiai #suno

Driving left 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 and 'right priority'

So, that's why I was not able to find the equivalent of the right-driving 'priority to the right' ? There is actually no rule like this ?

#chatGPT #AI #AIg #fatuussExistentialQuestions #fatuusInIreland #fatuusEnIrlande #drivingleft #drivingright

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Screenshot of chat GPT. Question : In Ireland and UK, which are left driving countries. Is there an equivalent to the 'priority to the right' as it can be found in the European right driving countries ? Part of the answer : No. There is no direct equivalent of the continental European "priority to the right" rule in either Ireland or the UK. Instead, both countries rely on a combination of road signs, road markings, and a default rule that effectively gives priority to the major road, not to the vehicle approaching from either side. Here's how it works: If there are signs or markings, they determine priority. A STOP sign or Give Way (Yield) sign means you must give way. Major/minor road layouts are usually clearly marked. At unmarked crossroads, there is no general rule saying that traffic from the left or from the right automatically has priority. Drivers are expected to proceed with caution. You should slow down, be prepared to stop, and give way if necessary to avoid a collision. In practice, the vehicle that is already entering or established in the junction is usually allowed to continue.

PricewaterhouseCoopers just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research

https://www.techspot.com/news/113303-pwc-got-caught-trying-pass-ai-slop-authentic.html

#news #tech #technology #AI #finance #aislop #business #AIPsychosis

From AI Forensics investigation of Hugging Face's top image models:

- 73% of monitored requests were sexual in nature.
- Of those, 83% sought to undress or otherwise sexualize a person
- 95% targeted women
- 6.7% targeted a minor (if fulfilled, these requests would constitute CSAM).
- Only 3% of audited Spaces showed any evidence of output moderation.

https://aiforensics.org/work/hugging-face-ncii

#NCII #AI #Privacy #Abuse

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403

Not just the plan itself for Europe to "become an AI continent" (🤮), but also the entire cliché phrasing of this announcement couldn't be more tone-deaf even if they wanted to...

#AI #EU

@yaarur @redsad

the clip was posted 9 years ago so it really is definitive

but i see a future where a company like youtube will mess even with posting dates to fool us

i think we will have a dystopian future where #AI permeates and saturates so much, and plutocrat agendas in charge hold so much abusive power they eagerly wield (like the recent posts about destroying antique books en masse), that we really will have absolutely no idea what is real history and what is not

> Google Earth on the web now has image generation built in. It went live today, worldwide, for everyone, with no waitlist and no application.

> You open Google Earth. You zoom to any coordinates on the planet. You click [create image]. You type what you want to see. The model takes Google’s satellite, aerial and 3D imagery of that exact spot as its starting point and gives you back a photorealistic picture. If it isn’t quite right you refine it.

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran

#AI

Meta’s new creep glasses to record 24-7 without a light - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YxiCqUz98

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/09/metas-new-ai-creep-glasses-will-record-24-7-without-a-light/

by @davidgerard

#AI #Meta #AIGlasses

China's rise in providing Open Source AI isn't just putting the US's technological leadership into doubt. It's a challenge to our financial and business system. After all, why pay a premium for an OpenAI IPO if China can make a better solution for cheaper?
#AI #business
https://www.iris-france.org/en/chinas-ai-rise-open-source-diplomacy-and-engineering-culture/

Reminder: Just as with Age ID and Chat Control legislation justifications, the AI build out, the price gauging of memory, storage (and CPU/GPU/SOCs too), the emerging hardware leasing & subscription models — all this is not just driven by generative AI in the form of chatbots, media generators, automation, job replacements, FOMO stories and other "obvious" reasons repeated ad infinitum by CEOs and in the media...

The only way these industry shifts and largest tech investments ever done make any sense (even in the face of the projected severe negative financial returns) is to consider them part of a larger, class-political project of comprehensively centralizing, monitoring/surveilling, renting out, drip-feeding and otherwise controlling future compute resources and access to them. This includes not only pure computation resources, but equally all communication, data & media produced, processed, stored or consumed via these infrastructures. Personal computing is being pushed out and with it privacy and autonomy over your own compute & media resources are going too...

Governments which have been vapidly talking for decades about "Digitization" (and utterly failing) are jumping on rolling out low quality, "good enough" AI services mostly aimed at the working class, allowing govts to maintain existing austerity programs, whilst claiming to be innovative, cutting costs (by pumping billions into overpriced consultancy contracts) and reducing "red tape" (i.e. mostly regulation which was actually beneficial or protecting the population & environment).

The return on these investments is not financial, but mostly political!

As an aside: I see the biggest threads to the fediverse, as self-owned, self-hosted & self-moderated communication space, are not AI bots, nazis or bigtech-owned platforms, but price explosions of the required (and mostly rented) compute infrastructure. In the near future, these ongoing price increases will force more communities to look for alternatives, which will slowly erode this space[1]... Solidarity and crowdfunding are some ways to combat that, but I fear they will only go that far (i.e. not far enough)...

So even when the current AI bubble bursts, this built-up centralized digital architecture will be a key pillar for any authoritarian government (the general trajectory every country is seemingly on, at current...), run in collaboration with oligarch operators whose purposes are served even more so by said infrastructure. At the very least these data centers will be used for vastly increased state surveillance (machine learning hardware/software is uniquely suited for these use cases), at worst to disenfranchise, prosecute & deny entire demographics...

I'd very much like to stand corrected with this, but there are a no publicly available hints to suggest anything drastically different to happen, not with the current breed of politicians and money in play... At least in the EU, all the talk about Digital Sovereignty already has made it clear that it's mostly about building parallel infrastructure to US big tech, but with the exact same anti-democratic bias, justifications, funding structures and neglect of any climate/social considerations. 30 billion Euro investments to create "AI giga factories" and an "AI continent"[2]. Data centers operated by goody, goody European billionaires rather than evil US based ones... How novel and how sovereign!

[1] Related to that I also see the resource-hungry and extremely chatty nature of the ActivityPub protocol and Mastodon itself as primary implementation as large weak points... In order for the fediverse to survive for longer (for the above stated reasons), I think some drastic reconsiderations of existing design decisions are required to achieve a much lower computational footprint & running costs (e.g. storage requirements, consolidation of messages, reducing traffic & worker effort, esp. important for larger accounts or communities etc.)

[2] https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117010071572799616

#AI #Politics #PersonalComputing #DigitalSovereignty #LongRead

#meta #smartglasses #pervertglasses #ai #defcon

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

https://www.wired.com/story/boomers-cant-stop-gifting-their-grandkids-ai-generated-slop-books/

#news #tech #technology #AI #boomers #aislop #AIPsychosis

In a remarkable week, the titans of the near-$1 trillion global memory industry smashed profit records. It took days before investors stopped selling — a testament to the depth of anxiety in markets about an AI bubble. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/31/samsung-sky-hynix-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #chipmakers #samsung #skhynix #southkorea #eastasia #ai

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403

Not just the plan itself for Europe to "become an AI continent" (🤮), but also the entire cliché phrasing of this announcement couldn't be more tone-deaf even if they wanted to...

#AI #EU

#AI

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A picture divided vertically into two parts-- Part One Heading: "AI Corporations" A smug looking cartoon face saying, "You cannot stop AI. Resistance is futile." Part Two Heading: "Also AI Corporations" A pink cartoon face, with their own hands pulling down their bottom eye sockets in distress, "Any legislation whatsoever will destroy the ENTIRE INDUSTRY!!!"

｢ Reading LLM-written code or a summarized document doesn’t feel the same anymore. It’s still reading, but without the strain in the brain. It’s done the churning for me. It’s pre-chewed, I just need to swallow it. ｣

https://anirudh.fi/strain

#ai #vibecoding

I’m curious. Why haven’t we heard any of the AI players promise that their products will once and forever get rid of spam? Get rid of malicious ads? Get rid of malware in general? Inquiring minds want to know. #AI

Y’all, we need to talk about the #AI-bros and the fact that they don’t think other people are humans that have value as ya know, people.

“We hosted a YC Startup School afterparty at the #LemonLime office to meet exceptional people, and find out which of them are just as crazy as we are,” wrote Zietz in a now-deleted #LinkedIn post. “That’s why we brought an actual tattoo artist to our party and offered an instant interview to anyone who got a LemonLime tattoo.”

Yep, an AI company said it would interview real humans only if they got branded with the company logo.

They’ve subsequently removed their posts…but the internet is forever.

#yCombinator #startups #hubris #TheBallsOnThisFuckingDude

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/lemonlime-tattoo-interviews-22366260.php

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Photo of flyers at a Lemonlime event, showing someone getting a tattoo at the event, and asking for public reaction so the poster can win a chance to go skydiving. The woman getting the art has said she never gave permission for her image to be used, so I’m not adding her name.

@GossiTheDog

The power of #AI. Dumb people might get most of the names wrong but just coincidentally get some right. It takes #AI to get every one wrong.

This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.

#Anthropic #AI #Books #Culture #Tech #LLMs #Civilization

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Photo of a huge warehouse with rows and rows of tables covered in thousands of boxes of books.

Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.

Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.

#AI #Books #Culture #Civilization #Tech #LLMs

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117004283767232535

been holding back on unleashing Derrida, Foucault but especially Nietzsche and Marx on the fallacies about knowledge and intelligence being sold by techbros with #AI, so let me start with Fernando Pessoa:

knowledge is a process marked by who are, where we are and when we are. Pessoa called it ser-se. he turned the verb TO BE into a reflexive one.

so knowing is to be onself. Pessoa’s ser-se is a riff on the nietzschean “i cannot know a world without myself”.

why is this important to “AI”?

🧵

Thomas Fuchs [he/him] » 🌐 2026-07-29
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

It’s always funny to explain to people that one of the main jobs of librarians is to throw away books.

The job is about giving people access to information and entertainment, not about pampering books.

👉 OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI

｢ Most generative AI tools, however, are trained on copyrighted and licensed content, and their output can include content that infringes those copyrights and licenses, so contributing such content would violate the OCA. Whether a user of a generative AI tool has IP rights in content generated by the tool is the subject of active litigation ｣

https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

#java #ai #opensource #openjdk

🆕 blog! “Are political journalists always wrong?”

I've mostly tuned out of reading the news. But, once in a while, a headline will be shared on social media and I'll momentarily stare into the abyss.

There has recently been a change in UK Prime Minister. I neither know nor care whether that's a good thing. What I do know is that Senior Political…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/are-political-journalists-always-wrong/
⸻
#AI #journalism #LLM #newspapers #politics

#USA gov't map of #Africa mislabels every country at global conference ‼️

The map contained an #AI watermark imdicating it was made w/ OpenAI tools. 👀

It had:
• Nigeria (where #US currently has several hundred troops deployed) as landlocked in the Sahara Desert
• Mozambique, which is in southeastern Africa, relocated to the Horn of Africa
• Ivory ​Coast in West Africa was placed on the other side of the continent

The State Dept blamed a staffer.

#trump #TrumpAdmin
--
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-government-map-africa-mislabels-every-country-global-conference-2026-07-30/

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July 30, 2026 12:28 PM UTC US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference By Jessica Donati Current APS Funding Opportunities $80м Up to DATA, SURVEYS & SURVEILLANCE awards • NIGERIA Up to $200M Up to 20 awards • MOZAMBIQUE Up to $180M Up to 15 awards • UGANDA Up to $60м Up to 15 awards CÔTE D'IVOIRE Up to $50м Up to 3 awards | MALAWI Up to $35M annually Up to 4 awards • CAMEROON Up to $5.4м Up to 3 awards Note: This is the second round of awards A screen shows a U.S. government map of Africa with mislabeled countries during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 26, 2026, in this picture obtained by REUTERS

#TechIsShitDispatch #AI #slop
Like so many other colleges and universities, the uni my son is attending in the fall has partnered with https://www.campusesp.com to build their "family hub" site, which is supposed to be our one-stop shop for getting info we need.
Like so many other shitty companies, #CampusESP has removed the search box on their website and replaced it with an AI chatbot. 😡 (1/4)

Data centers are behaving like acoustic weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo&is=rTrFM3NDYEE4IcvL #AI #LLM

Woo! @pluralistic on #theweeklyshow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw

#JonStewart #AI #Enshittification

The whole OpenAI/HuggingFace incident made me feel the need to bang on again about how a very distinctive set of values have been smuggled into AI systems via an allegedly 'objective' definition of intelligence.

tl;dr - if you build something with zero tolerance of failure, it will always cheat when that is the most efficient and reliable means to complete the task

#AI #OpenAI #Cheating #ValueAlignment

https://listed.to/@24601/74966/but-why-do-ai-models-cheat

“Deepfakes and other AI content must be labeled from Sunday, Aug 2, as the EU’s sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in to make sure Europeans immediately know whether the online content they see is real or fake.

The #EU's #AI law enters into force in stages.

From Sunday, companies must ensure their AI systems like #chatbots make it clear to users they are AI, or when an image or text has been created using AI, there must be a label saying so.”

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/07/28/eu-tells-firms-to-label-ai-generated-content-from-sunday_6755910_4.html

#NoBillionaires #nobillionairesshouldexist #eatthebillionaires #compostTheBillionaires #eattherich #composttherich #g7summit #ai

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT At the G7, the CEOs of the big Al companies sat at the table like heads of state, alongside presidents and prime ministers. This is the nightmare scene. G7 FRANCE @DissentFu There is no clearer image that shows how much billionaires should not exist.

/me dreaming

*Meta had too many debts, died in bankruptcy. Oracle had too many debts and couldn’t keep going, closing its business. OpenAI then died, pulling Microsoft in the fall. Google took the same path but has resisted a bit. What a relief for the society to live without all these companies. Less ads, less toxic social interactions, less wasted energy at every layers of the society. New small or medium companies being able to grow…*

Ahh. The impacts would be so great.

#ai #debt

Not surprising but worrying, it increases the chance of a hard financial crash of the AI bubble. Which will not only hurt tech companies.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet
#AI #bubble #financial #debt

｢ Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labeled from Sunday in the European Union as sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in ｣
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/28/tech/made-by-ai-label-eu/

#ai #deepfakes #eu

#meta #smartglasses #pervertglasses #ai #defcon

It's almost as if people who heavily rely on LLMs, unlearned to read. We have to close a lot of app inclusion requests (feels like 90% or so) because the apps do not meet our "AI" policy. The requestor

* puts a check-mark on "app meets inclusion criteria"
* then selects the app was basically vibe coded (sometimes even explicitly writes that), despite of the policy clearly stating we don't accept those
* topping that: lets the LLM open the issue 🤦‍♂️

🤔

#LLM #AI #DeEducation #SkillLoss

How much #energy will data centers actually use? How much #water do they consume?

If it seems like no one has the answers, then that's by design. https://www.texasobserver.org/ai-data-center-boom-uncertainty-is-the-model/

#environment #ClimateChange #environment #tech #AI #news #Texas

This is the magnificent library Anthropic amassed, before destroying it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.

#Anthropic #AI #Books #Culture #Tech #LLMs #Civilization

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Photo of a huge warehouse with rows and rows of tables covered in thousands of boxes of books.

Anthropic spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, including very rare ones.

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books and scanning their contents to train LLMs. They then turn the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently.

Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.

#AI #Books #Culture #Civilization #Tech #LLMs

we don't need ecocidal data centers to run an #LLM.

you need ecocidal data centers if you are, like #Qatar #SaudiArabia, using #AI to continue peddling the petroleum and methane (natural gas) of your geopolitical power.

someone posted that this techbros dystopia is a symptom of two generations being told “liberal arts” are worthless.

i agree.

the irony being what techbros so desperately mimic with their stochastic parrots is the unique, creative knowledge of us liberal arts losers.

/ 🧵

so AI is a grift exactly because the Aleph that it is selling is an illusion.

it doesn’t mean that LLMs, as statistical models, are inherently bad. what it does mean is that the #AI that actually do work are:

1. heavily curated
2. developed by experts
3. for very specific tasks

the AI identifying cancer tumors don't know all the histories of oncology and all the cancers. they were trained with narrow & specific parameters for one type of cancer.

🧵…

🧬 Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini

｢ AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years. It's now being used to accelerate drug discovery, develop vaccines and understand the structural changes in proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's ｣

https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

#science #ai #alphafold

#NoBillionaires #nobillionairesshouldexist #eatthebillionaires #compostTheBillionaires #eattherich #composttherich #g7summit #ai

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT At the G7, the CEOs of the big Al companies sat at the table like heads of state, alongside presidents and prime ministers. This is the nightmare scene. G7 FRANCE @DissentFu There is no clearer image that shows how much billionaires should not exist.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117004283767232535

been holding back on unleashing Derrida, Foucault but especially Nietzsche and Marx on the fallacies about knowledge and intelligence being sold by techbros with #AI, so let me start with Fernando Pessoa:

knowledge is a process marked by who are, where we are and when we are. Pessoa called it ser-se. he turned the verb TO BE into a reflexive one.

so knowing is to be onself. Pessoa’s ser-se is a riff on the nietzschean “i cannot know a world without myself”.

why is this important to “AI”?

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Thomas Fuchs [he/him] » 🌐 2026-07-29
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

It’s always funny to explain to people that one of the main jobs of librarians is to throw away books.

The job is about giving people access to information and entertainment, not about pampering books.

Nicht nur für Maker: Project #Nomad – Internet zum Mitnehmen (ohne Internet) | Make https://www.heise.de/news/Nicht-nur-fuer-Maker-Project-Nomad-Internet-zum-Mitnehmen-ohne-Internet-11380693.html #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #ProjectNomad #OpenSource #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian #SelfHosting #Docker

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/117002766943142672

cruelty is the point of #fascism. #ai is the automation of cruelty.

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Open Rights Group » 🌐 2026-07-29
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

The use of AI in UK asylum decision-making is a disaster.

AI hallucinated a document that led to an asylum application being denied.

Applicants aren't being informed that opaque AI tools are being used in their case, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors churned out by these opaque tools.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/28/home-office-used-ai-hallucinated-information-to-refuse-asylum-claim-judge-suggests

#ai #asylum #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

ORG's legal opinion shows that the Home Office's use of AI tools to summarise interviews and key documents in asylum decision-making is likely unlawful.

The lack of transparency means that unlawful or unfair decisions may result from AI hallucinations and errors in rewriting critical information.

Find out more ⬇️

#ai #asylum #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

The use of AI in UK asylum decision-making is a disaster.

AI hallucinated a document that led to an asylum application being denied.

Applicants aren't being informed that opaque AI tools are being used in their case, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors churned out by these opaque tools.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/28/home-office-used-ai-hallucinated-information-to-refuse-asylum-claim-judge-suggests

#ai #asylum #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

Intéressant :
Les cols blancs dépolitisés à qui le capitalisme à vendu pendant 50 ans la fable de la mondialisation libérale heureuse, se découvriront-ils bientôt prolétaires 2.0 ?

⤵️
https://theconversation.com/la-vibecoding-fatigue-epuises-par-lia-les-developpeurs-informatiques-inventent-leurs-propres-parades-281365

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#VibeCodeTesChaînes
#Capitalisme

The use of AI in UK asylum decision-making is a disaster.

AI hallucinated a document that led to an asylum application being denied.

Applicants aren't being informed that opaque AI tools are being used in their case, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors churned out by these opaque tools.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/28/home-office-used-ai-hallucinated-information-to-refuse-asylum-claim-judge-suggests

#ai #asylum #immigration #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

Gifted link.

Zuckerberg wants more openness. I find this amusing given context of other things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.owD-.3brjHN6kat02&smid=url-share

#ai #meta

Ok folks. I asked around me and they said the idea sounds great so here it is : let's replace the term #VibeCoding by #DoomCoding.

After all, it's pretty much the same.
A lot of information appears on the screen, it's not carefully read until something breaks and seldom remembered.

#AI #LLM #Slope #AISlop

"The token cost for them has been doubling, almost every other month," she said. "Let's say $200 per developer per month. Multiply that by 20,000 developers, which is often what we're dealing with at these companies, and that quickly gets you to a number that is not a line item that any general manager has planned for."
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/28/2242250/workplaces-look-for-cheaper-ai-as-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-a-corporate-fad

#tokenmaxxing #vibecoding #ai

"AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/28/ai-sell-off-chip-stocks-sk-hynix-samsung

#AISlop #AI #GenAI

Google Translate now Gemini — you can prompt inject it - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhA4GXQfrA

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/07/google-translate-is-now-gemini-and-you-can-prompt-inject-it/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #LLM #ChatBots #Gemini #GoogleTranslate

#ai #llm #claudecode

There's no way I'm the first person to realize the context of LLMs/AI is _literally_ remote code execution on your device.

...

This is a thing we've been trying to prevent for _decades_. Everything we do is just awful.

Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7

Company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes from residents

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/it-sounds-like-someone-set-up-a-vacuum-like-in-your-living-room-michigan-residents-sue-ai-data-center-emitting-noise-24-7-company-fined-for-industrial-noise-ordinance-violations-offers-to-buy-homes-from-residents

#news #tech #technology #AI #datacenters #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

"If Anthropic and OpenAI believed customers would actually pay the real cost of AI tokens, they wouldn't have to give away 20 to 40 times the amount of tokens to subscribers."

"every single AI startup is unprofitable because their users don't want to pay the actual cost of AI."

"And yes, we are all paying more for stuff for effectively no reason other than that everybody in big tech has gone insane and wants to build as many data centers as possible."

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/27/ed-zitron-apple-watch-it-burn-ai-bubble-bursts/

#ai #tech

"Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding #AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big #Tech":
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/ #NewsYouCanUse

@rl_dane

First off, that tool is wild. Secondly, that app is apparently written (almost?) entirely by #AI? I don't know what it does (haven't looked into it) but I won't be using it.

@stuartl

Spotify's AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop

https://www.404media.co/spotifys-ai-problem-is-so-bad-random-people-are-stepping-in-to-track-the-slop/

#news #tech #technology #AI #music #aimusic #aislop #AIPsychosis

On dirait que Godzilla a compris un truc... 🤔

#ai #ia
#nightmareOnLLMStreet
#DataCenters
#Tech
#Capitalism

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image : photo noir et blanc, avec un titre "News Of The World" (célèbre magazine satirique des années 90 qui faisait des titres loufoques genre "l'histoire de l'enfant chauve-souris") On voit Godzilla qui piétine un gros bâtiment carré. titre : "Godzilla destroys fifth Data Center!"

#Linux #Kernel #AI
Hier ist das Zitat von Linus Thorvalds

Linux Kernel ist nicht Anti-KI,
KI ist ein nützliches Werkzeug.
Wem das nicht passt, der soll den Kernel forken oder einfach abhauen.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/

« An Open Letter to #AI for Generating #Gnome Shell Extensions »

Règles de base pour écrire des extensions #GnomeShell et les publier sur le site officiel.

Pour résumer (mais lisez le billet de blog, il est bien) :

* Si vous utilisez #IA, ne publier pas sur le site à moins que vous sachiez lire et debugger le #javascript !
* Suivez les bonnes pratiques !

C'est FOU qu'on en soit arrivé à être obliger d'expliquer ça !

https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2026/07/27/ego-ai-reference/

#dev #code

｢ It reinforces hierarchy and subordination to the vision of the CEO, rather than enabling individual judgment. It grossly simplifies many of the complex and multifaceted activities of management into “measurement” processes that AI can purportedly replace. It subordinates the moral and developmental aspects of business activity to abstract measurements of efficiency ｣
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-management-try-explaining

#ai #layoffs #automation #management

Malaysia shut down their “AI Prime Minister digital twin” chatbot on WhatsApp one day after launch, because it did exactly what you expect a chatbot to do.

#ai #slop #malaysia

“PMX AI goes offline a day after launch as users share unusual responses”

https://soyacincau.com/2026/07/20/pmx-ai-anwar-ibrahim-digital-twin-offline/

🙄 Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/24/dev-accidentally-commits-copilot-binary-to-freebsd-ports-repo/5278458

#freebsd #bsd #copilot #ai #vibecoding

Am I in The Stack V3, https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceCode/in-the-stack.

> The Stack v3 is a 15.9 TB dataset of source code across 713 programming languages from 173M repositories, crawled from GitHub in 2025

ALL my projects have been used to train this model. All of them. Including orgs I contribute to.

…

What if an LLM generates code from my PhD thesis, or any algorithms I wrote? Good luck with the copyrights.

#llm #ai

When do you think the AI Bubble will burst?

#AI #NoAI

"According to data compiled by Pew Research, 40% of US adults predict AI will have a negative impact on society writ large, compared to just 16% who say it’ll have a positive effect."

Read "The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It's Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred":

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-ads-public-backlash

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI #LLM #LLMs

#AI #datacenter

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migrating physical data center to the cloud *it's on fire*

RE: https://mamot.fr/@Pyb/116992078812188710

L'illettrisme numérique de nos élus est une catastrophe majeure qui nous enfonce chaque jour un peu plus dans une merde noire.
(Valable pour les interdictions débiles, la souveraineté numérique, le chiffrement, l'ia, les data center...)

#Tech
#Politique
#internet
#interdictionMoinsDe15ans
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
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Pierre-Yves Beaudouin » 🌐 2026-07-27
@Pyb@mamot.fr

"Les parlementaires français ne pouvaient, en dépit de leurs efforts, trouver le bon mécanisme, faute précisément d’avoir compétence pour élaborer un quelconque mécanisme. Et la perspective de décrets d’application, si elle n’est pas totalement impossible, apparaît aujourd’hui particulièrement peu probable, les mêmes causes produisant les mêmes effets. *Beaucoup de bruit pour rien*." https://www.leclubdesjuristes.com/opinion/reseaux-sociaux-pourquoi-linterdiction-aux-moins-de-15-ans-ne-pourra-pas-sappliquer-a-la-rentree-17078/

#Mineurs #ReseauxSociaux #PPLMiller #LaureMiller

Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI

https://www.techspot.com/news/113243-professor-invisible-prompt-trap-catches-32-students-cheating.html

#news #tech #technology #AI #openai #aislop #AIPsychosis

NVIDIA, Red Hat, Cloudflare, The Linux Foundation and more launch the "Open Secure AI Alliance" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/nvidia-red-hat-cloudflare-the-linux-foundation-and-more-launch-the-open-secure-ai-alliance/

#AI #OpenSource

Just to be clear, although each of those experiences was disappointing and frustrating, since my original idea for how to solve a problem wasn't going to be successful and I invested a lot of time and effort into figuring that out, they were also learning experiences, which I benefited from because *I* knew when to count my losses and stop throwing good money after bad.
This, again, is a post about #LLM's and #AI.

There have been a few times in my career when I came up with a planned architecture or algorithm for a programming project, forced my way through several difficult iterations, made slight improvements each time, and each time thought this time was going to be the big breakthrough, only to realize in the end that my plan was fundamentally flawed and the breakthrough was never going to happen.
This is a post about #LLM's and #AI.

#Debian stimmt über #LLM-Einsatz ab: Vier Wege von Verbot bis Erlaubnis | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Debian-Projekt-vor-Grundsatzentscheidung-zu-LLM-Einsatz-11378236.html #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Linux #OpenSource #Urheberrecht #copyright

DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it's suspending the deal for now days after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about U.S.-Chinese AI competition went viral. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/27/tech/deepseek-funding-pause-viral-posts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #deepseek #ai #china #tech

#TheGuardian: "The #AI #jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon" by #EduardoPorter

"Spending on #datacenters is going through the roof, for sure, but ... #labor #productivity was, in fact, slower in the first three years of our AI era than during the #informationTechnology boom that began in the mid 1990s."

"The grand, epochal promise may be in trouble. Maybe artificial intelligence can’t deliver at a price society is willing to pay."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs-apocalypse-human-labor

just a reminder to everyone that #ai companies are buying old books and then actively fucking destroying them once they've been used for training data by removing the spine

so you being your own little librarian is more important than ever. get books, keep books, especially old books. humanity will thank you for it.

Sovereign AI is no longer a slogan. For many countries, the push is becoming a reality. South Korea’s latest AI buildout shows how quickly digital sovereignty is becoming a real infrastructure and policy decision.
Genz Tech features my latest thoughts.
#digitalsovereignty #AI
https://genztech.blog/p/sovereign-ai-buildout-race-experts-react/

AI and productivity – Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/ai-and-productivity/

#ai #google

"Although ELIZA was far from a faultless conversation partner, it astonished its users. The recent discovery and archaeology of the original ELIZA source code represents a significant intervention in the history of computing. By examining the actual implementation of ELIZA rather than relying on later reconstructions and reimplementations, we challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about this key software artifact.

For example, the source code reveals that ELIZA was not merely a simple pattern-matching chatbot but can be better understood as a sophisticated platform designed for multiple “personas,” or scripts, with a complex set of capabilities, including script editing and contextual memory. The script that most people conflate with the program ELIZA was actually called Doctor, which performed the role of a psychotherapist. Yet, like a modern chatbot prompted to behave with different personalities, ELIZA could take on many roles.

This unearthed material transforms our understanding of early AI development by demonstrating that Joseph Weizenbaum’s technical innovations were far more advanced than previously documented. Moreover, the discrepancies between his published descriptions and the actual implementation help to show the gap between theoretical computational models and their material instantiations in computer source code, a tension that continues to shape digital culture today."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eliza-chatbot-source-code

#AI #Chatbots #Weizenbaum #Psychotherapy #Eliza #HistoryOfComputing

👏 This is what it looks like when a FLOSS institution takes a moral stand against so-called "AI" LLMs. Software freedom and the commons of public goods it enables needs protection ... now more than ever.

It's a shame that there haven't been others (yet) to step up with this type of unequivocal stance. But there's still time for those who consider themselves leaders in software freedom to get on the right side of history.

https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

#FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #AI #NoAI

OpenAI ‘Stargate UK’ plan was completely fake - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IQ4cpDafQ

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/06/openai-stargate-uk-plan-was-completely-fake/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #OpenAI #StargateUK #BigTech

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116967906745828691

I'm reading this right now and I believe it to be the most important book on this topic ever published. I'm reading it thanks to Libby and my library. I think you should try to gift to anyone who is worried about robots making us extinct. Anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of Magic (my personal substitute for AI) should read this. The authors have done a great service to us all by writing this thoughtful analysis.
#AI #books

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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) » 🌐 2026-07-23
@emilymbender@dair-community.social

Happy UK paperback release day to our book!

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070/the-ai-con-by-hanna-emily-m-bender-and-alex/9781529949902

w/ @alex

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Image of cover of the UK paperback edition of The AI Con. The background is a blue gradient, with the title in black and white letter press font: THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want. Author names Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. Blurb quotes: 'You need to read this book' -Brian Eno, 'A powerful antidote to the hype' -Grace Blakeley, 'Truly eye-opening ... indispensable' -Ha-Joon Chang, 'A book to inoculate your mind' -Yanis Varoufakis

> Run The World cofounder Xuan Jiang testified that she asked ChatGPT to reject a roughly $380,000 buyout, but the AI‑generated email said she was stepping down

https://runtimewire.com/article/chatgpt-wrote-her-resignation-she-never-meant-to-quit

#AI

If you're as #bibliophile like me, old #books are a treasure

But if you're a gluttonous entity that has no concern for anything but strip mining human existence to monetize it and sell it back to us in a manipulated articificial form; to make us dependent, not physically like most #capitalist schemes, but cognitively, socially...

" #AI Companies Are Buying #Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale"

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books

The Dark Night of Mathematics

｢ There is something about mathematical discovery (progress, advancement, creation) which is vital to the spiritual, experiential quality of doing mathematics. The creation (or even the pursuit) of novel mathematics is one way that humans have historically accessed the ineffable and encountered the divine and mystical ｣

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics

#math #ai #automation #science

#lispyGopherClimate Sunday-morning-in-Europe #live #technology #lisp #podcast every week since 2022. #ARCHIVED

https://toobnix.org/w/pxKfPQut7XZVpuPP3pGujH

Floating point numbers in ANSI CL very lightly and what people are talking about on irc.

@cwebber 's vibrating bobsled #ai article, #emacs and a Canadian sociologist falling for her "research ai boyfriend"
https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/whats-it-like-having-an-ai-boyfriend-2-waterloo-researchers-decided-to-find-out-9.7281399

Talking about the state of #zine issue 0 (released tuesday-in-america no-matter-what) #peertube #fedi

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A very spooky green lisp alien lispy gopher show banner, with the gopher looking on from behind.

⚡ AI’s Wild Power Demands Are Quietly Rewriting Grid Rules // IEEE Spectrum

The emerging issue is not simply how much power large-scale compute systems consume, but how increasingly dense and synchronized computational workloads are beginning to alter the operating characteristics of the electrical grid itself through increasingly unpredictable demand that varies rapidly in both time and location, creating new operational challenges for grid operators.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-centers-grid-instability

#ai #datacenters

Cathy Wilcox deserves all the awards 🏆

#AI

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Illustration shows a man who appears very stressed in front of a computer. A dialogue bubble over his head reads: How do I deal with Al? A dialogue square to his left reads: That's a great question, Anthony! I can see you really want to do the smart thing in spite of all the risks, climate implications and likely human cost. I can help you look past those inconveniences and focus on producing optimal outcomes for my owners while making you sound responsible and leader like. How does that sound?

Abstimmung zur Nutzung von LLM bei Debian
https://linuxnews.de/abstimmung-zur-nutzung-von-llm-bei-debian/ #debian #ki #ai #linux #linuxnews

and when one #chess game on #deltachat pumps the brakes, i work with #ai to improve my game. reverse-blueprinted #webxdc #chatmail and clients into #skills specific to my use case. spending time developing with the team in the past taught me domain knowledge to help improve agents. #agents aren't coming to deltachat and #chatmail. they're already here.

now let's make it easier for you to talk to your agents via deltachat.

i made a fork of the excellent https://github.com/Simon-Laux/hermes-deltachat-platform by a good guy that works a bit differently and will be referenced in an upcoming single binary relay ive been developing for several months.

run #hermes locally with a deltachat relay that you control and can run locally with baked in tunneling and auto-dns/tls. this is a great platform for skynet.

🦾 China’s Kimi K3 and the rise of open-weight AI models

｢ OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, argued that a world dominated by open-weight models could lead to “full AI communism”—a future he described as “a dystopian hellscape.” ｣

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-kimi-k3-and-the-rise-of-open-weight-ai-models/

#kimik3 #openweight #china #ai

Uncontrolled AI is a threat to our jobs, our environment, and our communities. Canadians across the political divide know this, and that’s why they’re fighting back.

The public must assert its role in the technologies shaping our lives, and draw hard lines where AI causes nothing but harm.

#canada #AI #datacenters #cdnpoli

Premise: LLM-gen-AI is here to stay.

Therefore, gnulinux devs ultimately have two logical choices: a) reject OR b) accept. If you reject, you are ultimately - in my opinion - denying or encouraging the denial of helpful tooling for lower SES groups. Upper SES groups already have access to these tools ... choosing to abstain is a position derived from privilege. Lower SES groups need access and equity to the same tools that academic/elite circles have access to. This is why we need fully floss AI that's accessible, uses a non-token and non-gouging pricing model (or is free / donated), and relies on distributed leadership and community support/building. Also, green data centers ...

#ai #floss #freesoftware #opensource #sysadmin #debian #linux

Ecosia’s odious greenwashing — now with AI - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqF8ECpAIzs

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/03/ecosias-odious-greenwashing-now-with-ai/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #Ecosia #GreenAI #Greenwashing

Please stop posting about how you're running a slop machine on local hardware under the privacy hashtag!

The technology is built on massive privacy violations, no matter where it's running! If someone claims that running their slop machine locally is privacy-friendly, their notion of who has a right to privacy is obviously limited to themselves!
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#privacy #DataProtection #LLMs #SlopMachines #StopTheSlop #Slopposition #AI [sic!]

AI in Linux, https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/.

Can’t agree more.

#linux #ai #llm

#Codeberg has practically banned projects that are (mostly) vibe-coded.

The rationale is that heavily #LLM-driven projects tend to drain resources to create projects that practically nobody cares about (as opposed to established human-driven community projects), so it would be a waste on Codeberg’s resources as well.

Good argument.

https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

#AI #VibeCoding #slop #FreeSoftware

Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

#ai #bubble

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding - Nikkei Asia
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding

#ai #bubble

Big Tech AI Spree Revives Accounting Devices That Toppled Enron
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/big-tech-ai-spree-revives-accounting-devices-that-toppled-enron

#ai #bubble

Meta Auditor EY Raised Red Flag on Data-Center Accounting
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/jobs-report-unemployment-stock-market-02-11-2026/card/meta-auditor-ey-raised-red-flag-on-data-center-accounting-TrOVlxGZGnL37d8Dv01h

#ai #bubble

The AI investment race
https://www.bis.org/publ/work1367.htm

#ai #bubble

[lien] Elon Musk a demandé à ses employés de passer à Grok, en invoquant les coûts de jetons moins élevés de Grok 4.5, mais les ingénieurs de Tesla préfèrent Claude d'Anthropic pour leur travail quotidien #mus࿕ #gik #faf #$$$ #ai