social.dk-libre.fr is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
We keep hearing that only 'AI', whose profound ability to grasp complex systems, could solve a problem as wicked, entangled and multi-dimensional as global warming.*
This report details not only why that has no basis in reality, but that this fairytale is part of an industry campaign to make BigAI look like it's part of a habitable future, covering the tracks for genAI's massive footprint.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/
* Turns out the trick is not spewing CO2 & CH4 into the air
#AI / #LLM technologies are an existential threat to #humanity well before we even get anywhere near #AGI and the singularity.
The sheer scale of deployment and integration in all the nooks and crannies of society, where we give it access to all our information, and now with the Rise of the Agents, let AI act on them too. Giving full control away from us..
.. to the owners of this technology, the #BigTech usual suspects, and their billionaire class. Folks who are clearly out to dominate us, and keep us in check so they can continue their fancy lifestyles wallowing in decadence and moral depravity.
đ€ Unrestrained AI is the tech for đ§ unrestrained elites.
@josephcox @404mediaco I spoke last and couldn't help but think about the big picture. The #Internet has consumed our world, as many predicted, but its hopeful promise has all-but-faded from the horizon.
"What we call #ArtificialIntelligence today, especially generative #AI and hybrid models...
@josephcox @404mediaco The event, called "Nothing to Hide? #Surveillance Tech and #AI's Risks & Rewards," was mostly dire warnings from the panel for a packed room of young students from Tufts, the US Naval Academy, Brazil, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Pakistan, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.
Hey! Good news everyone! The #SupremeCourt, by declining to overrule the #Copyright Office, has declared that #AI art cannot be copyrighted.
It's bigger than just Thaler's case though. (links below) What this means is that NO AI created work can be copyrighted. Not code, not verbiage, not art, not anything.
Only human created works are eligible for copyright, so sayeth the High Court.
Cory (@pluralistic) does a fantastic job of explaining the details and rounding up links. As he always does. Where he finds the hours in the day, I will never know. ;)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/
Archive link to #ArtNet because something on the page was blowing up my browser, but they have more details on the case itself, and the "art" in question which just saved real artists: https://archive.md/bsyrQ
"Ex-Google PM Vibe Codes Palantir To Watch The Iran Strikes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8o7AeHDzg
See also: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116158937812802335
Alright. Another #poll ..
Is this person's proud presentation of their creative work ..
#AI #LLM #ResponsibleTechnology #Ethics #TechnologyInnovation #Progress #Future #Society
| Responsible + ethical? Make us aware of the danger: | 1 |
| Techbroist myopic? Tech means progress, right?: | 2 |
| Something inbetween (please comment): | 0 |
Closed
Inspired by @jwz, I just set up the Firefox plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/word-replacer-max/ to replae every instance of "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence" on LinkedIn (only) with "cocaine".
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Can AI Agents detect some hidden Backdoors in Binaries? Experiments with Code injected in C/Rust Projects, then analyze of resulting Binary with AI Coding Agents + access to reverse engineering Tools (Ghidra, Radare2, and binutils) #ReverseEngineering #AI https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-binaryaudit/
Read along with me if you like!
I'm working rn on a blog post re: yesterday's decision by Supreme Court of the USA (#SCOTUS)'s decision yesterday to deny certiorari in *Thaler v. Perlmutter*, which is a federal case in the DC circuit about whether the author/prompter of an #AI system can claim #copyright on a work that system generates.
As prep, I'm rereading the DC Circuit ruling (which now stands):
https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf
I'll post some âquick takesâ in this thread.
Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/ars-technica-fires-ai-reporter-fabricated-quotes/
DerriĂšre la polĂ©mique entre Trump et Anthropic, les enjeux de lâusage militaire de lâIA
https://next.ink/227088/derriere-la-polemique-entre-trump-et-anthropic-les-enjeux-de-lusage-militaire-de-lia/
Claude dâAnthropic a Ă©tĂ© utilisĂ© par lâarmĂ©e des Ătats-Unis dans son attaque de lâIran. Alors que le CEO de lâentreprise sây oppose depuis quelques jours, le moment rĂ©vĂšle Ă la fois le nouveau palier que lâindustrie de lâIA a franchi dans le dĂ©ploiement de ses technologies et la tentative de maĂźtrise du secteur par le gouvernement des Ătats-Unis.
The learning gets reinforced when you're witnessing that you keep getting away with BS. Many things do no longer have to effectively work, but just to look as if they were.
The only exception being when there are physical (e.g., medical) or financial consequences that hit individual users, directly.
Accountability is key here. Being held financially accountable for the recommendations or decisions of the "#AI" you're selling would be a game changer.
Le coût réel du cloud
Avec @lenuageetaitsousnospieds
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#tech
#internet
#Cloud
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Ecologie
#Politique
#LEcologieSansLutteDesClassesCestDuJardinage
In 2023, Danish psychiatrist Dr. SĂžren Dinesen Ăstergaard predicted that human-like chatbots like ChatGPT could stand to reinforce delusions and hallucinations in people âprone to psychosis.â Recently, Ăstergaard led a study that found chatbot use indeed appeared to deepen symptoms of mental illness and was especially true for patients prone to delusions or mania. @Futurism has more:
#Tech #AI #Chatbots #Health #MentalHealth #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence
Lecture indispensable.
C'est un peu long comme texte pour que je dise comme souvent "vous pouvez apprendre ça par cĆur" mais ça le mĂ©riterai amplement.
https://www.terrestres.org/2025/06/28/chatgpt-cest-juste-un-outil/
Lecture indispensable.
C'est un peu long comme texte pour que je dise comme souvent "vous pouvez apprendre ça par cĆur" mais ça le mĂ©riterai amplement.
https://www.terrestres.org/2025/06/28/chatgpt-cest-juste-un-outil/
@k3ym0 @ublockorigin these are people who didn't pay attention to the Cambridge Analytica situation or at least don't understand how dangerous metadata is.
Imagine what a bad actor could manipulate you into believing through prompt responses based on its deep knowledge of your past thinking.
The psychological manipulation possibilities are truly frightening.
#skynet #ai #cybersecurity
TechCrunch: ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-by-295-after-dod-deal/
đïž BREAKING: Today, the US Supreme Court declined to rule that workslop created by AI systems can be copyrighted.
Question for the lawyers here: If a work (original or derived) is not copyrightable, is there any route for it to be releasable under a FOSS license?
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Microsoft gets tired of âMicroslop,â bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
> Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push
Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers
#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #politics #ohio #datacenter #environment
What are Meta glasses really recording? The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports on data annotators in Nairobi, Kenya. They're the manual laborers of AI, whose job is to make smart glasses more "intelligent" by visually checking images. They're seeing more than they want to, from bank card numbers to naked bodies.
I'm a Power Non-User of #AI & I approve this message
Fuck #Microsoft #FuckAI
FUCK #microslop
MICROSLOP â Microsoft's AI Slop Manifesto
A manifesto documenting the systematic flooding of low-quality, synthesized, and unverified content
Samsung 870 EVO SATA III SSD 1TB 2.5â Internal Solid State Drive
Price on 2025-10-04: $ 94.99
Price on 2026-03-02: $179.99
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#AI #RAMShortage #SSDShortage #Enshittification #LateStageCapitalism
With Revenue Share Shrinking, Does Nvidia Need Gaming Anymore?
In the last quarter, Nvidia revenue topped $68 billion, but just 5.5% of that came from gaming. That's still a nice chunk of change, but it's dwarfed by the company's AI data center business.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/with-revenue-share-shrinking-does-nvidia-need-gaming-anymore
Even more than Gleam community the AS/AP based fediverse faces existential threats where it comes to the promise to lead us towards "the future of social networking", a peopleverse. And #AI poses high danger risks that must be known, so we can anticipate and mitigate them timely.
But above all we have to find ways to constructively collaborate with each in this chaotic grassroots environment we are part of.
#Collaboration and #cocreation at scale, organic growth and sustainable evolution are applied research areas of Social coding commons, where participants add value while working on their own solutions, following their self-interests in alignment with those of other people
To folks who are interested in the general subject matter I addressed above, I recommend watching the talk given by Michiel Leenaars of @nlnet at #FOSDEM last month:
"FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI" by @michiel
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FE7ULY-foss-in-times-of-war-scarcity-and-ai/
Whatever we think of #AI / #LLM mad hype cycle, we have to deal with its rushed and inhumane dumping of the technology into global human society.
#CALMculture is a strategic approach to that allows activist voices to have the most impact in dealing with the dangers of disruptive technology introductions, and focuses beyond berating people and demanding sacrifice ("don't use, or else.."), to creating a process that helps win people over and work together on best outcomes and in direction of solutions.
#CALM stands for Constructive activism-led movements, such as Social coding commons. Coding is social, and #SocialCoding the holistic approach to ensure that.
Social coding commons evolves Social experience design or #SX, solution development for grassroots movements, supported by the #SocialWeb.
In the thread below I copied a post to #Gleam's community with a suggestion to ponder about best outcomes from current and ongoing AI disruption, and deal with risks.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/calm-culture-to-ensure-best-outcomes-to-ai-disruption/831
âIf you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, youâd think someone in the building might have flagged that suing a small independent magazine over unflattering-but-accurate reporting would only guarantee that millions more people read it.âŠâ
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didnât Want Palantir đ
#Swiss #Palantir #Press #Tech #Technology #AI #Data #BigTech
Kali Linux fĂŒhrt optionale KI-UnterstĂŒtzung ein
https://linuxnews.de/kali-linux-fuehrt-optionale-ki-unterstuetzung-ein/ #kalilinux #claude #ki #ai #debian #linux #linuxnews
Like Master Yoda said, using Gen AI is like using the Dark Side of the Force: it's quicker, easier, more seductive. But not stronger.
#OpenAI is now officially data supplier for the Pentagon and is very proud of it!
Your Data flows directly to the U.S. Department of War! #ChatGPT
--> Delete your Account!
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/
#US #Surveillance #KI #AI #Technology #Tech #War #Data #Privacy
@mako Oops!
Even while I commented on the Brave New World in which we live, I forgot the constant vigilance now required in that Brave New World.
Namely, I must ask you the sad question we have to always ask now:
Can you vouch your video records an authentic response from G-E-H-munnye & has not been â say â modified by an #LLM-backed #AI from one of #Google's competitors?
Even w/ our friends we must âtrust but verifyâ anything we see or hear to confirm it's not mutilated by AI slop.
Here's a good, subtle way to show resistance to #LLM-backed #AI slop that @mako found!
I encourage everyone â when referring to the #Google product â to pronounce âGeminiâ as âGee-eee-H-munnyeâÂč.
Big Tech thinks these systems should replace human workers, & it *is* rude to pronounce workers' names wrong!
Âč Fascinating that it put an âhâ in there? đ€ LLMs are indeed very lossy compression systems.
Cc: @richardfontana as he'll generate the IPA notation from his head for us. Humans are better.
AI Chat... But Make It #Ads
> A satirical (but real!) demo of what #AI chat could look like in an ad-supported future. Chat with an AI while experiencing every monetization pattern imaginable â banners, interstitials, sponsored responses, freemium gates, and more.
Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob ein Unternehmen unbedingt möchte, das Interna analysiert und modifiziert werden sollen.
#Copilot: Microsofts KI-Assistent soll direkten Zugriff auf Dokumente erhalten | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Copilot-Microsofts-KI-Assistent-soll-direkten-Zugriff-auf-Dokumente-erhalten-11193112.html #Microsoft #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MicrosoftCopilot #Datenschutz #privacy
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@katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org
You've got nothing to hide, do you?
»We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale #deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline«
I have to say I preferred the original The Muppet Show. This reboot is pants.
Books like this are rare, and even rarer being in spanish.
Brand new too. The cover was designed to look retro af.
Excelent as a gift for yourself or a friend.
ïœą Artificial Intelligence for the Z80: If you can build it in 8 bits, you really get it: Computer science in BASIC ïœŁ
https://www.amazon.es/Inteligencia-Artificial-para-Z80-construirlo/dp/B0GNZ9HSJ8
"According to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, some of his underlings have created an AI clone of him so they can prepare for meetings with him, ensuring everything is fine-tuned for his wants and needs."
Is the next step getting rid of CEOs altogether?
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/uber-employees-ai-ceo
#Firefox 148 is out, actually featuring the promised "#AI kill switch" - but only in the desktop version (so far?).
Thus, if you want to get rid of #AIslop, machine learning bullshit and #LLM idiocy on your #mobile device, you still have to proceed as described here:
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jack/115485435193740088
(And yes, despite of it all, Firefox is still the #browser you should use... *sigh*)
The #AI fever is having a huge impact on consumer #electronics.
Last February I purchased a 4TB Western Digital Black SN850X from Newegg to put in my desktop PC that I use for all kinds of work related tasks; video editing, virtual machines, etc. At that time it cost $280 USD.
Today, that exact same drive, also from Newegg and listed at the same item page (I just clicked the link from my receipt) is now $630. That's a 2.25x increase in price over the course of one year.
Ugh. "Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge."
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
It's not yet clear what this means for the high-stakes negotiation between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Two of the Anthropic sticking points have been that Claude not be used for "mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai
#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Hegseth #LLMs #Pentagon #USPol #USPolitics
Update. #Anthropic just đżđČđ·đČđ°đđČđ± #Pentagon demands to remove safeguards on #Claude that limit its use in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Here's the statement from CEO #DarioAmodei.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
Update. "#SamAltman says #OpenAI shares #Anthropic's red lines in #Pentagon fight."
https://archive.is/5sTBa
Update. Employees of #Google and #OpenAi just released an open letter supporting #Anthropic.
https://notdivided.org/
"We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight."
The letter welcomes new signatures from past and present employees of Google and OpenAI.
At the time of this post, it had 684 signatures.
â LLMs killed the privacy star, we can't rewind, we've gone too far
â https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/llms_killed_privacy_star/
"Der Firmenchef warnte, dass kĂŒnstliche Intelligenz es möglich mache, ĂŒber das Netz verstreute Daten einzelner Menschen in groĂem Stil automatisiert zu einem ausfĂŒhrlichen Bild ihres Lebens zusammenzusetzen".
đ„ #ALLisFine #AI
Copied from https://notdivided.org
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The #DepartmentOfWar is threatening to
1. Invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to serve their model to the military and "tailor its model to the military's needs"
2. Label the company a "supply chain risk"
All in retaliation for #Anthropic sticking to their red lines to not allow their models to be used for domestic #MassSurveilance and autonomously killing people without human oversight.
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Top comment on HN from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473
> 1.5 hours after this was posted, Sam Altman stated #OpenAI will work with the #DoW.
Saya tidak anti AI kok. Jujur AI sering saya ajak diskusi masalah sains dan teknologi, juga masalah filosofi. Bahkan sering saya diskusi masalah teknis.
Tapi say no buat suruh AI coding. Lebih banyak mudorot nya. Emang bener dia cepat coding-nya. Tapi namanya membangun sistem itu juga termasuk mencari kesalahan dan memperbaiki. Amit-amit kalo harus baca hasil vibe coding dan memperbaikinya. Bakal butuh waktu jauh lebih panjang dan bikin frustasi.
Your #SmartTV may be crawling the web for #AI
https://www.theverge.com/column/885244/smart-tv-web-crawler-ai
Trump orders US agencies to stop using Anthropic technology in clash over AI safety
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a
Would be super funny if that's what causes the bubble to start popping. 
Inb4 Duo responds and makes the statement:
"These Persona services are opt-in by the client as additional features. We do not integrate them into our core product."
to which the answer to that response is:
"Yeah, the CLIENT opts in, meaning the COMPANY opts in... the employees have no say. The *employees*, all of us, can only opt out by being fired."
Edit: Reading Duo's privacy statement though, I'm not sure if the client actually can opt out. It looks like its fully integrated right now. Clients may opt to require employees to scan their faces... but it looks like IDV with Persona is fully integrated into the above mentioned services. So yay.
@alien8 - Yeah, I figure any statement by Duo will absolutely push the whole "its not enabled by default" and its the client's decision to use it.
Which ignores the core point - the employees (once a client enables it) have no say. By even offering this, they put so many people in the position of "accept this or quit" which is not consent.
Especially in the US where one's job is tied to access to healthcare and where many live paycheck to paycheck and if they quit or get fired, they run the real risk of going hungry or losing their house.
He puts up the racist, eugenicist notion of âIQâ on the board and doesnât even mention the racist eugenicist origin of âIQ.â
So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)
You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?
Yeah, that Persona.
Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...
...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...
...or be fired.
Vous n'en n'aviez pas rĂȘvĂ© ? Pire, vous le redoutiez mĂȘme ? Alors vous pouvez faire confiance Ă #Microsoft pour l'implĂ©menter...
#Outlook lancera automatiquement #Copilot pour ouvrir les liens #HTML. En effet, dans une fonctionnalité en cours de développement, Microsoft prévoit d'ouvrir automatiquement son assistant #IA Copilot dans le navigateur #Edge depuis un lien Outlook. L'éditeur ne dit pas si cette fonction sera optionnelle ou pas.
https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-outlook-lancera-automatiquement-copilot-pour-ouvrir-les-liens-html-99487.html
I'm trying to ask people outside my programming world how they use AI, and what they think of it. I was out with friends last night, and people started talking about how their phones affect their sleep.
One person said they end up staying up later than they like because they start asking Gemini questions, and it's interesting enough they keep going for a while.
I asked that person if they had any idea how AI actually works. They didn't, and were curious.
After the #BigTech countless #LLM galaxies formed. At the center of each sits a super-massive Black Box. Hidden inside lurks the mysterious #Singularity. Which is nothing more than a concept as we don't know what the heck is going on there. All our common sense breaks down, after we crossed the #CriticalThinking boundary. Coming close to the event horizon of any Black Box inevitably leads to #enshittifaction as a person is sucked into the void. An outside observer would see that person frozen in time, stagnant. As the #AI universe expands, continuous https://socialcooling.com will eventually lead to the Big â ïž RIP of #Humanity, who invented the Laws of Online #Nature.
Ces derniers mois, avec des confrĂšres et consĆurs d'Asie, d'AmĂ©rique latine et d'Europe, j'ai enquĂȘtĂ© sur les effets du dĂ©veloppement des centres de donnĂ©es Ă travers le monde. Les premiers rĂ©sultats de ce travail sont en ligne, allez-y faire un tour !
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Over the past few months, I have been investigating the effects of the development of data centers around the world together with colleagues from Asia, Latin America and Europe. The first results of this work are already online, go take a look!
Up to you to decide whether arguing with shitty chatbots is the customer experience you want, as long as it's cheap.
This is not only a decision about what you're buying, or subscribing to, but also a decision about your own workplace.
Do you want products and services worth paying for, or just a simulation of an economy, where nothing seems to really work anymore, and everybody keeps pretending that bullshit everywhere was "the future of work"?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq570d12y9do
"#AI"
Memory shortage could cause the biggest dip in #smartphone shipments in over a decade - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/memory-shortage-could-cause-the-biggest-smartphone-shipments-dip-in-over-a-decade/ #ai bubble continues to spread joy everywhere...
Hot take: People are afraid of reacting or replying to AI critiques on LinkedIn for the same reason Trump's cabinet meetings are full of sycophantic praise for the president.
boosted#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.
The design of the switch is meant to absolve Mozilla of any responsibility for your use of its AI.
It is a trap.
It is meant to switch discussion from whether Mozilla should be doing AI, to whether you can *choose* to not use it.
Don't believe their lies.
This is a long post, and if you click through, I recorded a video: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html
Hope you enjoy and please boost if you enjoyed it!
boosted#AI has gotten good at finding bugs, not so good at swatting them
So, with modern #AI,
(a) LLMs are "next-token predictors," and
(b) you have to buy tokens to use LLMs.
Today, we buy tokens, and in return, LLMs predict tokens and give them back to us.
Maybe in the future we can skip the middle-man.
Let's have AI predict how many tokens I will buy. I keep those tokens, and save AI the hassle of predicting the other kind of tokens.
Three cheers for tokens!
Is anyone else sick of living in a reality which is nothing but all the #dystopian #fiction from 50 years ago?
We have #JamesBond villains ( #Musk )
We have #InvasionoftheBodySnatchers zombification ( #MAGA )
Etc, etc.
And now we have #Wargames:
" #AI s canât stop recommending #nuclear strikes in #war game #simulations
Leading AIs from #OpenAI, #Anthropic and #Google opted to use #nuclearweapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases"
đȘđș It could soon become easier for companies to train their #AI on your data â at least if the #EU Commission's #DigitalOmnibus proposal passes. đ€
đ€ featuring data protection lawyer and AI specialist Kleanthi Sardeli
Tragic: Against so much effort they undertook in the past few decades toward building autonomy and self-determination, the US Peace Corps regresses to techno-colonialist high-pressure American AI salespeople.
boostedAnthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon
> Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.
Why competition and capitalism suck in one line.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change
Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.
#AI #FacialRecognition #Racism #Policing
Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away | Facial recognition | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/facial-recognition-error-prompts-police-to-arrest-asian-man-for-burglary-100-miles-away
âIt doesnât take intelligence to see that leaving both customers and employees in the lurch isnât smart.â
When You Know When Customer Service AI Is Failing
#Tech #AI
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/02/26/when-you-know-when-customer-service-ai-is-failing/
â Burger King will use AI to check if employees say âpleaseâ and âthank youâ
â https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/884911/burger-king-ai-assistant-patty
AI-powered reverse-engineering of Rosetta 2 for Linux
https://github.com/Inokinoki/attesor
#HackerNews #AI #ReverseEngineering #Rosetta2 #Linux #GitHub
Notre appĂ©tit pour lâIA alimente la violence au Congo
https://reporterre.net/Au-Congo-les-consequences-meurtrieres-de-l-imperialisme-minier-europeen
Critique des visĂ©es impĂ©rialistes de Trump au Groenland, lâEurope nâest pas en reste quant au partenariat quâelle mĂšne avec le Rwanda sur les matiĂšres premiĂšres. La majoritĂ© du tantale exportĂ© par ce pays est pillĂ© en RĂ©publique dĂ©mocratique du Congo.
Le toujours formidable Olivier Ertzscheid aka @affordance commence avec une citation de Céline mais on aurait tout aussi bien pu choisir Marx « L'histoire se répÚte deux fois, comme une tragédie, puis comme une farce »
Mais la leçon à en tirer est aussi : du monde de la culture face aux Gafam il y a 20 ans, à la social-démocratie moribonde aujourd'hui face au fascisme, plier l'échine n'apporte jamais la paix.
đ€đȘđș It could soon become easier for companies to train their #AI on your data â at least if the #EU Commission's #DigitalOmnibus proposal passes.
Watch now to find out more! đ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V0HkgtiuT0U
AI is both impressive and ridiculous. I have a little command line Python script that does some basic text reformatting stuff for me. I wanted a version that I could use on my phone. I gave Gemini the script, and asked it to make "a version of this program with the same functionality that I can use on my iphone, but with a textbox and some buttons instead of command line options." I expected it to rewrite this extremely simple Python file into JavaScript or something and give me an HTML file. Or if it wanted to do things the hard way, maybe swift. Nope! It installed uvicorn and requests and fastapi and a bunch of stuff and then rewrote the python script so it could import the existing functionality into the web app it just built. To be fair, it worked perfectly the first time, either on the command line or as a web server. But the original script was about 100 lines of Python! Rewriting it in JavaScript would've been much faster. And not required a reverse proxy and a bunch of deployment work. I guess it took "the same functionality" way too literally and decided the best way to achieve that would be to run the exact same code. When we talk about the impact of #AI, nobody seems to be talking about the impact caused by running AI generated code for years to come. If I didn't know better, and was just an AI vibe coder, I'd now be running an entire docker and reverse proxy setup for something that could be done in the browser with a hundred or so lines of JavaScript. That's honestly a tiny impact individually, but over the course of hundreds and thousands of people and companies, it's going to add up.
I posted on this notion of #SOSS before, with a meme attached..
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/115399465970544831
There's nothing wrong with #FOSS, but it only provides part of the solution as long as the #Sustainability angle is not given due attention to.
Esp. with disruptive inhumanely introduced #AI #LLM technologies, new major threats to the #FreeSoftware community are surfacing, and giving attention to this subject matter is more important than ever.
AI is reshaping the global economy, but who owns the tech and what does it take to âproduceâ it? A new BIS bulletin breaks down the AI supply chain and shows how unevenly power is concentrated across leading firms. Today's Number Theory looks at its findings.
Read on HT app: https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/the-small-club-of-ai-giants-number-theory-101772075489669.html
#GenAI #AI #OpenAI #Microsoft #Google #Nvidia #Tech #Technology #DataViz
Update. From a survey of university faculty in the US: "Males were twice as likely as females to use #AI to recommend journals to which to submit research articles."
https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=790
(Unfortunately the full results are not #OpenAccess and not even close. One copy of the PDF costs $98.)
Update. #AI / #LLMs "tend to recommend literature with greater citation counts, later publication date, and larger author teams. Yet, in scholar recommendation tasks, there is no evidence that LLMs disproportionately recommend male, white, or developed-country authors, contrasting with patterns of known human biases."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00367
đ€Ș Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
âWe felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models,â Anthropicâs chief science officer Jared Kaplan told TIME in an exclusive interview. âWe didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments ⊠if competitors are blazing ahead.â
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
That is entirely the wrong headed (giggity) approach, IMHO.
A big part of man(person)-machine interface is the control and responsibility remaining in human hands.
Not so long ago, the few of us geeks who foresaw where machine brains would take us, campaigned in #stopkillerrobots.
A campaign to keep human decision making in military #killchain
A campaign that failed spectacularly, in no small part, I am sure to uniformed Doctorow analogues dismissing it as unnecessary farsical puppetry.
Even now, I actively strive to #regulateAI IRL and human decision making is essential and imperative in AI.
The "reverse centaur" is a canard, as much as a driver of a motorcar is not pulling the cargo by their muscle.
AI is not going away for the same reason we don't see "Picks and shovels" (!) digging infrastructure trenches anymore. Machines have been eating jobs since the 1700s and it's only scary now because the white collars are on the chopping block.
I have huge respect for @pluralistic and his role, which he fulfills admirably is an activist, a what we call in Australia, a shitstirer. His opinions stimulate debate, but keeping an expert in the decision chain, if it's only a tick box is a good thing.
Call it a "moral crumple zone" if you will.
Removing it all together is bad and I am disturbed anyone would try to make hay of this.
The alternative is full automation and I am sure all the #AI "fans" would agree it's a bad thing.
Indeed, we can't allow autopilot to head into a whirlwind...
"We may be doing docs-as-code, but docs are not code. Docs run on people, and people are a messy tangle of goals, skills, and emotions. When docs hit the brain, they meet varying expectations, knowledge levels, reading abilities, and needs. None of this can be reproduced or simplified to a single pattern, but good docs use structure and words wisely to produce the best possible linguistic shape that can land safely on most peopleâs heads. Only humans can decide whether that message is getting across in the right way.
Getting there is a balancing act between business needs, user needs, and your own. Thatâs the diplomatic tension that forces all good tech writers to slow down and consider all points of view in the room as if they were in the middle of a spaghetti Western standoff. Slowing down is a deliberate, necessary act in all crafts, and tech writing is no exception. No matter how fast LLMs can churn out drafts, they donât understand the tension in tech writing, to which weâre adding AI itself as an additional consumer of docs.
(...)
The quality of the docs I produce is still high, I was saying. Thatâs because Iâm not letting LLMs take the steering wheel, and because Iâm building new habits around them: setting up guardrails, automating what can be automated, and keeping my hands on the decisions that matter. I can do that because I know what good docs look like, and because Iâve been doing this long enough to feel when somethingâs off. That intuition came from years of wrestling with products and watching users struggle with pages I thought were clear. AI can help me write faster. It cannot replace the slow accumulation of judgment that tells me when to stop."
https://passo.uno/real-cost-of-documentation/
#TechnicalWriting #SoftwareDocumentation #AI #DocsAsCode #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SoftwareDevelopment #AISlop #Programming #TechnicalCommunication #Documentation
For those worried about the stories about #AI and #NuclearWeapons:
The real danger with #nuclear weapons is humans
We built them, we built AI
We have constructed elaborate âstrategies" detailing that the only way to protect humans from nuclear weapons is for multiple countries to have a bunch of nuclear weapons
We are the danger, always have been
Just like 2008 had "Subprime Mortgages (or "Dot Com" crash) that nobody understood, 2026 has "Circular AI Revenue" deals. Ex: Microsoft gives money to OpenAI, who gives it back to Microsoft for Azure credits, which Microsoft then reports as "AI Growth".
Microsoft and Nvidia fund AI startups that buy their own tech back to report "growth." With $600b burning in data centers in 2026 alone but no real revenue to back it up.
If that loop snaps, the "fuck up" will be massive.
Ugh, come on. Is nothing sacred anymore?
(via https://kolektiva.social/@SharpCheddarGoblin/116131579930345384)
Pourquoi Rails est devenu, par accident, le framework parfait pour l'IA - Michael Bensoussan
https://michaelbensoussan.com/posts/rails-llm-friendly/
#rails #ai #claude-code #artisanat
Hey #SFBA, your neighbors in Gilroy are mounting an opposition to a new #Amazon hyperscaler data center that they are proposing to build there.
If you have a moment, sign their change dot org petition here: https://www.change.org/p/banning-regulating-data-centers-in-gilroy
You can read more about this here: https://gilroydispatch.com/residents-raise-concerns-over-new-data-center-in-gilroy/
You can also follow the organizersâ Instagram page here: https://www.instagram.com/stopgilroydatacenternow/
Sadly, the data center construction was approved by the city last year. This campaign is a hail-mary by the organizers to stop yet another #AI datacenter from being built.
Admettez le, on juge tous les gens.
Moi je ne juge pas les gens sur leur couleur de peau, leur façon de parler, de s'habiller, de manger, de prier, ni mĂȘme leurs goĂ»ts littĂ©raires ou musicaux.
Par contre les opinions politiques, alors lĂ je juge. TrĂšs trĂšs fort.
Et l'usage régulier de l'ia est l'expression de l'adhésion à un projet politique.
https://www.courrierinternational.com/stories/intelligence-artificielle-ils-meprisent-ceux-qui-utilisent-chatgpt_240669
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMStreet
#NoAi
#Capitalisme
RE: https://mastodon.online/@pernillet/116129853986444219
- or rather, the European startup system is also suffering from over-valuation brought on by mentioning the letters AI, sucking up funding for projects that probably won't work & even more probably won't ever deliver any value & even more probably still will never turn a profit & even most probably will cause significant harm both during their run & when they fail.
Money that could otherwise had been put towards non-idiotic activities.
Potato, tomato.
What is surveillance-fascism?
(a.k.a. what is the Fediverse missing?)
* big data
(collection of tons of private data used for profiling and authoritarian control)
* attention harvesting
(reducing attentionspan and causing addiction)
* ragebaiting
(hatred boosting alorithms & government botfarms)
* hyper-capitalism
(ads, more ads, profit, hidden ads, influencers, interrupting ads, plugs, camoflaged ads)
* AI
#SurveillanceFascism #SurveillanceCapitalism #enshittification #BigData #AttentionHarvesting #RageBait #HyperCapitalism #AI #LLMMeAlone #JoinTheFediverse
RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116127545545526429
Et dans le mĂȘme temps, Goldman Sachs crĂ©e un index des valeur boursiĂšres zĂ©ro ia
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/ai-goldman-sachs-stocks-index
il y a des signaux faibles qui commencent Ă devenir forts, le capitalisme en mode panique.
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMStreet
#Capitalisme
Raphael Isla boostedQuand un scénario catastrophe sur l'IA fait trembler Wall Street
Un essai sous forme de prospective, paru dimanche sur un blog économique et financier relativement obscur, est devenu si viral qu'il a contribué à plusieurs dégringolades de titres en Bourse. En cause : le scénario catastrophe qu'il déroule, prédisant une chute libre de l'économie réelle liée aux performances des IA.
How to turn off #AI features in #Firefox, or choose the ones you want
đž Hetzner: 50% price hike, no fooling, from April 1st
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/ai_isnt_done_yet_memoryrelated/
FastCompany: âThis should terrify youâ: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agentâit deleted her emails
OpenClaw nearly wiped out the AI alignment employeeâs entire inbox, in an incident that social media is calling ironic.