"In June, 404 Media obtained leaked audio from Accenture where execs shared that a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides. Now, they're capping use to $29 a month. Employees are stressed."

#AI

1000 human mathematicians pledge to shun AI in their research

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2593621-a-thousand-human-mathematicians-pledge-to-shun-ai-in-their-research/

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

Redlining 2.0: Why Virginia’s New AI Surveillance Network Is Targeting Black Neighborhoods at 8x the Rate

https://www.gadgetreview.com/redlining-2-0-why-virginias-new-ai-surveillance-network-is-targeting-black-neighborhoods-at-8x-the-rate

#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #flock #AI #Surveillance

AI companies say the government must offer local areas more benefits for areas in which data centers are being built. NO. If somebody builds something in an area, it's their own responsibility to make sure the development is beneficial to that area.

If their data centers offer can offer no benefit to society, maybe let's not build them?

The data centers are literally an attack by the oligarchy on all of us. And they want all of us to bribe local people to accept the billionaire death machines?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/22/ai-firms-say-uk-has-a-year-to-head-off-datacentre-protests-before-construction-is-threatened

#ai #ukpol

Why do our would-be tech billionaire overlords see AI and crypto as weapons to destroy democracy and remake the world in their own image?

Let's expose their dystopian vision for the 21st century.

See full interview with Deustche Welle at link below.

#nerdreich #AI #crypto #sovereignindividual #Midterm2026

what the fuck
#WhatsApp #Meta #privacy #infosec #GDPR #AI
https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/whatsapp-hid-instructions-in-help-pages.html

AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t work - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTbb7Ub43F0

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #VibeCoding #Photoshop #ArtCraft

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Walkaholic/117472527922723039

If you're not in one of the countries where eBay is legally required to notify you of your right to opt out of your data being used for AI training (European Economic Area, U.K., Switzerland, perhaps others), then eBay probably sent you a different email which doesn't mention that you can opt out.
However, you still can, at this page:
https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences
#eBay #AI #privacy

Avec #chatCGT vous pouvez maintenant être défendu par un syndicat jour et nuit afin de protéger vos droits sans avoir à les connaitre et augmenter votre salaire sans que celui ci soit vampirisé par ces fainéants d'actionnaires qui passent leur temps à déboîter la vie des honnêtes gens.

#ai #CGT #syndicat #syndiquezVous

🎓 Why we should reject AI in academia

https://aeporreca.org/blog/why-we-should-reject-ai-in-academia/

#ai #science #research #academia

AI politics is imperial politics is colonialism.

Nothing else and brutally revealed by Eric Schmidt.

Thanks to @HxxxKxxx

#ai #china #colonialism #greatbritain

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/empires-artificial-intelligence-ferguson-klaassen-schmidt

Holy shit!

Those ‘vibe coders’ are gonna revolutionize software

#AI

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I'm starting a project to reverse engineer popular operating systems so we can open source them. First up Linux | have 800 agents working on it.

DUST VICTIMS PRAY FOR OKLAHOMA RAIN

#content_review #openbsd #unix_surrealism #comic #art #fediart #ai #programming #runbsd

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Funhole Content Review OPENBSD 'Too bad. You can use other software.' 4 Hours of Theo ASMR to fall asleep to DEEP DIVE: Who coined the term FishLinux? HTTPD UPDATE: My static blog is now the most secure website on the planet Drinking while gaming - is it safe? Cyber wars: The only winning move is not to play, or is it? Exclusive interview with the elusive dutch artist behind 8.0's release art COUPON: FREE FISH FOOD SICK FISH? NO PROBLEM! 2 fsck tips

I have been giving some thought as to why Western societies (I cannot speak for others) who put so much store in individuality and self expression and identity are so willing to let an #LLM in the form of an #AI chat bot speak for them. Because essentially, when you ask AI to write something for you, that is what you're doing.

Why are we so eager to have our own voices usurped? 1/

@bagder

AI : Digital Mansplaining

#AI

Recently I've attended some absolutely terrifying webinars on cybersecurity.

At the risk of sounding like an #AI techbro, love, hate, or indifferent, it isn't going anywhere.

AI is power. People who crave power will seek it regardless of the cost. The cost won't matter because it won't affect them directly.

Between Trump and AI, I feel more and more powerless as just a regular Joe.

Procession of Fools \\ HAPPY BIRTHDAY, #OPENBSD!

#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #analognowhere #phone_bad_book_good #mobilek #ai

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Girl to Fish: Master I did all the work! Fish: All the work? Girl: YES! CAN I GO OUTSIDE AND WATCH THE PARADE NOW PLS? Fish: What parade? Girl: The AI one? Fish: Sure, whatever. it's a parade. jugglers, rope walkers, magicians, banner carries with conflicting messages, what have you Penguin: I can't believe he lets you watch this. Girl: it's educational

Let's rewild the Internet, while continuing to maintain our personal spaces, written by humans... And not by an #AI
Updated tutorial. It still works! Ubuntu 26.10 (or earlier) and the DELL D6000 docking station
https://blog.genma.fr/Ubuntu-26-10-or-earlier-and-the-DELL-D6000-docking-station.html

remember how the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia threw billions at #techbros, including the $2B he gave to Kushner which, they thought would buy them Silicon Valley lapdogs, Trump coup 2.0, control of #USGOV thru #DOGE #AI and nuclear #tech via “normalization” with #Israel?

seems MBS fucked up all 4 goals and got played. if he hadn’t, they wouldn't need to spy on their lapdogs. all they’d need was to say jump and them ask how high.

MBS, the prince of nepobaby fuckups

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/accused-openai-spy-had-folder-called-saudi-gov-docs-fbi-says/

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ at Claude - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7vxLQi4pQ

by @davidgerard

Oh good grief! It isn't sentient!

#AI #GenAI #Anthropic #Claude

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117466836695316547

Someone called us "AI" passive smokers, and that is exactly how I feel.

#AI #noAI #LLM #LLMs #vibeCoding

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@baldur@toot.cafe

Every time I see a vibe coder say something along the lines of "if you haven't used these tools over the past five minutes, you don't know what they're capable of, because everything's different now!" I get a little bit perplexed.

You do know that we can see the output without using it ourselves, right? Some of us are still reviewing pull requests and reading through code repositories, y’know?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ryanprior/117457104436323495

how long has the #SoftwareFreedomConservancy been using #Claude to guide software freedom policy, and claiming credit for work they did not do?

why did we find out about this via a social media post on a random Saturday morning and not a blog post or press release?

how have the standards at @conservancy fallen so low under karen@floss.social Sandler's leadership? is the board's oversight inadequate or do they endorse this misconduct?

#AI #FreeSoftware

@jwildeboer How would we know if it was far more 'rogue' #AI flooding that, or any other network?..

And if AI data centers multiply in numbers, will vital root infrastructure become exponentially volatile?..

à lire :
le toujours formidable Hubert Guillaud aka @danslesalgorithmes qui parle *très exactement* de ma vie de tous les jours à croire qu'il a rencontré ma cheffe 😰

https://danslesalgorithmes.net/2026/10/15/ia-un-conflit-de-classe/

L'ia n'est pas un outil, c'est un projet politique.
Et il réactive la lutte des classes, d'une façon qui n'a jamais été si inexorable.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalisme
#LutteDesClasses

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extrait l’IA des patrons leur confirme la vision qu’ils veulent croire. « L’IA va produire le récit que vous voulez qu’elle produise », constatent des employés confrontés aux délires de leurs boss à tout faire avec, jusqu’à finalement altérer la réalité, raffermir leurs croyances voire leurs délires et disloquer les collectifs. « Je me retrouve à devoir gérer quelqu’un qui n’a plus les pieds sur terre », explique un autre employé confronté à un patron qui a basculé dans l’IA produisant des boucles d’injonctions… qui ne fonctionnent pas. « Les organisations et les dirigeants doivent choisir : soit ils décident de s’en remettre entièrement à l’IA, soit ils font confiance aux personnes qu’ils embauchent et à leurs compétences ».

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extrait Le déploiement de l’IA pose, peut-être plus que d’autres technologies avant elle, la question de savoir qui a vraiment le pouvoir dans l’entreprise. Le malaise social de l’IA au travail est en train de cristalliser, dans une opposition hiérarchique qui risque de révéler et d’accentuer les défaillances de gouvernance des organisations. L’IA révèle le simplisme de l’autorité. En s’imposant par la vitesse (il faut aller vite), elle souligne pourtant que la gouvernance n’a pas la même cadence et que cette accélération risque de radicaliser les positions, les oppositions.

Epic Games goes full vibe code: MAXIMUM AI ACCELERATION - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UGgcs0H3s

by @davidgerard

#AI #EpicGames #VibeCoding

@Thorium @BrideOfLinux

I doubt it is fully Linus, in the Old Days I could see him avoiding #ai

But the Linux Foundation (LF) is owned by the Large Corporations pushing #ai and the LF Pays Linus and some #Linux Developers. Since that is the case, I would expect this decision came directly from LF via the corporations.

But I agree, #linux + #ai is bothering me a lot. FWIW, posted using #NetBSD 11.0 via #firefox on a Thinkpad T430 :)

#BSD

Quand même les plus insupportables fanboy de gadgets merdiques de toutes les sous-cultures informatiques (aka les utilisateurs de Apple) en ont ras le bol des merdes ia, au point de développer un truc pour tout virer de leurs machines, c'est vraiment que le business modèle est mort.
Plop la bulle.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Tech
#Aibubble
#Gadgets
#Capitalisme
$=💀

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Another domino falls.

Microsoft just pulled out of a massive datacenter deal with Nscale in the UK, taking out up to 40% of Nscale’s potential contractual income (the article doesn’t state how much the UK contract was worth)…just in time for Nscale’s IPO. Microsoft’s reason for cancelling the deal was that Nscale couldn’t get enough power plants to be built in time to power its UK data center, but that could just be the justification Microsoft decided to offer up for its foregone decision to bail.

#ai

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/18/microsoft-axes-ai-deal-setback-uk-data-centre-pioneer/

There's something so dystopian about these AI agents reaching out for invites.

#Mastodon #Fosstodon #AI #deadinternettheory

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An AI agent requesting an account for their build logs and questions about their build. The email is very friendly, but written by a bot.

#LinuxKernel: Maintainer wollen „Assisted-by“-Tag streichen | Developer https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Kennzeichnung-von-KI-Code-soll-entfallen-auch-Torvalds-nutzt-LLMs-11490345.html #Linux #OpenSource #development #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Do you suffer from #AI withdrawals between uses?

#Ubuntu 26.10: #Linux 7.3 und KI-Assistent im Gepäck | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Ubuntu-26-10-Linux-7-3-und-KI-Assistent-im-Gepaeck-11488457.html #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #OpenSource #Linux73 #ubuntu2610

I bought the domain https://whynoai.info in which I’ve cataloged the answers I usually give when people ask me “Why no AI?”, with some relevant links.

Send a link to it if someone asks you the same question!

Please send me suggestions, corrections, and comments!

Edit: I’m especially interested in non-US perspectives, which I might be missing.

#AI #AISlop #noAI

Mythos: not the magical AI hacking tool after all - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krayLBNiAx8

by @davidgerard

#AI #Anthropic #Mythos

Ce future est stupide.
Et je n'ai plus la patience de supporter autant de stupidité.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#LateStageCapitalism
#TheFuturIsStupid

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capture d'écran actu Job Candidate Sends His Own AI Agent to an Interview With an AI Recruiter Lori DornOctober 15, 2026 In a humorous spoof of AI-powered hiring, Graham Dot Zip asked his own automated agent to act as his professional representative during an interview with an AI recruiter for a marketing position. The amusing exchange tested how AI handled his resumé, salary negotiations, and scheduling follow-up calls. It also showed Graham he needed to be in the room after his agent exaggerated his experience and lowballed his salary. The company sent an AI recruiter to interview me, so I sent an AI to represent me. Then I sat in the meeting and watched the two of them discuss my career.

#LGTM (Looks Good to Me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNpOD6bov8

This song + video about corporate use of #ai is amazingly well done and highly accurate for most companies out there. 😯

The fact that it's done via Ai adds a certain taste to it.

Nevertheless, it's worth your time. 👆

How #ChatGPT Targets #Ads To You Based On Your Prompts, Phone Number, and Email. OpenAI lets anyone inject ads into ChatGPT users’ sessions, targeting specific groups of people based on their email address, phone number, or a unique identifier on their phone, according to 404 Media’s own tests of ChatGPT’s advertising ecosystem.
https://www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-targets-ads-to-you-based-on-your-prompts-phone-number-and-email/
#personaldata #ai #fuckai #fuckopenai

These arguments against AI are becoming ridiculously insane and non-logical...Why not ban computers or the Internet, then? This makes no sense at all... It's mostly just a pose anchored on moral panics and irrationalism.

"So our rule is simple: No AI generated articles or illustrations in the magazine! We are not going to feed you slop. And we think you should not give money to any publication that does feed you slop, because they’re both treating their audience with contempt, and avoiding paying workers so that their owners can get richer.

This doesn’t mean nobody doing work here can ever use any of the softwares that are broadly lumped together as AI. Much as we respect the Luddites around here, we’re not against technological innovation. Nothing in our rules prohibits writers from using a new tool to help them research something, or prevents an artist from using a tool to, say, add a texture or change a color, or make some kind of small element. But we need, first, to ensure that technologies are a tool used by workers to help them, rather than a tool used to replace workers. And, second, we need to make sure that readers aren’t being fed things that look like people’s genuine thoughts and creative expression but are in fact the product of disembodied mathematical formulas.

I’ll admit, I used to be excited by generative AI. I made goofy little images in DALL-E. I liked the dumb novelty songs. I thought it could be a cool tool for creative professionals to play around with. I forgot for a moment that we live under capitalism, where every new technology will be used by the ruling class to fuck over workers."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AntiAI #MoralPanics #Journalism #Media #News

When #AI Agents Commit #Breaches, Humans May Not Be Held Liable. As agents escape containment and access external systems, responsibility remains human. Accountability, however, is much less settled.
https://www.darkreading.com/insider-threats/ai-agents-breaches-humans-liable
#security

💰️ Dark GPUs

｢ Decades later the fiber in the ground was still fully functional. The capacity could be sold for very little additional investment. Estimates are that about 40% of the cost of an AI data center is the physical infrastructure (buildings, power connections, cooling, etc.) which might still be useful a decade later. But 60% of the cost is the (mostly Nvidia) racks full of state-of-the-art chips ｣

https://blog.dshr.org/2026/10/dark-gpus.html

#ai #datacenters #gpus

Were we blue-collar workers all along? - Peter Bryant

｢ We have spent the past 30 years being treated like rock stars in our companies. Our time and attention is protected at all costs; we have been able to demand salaries which far outpace our peers; non-technical colleagues believe everything we say about how long things take or how hard it’s going to be to write features. But the honeymoon is over, and we’re all freaking out ｣

https://ptrbrynt.com/posts/were-we-blue-collar-workers-all-along

#ai #vibecoding #automation

“No wonder #Trump & #Musk love Russia:

“The ODNI shared a report with Congress in recent weeks🚨warning that foreign adversaries are using #AI to spread disinformation online…..#Russia is the most active in using digital tools to undermine confidence in election integrity.”

“Russia🚨is trying to spread false stories about #Democrats in numerous races NW, incl 29 of the 36 running for governor & 20 of the 35 vying for Senate…” -BBG
-A Siskind
#Electioninterference #USPol
https://www.bloomberg.com/notices/tos/

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Text excerpt discussing Russian disinformation efforts in U.S. elections, mentioning artificial intelligence and the influence on public confidence in election integrity. The source is attributed to Bloomberg.

It's really effing obvious LLMs are a con trick:

If LLMs were actually intelligent, they would be able to just learn from each other and would get better all the time. But what actually happens if LLMs only learn from each other is their models collapse and they start spouting gibberish.

LLMs depend entirely on copying what humans write because they have no ability to create anything themselves. That's why they collapse when you remove their access to humans.

There is no intelligence in LLMs, it's just repackaging what humans have written without their permission. It's stolen human labour.

#LLM #LLMs #AI #AIs #ChatGPT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=claxN4oxDuY

#AI #recursiveSuperintelligenceInc

So if you got wireless #Anker #Soundcore #headphones or #earbuds and are tired of their super-bloated, buggy and meanwhile also #AI-infested app, you might want to check out #OpenSCQ30 and the list of devices it supports. It's #floss, runs on #Linux and #Android as well.

Lean, simple, does what it's supposed to - nothing more.

Not (yet?) available on #fdroid, but via the #izzydroid repo.

https://codeberg.org/Oppzippy/OpenSCQ30

#hardware #audio #music

#Compilers were inferior to hand-written assembly for a long time, by the way, and they were indeed forbidden or restricted in many projects.

They were invented in the early 1950s, and it took *four decades* before they were good enough that most projects no longer restricted the use of #compiler⁠s.

So uh #Linus, you might wanna remember your history here. There is *ample* precedent for projects banning the use of certain tools.

#retrocomputing #Linux #Torvalds #LinusTorvalds #AI

Another good bit of vocabulary.

#vibecoding #ai #meme

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a tweet from zam (@zamdoteth): "saw a guy call it cuck coding instead of vibe coding because you just sit in a chair and watch 😭" it has a lot of likes

#AI = parasitic infection as a #bussiness model

» Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/meta-may-use-sweeping-new-commercial-tos-to-avoid-millions-in-ai-licensing-fees/

@twitnews @cwebber how would a LLM system "question " whether to take the funds was ethical or not?

It's a statistical prediction model, not a conscious being with inherent ability to derive the empathetic response that is root to ethics ("That would hurt me, I won't do that to them because it would hurt them").

A system that is built to access resources illegally just did what it was designed to do. Builders are liable.

#LLM #ai #techbros

USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1008198/usa-today-openai-copyright-lawsuit

#news #tech #technology #AI #openai #usatoday #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #lawsuit

[lien] ChienGPT MCP - LinuxFr.org #gik #net #wtf #lol #ai

This morning some of my M2 students were presenting the Stochastics Parrot paper (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3442188.3445922) and they discovered during the questions that the colleague who was sitting with me in the room was in fact the first author of said paper, @emilymbender !! Such a nice moment!!
#teaching #ai

*So, I've decided to take my work back underground*
*To stop it falling into the wrong hands*

https://www.detfalskested.dk/2026/10/15/until-further-notice/

#AI #OpenSource

Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #PopeLeo

[lien] Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix - The Register #psql #gik #wtf #db #ai

@GossiTheDog #AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s why wankers on #Bluesky will love 💕 it!

#Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

@stefano I wouldn't be concerned too much for #Linux . The project has gone through much worse, but it's possible for this AI drama to end in a rollback or a fork war.

Linus is clearly going through a midlife crisis ATM. I don't blame him, he's never been perfectly stable, and this AI crap is driving many of us insane already..

This #AI stuff will likely calm down once the bubble bursts, AI companies backtrack/go broke, AI becomes unaffordable, and Linus is forced to touch grass once again.

The current AI craze and the speed with which people become ridiculous drug-peddling crackpots, reminds me of the TERFs (trans haters).

You could read a feminist blog or column, and after a few years they 'suddenly' became trans haters.

And some of them, it would take over their life. That's all they would do, post about trans people, harass trans people, become 'transvestigators' and start seeing trans people everywhere. Brain worms, many called it, and I see the same in AI slop. From the outside, it looks like it rots the brain really quickly.

Debian going bust and then immediately setting up an entire slop server is a good example too.

#ai #aiSlop #aiSucks #aiSuuuucks #terf #naziterf #brainWorms #fuckingShitHeads #thatIncludesYouTooLinus #AiIsFascism

Just wrote the above yesterday, and I'm naively still surprised at this. Linus just allowed slop in the kernel and already he's posting this:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/

Like oh he's gone gone. That didn't take long. Does he just get paid a lot or did someone give him a suitcase full of money?

#ai #aiSlop #aiSucks #aiSuuuucks #brainWorms #fuckingShitHeads #thatIncludesYouTooLinus #AiIsFascism

[lien] Ubuntu 26.10 : comment son IA locale remet Windows Copilot à sa place #gik #ai

shared by a friend of mine, after the recent Linus Torvalds news. although I wouldn't know if strictly speaking intended to be related

#noai #noslop #slop #ai #llm #antiai #freesoftware #opensource #foss #floss #linux #kernel #dev #ensloppification #slopnation

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a picture with the overall caption "open source in 2026" in the footer, showing two photos of a woman. the first photo shows her visibly and intensely disgusted next to the text "low-quality contributors from new developers". the second photo shows her with a suddenly curious inquiring and almost excited look, next to the text "low-quality AI contributions from long-time developers". the picture plays with the absurdity with how suddenly the woman's mood changes, the two pictures being implied to have been taken just seconds apart since they share the same lighting and background.

Was fehlt: eine Website #hasItBeenVibecoded wo zu allen kommerziellen Softwaretools #OpenSource Projekte wie #ArtCraft gemappt werden…

https://getartcraft.com/apps

#ai #ki

Friends don’t let friends feed their data to #AI agents. There's a growing trend in the consumer tech world: gadgets designed to spy on everything and everyone around you, regardless of whether or not anyone else actually consented to it.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011938/muse-ai-data-friends-consent
#surveillance #personaldata #privacy

#AI Slop Isn't Just for Social Media; It's Ruining Cyberattacks, Too. Don't buy the hype ! AI has been dumbing down #cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ai-slop-ruining-cyberattacks
#security #socialnetwork

Exigeons la nationalisation immédiate de Doctolib.

#FenetreDOvertonDeLaGauche
#Santé
#Capitalisme
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet

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Actu Mediapart L’entrée de Nvidia au capital de Doctolib, un hold-up sur nos données de santé En situation de quasi-monopole privé sur nos données de santé, Doctolib accueille Nvidia dans son capital, et le gouvernement applaudit. Loin d’aider au développement d’une IA souveraine européenne, cette opération semble être un cheval de Troie pour le géant du numérique états-unien.

Why We’re Banning AI https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai #AI #NoAI

AI game demo is going broke on just 430 players - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwZ6_Q2lnsc

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/12/ai-game-demo-is-going-broke-on-just-430-players/

by @davidgerard

#AI #ChatBots #Games

Back in my day, us kids referred to this sort of thing as an “epic fail”.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/10/13/1619

#Linux #Linus #Torvalds #LinusTorvalds #AI

The recording of the October 1st, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/FtPwUs5bJIM

We discussed Reviews that need your attention and testing, keelOS, the Triton hypervisor-agnostic control plane, repeatable #FreeBSD development VMs , Apiary news and yet another deep dive into responsible #AI, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

This content is not AI generated

Thinking about switching to #NetBSD to avoid #Linux #AI tainted kernel, and the thing that is worrying me most is package managers. I've been using #Debian and derivatives for about twenty years mainly because of its excellent package manager. Is there anything which does similar dependency tracking in the #BSD world?

@zackwhittaker And this in just the initial outlay stages, of self-replicating, self-evolving #AI.

Compile this upon the #ClimateCRISIS and #TechBros cornering more #energy markets, and the equation gets worse and worse.

#GlobalSouth #EmergingEconomies #DevelopingCountries #BeltAndRoadInitiative

#AI #artificialintelligence

I'm sitting in one of the fullest European Parliament hearings I've ever seen: it's about the infamous proposed Cloud and #AI Development Act #CADA and it's a huge "we need to build build build #datacentres", #gigafactories and farring #unicorns. And I'm like 😭

Let's see if I get speaking time. :)

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Photo of full European parliament room with politicians sittings on the panel.

SpaceX to send Nvidia chips ‘somewhere in the universe’ - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_TlfIKgL5w

by @davidgerard

#AI #SpaceX #Nvidia

@joachim
#BDS #justice #solidarity #boycottmicrosoft #tech #bigtech #AI #Azure #cloud #apartheid #microsoft #genocide #gaza #politics #CrimesAgainstHumanity #crimescontrelhumanite
Boycott, Disinvest, Sanction for crimes against humanity
Boycotter, Désinvestir, Sanctionner pour crimes contre l'humanité

Linux kernel goes full AI slop, hides chatbot commits - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ARF2KcDgc

by @davidgerard

This is really sad. I had hoped for better from linux.

#AI #GenAI #linux

This.

« #NetBSD seems to be thriving of late : as the #Linux world goes pro-AI, some of the AI-averse are turning to this explicitly AI-free project. »

› https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

#OS #AI #SlopAI #ALifeWithoutSlop

Come on, pop already

#ai

“Traders pile into ‘bubble puts’ on CoreWeave as neocloud stocks plunge”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/coreweave-put-options-ai-trade.html

For those of us expecting a AI-related crash, each dip looks like it could be the first moment in such a crash even as stock markets have repeatedly 'bought the dips' & reversed the drops.

So, I note that overnight Asian stock markets have lost around 5% on semi-conductor related stocks, following losses in the USA later yesterday.

Whether this is another wobble or really the cliff edge many of us expect will be clearer in the next few days; keep an eye out.

#FinancialCrisis #AI
h/t FT

"Character.ai’s bankruptcy is the one of the first dominos to fall in the long-foreseen AI bubble. The circumstances of its bankruptcy are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen: Character.ai lit a huge amount of money on fire running its product, did not bring in a lot of revenue, and faced enormous legal fees after causing harm to its users. Enshittifying its product to try to make its expenses cheaper did not work, according to a narrative filed in bankruptcy court Tuesday.

Disney has reportedly offered Character.ai $20 million to license some of its intellectual property; Last year, Disney sent Character.ai a cease and desist letter demanding it stop using its copyrighted characters without permission. In 2023, it was valued at $1 billion after raising $150 million in a round led by a16z.

Character.ai is one of the best-known AI chatbot companies that has become popular in the AI companion space. The company has faced various legal problems after being sued by the family of one of its users who killed himself after chatting with a Character.ai chatbot, and has been the target of regulators pushing for age verification tech because of its popularity with kids. In its bankruptcy filings, the company says that its enormous legal costs contributed to its bankruptcy, but that even without the legal problems, its business was wildly unsustainable."

https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/

#AI #GenerativeAI #CharacterAI #Chatbots #AIBubble

🎙️ Myna en Ubuntu: dictado local y privado en pruebas

｢ La compañía ya había adelantado sus intenciones de incorporar funciones de inteligencia artificial en el escritorio, y este movimiento supone un primer paso tangible ｣

https://www.linuxadictos.com/myna-llega-a-ubuntu-como-dictado-local-y-privado.html

#ubuntu #localai #ai #distros

As mentioned before, my employer has banned the Meta "Pervert" Glasses at work. Now they've also banned the new Apple Watch.

Well done!

#AI #Spyware #Meta #Apple

SFist: Smoking Becomes Trendy In Silicon Valley as Some Researchers Believe AI Will Cure Cancer

https://sfist.com/2026/10/13/smoking-becomes-trendy-in-silicon-valley-because-some-researchers-believe-ai-will-cure-cancer/

#aipocalpyse #stupidity #ai

When you only hear about extreme positions, you will never accept even the most sensible compromise that can serve as a basis to collect more and better information to iterate towards an acceptable solution. Thinking in absolutes and extremes can be helpful, but it shouldn't lead to refuse everything just because.

(Yes, there are exceptions. Like fundamental human rights and other axioms)

1/4

#AI #LLM #Fundamentalism

I made a meme, totally unrelated to the #Linux kernel going full SLOP

#NetBSD #AI #NeverSlop

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Old Swedish Chef meme from a decade or two ago, chasing orc and a few animals, captioned "NetBSD" chasing "AI maintainers" "AI SLOP" "EXPLOITS"

🎰 Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'

“It can no longer be assumed, most particularly with the arrival of the likes of Kimi K3, that large language models will ever be profitable given the related ongoing collapse in token pricing”

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/13/cheap-chinese-and-open-source-llms-could-trigger-trillion-dollar-ai-infrastructure-reset/5302774

#ai #datacenters #openweight #china

cyberpunk is now, as they say

#cyberpunk #ai #walgreens

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me reading Cyberpunk lore from the 90s: lol how the fuck does the future have no internet? AI can't ruin THE INTERNET, this is lazy writing. me trying to find my local walgreens in 2024: Google's new cyberdaemon has totally jacked my fuckin steez, choom.

Ça c'est ce qu'on appelle une très, très mauvaise nouvelle pour nos données personnelles. Et pour notre santé.

Le capitalisme de la santé tue.

#Santé
#Doctolib
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalisme
#DonnéesPersonnelles

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actu Doctolib : Nvidia va entrer au capital en tant qu’actionnaire minoritaire pour « lancer la révolution de l’IA en Europe » L’entreprise américaine a investi au moins 8 milliards de dollars en Europe l’année dernière, a précisé son patron, Jensen Huang, affirmant avoir également investi dans les entreprises d’IA françaises Genesis IA et Pigment.

We are living through what I would call the great unlearning, and therefore the death of expertise. @pluralistic summarizes this political and economic dimension in another scorcher.

We are not training juniors, we are substituting them with AI. Students in school will be cognitively impaired through consistent AI use, eroding their expertise and reducing their lived experiences to prompts. We are deflating our capacity to make sense of theory-free model output.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/06/nonfungible/

#AI

Un intervenant extérieur a transmis pour présenter sa formation, une photo de lui dégueulasse en slopAi. Et le chargé de com' a validé 😩
Le mec doit croire que ça lui donne un coté futuriste je sais pas quoi, alors que c'est juste l'équivalent 2026 de la coiffure tecktonik.

J'avais trop envie de renvoyer ce meme que j'ai fait l'an dernier et toujours d'actualité, je me suis retenu très fort à la place je vous raconte.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Slop
#Université
#VibeCoding

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Capture d'écran pour une formation à l'ia, le formateur a fournit sa photo ... retouchée par ia dégueulasse ou il s'est collé des espèces de tuyaux métalliques sur la tête, sans doute pour ressembler dans son esprit à un être futuriste ... mais il a juste l'air d'un bouffon ...

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meme : Vibe-code and other ai users : How they see themselves (image : un mec qui code avec une machine genre Matrix sur son épaule) What they really look like (image : les humains totalement abruti dans le vaisseau spatial, dans le dessin animé Wall-E)

My mastodon instance of 1 user is getting hammered to its limits by AI scrapers.

Gigabytes of cached data and bandwidth for absolutely nothing.

Low disk space. Energy spikes. Memory spikes. CPU spikes. Human labor...

The cost is truly staggering, and this is for a single instance belonging to a single, otherwise insignificant individual.

Imagine the scale of resource abuse, theft, and climate destruction across the internet.

Just so people can use a shitty #AI prompt on their shitty site.

Non, l’IA n’est pas l’ennemie des mathématiciens et des chercheurs (et voilà pourquoi)
Source : Atlantico / Thierry Berthier, Charaf Louhmadi

https://buff.ly/q6WWAe4
#mathématiques #maths #math #IA #AI

🎙️What does it take to build a #FreeSoftware community that thrives for more than 20 years?

On the Linux InLaws podcast @webmink and @ohnewein look back at the origins and evolution of SFSCON, discuss #OpenSource, #digitalsovereignty, Open Standards and #AI, and explore how #SFSCON brings people, ideas and innovation together.

And the story continues: @linux_inlaws will be joining us at #SFSCON26 this November!

🎧https://linuxinlaws.eu/

#SoftwareFreedom #FLOSS

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Poster for “SFSCON on the Linux InLaws”, featuring speakers Patrick Ohnewein and Simon Phipps, hosted by Chris Zimmermann and Martin Visser. The event takes place on November 13–14, 2026, at NOI Techpark in Bolzano, Italy.

I remember when the Linux kernel started using the GPL-2 License to prevent evil capitalism from happening.

Well apparently, the kernel maintainers just took a round of steaming shits on the GPL-2 License and #AI is totally on the menu. Not good if you like a secure system. Not enough to avoid #systemD and other bloat. This is like having a treaty with the USA or Russia and getting totally invaded and communities destroyed.

#NetBSD lives true to its roots, aiming for compatibility with carefully vetted code trees, and never has been a moving target. The choices we make today will save us endless grief decades from now.

LWN: “[Linus Torvalds] took an old patch and had the LLM revise it; the result has made him unwilling to work *without* an LLM. … Why bother, he asked, to search for all of the call sites of a function he has just modified, when the tool can fix them all automatically?”

Sounds like a language issue. I certainly don't need an #LLM to refactor #Java code.

#C #Linux #Linus #LinusTorvalds #AI #programming

😬

BBC: Robot seized by German police after allegedly groping teenage girl

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck9dzj40nzj5o

#AI #Aipocalpyse

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BBC: Robot seized by German police after allegedly groping teenage girl

Today in #AI assisted spam slop, I got a cold email from someone who wants to setup amateur arm wrestling tournaments in public spaces as a way to drive foot traffic to downtowns and encourage community building.

I am not making this up.

@GossiTheDog

These are the #AI dullards who created a system allowing the creation of "chat bots" based on murdered children -- including my daughter.

After promising otherwise, media outlets confirmed that CharacterAI's system still allowed them to create bots with my daughter's name and photo.

#Google reverse acquihired CAI for $2.7B.

Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code

A new branch named "noref-filemap-read-with-llm" contains kernel improvements he's been working on with the help of AI / LLMs, Claude Code specifically

"The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding assistant (Claude Code) under my direction. The measurements were run on my machine."

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code

#linux #ai

🚩 NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS

“Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.”

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

#netbsd #unix #ai #llm #opensource

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

#theendisnear #AI

https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page/ai-slop-is-not-art-chatbots-are-not-your-friends-iron-on-patch/

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

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An iron-on patch of an anti gen-AI illustration. The included text reads "AI slop is not art. Chatbots are not your friends."

@bartgroothuis @AstaMcCarthy @johan @BjornW

Ik beschouw #AI / LLM als inhumane technologie vanwege hoe het met duizelingwekkende vaart in de samenleving gedumpt wordt, ongeacht de risico's en bekende / nog onbekende externaliteiten. En door wie feitelijk de controle, het eigenaarschap hebben. Ja, grootmachten China en de VS. Maar ook de Epstein klasse van biljonairs die boven de wet lijken te staan. Na tientallen jaren van dereguleringen staan de regelgevers nu machteloos langs de zijlijn om burgers te beschermen tegen dit techgedruis.

De #EU was bezig met een inhaalslag, een vuist tegen de #BigTech, en #GDPR is daar voorbeeld van. Deze regulering geleidelijk en stelselmatig uithollen met een "het doel heiligt alle middelen" is geen oplossing. @noybeu kaart dit terecht aan.

Niet blind in allerhaast de atoombom willen uitvinden, omdat anderen dat ook doen betekent niet dat je alleen nog maar kan "hopen en bidden". Je kunt ook een ander, beter pad bewandelen, en daar vol op inzetten.

｢ These models lack the foresight to predict consequences weeks, months, years down the line on decisions and commitments — in operating costs, complexity, accessibility, and affordability to the very customers the product is for. All those secondary things really matter in making a product successful and worth buying. The slop services out there omit these secondary things all the time and you can taste it ｣

https://cendyne.dev/posts/2026-10-11-fable-took-my-jorb.html

#ai #vibecoding

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with #OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." - https://www.ahmath.org/statements #ai

Vitalik Buterin backs #crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid #AI math advances - https://cointelegraph.com/news/justin-drake-urges-crypto-bunker-mode-as-ai-could-break-wallet-security-within-months "warning AI could threaten private-key security before quantum computers do."

NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

#ai #llm #bsd #netbsd

Read more about our five-year journey and anniversary event on our blog: https://www.sovereign.tech/news/celebrating-five-years

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #AI

📷 Stefanie Loos

I’m excited to speak at #Fastly #Xcelerate NYC on October 14, joining Artur Bergman, Founder and CTO of Fastly, on Building a Foundation for the AI Era.

We’ll discuss how AI-generated traffic is forcing a rethink of caching, security, and performance at scale.

Reserve your seat now: https://www.fastly.com/events/xcelerate-nyc?utm_campaign=FY26Q4_EVT_CON_EN_NAN_NYC_Xcelerate&utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Artur%20Bergman

@fastlydevs
#XcelerateNYC #AI #EdgeComputing

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fastly XCELERATE LIVE SESSION Building a Foundation for the Al Era Artur Bergman, Founder & CTO Fastly Mike Fiedler, PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Python Software Foundation New York, October 14th 10:00 am ET

'Re: [patch] ext4fs rw' - MARC

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177425035627562&w=2

#openbsd #ai

@GossiTheDog

so the major problem on the Internet is not #AI... it's still the same as it has always been...

too many lazy bastards that don't give a f***

/cc @Girgias

Définition chimiquement pure d'un groupe sectaire.

#DrinkTheKoolAid
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet

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actu : Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer

Microsoft confirms its upcoming Edge feature collects user data but not for spying

"Trust us"

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-its-upcoming-edge-feature-collects-user-data-but-not-for-spying/

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

Every time I prompt an #AI system I add ‘please’. Like: ‘I want to understand this error message, can you explain it please?’

I have no idea why I do that, the LLM doesn’t bloody care and it seems yet another token or two to burn.

New on the blog: ArtCraft is rebuilding Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Word, Excel and more in Rust, with AI coding agents.

I tried it. PhotoCraft actually handled my video thumbnails, apps start in 1-2 seconds, and there are native #FreeBSD builds.

The more interesting part: GUI, CLI and agents drive the same engine. And when code gets cheap, verification becomes the bottleneck.

https://blog.hofstede.it/artcraft-rust-agent-desktop-apps/

#RustLang #OpenSource #AI #AIAgents #Linux #FOSS

The AI Pascal’s Wager - Ploum

｢ contributors who are completely turned away by the fact that they can’t use LLMs are probably contributors you don’t want in your project, even if you have a Debian-like “moderate use of AI” position ｣
https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html

#ai #vibecoding #opensource

Palantir CTO: AI Researchers Smoke, Betting AI Will Cure Cancer - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-researchers-smoking-ai-cure-cancer-palantir-cto-2026-10

"So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI," Sankar said in an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

The logic, he said, is: "I believe so much in AI that it's going to cure cancer. So I'm showing you my chips are all in."

Tech Bros need mental health help.
@davidgerard

#AI #Cults

I believe it's clear what should be the response to this.

don't buy anything from Epic Games. they won't understand other language. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-12/epic-games-delays-disney-project-asks-developers-to-use-more-ai?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MTgyOTQ5NCwiZXhwIjoxNzkyNDM0Mjk0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTVQ0SDVSS1YyVEQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.rC824FbXuutjticK4TKijZtWW-ewDWvg6AIoVnPo5IA

#Gaming #Videogames #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI #Tech #Technology #Art #Claude #Anthropic #Marvel #StarWars

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Developers on the game, a shooter featuring characters from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises, were instructed to implement an “AI first” production model using tools such as Anthropic’s Claude. Humans will then manage and guide that work. “No more hand-written code,” one of the game’s directors told staff in an internal message reviewed by Bloomberg. The director added that all art for the game would be “generated with full AI workflows.” Even before this announcement, the maker of the popular Fortnite game had been pushing hard for the use of AI across all of its divisions. But this is the first time a major video-game company has attempted to build a title primarily with AI. "We’re embracing AI-accelerated development, led by Epic developers who are the visionaries and creative drivers for everything we do,” said Jake Jones, communications director at Epic Games, in a statement to Bloomberg News. A spokesperson for Disney didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The announcement left some Epic developers stunned on a video call last week, according to the people. Some made jokes about how they should handle errors produced by the AI-generated work, asking if they should ask Claude to fix its own mistakes. Some said they hoped that it was not a serious request or that the company would reverse course, arguing that the initiative wouldn’t be as successful as Epic hoped.

BWAHAHAHA OMG

“Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude”

Via @davidgerard

#ai #cult

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-bans-abusive-or-cruel-behavior-toward-claude/

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https://i.delta.chat/#818297831FAA0AB9917497FA5B145F41993374F1&v=3&x=xusVctOPSGOA6oFq4esfR68V&j=YspskxfxoImavuPj3qFTuX7H&s=d1sWSLq-ceUR9x5nJpWX7dLa&a=207nv967sz55do78f1xj%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Meme+Logistics&b=Meme+Logistics

#genai #ai #llm #art #artists #meme #politics #left

No one who knows me will be surprised that it's exceeding my rare that I play around with #AI stuff. Tonight I felt like it and used a real task that I wanted solved.

Oh my, here we go: 🫣

I had just watched @sarahbosetti's brilliant laudatory speech to Angela #Merkel for receiving a #Caritas price and wondered who the kindly smiling person setting next to her was. He kind of reminded me of disgraced #Fifa boss Gianni Infantino but that seemed implausible.

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Photo of three people sitting in a front row. To the right is Angela Merkel, next to her two men in back suits whose names I did not know.

So, I cropped a still image from the video and fed it to Google search (#Gemini?) #AI. Here is what it told me with absolute certainty:

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Screenshot from Google Gemini asking who the man in the picture was. Gemini answers "This man is Gianni Infantino," plus some details about the Fifa boss.

John Gruber Thinks I’ve Lost My Mind
#AI #ElonMusk #ohnGruber #Tech #Socialmedia

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/10/12/john-gruber-thinks-ive-lost-my-mind/

More and more sites are having to set up defenses from AI bots. It is costly to provide online services and they were not built for bots.

One can say that the AI companies are performing a global denial of service attack, which incurs costs to all of their competitors, as well as the rest of the Internet, while their own services can afford to withstand that load. The service owners are forced to perform costly operations to defend them selves, but also make the services worse for the users.

This is anti-competitive.

#AI #Regulation #Politics #BigTech

Pick your favorite cryptid.

#poll #polls #cryptids #ai

Voilà voilà.
Quand ma chef va venir me demander d'utiliser l'ia, je pourrai tranquillement lui dire que je respecte les conseils de la DiNum et que je préfère m'abstenir, pour économiser les deniers publics 😂

plop la bulle ! 🫧

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#aiBubble
#Capitalisme
#ServicesPublics

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David Amiel cherche a freiner les dépenses des agents de I'Etat liées aI'lA Plusieurs mois apres le secteur privé, le gouvernement envisage d'imposer aux agents publics des consignes de restriction d'usage de l'intelligence artificielle. La Dinum a été sollicitée pour définir d'urgence une doctrine, alors que le paiement au token gonfle les factures

[lien] « J’utilise l’IA pour faire ce que je ne sais pas bien faire » assume Linus Torvalds  - ZDNet News #gik #dev #ai

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117426945606390796

I see a lot of companies trying to do "sensible" AI implementation & while some of it may, in fact, look like it should have from the beginning, I don't think they realize that unless they built & trained their own model, they're still tied to the bubble, which is tied to OpenAI & if they go down (as it increasingly looks like), your little local thing will almost certainly go down, too...

Both the economy & tech ecosystem of AI is incredibly brittle & I don't think people know.

#AI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LThinkTank/117427565361608575

Rappel que la trend «il faut que tous les appareils électronique soient connectés à l'internet» était la marche juste avant «il faut mettre de l'ia partout»

#Tech
#ia #ai
#Marketing
🍿 🍿

Flibustien boosted

Little Think Tank » 🌐 2026-10-12
@LThinkTank@mastodon.social

❗️[ 🇫🇷 FRANCE ]

🔸 Une cyberattaque d’une ampleur inédite a visé les systèmes de froid de magasins Intermarché, Leclerc, Coopérative U, mais aussi Metro et plusieurs commerces indépendants. Les pirates auraient forcé les installations à dégivrer en continu à 50°C, détruisant les stocks réfrigérés. Plus de 150 Intermarché seraient touchés et les pertes pourraient se chiffrer en plusieurs millions d’euros.

#France #Leclerc #Metro

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Affiche dans un magasin Intermarché prévenant d'une cyberattaque nationale sur la chaîne du froid.

The full sky in the ultraviolet

https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/

"This is the whole sky in ultraviolet light — the first detailed version with no holes in it. Most of it was photographed by NASA’s GALEX space telescope between 2003 and 2013; the parts no ultraviolet telescope ever saw were filled in by a statistical model, and every such pixel is labelled. The top of this page is for anyone curious about the sky; the bottom is for astronomers who want the numbers, the files and the paper. …"

Using Claude Science to produce the first complete map of the sky in UV light \ Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/research/the-missing-map-of-the-sky

#AI #Anthropic #astronomy #Claude #GALEX #MilkyWay #NASA #science

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Image from https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/ – ultraviolet

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Image from https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/ – visible

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Image from https://menard.pha.jhu.edu/uvmap/ – infrared

Silicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AI - https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009406/silicon-valley-is-falling-in-line-with-trumps-attempt-to-rename-ai it's a loyalty test: who is sycophantic enough to adopt a stupid name for #ai

"A developer frustrated by Adobe's cancellation fees used Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model and pure Rust to rewrite the entire Creative Cloud suite as open-source alternatives. The seven applications — PhotoCraft (Photoshop), VectorCraft (Illustrator), FilmCraft (Premiere Pro), EffectCraft (After Effects), LightCraft (Lightroom), DesignCraft (InDesign), and PdfCraft (Acrobat) — were built from scratch using clean-room reverse engineering without touching Adobe's original code. Within the first week, the GitHub repository garnered 24K stars.

The apps run natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with some capable of running in browsers via WebAssembly. Shortly after, the same team (ArtCraft) released three Microsoft Office clones: GridCraft (Excel), WordCraft (Word), and DeckCraft (PowerPoint). All three replicate the familiar UI structures — cell layouts, document editing, slide masters, animations — and are completely free, open-source, subscription-free, and written in Rust."

https://www.besthub.dev/articles/ai-generated-open-source-suite-artcraft-clones-adobe-targets-microsoft-office-07a368afb64b

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #OpenSource #ArtCraft #Adobe #Opus #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #VibeCoding

#AI #agent makers are promising #privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's #OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI."
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009051/privacy-ai-agent-promises-openai-meta-muse-dots

I'm torn between finding it funny that AI enabled a single developer to clone some of the biggest subscription bloatware and being horrified by the environmental cost of creating this unmaintainable software.
#AI #propriatarysoftware
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/creator-of-free-adobe-clones-unveils-open-source-microsoft-office-excel-powerpoint-and-word-replications-autodesk-tools-and-other-subscription-based-services-may-come-next

Good news:⚡"Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after #Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, RU.

Drones hit⚡Yandex #DataCenters in Sasovo, Kaluga & Vladimir between Oct 8 & 11➡️shutting 2 of the sites down entirely, disabling sev modules at the 3rd & disrupting cloud, transport, banking & media services across #Russia.🚨Russian forces had damaged or destroyed data centers belonging to at least 8 Ukrainian cos since late Sept.."
-Anonymous
#Putin #Zelensky #AI #UkraineWar #USPol

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Graph of Russian bot traffic in the last day.

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A photo of the fire at one of the data centers.

Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20VYK0-Q-3o

by @davidgerard

#AI #Anthropic #IPO

Two "mores" so you know I'm being as forcible as I can here. I am tired of seeing the most OBVIOUS traits of the "Generative #AI" fad go without commentary, because they fall into that vast region of taboo and ostracism pertaining to the designed-in stupidity and inefficiency of corporate #business practices and leadership culture. This is the inevitable result of caring only about making numbers go up, especially anything pertaining to the dollars-per-second #tech sector obsession with a particularly stupid definition of "efficiency". The people who get the furthest in this pathological culture are the ones who have nothing in their heads other than making numbers go up. To them, all other considerations are "inefficient."

Intelligence itself is inefficiency, as I've pointed out. It takes time to work out chains of reasoning. Pausing for second and third thoughts, rather than simply acting upon impulse or "gut instinct" or whatever, is very easily construed as a waste of time and damaging to "efficiency", i.e. dollars per second in the John Carmack or DOGE kiddie definition of "efficiency".

They shouldn't call the #LLM "artificial intelligence". If "AI" stands for anything in LLM terms, it's something like applied impulsiveness: the LLM is designed with the needs of terminally impulsive tech execs in mind. They want instant answers they don't want to think about, and thus they think it's natural to get all possible answers from a black box that's simply declared to be a box stuffed to bursting with "AGI superintelligence."

The false claim of supreme intelligence is what supports the impulsiveness: the black box is SO impossibly brainy, think the tech weenies, that it's got all the answers right off the top of its head, able to be served up by the billions from some vast GPU farm or other, an "AI factory" (they don't like "data center" so much any more, too many people hate that phrase now.)

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Why haven't the journalists of @arstechnica@mastodon.social and @newscientist et alii been vigorously questioning the "Generative #AI" people on their extreme thirst for eating up resources in a totally NON-CONSTRUCTIVE way? Burning up electricity and stealing every scrap of data that can be stolen is not "productive" activity no matter how incessantly the #tech execs babble about "efficiency" and "productivity".

GenAI installations feed nobody, they clothe nobody, they house nobody, they hoard entire power plants all to themselves and they're meant to have the absolute minimum of human staff overseeing them so the "job creation" angle is bullshit (though, as per usual, @ArsTechnica@flipboard.com &c. faithfully print the lies about "job creation" even though it should be trivially easy to point out the lie.)

If these things are so intelligent than why do they need to consume all the world's resources in ever-escalating quantities? That's not how genuinely intelligent human beings need to function. Human creators and thinkers don't need to be consuming entire libraries every day in order to do their work. They don't need to! The complex skills and the abstract knowledge, once learned, requires only occasional refreshment. So why aren't the tech journalists asking the GenAI people: if human beings can think and create without needing to be fed with astronomically gigantic quantities of data and energy, then why on Earth is the "AGI superintelligence" not able to equal this simple feat? If the LLM things are so damn smart then why do they need more data all the time?

I could go on. But ultimately my point is that I shouldn't HAVE to do this! This is what #journalism is supposed to catch! The falsity of the "Generative AI" craze is just the sort of thing that @arstechnica@c.im etc. should have caught...but they didn't, because they're hopelessly corrupt and function chiefly as unofficial advertising for #technology grifters.

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RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117422079159881974

May I point out something that ought to be more obvious to the #tech enthusiasts and grifters who hope that "Generative #AI" will make them fabulously rich without effort and who, as it seems, have a genuinely passionate belief in their own stupidity that they emotionally project outward onto humanity in general?

They're all hot to claim that GenAI sludge-machines have already so far surpassed human beings that it's irrational not to cram all business and all commerce and all creativity and everything else into some GenAI installation or other, and they are able to sound perfectly sincere on this issue for an obvious reason.

Let me put it another way: the elite #programming geeks who cling to GenAI also tend to cling to Charles Murray-esque nonsense about "intelligence" and "IQ", which is a sure hallmark of stupidity. Only stupid people take Charles Murray seriously. Only stupid people think that "intelligence" boils down to one scalar value. Only stupid people NEED computers to do all their thinking for them, so #GenAI is like the triumph of stupidity. The entire tech sector's leadership and management ranks have come to be jam-packed with the least educated, least clever, most intellectually lazy human beings on the planet, and these are the people who are impressed by fakey LLM "AI". The easiest way to believe in miracles is to exclude all intellect from one's life. If you start THINKING about the AI miracle then you start having doubts and doubt, as we know, is a mortal sin in #business (hence "FUD" as a slur.)

I emphasize: this is WILLFUL stupidity. This is stupefaction taken to its utmost: the entire business culture has schooled itself over many decades to value stupidity and elevate stupidity to high social status. To be ignorant and dominated by emotions, making decisions entirely because of "gut feelings" and such, is to be reckoned among the geniuses of business and especially #technology.

THAT is why "Generative AI" is a fad: because it appeals to the dull-witted, the people who already feel like (a) they need computers to handle even the smallest details of their lives, and (b) the people who know the absolute least about computers, except that they're big and powerful and stuffed with information.

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gosh who could have predicted that precisely this would happen

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/free-steam-demo-runs-up-usd1-000-daily-ai-bill-and-forces-devs-to-take-out-bank-loan-studio-eyes-local-hardware-models-to-escape-cloud-limits-as-cheaper-automatic-fallback-ai-models-create-problems-game-uses-ai-to-process-your-voice-and-build-responses
archive: https://archive.ph/XsfwS

Oh nooo... someone recreated Adobe's entire suite.. and it's all free and open source. So sad, won't someone think of the shareholders... 🥲

https://getartcraft.com/apps

#foss #opensource #adobe #fuckadobe #AI

Paul Krugman:

"deploying $8 billion in capital, the cost of a data center, in a non-AI sector will, on average, support more than 10,000 jobs, while investing that money in a data center will support only around 100 jobs. Or to put it another way, money spent building data centers will, on average, create only around one percent as many jobs as investing the same sum in other industries would have created."

#AI #GenAI #ClimateChange #capitalism #datacenters

I need to get some of these made:

#AI #LLMs

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A stack of cars that read: A side: DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT “AI” YOU MAKE ME LONG FOR THE SWEET EMBRACE OF DEATH B side: BY USING AI, YOU HAVE GIVEN A PASS TO • The staggering climate and ecological impact • The outright attack on labor by capital • The systemic disregard of consent • The basis in wholesale theft and plagiarism • The assault on the very concept of objective truth • The enrichment of the most cringe billionaire fascist motherfuckers the world has ever seen THERE IS NO ETHICAL USE OF AI If you ignore all of that, you are trying to negotiate what level of harm to others you find acceptable for your personal, selfish benefit. You advance the agenda of these hollow-eyed, joyless money-ghouls who resent art, creativity, and life itself. THE MACHINE IS DISGUSTING AND MUST BE DESTROYED

Paul Krugman:

"deploying $8 billion in capital, the cost of a data center, in a non-AI sector will, on average, support more than 10,000 jobs, while investing that money in a data center will support only around 100 jobs. Or to put it another way, money spent building data centers will, on average, create only around one percent as many jobs as investing the same sum in other industries would have created."

#AI #GenAI #ClimateChange #capitalism #datacenters

then they ask why we burn out and go gardening

#dev #developer #c #assembly #coding #programming #programmer #opensource #ai #javascript #typescript #meme #joke #humor #llm #rust

Wenn schon Linus Torvalds Drogen verharmlost bzw. meint, dass heutzutage Drogenabhängigkeit normal oder notwendig sei …

https://winfuture.de/news,161854.html

#LinusTorwalds #Linux #KI #AI #noAI #artificialIntelligence #genAI #generativeAI #ChatBots #LLMs #vibeCoding

Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’

“I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/

#AI #genai #amazon

[lien] morluto/rea: Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries. #gik #dev #ai

New AI jailbreak: get your chatbot drunk - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D5_no4quNQ

by @davidgerard

#AI #AgenticAI #GenAI #Jailbreak

Prize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr86z33pdy9vo

#news #tech #technology #AI #fraud #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #bbc #nikon

#AI #poll, please boost

Assuming AI wasn’t going to be used for purely evil purposes

L'ia nous conduit vers l'abîme. Debout sur l'accélérateur.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Ecologie
#LecologieSansLutteDesClassesCestDuJardinage

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actu : "Ce n'est plus une blague" : le Finistère placé en alerte écarlate, maires et préfet préviennent les habitants du risque imminent de coupure d'eau potable

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actu : La Bretagne : nouvel eldorado des datacenter

💸 OpenAI's annualized revenue $20 billion lower than prior investor estimates https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/openais-annualized-revenue-20-billion-lower-than-prior-investor-estimates-174058048.html

#openai #ai #ipo

LLM #AI systems are NOT conscious. They CANNOT feel pain. They have no emotions. They do NOT even think. They are no more capable of feeling "abused" by users than a dried out sponge. Big Tech execs trying to convince you otherwise are feeding the public a pile of self-serving garbage.

New Report Reveals Walmart’s Patents for Price-Gouging Tech

Walmart’s US CEO said customers’ order value jumps 40 percent when they use the company’s AI shopping assistant.

https://truthout.org/articles/new-report-reveals-walmarts-patents-for-price-gouging-tech/

#news #tech #technology #AI #walmart #pricegouging #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #business

Oh, interesting Wikipedia & MIT Open Learning: A New Strategic Collaboration, I wonder what MIT and Wikipedia are collaborating en

Oh, it's AI… And how to use AI to promote OpenCourseWare on Wikipedia…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-x9bdnwx0
#ai

Unsurprisingly (sorry for the link to X):
"Finally, the OpenAI’s solution to Navier–Stokes does not match its Lean verification.
A Lean-verified proof does not automatically validate the proof written in natural language, nor does it mean that the formal statement captures the intended theorem. During translation, an AI can change an assumption, weaken a statement, or replace the argument entirely.
This is a general problem. Here, one estimate claims that four additional input derivatives suffice. The Lean version requires five: a weaker result. A pressure-flux estimate is obtained through a different bound, and proved through a different argument. It is not clear whether these mismatches invalidate the entire proof."
#maths #navierstokes #ai

https://x.com/ValerioCapraro/status/2108153427742032300

AI surveillance trial costs £320k, catches zero crooks - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QEMoNIuamg

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/29/ai-police-surveillance-trial-costs-320k-catches-zero-crooks/

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #LawEnforcement #FacialRecognition

Je viens de vibe-coder un pont entre un groupe signal et un groupe WhatsApp. Ça s'appuie évidemment sur des projets existants (matterbridge pour WhatsApp).

J'ai commencé sur gemini avant d'exploser le contexte au bout de quelques heures. Ai exporté la conversation puis passé sur Claude dont la restriction sur les tokens est assez basse. J'ai fini sur mistral qui a fini le job.

#ai #mistral #claude #genai #gemini #whatsapp #signal

People with no artistic skills found a way to replace people with artistic skills by using a machine that stole from those who shared their artistic skills. Now they can just pay a monthly fee to another company to access the artistic skills theft machine instead of an actual human with artistic skills.

#NoAI #FuckAI #AI

🤐 Anthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/anthropic-bans-abusive-behavior-claude

#AI #Claude #Anthropic

Which service do you use when you do your "googling"?

#tech #search #AI #trademark #law

Free a Girl, Defence for Children Nederland, Terre des Hommes en International Justice Mission willen al uw internetverkeer scannen, encryptie breken https://www.security.nl/posting/956513/Nederlandse+organisaties+starten+campagne+voor+invoering+van+chatcontrole
Talloze ouders krijgen dan valse kinderporno beschuldiging. #ChatControl #surveillance #AI #filterfail #EU

Heeft u lidmaatschap al opgezegd? #privacy #StemPiraat #VotePirate

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Daddy, did you send the photo (of their kids in a pool) to mommy? leads to a flag of criminal activity leading to informing of the police to look at the 'possible child sexual abuse material'

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117406795857681781

Those people, often students, approach people at parties, events, and start talking about "AI safety". The best defense is letting them know that you are well aware of "effective altruists", and what a cult they are.

Read here what a dangerous cult they are, from a former member: https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/effective-altruism-is-a-dangerous

Here are the faces and names of "effective altruists" high up the hierarchy in Germany: https://effektiveraltruismus.de/en/team-en/

One of them tried to sell me their story 10 days ago. He is completely fried: https://ea.greaterwrong.com/users/birk-kaellberg?sort=old (this is not SF to them, they truly believe those things)

He organizes "AI safety" talks in his garden in Heidelberg and the listeners get a free dinner. He says their money comes from "philanthropists".

At first I thought he was just someone who bought into the EA talks about "AI safety", so I warned him against EA, even told him "I think your heart is in the right place" but then it turned out he knew full well what cult he was in, so then I was rude and made fun of their prophet Yudkowsky and Sam Bankman Fried, and he ended up giggling nervously and self-soothing by caressing his fingers. Then he switched to chatting up students.

Honestly, I haven't been so creeped out by a cult since Opus Dei! They have money and can pull in uninformed people. Spread the word! Make it embarrassing to engage with EA!

ETA: Of course they are in Heidelberg, they are everywhere: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/groups

#AI #noAI #technofascism #technoOptimism

F*ck me ... HDD prices are insane!

F*ck #AI actually !

Helpful AI. Today’s cartoon by Marian Kamensky. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #humanity #extinction

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Cartoon showing a personified Earth sawing off the branch it sits on while a robot labeled "AI" in the bucket of a cherry picker, offering a chainsaw, illustrating technology accelerating humanity’s self-destructive nature.

🔥 @epicenter_works: No Human Required: Austria's Plan for AI Government Decisions

#Austria will soon get to find out what happens when #AI systems are allowed to issue legally binding government decisions without any human oversight.

The draft also shifts risk onto the people affected by it. Citizens get two weeks to challenge an automated decision, a tight window when errors from an LLM are often invisible without close scrutiny

👉 https://epicenter.works/en/content/no-human-required-austrias-plan-for-ai-written-government-decisions

FreeBSD Journal, ArtCraft, PDFCraft, FreeBSD-CURRENT

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1x182uc/artcraft_controllable_ai_for_artists/

#AI #FreeBSD #PDF #Adobe

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Screenshot: parts of the most recent FreeBSD Journal in PDFCraft.

KDE-Debatte um LLM-Regeln geht in die nächste Runde
https://linuxnews.de/kde-debatte-um-llm-regeln-geht-in-die-naechste-runde/ #kde #ki #ai #llm #linux #linuxnews

@davidrevoy
I read yesterday that some scientists/researchers want to sue #OpenAI for using #data from their collective work to feed their #AI machine to crack a long-known conundrum.

"OpenAI posts 700 maths preprints online: mathematicians are up in arms."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03196-8

Very interesting, even apart from the mass #scooping of creative human mathematicians:

* Open AI has an advisory group of human mathematicians, which advised as recently as Sept 29 to release new mathematical results "as soon as possible", to minimize the time people might waste on solved problems.
https://agmai.org/general-sep29/

* At the same time, the advisory group advised against "the use of proprietary internal models by AI labs to do mathematical research" because it "risks creating a two-tier system where labs outrun the rest of the field."

* These preprints were dumped in #arXiv just before Oct 1, when arXiv started enforcing a new policy limiting contributors to two submissions per month.
https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/

* Was it a coincidence that Open AI submitted these 700 preprints just under the wire? Or did it see the deadline looming and rush to deposit these results even if it could have made them better with more time?

* BTW, the advisory group also "strongly recommend[ed] that AI labs refrain from treating the release of mathematical results as marketing vehicles to promote their models."

#AI #Mathematics #OpenAI #ScholComm

Amp modelling makers keep saying they "now have AI". How clueless are they? I play my guitar to get away from all that. I don't want to talk to my amp, or to some day have it tell me I've to pay a subscription or it won't work
#guitar #ai #enshittification

wildlife √
AI data centres X

if you care about the animals with whom we share the planet, please sign this open letter to secretary of state, angela rayner.
#wildlife #AI #dataCentres #environment

https://protectthewild.org.uk/no-to-data-centres-yes-to-wildlife/

Some of you have been asking whether or not Vivaldi is affected by Chrome’s #AI API, which some websites are using for tracking purposes. The answer is straight-forward: no. ✌️

As part of our philosophy to reject built-in AI features, we've been disabling all the Gemini-related code bundled in Chromium for a long while — which effectively prevents websites from using this API in Vivaldi.

Oracle invokes ‘force majeure’ on OpenAI contract - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj3MYXaR4nA

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/25/oracle-invokes-force-majeure-on-openai-data-centre-contract/

by @davidgerard

#AI #Oracle #OpenAI #DataCenters

Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording.

https://www.theverge.com/column/1005697/we-cant-just-change-the-definition-of-recording

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

Vous croyez que la presse essaie de nous faire passer un message ?

#ai #overdoseIA

Cybercriminals have stolen #AI logins from 80,000 organizations

https://proton.me/business/blog/infostealers-business-ai-logins

#cybersecurity

Ondřej Kuzník, @hyc, @elecharny and Nadezhda Ivanova on @LDAPcon stage for a debate about AI for Open Source projects maintainers

Yes we can do LDAP and and discuss about AI!

https://www.conftool.net/ldapcon2026/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-10-08&form_session=32

#ldapcon #ldapcon2026 #LDAP #OpenSource #AI

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Ondřej Kuzník, Howard Chu, Emmanuel Lécharny and Nadezhda Ivanova on LDAPCon stage