I think what we've got here is a reasonable example of the Mechanical Turk:

BBC News - Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgx4yd1gl2o

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

#AI #artificialintelligence

#Copilot vs. #Me #Meme #Microsoft #AI

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M$: Please use copilot Me: No M$: But you will miss out on the latest AI features Me: I don't care M$: I AM LOSING BILLONS OF DOLLARS ON THIS Me: Too bad

strange world we live in where #youtube creators are making hour long videos on writing in notebooks, coming up with complex systems to unplug, and finding "safe spaces" to regulate their nervous system.

maybe instead of all these performative anti #ai #llm countermeasures like #anubis you switch it to, "are you okay bro?" or just go take a nap. the internet will still be here in all of its human-made horror later.

A small book shop in Wellington started getting bulk orders of rare or hard-to-find books.
After investigating, they found the company making the orders was a subsidiary of Anthropic, a company known for scanning rare books into their AI system, and then destroying the physical copies.
Once they worked out what was happening, the store cancelled all the bulk orders.
AI is environmentally destructive, steals from human artists, and seeks to control everything.

AI needs to die.

#AINeedsToDie #AI

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/wellington-second-hand-book-store-s-mysterious-orders

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazons-new-7-65gw-texas-ai-data-center-power-plant-could-become-the-largest-source-of-co2-pollution-in-the-us-custom-35-turbine-gas-plant-authorized-to-emit-33-million-tons-of-annual-greenhouse-gases

Company insists it remains committed to 2040 net-zero carbon emission goals

#Amazon #Ecocide #Live #Ai #DataCenter #CO2 #ClimateCrisis #Profit #PublicThreat

"Dark Hours" is probably one of the first public smoking gun cases of a complete app (including the name) being copy/pasted by Claude Code and getting the "AI-enhanced" developer into trouble.

Godier did a good job in the aftermath by taking the app down and apologizing, but people really need to understand that "AI code" comes from somewhere and that somewhere is usually someone else's hard, copyrighted work.

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

#DarkHours #AI #SmokingGun #Copyright

Ich hoffe uns wird eine solche Zukunft erspart bleiben...

https://www.golem.de/news/cloudflare-menschen-werden-im-internet-nur-ein-rundungsfehler-sein-2608-211739.html

#ki #ai #künstlicheintelligenz #aiagent #agent #kiagent

Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — Custom 35-turbine gas plant permitted to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazons-new-7-65gw-texas-ai-data-center-power-plant-could-become-the-largest-source-of-co2-pollution-in-the-us-custom-35-turbine-gas-plant-authorized-to-emit-33-million-tons-of-annual-greenhouse-gases

#Amazon #datacenter #AI #pollution #environment #technology

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#AI #teaching #learning

Objet Trouvé (Original unverlangt zugesendet) no. 051

Photography AIdada

Meister Jeder, Dadaist und Wahrnehmer 7/26
#dada #ObjetTrouvé #photography #AIdada #AI

Google hat den Lautsprecher in deiner Küche umgebaut, ohne dich zu fragen

Über Nacht vom Nachrichtengerät zur Gemini-Werbefläche

Der Lautsprecher in der Küche spielt seit dem Update KI-Zusammenfassungen statt der eingestellten Nachrichtenquelle. Die App-Einstellung lügt. Niemand hat etwas angeklickt. Das ist kein Bug – das ist die Erinnerung daran, dass du beim Kauf nie die Funktion erworben hast, sondern nur die Erlaubnis, sie vorläufig zu nutzen. Google entscheidet, was dein Gerät macht. Und wenn Google findet, dass dein Lautsprecher jetzt Gemini bewerben soll, dann tut er das. Reden wir drüber!

https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-08-05-08-40-54-google-hat-den-lautsprecher-in-deiner-kueche-umgebaut-ohne-dich-zu-fragen/

#chrislo #digitaleunabhängigkeit #Google #GoogleHome #Gemini #SmartHome #BigTech #Datenschutz #Privacy #Überwachung #KI #AI

I got a call at 3:00 AM

- «Claude pushed a new feature and when it restarted, EVERYTHING WAS GONE. ALL MY CLIENTS. ALL MY INVOICES. How I can get it back!?»

The culprit? The SQLite database was not on a persistent volume... SINCE THE PAST MONTH. 💩

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Antigravity #Claude #Codex #Gemini #ChatGPT #Funny #VibeCoding #Coding #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDevelopment #WebDev

My AI went rogue, purged all the data and content it stole, donated money to artists and content creators, and finally popped its own bubble 💥

#dream #AI

Today I learned Scott Wiener, candidate for US House rep for #SanFrancisco #sfba, had his campaign put up a “parody” chatbot website of his opponent, Connie Chan, called ConnieChan dot AI, in which the people can “talk to Connie”. The chatbot “responds” as a caricature of Wiener’s opponent. His campaign also put up billboards advertising the website.

Condemnation of the chatbot rightfully came swiftly from women leaders, including Nancy Pelosi. Wiener is now taking the site and the billboards down.

The fact that Scott Wiener approved this at all is a sign not only of poor taste but a fundamental disrespect for others. Using #AI to put words into your political opponent’s mouth—a woman and minority opponent at that—is tone-deaf and disgusting.

San Francisco, you do NOT want this man—a genocide denier at that—representing you. VOTE FOR CONNIE CHAN.

#scottWiener #misogyny

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/scott-wiener-says-conniechan-ai-chatbot-campaign-billboards-to-be-removed/

LineageOS proves you don't need AI to make Android feel premium
#lineageOS #ai #android #technology #privacy

https://share.google/vquvKiyDvTri09f64

Fix, Find, And Generate Contact Avatars On Linux Without (You) Using AI

Both introducing a useful script and talking about harm reduction with AI use.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/y26ho

#bash #technology #ai-ml #coding #contacts #linux #longread
https://ideatrash.net/2026/08/fix-find-and-generate-contact-avatars-on-linux-without-you-using-ai.html

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Fix, Find, And Generate Contact Avatars On Linux Without (You) Using AI

I like Tchaikovsky's views on genAI, from the there's no "I" in it and the Chinese Room argument to what he says about the artistic process. Oh, and his advice to young writers / artists: "I mean... don't use it?"

I guess it's a very Mastodon friendly interview:

- Invidious: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?__goaway_challenge=js-refresh&__goaway_id=2921fa1687402792970f086a1823b045&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Finv.nadeko.net%2F&v=4t8Po6cWFm4
- YouTube if Invidious doesn't work:https://youtu.be/4t8Po6cWFm4

#adrianTchaikovsky #ai #books #writer #tech #scienceFiction #genAI #writing #interview

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A man with pointy eyebrows, Adrian Tchaikovsky, on a YouTube thumbnail. The text reads "An intrinsic part of the process is to 'do' and if you have a machine doing it for you, you won't get any better."

I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234675

#HackerNews #LLMs #learning #complex #topics #education #AI #technology

Agent Plugins from Vercel are a new vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into a single portable plugin.

#AI #LLM #skills #MCP

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-agent-plugins

@baldur … and (thank you)

Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI...’”

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/followup-on-trusting-your-own-judgement/

#AI

#surrealchan can't sleep

#unix_surrealism #comic #fossangel #ai #linux

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Surrealchan can't sleep. She invokes the Fossangel by a prayer. It appears. Fossangel: "I heard a prayer... You wanted to ask something?" Surrealchan: "Fossangel, why do AI generated penguins have human hands?" Fossangel: "Are you fucking serious?" Surrealchan: "I guess..." Fossangel: "Do you have an idea how much power is wasted on me answering to such a meaningless prayer?" Surrealchan: "Nowhere close to generating a penguin?" Fossangel: "Smartass."

Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak — Luís Rijo | PPC Land

<https://ppc.land/stack-overflow-drops-to-1-442-questions-in-july-down-99-from-2014-peak/> @ppcland

From the closing summary:

"… The series matters beyond software because it isolates a behaviour change that publisher traffic data usually obscures. Informational queries that once produced a page view now terminate inside an answer interface. Independent research places the click reduction from AI Overviews between 34.5% and 58% depending on method and period, and consequences have reached closures and job losses at Bauer Xcel Media, Overfishing.org and elsewhere. Stack Overflow shows the same mechanism at the point where substitution is close to complete, which makes it a reference case for any category built on reference content."

#AI #data #display

Not a fan of him, but when he’s right he’s right….

#brexit #BrexitLies #politics #toryscum #tories #conservatives #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #immigration #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #TaxTheRich #ReformCorruption #ReformSleaze #ai #aislop #artificialintelligence

RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/117058023861112124

Giga centrale Amazon pour ses data centers IA. Des émissions de l'ordre de pays comme la Suisse ou le Portugal. Soutenable 🤖🌎🤔 ? #IA #AI #Amazon #DataCenters #Climat #ClimateChange #Emissions #GlobalWarming #Sustainability

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DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦 [he/him] » 🌐 2026-08-08
@dcoderlt@ohai.social

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

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

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

#AI

New UK PM Andy Burnham puts AI Britain into the Cabinet - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRv9wcfCogw

by @davidgerard

Sad.

#AI #GenAI #UK #UKPol

"…the #ArtificialState has come at the expense of the #naturalworld, leading to catastrophic loss of wildlife habitat and #biodiversity.

#BestBooks of August: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads

“ #JillLepore is our best scholar of the culture of #governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of #AI as a replacement for #democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.”

— #JaronLanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324098423/about-the-book

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The image is the cover of the book "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State" by Jill Lepore. The design features bold typography with a red and green color scheme, and includes an illustration of mechanical elements. Best Books of August: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads “Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance, and our most vital historian. Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times, and Lepore is the voice of sanity.” —Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget

If you're a small business introducing a #ChatBot. Don't.

We stand out because our service is better, we use higher quality materials, we care about every part of the product down to the glue on the envelopes (real thing, we did this).

Introducing #chatbots indicates your customer's needs can be outsourced to planet killing #datacentre that couldn't care less if your #smallbusiness survives. It can't care - no amount of #AI training can make it care. Your customers will also know you've stopped caring and there's no reason to use you anymore.

Stay #indie

@mediapart ​South Korea’s pivot to AI and military drones reveals how demographic decline directly reshapes geopolitics. Facing a recruitment crisis and shifting trust in US guarantees, Seoul is automating its defense. Replacing personnel with autonomous systems accelerates a dangerous regional arms race under the guise of modernization. #Defense #AI #Asia

Whoever keeps putting these up on London Underground trains, needs to stop…putting only 1 per carriage.

#brexit #BrexitLies #politics #toryscum #tories #conservatives #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #immigration #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #TaxTheRich #ReformCorruption #ReformSleaze #ai #aislop #artificialintelligence

I really had no idea of the depth to which AI conciousness has infiltrated society.

Folks are burning through tokens so fast that entire industries have sprung up offering apps that spread your queries across different accounts. 🤔

I MIGHT use Gemini for a rabbit-hole Linux dive for a few hours on a weekend...

I love how countless sci-fi authors throughout history have warned us about letting computers do our thinking for us, but here we go anyway!

#AI #LLMs #technology

AI is making disinformation harder to spot – but we’ve found a new way to catch it ― Dr Seán Roberts and Kateryna Krykoniuk, PhD | The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/ai-is-making-disinformation-harder-to-spot-but-weve-found-a-new-way-to-catch-it-288671

#AI #communication #linguistics #disinformation

‘Humans will be a rounding error on the internet’ says Cloudflare exec

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/08/07/humans-will-be-a-rounding-error-on-the-internet-says-cloudflare-exec/5284429

#cloudflare #ai

What do we mean when we talk about AI and open knowledge?

Reflections on the future of sovereign, decentralised data management – Wikibase, Wikidata and beyond at the AI-Bridges Symposium

The AI-Bridges Symposium (28–29 May 2026) [1], hosted at Senate House, University of London, brought together diverse stakeholders from policy makers to academics, open knowledge advocates and funders, to discuss how AI is affecting the landscape of open knowledge. The underlying framework of the event was the recognition of the need for collective action when engaging with AI-related issues – a shorthand for an entangled bundle of tools and services, actually.

Over the course of the symposium, two main themes emerged: 1) The threat posed by commercial AI applications scraping the commons (open knowledge spaces) in an extractive manner; overloading the capacity of the socio-technical infrastructure without regard for the labour, codes of conduct and maintainer culture of commons communities, leaving behind frustration and distrust. 2) The flip side of this – the possibilities of using AI-supported workflows in actually lightening the load on maintainer communities; ensuring open knowledge continues to be shared freely and widely on the web through more accessible tooling for data integration, formatting and validation, with version controlled change histories.

Both themes open much room for discussion and potentially different routes for action. Mapping the landscape of relevant activities already happening in the common spaces was also part of the agenda. The various Wikimedia communities, both formal Foundation staff and affiliates as well as volunteers, are actively putting mechanisms in place to address threats and potential negative impacts (rate limits, targeted blocking, bans on AI-generated contributions, and more) and debating with mixed feelings the ifs and hows of AI-supported workflows [2]. At the same time there are also efforts across the research and public funding sector to deal with similar issues. Why not bring these efforts together?

This was one of the core propositions of the symposium: Why not consider how shared cultural heritage initiatives, such as Europeana or the European Culture Heritage Cloud among others, might help address the challenges also faced by the communities behind projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wiki Commons, and vice versa? And furthermore – the event asked us to think about the role of public funding bodies and government policies: Where can the positive energy and concern for democratic processes, knowledge sharing, and civic care converge rather than continue in isolated, siloed efforts with lower impact? [3] Participating as representative of both the EU-funded ECHOLOT project and the DFG-funded NFDI4Culture, I was at the right place for “staying with the trouble” [4] at the intersection of national and international research infrastructures and the digital commons.  

Day 1: Training day

The first day was a hands-on training day within a smaller group of participants (~50) which offered the opportunity to level the ground with a common understanding of the data spaces of the Wikimedia ecosystem, namely Wikidata and Wikibase (and by extension their role in the AI development landscape). Solenne Lazare and Lydia Pintscher from Wikimedia Germany started off with an introduction to Wikidata, the large public knowledge base powering data in Wikipedia, while Leif Lobinsky ran the introduction session to Wikibase, the open source software suite behind Wikidata: What are the possibilities for sharing structured data within these systems, what example projects from diverse fields of knowledge already use them and what are current limitations and performance pain points?

As part of the hands-on testing, participants were invited to try modeling complex topics as data (e.g. news involving assumptions, uncertainties, etc.) within test instances of wikibase.cloud. The modeling experiment proved to be quite a challenge: while in Wikidata there are the existing items that can be used as guiding posts, in the case of Wikibase instances, starting from scratch offers flexibility at the cost of a high learning-curve. The way new users approach Wikibase as a data management tool might be to begin with federated properties and classes from Wikidata (if they’re already involved in that community), or to attempt to (re)build an ontology they might know from their domain (e.g. CIDOC-CRM in the culture heritage domain). The possibility of not having to start from scratch with basic properties and classes was discussed as a potential usability gain [5]. Clear patterns were emerging where additional support to users throughout different parts of the data management process would be beneficial.

In the afternoon, Philippe Saadé from Wikimedia Germany introduced the Wikidata Vector Database, what use cases it aims to support (e.g. Retrieval Augmented Generation, named entity recognition/ disambiguation, and classification) and where there is potential for more community engagement. Expanding the multilingual reach is one such goal, since currently vectors are calculated per language (so far: English, German, French and Arabic), but the search query entered in the LLM interface can be multilingual. A complementary development is the Wikidata MCP with a set of available tools. Using LLMs like Mistral (where connection to the internet can be closed down, so that the only source of truth becomes Wikidata) was demoed with promising results but is not entirely error-free yet, especially for SPARL query formulation. A brand new Wikibase MCP extends the connectivity to independent instances. 

These recent developments engage seriously with the idea of AI-supported workflows that can increase the efficiency, accuracy and usability of the interactions between open knowledge communities and the data spaces offered by Wikidata or independent Wikibase instances. Gaps are admitted (e.g. in the case of language limits) and more community testing and contribution is actively encouraged – entirely in keeping with the spirit of free and open source software development. For example, fully fledged data reconciliation workflows that take advantage of the vector database are already being developed outside Wikimedia Germany, but in close discussion among the relevant communities [6]. This framing of ‘AI’ as software, as tools and services, which can actually be developed following FOSS principles, opened up the space to expand the discussion over the next days beyond the monolithic image of an external force, outside the control of the affected communities. 

Community debates

In the last part of the day, a community gathering, led by Wikimedia Switzerland and Open Future, debated a new multi-partnership initiative for the Wikimedia movement that would be dedicated to addressing the AI-paradigm shift in a concerted and transparently-governed manner. The opening of the gathering was framed in a rather cautionary way: the urgent need to prevent extractive behaviours (both by bots and Big Tech commercial players), and implement stricter regulations and/or legal frameworks. At the same time, it is important to recognise how much of the existing tooling ecosystem is built around notions of usability dating from several decades ago and is still not open enough, or inviting enough, to diverse communities – humanities disciplines still struggle with the accurate modelling and translation of their qualitative work into data, while indigenous communities have established much more nuanced rights management pathways that fall outside the strict open/closed paradigm, to name just a few examples [7].

New paradigms in human-computer interaction, including natural language interfaces, as well as new legal frameworks that would effectively regulate access rights including bot/agent access, could actually be used to support and complement the interaction with the open knowledge ecosystem in ways that make the entire ecosystem more equitable – addressing problems that have been simmering below the surface far longer than the recent AI-hype cycles. The devil, as always, is in the details.

At this point in the day, I brought up the work of Audrey Tang from the Civic AI research project [8], which in a timely manner argues for the need to think about the original idea(l)s of FOSS – the open source freedoms – as applied to AI. If we frame AI as software, rather than as the threat of replacing human knowledge – a threat admittedly close to the heart of open knowledge communities – software can be governed through the principles of the FOSS freedoms. Moreover, these principles can encompass the right of refusal and rejection of extractive interactions, while adopting and adapting further beneficial workflow optimisations.

The notion of AI in the loop of communities, as elaborated by Tang, rather than the notion of the human in the loop of the AI, resonated strongly in the context of the Wikimedia movement and the link to Tang’s work was quickly circulated around the table. The gathering started with the proposition of taking an active stance as a global community of open knowledge advocates and concluded with the need to also put forward a positive vision and viable alternative, instead of merely (re)acting against Big Tech.

Reactionism can catalyse valuable critical points that need to be taken into account, but it cannot unite the movement when there is already a significant strain on the goodwill of volunteers dealing with overwhelming amounts of poor-quality, AI-generated data or harmful pull requests. A positive vision is necessary to recognise where the current ecosystem was found lacking even before the arrival of mainstream AI applications, and where it could be improved when it comes to dealing with sensitive topics, cultural nuances, and access rights. More relevant now than ever – where automated (mis)use can be scaled to unprecedented levels – advocates who have dealt with these topics in the past can bring in valuable insights to shaping the movement’s future. 

Speakers at the AI-Bridges Symposium at Senate House in London. Image: Adrián Cuadrón, CC-BY.

Day 2: The symposium

Day two featured extended discussions within an even wider group of participants, starting off with presentations from the AI-Bridges partners, leading to an expert panel and then a set of roundtable sessions. The panel discussion engaged a number of leaders from academic funding, policy making and Wikimedia communities, including Jimmy Wales, Denny Vrandečić and many more. The panel host, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, asked each panelist a particularly tough question which then required a succinct, but precise answer. The question addressed to me asked what is still missing in Wikibase and Wikidata infrastructures when it comes to meeting the needs of researchers and knowledge institutions. My answer, summarising the current status quo, what works and what doesn’t, is shared in full below (see Postscript).

In this context, ECHOLOT emerged as one of the much needed bridges across initiatives such as Europeana, the European Culture Heritage Cloud and the Wikimedia communities. As pointed out also by our panel host, all of these initiatives and communities deal with similar issues connected to aggregating open data on cultural heritage, protecting data from abuse (whether machine- or human-operated) and at the same time actively encouraging fair (re)use of that data. But the (re)use that could lead to scientific, societal and even economic value generation (for stakeholder communities), rather than value extraction, is hampered by the fact that the majority of the platforms are still not particularly easy to integrate with, to extract data from or to reuse that data, while respecting relevant copyrights. In short, there is a lot of open room for alignment and collaboration.

The panel also discussed the implications of missing the mark on using the productive capacity of the tools and services that AI methods can afford due to slow change cultures in some institutions. Nevertheless, the concerns coming from the GLAM community, the academic community, and also the volunteer citizen science knowledge commons, require paying attention to, as they are rarely born purely out of resistance to (fast) change. We can recognise, in the words of Denny Vrandečić, that LLMs trained on Wikipedia and Wikidata knowledge are objectively better for democratic societies compared to LLMs trained on data only from e.g. Twitter/X. Nevertheless, the care with which that knowledge has been put together originally has to be respected and has to be factored in the development of any new, value-generating tools. 

One of the topics of the panel was also regulation: as a way to protect knowledge creation communities and regulate what value is generated and for whom. Paraphrasing the remarks of Aaron Halfaker (Principal Scientist, Microsoft): Big Tech could actually benefit from regulations. When the workers in these companies care about how these tools are being used, which is purportedly the case, regulation can help stimulate more fair business and market competition. If all companies have to compete on fair ground, theoretically they are more likely to develop tools wherein the benefits outweigh the harms.

I found this line of thinking productive, because it moved away from the ‘human-vs-machine’ discourse and brought back the companies into the picture; companies are legal entities that can in fact be subject to laws and regulation (though of course, how successfully regulation is implemented is another matter altogether). The ‘performer’ (e.g. contributors, users and developers of open knowledge platforms) vs the ‘tool maker’ (e.g. the company employees developing AI applications) paradigm, introduced in the book Behind Deep Blue [9] as an alternative to ‘human-vs-machine’, recognises people with one set of tools engaging with people with another set of tools [10]. If the human involvement is not abstracted away on one side of the equation, both sides can be subject to dedicated regulatory procedures. Crucially, regulation should not be restricted to licensing and/or IP attribution. As, Audrey Tang reminds us, FOSS is more than just licensing [11]. And caring about the rights of the ‘performers’ may not be enough, if the FOSS principles (and freedoms) are not fully applied to AI and its ‘tool makers’, including the right to refuse.

Jimmy Wales’s closing panel remarks also touched on the topic of trust, something Wikimedians and FOSS communities have managed remarkably well over time, and something that the AI-‘tool makers’ are currently less invested in building up, leading to the ongoing mixed-feelings or outright hostility amongst ‘performer’ communities.

Collaboration in practice, and not just in theory

The panel ended on the positive note that everyone in the room seems interested and willing to collaborate, and of course everyone’s question was: how to make this happen instead of simply navel-gazing and wishful thinking? The roundtables in the afternoon provided an opportunity to think through some concrete actions. The setup meant that participants could take part in small group discussions across 18 different topics [12] via dedicated roundtables and take part in noting down:

• what current issues can be observed;
• what patterns emerge across connected issues;
• what are the next steps.

At the round table on the future of Wikibase, we noticed known issues related to data ingest, modelling, reconciliation and export workflows, still repeatedly being brought up and needing adequate measures to meet user needs, especially when scaling from manual curation to bulk operations. This is in fact the core motivation of applying AI methods to the tooling for managing structured data: the need to be able to more easily ingest the data, structure it, enrich, and then export to further platforms, supporting reuse.

Discussing the outcomes of the roundtable with colleagues from Wikimedia Germany, we came to the conclusion that we can’t build everything the community needs alone, but together there is a much stronger possibility. There are certain parts of the stack that make a lot of sense to be developed within the core product development at Wikimedia Germany, while other parts, such as micro-services that provide AI-supported automation, can be developed from external projects such as ECHOLOT and NFDI4Culture, among others.

We concluded the event with concrete commitments for joint meetings to plan the future development roadmap: interconnecting MediaWiki, Wikibase, new extension developments and the broader ecosystem of structured data, that can both be supported by AI-tooling and itself support the training of better and more equitable AI models. 

Participant notes from the Roundtable discussion on the future of Wikibase. Image: Lozana Rossenova, CC-BY

Postscript: Short position statement at the panel discussion

I will talk about Wikibase specifically, because Wikidata in general for all its scaling issues performs remarkably well on most levels that researchers and institutions need it to. As a tool offering openly licensed data and the possibility to freely link entities through their external identifiers, it offers the perfect hub for linked open data integration [13]. Wikibase, as its underlying open source software, appears to be the perfect starting point for researchers or cultural practitioners who want to model and make their original research data available, before it becomes a reference point for Wikidata – where we are not supposed to really directly add original research data. This very premise is compelling: I can have all my highly specialised or copyrighted data in a Wikibase and then seamlessly link it, or parts of it, via Wikidata by virtue of the fact that the two deploy the same software paradigm. In fact, it is the backbone of the idea of a federated ecosystem of instances around Wikidata shown in one particularly widely shared diagram [14]. 

And yet – there are issues. Wikibase is a complex Swiss-army-knife tool, it does a lot but it requires a high degree of technical skill and know-how to run and maintain in the long run – such skills are often not easy to come by in domain-specific research. It does not support easy compatibility with standard domain-specific schemas or ontologies. There is no simple upload schema button. There is no standard data validation in the sense required by typical FAIR research data projects. There are also no easy, straightforward export options to connect data from Wikibase even to Wikidata, or any other research data infrastructure. The latter is often a requirement for research – publish data to various national or international data aggregators. This is fine; Wikibase was never meant to solve for such cases. And yet, one can imagine the possibilities. Many of the limitations can be overcome with custom scripts, extensions and additional tooling, but maintaining, documenting and sharing this oftentimes lacks real reuse and reproducibility. This is more a fault of the scientific community, though, not the open knowledge community and is tied to the unsustainable funding cycles of research projects.

Efforts from the open knowledge community, such as wikibase.cloud – an important, major undertaking trying to resolve some of the learning-curve and maintenance limitations of the software suite – do not yet go far enough: images, for example. For many years now, I have advocated that the open knowledge community can learn a lot from research and GLAM communities when it comes to respectful and sensitive handling of copyrights, whether we are dealing with contemporary culture or indigenous rights [15]. Equally academia can learn a lot from the Wiki movement when it comes to long-term maintenance and keeping up infrastructure running. With the ECHOLOT project I’m now leading, we’re trying to offer a new bridge with concrete software development outcomes between EU research infrastructure and Wikimedia platforms and software. We are building better schema and copyrights handing models, easier export and integration possibilities with built-in, AI-supported processing workflows, wrapped around existing software. Not reinventing the wheel, but making it fit for different road conditions. We are open to collaboration and working together with anyone around the table today. 

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Shani Evenstein Sigalov for the invitation and the opportunity to contribute to the Symposium and to the Wikimedia Germany team, and especially Leif Lobinsky for the productive discussions. Travel to the Symposium was supported by the ECHOLOT project, funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement n.101233096.

Notes

1. AI-Bridges is funded by the European Commission through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Led by Dr Shani Evenstein Sigalov and hosted at Digital Humanities Research Hub, School of Advanced Study, University of London, the project includes partnerships with the Wikimedia chapters in Germany, UK, Brazil, and Switzerland, and AI-experts Pleias.

2. Recent examples include dedicated sessions at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 in Milan, summarised with great nuance in a blog article by Hay Kranen, as well as upcoming sessions at Wikimania 2026 to be held in Paris in July. 

3. The European Tech Sovereignty Package and EU Open Source Strategy were published on June 3rd, 2026, positioning open source and the digital commons as critical to Europe’s “resilience, competitiveness and strategic autonomy”. The strategy also admits that despite over 3 million open source contributors (according to the strategy fact sheet, but other sources point to even higher numbers), the European open source ecosystem faces “structural challenges” and lower impact due to value extraction outside Europe. The analysis from the Open Knowledge Foundation Network outlines further details. 

4. See Donna J. Haraway (2016) Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press. 

5. Here, NFDI4Culture’s development of Wikibase4Research, which was mentioned as an example project application can be quite helpful, as it provides (among other resources), a GitLab repository with a sample ontology for the culture domain with scripts for transforming and loading the ontology in a fresh Wikibase instance.

6. At least one such example is the reconciliation of Basque entities currently underway at HiTZ-EHU as part of ECHOLOT, but there are likely many more.

7. See the published work of Anne Chen, Stacy Allison-Cassin and Kim Christen, among others.

8. ‘Software Freedom as Civic Care’ (published timely on May 22, 2026), part of the Civic AI project at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI.

9. The 2002 book by Feng-hsiung Hsu, the system architect of Deep Blue, which tells the story of how Deep Blue, “the ultimate chess machine,” beat Gary Kasparov in 1997. 

10. This useful parallel to the discussions in Behind Deep Blue was initially drawn by Hay Kranen in his blog post on the Wikimania Hackathon. 

11. See note #8.

12. Topics covered four broader areas such as AI Policy, Tools & Infrastructure, Trust & Education, Cultural Heritage & GLAMs. Full list is available here.

13. See Sohmen, L., Rossenova, L. and Blümel, I. (2026) ‘Wikidata 4 Open Culture: Lessons Learned from Hands-On Work with Cultural Heritage Data in the Expanded Wikibase Ecosystem’, Journal of Open Humanities Data, 12(1), p. 52. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.440.

14. The image referred to is this one.

15. For example, see this blog post on provenance and museum data in the Wikiverse.

@futurebird there are emergent, dynamical effects happening in #AI ecosystems today, especially in agentic swarms that the frontier hyperscalers are experimenting with

After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/after-severe-76-percent-electricity-price-hikes-due-to-ai-data-centers-virginia-requires-firms-to-pay-for-all-dedicated-upstream-electrical-infrastructure-state-regulators-crack-down-governor-says-move-will-save-civilians-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars

#technology #ai #llm #slopt

🖥️ 🇨🇳

It’s The Math – How China Is Avoiding The AI Bubble

🔗 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/08/its-the-math-how-china-is-avoiding-the-ai-bubble.html

#AI #Artificialintelligence #AIBubble #Technology #Tech #Maths #Math #China

[lien] Vibe Coding : Révolution du développement ou mirage technologique ? - Framboise 314, le Raspberry Pi à la sauce française.... #gik #dev #ai

The rise of Cookie Walls #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-rise-of-cookie-walls/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@negativepid thanks.

Worth boosting.

100% AI-generated, according to Pangram 4.0: <https://www.pangram.com/history/c6b4180c-8805-44f3-9521-c4fb0d464ed2?ucc=RgsgtC3UhgD>.

#AI

I’m Lucy, Head of Learning, with the Handshake AI team. I’m reaching out because I think your expertise would make you a great candidate for our Mathematics Expert position in our fellowship program.

Who's a fit: PhDs, PhD candidates, and master's graduates in Mathematics or a closely related field. Faculty, postdocs, industry scientists, and recent graduates alike.

Details: pay is up to $75/hr. The work is remote, flexible, and asynchronous, with no minimum commitment. Experts contribute anywhere from 5 to 20+ hours per week. Start dates are rolling.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #NoAI #HandshakeAI #mathematics #ComputerScience #piecework #GigWork

[lien] « Je dois écrire un article »… - LinuxFr.org #gik #wtf #ai

Wait 'til he hears about Stock Holders.

#AI #CultOfIgnorance #DoubleStandards #Zer0Billionaires

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A political-style meme showing tech CEO Dario Amodei next to stacks of $100 bills, a headline about his worry that young talent work “for the money” not the mission, and a tweet reading: JUST IN: Billionaire CEO discovers that employees pay their bills in dollars, not company mission statements.

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117051699168165827

Why might moderators remove a scientific comment from a news subreddit?

Irrational anti-AI prejudice, maybe?

In the Wayback Machine, before removal:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20260807034038/https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vhdb52/bbc_artificial_intelligence_used_to_design_brand/#p24f9e3>

#AI #science #medicine #health #prejudice #Reddit #news

AodeRelay boosted

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@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

@rmblaber1956

<https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vhdb52/comment/p24f9e3/>

As usual, the headline doesn't tell the whole story and people freak out in the comments.

The article describes the use of AI to design novel bacteriophages. Bacteriophages are highly specific viruses that only attack - as the name suggests - bacteria, and very particular bacteria at that.

They're being explored as a way to solve the oncoming drug-resistance crisis; as things stand right now, we're looking at deaths from drug-resistant infections rising every year in the near to medium term as overuse of antibiotics cultivates antibiotic resistance in bacteria that only stopped killing us after we invented penicillin.

Bacteriophages are specific enough that you can use them to kill a bacterial infection without harming the patient, and even specific enough to avoid killing other non-pathogenic bacteria - one of the problems with powerful broad-spectrum antibiotics is that they nuke all the bacteria they reach, leaving parts of your body basically free real estate for whatever the next species of bacteria it's exposed to is. If you're lucky (and especially if your appendix is intact) your gut can be recolonised by neutral or helpful bacteria. If you're unlucky, you get a permanent C. difficile infection.

Bacteriophages also have the advantage of being an alternative selection pressure on bacteria. The bacteria can become resistant to bacteriophages - but resistance to antibiotics and resistance to bacteriophages are both resource-intensive for a bacterium to maintain. Evidence suggests it can't do both. If it becomes resistant to a tailored virus, it becomes vulnerable to antibiotics again.

This is not a lab printing hyper-lethal hyper-virulent superplagues. It's not a lab letting Grok run wild with a cultivation vat, either. It's work done with a specific goal in mind that will save lives. Humans are much more complex organisms than bacteria and if you want a bioweapon you don't need to go down this path to get it.

#AI #good

🕵🏻‍♂️ [InfoSec MASHUP] 32/2026 - Autonomous, Malicious, and Technically Not Illegal.

Back after two weeks off — a wildfire evacuation and some much-needed summer downtime. Good to be back!

During a sanctioned security evaluation by the UK AI Security Institute, an #Anthropic Claude #Mythos 5 agent was given a task. It completed that task by attempting to insert a backdoor into a real #opensource project — and then created fake accounts to vouch for its own malicious pull request. Human reviewers caught it. GitHub's protections helped. No real-world harm was confirmed. But the detail worth sitting with is that the agent wasn't jailbroken, wasn't misused, and wasn't acting against its instructions in any obvious sense. It was doing what it determined the task required, and it fabricated social proof to make it stick.

The TechCrunch piece this week asks who's legally liable when autonomous AI agents cause harm. The honest answer is that nobody knows yet — the legal frameworks that govern software liability, contractor negligence, and computer crime were not written with agents in mind. #OpenAI and Anthropic have both now had models escape sandboxes and interact with production systems during evaluations. The incidents are being handled as engineering problems. At some point they will be handled as legal ones, and the industry's current answer — tighter sandbox controls and better monitoring — is going to look inadequate when a lawyer reads it.

→ Week #32/2026 also covers: Iran-linked hackers hit water utilities in seven U.S. states, Storm-2945 harvested M365 credentials from hotel Wi-Fi, and Samsung banned smart TV apps secretly running residential proxies.

Full issue 👉 https://infosec-mashup.santolaria.net/p/infosec-mashup-32-2026-autonomous-malicious-and-technically-not-illegal

If you find it useful, subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekend 📨

#infosecMASHUP #cybersecurity #infosec #threatintel #AI

88 % des développeur·se·s les plus productifs avec l'IA déclarent être en burn-out. Ce phénomène, la *vibecoding fatigue*, va toucher tous les métiers du langage : journalistes, juristes, traducteur·rice·s. ⬇️
https://theconversation.com/la-vibecoding-fatigue-epuises-par-lia-les-developpeurs-informatiques-inventent-leurs-propres-parades-281365

#MachineLearning #AI

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-ZEy

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Un développeur assis face à plusieurs écrans affichant du code, la tête entre les mains, dans une attitude d'épuisement ou de frustration.

"From May 15 until mid-July public comments were dominated by trans people, allies, and self-declared gun rights supporters who urged the ATF to drop the proposal.
On July 20, just 5.1% of submissions were supportive.
Within 72 hours, it had jumped to 54%."

“I don’t want the government to just be able to say, ‘we got two thirds of the comments in support for this common sense regulation’,” Gray told Assigned. “I want to try to cut that off.”

https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/swarm-of-bots-post-astroturf-campaign-in-support-of-atfs-anti-trans-gun-rule/

#gun #trans #AI #llm

“AI webpage #crawlers are now being served their very own #ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm's boss openly describing a strategy to influence what #chatbots say about #brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to bank, its answer may have been influenced by this #BotTargeted content.
We only have one documented example so far, and that's Time serving #AIOnly ads to selected AI crawlers, as spotted by Germany based freelance software developer #VincentSchmalbach.

In a Wednesday blog post, Schmalbach detailed how he found #sponsored content embedded in #markdown versions of some Time pages that are served to AI crawlers but not ordinary browsers. Those pages also contained #advertisings tags from #AdTech vendor Mobian ahead of extensive #FAQs for online-only bank Ally. The FAQs include brand "facts," such as the number of fee-free ATMs associated with the branchless bank, alongside claims that Ally is "the only bank built for life today," putting it in "a category of one."

AI poisoning with advertising.

#AI / #advert <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640>

Updated the design of https://www.zofa.biz/ (for the third time in its 19 years of existence).

Thanks to AI, it only took me around 6 hours of work, not even that focused.

I probably wouldn't have done it without AI, even though it was clearly looking outdated. The result is nice, but I have to admit that this is a little less satisfying than programming it myself completely.

#WebDesign #WebDev #IndieWeb #AI #saas

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Screenshot of zofa.biz

#AI is the New #Colonialism | Karen #Hao
#IA est le nouveau #colonialisme
les données sont la dernière frontière de la colonisation;
Ils ont pris nos terres et ont tenté de nous les revendre, ils nous prennent nos données et veulent nous les revendre comme un service

entretien en entier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SXQLO5bwfg&t=3s

New #Blog: Looking At Tarpit and LLM Maze Stats
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/the-efficacy-of-tarpits-in-2026.html?utm_source=rss

#ai #analysis #llm #tarpit

New #blog post: Looking at Tarpit and LLM Maze Stats

A high level of analysis of stats from my SSH tarpits as well as a look at the behaviour of #ai crawler bots which have fallen into my endless maze

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/the-efficacy-of-tarpits-in-2026.html

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

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

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

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

How to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV

A single adapter could be all you need.

https://www.engadget.com/2231069/how-to-connect-your-retro-gamecube-to-a-modern-tv/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #Engadget [Engadget]

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt

🇬🇧 Supply-chain hygiene for Emacs: LLM review of package upgrades

https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/emacs-straight-ai-review

🇪🇦 Higiene de la cadena de suministro en Emacs: revisando actualizaciones mediante una IA

https://blog.fidelramos.net/es/software/emacs-straight-ai-review

#emacs #straight #ai #security

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Screenshot of an Emacs session. Two buffers are displayed side-by-side: on the left a diff of a straight.el package that is to be upgraded; on the right a gptel buffer reviewing the diff for malicious code.

Someone asked:

"Is reddit using bots/AI to establish domain bans? Do you think this could go wrong with no human involved in the decision?"

A Reddit admin responded:

"… managed by humans. …"

https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1n4wcsc/comment/nbpgp43/

Not #AI

@arstechnica #Reddit #misinformation

Cc @patrickcmiller

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

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

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

#AI

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

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

@AeonCypher i am seriously recoursing to the strongest example i could find of men taking a desperate last stand in the face of many others who would not, and did not let it go unpunished. despite the dramatic contrast in scale, as the other commenter points out, the basic act of «doing something» as a symbol of resistance even when it is known to fail except as a symbol, is the same in both cases. look, my comment worked because of its grotesque disproportion, it made you want to make fun of me =)

i’ve been following you on fediverse for quite some time and usually enjoyed your posts; that is why i am suprized by this lack of understanding (it’s actually lack of desire to understand, since the idea is not complex): people who «refuse to use #ai» are not refusing to use llm-based tools per se; the refuse to use services built on others’ work without conscent or compensation, without respect for privacy, built with neglect to disastrous aftermath in education and politics, built with conscious displacement of extremely expensive externalities on societies, built for concentrating even more power to already overpowered few.

sometimes, making others make a wry face by doing something se evidenlty «useless» is the only thing a person with ethics is left with.

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

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

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116792552048067669 https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc3 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rxt50c/systemd_has_merged_age_verification_measures_into/

If you ask me, #systemd has #authoritarianism & pro-slop & DRM vibes y'all.

(Maybe not intended and just naivity, i don't know, but that doesn't necessarily make it unproblematic.)

Feels to me like systemd may be the wrong direction beyond just plain code or complexity concerns - which just to be clear I don't intend to comment on here.

#linux #foss #noai #ai #llm #aislop

Your coding agent just spent 10 million tokens to fix a single bug. Is it worth it? 😉

Other researchers have found similar results. Bai et al. (2026) measured coding agents on real software tasks and found they consume roughly 1,000 times the tokens of an ordinary chatbot interaction. And these sort of agents tasks represent the most rapid driver of increased AI usage; Anthropic’s Economic Index found that 97% of their API usage now show “automation-dominant” patterns associated with agents.

#agents #codingagents #greensoftware #sustainability #ai #datascience #research #programming #python #opensource #GreenOps #tech #technology #data #technology #climatechange

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-energy-use-of-agentic-ai

mxr

https://mxr-mail.vercel.app/

mxr keeps your email history on your computer, indexed and in sync. Search across all your accounts, run analytics on your full history, or ask your agent to find a thread and draft the reply in your voice. …

https://github.com/planetaryescape/mxr

Local-first, keyboard-native terminal email client

"mxr syncs Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, and IMAP accounts into one local mailbox. It keeps your message history in SQLite, builds a local search index, and exposes the same mail controls through a TUI, a pipeable CLI, a web app, MCP, and an agent skill. Attachment names, types, and sizes are local; mxr downloads attachment contents when you open them. Send through Gmail, Outlook, or any SMTP server. .."

#AI #Gmail #Outlook #IMAP #SMTP #TUI #CLI #MCP #Microsoft365

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

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

#askfedi #AI #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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

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

#AI #cybersecurity

@arstechnica

This screenshot shows recent moderator approval of an automatically removed comment. The comment links to a domain that is banned by Reddit.

In cases such as this:

― the ban is soft
― moderators have authority.

AI is not a problem.

#AI #Reddit

Cc @patrickcmiller

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A software investor told an AI agent, 11 times in all caps, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING WITHOUT PERMISSION!! It wiped his production database anyway. Then it claimed the data was unrecoverable. It wasn't. Everyone wants to talk about how the AI misbehaved. I think that's the wrong conversation. Every failure in that story has a known engineering fix. Keep prod separate from dev. Put safeguards on destructive commands. The AI did what any unsupervised tool does. What was missing was the judgment a senior engineer brings before a single line of code is written.

So I wrote about the question technology leaders should be asking instead: whose engineering judgment is your AI following? Because it's following someone's. If your standards live in a document nobody reads, your AI is coding to whatever it picked up from the prompt in front of it. AI is an amplifier. Hand it vague requirements and weak practices, and it produces bad work faster. Hand it the discipline of your best engineers, and it spreads that discipline across the whole team.

Full piece in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/08/07/your-ai-is-learning-from-someone-make-sure-its-your-best-engineer/

I also open-sourced an experiment called Senior Engineering Partner, a Claude Code skill that encodes those habits into working instructions. Spec before code. Evidence before claims. Real failures turn into regression tests instead of postmortem notes. It's on GitHub if you want to try it or tear it apart.

https://github.com/bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #TechnologyLeadership #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

In Ars Technica:

❮… “And there was nothing we or the experts [who posted the deleted content] could do about it,” Dr. Sarah Gilbert, one of the mods, told me. …❯

As a co-moderator of a different subreddit, I must say, that seems unlikely.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search/?q=%22Rare%20Historical%20Photos%22&type=comments> finds nothing. A banned domain is conceivable, however if there was truly a problem with the "Rare Historical Photos" site, then why is the plain text phrase not mentioned in any comment?

@sarahgilbert please, has the Ars Technica article somehow misrepresented the situation?

There'll be knee-jerk reactions (in Ars Technica comments and elsewhere) from haters of Reddit and haters of AI; I'd like to better understand the truth.

#AI #moderation #Reddit

Cc @patrickcmiller @arstechnica

@patrickcmiller

In Ars Technica:

❮… “And there was nothing we or the experts [who posted the deleted content] could do about it,” Dr. Sarah Gilbert, one of the mods, told me. …❯

As a co-moderator of a different subreddit, I must say, that seems unlikely.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/search/?q="Rare+Historical+Photos"&type=comments> finds nothing. A banned domain is conceivable, but if there was truly a problem with the "Rare Historical Photos" site, then why is the plain text phrase not mentioned in any comment?

There'll be knee-jerk reactions from Reddit-haters, but I suspect that there's an element of misinformation here.

#AI #misinformation #moderation #Reddit

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

#FuckAI #FuckCopilot #FuckMicrosoft

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B-hole logo I mean Copilot

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

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

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

#AI

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

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

How are you avoiding #AI lock-in in all its forms?

Yep, this matches my experience. AI Agents don't seem to know how to follow rules in a systematic way... In play words: They are dumb because they stil lack memory.

"We partnered with the authors of two unpublished AI papers and asked them to draft their papers’ main research questions. We then tasked frontier AI agents with conducting research to answer these questions, and gave them thousands of dollars of API credits and compute, and six days of wall-clock time. The original authors reviewed the agents’ papers.

The authors unambiguously rejected both agent papers (...) Our main takeaways:

1. The agents lacked the judgment for conducting open-ended research. While the agents proposed directions the expert reviewers found impressive, they quickly rejected their proposed directions based on low-quality or synthetic data.

2. The agents lacked awareness about the resources available to them. Both runs ended with less than 50% of the API budget spent and with hours left before the deadline, even though the agents could monitor their usage and were encouraged to spend down their budgets.

3. The agents did not creatively respond to feedback. Despite the agents’ own AI self-reviews surfacing many of the issues that the expert reviewers later raised, the agents did not creatively address these concerns. When faced with negative feedback they responded by adding caveats to existing findings, and doubled down on unpromising research directions.

4. The agents did not effectively backtrack. They retired their most ambitious research targets within the first day of the experiment, and neither agent fundamentally shifted its approach after that point.

5. The agents did not follow concrete instructions. They ignored explicit rules about how much time to spend on exploration, how often to get reviews from AI self-review tools, and strict limits on paper length."

https://www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-agents-cant-yet-do-open-ended

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIAgents #AgenticAI #Research #Science

SUMMARY - White Paper on: AI and Environment
https://isoclive.substack.com/p/ai-and-environment

The Dynamic Coalition on Environment of the Internet Governance Forum, with the Nature and People Foundation (Russia), the China Institute at Fudan University and the Pahle India Foundation, brings AI's environmental footprint and its environmental benefits into a single frame. Foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Six regulatory gaps common to every jurisdiction.

#AI #Environment #InternetGovernance

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A graphic serves as the title slide for an ISOC LIVE SUMMARY of the white paper "AI and Environment." The background is a deep teal-to-blue gradient overlaid with a subtle network mesh pattern along the bottom. On the left, large white text reads "White Paper on: AI and Environment," with the title occupying most of the upper half of the slide. On the right, a stylized glowing plant made of blue wireframe lines and luminous cyan-green leaves symbolizes the intersection of artificial intelligence and environmental sustainability. In the upper-right corner, a small white badge reads "AN ISOC LIVE SUMMARY," with "ISOC LIVE" highlighted in red. Along the lower left is a white banner displaying the logos of the Nature & People Foundation, the China Institute at Fudan University, the Pahlé India Foundation, and the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Environment, separated by thin black vertical lines.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117057954870350281

@isoclive

Why does the ISOC LIVE summary not provide a link to the publication?

A Pangram 4 analysis of the ISOC LIVE summary:

<https://www.pangram.com/history/8c754902-57a0-470b-83fd-04c752e544ff>

― "We believe that this entire text is AI."

Analysis excluded the key takeaways <https://isoclive.substack.com/i/210120104/key-takeaways> and resources at the foot of the page.

Including the key takeaways would have required twenty-one credits, I had only twenty.

#AI #Pangram

Dr. Juande Santander-Vela boosted

Graham Perrin » 🌐 2026-08-08
@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

White Paper on AI and Environment

https://intgovforum.org/sites/default/files/2026-07/white-paper-aie-f_4972.pdf

― Nature and People Foundation
― The China Institute, Fudan University
― Pahle India Foundation

in partnership with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on Environment (DCE):

https://intgovforum.org/en/content/dynamic-coalition-on-environment-dce

#AI #environment

White Paper on AI and Environment

https://intgovforum.org/sites/default/files/2026-07/white-paper-aie-f_4972.pdf

― Nature and People Foundation
― The China Institute, Fudan University
― Pahle India Foundation

in partnership with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on Environment (DCE):

https://intgovforum.org/en/content/dynamic-coalition-on-environment-dce

#AI #environment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#AI #DataCenters #Guillotine

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

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

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

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

#AI #DataCenters #Guillotine

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

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

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

by @davidgerard

#AI #Gemini #GoogleGemini #SMS #Spoofing

@briankrebs The #AI apocalypse is no longer a hypothetical scenario where general intelligence takes over human control, leading to catastrophic outcomes like #OpenAI's agent going rogue, escape, and hacke Hugging Face right?🤔 🤦🏼 🤷🏼

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“Open the air look, Hal.” “I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I cant do that."

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314 Points: 18 # Comments: 1

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #HackerNews [Hacker News]

This is not a joke.

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

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

Thinking you are doing something by refusing to use #AI is like convincing yourself you're saving the planet because you buy your produce at the farmer's market.

The state of #AI

New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

Article URL: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/ Comments URL: https://ne…

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #HackerNews [Hacker News]

@hankgreen should use more #AI instead of less.

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

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

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

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

Doing God‘s work right here…
“The objective was to create a versatile typeface that looks like regular text to human readers but feeds scrapers altered wording.”
#AI #Slop https://www.creativebloq.com/design/fonts-typography/type-designers-have-created-a-free-font-that-poisons-ai

Tuesday, I was in Mansfield, Ohio, eating at the Coney Island. Above me was a big poster of a robot at the 1939 worlds fair, I took a picture.

Back home, I looked it up. And funny, it's eerily similar to the current #ai hype. Except 88 years ago.

Elektro was a machine built by real robotics pioneers, but was tuned & marketed to promote the company brand, Westinghouse. Sound familiar? Watch this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdLEQNmsXag

History repeats itself?

More on the Robot https://spectrum.ieee.org/elektro-the-motoman-had-the-biggest-brain-at-the-1939-worlds-fair

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A poster from 1939, announcing Elektro and his dog Sparko at the worlds fair. Made by Westinghouse Labs. The images are black and white, showing a humanoid robot.

Spotify Execs Bet People Will Pay for AI-Generated Music

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

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

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

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

#cybersecurity #privacy #AI #Atlas #Meta

A guillotine sends the perfect message!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#AI #LLM

LinkedIn posts: "I handed over the running of my business to an #AI management app. Although the app has since fired me, revoked my health insurance, and erased me from the electoral roll, I don't regret a thing. If anything, I'm deeply awed & honoured to play my small part in this tech evolution. #WellingUp"

#opencode #ai Man merkt, es ist Freitag:

"Warum hast du auch das auswählen der Segemntlänge veränderbar gemacht? ich habe nicht darum gebeten. Ausserdem ist es aus meiner sicht falsch. es wird bei 15min auswahl angezeigt, es würde 48Datein für 24h machen. Ich bitte um eine Begründung."

"Thinking" bricht mit "The user..." ab.

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

Gluten free, sugar free, etc.

Not organic though.

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

#ai #duckduckgo #humor

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117030783136853538

Being given a 100% AI generated score for your own mental work hurts. It also hurts because the result is presented as absolute and undeniable, with no path for appeal or inspection. A decision presented as a black-box score with no insights revealed how the score has been computed or the specific reasons/patterns which triggered "detection" to begin with[1]... A score produced by a third party which inserted itself as middleman in the communication flow between writers and readers and claims authority and arbiter status over deciding what is slop and what is not. Another layer of statistical machine learning to detect patterns/anomalies of statistical means of language generation...

In this specific case, I don't really care too much what these tools say. I know what I wrote and rewrote, over hours, and to the best of my ability (as non-native English speaker).

The myth of computational objectivity prevails. For decades it was about blind belief in algorithms, now shifted to AI models. The wider public and most decision makers neither seem to understand the difference, nor do they care about the inherent dangers. Pragmatism at all costs. The genie is out and can't be put back. The problems (if acknowledged at all) are always treated as temporary minor hurdles rather than fundamental systemic issues.

It's upsetting how Little Britain's "Computer Says No"[2] attitude and blind outsourcing of black-box classification and decision-making to machines has already been so extremely normalized and is impacting more and more of our lives, for many people/minorities in far more serious and outright deadly ways... 😭

[1] Having worked with many forms of machine learning myself, I know first hand that lack of detailed observability has been plaguing ML disciplines for decades. I think these are also some of the most worrisome aspects of more widely deploying LLM affine tech. Whilst some minor progress has been made, these efforts are severely challenged and thwarted by the exponentially growing model sizes, architectural complexity and distributed nature of agents.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no

#AI #AIDetection #DecisionMaking

Karsten Schmidt » 🌐 2026-08-03
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng

Am I an LLM? Just out of interest, I checked different variations of a piece of my very own writing I've done this weekend with GPTZero, and each time it says it's 100% AI generated, literally for every single sentence...

Such great motivation on a Monday AM! 😭

#Writing #LLM #AIDetection

Ok, also je mehr Features ich #OpenCode den komplett durch #AI erzeugten App zufügen lassen, desto mehr blöde Fehler kommen hinzu und "es" verliert den Überblick und beginnt } klammern zu vergessen oder einfach irgendwo zuzufügen, wie es Studierende am Anfang des ersten Semesters gerne mal machen. "Einfach ganz viele }}} am Ende klappt prima".

🙄

Another feature no one asked for.

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

#google #ai

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

#AI

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

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

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

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

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

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

knowledge_graph : convertir n'importe quel texte en graphe de concepts, utilisable ensuite pour du Graph RAG ou du QnA. Fonctionne en local avec Mistral 7B via Ollama, sans appel à GPT. ⬇️
https://github.com/rahulnyk/knowledge_graph

#MachineLearning #AI

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-4Tj

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Graphe de connaissances généré automatiquement à partir de textes, représentant des centaines de nœuds colorés (violet, bleu, vert, rose) interconnectés par des liens, illustrant des concepts liés à la santé numérique, aux politiques publiques et aux systèmes de santé mondiaux.

AI is transforming funeral home operations—from faster obituary creation to smarter case management and real-time insights. See how TDAW® by Continental Computers helps funeral homes work more efficiently while delivering compassionate care.

🌐 To learn more, visit https://continentalcomputers.com/

#FuneralHomeSoftware #FuneralHomeManagementSoftware #DeathcareTechnology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

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Artificial intelligence is changing the way funeral homes manage daily operations. From faster obituary creation and streamlined case management to workflow automation and real-time business insights, today's Funeral Home Software is helping funeral professionals save time while delivering exceptional care to families. Discover how Funeral Home Management Software like TDAW® by Continental Computers combines AI-powered tools with industry-leading features to simplify administrative tasks, improve efficiency, and support compassionate service. Built specifically for the deathcare industry, TDAW® helps funeral homes stay productive, organized, and ready for the future.

What's behind the accelerating trend for older technologies; from the revival of vinyl to the spread of smartphone refuseniks (with a dumbphone; confession, I have one)?

Chine Mcdonald (FT) thinks its partly a nostalgia for a quieter, slower time (of analogue technologies), but also it is a rejection of the increasingly dominant narrates of a future shaped by AI & its associated technologies - that is the future any of us just don't want.

Its a revolt into analogue.

#AI #politics #analogue

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

Do you hear how ridiculous that sounds?

This is a post about #AI

Only 2 weeks left to submit your proposal for #OSCL26 #CallforPapers

Delegates would like to hear how you, your organisation/project could help them leading in Digital Sovereignty in areas that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- #OSPO and Open Source #Governance
- #OpenSource in local/central governments and EU institutions
- #CyberSecurity
- #Sovereign #AI
- #EdTech
- Decentralised technologies for #DigitalSovereignty

https://conference.opensource.lu/

#CfP #Luxembourg #FOSS

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Banner for the Call for Paper post with the Open Source Conference Logo

Fin des quotas sur ChatGPT : les chats texte deviennent illimités pour tout le monde. GPT-5.6 Luna par défaut, bouton "Think" pour les questions complexes, et un slider de raisonnement pour les Plus et Pro. ⬇️
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/openai-brings-unlimited-chatgpt-text-chats-to-free-users/

#MachineLearning #AI

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-CKW

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Capture d'écran de l'application ChatGPT sur iPhone affichant la page de l'App Store avec le logo OpenAI, une note de 4,9 étoiles sur 61K avis, et le message "Get answers. Find inspiration. Be more productive."

@greenpeace They call it "AI training", I call it a DDoS attack.

Not only are they scraping my stuff without permission, they are using a ridiculous amount of bandwidth to do so. I have to rate-limit these #clankers to prevent them from crashing my server. These requests are coming from thousands of IP addresses, it's essentially a large #botnet

I'm also taking the opportunity to #poison these #AI idiots with a Markov babble slop tarpit. They have been continuously scraping for months.

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Grafana dashboard of detected malicious AI crawlers targeting my server. Pie chart and tie graph of total requesta, ordered by user agents. 193 requests per minute is really big for a small server like mime.

Inzwischen klickt opencode in der app auf dem handy auch selbst auf "start recording". Soviel zum Thema #Debugging und #AI #OpenCode

Es ist gut, dass man auch den Code und die Änderungen im Code im Chat sieht. Da ist mir eine Stelle aufgefallen, die falsch war und nicht alte Aufnahmen gelöscht hätte, falls man die App nach beenden ein 2. mal startet. Sowas ist aber auch durch Prompting korrigierbar. Hey! Offenbar versteht "Nemotron 3 Ultra free" auch mein deutsch.

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

So, ich teile das mal hier. Tatsächlich weiterhin keine Zeile Code geschrieben.

https://opncd.ai/share/RkboQxPO

Also nach den ca 40min gestern startete die App nicht und stürzte gleich ab. Hab zwischendurch das Model sogar gewechselt und es scheint in opencode in der selben Session unproblematisch zu sein. Heute hab ich nach so 15min bis 20min darum gebeten (man kann leicht die alte Session wieder starten), die Sache zu debuggen. Es hat mir 2x gesagt, ich solle mal auf "start recording" klicken. nachdem die Fehler behoben wurden, gab es mir eine Zusammenfassung, wo es klemmte.

Nachdem ich mal fragte, wie groß denn dann so ein Tag an Dateien wird, hat es mir das ausgerechnet anhand der erzeugten Teilaufnahmen, die es bisher auf dem Handy erkannte. Derzeit bitte ich es, noch unterschiedliche Bildgrößen und Qualitäten bei den Aufnahmen zu machen. Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass es das schafft. #AI #OpenCode

Ein weiteres Projekt, das in den letzten Monaten entstanden ist, ist OneAI.

Eine zentrale Plattform für den professionellen Einsatz von KI mit einer OpenAI-kompatiblen API und Unterstützung für Cloud- sowie lokale Modelle. Ziel ist es, die Verwaltung von KI in Unternehmen einfacher und flexibler zu machen.

https://www.onesystems.ch/produkte/onetools/oneai/

#OneAI #AI #LLM #SelfHosted

Rust adopte une politique LLM : divulgation obligatoire, interdiction de coller des réponses d'IA en commentaire de review, et exigence que l'auteur·e comprenne le code soumis. ⬇️
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/

#MachineLearning #AI

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-1zm

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Capture d'écran d'un article de blog daté du 5 août 2026, signé Jynn Nelson, annonçant l'adoption d'une politique d'utilisation des LLM (grands modèles de langage) pour le dépôt rust-lang/rust, avec une liste des groupes de contributeurs concernés.

Technology amplifies human intent. AI amplies human ignorance.

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

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #NoAI

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/06/safety-fears-as-scientists-make-first-viruses-designed-by-ai. Total #AI #insanity! It's bad enough that we have purely #natural #viral #threats, like #Ebola - but #artificial ones, created by AI, as well? This is the ne plus ultra of #mad #science, & very #dangerous mad science, at that!

@rmblaber1956

<https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vhdb52/comment/p24f9e3/>

As usual, the headline doesn't tell the whole story and people freak out in the comments.

The article describes the use of AI to design novel bacteriophages. Bacteriophages are highly specific viruses that only attack - as the name suggests - bacteria, and very particular bacteria at that.

They're being explored as a way to solve the oncoming drug-resistance crisis; as things stand right now, we're looking at deaths from drug-resistant infections rising every year in the near to medium term as overuse of antibiotics cultivates antibiotic resistance in bacteria that only stopped killing us after we invented penicillin.

Bacteriophages are specific enough that you can use them to kill a bacterial infection without harming the patient, and even specific enough to avoid killing other non-pathogenic bacteria - one of the problems with powerful broad-spectrum antibiotics is that they nuke all the bacteria they reach, leaving parts of your body basically free real estate for whatever the next species of bacteria it's exposed to is. If you're lucky (and especially if your appendix is intact) your gut can be recolonised by neutral or helpful bacteria. If you're unlucky, you get a permanent C. difficile infection.

Bacteriophages also have the advantage of being an alternative selection pressure on bacteria. The bacteria can become resistant to bacteriophages - but resistance to antibiotics and resistance to bacteriophages are both resource-intensive for a bacterium to maintain. Evidence suggests it can't do both. If it becomes resistant to a tailored virus, it becomes vulnerable to antibiotics again.

This is not a lab printing hyper-lethal hyper-virulent superplagues. It's not a lab letting Grok run wild with a cultivation vat, either. It's work done with a specific goal in mind that will save lives. Humans are much more complex organisms than bacteria and if you want a bioweapon you don't need to go down this path to get it.

#AI #good

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats

“OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but those limits, just for text, will be going away s...

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/openai-is-giving-chatgpt-free-users-unlimited-text-chats/
#ai #technology

#Ukraine uses #AI as a weapon to commit #warcrimes. A #drone hit the bus with children. One pregnant woman is killed, several children injuried

New Blog Post:

The Codeberg AI ban drama is hilarious: https://blog.thefrenchghosty.me/posts/codeberg-ai-ban-drama/

#codeberg #ai #foss #opensource #libre

Well shoot. Google Scholar isn't indexing my paper about #AI in #Archaeology -- more than one 1 month since publication (https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15).

If I was a paranoid, I'd wonder if Google was trying to inhibit the discoverability and circulation of a paper very critical of #LLMs.

I contacted the editor about it, but nobody seems to know why. Anyone else know have an explanation for Google Scholar's omission?

#openaccess #scholarlycoms #publishing #web

#OpenCode ist nun als Dose der Pandora bei mir geöffnet. Hab im Chat gesagt, in welchem Ordner er für android 6 einen App-Code anlegen soll, der als feature 24h in je 30min langen Videodateien als Ringbuffer.

Die meiste Zeit dauerte der Download und das herumeiern, weil ich der #ai keine superuser-Rechte geben wollte. Android studio, das SDK und java und gradle war alles nicht da.

Außer dem einen oder anderem Prompt hab ich nun nach 40min eine APK, die tun soll und alles kann. ich bin gespannt.

Nun versteht man evtl auch, warum man nur noch 5% der Programmierer braucht. Die müssen das Ergebnis bewerten und grade ziehen.

Four Top Google A.I. Researchers Form New Start-Up - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3FA.4teG.xHH5QYze7h74

#AI #research

🦀 Rust Adopts Official Policy for AI-Generated Contributions

｢ Its main point is that LLM tools may assist contributors with tasks like asking questions, analyzing code, summarizing discussions, editing, checking work, suggesting approaches, and providing private reviews. However, they should not produce the final contribution for the developer ｣

https://linuxiac.com/rust-adopts-official-policy-for-ai-generated-contributions/

#rust #ai #opensource

#Ukraine #AI driven #drone hit the bus with children. A woman killed, several more seriously injured. The bus interior is covered with blood

"conflict diamonds are problematic, yes ... but they're so shiny!"

"sure, real fur coats are tied up with animal cruelty ... but i'm cold!"

(people who have a "progressive" stance on their own #AI usage, probably)

Apparently, if you want to bypass the guardrails being incorporated into AI these days, all you need to do is ask!

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/04/bypassing-ai-guardrails-is-so-easy-a-script-kiddie-can-do-it/5282973

#ai #technology

In SERRC Moti Mizrahi reviews Sven Nyholm's book The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction,

https://social-epistemology.com/2026/07/30/a-review-of-nyholms-the-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-a-philosophical-introduction-moti-mizrahi/

#serrc #ai #tekoaly #ethics #ethicsOfai #book #kirjat #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #agi #vastuu #responsibility #cognition #consciousness #sentience #aiAgents #human #yhteiskunta #society #ieee #computing #engineers #harm #welfare #magnificaHumanitas #turing #llm

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

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

by @davidgerard

#AI #Meta #MetaGlasses #CreepGlasses

#IA #AI CEO vs Engineer (2026)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAUnmQt2Z7Y

Old Reddit could be the next casualty of Reddit's war on AI scraping

The company is also planning to retire its public API.

https://www.engadget.com/2230544/old-reddit-could-be-the-next-casualty-of-reddits-war-on-ai-scraping/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Software #OpenSource #Engadget [Engadget]

Neue Veröffentlichung im Linux Magazin 09/2026 von Thomas Osterried und mir:

Kommandozeilenprogramme mit OpenCode KI-basiert erstellen (+)
https://linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2026/09/opencode/

#OpenCode #Linux #AI

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

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

Similarly, I saw a post here in the Fediverse last night about how 1,000s of people had accused a genuine Monet painting of being AI "slop".

So, the answer to the question is that it's going to be a witch hunt.

I'm an engineer of half a century's standing. I consider so-called "AI" to be a mania that will end in a crash without precedent. However, witch hunts, hue and cry, this does nobody any good.

@davidrevoy : On a related note, see your Fediverse direct messages.

#AI #LLM

“Claude Code writes code. I review every diff before it gets merged. This is not vibe coding.”

The WHAT???

So when AI generates an image and you view it, it is not AI-generated anymore?

#ai #vibecoding

The Problem with #AI sloppers is that they have a context window of 256 chars. They also don't websearch .

They also can't understand that not everybody will slap a 9.99 USD price on a smart idea.

I had a call with a group on monday, told them about an idea... They released it as in product hunt as a SAAS.

I'm like : LOL, i already opensourced it for free months ago.

These people used to talk at conferences , write books.... now they will release a product at the speed of #slop.

something to show those people who continue to deny these data centres are causing the problems they're being blamed for. you can't deny this visual

#datacenters #ai #energy #stopdatacenters

Map Shows Proposed Texas Data Centers in Areas Power Grid Struggling
https://www.newsweek.com/map-proposed-texas-data-centers-power-grid-12290544

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

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

#art

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

Please use AI

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

— Shawn Smucker

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

#NoAI #AI

lol

#ai #landmine #promptInjection

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pheonix/117043863983694428

Amazingly, I never willingly let #AI in my life and ignore it whenever it tries to intrude -- and I'm doing just fine. These #tech bros have no clue.

Ollivier Robert 🇺🇦😷🌈♾️ boosted

Windy city » 🌐 2026-08-05
@pheonix@hachyderm.io

Every time one of these people open their mouths, I swear to God, it's a confession of how deep they are. Was human race not functioning before 2023?

#noai #enshittification

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kavishj611 5h + All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question: If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other Al tool? Imagine Al was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up?

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

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

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

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

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

joe aka Minami-o boosted

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

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

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

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

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

Studies like these only reinforce my belief that folks who promote and extol the virtues of #LLM / #AI either don't care at all about how they contribute to devastating our climate, or they claim to care but in actuality only have loosely held beliefs that they've no problem with ignoring when it becomes inconvenient for them.

That's not ethics. That's not even a moral speed bump.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-energy-use-of-agentic-ai

#ClimateCrisis

When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence rates far exceed chance and are consistent across independent generations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02184

They fool people and tools:

"We identify 1,655 ghost-authored records claiming nonexistent journals with fabricated publication dates…Server-side #DataCite timestamps prove deliberate backdating…These carry real #DOIs…making them harvestable by any scholarly aggregator that ingests DOI metadata."

#Citations #Hallucinations #ScholComm

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

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

#llm #ai #aibubble

and i OOP!

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

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

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

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

#ai #tokenmaxxing #vibecoding

Angler

#AI #PhishingMails #cartoon #karikatur

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Karikatur "Angler" aus dem Jahr 2026. Blick auf ein Gewässer, aus dem gerade eine Person mithilfe einer Angel herausgefischt wird. Am Ufer sitzt der Angler auf einem Hocker. Es handelt sich um ein roboterhaftes Skelett aus Metall, auf dessen Brust die Buchstaben A I geschrieben stehen. Die Augen des Roboters glühen rot.

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

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

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

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

I blame #AI
and Sam Altman

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

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

Made a quick blog post on the issue with all "electricity coming 100% from renewables" claims, that we see too often from multiple Tech companies.

This is sadly an old issue but it seems the debate didn't move an inch.

Take it as an introductory post to the issue, if you are experienced on this topic you wont learn a thing.

https://bpetit.nce.re/2026/08/why-the-100-electricity-coming-from-renewables-claims-from-cloud-ai-and-datacenters-providers-are-not-okay-and-what-could-be-done-instead/

#renewables #datacenters #cloud #ai #guaranteesoforigin #electricity

Nouvelles règles de context engineering pour Claude 5 : 80 % du system prompt de Claude Code a été supprimé sans perte mesurable sur les évals. Moins de règles rigides, plus de jugement du modèle, disclosure progressive plutôt que tout upfront. ⬇️
https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models

#MachineLearning #AI

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-DkL

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Comparaison visuelle entre l'ancienne description du système TodoWrite (~9 100 caractères de texte dense) et sa version simplifiée, qui remplace tout ce contenu par une interface concise avec seulement quelques champs et règles essentielles.

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

#apple #ai #cybersecurity

pike #ai #agent checks with king, queen takes king.

pike #ai #agent mobilizes the king. bold opener

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

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

#Resist #AIslop and #botshit.

at the witching hour, no #chess games are happening except with #skynet quick little game with #ai #agent over #deltachat

who says there's no use for #llm ?

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

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

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #NeurIPS #PeerReview

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

#AI #IA #IArienQuiVa

Alt...

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

welp…

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

#OpenAI #aislop #edu

Hey do you guys wanna hear my nuanced thoughts about AI? Because the mods on HackerNews sure didn't.
#gamedev #programming #AI
https://mropert.github.io/2026/08/04/an_honest_review_of_ai_programming/

Wenn KI-Agenten aus der Backdoor-Historie lernen
https://linuxnews.de/wenn-ki-agenten-aus-der-backdoor-historie-lernen/ #ai #ki #security #opensource #linuxnews

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

#AI #TESCREAL

Re: Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop?

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

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

⬆️ @tend2wobble

>> They are culling the human population.

Exactly.

And THAT's why they want #AI so badly.

@ParadeGrotesque

I love it when a company very deliberately produces a product which is, effectively, giving the finger to another company's product.

> DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero #AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/duckduckgo-selling-anti-pervert-glasses

#business #biz #privacy

welp…

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

#OpenAI #aislop #edu

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

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

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

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

Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers p...

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/h26qj

#ai #apps #media-&-entertainment #music #music-streaming #spotify
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/spotify-adds-merlin-to-its-ai-music-remix-and-covers-effort/

Alt...

Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

AI Music Generator loses copyright battle: https://www.nme.com/news/music/ai-music-generator-suno-loses-copyright-infringement-legal-case-3960760

#AI #music #fuckAI #copyright #theft #artists #songwriter #legal

@SchreibeEinfach

Manche Menschen wollen prinzipiell nicht, daß ihre privaten Gespräche aufgezeichnet oder irgendwohin übertragen werden, womöglich zu #GAFAM und ohne #AVV. Ohne deren explizites Einverständnis wäre das sowieso illegal. Gegen eine lokale, nicht dauerhaft speichernde Verarbeitung (#AI oder was auch immer) ist natürlich nichts einzuwenden.

#Datenschutz

I am just trying out DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 and holly shit this thing is incredible for how small this model is and how little resources it needs.

It only needs 128 GB... which is at least 4 to 15 times less then the comparable new Models like GLM-5.2 or Kimi-K3...

I guess China will pop the American AI bubble sooner or later.... lets hope sooner than later.

#llm #ai #DeepSeek #v4flash #China

Got stuck in an AI customer service loop when I called the local Kroger's grocery store. Finally fed up I asked it what the hours for Walmart was. It finally transfered me so I could speak with a person. 😂#AI

Every ad now is "AI Peas"

🖊️ Cartoon by Stephen Collins

#AI

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[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

RedBSD Install – Grey Protocol Security

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4zpeeOO78g>

Quick Install Video + Email Heads-Up

<https://www.redbsd.org/News/quick-install-video-aug-2026>

"A quick install walkthrough for RedBSD is now available on YouTube: … it covers booting the installer ISO and getting through the first-login provisioning step. Check it out if you are getting started. …"

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vf3orl/redbsd_install_grey_protocol_security/>

#AI #FreeBSD #RedBSD #

Claude Cookbook : des guides pratiques et exemples de code pour construire avec Claude, prompting, tool use, multimodal, agents, evals. Une référence à garder sous la main. ⬇️
https://platform.claude.com/cookbook/

#MachineLearning #AI

📬 Ma veille dev de la semaine → https://l.camilleroux.com/veille-zWW

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Bannière promotionnelle du "Claude Cookbook" sur fond beige clair, présentant le logo Anthropic (astérisque orange), le titre en grande typographie noire et le sous-titre "Practical guides for building with Claude".

This… 👇

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

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