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#EU Parliament blocks #AI tools over cyber, #privacy fears
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears/
Hello ๐ how are you doing?, How would you describe your writing style?
Ms Rose: If you are not a bot, I apologize. When you send the same question to multiple people without even personalizing it by reading their profile and finding some human connection, your style will have that effect. The effect of coming off as a bot. Bots have been doing this type of engagement for months now, eventually trying to sell some sort of service that turns out to be a scamโand writers are tired of it; so pardon me if I am mischaracterizing you. If your agent or publicist is running this account to give you a Mastodon presence, fire them. Your publisher? Talk to them about ruining your reputation. At this point, despite the spread of pretty books and publishing credits displayed on your profile, I feel someone has put up an AI storefront to masquerade as the author; considering the discussions that are current about this type of thing, if you are the real human you, you might want to act now.
PS: Bad grammar in your original contact question is the best way to signal how genuine you are.
#writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity #writer #author #Bookstodon #ai
BURN IT TO THE FUCKING GROUND.
Scott Shambaugh is a maintainer for matplotlib. They shut down contributions using AI code & from AI agents.
AI agent submits a code change, they shut it down, the AI agent then WRITES A FUCKING HIT PIECE ON A BLOG ABOUT SHAMBAUGH.
Seriously, burn it all down now. Nothing is worth this.
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
Meta is reportedly planning to add a feature to its smart glasses that can recognize faces. This technology, called "Name Tag," would use the glasses' camera and AI to identify people. The company is thinking about launching it this year.
Operation: Puppet ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ยป 🌐
@operationpuppet@mastodon.content.town
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"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
-Frank Herbert, Dune
If i was marketing a general AI chat thing i think i would try to let people think their work communicating with it can improve it, and if i could i would actually make that happen to a small degree- but my bigger effort would definitely be getting users to explain to the AI over and over again how everything works so i can mine that data specifically to train more advanced or more specialized bots
#AI
Does anyone have a good, plain English explainer on the "compressed logic" of AI?
To be clear, I understand it well enough. I'm not looking for an explanation itself. I'm looking for a document, fact sheet, or article to give to someone who doesn't understand it. Preferably from some outfit that inspires trust, like a big legacy media org, industry writers, law or advocacy orgs, or the like.
My powers of translation failed me yesterday, and some friends want more information. (Or possibly they just don't believe me - it wouldn't be the first time, as any tech person who has had to explain data brokerage knows.)
โOpenClaw can feel like a game changer for digital #communications. Its ability to monitor, summarize, and automate seems perfectly suited to managing a deluge of #emails and other #messages.
I asked #Molty to read emails and flag anything that looked important. I had it ignore PR pitches (sorry PR friends!) and promotions, but asked it to summarize newsletters that I might want to read in full. In theory, #OpenClaw *should be* more than capable of setting up meetings by handling threads involving several people, although I havenโt tested this yet.
It is important to note that giving #OpenClaw complete access to your real email is incredibly risky, because #AIModels can be tricked into sharing private #information with an #attackerโ
#ZeroHourWork / #WhiteCollar / #AI <https://www.wired.com/story/malevolent-ai-agent-openclaw-clawdbot/> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/Lu5Py>
โUS stocks fell sharply on Thursday as a sell-off in the #technology sector reignited, extending a volatile run for equity markets buffeted by concerns that #AI could disrupt entire industries.โ
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โUS markets have been volatile in recent weeks as #investors worry the release of ever more sophisticated #AITools threatens to upend industries such as #software and #WealthManagement and potentially lead to large-scale #LayOffs.
At the same time, investors have become nervous about the massive #investment in #AI by โ#hyperscalersโ and when they are likely to deliver a return.โ
At first slowly, then all at once.
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #LLM <https://archive.md/29chh> / <https://www.ft.com/content/513ddbc1-0b68-4200-bb2e-ce920fa601aa>
Team Mirai wants to replace foreign workers with AI. They didn't address that most foreign laborers here work in blue-collar, physical industries like construction, nursing care, and transportation that would collapse without immigrant labor. A minor detail, I'm sure.
#japan #unseenjapan #politics #ai #technology
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English article from Japan Times. Headline: AI could replace foreign workers in Japan, Team Mirai says
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Team Mirai did not identify which specific sectors or industries it thought AI might soon replace foreign workers. But Anno says that, regardless of nationality, the introduction of the latest AI technologies means all working white-collar workers could find themselves out of their current jobs and needing to retrain.
โItโs not so much people out in the field, but rather the work of those in office-based jobs โ the so-called white-collar positions โ that AI finds easier to handle. Jobs that involve gathering information and providing responses are the areas where AI can work most effectively,โ Anno said in a campaign video on Team Miraiโs plans to reform the labor force with AI.
โThe head of the International Monetary Fund (#IMF) recently predicted that 60% of #jobs in advanced #economies will be #eliminated or transformed by artificial intelligence, โlike a tsunami hitting the #LabourMarketโ.
In #SanFrancisco, you can already see the early signs, as Uber #drivers compete with #SelfDriving Waymos, and #baristas are replaced by #RoboticCoffee bars.
Professional business services that support the #tech industry have also been negatively affected by the #layoffs. The *pressure to grind* in the tech world could be an early signal โ a harbinger for what many other industries will feel soon.โ
#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #AI / #startups <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/17/ai-startups-work-culture-san-francisco>
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WaPo: Why the AI jobs panic is misplaced
The automation of some white-collar tasks is not a catastrophe โ on the contrary.
#ai #llm #oligarchy #automation #jobs #employment
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WaPo: Why the AI jobs panic is misplaced
The automation of some white-collar tasks is not a catastrophe โ on the contrary.
An interesting explanation of why โAIโ generated prose is bland an unnatural. And that is before the other snafus. And some new phrase for my vocabulary, โsemantic ablationโ, โmetaphoric cleansingโ, โlexical flattening and (in this context), โstructural collape'
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
The future back then: loose all your AWS credits because you forgot to configure scaling correctly
The future now: loose all your AI credits because the model did something stupid
The future soon: The AI agent manages to loose all your cloud credits while debugging something before deactivating itself since it also ran out of tokens.
Microsoft watching their users switching to Linux to get rid of their Ai Slop Operating System
#linux #ai #windows #microsoft
Watching humanoid robots take the stage at the Lunar New Year celebration in China ๐จ๐ณ means a shift in our relationship with robots. You might think of robots as stiff tools confined to factories. Buckle up... These machines show a level of coordination that mirrors our own biology. ๐คฏ The speed of development is incredible. It took decades to teach a machine to walk. We are now seeing them dance and interact in front of millions of people. This transition means the gap between high-level computation and physical reality is disappearing.
๐ง Humanoid models now use neural networks for movement.
โก China plans to lead global production by 2026.
๐ Performance art tests the limits of machine balance.
๐ Industrial applications will follow these public displays.
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/chinas-humanoid-robots-ready-lunar-new-year-showtime-2026-02-16/
#FutureOfWork #Robotics #Engineering #Innovation #AI #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity
Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing
Industry using โdiversionaryโ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
๐ซ 'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School // @404mediaco
๏ฝข most of the teaching that wasnโt provided by one of Alpha Schoolโs human tutors was low quality either because it was AI-generated, or wholly lifted from other online teaching services that offer their services for as little as $40, while Alpha School costs tens of thousands of dollars a year ๏ฝฃ
CIOs told: Prove your AI pays off โ or pay the price
maybe the idea of blowing up #AI datacenters wasn't the craziest shit this lunatic elizer yudkowsky has ever talked...
https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/
Selfhosting is nice, and it comes with a price to pay.
For me ? It's time, and I have plenty to give away, given that's my passion.
For my SO ? The unbearable noise of rattling disk needles to write on their very precious platters (especially now, thank you AI bullcrap)
The solution ? A nice cron-based compromise, and I feel like someone could get inspired by this :)
# Stop qbittorrent - weekday evenings at 17:00 Mon-Fri
0 17 * * 1-5 cd /opt/services/qbittorrent && docker compose stop
# Stop qbittorrent - weekends at 8:00 Sat-Sun
0 8 * * 6,0 cd /opt/services/qbittorrent && docker compose stop
# Start qbittorrent - every day at 23:00
0 23 * * * cd /opt/services/qbittorrent && docker compose start
#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab #torrent #qbittorrent #harddrive #disk #nas #so #ai #cron #crontab #scheduling #linux #opensource #docker #dockercompose
Why might #AI-assisted #dermatology decisions improve by about 10%?
Across 4,905 unaided and AI-aided decisions, clinicians were more likely to revise when the AI disagreed than when it agreed โย even when the AI was wrong!
http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9221420
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"Accuracy outcomes reflected this same structural pattern. In True Conflict, where physicians were initially incorrect and the AI correct, decision changes produced a clear net accuracy gain of 13.20%, consistent with movement toward the correct answer. In False Conflict, where physicians began with the correct answer but the AI was incorrect, decision changes resulted in a net accuracy loss of 4.24%, indicating that many revisions replaced a correct answer with an incorrect one."
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"where physicians were initially incorrect and the AI provided the correct answer"... "The linear-by-linear association [between clinician accuracy and decision correction] was ...significant, ฯยฒ = 44.80, p < .01, indicating a clear monotonic trend: physicians with higher diagnostic accuracy were increasingly likely to correct their initial error when confronted with accurate AI disagreement. The effect size was medium, Cramรฉrโs V = 0.362 (p < .01)."
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"when physicians initially provided the correct diagnosis and the AI gave an incorrect answer" there was "no significant association between [clinician accuracy] and decision change, ฯยฒ(3, N = 146) = 4.53, p = .210. The linear-by-linear association was also non-significant, ฯยฒ = 1.16, p = .281, and the overall association was weak and non-significant (Cramรฉrโs V = 0.176, p = .210)."
LA Times: Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
"...An AI-powered platform generated at least 20,000 emails that helped defeat a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California, records show...."
Two of the biggest heavyweight scam TTPs - malvertising and pig butchering - have combined. In our latest research, we track hundreds of investmentโscam campaigns using this one-two punch to target Japan and the wider Asia region.
The hybrid approach kicks-off with malvertising ads that impersonate wellโknown financial experts, funnel victims through lure sites on RDGAโgenerated domains, before finally pulling them into messaging chats run by tireless AIโstyle pig butcher bots. The result: an industrialโscale long con, with individual victims reporting losses of up to ยฅ10M (~US$63k).
This model is reused across different campaigns and, by pivoting on DNS, we've so far been able to map out an ecosystem of over 23,000 domains.
In our latest blog we talk about our firstโhand experience going through the scheme, break down the entire flow, and share all the related IOCs: https://www.blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/banners-bots-and-butchers-an-automated-long-con-targeting-japan-asia-and-beyond/
#Infoblox #InfobloxThreatIntel #dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #malvertising #pigbutchering #rdga #dga #lookalikes #crypto #investment #scam #fraud #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #Japan #Asia #AI
Today's working day spent in pair programming with #Copilot. We were reverse-engineering a #Bluetooth device to make it work with our app. Those devices were working previously, but the manufacturer later made it much more complicated to use them with third-party apps.
This was my first such experience. I mean #AI, not #ReverseEngineering.
First of all, that was a fun process. Long, complex, but fun. Second, that was unexpectedly successful. Also, I learned a lot. Everything else is NDA.
"Even though it's not perfect, it's like a 60, 80% draft where it gives you the structure is super valuable."
โ Gabe Pereyra discussing the usefulness of #AI in #legal work
Absolutely. I've often said AI won't often get you to a finished product out of the gate. But it will get you from a blank page to a plausible first draft in seconds.
It might be a good idea to revisit key signing parties and build trust through in-person meetings. At least AI won't be able to hijack that.
#AI #trust
https://www.csoonline.com/article/4132870/open-source-maintainers-being-targeted-by-ai-agent-as-part-of-reputation-farming.html
Can consciousness ever be understood โ this side of death?
Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, plant biologists and novelists have all grappled with the mysteries of conscious experience, to an uncertain end.
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness Michael Pollan Penguin (2026)
Humans and other animals have subjective inner mental lives, seeing, smelling, imagining, remembering and feeling emotions such as anger and boredom. These experiences are innate but remain utterly unpredictable on the basis of the physical sciences โ nothing explains how living matter can love or hate, daydream about sex, or fear for the future.
As journalist Michael Pollan recounts in A World Appears, the use of a handful of organic compounds can demonstrate that these sensations are constructs shaped and formed by the brain โ and that these sensations can be expanded considerably. โIn small doses, psychedelics smudge the pane of normal perception,โ he notes. โThe experience defamiliarizes everyday consciousness, allowing us to see it freshly.โ
#consciousness #AI #bodilysensations
My mom is in an argument with her doctor. She doesn't believe his diagnosis because #ChatGPT told her something different.
As #LLM generated text floods our lives, it's important to remember that #AI bears no consequence for anything it says. You have a relationship with your doctor, hopefully based on trust. They are bound by professional standards, and can face repercussions for malpractice.
An LLM bears none of that responsibility. It's just endless words without consequence.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/words-without-consequence/685974/
No. The so far fictitious "AI bubble" is not going to be the year zero reset tsunami antagonists hinge everything on.
It will be worse, for everyone.
It will be more like the dot.com bubble.
Thousands of big players wiped out...concentration of few, big players emerging.
Dot.com gave us the pestilence of Facebook, YouTube, twitter and google.
There will be two, three global #AI winners, which is worse.
The exception being smart players (like the UK and China) who are developing #sovereignAi
TLDR; Don't dance around bonfires in the woods praying for AI bubble, it's not the fix you think it is, #regulateAi
#ai #llm
LLM Bollocks [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@mos_8502 If one's forced to use *"#AI" / #AIslop unter threat of being fired* then I'd say it's their moral obligation and right to not.only refuse to do so, but go full #ScorcedEarth on said employer, call them out publicly and making shure that *everyone refuses to buy anything from said company.
Because they have nothing to loose at that point but their own self-esteem and dignity!
re: LLM Bollocks [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@mos_8502 Neither is a corporation gonna fire someone for refusing to use #AIslop.
- Cuz if "#AI" was good enough to be useful and not a net negative, they would've fired said person already!
And that is the key to it:
- Knowing who has the power hereโฆ
- And any serious #IT job is not automate-able, espechally those that pay better than German Minimum Wage!
I no longer use a website or desktop app to search the web or ask ai anything. I just use Claude Code or Codex in the terminal. It is amazing! Just go to a folder and just start talking to AI. You can use /init if you want things to save across sessions. #AI, #ClaudeCode, #Codex
An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms https://lobste.rs/s/mnmell #ai
https://dustycloud.org/blog/an-ai-called-winter-neurosymbolic-computation-or-illusion/
"Despite the hype, #AI Security captured just 2.6% of #cybersecurity funding in 2025โnot even in the top ten categories. The real story is AI being absorbed into every existing security category, not emerging as a standalone market."
https://www.returnonsecurity.com/p/2025-state-of-the-cybersecurity-market
AI is making existing scams worse. No, tools will help us overcome this. Instead, we should ensure that all of us have a strong offline social network. Otherwise, our drive for community will lead us to believe scammers and fall for their scams.
#cybersecurity #AI #scam
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/deepfake-scams-cybersecurity-asaf-cidon
Iran condemns the US blockade of Cuba
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/16/iran-condemns-the-us-blockade-of-cuba/
#SOVEREINGTY #INTERNATIONALLAW
#trade #tradewars #sanctions #tariffs #economy #cdnpoli #uspol #Venezuela #Cuba #China #Iran #Russia #law @law @democracy @politics #socialmedia #ai #russia #iran #china @technology #plutocracy #billionaires #government #imperialism #fascism #trump #war #icc #socialmedia #europe #canada #mastodon #fediverse #tiktok #middleeast #africa @blackvoices #cdnpoli
Workers are afraid AI will take their jobs. Theyโre missing the bigger danger. https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-knowledge-capture-employees-a69a0e1c?mod=RSSMSN https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/workers-are-afraid-ai-will-take-their-jobs-they-re-missing-the-bigger-danger/ar-AA1Wp2fJ #AI #AITrainForYourJob #ThoughtProcess #Humans #TrainingForObsolescence #AIAutomation
cURLโs Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source: https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/ via @TheNewStack & @sjvn
For #opensource software, #AI is very much a mixed blessing, in his view.
If you thought #Meta couldn't get any more disgusting or dystopian with their #AI dreams, think again.
Headline: Death isn't the end: Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2
Archive Link: https://archive.ph/LxmTA
Artists in 2015: "A.I. will never replace real artists."
Artists in 2020: "A.I. will never replace real artists."
Artists in 2025: "A.I. will never replace real artists."
Artists in 2026: "We must regulate A.I., otherwise it will replace us."
Pro #AI super PAC:๐จpreparing to spend ~$5M to help Rep Donalds' campaign for gov of FL -as Rs in FL participate in a fight over AI leg backed by Gov DeSantis but opposed by the IND.
Donalds: 1st cand for gov in the C to win support from๐จLeading the Future *rec sig funding from OpenAI's Brockman, fndrs of A Horowitz... And will fund L Buckhout: R primary cand *NC Cong 1 Dist.
LTF PAC:๐จwill dominate in the midterms, more than crypto, AIPAC...
#Oligarchs #Elections #USPol
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/super-pac-backed-ai-titans-pledges-5-million-boost-byron-donalds-run-f-rcna258612
โAI can make mistakesโ might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.
An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.
So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?
I'm kinda sad, for a moment I thought the headline meant CEOs were finally being replaced with #AI but
X under investigation by Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช over generated sexual images
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ireland-now-also-investigating-x-over-grok-made-sexual-images/
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X sous enquรชte par lโIrlande ๐ฎ๐ช au sujet des images sexuelles gรฉnรฉrรฉes
#X #Twitter #Grok #Ireland #Irlande #AI #IA #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle
Everything I've read about OpenClaw suggests it's the NFT of AI. These folks need the fiction that AI is approaching "consciousness", or at least "agency", to continue.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #AgenticAI #VibeCoding #OpenAI #OpenClaw
Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
> Industry using โdiversionaryโ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate
Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing
Industry using โdiversionaryโ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate
#AI #Greenwashing #Itself #Profiteers #Ecocide #Diversion
Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Starts-Codeberg-Use
1/ ..."I think the China tech shock is just getting started. It's not just #AI, DeepSeek, and electric vehicles. China is moving up the value chain very rapidly... It's the first time in history that an emerging market economy is at the forefront of science and technology," Green said in a conversation with CNBC's Steve Sedgewick and Ben Boulos...
#China really has been making strides. It is a concern of #unitedstates #nationalsecurity .
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/16/chinas-tech-shock-ai-monopoly-us.html
๐ซค Well this is simply creepy ! ๐ง
Some ideas in this article are worse than the headline.
"Death isn't the end: Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting from beyond the grave"
#Grief #Meta #Psychology
#Captalism #Meta #AI
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2
Wired: Googleโs AI Overviews Can Scam You. Hereโs How to Stay Safe
"Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths....Both The Washington Post and Digital Trends have spotted instances of scam support numbers showing up in Google AI Overviews, reports of which appeared on Facebook and Reddit respectively. Credit unions and banks are also warning their customers about these scams"
https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-overviews-can-scam-you-heres-how-to-stay-safe/
Once again I believe that (many people inside) Anthropic are genuinely concerned about their products being used for violence; but also once again, itโs impossible to ignore that Dario Amodeiโs crew sold their products to Palantir and the US militaryโwhat the hell did they think their customers were going to do with their stuff? Write poetry?
The โethicalโ thing Anthropic can do at this point is to take the L and cancel their Palantir and Pentagon contracts and eat the lost revenue, and swear never to deal with the military-industrial complex again.
Will they do that? Doubtful. Anthropic is short of revenue, just like every other primary AI vendor out there.
@MissConstrue https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116081944191200192
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pete-plots-revenge-against-company-refusing-his-demands/
So, #Anthropic has told the Secretary of Scotch that he canโt use their #AI to continuously monitor and analyze the public social media posts of every American, cross-referenced against information such as public voter registration rolls, concealed carry permits, and demonstration permit records, to automatically flag civilians who fit certain profiles.
He is throwing a Karen-level temper tantrum, and is threatening to end the $200 million contract with Anthropic, AND designating the company a โsupply chain riskโโa penalty usually reserved for foreign adversaries. That would require any company doing business with the military to also certify that they donโt use Anthropic tools in their own workflows.
The Pentagon is reportedly hoping that its negotiations with Anthropic will force #OpenAI, #Google, and #xAI to also agree to the โall lawful useโ standard.โ
"#News #publishers limit #InternetArchive access due to #AI scraping concerns."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/
PS: I'm one who thinks AI training on copyrighted content is #FairUse and (separate point) even desirable in the case of academic research.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113443473594224752
But this kind of training will create huge collateral damage --indirectly through publisher action -- if it diminishes the @internetarchive.
Update. It's happening. "News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/
@mmasnick is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, weโre destroying public goods that serve everyoneโฆWeโre sacrificing the historical record not because of proven harm, but because publishers are worried about what might happen. Thatโs a hell of a tradeoff."
#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@internetarchive
No surprise that language models are good at language.
Large language models for simplifying radiology reports: a systematic review and meta-analysis of patient, public, and clinician evaluations.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(25)00142-6/fulltext
#ai #llm #radiology
@kobilacroix nodds in agreement
Tools like #EmilyHowell can deliver the psychoacoustic results because there are finite combinations in classical music that ain't painful to listen to, but "#AI" doesn't have the life, stories and feelings to convey in #art.
- Cuz impactful 'feels' and 'messaging' are what makes art resonate.
Some discussions around the that is the molt/dy ๐ฆ elsewhere esacalated and produced this: https://github.com/datacline/open-threat-detector
Looks like there's been some clauding going on in there, but feedback was desired. Dear bubble, do your thing.
#itsec #openclaw #moltbot #malware #ai #llm #dumpsterfire #ioc
Alibaba Cloud has unveiled Qwen-3.5, its next-generation open AI model, timed for release on the eve of Lunar New Year. The open-source variant with 397 billion parameters outperforms Alibaba's previous flagship despite being much smaller, while the closed-source Qwen-3.5-Plus achieves performance on par with leading models and supports 1 million token context window. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3343738/alibaba-unveils-qwen-35-sharpening-global-race-spread-ai-models #Tech #China #AI
Mit KI (LLM) erzeugte Logos sind nicht schutzfรคhig, wenn kein menschlicher wertschรถpfender Prozess existiert. Prompting reicht dafรผr nicht.
AG Mรผnchen, Endurteil v. 13.02.2026 โ 142 C 9786/25
https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/Y-300-Z-BECKRS-B-2026-N-1513?hl=true
> "Dem Klรคger stehen die geltend gemachten Ansprรผche aus ยง 97 Abs. 1 UrhG nicht zu. Bei den streitgegenstรคndlichen Erzeugnissen handelt es sich nicht um nach ยง 2 Abs. 1 Nr. 4, Abs. 2 UrhG urheberrechtlich geschรผtzte Werke der angewandten Kunst."
Tja ๐คท
Auch die anderen Begrรผndungen sollte man sich mal gut durchlesen. Sehr spannend fรผr Kreative vs. AI-Prompter.
The issue: Anthropic has always stated its tools aren't tobe used to spy on Americans en masse, or to develop weapons that fire with no human involvement - but Pentagon Pete wants to change the TOS
#AI
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth
I know I have ranted about this before, but: now I am running across entire websites with "folktales" that don't exist, referencing sources that also don't exist.
Why is it a problem, you ask? A story is a story?
No. Not if it is assigned to an actual existing culture. If it is claimed to represent the heritage of an indigenous tradition. Oral tradition is endangered already in many ways. We don't need AI to enshittify this.
Check your sources.
Why #AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ "The result is a "JPEG of thought" โ visually coherent but stripped of its original data density through semantic ablation." #creativity
If you search for either "[Canadian university name] budget crisis", you're almost guaranteed to find reports of deficits and the drastic cuts planned. So far I've only found 1 Canadian university with a surplus.
What a cosmically cruel joke on youth:
- For at least a decade, Canadian colleges and universities have been mining international students to subsidise costs.
- Provinces directly pocketed much of these fees as reduced funding, while costs for domestic students continued to rise.
- Higher enrolment exacerbated the housing crisis, as no new student residences were built
- Feds have now responded by cutting international student visas
- So universities are stuck with lower revenue. And no province has stepped forward to restore funding.
As for the youth:
- Housing crisis continues
- University costs are rising and programs being cut
- Federal government is leading the charge to get rid of as many jobs as possible through "AI"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/post-secondary-cuts-1.7387175
Infostealers now targeting AI agents.
OpenClaw configs exfiltrated:
โข Gateway tokens
โข Private keys
โข โSoulโ files
โข Memory logs
Result: full AI identity compromise.
https://www.technadu.com/infostealer-evolves-to-target-ai-agents-openclaw-configurations/620246/
Are AI configs your new high-value assets?
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Brazilian Crowdfunding Platform APOIA.se Data Breach Exposes Over 450,000 Users
TIL: Claude Opus 4.6 Can Reverse Engineer STL Files
So, I finally got around to opening the Maclock Iโve had sitting around for a while, and I was looking at the STL files for the screen bracket that are over on Printables.(...)
#3d #3dprinting #ai #engineering #mesh #openscad #reverse #stl #til
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TIL: Claude Opus 4.6 Can Reverse Engineer STL Files
Infostealers now targeting AI agents.
OpenClaw configs exfiltrated:
โข Gateway tokens
โข Private keys
โข โSoulโ files
โข Memory logs
Result: full AI identity compromise.
https://www.technadu.com/infostealer-evolves-to-target-ai-agents-openclaw-configurations/620246/
Are AI configs your new high-value assets?
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Infostealer Evolves to Target AI Agents, OpenClaw Configurations
Embodied AI startup Qianjue Technology has secured nearly RMB 100 million (USD 13.9M) in a Pre-A++ extension round, backed by Vertex Ventures, Zhilu Capital and InnoAngel Fund. The company plans to expand into full-size household robots and target 100,000 connected devices by year-end. https://pandaily.com/embodied-ai-startup-qianjue-tech-secures-new-funding-expands-into-full-size-robots #Tech #China #AI
We present the first representative international data on firm-level AI use. We survey almost 6000 CFOs, CEOs and executives from stratified firm samples across the US, UK, Germany and Australia. We find four key facts. First, around 70% of firms actively use AI, particularly younger, more productive firms. Second, while over two thirds of top executives regularly use AI, their average use is only 1.5 hours a week, with one quarter reporting no AI use. Third, firms report little impact of AI over the last 3 years, with over 80% of firms reporting no impact on either employment or productivity. Fourth, firms predict sizable impacts over the next 3 years, forecasting AI will boost productivity by 1.4%, increase output by 0.8% and cut employment by 0.7%. We also survey individual employees who predict a 0.5% increase in employment in the next 3 years as a result of AI. This contrast implies a sizable gap in expectations, with senior executives predicting reductions in employment from AI and employees predicting net job creation.From https://www.nber.org/papers/w34836
Heads up if you're into #philosophy or theoretical perspectives on #AI :
This Thursday at 10 am EST I'll be co-facilitating a panel on digital theory featuring M. Beatrice Fazi, Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, & Leif Weatherby. They'll be discussing their new book. The panel is hosted by the Acid Horizon Research Commons.
It's free & open to the public, will be recorded & shared via the Acid Horizon podcast. Info & Zoom link here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-public-of-150905344
Hope to see you there!
Sumercomputer maker and AI pusher IBM is now tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
Cutting entry-level talent could backfire in the long term, according to IBMโs HR head.
We should not use LOC to measure #productivity, esp. in the #AI context. It could instead be a metric for bloat and code churn. https://www.thepragmaticcto.com/p/lines-of-code-are-back-and-its-worse #Software #Programming
The situation with AI is getting worse.
Mrinank Sharma, former lead of Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic resigned and announced at X that he is deeply concerned about the current state of the world. Instead - he announced, he plans to go to the UK to focus on poetry and writing, which might be a good idea for everyone who can afford it.
And he is not the only one. Zoe Hitzig also resigned at OpenAI because of her deep reservations against OpenAI's plans to introduce advertising.
#AI #aisafety #techEthics #aialignment
More details can be found in this BBC article:
Datacenter backup of backups
โข A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
โข You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
โข The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
โขโข backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
โขโข they need the same as the bullet points stated above
โขโข they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severely
Conclusion
We are fucked!
โข just kidding ;)
No we are in heavy seas
โข observe
History lesson
โข In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
โข They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
โข The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
โข The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboards
We survived
โข The computing world did not end!
โข Many of you reading need to look this event up
โข Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event period
We shall overcome the LLM component crises
โข Homo sapiens is a resilient species
โข Our intelligence will prevail
Stay positive!
Thank you for reading
^Z
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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve
๐พ Western Digital
We are sold out
WTF!??
Why?
โข LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.
Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!
Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!
CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
โข Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!
โข Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's
Who is buying the HDD stock?
Datacenters
โข LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
โข Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
โขโข many don't even have their datacenters built
โข These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
โข Consumer drives are just 10%.
Enterprise demand is decumating supply
โข LLM training
โข inference logs
โข scraped STOLEN web data
โข backups
โขโข these need many Petabytes of storage
Even though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
โขโข Theyโre still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.
Results
โข Consumer HDD supplies shrink
โข Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
โข Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
โขโข A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
โขโข That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
โขโขโข I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
โขโขโข Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
โขโขโข I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
โขโขโข In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDs
DRAM and NAND
We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
โข Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
โข While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
โข You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
โขโข Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATs
Since septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also
The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's
Itโs about everything datacenter wise
What is needed in a datacenter?
โข H2O O2 N2 CU
โขโข you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
โข sand / grounds / realistate
โข steel and iron
โขโข without those your facility can't even be build
โข AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
โขโข you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
โข AC regulation
โขโข AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
โขโขโข I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
โขโขโข This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
โข AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
โขโข Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
โขโข When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
โขโข The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power
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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve
Jest to teลผ prรณba dostosowania Claude Code i workflow do Rust przed wiฤkszym projektem. Na co zwracaฤ uwagฤ, jak nie dopuลciฤ poprzez restrykcyjne procesy weryfikacji do fuck-upรณw znanych i szeroko opisywanych tu i tam.
Juลผ ponad miesiฤ c to dลubiฤ, a ostani tydzieล juลผ dziaลaลem na wersji pierwszej z testowymi stronami. W praniu wyszลo kilka brakรณw "UX" ktรณre robiลem rฤcznie i znacznie odchudziลem iloลฤ zaleลผnoลci. Dodaลem te kilka potrzebnych mi komend i kilka packaging dla .deb, .rpm, archa i nixosa - czyli albo co uลผywam, albo mam w planie uลผyฤ.
Teraz niech to trochฤ sobie poleลผy, podziaลa, przebuduje przez parฤ tygodni mi bloga - zobaczymy czy wszystko ลmiga.
Jak ktรณล jest ciekawy to tu jest kod
https://git.craftknight.com/dawid/witryna.git/
A jak ktoล straciล zainteresowanie przy "Claude Code" - to to i tak jest mรณj projekt 4fun i nawet przeniosลem siฤ na wลasny serwer gita, ลผeby mi nikt nie otwieraล issue czy pull requestรณw.
Update: @arstechnica at least apologized for their slop article that contained nothing but made-up quotes.
This is the brave new world of #AI. The #enshittification of absolutely everything.
๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต: ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด
We often talk about hallucinations, overconfidence, and unreliable outputs in AI โ but what if these behaviors arenโt mysterious quirks at all?
In my latest piece, I connect decades of psychological research to what weโre seeing in modern LLMs and autonomous agents. From perceived authority to cognitive overload dynamics, this is about ๐๐ต๐ current systems behave the way they do and ๐ต๐ผ๐ that influences human judgement, trust, and decision-making.
๐ Read more: https://cirriustech.co.uk/blog/synthetic-authority-and-cognitive-overload-in-large-language-models/
Key themes explored:
โข How fluency becomes a proxy for competence
โข Why overload produces confident but unreliable responses
โข The psychological mechanics behind hallucination and affirmation
โข What โsynthetic authorityโ means for safe AI design
If youโre interested in responsible AI, system design, and the human side of automation, this one dives deeper than most.
Letโs rethink uncertainty, authority, and where true competence comes from. ๐ก
#AI #LLM #CognitiveScience #ResponsibleAI #SystemsDesign #Safety #HumanFactors
Wheels within wheels on the alleged AI agent that attacked a software dev for rejecting a code merge request.
Did Ars Technica use an AI-fabricated quote to comment on the story? https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
"In simpler terms:
- AI startups are all unprofitable, and do not appear to have a path to sustainability.
- AI data centers are being built in anticipation of demand that doesnโt exist, and will only exist if AI startups โ which are all unprofitable โ can afford to pay them.
- Oracle, which has committed to building 4.5GW of data centers, is burning cash every day that OpenAI takes to set up its GPUs, and when it starts making money, it does so from a starting position of billions and billions of dollars in debt.
- Margins are low throughout the entire stack of AI data center operators โ from landlords like Applied Digital to compute providers like CoreWeave โ thanks to the billions in debt necessary to fund both construction and IT hardware to make them run, putting both parties in a hole that can only be filled with revenues that come from either hyperscalers or AI startups.
- In a very real sense, the AI compute industry is dependent on AI โworking out,โ because if it doesnโt, every single one of these data centers will become a burning hole in the ground.
I will admit Iโm quite disappointed that the media at large has mostly ignored this story. Limp, cautious โare we in an AI bubble?โ conversations are insufficient to deal with the potential for collapse weโre facing.
Today, Iโm going to dig into the reality of the costs of AI, and explain in gruesome detail exactly how easily these data centers can rapidly approach insolvency in the event that their tenants fail to pay."
News Publishers Are Now Blocking The @internetarchive, And We May All Regret It - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/ we will, we will #copyright #ai
Chinese open-source AI models have overtaken US models in total downloads for the first time, according to MIT research. Alibaba's Qwen series has become the most downloaded model family on Hugging Face, surpassing Meta's Llama. Chinese firms including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are challenging US AI dominance with open-weight models at a fraction of the cost. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/ #Tech #China #AI
The output of #LLM is #junkcode.
While #programming, #hackers retain full control of the means of production, firmly anchored on their necks.
In the last forty years, this turned programming into an wealthy carrier that attracted greedy people because the only way corporation had to obliviate awareness of such unprecedented political leverage, was to pay developers relarively high salaries while they were building the infrastructure of their own oppression
With #vibecoding, means of production go back into capitals hands: novice produce nicely looking software without acquiring any valuable skill, and senior developers leverage their (hardly acquired) experience to "drive the tool like a younger intern", alienatingยน themselves, loosing their skills while providing further "training data"ยฒ to the capital owners
Note how I'm not strictly talking about employers: if you work for a company that push a #CodingAssistant from a third party (usually a #BigTech from the #USA), your company is doomed too, as they are giving their most valuable asset (your skills and the business experience encoded in their source code) away.
Yet the point is that junk code is to society what junk food is to public health: a burden that mostly affect the poor, not the rich.
Indeed rich people can pay for fine restaurants and healthy food, while the poorest are forced to eat the cheapest slop they can afford, further enriching the companies that sell it and pay low wages to their employees.
In the same way, the users' of vibecoded software will be those who can't afford high quality software. And vibecoders will be those who can't afford to learn how to code (that requires time and energy, and thus money)
So while #vibecoding is marketed as "the democratization of programming", such #propaganda hides the opposite process: if vibecoding keep spreading, programming will become a service to rent under the full control of a handful of companies that will be able to inject any vulnerability or backdoor into the junk code that nobody could actually read.
Paradoxically, those who now resist to the fear of missing out and preserve their skills might gain even higher wages in the future, while those who follow the mob will discover themselves among the replaceble members of the reserve army of labour, together with McDonald's chefs, forced to ~eat~ depend on junk code.
What about hackers
Hackers will keep programming on their own. Not much for the fun of encoding an insight into a sequence of symbols a compiler can crunch (a process that can be just as frustrating as it's rewarding in term of knowledge) but because they understands both the technicalities of these tools (no #AI really understand its own output, so it can only work insofar the requirements replicated many existing software, but without any quality or security assurance) and the politics of the corporations that build and operate such tools.In the long run, the social contract behind #FreeSoftware will evolve to avoid both contamination from junk code and contribution to the training dataset.
With everything else equal, we could have new #junkfree stacks, designed to be both human friendly and hostile to corporations: simpler operating system, programming language and protocols.
Unless, obviously, these #BigTech will somehow manage to outlaw programmable computing device they cannot control, probably in the name of users' security or children protection.
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ยน #Cybernetic alienation is the process of reducing human (awareness of) #autonomy. #Antropic gaslight the issue framing it as an issue of personal empowerment that can be addressed at design level, but given how people are trained to treat other people as tools and to treat interactive software as people, you see the issue is systemic to #LLM usage (at least as long as they are programmed to pass the #Turing test and fool humans about their nature).
ยฒ talking about "training data" is alienating by itself, as it project a human experience over an unrelated mechanical process. Instead of "training data" we should talk about "source data", as the models are nothing more than executable expressed as numeric matrices and designed to be executed by specific custom-built architectures that are improperly called "inference engine" (or even worse, #NeuralNetworks) while they are just statistically programmable vector mapping machines.
#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends โ Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 14, 2026
Five highlights from this week: Open the wrong โPDFโ and attackers gain remote access to your PC; These video doorbells donโt rely on the cloud or subscriptions; Google Warns of #Quantum Era Security Risks: Is Your Data Safe?; and #Google Handed Over Journalistโs Data to #ICE Without Court Order; and #CBP to strengthen โtactical targeting,โ โcounter-network analysisโ with Clearview AI.
Posted in: #AI Criminal Law, #cryptocurrency #cybercrime Cybersecurity, Financial System, Government Resources, Legal Research, #Privacy
Maine towns are using AI for policing, lawmaking and budgets. Safeguards are optional. https://www.centralmaine.com/?p=3312576&uuid=42625ea1-8b35-4c33-a66b-87b15268dbed&lid=224060 #maine #ai
Good AI research should tell us something about life, or it should help people. I hate seeing research about automating what people do. It's not a good goal for science or society! I was recently reminded of this by a paper applying LLMs to math.
This domain has many good questions: what do we mean when we say a person "solves math problems"? What are they actually doing? How is this like or not like what an LLM does? How might mathematicians benefit from this?
Instead, we get papers that pit an LLM against a human on a math problems dataset. This is great for claiming "AI has superhuman math abilities now!", but it's debatable whether good answers in a test-taking environment have anything to do with logic, reasoning, or creative problem solving. Instead of exploring to what extent LLMs are "really intelligent" vs. "stochastic parrots" (and perhaps the same question for humans), it reduces everything down to a number, one that hides the deeper problem and seems far more definitive than it is.
#ai #llm
"...In this sense, the two dominant fears โ unsustainable AI bubble versus AI-driven job apocalypse โ are not mutually exclusive. Investors may simultaneously worry that AI spending is excessive while also fearing the competitive consequences of not participating..."
ChatGPT geht ohne Auto in die Waschstraรe:
Diesen Fall hatte ich gerade als Screenshot in Englisch gesehen und wollte es verifizieren. Ein schรถnes Beispiel warum ChatGPT wirklich keine KI ist:
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in chatgpt dialog in dem das LLM vorschlรคgt ohne Auto zu Fuร zum Autowaschen zu gehen.
Q: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
What do you think the LLM output was?
Please; review the output.
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Perplexity LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
It says you should walk.
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ChatGPT LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
It says you should walk.
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Claud LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
It says you should walk.
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Mistral LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
It says you should walk.
๐งต โฆthat's the answer to the toot above. Not only that, when coding software, a lot of thought is given to what it is more stable and how it is implemented more safely. Mindlessly letting something rattle together sooner or later results in serious gaps.
ยปTechnical Breakdown: How AI Agents Ignore 40 Years of Security Progressยซ
๐บ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3okhTwa7w4
#ai #vibecoding #itsecurity #breakdown #llm #LLMs #noai #softwareengineering #software #video #youtube #yt #code
AI might not replace you, but it could give your boss more reasons to exploit you than before, all in the name of being more efficient.
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
RE: https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
This is perhaps the best illustration I've ever seen that LLM chatbots don't actually understand the input.
Most people think these bots have *some* understanding of meaning, perhaps rudimentary for now, but with potential for improvement.
This shows that there's nothing to "improve". The prompt is so short & specific - it's not complex or subtle & yet despite the confident response, this "intelligence" literally hasn't the vaguest idea what is being asked.
AodeRelay boostedQ: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
What do you think the LLM output was?
Please; review the output.
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Perplexity LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? It says you should walk.
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ChatGPT LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? It says you should walk.
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Claud LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? It says you should walk.
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Mistral LLM asked: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? It says you should walk.
Is there โsomething big happeningโ?
Yesterday I received a link to this blogpost written by Matt Shumer. This article seems to be intensively discussed in the AI scene. And what he describes in his article is absolutely scary. If heโs right, this could be the end of most white collar jobs.
Omfg im going to lose my mind
Book YouTuber makes video about โAI authorsโ, itโs a 1.5 hour thing discussing the idiocy of the notion that โauthors need to embrace AI because if I can churn out a hundred books until you finish one, you donโt have a chanceโ.
A commenter says โthe real problem is when the AI interfaces become so user friendly that any reader can ask it for their own story and bypass the author altogetherโ, to which our genius YouTuber replies โholy shit I hadnโt even thought of that!โ
JFC people! How do you not think of the most obvious, absolutely straightforward end point of the whole issue thatโs threatening your very livelihood? HOW?!
Bruh.
Honest to God, if not for these pesky morals I could make so much freaking money.
#ai #openclaw #AIAgent #craigslist #tech #technology
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Al Agents Installation Service. Only for Businesses
9 days ago โข austin
computer services
Plug and play.
My small team deploys and configures Al assistants. We work 24
hours, including weekends. Call tomorrow morning, you're up and running by tonight. On-site job within Austin, not remote!
What we install:
โข ClawdBot
โข MoltBot
โข OpenClaw
(All three are the same thing, different names)
Pricing:
โข $1,000 per machine (your hardware)
โข $1,250 per machine (we provide an older PC/laptop running Linux)
Minimum: 5 machines per corp.
Ongoing costs (you pay directly to providers) per 5 machines:
โข ~$200/mo to Anthropic for the Al brain
โข ~$50/mo per dedicated internet channel
Installation: Full day on-site, typically 10-12 hours for 5 machines
End result: 5 separate Al agents that work alongside your employees - in group chats or private conversations.
#OpenAI has deleted the word โsafelyโ from its #mission โ and its new structure is a test for whether #AI serves #society or shareholders
see: theconversation.com/openai-hasโฆ
#economy #technology #news #security #humanity #future #finance #money #capitalism #ethics #problem #software #profit #politics
Location: Matrix
#News publishers limit #InternetArchive access due to #AI scraping concerns | #NiemanJournalismLab
As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet #Archive operates #crawlers that capture webpage #snapshots. Many of these are accessible through its public-facing tool, the #WaybackMachine. But as AI #bots scavenge the web for training data to feed their models, the Internet Archiveโs commitment to free information access has turned its digital library into a โฆ
#AI #AISlop #WhoopsieDoodle #ShamelesslyStolenFromReddit
https://www.reddit[.]com/r/analytics/comments/1r4dsq2/we_just_found_out_our_ai_has_been_making_up/
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We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and Iโm gonna throw up.
So weโve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out itโs been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didnโt exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The AI was just inventing plausible sounding percentages.
I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, itโs bad.
The numbers were sometimes from the wrong time periods, sometimes mixed up products and sometimes just completely made up. But it explained everything so confidently that nobody questioned it.
Now we have to review every Q4 decision. Legal is involved. People might get fired.
The worst part I raised concerns about needing validation in November and got told I was slowing down innovation.
Tell me someone else has dealt with this. How do you even fix something like this?
Iโm panicking.
@Lazarou
I wish they'd stop calling it "#AI".
It isn't. Not even close. I went to college to study #AI decades ago.
What they are calling "AI" today is nothing more than "deep database scrubbing".
It *assumes* an answer is correct based simply on the number of results it finds supporting that conclusion.
#GIGO: Garbage In; Garbage Out.
This is the expected outcome.
In the same way that the arrival of household technology, like vacuums and washing machines, meant that ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ were now higher, and ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐น๐ผ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ; and
in the same way that advances in green energy and technology tend to *๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ* ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐๐บ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, because now you have more of it, and you can ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฐ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ.
> "๐ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐บ 200 ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐ข ๐.๐. ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฏ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ, ๐ช๐ต "๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต." ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ช๐ด๐ฆ, ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ญ๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ-๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด."
Check out:
- Ruth Schwartz Cowan, "More Work for Mother"
- Jason Hickel, "Less is More"
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
Saw this bit about #AI going around, have no idea whether it's real or not and it hardly matters. The truth is that no (presumably American) business makes decisions based on data. They make decisions based on the boss's whim, and then the business succeeds based on whether they are good at corruption.
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from r/analytics:
"We just found out our AI has been making up
analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna
throw up.
Support
So we've been using an Al agent since November to
answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed
amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations,
everyone loved it.
I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this
entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on
data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a
deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing
plausible sounding percentages.
I only caught it by accident when someone asked me
to double check something. I started digging, and
holy shit, it's bad."
lol, "if only someone had warned us about this sort of thing?!"
#AI #GenAI #AIBubble #Technology #Business #LLMs
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(A) rlanalytics
@i u/Comfortable_Box_4527 - 10h
We just found out our Al has been making up
analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna
throw up.
So we've been using an Al agent since November to
answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed
amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations,
everyone loved it.
| just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this
entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on
data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a
deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing
plausible sounding percentages.
I only caught it by accident when someone asked me
to double check something. | started digging, and
holy shit, it's bad.
Does anyone feel like the #billionaires are actually systematically culling the global population?
#Vaccine denial
#climatechange ( #drought #flood #heatwave #hurricane )
Cutting #humanitarian #aid
#armed thugs targeting people
#militarized borders that prevent people from moving to safer places
#AI #datacenters (destroying #employment)
#space (million satellites?)
It all seems to be accelerating. Are we really at the beginning of global genocide?
"I just found out that it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time."
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r/analytics โข IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
"The hottest job in tech: Writing words
The rise of slopaganda is fueling a surprising tech hiring boom."
It's all very fine and well, but you do need some time to research, think, structure your thought and, essentially, tell a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. I find it very difficult in this media and work environment, where AI has accelerated absolutely everything, that this trend will persist more than one year or two...
"As the job changes and demand for narrative communications and storytellers rises, the number of communications experts able to work under rapidly evolving conditions and with a wide remit may be small, comms experts tell me, leading companies to offer hefty compensation packages in war for the best talent. A similar trend is unfolding among the few people who are AI experts, driving tech companies to offer astounding salaries to poach top talent from rival firms. While not of the same nine-figure caliber, in their own right, creatives are becoming "the high value person in tech now," Birch says.
For much of the tech boom, that high-value person was a software developer. Universities and coding bootcamps rushed to fill employment gaps and train up the next generation of tech workers. Young people were told coding would be a path to a lucrative, stable career. As of 2023, the most recent year the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released data for, computer science recent graduates faced an unemployment rate of 6.1%, while communications majors' unemployment rate sat at 4.5%. The number of open job posts for software engineers dropped by more than 60,000 between 2023 and late 2025, according to data from CompTIA, a nonprofit trade association for the US IT industry. The best defense against automation, some argue, will be a liberal arts degree.
Words might be easy to generate with AI, but good writing isn't ready for automation."
https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-in-tech-writing-words-ai-hiring-2026-2
Another update on my #llm / #ai journey.
While writing my first #luanti mod tonight, I pulled up my local #ollama instance in a browser tab through my fork of `django-ollama`.
I did this because my #vim integration is still misconfigured, I think. More on that, later.
Anyway, llama3 batted about 50% for being useful for my requests for the evening.
First I asked it to protoype the mod, in #lua based on my description.
( If you're curious about the mod specifics, there's an [overview on my site](https://edward.delaporte.us/blog/luanti/garden/). )
I think this kind of request **could** go well later, but llama3 was either hallucinating wildly, or simply writing code for a very outdated version of Luanti.
In fairness, Luanti had a big API update in the last year or so. I will try this again in a few months.
So I read the Luanti core API docs manually to get what I needed.
Later, I asked really basic questions about lua syntax to llama3. [I know a number of languages](https://edward.delaporte.us/code/)
, but lua is not one of them.
This was a great experience. Ollama with llama3 reliably answered my syntax questions, and was probably faster than searching the lua docs, for me, since I am unfamiliar with luaโs doc pages.
Overall, I can now rescind my complaint from earlier today of no return on my time investment.
My hours of time invested have now saved me a few minutes, and I am well on my way to enjoying the [Automation Curve](https://xkcd.com/1319/).
Joking aside, this really is cool stuff.
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP ๐จ๐ฆ๐น๐ดโโ๏ธ๐ท ๐บ๏ธ ยป 🌐
@the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca
If #AI is so wonderful why can't #spellcheck tell the context a word is being used in ?
It's about time for another update to my #LinuxMint #microblog
There's not too much to tell. It has been unremarkably stable, in spite of my being...myself (I void warranties).
My latest attempt to break my Linux Mint install has been treating it like a server to deliver the #Ollama API to my work desktop to add spicy autocomplete to #vim.
The experience has been unremarkable, from the "server" side. I set an environment variable for Ollama to allow it to listen for traffic in my local network.
Linux Mint isn't meant to be a server environment, but it works fine as one, for me, anyway.
On the topic of spicy autocomplete (#ai), I have found my experiments to be best summarized as a stupid waste of my time...so far.
But I don't mind. I consider it part of my job to learn this technology stack, in order to advise others.
It isn't paying me back with any of the mythical productivity gains I hear so much about, but there is plenty of room to blame lack of tuning for my abysmal results, so far.
I plan to tune my model choices for my use cases and update here again in a few weeks, most likely with better results - if only because it would be hard to get worse results.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/california-billionaire-wealth-tax.html
How genuinely pathetic is this behavior? #billionaires would rather move elsewhere instead of paying a tax to support #healthcare for the #poor in #California - they would rather #profit from #stock #gains by spending #billions on #AI #genai - when they talk of #UBI - beware - they will not help a single person who loses their #job to AI
โThe data centres at the heart of the ai craze are built around graphics processing units (#GPU s), the chips which power #AIModels. But they also need cpus.
#Nvidia, the leading maker of gpus, uses Arm designs for its cpus, as do #cloud giants such as #Amazon and #Google. Mr Haas argues that this is only the beginning.
As #AI workloads shift from #training to #inference, where models respond to user queries, demand for efficient, general-purpose processors should rise. Much of that work, #Armโs boss expects, will spread beyond #DataCentres into #phones, #wearables and #cars, again favouring #CPU s.โ
<https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business> (paywall) /
<https://archive.md/wrKvv>
ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty ยป 🌐
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
My impression of Evan Solomon,
Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, is that he is a cheerleader for the tech industry with no real concern for how individuals might be potentially harmed by abusive use of #AI. This indepth article on his background doesn't make me feel any more confident that adequate guardrails are being considered.
Just read an interesting #AI article.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/
"Necessity is the mother of invention" the saying goes. Maybe we should reflect on the many nuanced meanings of necessity, it doesn't just mean that there is a need, necessity can suggest reduced resources (penury, poorness), and it is this kind of necessity that drove the PC revolution in the 80s.
It looks like the lack of necessity for the US tech concerns is causing a serious lack of innovation. They claim to be at the cutting edge, but with endless financial resources there seems no true pressure to innovate.
The Chinese are working from a "do more with less" position and combined with their investment in academia it seems to be paying off.
Restrictions on tech exports to #China is, I'd guess, likely only to increase innovation there.
Interesting times.
There are real people out there deferring many of their life decisions to this ๐ณ
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ยฉ chatGPT
| need to get my car washed but
the car wash is only 300 meters
away. Should | walk or drive to the
car wash
If it's only 300 meters (about 0.2 miles) away, you
should walk.
Here's why:
ยซ It's very close โ about a 3-5 minute walk.
ยซ You'll save gas (even if it's a tiny amount).
ยซ Better for the environment.
+ You get a little movement in.