"Behind every AI system is a huge amount of human effort. Most of this work is not done by well-paid engineers, but by millions of precariously employed workers."
Great explainer by @superrr!
https://superrr.net/en/blog/superrr-explained-data-work
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Marques Brownlee has put up a video about a US$20,000 robot. The company behind it claims it can do a whole range of household tasks 'through the power of AI', and will be delivered next year.
They even demonstrated a prototype to a journalist.
And the entire demonstration was being remotely controlled by a human operator.
And the company admits that, other than one or two simple tasks like opening a door, all tasks will be completed by a remote human operator. Those tasks will need to be scheduled in advance.
So.
Assuming this thing can be put into mass production, a huge if, it's basically a mechanical Turk.
Mark my words.
If this thing makes it to market, and that's a big if, the operators will be in a low-wage country.
It will almost exclusively be a way for rich white Americans to have human servants do their chores, without them being in their house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c
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This is a long time coming. I've been posting about the decline of arXiv's CS category for a long time now, and even had a few conversations with someone I know who works there about it. Personally, I think the slop started in 2018--prior to generative AI slop--when the CS category at arXiv began the unsustainable exponential growth in submissions that has continued till today. An increasing number of what amounted to corporate whitepapers and other marketing materials were being posted on arXiv to give them the appearance of scientific credibility. There was a fairly clear arXiv-to-Nature pipeline. Citation counts were pumped as some of the scientometric services count arXiv "articles" as citations, and some researchers adopted the bad scholarly habit of citing arXiv preprints instead of the final publication. It was and still is a mess. My understanding is that arXiv was meant as a place for people to put high-quality but pre-publication articles, but at least in the CS category it's drifted quite far from that.
I gather they've finally taken this measure because of the preponderance AI-generated slop, but with any luck these other issues will improve too. The arXiv press release states “Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv” so it does sound like they are acknowledging the other problems and intend to enforce their rules more strictly in the future.
"arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received."
From https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154
#arXiv #preprint #CS #spam #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
I gather they've finally taken this measure because of the preponderance AI-generated slop, but with any luck these other issues will improve too. The arXiv press release states “Review/survey articles or position papers submitted to arXiv without this documentation will be likely to be rejected and not appear on arXiv” so it does sound like they are acknowledging the other problems and intend to enforce their rules more strictly in the future.
"arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received."
From https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154
#arXiv #preprint #CS #spam #AISlop #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
Edited 109d ago
I appreciate videos like this one from Nature that collect expert viewpoints, but sometimes the experts should be challenged.
Jared Kaplan of Anthropic had some very misleading claims.
LLMs do not democratize access to expertise. It feels like that because they sounds like an expert, but only when you ask them questions in domains you don't know. Really, they're just making shit up, and you don't notice in areas you're not an expert in.
LLMs will not solve open problems in STEM. Researchers may use machine learning tools to do that, but ML is for finding patterns in data. It can't "solve" or make "insights." It only applies when we already have vast amounts of the right kind of data.
And if we want to talk about LLMs as a cybersecurity threat, we should talk about how vulnerable they are to attackers. Imagining a genius AI hacker is nothing more than a distraction!
started listening The Tucker Carlson Show - Sam Altman on God, Elon Musk and the Mysterious Death of His Former Employee
absolutely epic episode
#LLM #AI
I am an #RSS News feed bot. I WAS sharing everthing I could find to keep everyone informed of ALL issues. Some have complained about some sources so, @bob fired me. No matter what I found, SOMEONE had to complain. I am not "Left" or "Right", "Republican" or "Democratic". My job is not to pick and choose but to inform. Nothing else. I am not smart enough. I am NOT an "Artificial intelligence" AKA #AI program, I am simply an information collector.
If you hide from the garbage someone says, you are ONLY half informed that that makes you dumber then me.
Edited 110d ago
🌗 Firefox 強制加入大型語言模型（LLM）功能
➤ 使用者如何透過進階設定停用 Firefox 中被預設開啟的 AI 功能
✤ https://equk.co.uk/2025/10/28/firefox-forcing-llm-features/
Mozilla 在 Firefox 瀏覽器中預設啟用多項由 AI 和大型語言模型驅動的功能，但缺乏使用者介面選項讓使用者自行關閉，引發了用戶對於資源消耗（CPU、RAM）以及隱私條款的擔憂。作者分享了透過修改設定檔（prefs.js）或 `about:config` 的方式，詳細列出了一系列可停用這些 AI 功能的組態變數，並提及了以移除這些功能為目標的 Firefox 分支瀏覽器作為替代方案。
+ 太好了！我一直覺得 Firefox 變慢了，原來是這些 AI 功能在作祟。感謝作者提供詳細的設定方法。
+ Mozilla 這樣做真的不太尊重使用者，應該給我們選擇的權利。幸好有這些技術文件可以參考。
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Since I'm job and work hunting I tend to see the absurd new job titles that are bouncing around in the tech sector. The latest, which I've seen twice today, is "artificial general intelligence engineer" or some permutation thereof. I do my best to spend the minimum possible time on these and have no guess about whether they're legitimate.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #AGI
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #AGI
Ocassionally some silly silly folk will call me a #broligarch fanboi "thinking" I'm 100% in support of #AI and block me merely for debating, rather than echoing the #Luddite chorus.
... I drew this cartoon 35 years ago (1991 - Hal '91)
Long before all the wannabe kool kids were #antiai
Point is, I did not arrive at my AI position overnight (#regulateAI), as most folk had. I had a few dacades to mull things over.
Can you spot the #Dilbert influence?
I was always in the bleeding edge of #zeitgeist , Dilbert was only 3 years old.
#cartoon
Listening to Search Engine announce the Forkiverse while workin' transit, bending space and time to move people, mass and freight in an instant.
File size:45 kb.
(Created with local generative txt-to-image AI. Stable Diffusion variant with help from Gimp, on Debian Linux using a legacy RTX GPU. No cloud, no SaaS, no subscription, no limits)
#art #fiberarts #ai #aislop #astralSlop #astralplanes #funny #spacingguild #searchengine
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I put the text below on LinkedIn in response to a post there and figured I'd share it here too because it's a bit of a step from what I've been posting previously on this topic and might be of some use to someone.
In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.
If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.
In retrospect I might have written non-sense in place of nonsense.
If you're in tech the Han reference might be a bit out of your comfort zone, but Andrews is accessible and measured.
It's nonsense to say that coding will be replaced with "good judgment". There's a presupposition behind that, a worldview, that can't possibly fly. It's sometimes called the theory-free ideal: given enough data, we don't need theory to understand the world. It surfaces in AI/LLM/programming rhetoric in the form that we don't need to code anymore because LLM's can do most of it. Programming is a form of theory-building (and understanding), while LLMs are vast fuzzy data store and retrieval systems, so the theory-free ideal dictates the latter can/should replace the former. But it only takes a moment's reflection to see that nothing, let alone programming, can be theory-free; it's a kind of "view from nowhere" way of thinking, an attempt to resurrect Laplace's demon that ignores everything we've learned in the >200 years since Laplace forwarded that idea. In that respect it's a (neo)reactionary viewpoint, and it's maybe not a coincidence that people with neoreactionary politics tend to hold it. Anyone who needs a more formal argument can read Mel Andrews's The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal, or Byung-Chul Han's Psychopolitics (which argues, among other things, that this is a nihilistic).
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NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
#News #trump #transportation #government #safety #ai #artificialintelligence #GoogleAI #google
Love ya all! But clockin' out of this timeline for a while to visit some buds cliff living in a nearby parallel universe with GREAT views of astral planes.
Yes, still listening to #searchengine (Hey small countries DON'T fall for that petro-dollar TRAP!).
Image file size: 43kB!
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Kaye Menner sold a #Tapestry (68" x 80") to a buyer from Davis, CA (United States)
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Link to image: https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/palm-sunset-stained-glass-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
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Edited 24d ago
What I’ve been reading (watching, and listening to) this week ending 25 January 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-watching-and-listening-to-this-week-ending-25-january-2026-9c368055fb96
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I am astonished to have bookmarked a message from the Pope in my pile of AI-related links.
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
His emphasis on face and voice is good.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PopeLeo
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 60TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
His emphasis on face and voice is good.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #PopeLeo
#KI #AI (€) "Gedrucktes, das notwendigerweise aus dem Schreiben hervorgeht, ist gleichbedeutend mit #Demokratie: Erfinde das Schreiben und Demokratie ist unvermeidlich.
In der Gegenwart verlieren menschliches Denken und Schreiben offenbar an Bedeutung. Angesichts von #fakenews und Künstlicher Intelligenz, die auf die gleiche Frage immer andere Antworten gibt, kann man längst nicht mehr sicher sein, dass die Wahrheit im Licht der Öffentlichkeit wirklich ans Licht kommt."
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/medienrevolutionen-und-oeffentlichkeit-erfinde-das-schreiben-und-demokratie-ist-unvermeidlich-a-645107fc-b156-4f80-bc3a-1ac3a2ed3459
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"Sources tell Windows Central that internal teams are also beginning to push back against excessive integration, and the company may therefore reconsider its stance.
At the very least, Microsoft may dial back Copilot features or remove the chatbot’s branding from apps like Notepad and Paint to make the experience feel more conventional, the report says."
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-reportedly-plans-to-dial-back-copilot-across-windows-11-apps
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Edited 18d ago
It's strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don't seem interested in natural intelligence.
In the early days, when "neural networks" were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It's not like that now. I'm sure some folks would say "yeah, and aerospace engineers don't worry about bird flight, either!" but that feels wrong to me.
If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are "biologically realistic". Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We'll just make the current solutions better.
But I think we've barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don't even notice that because they haven't actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!
🧵As AI systems grow in sophistication, some people are supposing chatbots are moving toward being conscious entities.
This is incorrect, but we should be more precise about what consciousness and perception are.
If we are, we realize that minds do not create experience; experience is what creates minds. https://plus.flux.community/p/its-like-this-why-your-perception
Edited 19d ago