The Guardian is looking for people who have deep, personal conversations with their chatbots.
"Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, sometimes to the extent that they have formed an emotional attachment to them."
ai
"Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query."
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/models-manager/models.json#L55
Are AI chatbots doing okay?
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https://toobnix.org/w/278gCLeqPDh5zGubbc1PAU
#lispyGopherClimate #live every week since 2022 Tuesday Night in the Americas! #technology #podcast #lisp
#climate #haiku by @kentpitman https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/116809734391826924
#climateCrisis becomes mainstream as thousands of normal people start dying in Europe and North America
Briefly, the USA's #AI embargo.
https://github.com/netsettler/netsettlement and https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf
Putting together #zine for next week - send/give/link me writing! https://itch.io/jam/zine
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“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.”
"The first step is to abandon the fallacy of technological and algorithmic neutrality and to question the underlying architecture of power embedded in these systems."
Continuing with the series "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" - a collaboration between GenderIT, APC & Global Voices, we asked journalist and researcher Mariana Tamari: "What could be done to create and foster a human rights approach to AI?"
Fedi Hive Mind - What should software free of AI be labeled?
A decision by @Blender to take money from Anthopic, and a policy by @redox to ban all LLM generated code spotlights the question.
Other industries have used badging like Sugar Free, Low Tar, Alcohol Free, 100% Cotton, and Organic.
What's a good label for code that is certified free of any LLM generated code?
So far suggestions include: AI Free, Organic Code, Not By AI, LLM Free, 100% Human, No LLM, No AI
Thoughts? Ideas?
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"Entrepreneurs working in the sector were keen to stress that AI was not a replacement for talent."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/africa-music-industry-ai-artificial-intelligence
80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
https://www.zdnet.com/article/80-of-developers-find-ai-coding-more-addictive-than-helpful/
#news #tech #technology #AI #aicoding #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis
KfW hat KI für die US Wirtschaft durchgerechnet. Kann funktionieren, aber wacklig.
"Denn schon kleine Änderungen an den Basisannahmen zeigen, auf welch wackligem Fundament die Gewinnhoffnungen der Techkonzerne stehen. Der wichtigste Hebel sind die Kapitalkosten. Steigen diese durch höhere Leitzinsen oder eine zunehmende Risikoprämie für KI-Investitionen, rentieren sich diese Investitionen schon mit einem Zinssatz von 20 statt 15 Prozent nicht mehr."
Billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham on SpaceX and AI: "we should wish that it’s hype, because if it’s not, it’s a lot worse."
From https://global.morningstar.com/en-gb/stocks/jeremy-grantham-spacex-it-will-be-amazing-if-it-doesnt-collapse
#AI #SpaceX #hype #billionaires #economy #finance #investors
From https://global.morningstar.com/en-gb/stocks/jeremy-grantham-spacex-it-will-be-amazing-if-it-doesnt-collapse
#AI #SpaceX #hype #billionaires #economy #finance #investors
The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less.
There are good points in this article, but the framing of the risk above is broken, to my way of thinking. In adopting the economic metaphor of production, it's taking for granted that there is a scientific process that leads to products, and that we can quantify how many of these products are produced. "We produce more".
I would argue that if we do not understand whatever is coming out of this process, then they are not products in any reasonable sense of that word. In fact I'd say this of any putative commodity: if a factory spits out a widget nobody knows how to use, then the factory has not produced a commodity, it has made an object. Commodities are commodious, adapted to a use or purpose, and human beings are the entities that have uses and purposes.
So, if we create machines that make knowledge-objects resembling the products of science that fewer and fewer people understand, we are not engaging in "scientific enquiry" or "knowledge production". In this view the phrase quoted above ought to be re-cast as "The proliferation of AI tools in science risks science". What exactly is enquiry for if not understanding more?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #science
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Re: https://infosec.exchange/users/lcamtuf/statuses/116901998490591428
There's an emerging theme in my last few posts today concerning means vs. ends. Science as a production process that spits out knowledge products. Writing as the necessary chore sitting between a person and "having another blog post" or "citation count go up".
Overfocus on the ends can lead one to think of the means as chores. Science is slow and boring, let's use AI to spit out the Good Science Stuff faster. Writing is a chore, let's use the AI to spit out Documents. Heck let's chain them together and have the machine do Good Science Stuff and then spit out Documents about it that we feed back into the machine and hey we can send the Documents to Funding Agencies to get Funding for our Good Science Stuff and spit out even more Documents so that...and...to...so...[infinite random string]. Wait what were we doing again?
Personally I think it's poisonous to focus mostly on ends. The absurdity is a clue. If I believed in souls I'd say it's bad for them. I guess I find the mindset confusing because long ago I came to think that the means are the ends. There are no other ends but the means.
Yes, I well understand there are certain kinds of mandated writing that are tedious and unwanted.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #writing
I don't find it surprising that people send LLM-generated docs, publish LLM-generated blog posts, etc. Writing is a chore and there's this big button labeled "get it done".
There's an emerging theme in my last few posts today concerning means vs. ends. Science as a production process that spits out knowledge products. Writing as the necessary chore sitting between a person and "having another blog post" or "citation count go up".
Overfocus on the ends can lead one to think of the means as chores. Science is slow and boring, let's use AI to spit out the Good Science Stuff faster. Writing is a chore, let's use the AI to spit out Documents. Heck let's chain them together and have the machine do Good Science Stuff and then spit out Documents about it that we feed back into the machine and hey we can send the Documents to Funding Agencies to get Funding for our Good Science Stuff and spit out even more Documents so that...and...to...so...[infinite random string]. Wait what were we doing again?
Personally I think it's poisonous to focus mostly on ends. The absurdity is a clue. If I believed in souls I'd say it's bad for them. I guess I find the mindset confusing because long ago I came to think that the means are the ends. There are no other ends but the means.
Yes, I well understand there are certain kinds of mandated writing that are tedious and unwanted.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #writing
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My newest article about #AI #datacenters and the growing movement against them that will impact the #midterms in the #USA. One crucial factor is the lies about water usage and so much more. Have fun!
#KI #scam #ponzi #bubble #burst #resistance #AntiAI
https://www.golem.de/news/widerstand-gegen-ki-rechenzentren-riesige-haessliche-schmutzige-bauten-2608-212082.html
I am a guest on the inimitable Disintegrator podcast with filmmaker E. Elias Merhige. Hear us talk about this machine that we are eating that is eating us.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disintegrator/id1716416573?i=1000775998168
#disintegrator #podcast #ai #eliasmerhige #cinema #music #philosophy #alchemy
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Designers talk a big game about "empathy" for users. But empathy without respect is nothing more than pity.
And nowhere is the lack of respect more apparent than in how LLMs have been productized and adopted. The "human in the loop" excuse pushes consequences down onto scrupulous employees and ultimately onto the very users on whom we claim to be centered.
The consequences of disrespectful software are now becoming apparent across tech.
Meta Pulls AI Image Feature From Instagram Days After Launch
Remember that new feature Meta announced last week that let people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content? It didn't last long. Meta pulled the feature from Instagram late on Friday, following wides…
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/13/meta-pulls-ai-image-feature-from-instagram/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #MacRumors [MacRumors]
#lispyGopherClimate every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas weekly #lisp #tech #podcast since 2022! Going live in five (0UTC Wednesday)
https://toobnix.org/w/1wbMEGRvVeRrbSviJVxy8H?start=2m53s
@kentpitman #climateCrisis #haiku and also presence returns!
@ramin_hal9001 cohosting too.
This week let's (re)create a new #lisp #AI #lab in #lambdaMOO #VR #live !
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In the #Philippines, #AI fluency is part of the school curriculum at the college/university level.
https://bobreyes.com/ipeople-mapua-set-ambitious-target-to-build-200000-ai-fluent-learners-by-2029/
There will be those who won't know or care until the bullshit bites them in the ass personally, and until then "AI is awesome!"
" #Meta Platforms is facing a federal #lawsuit in the #UnitedStates after 26 current and former #employees alleged that the company used #AI-assisted tools during a major round of #layoffs in a way that disproportionately affected workers with medical conditions, #disabilities, or those on protected medical or #familyLeave"
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NEW: The FBI has explored using AI to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballots seized from Fulton County, Georgia, another push in the Trump administration’s continued reinvestigation of the 2020 vote.
#News #FBI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Vote #Election #Georgia #Trump
Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can aut…
https://www.theverge.com/tech/966442/1password-anthropic-claude-browser-integration
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TheVerge [The Verge]
Mural seen in San Francisco, California.
#bigtech #AI #Google #degoogle #oracle #microsoft #apple #Techbros #fascism #politics #streetart #graffiti #neoliberalisme #technology #Capitalism #Capitalisme #technofeudalism #technofascism
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KIMI K3 刚刚发布
现在 KIMI 网页端现在的模型选择菜单，有三个选项：K3 · Max，擅长对话与 Agent 任务，全能旗舰；K3 集群 · Max，海量搜索、批量处理，一次完成更多；K2.6 · Fast，快速对话，即时响应。对话长度有标准和超长两个选项，超长对话仅 Allegro 及以上订阅会员可用，支持百万 Tokens，消耗额度更快
我们在 GTA 6 发布之前得到了 6 亿个国产开源大语言模型
