<p>Apple is temporarily disabling its AI-generated news notifications, which were frequently error-filled, misleading or totally false <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CNN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CNN</span></a></span> reports. Alerts included fake stories that Luigi Mangione, who is charged with murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO, had shot himself, and that Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/vd7-AI" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/vd7-AI</a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a></p>
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New uBlock Origin rule to clobber the intrusive "Copilot" button that recently appeared in Outlook web mail:<br><br>! Jul 25, 2025 <a href="https://outlook.office.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>outlook.office.com</a><br>outlook.office.com##<a href="/tags/copilotcommandcenterbutton/" rel="tag">#CopilotCommandCenterButton</a><br><br>Note: there should be three (3) pound signs between ".com" and "CopilotCommandCenterButton". For some reason my fediverse server does not display all three.<br><br><a href="/tags/ublock/" rel="tag">#uBlock</a> <a href="/tags/aispam/" rel="tag">#AISpam</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/outlook/" rel="tag">#Outlook</a> <a href="/tags/darkpattern/" rel="tag">#DarkPattern</a><br><br>This post is not an invitation to criticize me for using a Microsoft product or to suggest an alternative.<br>
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<p>My current position is that <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> is already great (for many use cases), but will be better (i.e. more ethically sourced/run) in the future.</p>
<p>"It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm"</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>
<p>"I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student. That sure feels like bullshit."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/teachers-are-n</span><span class="invisible">ot-ok-ai-chatgpt/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/teachers/" rel="tag">#teachers</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
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<p>So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser. </p><p>Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it will catch up with you fast. </p><p>“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.” </p><p><a href="https://www.storyboard18.com/digital/london-ai-startup-builder-ai-collapses-after-human-powered-tech-revelation-68299.htm" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.storyboard18.com/digital/london-ai-startup-builder-ai-collapses-after-human-powered-tech-revelation-68299.htm"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.storyboard18.com/digital/l</span><span class="invisible">ondon-ai-startup-builder-ai-collapses-after-human-powered-tech-revelation-68299.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fraud/" rel="tag">#fraud</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/duediligence/" rel="tag">#DueDiligence</a> <a href="/tags/finance/" rel="tag">#finance</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>
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<p>Some teenagers are saying tearful goodbyes to their AI companions, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@WSJ" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WSJ</span></a></span> reports.</p><p>"Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns."</p><p>Gift link: <a href="https://flip.it/1SwPcn" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/1SwPcn</a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/teen/" rel="tag">#Teen</a> <a href="/tags/chatbot/" rel="tag">#Chatbot</a></p>
<p>NEW <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#SUBSTACK</a>: Apparently <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> has a punchable face by @BrianKarem</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/apparently-elon-has-a-punchable-face" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/apparently-elon-has-a-punchable-face"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/apparently-el</span><span class="invisible">on-has-a-punchable-face</span></a> <a href="/tags/tacotrump/" rel="tag">#TACOTrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#doge</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#maga</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#germany</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>
<p>Instructions for turning off Google <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> training features:<br><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off</span></a></p>
This Thanksgiving I am celebrating the AI revolution by putting the turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and bean casserole through a blender and serving Generative Alimentary Infusion to all my guests.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/thanksgiving/" rel="tag">#Thanksgiving</a><br>
<p>Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application.<br><br>“We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.”<br></p>From <a href="https://www.404media.co/anthropic-claude-job-application-ai-assistants/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/anthropic-claude-job-application-ai-assistants/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/anthropic-clau</span><span class="invisible">de-job-application-ai-assistants/</span></a><br><br>Mediating everything else in the world through an AI system is just fine, though, and non-AI-assisted communication skills are otherwise unimportant to them.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/anthropic/" rel="tag">#Anthropic</a><br>
<p>This is me every time</p><p><a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/web3/" rel="tag">#Web3</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a></p>
<p>"What's worse, as Berlin historian Henrik Schönemann discovered while experimenting with the bot, is that it seems trained to avoid pinning blame for Frank's death on the actual Nazis responsible for her death, instead redirecting the conversation in a positive light."</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-</span><span class="invisible">frank-blame-holocaust</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>So soulless, they can't even imagine people creating music for the fun, the self-expression, or the accomplishment of developing a skill. To these types, nothing matters but output. <br><a href="https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-musi</span><span class="invisible">c-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a></p>
<p>Update2: <a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113860035702353891" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113860035702353891"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1138600</span><span class="invisible">35702353891</span></a><br>Update: <a href="https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113856096099247855" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113856096099247855"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/1138560</span><span class="invisible">96099247855</span></a><br>---<br>An '<a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a>-emulation' of Anne Frank made for use in schools.</p><p>Who the fuck thought this is appropriate?<br>Who in the everloving fuck coded this? Who approved it?<br>Who didn't stop them?</p><p>This needs to be luddited 🔥🔥🔥<br>Spoken as a (digital) historian, who uses <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> as tools.</p><p>I'm not one quick to anger, but I'm fuming 😤🤬🤬🤬<br>(Those chatbots are not new, but I hadn't seen this one until this morning in a post by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ct_bergstrom</span></a></span>)<br><a href="/tags/annefrank/" rel="tag">#AnneFrank</a></p>
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<p>Meine IT Datenschutz Liste für alle !! <br>🔒 ♥️ </p><p>auch als PDF:</p><p><a href="https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/6M62aD9+qLS1ojbtcxVi8DLI/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/6M62aD9+qLS1ojbtcxVi8DLI/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/fil</span><span class="invisible">e/#/2/file/6M62aD9+qLS1ojbtcxVi8DLI/</span></a></p><p>und in eigener Sache, möchte Ich hier auf meinen kleinen <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> Kanal, aufmerksam machen. 😘<br><span class="h-card"><a href="[{'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://clip.place/a/tuxsoulslikegame/video-channels', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://clip.place/a/tuxsoulslikegame', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}, {'type': 'Link', 'href': 'https://clip.place/accounts/tuxsoulslikegame', 'mediaType': 'text/html'}]" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tuxsoulslikegame</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/datenschutz/" rel="tag">#Datenschutz</a><br><a href="/tags/privatsphäre/" rel="tag">#Privatsphäre</a> <br><a href="/tags/sicherheit/" rel="tag">#sicherheit</a><br><a href="/tags/chatkontrolle/" rel="tag">#Chatkontrolle</a><br><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a><br><a href="/tags/endof10/" rel="tag">#Endof10</a><br><a href="/tags/unplugtrump/" rel="tag">#UnplugTrump</a><br><a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#Windows</a> <br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a><br><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a><br><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a></p>
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<p>In a Zoom meeting right now in which there are almost as many <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> notetakers as there are human attendees.</p><p>Pretty soon, no one will come to meetings and it will be just AI notetakers listening for someone to start talking.</p>
<p>“I have a PhD in AI, worked to develop some of the algorithms used by generative AI,” one developer wrote. “I deeply regret how naively I offered up my contributions.”</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/video-game-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.wired.com/story/video-game-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.wired.com/story/video-game</span><span class="invisible">-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/gamedev/" rel="tag">#gamedev</a> <a href="/tags/videogames/" rel="tag">#videogames</a></p>
As with crypto, so with AI:<br><p>A $1.5 billion AI company backed by Microsoft has shuttered after its ‘neural network’ was discovered to actually be hundreds of computer engineers based in India.<br></p><a href="https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dexerto.com/entertainment/</span><span class="invisible">ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="/tags/scam/" rel="tag">#scam</a> <a href="/tags/grift/" rel="tag">#grift</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/con/" rel="tag">#con</a> <a href="/tags/aicon/" rel="tag">#AICon</a><br>
<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gruber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gruber</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@apike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>apike</span></a></span> This struck a chord: <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/03/event-creation-still-largely-feels-like-an-unsolved-ui-problem" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/03/event-creation-still-largely-feels-like-an-unsolved-ui-problem"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daringfireball.net/linked/2025</span><span class="invisible">/06/03/event-creation-still-largely-feels-like-an-unsolved-ui-problem</span></a></p><p>Because it's true, and it led me to build <a href="https://scheduleus.online" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>scheduleus.online</a></p><p><a href="/tags/fantastical/" rel="tag">#fantastical</a>, <a href="/tags/superhuman/" rel="tag">#superhuman</a>, Google, Microsoft, (me) all see the fussy calendar interface as low-hanging fruit for AI. Form-input, like calendar events, is the new UI playground in the era of AI.</p><p>Schedule Us works with your default calendar--no need to switch email or calendar client. Works great as web app saved to home screen. <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/ui/" rel="tag">#ui</a> <a href="/tags/calendar/" rel="tag">#calendar</a> <a href="/tags/bicyclingdownhill/" rel="tag">#bicyclingdownhill</a></p>
<p>"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it."</p><p><a href="https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">henry.codes/writing/economics-</span><span class="invisible">and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://front-end.social/@henry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>henry</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>"Ultimately, the world — because of AI — has moved on, and the Glitch platform was not built for a world where AI helps you generate code, helps you run it."</p><p>Boo!</p><p><a href="https://thenewstack.io/why-devs-must-rethink-their-role-in-modern-cdns-and-the-edge/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thenewstack.io/why-devs-must-rethink-their-role-in-modern-cdns-and-the-edge/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thenewstack.io/why-devs-must-r</span><span class="invisible">ethink-their-role-in-modern-cdns-and-the-edge/</span></a></p><p>Via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114625834276951662" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@ricmac/114625834276951662"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@ricmac/114625</span><span class="invisible">834276951662</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/glitch/" rel="tag">#glitch</a> <a href="/tags/madewithglitch/" rel="tag">#MadeWithGlitch</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
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<p>If you use Telegram, now’s probably a good time to stop.</p><p>Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app. </p><p>xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.</p><p><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250528-telegram-to-get-300-mn-in-partnership-with-musk-s-xai" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250528-telegram-to-get-300-mn-in-partnership-with-musk-s-xai"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.france24.com/en/live-news/</span><span class="invisible">20250528-telegram-to-get-300-mn-in-partnership-with-musk-s-xai</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/telegram/" rel="tag">#Telegram</a></p>
<p>aquí te dejo un texto para copiar y pegar en los comentarios cuando veas que han usado la IA para una ilustración:</p><p>el uso de <a href="/tags/ia/" rel="tag">#IA</a> para generar ilustraciones tiene implicaciones morales muy graves: condiciones laborales infrahumanas en centros de datos del centro de Africa, robo de propiedad intelectual para el entrenamiento del programa, apoyo a una red de empresas que promueven el racismo y políticas anti-LGTBI+ en su cultura empresarial, el desastre ecológico creado por la alimentación y la refrigeración de los ordenadores, y la pérdida de trabajo de personas que necesitan cobrar por su arte</p><p>___---___---___---___---</p><p>Here's a a text to copy and paste in the comments when you see that they have used AI for an illustration</p><p>The use of <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> to generate illustrations has very serious moral implications: inhumane working conditions in data centers in central Africa, theft of intellectual property for program training, support for a network of companies that promote racism and anti-LGBTQ+ policies in their corporate culture, the ecological disaster created by computer power usage and its cooling systems, and the loss of jobs for people who need to charge for their art</p><p><a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#generativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/iagenerativa/" rel="tag">#IAgenerativa</a> <a href="/tags/ilustracion/" rel="tag">#ilustracion</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="/tags/inteligenciaartificial/" rel="tag">#inteligenciaartificial</a> <a href="/tags/arte/" rel="tag">#arte</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/码农/" rel="tag">#码农</a> 努力的终点就是让 <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/取代/" rel="tag">#取代</a> 自己,这让我想到制造 <a href="/tags/计算机/" rel="tag">#计算机</a> 的目的一开始是计算 <a href="/tags/对数表/" rel="tag">#对数表</a> ,最终结果是取代了对数表。</p>


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