<p>Marky Mark still hasn't updated the old Threads.net domain in the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> to the new Threads.com</p><p>Guess his superintelligence wasn't up to the challenge 🤖</p><p>On a side note: If <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> wants a product to be "cool", <span class="h-card"><a href="https://threads.net/@zuck/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zuck</span></a></span> should not wear it! 😎</p><p>❌ <a href="/tags/demeta/" rel="tag">#Demeta</a> now: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta</a></p><p><a href="/tags/threads/" rel="tag">#threads</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/facebook/" rel="tag">#facebook</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#it</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/markzuckerberg/" rel="tag">#markzuckerberg</a> <a href="/tags/profile/" rel="tag">#profile</a> <a href="/tags/joke/" rel="tag">#joke</a> <a href="/tags/threadsnet/" rel="tag">#threadsnet</a> <a href="/tags/threadscom/" rel="tag">#threadscom</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/domain/" rel="tag">#domain</a> <a href="/tags/online/" rel="tag">#online</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#it</a> <a href="/tags/update/" rel="tag">#update</a> <a href="/tags/funny/" rel="tag">#funny</a> <a href="/tags/superintelligence/" rel="tag">#superintelligence</a> <a href="/tags/zuck/" rel="tag">#zuck</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#artificialintelligence</a> <a href="/tags/ki/" rel="tag">#ki</a></p>
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<p>So there's apparently a survey circulating in which Discord is asking about people's opinions on integrating AI.</p><p><a href="https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe</span><span class="invisible">/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/discord/" rel="tag">#discord</a> <a href="/tags/survey/" rel="tag">#survey</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>Gave AI agentic vibe coding a shot and it didn't go well. 😞 (I'll reframe from saying which platform.)</p><p>I asked it to make me a perfect Kombucha-like beverage. The vibe agent said no problem! It just required full control of my PC, my bio-chem assembler and bank account (with sum limits).<br> <br>Cool beans I thought! I LOVE me a good Kombucha, and gave it full access. I went out to buy some paper towels and came back to this!</p><p>File size: 50kB</p><p><a href="/tags/kombucha/" rel="tag">#Kombucha</a> <a href="/tags/disaster/" rel="tag">#disaster</a> <a href="/tags/vibecoding/" rel="tag">#vibecoding</a> <a href="/tags/hardfork/" rel="tag">#hardfork</a> <a href="/tags/vibe/" rel="tag">#vibe</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>
<p>AI 时代，真真假假，如何判断一张照片真的就是拍出来的，而不是 AI 生成的？</p><p>一个叫 ROC camera 的公司从相机角度来解决，主要机制是在相机传感器附近装一个东西，这东西能够和传感器结合，用 0 知识证明保证照片的数据是从传感器来的（也就是拍出来的），另外还提供 SDK 来验证一张照片是不是这个相机拍出来的真实照片。</p><p>其实这个东西不是最新的想法，记得有相机厂商为了防止篡改就有类似的技术。</p><p>一个相机卖 399 刀，着实不便宜，HN 评论区对玩意儿也不太看好的感觉。</p><p>关键还不好看</p><p><a href="https://roc.camera/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>roc.camera/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/camera/" rel="tag">#camera</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/1link1day/" rel="tag">#1link1day</a></p>
<p>Me listening to Search Engine while running errands through tricky astral passageways.</p><p>(Under 60kb!)</p><p>Slop? Art? Both? Neither? I do enjoy messin' with AI. There's merriment to be had also a time to turn it ALL OFF.</p><p>(If at all curious: created using local generative txt-to-image AI, Stable Diffusion variant with Gimp for touch ups, open source software on Debian Linux with legacy RTX GPU. No cloud, no SaaS, no fee, no subscription, no token limits.)</p><p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/astralplanes/" rel="tag">#astralplanes</a> <a href="/tags/robertsmith/" rel="tag">#robertsmith</a></p>
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<p>Am I a Tech Bro? 18 statements. Agree or Disagree. Take the quiz: <a href="https://amiatechbro.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>amiatechbro.com</a></p><p>I think 0% was not bad.</p><p><a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a></p>
Again when I was trying to add some updates to an blog post from a few years back it seemed <a href="/tags/hugo/" rel="tag">#Hugo</a> update had break changes that prevented the theme from working. Since I do not have the knowledge to write a theme myself l, I turn to <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> and instructed it to write a theme from scratch, with minimal styling and no JS at all. It now works locally and I probably will switch to it soon after more tests. I hope using a minimal theme will make it less likely to break with future Hugo updates<br><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#Blog</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a><br>
<p><a href="/tags/spring/" rel="tag">#Spring</a> <a href="/tags/flowing/" rel="tag">#Flowing</a> Through <a href="/tags/old/" rel="tag">#Old</a> <a href="/tags/archway/" rel="tag">#Archway</a> by Kaye Menner Wide variety <a href="/tags/prints/" rel="tag">#Prints</a> & lovely <a href="/tags/products/" rel="tag">#Products</a> at: </p><p><a href="https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/spring-flowing-through-old-archway-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/spring-flowing-through-old-archway-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaye-menner.pixels.com/feature</span><span class="invisible">d/spring-flowing-through-old-archway-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/floral/" rel="tag">#floral</a> <a href="/tags/sunshine/" rel="tag">#sunshine</a> <a href="/tags/archway/" rel="tag">#archway</a> <a href="/tags/oldarchway/" rel="tag">#oldarchway</a> <a href="/tags/springtime/" rel="tag">#springtime</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalart</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/homedecor/" rel="tag">#homedecor</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/giftideas/" rel="tag">#giftideas</a> <a href="/tags/wallartforsale/" rel="tag">#wallartforsale</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/artforsale/" rel="tag">#artforsale</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#Artist</a> <a href="/tags/fineartamerica/" rel="tag">#FineArtAmerica</a> <a href="/tags/photographyfeed/" rel="tag">#PhotographyFeed</a> <a href="/tags/visualarts/" rel="tag">#VisualArts</a> <a href="/tags/creativearts/" rel="tag">#CreativeArts</a></p>
<p>“Studenten aanmoedigen om <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> te gebruiken? Ik val van mijn stoel als ik dat hoor.” </p><p>Luc Steels – de "vader van <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> in België" – ondertekende net als andere Belgische academici de open brief “tegen het onkritisch invoeren van AI in hoger onderwijs” van <span class="h-card"><a href="https://scholar.social/@olivia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>olivia</span></a></span> en <span class="h-card"><a href="https://scholar.social/@Iris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Iris</span></a></span>. </p><p>Ik sprak onder meer ook met taaltechnoloog Katrien Beuls en computerwetenschapper <span class="h-card"><a href="https://scholar.social/@wim_v12e" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>wim_v12e</span></a></span> over hun verzet tegen genAI aan universiteiten. </p><p><a href="https://apache.be/2025/10/23/als-ai-wetenschappers-zich-verzetten-tegen-ai-hoger-onderwijs?cdlnk=Y1pHNlRqbVB6USttbGF2Y2JQM2tkVXhhS3BRY2F1WDJPb1p5QkpLVG5NY2lEcmJ4SGFpN1JWdm9BWVBsbnl4cUxRVHZTNnAxbVRxRlE2REZlR0UrSjhNSXhuRGxhb2ZEbnc9PTo6MjJlMGQ0OWZiNmNmYzk3ZTdhOGI4NmZiYjEzMjI3Mzg%3D" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apache.be/2025/10/23/als-ai-wetenschappers-zich-verzetten-tegen-ai-hoger-onderwijs?cdlnk=Y1pHNlRqbVB6USttbGF2Y2JQM2tkVXhhS3BRY2F1WDJPb1p5QkpLVG5NY2lEcmJ4SGFpN1JWdm9BWVBsbnl4cUxRVHZTNnAxbVRxRlE2REZlR0UrSjhNSXhuRGxhb2ZEbnc9PTo6MjJlMGQ0OWZiNmNmYzk3ZTdhOGI4NmZiYjEzMjI3Mzg%3D"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apache.be/2025/10/23/als-ai-we</span><span class="invisible">tenschappers-zich-verzetten-tegen-ai-hoger-onderwijs?cdlnk=Y1pHNlRqbVB6USttbGF2Y2JQM2tkVXhhS3BRY2F1WDJPb1p5QkpLVG5NY2lEcmJ4SGFpN1JWdm9BWVBsbnl4cUxRVHZTNnAxbVRxRlE2REZlR0UrSjhNSXhuRGxhb2ZEbnc9PTo6MjJlMGQ0OWZiNmNmYzk3ZTdhOGI4NmZiYjEzMjI3Mzg%3D</span></a></p>
<p>⭐️ Prolog by Example 🚀</p><p>Written specifically for anyone who struggled with Prolog at university or finds the traditional courses impermeable.</p><p>* concepts over language</p><p>* short chapters, avoiding jargon</p><p>* each chapter has a small illustrative example</p><p>Learning journey is gentle, starts from simple fact querying, and progresses through deduction, recursion, the cut, negation and meta-programming (which isn't hard in prolog).</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTQ7P69H/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTQ7P69H/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/prolog/" rel="tag">#prolog</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/logic/" rel="tag">#logic</a></p>
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<p>They say AI isn’t profitable. That’s not true. <br>Twice just this past week, I’ve been contacted and paid to fix problems caused by developers who relied on AI to configure servers.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a></p>
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Last boosts: since this trend has only accelerated, I figured I'd re-share.<br><br>I was reviewing some older notes of mine from the event. This one stood out at the time and still does:<br><p>Meghan Wiessner and Nathan Ensmenger talked about FORPLAN, a large linear programming model the US forestry service used to generate forest use plans. They both noted its complexity and its shortcomings, how it did not take account of local knowledge and otherwise oversimplified forestry, and how it was divisive.<br></p>If you've never come across FORPLAN I recommend looking it up (<a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/opre.39.1.13" rel="nofollow">this is good</a> if you're OK with technical reports). It went into use in late 1979 and was controversial from the beginning. It relied on (then) largescale linear programming methods to determine how to manage the US's forests. Like so many efforts before and since, it set aside expert and/or local knowledge of the domain, made horrendous miscalculations, yet was treated as if it were making divine proclamations that must be followed. One of the early critics of it started a libertarian blog called the Antiplanner to argue against government land-use planning.<br><br><a href="/tags/forplan/" rel="tag">#FORPLAN</a> <a href="/tags/planning/" rel="tag">#planning</a> <a href="/tags/forestmanagement/" rel="tag">#ForestManagement</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/linearprogramming/" rel="tag">#LinearProgramming</a><br>
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<p>"There have been several incidents where interaction with a chatbot has been cited as a direct or contributing factor in a person's suicide or other fatal outcome. In some cases, legal action was taken against the companies that developed the AI involved."</p><p>CW: Death, of course.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_l</span><span class="invisible">inked_to_chatbots</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/death/" rel="tag">#death</a></p>
<p>Computer theorists thus form a neo-mechanistic school of philosophy. Their tenacious defense of some grossly exaggerated claims of what computers can and will do is more understandable if we realize that they represent a school of metaphysics.<br></p>Epistemology, the Mind and the Computer, Henryk Skolimowski, 1972<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/computerscience/" rel="tag">#ComputerScience</a> <a href="/tags/cognitivescience/" rel="tag">#CognitiveScience</a> <a href="/tags/mind/" rel="tag">#mind</a> <a href="/tags/philosophyofmind/" rel="tag">#PhilosophyOfMind</a><br>
<p>Have you ever noticed <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> "shadow banning" open and free platforms like <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a>? Billionaires and Oppressive Governments benefit from 3 rich dudes controlling the narrative. Corporate powers will never willingly move to the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a>.</p><p>If a single Mastodon instance had wide spread <a href="/tags/csam/" rel="tag">#CSAM</a> and non-consensual <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> slop porn like the recent <a href="/tags/twitter/" rel="tag">#twitter</a> scandal <a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> and <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> would disable downloads instantly.</p>
<p>"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."<br><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/ki/" rel="tag">#KI</a> <a href="/tags/bubble/" rel="tag">#Bubble</a> </p><p>"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.<br>The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."</p><p>No shit, sherlock?<br><a href="https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/</span><span class="invisible">the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel</span></a><br>(Danke, Mathias!) <br>Oh, I forgot: <a href="/tags/windows/" rel="tag">#windows</a> <a href="/tags/windows11/" rel="tag">#windows11</a></p>
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<p>Speaking of <a href="/tags/ces/" rel="tag">#CES</a>, you may have noticed my coverage is very thin this year. There's a reason for this: I'm doing my level best to *not* give the oxygen of publicity to large language models and related "AI" tech this year.</p><p>An <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> is not <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a>. It will never be AI, no matter how big. Its output is statistical mediocrity at best, confident falsities at worst. The only ones worth using are trained on stolen data. Their environmental damage is staggering and growing, as is their mental impact.</p>
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<p>"Turning to generative AI for your filmmaking, even to make a point about its own uselessness, is to accept defeat."</p><p><a href="https://www.avclub.com/deepfaking-sam-altman-lets-ai-direct-the-movie-which-is-accepting-defeat" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.avclub.com/deepfaking-sam-altman-lets-ai-direct-the-movie-which-is-accepting-defeat"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.avclub.com/deepfaking-sam-</span><span class="invisible">altman-lets-ai-direct-the-movie-which-is-accepting-defeat</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/creativity/" rel="tag">#creativity</a></p>
This article in The Register about "Poison Fountain" looks to be crithype, and the Poison Fountain project looks to be misdirection, scam, art project, or some other thing, but almost surely not a serious data poisoning proposal.<br><br>AI industry insiders launch site to poison the data that feeds them: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theregister.com/2026/01/11</span><span class="invisible">/industry_insiders_seek_to_poison/</span></a><br><br><a href="https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/" rel="nofollow">Poison Fountain</a> starts with "We agree with Geoffrey Hinton: machine intelligence is a threat to the human species". This is a tarball of wrong. (1)<br><br>The rest of the website is absurd, and the "Poison Fountain Usage" list doesn't make any sense. There are far more efficient and safer ways to poison data that don't require you to proxy content for an unknown third party. Some of these are implemented in software, as opposed to <ul> in HTML. That bullet list reads like an amateur riffing on what they read about AI web scrapers, not like industry insiders with detailed information about how training works.<br><br>Recommend viewing the top level <a href="https://rnsaffn.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>rnsaffn.com</a> , which I suspect The Register may not have done.<br><br>The Register:<br><p>Our source said that the goal of the project is to make people aware of AI's Achilles' Heel – the ease with which models can be poisoned – and to encourage people to construct information weapons of their own.<br></p>Data poisoning is not easy, Anthropic's "article" notwithstanding. Why would we trust Anthropic to publicly reveal ways to subvert their technology anyway?<br><br>None of this passes a smell test. Crithype (and poor fact checking, it seems) from The Register it is.<br><br><br>(1) Hinton stands to gain professionally and financially from people believing this. Hinton personally bears a large amount of responsibility for setting off this so-called species level danger. Hinton, like all of us, cannot possibly know whether "machine intelligence" is even possible, let alone dangerous to people; that's a fanciful notion that serves the agendas of the wealthy and powerful quite well. In other words, crithype. Etc.<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> <a href="/tags/poisonfountain/" rel="tag">#PoisonFountain</a> <a href="/tags/uncriticalreporting/" rel="tag">#UncriticalReporting</a> <a href="/tags/crithype/" rel="tag">#crithype</a> <a href="/tags/theregister/" rel="tag">#TheRegister</a><br>
<p>I wish we had more people writing more sophisticated concerns about the harms of AI.</p><p>"Slop" criticism is important because I think many of us feel we are being gaslit into believing that generative AI is currently creating quality creative output, while Al (henceforth Alfred) is overwhelmingly creating mediocre quality creative work.</p><p>Every past winter, Alfred survives in a more focused and refined form. Eliza was a toy chatbot of the 1960s, but what emerged from that is expanded investment in things like Natural Language Processing and Markov chains.</p><p>Markov chains have always been powerful, but through computing applications, Markov chains led to advancing capabilities in weather prediction, financial modeling, and eventually Google PageRank and bioinformatics/biostatistics (BLOSUM/BLAST for analyzing/predicting/correlating amino acid chain similarities).</p><p>The next boom and winter led Alfred to popularize classic machine learning into practical applications in consumer products: recommendation engines and clustering algorithms that formed the core of products from the Netflix prize to Spotify, Pandora, Amazon, and eventually virtually every consumer retailer has multiple machine learning products supporting everything from suggested products to search results to their own logistics and sales and financial modeling. </p><p>Learn from the past. Prepare for the future. Al will learn how to spell strawberry, write basic documents and code more effectively, and make fewer basic mistakes. Think beyond that. What are the emerging harms that come AFTER all of that?<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/generative_ai_risks/" rel="tag">#generative_ai_risks</a> <a href="/tags/generative_ai_concerns/" rel="tag">#generative_ai_concerns</a></p>
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<p>New blogpost: AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture<br><a href="https://rys.io/en/181.html" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>rys.io/en/181.html</a></p><p>The way “AI” is going to compromise your cybersecurity is not through some magical autonomous exploitation by a singularity from the outside, but by being the poorly engineered, shoddily integrated, exploitable weak point you would not have otherwise had on the inside.</p><p>LLM-based systems are insanely complex. And complexity has real cost and introduces very real risk.</p><p>1/🧵</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#InfoSec</a></p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115899135117601234" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115899135117601234"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1</span><span class="invisible">15899135117601234</span></a></p><p>On the other hand. </p><p>"Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="apnews.com/article/wikipedia-internet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/wikipedia-i</span><span class="invisible">nternet-jimmy-wales-50e796d70152d79a2e0708846f84f6d7</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/wikipedia25/" rel="tag">#wikipedia25</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>la reine des neiges, c’est moi</p><p>tags : Mélenchat, <a href="/tags/winter/" rel="tag">#winter</a> <a href="/tags/meteo/" rel="tag">#meteo</a> <a href="/tags/caturday/" rel="tag">#caturday</a> <a href="/tags/cats/" rel="tag">#cats</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>
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<p>If you are a Kpop fan, knowledgeable about AI, or just curious about technology and popular culture, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on AI and Kpop.</p><p><a href="https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10646918" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.koreaherald.com/article/10646918"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.koreaherald.com/article/10</span><span class="invisible">646918</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/kpop/" rel="tag">#Kpop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/popmusic/" rel="tag">#PopMusic</a> <a href="/tags/southkorea/" rel="tag">#SouthKorea</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@kpop" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kpop</span></a></span> @KpopGG4ever <br><a href="https://chirp.social/@kpop" rel="nofollow">@[email protected]</a></p>
I've been playing around with this set of ideas and questions:<br><br>An image of a cat is not a cat, no matter how many pixels it has. A video of a cat is not a cat, no matter the framerate. An interactive 3-d model of a cat is not a cat, no matter the number of voxels or quality of dynamic lighting and so on. In every case, the computer you're using to view the artifact also gives you the ability to dispel the illusion. You can zoom a picture and inspect individual pixels, pause a video and step through individual frames, or distort the 3-d mesh of the model and otherwise modify or view its vertices and surfaces, things you can't do to cats even by analogy. As nice or high-fidelity as the rendering may be, it's still a rendering, and you can handily confirm that if you're inclined to.<br><br>These facts are not specific to images, videos, or 3-d models of cats. The are necessary features of digital computers. Even theoretically. The computable real numbers form a countable subset of the uncountably infinite set of real numbers that, for now at least, physics tells us our physical world embeds in. Georg Cantor showed us there's an infinite difference between the two; and Alan Turing showed us that it must be this way. In fact it's a bit worse than this, because (most) physics deals in continua, and the set of real numbers, big as it is, fails to have a few properties continua are taken to have. C.S. Peirce said that continua contain such multitudes of points smashed into so little space that the points fuse together, becoming inseparable from one another (by contrast we can speak of individual points within the set of real numbers). Time and space are both continua in this way.<br><br>Nothing we can represent in a computer, even in a high-fidelity simulation, is like this. Temporally, computers have a definite cha-chunk to them: that's why clock speeds of CPUs are reported. As rapidly as these oscillations happen relative to our day-to-day experience, they are still cha-chunk cha-chunk cha-chunk discrete turns of a ratchet. There's space in between the clicks that we sometimes experience as hardware bugs, hacks, errors: things with negative valence that we strive to eliminate or ignore, but can never fully. Likewise, even the highest-resolution picture still has pixels. You can zoom in and isolate them if you want, turning the most photorealistic image into a Lite Brite. There's space between the pixels too, which you can see if you take a magnifying glass to your computer monitor, even the retina displays, or if you look at the data within a PNG.<br><br>Images have glitches (e.g., the aliasing around hard edges old JPEGs had). Videos have glitches (e.g., those green flashes or blurring when keyframes are lost). Meshes have glitches (e.g., when they haven't been carefully topologized and applied textures crunch and distort in corners). 3-d interactive simulations have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCto7D1L-MiRoOziCXK9uT5Q" rel="nofollow">unending glitches</a>. The glitches manifest differently, but they're always there, or lurking. <a href="https://www.dullien.net/thomas/weird-machines-exploitability.pdf" rel="nofollow">They are reminders</a>.<br><br>With all that said: why would anyone believe generative AI could ever be intelligent? The only instances of intelligence we know inhabit the infinite continua of the physical world with its smoothly varying continuum of time (so science tells us anyway). Wouldn't it be more to the point to call it an intelligence simulation, and to mentally maintain the space between it and "actual" intelligence, whatever that is, analogous to how we maintain the mental space between a live cat and a cat video?<br><br>This is not the say there's something essential about "intelligence", but rather that there are unanswered questions here that seem important. It doesn't seem wise to assume they've been answered before we're even done figuring out how to formulate them well.<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/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a><br>