<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>
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<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>
<p>Seeing an image and discovering it was <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> is like eating yogurt and then finding out it was way past its expiration date.</p>
<p>RE: <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311777942"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@jzb/115904367311</span><span class="invisible">777942</span></a></p><p>Interesting perspective!</p><p>"Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less.</p><p>[...]</p><p>CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace."</p><p><a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>A mere week into 2026, OpenAI launched “ChatGPT Health” in the United States, asking users to upload their personal medical data and link up their health apps in exchange for the chatbot’s advice about diet, sleep, work-outs, and even personal insurance decisions. <br></p>(from <a href="https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-wants-your-health-data/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-wants-your-health-data/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive</span><span class="invisible">/chatgpt-wants-your-health-data/</span></a>).<br><br>This is the probably inevitable endgame of FitBit and other "measured life" technologies. It isn't about health; it's about mass managing bodies. It's a short hop from there to mass managing minds, which this "psychologized" technology is already being deployed to do (AI therapists and whatnot). Fully corporatized human resource management for the leisure class (you and I are not the intended beneficiaries, to be clear; we're the mass).<br><br>Neural implants would finish the job, I guess. It's interesting how the tech sector pushes its tech closer and closer to the physical head and face. Eventually the push to penetrate the head (e.g. Neuralink) should intensify. Always with some attached promise of convenience, privilege, wealth, freedom of course.<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/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/healthtech/" rel="tag">#HealthTech</a><br>
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<p>RE: <a href="https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115905458634468300" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/115905458634468300"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wandering.shop/@susankayequinn</span><span class="invisible">/115905458634468300</span></a></p><p>To paraphrase a paraphrased quote from Jean-Paul Sartre, --</p><p>"You don’t fight AI and fascism because you are going to win, you fight AI and fascism because it is AI and fascism."</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a></p>
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<p>This is quite a piece </p><p><a href="https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is-breaking-the-ai-revolution" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is-breaking-the-ai-revolution"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/</span><span class="invisible">reality-is-breaking-the-ai-revolution</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/salesforce/" rel="tag">#salesforce</a></p>
<p>Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV</p><p><a href="/tags/voices/" rel="tag">#voices</a> <a href="/tags/assistants/" rel="tag">#assistants</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjM9bWLdtQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjM9bWLdtQ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjM9b</span><span class="invisible">WLdtQ</span></a></p><p>PS: This video is most definitely not AI-generated. Check out the rest of her channel!</p>
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moltbook?? Echt jetzt??! 😬<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/ki/" rel="tag">#ki</a><br>
<p>"It’s all AI comments by fake people answered with fake replies by other fake people."</p><p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">restofworld.org/2026/virtual-a</span><span class="invisible">ssistant-linkedin-engagement/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/linkedin/" rel="tag">#linkedin</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>Sorry for the reddit link, but this zine about "<a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a>" is just too good: </p><p>«if I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct»</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/zines/comments/1qda6yv/zine/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/zines/comments/1qda6yv/zine/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/zines/comment</span><span class="invisible">s/1qda6yv/zine/</span></a></p>
<p>So this is a mini essay I wrote for my employers, to explain why I refuse to use AI tools at work. They have recently been pushing it and I wanted to make my position crystal clear and attempt to open up discussions. I'm not in a management position so don't have any voice when it comes to decision making. I also struggle to express myself verbally and miss out context. </p><p>I initially sent it to my manager on Tuesday. She then had a meeting with her manager and brought it up, and he suggested I send it to him and 2 members of the extended leadership team above him, who are directly below the CEO.</p><p>My managers managers response was very positive, he messaged me to say it was very powerful and he wanted to take the weekend to process.</p><p>Anyway it's not my best writing but here it is.</p><p><a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#copilot</a> <a href="/tags/antiai/" rel="tag">#antiai</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p><p>Why I refuse to use AI tools such as Co-pilot, ChatGPT, Claude etc.<br>Written by human hands and mind – Jax Ven****</p><p>As *** leaders increase their push for employees to use AI tools, I would like to lay out the reasons why I refuse to do so. I feel the need to do this in order to show that I am not acting out of a fear of new technology, but as someone who understands technological progression and has been interested in this field for decades, studying virtual reality and AI at university 15 years ago and following the industry closely since. I also hope that this may convince you to pause and reflect, and commit to allowing every employee to choose for themselves if they wish to use AI tools, without being penalised or left behind should we choose not to.</p><p>I have always been very optimistic about what AI could bring us and how it could benefit our lives not just in the workplace, but also at home and for society in general. However, to borrow a phrase used often in online tech circles, ‘this is not the AI we were promised’.</p><p>Instead we have AI that is unreliable at best, and risking our lives and our environment at worst.</p><p>The environmental impact of data centres is huge. A recent report by the IEA (International Energy Agency) found that data centre energy usage had surged during 2025 and was set to continue.</p><p>“According to the report – Key Questions on Energy and AI – power consumption per AI task is declining rapidly, with efficiency improving at a rate unprecedented in energy history. However, more people are using AI, and energy-intensive uses – such as AI agents – are on the rise. As a result, electricity consumption from data centres is set to double by 2030, and power use from those focused on AI is poised to triple.”</p><p><a href="https://www.iea.org/news/data-centre-electricity-use-surged-in-2025-even-with-tightening-bottlenecks-driving-a-scramble-for-solutions" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.iea.org/news/data-centre-electricity-use-surged-in-2025-even-with-tightening-bottlenecks-driving-a-scramble-for-solutions"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.iea.org/news/data-centre-e</span><span class="invisible">lectricity-use-surged-in-2025-even-with-tightening-bottlenecks-driving-a-scramble-for-solutions</span></a></p><p>The IEA article goes on to speculate that AI may drive the creation and large-scale adoption of greener tech, but we are not there yet and the current state of play is dangerous and damaging to our environment right now, regardless of future potential. Future potential does not cancel out current harm.</p><p>I do not wish to contribute to this.</p><p>In addition to the environmental impact the creation of new data centres is having a detrimental effect on neighbouring communities with the blatant disregard for them. For example, residents of a town in Michigan voted overwhelmingly to not have a 21 Million square feet data centre built close to their town, with the town commission also voting in favour to reject due to the impact it would have on the local environment, electricity demand and increased traffic. Related Digital (OpenAI, Stargate Initiative) successfully sued the town and are going ahead anyway.</p><p><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/ai-data-center-michigan-saline-politics-farmland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fortune.com/2026/05/06/ai-data-center-michigan-saline-politics-farmland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fortune.com/2026/05/06/ai-data</span><span class="invisible">-center-michigan-saline-politics-farmland/</span></a></p><p>These data centres are costing billions and billions. The people paying for them are well aware that they have enough money to be able to do whatever the hell they like while making promises of increased opportunities and future green tech. All while they risk destroying the communities surrounding them.</p><p>I do not wish to contribute to this.</p><p>AI is now being used in war. The same companies that are used to summarise emails or generate a slide deck are being used in cyber defence.</p><p>“WASHINGTON — On April 27, the Army convened 14 senior cybersecurity executives from leading technology companies at the Pentagon for the second iteration of its artificial intelligence tabletop exercise, an effort designed to accelerate adoption of agentic AI for cyber defense.<br>The exercise, known as AI TTX 2.0, brought together C-suite leaders from companies including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and others alongside Army and Department of War leadership. The Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor hosted the half-day event, with design and moderation support from the Special Competitive Studies Project, and partnering organizations including U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Army Cyber Command and the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.”<br><a href="https://www.army.mil/article/292158/army_convenes_industry_leaders_for_ai_tabletop_exercise_focused_on_cyber_defense" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.army.mil/article/292158/army_convenes_industry_leaders_for_ai_tabletop_exercise_focused_on_cyber_defense"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.army.mil/article/292158/ar</span><span class="invisible">my_convenes_industry_leaders_for_ai_tabletop_exercise_focused_on_cyber_defense</span></a></p><p>I do not wish to contribute to this.</p><p>The effect of regular use of AI tools on cognitive function is still being studied but so far the results are extremely concerning. I enjoy using the skills I’ve developed over the last 30 years. I enjoy figuring things out and learning new things. I enjoy putting my thoughts into words with my own voice. These are the things that motivate me.</p><p>I thoroughly believe that the more we rely on AI tools, the easier it will become to offload simple tasks to these tools and the temptation to have them do as much of our workload as possible is too great, especially when we are being told to use AI tools to increase our productivity. </p><p>“A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-gener”ated content often scored well, the brains behind it were shutting down. </p><p><a href="https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publichealthpolicyjournal.com/</span><span class="invisible">mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/</span></a></p><p>I do not wish to be a victim of this.</p><p>Things I am also concerned about but have not written about here in great detail (or this would be 20 pages long) are;</p><p>‘Enshittification’ of the internet: can no longer trust search results, or that academic papers, news reports, images, videos and music are not AI created.</p><p>Security Risks; apps and software being developed by ‘vibe coding’ are being found to contain serious security flaws that would enable hackers to obtain sensitive customer and company data. Who is checking vibe coders code?</p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2026/03/20/vibe-coding-has-a-massive-security-problem/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2026/03/20/vibe-coding-has-a-massive-security-problem/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook</span><span class="invisible">/2026/03/20/vibe-coding-has-a-massive-security-problem/</span></a></p><p>AI is a technology that I would love to be using, and it should be a natural progression of my career. I should relish digging in and getting to know how everything works, being creative and finding new ways to use it. That’s who I am. I would fully embrace it and advocate for it. But not in it’s current format, with it’s current harms, and it’s current masters. The likes of Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are billionaires who do not live in the same reality as the rest of us, and do not have our best interests at heart. The AI models these people are enabling are not the AI we were promised. For all of the reasons outlined above I cannot in good conscience contribute by becoming a user. This is at the core of my ethics and my beliefs, and it would devastate me to be forced to take part. This may seem dramatic but I am just one of many, many people worldwide who are also refusing to take part and that number is growing day by day. I guess we are ‘conscientious objectors’.</p><p>It’s not just about an individuals personal use. One could argue that the amount of energy one person uses or their monetary contribution to AI companies from simple day to day workplace tasks is not great enough to be an issue. However, it is about collective use and about ethical standpoints. Do we, as a company with a mission to help people embrace greener technology, really want to contribute to all of these things? Sometimes the only power we have is to choose where our money goes. It’s something I do as an individual consumer and something that companies can do on a grander scale to take a stand and be on the right side. Yes, I understand the need to increase productivity and remain competitive but we were already on the right track before the push to use AI tools. I also believe it is a mistake to rely on them too much as subscription costs are set to soar and the ‘AI Bubble’ predictions are looking more and more likely. I think it’s far better to pause or greatly limit use, allow employees to decide they don’t wish to use it at all, and see what the state of play is in a year or two. ‘Fear of Missing Out’ is a very real phenomena that I sadly see playing out here.</p><p>I guarantee I am not the only one at *** who feels this way, but with the job market as it is right now (thanks to AI) it can be very risky to speak out. I know people in other companies who are being forced to use AI tools or risk losing their jobs and I would like to think that we are better than that at ***, but this still feels risky. However I cannot stay silent any more and need to make my position, and my reasoning for this position crystal clear and hope that everything I have outlined can be given serious thought.</p><p>Thank you for reading and I look forward to discussing this in more detail should you wish.</p>
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<p>"Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews."</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goog</span><span class="invisible">le-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/</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/google/" rel="tag">#google</a> <a href="/tags/googlesearch/" rel="tag">#GoogleSearch</a> <a href="/tags/googleio/" rel="tag">#GoogleIO</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>
<p>"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."</p><p>Great explainer by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@superrr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>superrr</span></a></span>!</p><p><a href="https://superrr.net/en/blog/superrr-explained-data-work" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="superrr.net/en/blog/superrr-explained-data-work"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">superrr.net/en/blog/superrr-ex</span><span class="invisible">plained-data-work</span></a></p><p>Via <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@superrr/115463212350755926" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="social.tchncs.de/@superrr/115463212350755926"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.tchncs.de/@superrr/1154</span><span class="invisible">63212350755926</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/dataworkers/" rel="tag">#DataWorkers</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#data</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a></p>
<p>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.<br><br>They even demonstrated a prototype to a journalist.<br><br>And the entire demonstration was being remotely controlled by a human operator.<br><br>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.<br><br>So.<br><br>Assuming this thing can be put into mass production, a huge if, it's basically a mechanical Turk.<br><br>Mark my words.<br><br>If this thing makes it to market, and that's a big if, the operators will be in a low-wage country.<br><br>It will almost exclusively be a way for rich white Americans to have human servants do their chores, without them being in their house.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5c"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmo</span><span class="invisible">dZ-5c</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/robot/" rel="tag">#robot</a> <a href="/tags/robotics/" rel="tag">#robotics</a> <a href="/tags/marques/" rel="tag">#Marques</a> <a href="/tags/marquesbrownlee/" rel="tag">#MarquesBrownlee</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/vulturecapital/" rel="tag">#VultureCapital</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
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.<br><br>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.<br><br>"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."<br>From <a href="https://infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="infosec.exchange/users/josephcox/statuses/115486903712973154"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/users/josephc</span><span class="invisible">ox/statuses/115486903712973154</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/arxiv/" rel="tag">#arXiv</a> <a href="/tags/preprint/" rel="tag">#preprint</a> <a href="/tags/cs/" rel="tag">#CS</a> <a href="/tags/spam/" rel="tag">#spam</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a><br>
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<p><a href="/tags/introduction/" rel="tag">#introduction</a> It was on my todo list for a long time and now I'm <a href="/tags/newhere/" rel="tag">#newhere</a> - writing in En and De, darum auch <a href="/tags/neuhier/" rel="tag">#neuhier</a> </p><p>Interested in <a href="/tags/switzerland/" rel="tag">#Switzerland</a> <a href="/tags/swisspolitics/" rel="tag">#swisspolitics</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/digitalsustainability/" rel="tag">#digitalsustainability</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#gardening</a> <a href="/tags/schweizerpolitik/" rel="tag">#SchweizerPolitik</a> <a href="/tags/bildung/" rel="tag">#Bildung</a> <a href="/tags/digitalenachhaltigkeit/" rel="tag">#DigitaleNachhaltigkeit</a> <a href="/tags/gärtnern/" rel="tag">#gärtnern</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#generativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a></p><p>I found some active accounts from organisations but it seems to be harder to find accounts representing persons.</p><p>Can you recommend me any accounts from Switzerland or accounts focussing on AI? :)</p>
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<p>Top Democratic Insider EXPOSES <a href="/tags/billionaires/" rel="tag">#Billionaires</a> Controlling Our <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/K4HZlmfq9qQ" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/live/K4HZlmfq9qQ"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/live/K4HZlmfq9</span><span class="invisible">qQ</span></a> <a href="/tags/live/" rel="tag">#live</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#gaza</a> <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#gop</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a></p>
<p>What I’ve been reading this week ending 29 March 2026 <a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-this-week-ending-29-march-2026-b64266d11621" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-this-week-ending-29-march-2026-b64266d11621"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee</span><span class="invisible">n-reading-this-week-ending-29-march-2026-b64266d11621</span></a> <a href="/tags/management/" rel="tag">#management</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a></p>
<p>I appreciate videos like <a href="https://youtu.be/ecCqUgHJaPI" rel="nofollow">this one</a> from Nature that collect expert viewpoints, but sometimes the experts should be challenged.</p><p>Jared Kaplan of Anthropic had some very misleading claims.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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!</p><p><a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>
<p>Dystopian.</p><p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1134863/humanoid-data-training-gig-economy-2026-breakthrough-technology/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/01/1134863/humanoid-data-training-gig-economy-2026-breakthrough-technology/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.technologyreview.com/2026/</span><span class="invisible">04/01/1134863/humanoid-data-training-gig-economy-2026-breakthrough-technology/</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-C6tPZBTVTxqHxInIhLyDEw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-C6tPZBTVTxqHxInIhLyDEw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/tec</span><span class="invisible">hnology-shjum1jiz/-/a-C6tPZBTVTxqHxInIhLyDEw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0</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/robots/" rel="tag">#robots</a> <a href="/tags/automation/" rel="tag">#automation</a></p>
<p>Is there a public IP block list for AI bots? I see a jump in traffic usage lately and it seems robots.txt is widely ignored these days. <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/blocking/" rel="tag">#blocking</a> <a href="/tags/firewall/" rel="tag">#firewall</a> <a href="/tags/scraping/" rel="tag">#scraping</a> <a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#peertube</a></p>