ai

social media rabbit holes, clusters, and the relative mixing times of random walks https://lobste.rs/s/hmi3v1 #ai
https://notes.hella.cheap/twitter-isnt-a-town-square-its-a-high-school-cafeteria.html

Last month, job boards for actors were flooded with ads looking for people to record “conversations, character voices, and natural speech to help train AI systems," for a project by Microsoft. Payment was orders of magnitude more than a normal acting gig — up to $80,000, where a national ad campaign for a big brand might ordinarily pay $6,000. @404mediaco's Rosie Thomas spoke to voice actors about the "Faustian bargain" of accepting such roles. "You're still taking away tomorrow's meal because they're offering you a little bit more,” says Katie Clark Gray.

https://flip.it/XFIH26

#Movies #Cinema #Film #Acting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

🤖 You can now block many #AI websites & content from your search engine results!

✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source #Adblocker to your #browser: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"

✅ Step 3 - Add this list there & apply: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/list.txt

🥳 Done 🥳

PS Opted for the oldschool #guide look, hope you like it too <3

#artificialintelligence #ublockorigin #tech #technology #foss #opensource #ki #web

A class action lawsuit is being prepared against Anthropic over their downloading of copyrighted material from pirate websites.

If you're an author, and your books have been registered with the US Copyright Office, you may be eligible to be included, and thus receive damages.

The plaintiff's lawyers are collecting contact information so that they can ensure eligible authors receive formal notice of the class action.

More information and the form are here: https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

#PleaseBoost and pass on to any authors you know not on the fediverse.

#WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #AI #Anthropic #copyright #author

@writingcommunity @bookstodon

Very proud of my teams work with PSG Consulting on this research. Hope it sparks a robust discussion on #LLM training and risks at each stage this... #AI #aifeeds

https://www.psgconsulting.com/research-publications/potential-risks-of-ideological-skewing

"I asked ChatGPT" is the new " I saw it on Facebook".

#internet #ai #technology #sarcasm

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification

#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI

Are you waiting for an AI miracle? Big projects usually fail because they're trying to change too much at once. My latest Forbes article shows you a better, faster way...

Focus on micro-transformations. You identify and fix a single small bottleneck and see results in weeks. This builds the trust you need to move toward larger goals later.

🧠 Pick one simple manual task.
⚡ Use one specific model or product for it.
💡 Leverage AI tools you already have in your stack, like Google.
🎓 Recognize your savings immediately.
🔍 Move to the next one.
🔍 Expand to a second team once the first succeeds.

A surgical approach builds the confidence your team needs. You stop waiting for a miracle and start seeing results right away.

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/02/24/micro-transformations-a-practical-path-to-ai-roi-in-business/

#AI #artificialintelligence #leadership #CIO #CTO #CISO #Caio #innovation #business #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

@RHR_International
@forbes
@Forbes@newsie.social
@forbestechcncl

#incel #MAGA #GOP #patriots #AI #OnlyFans

llm.rb is Ruby's most capable AI runtime https://lobste.rs/s/emcmxd #ai #ruby
https://github.com/llmrb/llm.rb#readme

I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public goods, we need to look beyond moral high grounds and engage with the material basis of AI—specifically compute, data, and the relations of production.

I've written two posts exploring this through the lens of historical materialism. The first piece analyzes why current “open source” definitions struggle with LLMs, and the second discusses what it means to “act materialistically” in our imperfect world. My goal is to suggest a path forward that moves from mere boycotting to a more proactive, structural socialization of AI infrastructure.

If you've been feeling uneasy about the AI landscape but aren't sure if boycotting is the final answer, I'd love for you to give these a read:

• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
• Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations

#LLM #AI #opensource #historicalmaterialism #histomat #materialism #digitalcommons

Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents https://lobste.rs/s/lieueg #ai
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overflow-for-agents/

It would be deeply satisfying if it turned out to be true that Claude Code's source code was accidentally leaked in a Claude-Code-generated game intended as an April Fool's prank. Stacks upon stacks of April fools stretching back in time 70 years and culminating in this. 🤌

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Anthropic #Claude #ClaudeLeak

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.

But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.

#LLM #AI #ClaudeCode #vibecoding

On the hour interviewing @cdegroot with @kentpitman about #bookstodon https://berksoft.ca/gol The Genius of Lisp - the history of #computers, #retrocomputing and #computing, #ai, #lisp and McCarthy - of Uncle John's Mystery Hour.

Great discussion! (boost for the #book btw)

#archive : https://toobnix.org/w/6PWJeCyASrg3f8mpcVFcJx

#climateCrisis + KMP #haiku always

@ramin_hal9001 's #bookReview is over here: https://fe.disroot.org/objects/87b9e619-4e1d-4387-9f2f-8f3cf859a827

#lispyGopherClimate !

Writing my grad thesis atm that has nothing to do with AI as such and I want to write a bit on why I will not use LLMs in my work in the ethics section. We do have the standard "Was AI used in this work: Yes/No"- section to fill that gets added into these now, but I feel like that isn't enough. I need to make a stand, because that's me.

So, anyone who has seen very good citable works on the harms of AI, from the pov of:
Labor rights
Environmental impact
Learning
Etc.

Do share.

#AI

Hm, it seems a lot #AI (#LLM) bots (not RSS) on the #Fediverse are using xml or xss as source for their posts

Another extra checkpoint!

To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Nuclear #Energy #DOGE #Technology #Tech #Safety #Trump #AI

The Feature That Has Never Worked · A broken auto-live poller, and what perceived urgency does to Claude Code https://lobste.rs/s/8sqd2j #ai
https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/zabriskie/reliability/2026/04/03/the-feature-that-has-never-worked.html

The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.

The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of #AI productivity gains
- stock go up

There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-layoffs-like-block-s-are-a-race-to-the-bottom-that-have-nothing-to-do-with-productivity

#tech

Left: NVIDIA DLSS 5.
Right: preview of DLSS 6. 🤡

#NVIDIA #DLSS #DLSS5 #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI

Finally read this essay that I saw so highly recommended — and those recommending it were right. Love heartfelt writing? Hate AI slop? Give yourself a treat to start the new year and read this glorious piece by @WeirdWriter if you haven’t done so yet.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

h/t @mayintoronto

#writing #AI #LLM #GenAI

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs

Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.

From https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/workers-who-love-synergizing-paradigms-might-be-bad-their-jobs

I tried reading this article replacing variations of "corporate" with "LLM" and it works. Right down to the "LLM Bullshit Receptivity Scale (LBSR)".

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #CorporateSpeak #Bullshit

Have you ever seen a claude.md? This is the most ridiculous thing I've come across as a software developer. It's basically a prayer to the #AI gods, written as an act of faith that the computer will do the right thing.
Why on earth would you submit yourself to this as a responsible developer? Why would you relinquish control over the machine and shackle yourself to a private third party that could change or disappear overnight‽
You're not driving anymore, you're just a passenger.
This is so sad.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116454270791245630

been thinking about #DavidGraeber a lot lately. i think the Venn Diagram of people trapped in #BullshitJobs and aisloppers is a circle.

i would bet you that if people could earn a living without a bullshit job ―and, yes, a lot of tech work is bullshit― they’d have whole careers and lives outside of this capitalist hellscape.

capitalists are using #AI to gaslight us into believing we need them as the middlemen between our lives and a life worth living.

it’s a lie.

cut the middlemen out.