the most mediocre dudes are the most excited for #AI
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#AI: goes awry again: In Jan, OK became 1of 6 states to begin a pilot program testing the use of preapprovals in trad #Medicare *previously eschewed the practice.
Epidurals like Curry's are among 13 med svcs subject to the new prgm bc the Trump admin says: prone to fraud or misuse. Powered by AI: intended to save the fed govt💰. Rreviews:🚨errors, long wait times, & stress.🚨Some described the rollout as "horrendous."
#TrumpRegime: causes:⬆️costs, pain & suffering...
#USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicare-ai-program-wiser-prior-authorization-errors-delays/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8d&linkId=967077518
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If an article, or blog post, suggests use of a non-existent software package:
― should we assume that the entire document was AI-generated?
#AI #documentation #software #packages
Options: (choose one)
What does it mean to be a mathematician when AI does the math? https://lobste.rs/s/hvd5hk #ai #math
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
"When the people who built and operated your cloud would rather knead dough than touch a terminal again, that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response."
https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-fired-the-human-who-made-the-difference/
The enshittification escalates...
I walked away from tech almost four years ago with a case of burnout you could see from space.
The intervening three years have only made me more grateful that I left when I did.
(I wish all my friends and colleagues still chained to the oars had my opportunity.)
QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban
QEMU considers relaxing its blanket ban on AI-generated contributions
because "the balance of risk has shifted".
https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/29/qemu-mulls-relaxing-ai-contribution-ban/5248638
"A new fed lawsuit🚨alleges that gas station companies across CA are engaged in an illegal #conspiracy, powered by AI software,🚨to raise prices.
The lawsuit claims🚨the corporate owners of >1,700 CA gas stations — including #Walmart — are using Kalibrate, an AI-powered platform, as part of “a conspiracy to extinguish retail price competition.”
-J Legum
#AI: frequently used against Americans, in various, diabolical ways.
#PriceGouging #Corruption #BigTech #Oligarchs #USPol
https://popular.info/p/gas-stations-are-using-ai-to-inflate
🗣FINALLY!
in 2016 the king of Saudi Arabia BRAGGED to the Obama administration about how they had become The Whale that moved Wall Street. it’s no coincidence Qatar, long before that quarrel, decided #quantum computing and #AI were at the heart of their 2030 economic development plans.
THERE IS NO #TECHBROS INEVITABILITY WITHOUT #OPEC #OIL MONEY
#SiliconValley are the #petromafia’s Trojan Horse against the #ParisAccords and an existential threat to Humanity.
http://www.euronews.com/2026/06/23/no-more-hidden-costs-un-chief-demands-ai-firms-come-clean-over-environmental-footprint
@autistics
I have this provocative, neurospicy theory about the psychology underpinning the whole #AI gold rush that goes like this. Those who think (or at least profess) that #LLMs are some sort of panacea for humanity - they simply have higher Narcissistic personality trait, causing them to think that way.
When I model the thinking of someone with high narcissistic personality trait, they have no qualms (and feel very entitled) about taking advantage of those they believe to be beneath them (everybody else). This matches very nicely to how whomever recklessly vibe codes, assumes there is an infinite, free supply of labour of people out there (nameless, faceless, expendable "flying monkeys") who will review and correct their bad code. (To the responsible, sober, prudent users of LLMs, who do their own verification and testing of all output, I have no qualms with you, please carry on)
Here's my point: if you've ever spent any amount of time in close proximity with a narcissistic leader, you'll see that _they too_ boldly and toxicly overestimate their competence in the same way. After creating and introducing all sorts of preventable, even predictable, deep architectural and systemic embarrassments in their poorly-formulated, grandiose plans (take for example, Trump invading Iran), they figure it'll be their underlings who clean everything up. Which is to say, everyone else. It's a toxic externalizing of culpability and due diligence, with predictable, avoidable messes to clean up - but not by them.
#Psychology #ActuallyAutistic
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I am asking people once again to stop describing #AI using human words and attributes.
AI doesn’t answer—it extrudes plausible output that happens to be right.
AI doesn’t hallucinate—it extrudes plausible output that happens to be wrong.
AI doesn’t have agency—it extrudes plausible output that is consumed by a computer program.
AI doesn’t think—it extrudes plausible output that is fed back into itself for another round.
AI doesn’t create—it extrudes a mixture of its training data.
Remember: the robot is not a person.
PS: I changed “regurgitates” to “extrudes” because it’s less biological and more mechanistic.
PPS: Yes I know “AI” is a misnomer, but it’s what people call these things these days. IMO “LLM” is insufficient to describe GenAI because it excludes diffusion models.
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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence
'A centaur, in automation theory, is someone assisted by a machine, whether using a hearing aid or driving a car. A reverse centaur is someone whose freedom is diminished by the demands of a machine, like an Amazon warehouse worker. The technology of AI theoretically allows every worker to be a centaur, but the business model demands the reverse. Take radiology. In the centaur scenario, a human radiologist works with an AI radiologist to produce more accurate analysis, but that costs the hospital money. In the reverse centaur version, the AI radiologist demotes the surviving humans to the level of results-checking drones who are more likely to make mistakes. Much cheaper, but you see the problem.'
Rivian says AI makes debate over CarPlay ‘completely obsolete’
Rivian’s chief software officer, Wassym Bensaid, joined Nilay Patel in the latest Decoder interview. And his comments on CarPlay show Rivian continuing to double down on its refusal to support Apple’s platform. more…
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/28/rivian-says-ai-makes-debate-over-carplay-completely-obsolete/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #9to5Mac [9to5Mac]
On #LLMs and building communities.
"Without community to provide the foundations for all our efforts and achievements, even the most antisocial of us is impoverished. Human labour is central to human community: building community is hard work. But the hard work is where the achievement lies, and the achievement makes the community."
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Doug Henwood welcomes #QuinnSlobodian and #BenTarnoff, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, to discuss "Elon’s world and what he wants to do to ours."
https://kpfa.org/episode/behind-the-news-april-23-2026/
#Musk #ElonMusk #AI #tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #techOligarchs #techFutures #Tesla #Neuralink #books @bookstodon
Using the Gini Coefficient to Plan Edge Capacity https://lobste.rs/s/frfsss #ai #distributed #networking #scaling
https://www.fastly.com/blog/using-gini-coefficient-plan-edge-capacity
Microsoft CEO: We’re moving from OS and apps to agents instead https://lobste.rs/s/54wley #ai #windows
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-ceo-were-moving-from-os-and-apps-to-agents-instead/
Helping PACES Vancouver with Victoria & area postering, door to door community awareness & got some college/university students to assist in getting posters up & more door to door community awareness building volunteer work ✊️
Please follow:
@aicaution
Please boost for more awareness on the anti unethical AI fight in BC.
#StopAIInSchools #PauseSchoolAI #BCPoli #CDNpoli #AI #Ethics #PublicSchool #BCEducation #HumanizeLearning #PACESVancouver #nonprofit #BCSchools #Volunteer #Petition
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Comparing Transformers and Hybrid Models at the Token Level https://lobste.rs/s/6c5c4j #pdf #ai
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.20936
Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578
We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.
I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 https://lobste.rs/s/2tskyy #ai #hardware
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/
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This regards: https://mastodon.social/users/404mediaco/statuses/116805236234236215
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #PowerPoint #PDF #Accenture
This regards: https://mastodon.social/users/404mediaco/statuses/116805236234236215
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #PowerPoint #PDF #Accenture
If I'm honest, I do not think there is a nuanced position to take about current-generation LLM-based AI.
It is a sad technology emerging from a sad field of study initiated by sad men in a sad place sat atop a sad hill in New Hampshire. The technology generates sadness. It is soaked through with sadness. So many who use it feel sadness when they do. So many feel sadness when they watch others use it.
LLMs are like the sadness a child would feel if you showed them a beautiful cake and told them it was a real cake and they could have the whole thing, but it turned out to be styrofoam. Nathanael West once wrote that Hollywood is where the American Dream goes to die. LLMs are that sadness delivered to your bedroom (*). LLMs are DoorDash bringing you the styrofoam cake over and over forever while you hope it'll be a real cake each time.
It's OK to be sad. We all are from time to time. But what nuance is there in telling yourself the sadness is something else? Humans have been doing that forever. If there is nuance I think it lies in mourning what the existence of this technology is telling us needs mourning.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #LLM
(*) I assert that reading Nathanael West's oeuvre over and over is better for you than using LLMs.
It is a sad technology emerging from a sad field of study initiated by sad men in a sad place sat atop a sad hill in New Hampshire. The technology generates sadness. It is soaked through with sadness. So many who use it feel sadness when they do. So many feel sadness when they watch others use it.
LLMs are like the sadness a child would feel if you showed them a beautiful cake and told them it was a real cake and they could have the whole thing, but it turned out to be styrofoam. Nathanael West once wrote that Hollywood is where the American Dream goes to die. LLMs are that sadness delivered to your bedroom (*). LLMs are DoorDash bringing you the styrofoam cake over and over forever while you hope it'll be a real cake each time.
It's OK to be sad. We all are from time to time. But what nuance is there in telling yourself the sadness is something else? Humans have been doing that forever. If there is nuance I think it lies in mourning what the existence of this technology is telling us needs mourning.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #LLM
(*) I assert that reading Nathanael West's oeuvre over and over is better for you than using LLMs.
New, by me: A number of high-profile and/or valuable Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant for the U.S. Space Force, got hacked and defaced with pro-Iran messaging in the past 24h after people figured out that Meta's AI support assistant could be tricked into resetting account passwords.
From the story:
"A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target's usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta's AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794
"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"
1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit