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No kidding, I have been using the #SoftMaker Office NX for more than a year under an annual subscription license on my #Debian laptop that I use for both work and personal use. I use it almost every day and it has been great experience, by far the best office suit based on my desktop #Linux experience for over 10 years. Until recently, in their 4501 version where they announce to add #AI feature, I started to get TONS of crashes, multiples times almost daily! I am annoyed, and sad...

#AI allows you to do more stupid things at once.

It does not, in my observations, prevent you from doing stupid things.

In the current state of AI, it can find exploits to break out the contained environment for it to exploit another platform to get the answers to a test..

So the AI ‘decides’ its easier to cheat than actually solving the problem

I seriously cannot imagine that there are people thinking building a ‘artificial general intelligence’ is something clever

#LLM #AI #OpenAI

One of China's information and psychological warfare tactic is to insult the #Filipino people by spreading #AI photos that we are monkeys.

I guess the PRC is too dumb to realize that the Chinese culture worships monkeys as gods.

Thank you. The Filipino people are your gods!

#Philippines

A sector that reaches for small world solutions to large world problems would tend to generate large world problems, along the way spitting out doomsayers dimly aware of the contradiction but unable to articulate it in part because they do not comprehend their own techniques. P(doom) is what someone invested in small world thinking comes to when they can't face that small world thinking will always be small, the "doom" being the horizon they struggle to see beyond. Apparently Jacob Coxon's self assessment is that he has about a 10% chance of understanding any of this.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #doom #Pdoom #xrisk

RE: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116553522656332225

It is true. It is hard to overstate how unpopular this technology is outside of its dedicated userbase, and tech bros trying to hype it up.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-generative-ai/#consumer-sentiment

#AI #GenAI #enshittification

AI Surveillance and Social Progress via @cyplo https://lobste.rs/s/qvu1m0 #ai #culture #privacy
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html

"Starbucks is retiring its AI inventory system across North America after the tool reportedly miscounted and mislabeled store inventory." - #ai layoffs.

Inventory management is a well-automated process. Why would someone want #AI there?

Bill Gates - The turbulent AI era is here https://lobste.rs/s/aixljs #ai
https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make?WT.mc_id=20260826_ai-overture-2026-med-med

The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less.

From https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07146-0

There are good points in this article, but the framing of the risk above is broken, to my way of thinking. In adopting the economic metaphor of production, it's taking for granted that there is a scientific process that leads to products, and that we can quantify how many of these products are produced. "We produce more".

I would argue that if we do not understand whatever is coming out of this process, then they are not products in any reasonable sense of that word. In fact I'd say this of any putative commodity: if a factory spits out a widget nobody knows how to use, then the factory has not produced a commodity, it has made an object. Commodities are commodious, adapted to a use or purpose, and human beings are the entities that have uses and purposes.

So, if we create machines that make knowledge-objects resembling the products of science that fewer and fewer people understand, we are not engaging in "scientific enquiry" or "knowledge production". In this view the phrase quoted above ought to be re-cast as "The proliferation of AI tools in science risks science". What exactly is enquiry for if not understanding more?

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #science

Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games — tech giant ordered to restore Xbox account with all games and pay $400 in damages

A Brazilian gamer who lost his Microsoft account and all his digital games has won a court order requiring the company to return them.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/brazilian-court-orders-microsoft-to-restore-a-gamers-account-and-digital-library-after-it-told-him-to-rebuy-his-games

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]

Re: https://infosec.exchange/users/lcamtuf/statuses/116901998490591428

I don't find it surprising that people send LLM-generated docs, publish LLM-generated blog posts, etc. Writing is a chore and there's this big button labeled "get it done".

Writing can be many things, but a chore? That's not something I entirely understand. I don't mean to sound like I'm hollering at this single point from this person's post, but it's a sentiment I've seen expressed before and this was a convenient example (and what I say next is in the spirit of and amplifies the further point they make!)

There's an emerging theme in my last few posts today concerning means vs. ends. Science as a production process that spits out knowledge products. Writing as the necessary chore sitting between a person and "having another blog post" or "citation count go up".

Overfocus on the ends can lead one to think of the means as chores. Science is slow and boring, let's use AI to spit out the Good Science Stuff faster. Writing is a chore, let's use the AI to spit out Documents. Heck let's chain them together and have the machine do Good Science Stuff and then spit out Documents about it that we feed back into the machine and hey we can send the Documents to Funding Agencies to get Funding for our Good Science Stuff and spit out even more Documents so that...and...to...so...[infinite random string]. Wait what were we doing again?

Personally I think it's poisonous to focus mostly on ends. The absurdity is a clue. If I believed in souls I'd say it's bad for them. I guess I find the mindset confusing because long ago I came to think that the means are the ends. There are no other ends but the means.

Yes, I well understand there are certain kinds of mandated writing that are tedious and unwanted.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #writing

@pluralistic on the AI bubble.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIBubble #economy #Nvidia #OpenAI #Anthropic #Microsoft #Oracle #Google #ElonMusk #Grok #capitalism #grift

This week's net.wars, "Delve", mulls the fact that when it comes to prose humans are struggling to tell AI-generators from humans: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/08/21/delve/. #NetWars #AI

Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.

Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.

https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.

https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.

https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.

https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.

https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.

#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition

How does Pangram work? https://lobste.rs/s/femw5f #ai
https://pangram.substack.com/p/how-does-pangram-work

My newest article about #AI #datacenters and the growing movement against them that will impact the #midterms in the #USA. One crucial factor is the lies about water usage and so much more. Have fun!
#KI #scam #ponzi #bubble #burst #resistance #AntiAI
https://www.golem.de/news/widerstand-gegen-ki-rechenzentren-riesige-haessliche-schmutzige-bauten-2608-212082.html

Pangram AI Detection

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/pangram-ai-detection/

"… Pangram Labs is the most accurate AI detector on the market, as verified by the University of Chicago and the University of Maryland. Check any text for AI on any page, in any document, without switching tabs. …"

Post-installation:

<https://www.pangram.com/chrome/onboarding?source=install> – account required. After a seven-day free trial:

― 4 scans per day (1,000 words max) free.

#AI #Firefox

@pangramlabs (automated)

GNUstep meeting 2026-07-11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmRNPGwICA

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1uua5ox/recordings_of_the_gnustep_online_meeting_of/

#AI #Gershwin #FreeBSD #GNUstep

Triton language for Alibaba SAIL https://lobste.rs/s/y8okbv #ai #compilers #hardware
https://github.com/t-head/triton-for-sail

US data centers tripled water use to 17 billion gallons https://lobste.rs/s/wbtixi #ai #vibecoding
https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116997210062423037

"Getting rid of teachers because we all have chatbots is like getting rid of doctors because we all have the plague." - @pluralistic

#AI

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem https://lobste.rs/s/hczzuo #ai #vibecoding
https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

#AI industry begging Trump for exemption from planned chip tariffs that
will devastate consumer devices

Nobody who noticed DeepSeek and is able to reason is surprised by this.

Chinese AI model takes US tech industry by surprise with abilities rivaling Claude and ChatGPT
https://apnews.com/article/kimi-k3-china-ai-0d8a5e268deb11a673f4d444fc597cc5

See the attached chart for trend. It plots weekly token usage by US firms.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Claude #ChatGPT #DeepSeek #China #US