The new "Mythos" #AI algorithm from #Anthropic can easily find vulnerabilities in any code it has access to—something a #human is incapable of doing. Does this spell the end of the #OpenSource movement? In the face of the danger posed by AI, are we forced to return to proprietary #software that does not disclose its source code?
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Australia is currently doing a parliamentary inquiry into the thing the tech bros are calling Artificial Intelligence. Submissions have just closed. There are five hundred and eleven like it, but this one is mine.
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Kind of ironically funny seeing software professionals having meltdowns over BS generators replacing them...
Maybe when the same capitalist pigs were paying these folks good money to eliminate other jobs... not making jobs easier but specifically eliminate jobs - like say getting rid of utility meter readers, lots used to say the ones loosing jobs need to up skill and learn to code etc.
Maybe they should take their own advise and learn to write prompts instead now. Karma is a bitch.
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉#IsraelFirst Doesn't Want You To Have #Privacy #tyt #yt #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Security #ADL #Israel
ADL #Greenblatt: I’m paraphrasing, we are monitoring all of them—be it left-wing, be it anti-war, be it pro-Palestine… 24/7/365. Everywhere on all platforms… Wow, apparently the #ADL has nothing better to do than to monitor their fellow citizens… cynical 👏👏👏
I have tolerance for many things… BS like this isn’t part of it…
Not only does #BigTech #AI #surveillance capitalist #nerdreichers want our data to farm us like pack animals. But also people who are genocide apologists…
And all the laws that are trying to weaken privacy and security make much more sense now, doesn’t it. #VPNs? Nah. #E2E? Who needs that—#AgeID verification… It’s much easier to smear and defame one when someone already has a troublemaker’s ID, amirite? Surveillance #adtech yes please #brokergate I SAY FUCK THIS SHIT TO ALL OF IT… #FlockOFF
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Categorization with NLP by @isagalaev https://lobste.rs/s/vyy2jf #ai #kotlin #python
https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2026/07/30/categorization-with-nlp/en/
Vetted AI code is hard to justify https://lobste.rs/s/os20fa #ai #vibecoding
https://amoffat.github.io/blog/vetting-burnout.html
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage https://lobste.rs/s/3d3wbr #ai
https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html
No Meat Proxy https://lobste.rs/s/jtgaol #ai #culture
https://nomeatproxy.com/
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things https://lobste.rs/s/k7myyp #ai #vibecoding
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
"we're building an #AI model that can only tell the truth"
coo coo, can you define truth?
I would love love love if everybody in "AI" was forced to take a 101 course in philosophy
coo coo, can you define truth?
I would love love love if everybody in "AI" was forced to take a 101 course in philosophy
From hype to reality.
Trustworthy, ethical, and responsible Artificial Intelligence can help Europe grow, improve public services, and solve societal problems.
This summer, we asked for your input on several issues, from transparency to copyright-related rules.
We will use the nearly 430 submissions received from industry, academia and civil society to finalise our Code of Practice for general-purpose AI and support the work of the AI Office.
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An Honest Review of AI Programming https://lobste.rs/s/tuanw3 #ai #c++ #rant
https://mropert.github.io/2026/08/04/an_honest_review_of_ai_programming/
Anthropic Plans Invisible Watermarks for Claude-Generated Text and Files https://techstrong.ai/articles/anthropic-plans-invisible-watermarks-for-claude-generated-text-and-files/ by @sjvn
Throughout the world, students screamed in horror! Anthropic's hidden, machine-readable watermarks will keep students from “writing” their papers with #AI
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) https://lobste.rs/s/fx9pic #ai
https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you! 
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
Oh, the humanities!
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welp…
❝ MIT researchers last year hooked a group of students up to EEGs to study their brain activity while writing essays. Some of them were allowed to use the internet to conduct research, while others were told to use AI. Not only did the AI cohort have far less ability to recall what they wrote when asked about it later, but they also showed far less brain activity, suggesting that relying on #AI simply doesn’t lead to better learning. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/04/openai-wants-teachers-and-profs-to-foist-their-work-off-on-chatgpt/5283064
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility https://lobste.rs/s/flcpeu #ai #art
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/17/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-tra/
To better attract new #AI revenue I am considering changing my consultancy name from Buoyant Data to Buoyant Data Software & Models, or BDS&M for short
Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI https://lobste.rs/s/uq28a0 #ai #math
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/
Your Agentic Workflow's Cache Keepalive Costs 8x Too Much (v2: the interval frontier) https://lobste.rs/s/zlipdn #ai #performance
https://blog.mempko.com/your-agentic-workflows-cache-keepalive-costs-8x-too-much-v2-the-interval-frontier/
A lot of people seem to believe that if you ask an LLM to look through a database and calculate something, or extract data according to some criteria, then it will do exactly what you ask for.
It won't. It will calculate an output that looks normal. And you won't discover this unless you do the same operation manually and compare.
When #AI tools hallucinate citations, their made-up author names are not random. "We show that #LLMs do not merely default to high-probability individual names when generating fictional experts: they produce correlated character ensembles, pairs and trios [of co-authors] whose co-occurrence rates far exceed chance and are consistent across independent generations."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02184
They fool people and tools:
"We identify 1,655 ghost-authored records claiming nonexistent journals with fabricated publication dates…Server-side #DataCite timestamps prove deliberate backdating…These carry real #DOIs…making them harvestable by any scholarly aggregator that ingests DOI metadata."
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