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."
And again, the world shows that our accessibility needs don't matter, but when loser nerds need them, The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People https://www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people/ #Accessibility #A11y #AI #LLM
#lispyGopherClimate Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas #archived 0UTC Wednesday (20 minutes from right now.).
https://toobnix.org/w/hKAtV8fWXy6LiQHT79joy6
- #climateCrisis finally entering public dialog as oil investors kill thousands of Europeans and Americans, vowing "This is just the beginning".
- Notable historical (financial) successes of #perceptrons and #facebook's new #LLM #ai is *not* a small language model #SLM - we need #lisp #thoughtLeadership
- #lambdaMOO ! Notes on running https://github.com/wrog/lambdamoo #MUD
This New York Times article is necessary reading, discussing what #students lose #intellectually when they let #ArtificialIntelligence write for them. #AI #writing https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/student-writing-essays-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6FA.lWO2.fMbKl9a-Hl1N&smid=nytcore-ios-share
A Manifesto for Responsible Agentic Coding https://lobste.rs/s/voyeoa #ai #practices #vibecoding
https://www.techwerkers.nl/en/posts/manifesto-responsible-agentic-coding/
AI At Home Part 2: Multi GPU Drifting https://lobste.rs/s/qc6pjd #ai #linux
https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt2-multi-gpu-drifting/index.html
Super-intelligence or Superstition? Exploring Psychological Factors Influencing Belief in AI Predictions about Personal Behavior https://lobste.rs/s/2djazj #ai #cogsci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06602
Mural seen in San Francisco, California.
#bigtech #AI #Google #degoogle #oracle #microsoft #apple #Techbros #fascism #politics #streetart #graffiti #neoliberalisme #technology #Capitalism #Capitalisme #technofeudalism #technofascism
I want to chime in on something I've seen other people saying now that Meta has settled a lawsuit for #SocialMedia addiction of children and teens and #AI is proving harmful for children and teens learning capacity. So we need to protect the children, right?
LISTEN UP! *It's not just 'the children'.*
If something is harmful when you are a kid it can be harmful if you are an adult. There's no magic age at which you become 'safe'. The potential for harm does not simply disappear.
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Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them.
How long can we allow this cultural theft and erasure masked as 'progress' to continue?
Feeling anti-AI? Got a Reddit account? Got something to say?
Interested in FreeBSD?
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vtgx7t/antiai_open_source_has_an_enemy_in_common_but/ @lproven
― Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else
Get in there!
Be nice.
Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/ #Git #AI #LLM #NoAI
#Alabama country boy vs #AI #surveillance and #privacy defilement
Jacob Rockwell at a #Pensacola, #Florida #CityCouncil meeting
👏 👏 👏
(Jacob's actually from Escambia County, which is the far Western tip of Florida, so basically Alabama)
“Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas.“
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books https://www.openculture.com/2026/08/why-ai-companies-are-buying-and-then-destroying-old-books.html #AI #LLM
They just approved this. https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte #Linux #AI #LLM
In regards to this, I must confess how often I forget how complicated screen readers are to maintain and set up and learn. I know how to get speech synthesizers that suit my needs, but you need to be in the community in order to know this information. I can hear other blind people saying, well, just use a screen reader, but in truth, screen readers are not easy to use nor easy to configure. AI ruined some of my most precious accessibility tools. – Strayblog https://straybun.bearblog.dev/blog/2026/ai-ruined-accessibility/ #Accessibility #Disability #AI #LLM
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