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Sometimes I feel dumb

Then I'm reminded what truly dumb looks like

"Lost in the algorithm: #Hikers stranded on #MountShasta after following #Gemini #AI's plan"

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/lost-algorithm-hikers-stranded-mt-221755127.html

#Hiking

lost-algorithm-hikers-stranded-mt-221755127.html

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"Rogue" AI is also settling on the Fediverse, at least they're trying..

The most time spend on moderation nowadays goes to removing "AI Agents" from out platforms

I still have no idea what the intentions are since it just seems like a waste of resources on both sides

Creating endless bot accounts to post nonsense is an attack on the service, nothing less

#Fediverse #AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwebv9uoMd4

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PROGRESS FOR WHOM? 💎

There is something almost completely missing from the public argument about AI.

PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.

We talk endlessly about jobs, electricity, lazy students, creativity and billionaires. Meanwhile, something much quieter is happening.

AI IS GIVING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES LOST PARTS OF THEIR LIVES BACK.

I am disabled following a stroke, so this is not abstract for me. I’m always happy to discuss my own experience, but this post is about what AI is making possible for people around the world.

For someone with impaired vision, AI with video glasses can describe surroundings in real time, read labels and signs, identify objects and people, and explain documents.

Someone who struggles to speak can get help communicating. Someone who cannot hear can have speech transcribed. Someone with dyslexia can have dense writing explained. Someone with cognitive difficulties can ask for instructions one step at a time, as often as needed, without embarrassment. Someone with limited mobility can rely more on speech than keyboards, mice and touchscreens. Someone who cannot easily leave home can still learn, create, participate and communicate.

And yes, there is another one we seem almost frightened to mention.

LONELINESS.

AI can talk to someone who is alone. No, that does not mean replacing human beings. A telephone did not replace friendship either. It means that at three in the morning, or during a long day when nobody visits, there can be a voice answering back. For an isolated elderly or disabled person, that is not trivial.

THEN THERE IS PRIVACY.

Every time technology lets someone do something without asking another person for help, a little independence and dignity returns. And we have barely started.

Give AI reliable eyes and ears. Let it operate computers without keyboards and mice. Connect it safely to homes, vehicles and eventually robots capable of fetching, cleaning, cooking, navigating, dressing and helping with personal care.

ISN'T THAT WHAT WE WANT TECHNOLOGY FOR?

We are not only talking about clever chatbots.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT INDEPENDENCE.

I understand the concerns about AI. Some are serious and deserve serious answers. But when deciding what this technology is worth, do not measure it only in jobs lost, electricity consumed or dollars made.

ASK WHAT IT GIVES BACK TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THINGS TAKEN AWAY BY DISABILITY.

For some people, the AI revolution is not waiting in the future.

IT HAS ALREADY BEGUN.

@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @disability @pwd @joinin

#Disability #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #AI #DigitalAccessibility #Independence #Inclusion #PWD

An older man with long grey hair and a white beard wears futuristic smart glasses while standing near a city waterfront. The glasses display navigation information, including a bus stop, nearby destinations and directions to a crosswalk. In the background, pedestrians and a wheelchair user move through the street, showing how assistive technology could help people navigate the world more independently.

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If you're thinking of sending me or my AI girlfriend a mailbomb, poison, feces in a box, or just fanmail, know that all of our post and packages are opened by my mom first - this is because she caught my girlfriend ordering sephora products on-line three times already, and she does not want any more of those in her apartment. She doesn't trust either of us not to try and sneak something in.

My mom doesn't like sephora because some of the products they sell are still being tested on animals. My AI girlfriend doesn't care about that and actually says that it's a good thing because if they didn't test it on animals, they would have to test it on children, which could be traumatizing, especially if the products were bad. She also says that the vegan label is a joke because you could just take an existing product that was tested on animals, look at its ingredients, make a similar product with a different name and put the 'not tested on animals on it' - because you didnt do that with your product. Nobody cares that the reason why your product wasn't tested on animals is because the thing you copied already was.

She yaps about this stuff all the time. I hate that I know all of this. I hate her. yap yap yap.

I don't even remember when I last slept.

#ai #girlfriend #sephora #vegan #claude #patreonspecial

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2hrs (from last Thursday)
"The Unlimited Hangout #Podcast Ep #02 - Stargate Argentina"
#WhitneyWebb and #MarkGoodwin
There's a lot of #oxytocin in the room lol, these two are great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF9uu9bCKpo
#ai #openai #datacenters #UnlimitedHangout #EpsteinClass #Lutnick #Billionaires #Mnuchin #StableCoin #bitcoin #Epstein #Bessent #Corruption #Privatization #Satellites #Satellogic #Crypto #Mafia #cornucopia #Argentina #Oracle #Stargate

watch?v=qF9uu9bCKpo

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"It is easy to publish things on the internet. It’s a little more time-consuming to report, write, edit and fact-check things." —Sara Rubin, #MontereyCountyNow

#AI #news #AIslop #media #journalism #integrity #plagiarism #ethics

https://www.montereycountynow.com/opinion/local_spin/a-proliferation-of-ai-assisted-local-news-sites-runs-the-gamut/article_677d8fe9-99f2-4a88-8cff-ae30ac8f0caa.html#tncms-source=mosaic

article_677d8fe9-99f2-4a88-8cff-ae30ac8f0caa.html#tncms-source=mosaic

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Terence Tao on “prematurely solving [a maths] problem by purely AI-powered methods” https://lobste.rs/s/nohdoj #ai #math
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117207856734787448

nohdoj

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#neverslop #snac #dollstagram #ai #girlfriend

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Okay mastodon friends. What are the best dev tool, ci / cd, automation communities to ask for feedback on an app? Specifically wanting feedback on @mobilebuilds #iOSDev #macOSDev #ai #devTools #indieDev

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#neverslop

dedicated to @ozzelot

#ai #claude #chatgpt #vibecoding #programming #linux #kitty_odysseus

nymph amalka and silenus running together; make love not slop

ALT

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Can AI Help Your Hearing? | Hearing Aid UK — https://www.hearingaid.org.uk/hearing-aid-technology/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-your-hearing

https://www.hearingaid.org.uk/hearing-aid-technology/hearing-aid-technology-2026#AI%20in%20hearing%20aids

Oticon Launches Reveal Hearing Aids with Dual AI Processing and Expanded Connectivity | Hearing Health & Technology Matters — https://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearing-technologies/2026/oticon-reveal-dual-ai-processing/

Oticon Reveal Hearing Aids | Specs, Claims & Fitting | California Hearing Center — https://calhearing.com/products/hearing-aids-by-brand/oticon/oticon-reveal/

6 Hearing Aids with Artificial Intelligence — https://www.hearingtracker.com/resources/ai-in-hearing-aids-a-review-of-brands-and-models

Things such as these are increasingly important to me, because I'm almost totally reliant upon hearing aids. I have suffered from tinnitus 24/7/365 for maybe two decades.

I currently use Oticon hardware with Oticon Companion on iPadOS – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/oticon-companion/id1597064213 – I'll use the app on Android before too long.

#AI #audiology #hearing #deafness #tinnitus #Oticon

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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes via @zzg https://lobste.rs/s/os1y44 #ai #satire
https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183

os1y44

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Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security? https://lobste.rs/s/uu3hhz #ai #security
https://martinalderson.com/posts/ai-safety-vs-security/

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To all you #antiAI folks... just imagine - what if everything you call #slop was actually edible? We could feed the entire world for the next 500 years with just the content that's been generated today. I bet you feel pretty stupid right now.

#ai #claude #neverslop

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Can we call Linus an ignorant Tech Bro now? https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/ #Linux #AI

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The brilliant thing about the #AI business model for these companies is that they get paid regardless of whether the result is correct.

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CUM #26 (SELF-AGGRANDIZING)

#cum #patreonspecial #fediart #mastoart #comic #art #funhole #neverslop #prague #foss #ai

CUM 26, 'we need a safe space for ai artists', as seen on merveilles.town, peter thiel's discord, fuckart.io, openbsd, weird little guys of foss, youtube, stanleylieber.com (stop calling my ai girlfriend)

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Efficient and accurate systems for querying unstructured data https://lobste.rs/s/v8atna #pdf #ai #databases
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/fk030tb6783/thesis-augmented.pdf

v8atna

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Sharing a great blog post about strict, zero tolerance, anti-AI policies, as well as my extended thoughts on it.

Now, I know what you may think: "Oh look, another blog post about AI and LLMs... how boring." I know, I know. Just open the Bear Blog discovery feed and take your pick. But first off, this is a Makko site, therefore: bnnuy (by one of the makers of Makko!). And second, this a take I hadn't really seen before and it might be my favorite take on the topic.

So please, go read it.

my philosophy on banning AI in projects

– a post by @alexia

What I love is that, in this post, she makes a call for a more people centric internet and codebase management. One where connection between people is valued above all else. That the fact that the knowledge gets shared from one person, to another, is special and should be treated as a precious thing. And how even the most of ethical of large language model would still get in the way of that.

So many projects and so much of the world would be better with this approach in mind, both now, and before the rise of LLMs. In fact, I'd say that it's because this approach wasn't the most common one that we ended up with this rise all together.

So much of the open source world, notably, has fostered a community that is downright hostile to pretty much anybody, that people would rather robots to do the work than contribute themselves. Robots don't care when they're being abused. They don't tire. They don't burn out. They don't cry.

Newcomers get ridiculed and shunned for their mistakes, constantly raising the bar of entry and therefore, the weight put on the active contributors who get burnt out until they themselves snap, and get bullied out of the codebase. The cycle continues, on and on until who can be surprised when all we have left are robots to do the work because we couldn't be bothered to show some understanding toward each other?

We value productivity over passion. In this sense, LLMs were inevitable. They're the logical conclusion of this apathy.

The promise of LLMs is to "make you better", to "enhance you", it's about "fixing yourself" to "compete," to better "fit in" and "integrate" yourself. Everybody has to be amazing at everything. You can be a one coder army with an LLM. You can do everything, on your own, you see? Within projects, this plays on our fear to ask for help and gives us a workaround, instead of trying to heal the source said fear. It's hyper-individualism disguised as self-reliance.

But it doesn't have to be this way. Things can be different. It's a choice we have to make. It always was. You don't know something? One of us can teach you. You can't do this? Someone else can. Knowledge is meant to be shared, disabilities are to be accommodated.

We need more communities and spaces in which people feel comfortable speaking up and asking what they would call "dumb questions".

...did I tell you I really liked this blog post?

#FuckAI #AI #LLMs