Anarcho anti AI art jester, by BadgerFeral
Via FB Badger BA Maracas
#aislop #ai #antiai #politicalart #Protestart #artofmastodon #illustration #drawing #art
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Voxlocal: a minimal voice agent written in Rust https://lobste.rs/s/gqaqgq #ai #programming #rust
https://samkhawase.com/blog/voxlocal-minimal-voice-agent/
Byte Language Models: Scaling, Emergent Abstractions, and Information Allocation https://lobste.rs/s/t2fxpt #ai
https://arxiv.org/html/2610.05978v1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it2l-KCWJ5M Flickering Reality: Hybrid Literature - 7 key spiritual ideas and practices - - RU-EN audio podcast #AI #Essays in #English on #spiritual #psychology based on #Russian #channeling with #aliens, #spirits, #archangels, #Jesus, #God - #spirituality #synchronicity
Finally, #AI stocks are dropping
Let's hope they burn and crash so maybe we can put a brake on this stupid AI LLM bullshit that ruins about everything
I don't have any deep thoughts about it, but I think it's interesting that the word "allowance" is sometimes used to refer to an allotment of units used for AI. The word "token" is used for the unit.
As a Gen Xer who spent some time on boardwalks and in arcades, I read these words as follows. Your parents give you an allowance. Tokens are non-monetary blanks that arcades used to use a lot. You'd pay real life money for a bunch of tokens and then use the tokens to play the games. Your parents would give you an allowance of so many tokens, and not give you money, to (a) keep you from playing too many games; and (b) keep you from using the money to buy candy or cigarettes. I have a few of these that I kept from back in the day.
Make of it what you will.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tokens #games #arcades
As a Gen Xer who spent some time on boardwalks and in arcades, I read these words as follows. Your parents give you an allowance. Tokens are non-monetary blanks that arcades used to use a lot. You'd pay real life money for a bunch of tokens and then use the tokens to play the games. Your parents would give you an allowance of so many tokens, and not give you money, to (a) keep you from playing too many games; and (b) keep you from using the money to buy candy or cigarettes. I have a few of these that I kept from back in the day.
Make of it what you will.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tokens #games #arcades
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Fucking Substack but The AI writing witch hunt is idiotic - by JA Westenberg https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-ai-writing-witch-hunt-is-idiotic #AI #NoAI
I don't like outsourcing all my thinking and development to AI agents, though much of the industry is driving in that direction.
I worry about human understanding, conscientious decision making, siloed development and review.
So we're tailoring @reviewboard to be a solution in this space. And we're calling this Mission Control.
From #Tuta reddit > As for AI: We are also exploring how to work with AI, and we are currently in the process of developing the principles to do this, which will certainly include that the security of Tuta is of the utmost important and that we must always understand what's going on in the code, and not hand the responsibility off to a tool. We said this in a recent chat here on Reddit: The current Tuta apps are built more than 99% without AI, but we are currently testing whether it makes sense to use AI tools to help developers speed up repetitive processes and increase efficiency overall. The goal of Tuta is to bring privacy to everyone and for that the Tuta apps must become much more feature-rich and competitive with Big Tech equivalents (eg Gmail). It could very well be possible that we achieve this goal faster if we use AI in development in a defined way, but there are pros and cons to this. https://www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/1ximsy2/dear_ceo_of_tuta/?solution=33da4e460f4a4b6533da4e460f4a4b65&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c331c35f65f26e7911b25b611fe641f22d78&jsc_orig_r= #AI #LLM #Email
Qualche giorno fa parlavo del disamore per #Mastodon Allego, quindi, diapositiva.
Inoltre, e pinnerò il post: il mio profilo è un luogo #AIFREE in modo indefesso, anche a costo di sembrare un coglione.
Se un #techbro del settore pensa che l’Arte, che nasce dalla rielaborazione umana, dal travaglio, dai sentimenti, dal lutto, dalla gioia, dalle esperienze VISSUTE, sia anche solo paragonabile alle porcate fatte con AI può accompagnarsi da solo alla porta.
#ai #fuck_ai #aislop #ragebait
New episode of The Tony Gebhard Show! Is AI good or bad for blind creators? The answer isn’t black and white. @FreakyFwoof joins me to talk vibe coding, AI slop, ethics, prompting, and what happens if the tools get switched off. Neither of us can code, and both of us are shipping real software. This one’s for the believers and the skeptics.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3fdbieQPSJAYqwRF27qz0A
#Accessibility #Blind #AI #VibeCoding #NVDA #Podcast
Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights https://lobste.rs/s/u7wdqj #ai
https://rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-space-programming/
Good morning to readers; #Kyiv remains in #Ukrainian hands.
#Russia is trying everything to influence public opinion in the U.S. ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Yuliia Dukach explains how the latest in #AI technology helps the #Kremlin do just that.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-russia-uses-ai-to-meddle-in-midterm
Let’s Build a Brain https://lobste.rs/s/bmmj1e #ai #programming
https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
I didn't realize Austrilia hated writers and authors this much https://authorsguild.org/news/australia-ai-training-statement/ #AI #FuckAI
When did Google get so weird? https://lobste.rs/s/aig5tr #ai
https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/jcoglan/statuses/117546100280123064
This is an excellent thread and I recommend reading the whole thing. I'd like to say that it's getting at why competent software developers are implementing gradient ascent while LLMs+test suites are implementing generate-and-test or hillclimbing. People who know and understand a codebase are able to make changes to it that have a high probability of being improvements according to however you measure that. Stochastic code generation filtered by a static test suite is expected to be orders of magnitude slower at achieving the same improvement. This is a fundamental GOFAI result (the "knowledge-search tradeoff" or the "representation problem") but it applies to a wide swath of optimization problems.
Let's also not forget that optimization generally can only occur in small worlds, while humans---software developers and users alike---exist in large worlds. Databases, physics engines and other simulators, and research tools all have an open-ended space of possible applications ("extension") that cannot be anticipated, let alone tested for, in advance. Understanding the intended inner workings ("intension") of such systems is crucial to building them in such a way that they can support and continue to grow with their evolving applications.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #coding #software #dev #tech
This is an excellent thread and I recommend reading the whole thing. I'd like to say that it's getting at why competent software developers are implementing gradient ascent while LLMs+test suites are implementing generate-and-test or hillclimbing. People who know and understand a codebase are able to make changes to it that have a high probability of being improvements according to however you measure that. Stochastic code generation filtered by a static test suite is expected to be orders of magnitude slower at achieving the same improvement. This is a fundamental GOFAI result (the "knowledge-search tradeoff" or the "representation problem") but it applies to a wide swath of optimization problems.
Let's also not forget that optimization generally can only occur in small worlds, while humans---software developers and users alike---exist in large worlds. Databases, physics engines and other simulators, and research tools all have an open-ended space of possible applications ("extension") that cannot be anticipated, let alone tested for, in advance. Understanding the intended inner workings ("intension") of such systems is crucial to building them in such a way that they can support and continue to grow with their evolving applications.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #coding #software #dev #tech
Building fine-grained version control for agents with Rust and Durable Objects https://lobste.rs/s/cctbcu #ai #vcs
https://delta.dev/blog/fine-grained-version-control-for-agents
Sam Altman wants to bust up small, privately held PCs and collectivize those resources within large data centers, so their utilization can be efficiently coordinated by a central planner (himself).
Sam, buddy! We tried this 100 years ago in Russia, and it didn't work then either.
Welp, it finally happened. Had someone find me because they were looking for narrative nonfiction about anti LLMs/AI resistance rather than just opinion pieces pushing back against the hype, although, labor publications like Blood in the Machine are exceptionally important, but they found me by talking to whatever Google is calling their version 4 LLM thing in search.
For those that don't wanna hunt for my longer stuff, I have it all under 1 tag.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/tags/narrative/
Shrug. Sigh.
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Keep this #NoAI website, featuring software, communities, and more, without the use of any AI in the code bases or have an openly NoAI stance and policy https://noailist.org/ #AI
It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs https://lobste.rs/s/ir1emf #ai #culture
https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
"When Usman asked if a keyboard for sale on Facebook Marketplace was still available on Saturday, he received an enthusiastic and immediate response.
“Yep still available!” wrote Matt Robb.
The two agreed on a price, and Robb sent his Toronto address. Usman, wife and daughter in tow, showed up several hours later at Robb’s home and sent a text that he had arrived.
Robb responded, “yep I’m here!”, but he was not at home. Nobody walked out of the apartment building.
Usman had not contacted the real Robb. Throughout the daylong interaction, the human version of Robb never knew Usman had messaged him or had agreed to buy the keyboard. He did not know Usman had received his address or that he was waiting outside his apartment building.
Usman had spoken to Meta’s new AI agent, Muse, released 22 September in the US and downloaded 3m times. The company advertises the semi-autonomous AI product as a personal assistant.
Without Robb’s consent or approval, Muse had given out his home address, creating the false impression that Robb was expecting the would-be buyer at his apartment, he said."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/metas-ai-agent-muse-home-address
#MetaMisinformation #AI #Doxxing #Crime #News #Facebook #Muse #HumanRights #Activism
Multiple links below.
I'm tired, and I don’t want to do free accessibility consulting for this website owner, so I'll outline only one way this won’t work for screen reader users out of many.
Aside from the fact an LLM made the website, and the font as well, the reason it doesn’t work for screen reader users because, even on that demo page, a timer has to be activated. A button must be pushed. A timer activates, and a screen reader user must find the fixed bit of text again. The website makes it sound as if it should be just automatically accessible/visible to the screen reader, and that fails.
Aside from the screen reader issues, that's not the only one, but I don’t want to do free accessibility consulting for this website, some of the other issues include but are not limited to…
It doesn’t prevent scraping.
It doesn’t prevent taking a snapshot and then doing OCR on that screenshot.
It breaks custom fonts anybody has disabled or enabled.
It breaks copy and paste.
It breaks for people without JavaScript enabled.
It breaks for anybody using a good ad blocker.
It prevents search from working on the website.
And many, many, more things that are in my replies.
If you want to learn about me and my screen reader, my FAQ page is below the website I'm talking about.
If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution and that isn't it's only screen reader failure. https://shieldfont.org/#hero
My FAQ page https://sightlessscribbles.com/faq/
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