What can I realistically do with local AI on a Mac mini M5 Pro (48GB)? https://lobste.rs/s/umsitb #ask #ai #mac
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¡BASTA DE CENTROS DE DATOS! Arte es Ética se suma a la campaña europea STOP DIRTY DATA CENTRES! ✊🔥 organizada por Global Action Plan y Green Web Foundation para decir NO a la construcción masiva y a la expansión descontrolada de centros de datos a hiperescala, destinados al entrenamiento de la IA y de la IA generativa.
MÁS INFO: https://arteesetica.org/bastadecentrosdedatos/
Web Oficial: https://stopdirtydatacentres.eu/es/
#AI #genAI #datacenter #data #tech #technology #environment #strike #europe
#Etsy has updated their Terms of Service to force sellers to allow the use of their photographs, videos, and text to train #AI. There is no opt-out.
It seems bonkers to me that Etsy, a website which ostensibly sells human-made creations, is forcing sellers to enable AI to learn from and subsequently copy their own products. I guess they now feel that they have enough market share that people will not leave over this.
https://www.valueaddedresource.net/etsy-expands-ai-training-rights/
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Best Books/Courses/Channels to Leapfrog on AI/ML Material https://lobste.rs/s/xff77a #ai
As I warned about months ago now, I can confirm that Google Chrome's #AI API is now actively being used for device fingerprinting and tracking purposes.
Out of 100 of the top global english language content sites - around 30% are actively using the API for fingerprinting, Google Advertising (profiling) or both) without the legally required consent (EU law).
Wer wissen will, warum ich seit zwei Wochen eigentlich nur noch wütend bin, sollte sich diesen Talk von @HonkHase@chaos.social auf den Datenspuren anschauen: (Trigger Warning: Gaza, War, Genocide, AI)
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NEW EPISODE: Can Europe save the world from the AI apocalypse?
Can European AI like Mistral really compete with US and Chinese giants? Can the EU's AI Act protect our jobs and keep runaway models in check? And what does "winning" the AI race even mean?
We put these questions to Polish AI researcher Aleksandra Przegalińska.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/can-europe-save-the-world-from-the-ai-apocalypse
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Clojure in the Age of Language Models https://lobste.rs/s/xtgwsd #ai #clojure
https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-10-07-clojure-llms.html
Thinking will become a hobby https://lobste.rs/s/mosbat #ai #philosophy
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
I saw the best minds of my generation consumed by demonstrating a machine that would never be expected to be able to do X actually cannot do X.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs
Re: https://mastodon.social/users/404mediaco/statuses/117592857554097967
This is incoherent. The "open weight" "local" models are largely coming out of the AI labs that are making hackable hardware inaccessible to many people, and many have this outcome as one of their goals. The future of hacking your devices is having devices that are accessible.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #hardware
This is incoherent. The "open weight" "local" models are largely coming out of the AI labs that are making hackable hardware inaccessible to many people, and many have this outcome as one of their goals. The future of hacking your devices is having devices that are accessible.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #hardware
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“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts
Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZaR5o_iKNy/
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#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)
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Thoughts on AI Coding https://lobste.rs/s/y4djcr #ai #programming
https://danielbmarkham.com/blog/thoughts-on-ai-coding
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB https://lobste.rs/s/lpomuo #ai
https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
I wonder if the #vibcoding prompt was, "Fuck Adobe."
> https://getartcraft.com/
> https://github.com/storytold/artcraft
There's a real story here and it isn't, "Some random dude can vibecode the entire Adobe suite." It's, "#genAI can disintermediate every major software vendor. It's a technology capable of ripping off *everyone*; including the #AI companies who created it. And it couldn't have happened if they hadn't ripped off their training data to begin with."
Seeds of self-destruction.
Krishnamurti foresaw AI over 40 years ago
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Listening to Dreaming Against the Machine: Episode 31: Seeing Through Tech Hype, with Molly White. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dreaming-against-the-machine/id1890733564?i=1000800969131
Adam Becker speaks with cryptocurrency expert and tech critic Molly White about how hype inflated the crypto bubble and how to see through tech industry cycles. They discuss crypto’s political influence and what we can do.
Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI” https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/six-problems-with-talking-about-the-ethical-or/ #AI #AIHype
This is farked.
Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices.
And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse:
"Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and television. And, as she told [a NSW stare government committee on AI], she owns none of them.
"Last financial year, Duncan earned about 30 per cent of what she had consistently made in the three years before. She now works a second job.
"'AI voices and performances have definitely played a big part,' she told this masthead. Clients have also used them to push down the rates the union spent years fighting for, she said. 'It’s faster and cheaper, so therefore we should be as well.'
"Duncan, the NSW president of Equity, the performers’ division of the media union, gave evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. 'I never gave consent for my work to be taken,' she said. 'Our members are already 62 per cent down on their work in the last 12 months,' Simon Kennedy, president of the Australian Association of Voice Actors, told the same hearing.
...
"OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google all put Canberra on notice – Australia’s copyright rules will dictate whether they train their flagship models on local soil. But copyright usually belongs to a studio, label, publisher or advertiser, not to the performer or writer who made the work. Under the deals and funds on the table, the alliance warned, the money flows to whoever holds the copyright.
"Duncan has never held the copyright to her own commercials. 'But if it’s my biometric data and 20 years of industry skills that go into those performances, I should have a say,' she said. Clients, she said, should not get a performance at all if it 'only exists because mine and thousands of others’ training, performance skills, experience and creative consciousness have all been whittled down to ones and zeros, fed into an LLM (for free) and then exported'.
...
"She knows voice artists and actors who have been replaced by AI copies of themselves, their voices or faces used in new campaigns without consent or payment.
"When one colleague asked a producer why he had not even been consulted, Duncan said, the producer replied that he 'assumed consent was given'."
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/i-never-gave-consent-the-australians-being-replaced-with-copies-of-themselves-20261010-p613x1.html
#AI #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #auspol #NSWpol #Gemini #Claude #Anthropic #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #AIBubble #capitalism #business #politics #nsw #nswpol
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Consistency is not a localized property https://lobste.rs/s/rhy5zp #ai #databases #programming
https://n-the-loop.com/blog/consistency-is-not-a-localized-property/
As you may have seen in places like the verge, and otherwise, Hollywood is creeping its way into tech criticism. I am checking out one of the anti-technology shows that had a consultant on it. I do wish that Emily bender was a consultant, but the author of Blood in the Machine I believe did a fine job. There are a few things I would change about the critiques in the show, but I do think it is entertaining, even if it relies on the two protagonists being lawyers, which makes it remarkably easy to do deus ex machina, Even so though, episode one is turning out to be more entertaining than I initially thought . Check out Cupertino here with audio description https://tv.apple.com/us/show/cupertino/umc.cmc.1s045xmhoexk220zf99zodh2b #AI #TV #TVShow #LLM
Job post for "#AI Coding Trainer" and it makes me wonder what kind of idiotic business model is at play here.
Great news, everyone!
#ONLYOFFICE Docs 10.0 is finally out 🚀
#AI tools in every editor, 50+ new features, 4 new modular apps, 1,000+ bug fixes and 35 fixed vulnerabilities in one big release.
Based on community feedback, AI is no longer built into the open-source versions. Add it separately only if you want it, and connect any model, including local ones.
Which update will you try first?
Discover all the details in this blog post: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/10/onlyoffice-docs-10?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=fosstodon
You know what I want? As an already existing LLM critic? Give me either, a local model that can be trained on anything I choose, no data centers required, or if it's going to be on a server, very specialized and or very targeted models that are trained on only open and consenting data, in my case, public domain books and opted in Creative Commons books. I want to have two modes, an assistant kind of, where it drafts whatever I want it to draft, like if I want to make some bullshit corporate letter I never want to write myself but it has an explainer addition to where it explains why it did what it did and what training data was used to make the thing so I can understand why it did the thing, or like a training mode, like if I want to learn more about JavaScript, it has a whole training curriculum right there built into it that can be adapted to any learning style, including and especially, the blind. I honestly wouldn't even need it to describe pictures. Just teach me stuff and I'll be happy. That's my AI wish list, part of it anyway, but it doesn’t make people money or make data centers so, shrug. #AI #LLM