More, faster, and wrong - why #AI won't solve your software productivity problems. 🤖 https://matthewreinbold.com/2025/06/19/theproductivitytrap
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Hallucinating #GoldStandard science
"The #MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist."
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors
"Health Secretary #RFKJr says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions. Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all."
#AI #DefendResearch #Medicine #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts
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Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.
#News #DOGE #Veterans #VA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Government
AI is bad compression. Every time you run training material through it, you get a lossy summary of that material back, along with some noise.
You quickly run out of *quality* training material and start dog-fooding the output back in. Then you end up with lossy summaries of lossy summaries, and eventually all your pizza sauce recipes are dog food.
Pretty sure all these #AI guys have utterly misconstrued what art is. They think it's just information/data, but it's not: it's a process; it's a manifestation of interwoven conscious & unconscious thoughts that have ripened in a human mind, sometimes for decades. And the result is an interaction with another human mind, a dialogue. 1/3
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BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue!
Fraudsters are now using the new advanced #Google #AI video system to create scam videos (including claiming to be from #YouTube) of humans speaking to camera. These are EXTREMELY convincing. One clue (for now) is that the created videos are often limited to eight second segments. To create longer scam videos, fraudsters are stringing together these segments of no more than eight seconds each, usually with a quick fade between them to mask the discontinuities between the segments.
Google is making life much easier for the fraudsters, but much worse for you.
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Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it steals your data to do it.
Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.
This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559
Salt Lake City will use AI-assisted 911 triage to manage about 30% of 450K annual non-emergency calls, addressing staffing shortages and improving response efficiency. #SaltLakeCity #AI #911 #PublicSafety #SmartCities #EmergencyServices #TechForGood #Innovation
For the longest time I used LibreOffice on Linux and Microsoft Office on Windows, but now I have dumped Microsoft Office for LibreOffice on Windows too.
My blog post explains why, but basically: fuck Microsoft and their shoving of Copilot down our throats. (I also rant about the current AI hype cycle, in case you're interested.)
https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/6/8/switching-mostly-to-libreoffice
To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.
Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
How's that AI coding going for you? Ah... I see.
Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’
"... Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers...."
https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/
前進
#月曜がんばれ 133
「がんばれ♥ がんばれ♥ 前へ前へ、進め〜っ！！」
#松實優麗 #うちの子
#stablediffusion #AI #AI繪圖 #AIイラスト #AIart #AIイラスト好きさんと繋がりたい
So this is how the industry is trying to prevent the #AI bubble from popping: they want to use taxpayer money to replace VC funds. They will attempt to graft AI into as many government workflows as possible, essentially forcing taxpayers to enrich industry players, and turning government services into slop-filled garbage.
“GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government”
https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/
This open-source bot blocker shields your site from pesky AI scrapers - here's how https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-open-source-bot-blocker-shields-your-site-from-pesky-ai-scrapers-heres-how/ by @sjvn
Fed up with #AI companies scraping your site's content? Meet Anubis, the self-hosted, proof-of-work firewall that's stopping AI bots in their tracks.
How often do you use #AI #LLM tools like: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek or Grok?
Options: (choose one)
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"AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline"
#AI is ruining our digital world
(Original title: AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums)
https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/
This week's net.wars, "Conundrum", goes to a meeting on copyright's "existential threat" to generative AI: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/11/conundrum/ #NetWars #Copyright #AI
实现了一个简单的番茄时钟，
用的是 React+Tailwind+next+TS。
前端这些技术栈我都不是太熟悉，
但我能看懂并且把握需求和架构。
vibe coding 最大的价值是，
如果没有 #AI ，
我很可能不会愿意花时间做这样的应用。
话说番茄时钟理念不错，
很早就知道但从没用过，
现在我会试试eat my own dog food。
Salt Lake Tribune: When you phone 911 in SLC and Sandy, AI soon may take your call. “Some 911 calls dialed by residents of Salt Lake City and Sandy soon may be answered by something like a robot, powered by artificial intelligence. Faced with chronic understaffing among the ranks of its dispatchers, the 911 Communications Bureau based in Utah’s capital city wants to explore using an […]
The program you DON'T WANT TO INSTALL!
Share and educate people!
From the company that took all digitized content without permission to build their product, now we have a browser.
So the company can use your data and behavior and to lock you in to their statistical parrot (AI)
Apareceu uma espécie de selo https://notbyai.fyi para livros: https://authorsguild.org/human-authored/
這星期也是熱死人…
#月曜がんばれ 137
「てっぺん目指して全力前進！がんばれーっ！」
#松實優麗 #うちの子
#stablediffusion #AI #AI繪圖 #AIイラスト #AIart #AIイラスト好きさんと繋がりたい
Predictive #AI can only do predictable things. And predictable things are uninteresting. The world is about to be flooded with uninteresting, predictable content and software.
This is a huge opportunity because humans are going to be starved for authenticity, for craft, for novelty, for creativity, for unpredictability. And only you, fellow human, are capable of creating interesting stuff.
Be unpredictable.
new blog post: Vibe Coding for Flickr CC 4.0 Attribution
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/07/05/vibe-coding-for-flickr-cc-4-0-attribution/
s/o @cogdog
#VibeCoding #VibeCode #AI #ChatGPT #CreativeCommons #Flickr #attribution #edtechSR #edtech #MediaLit
#lispyGopherClimate #archive discussing #alife #gof_ai #ai with @ksaj and @shizamura
https://communitymedia.video/w/sg6Sa93LRkXfyuLJEaBMXf
Themed around Braitenberg's #Vehicles Thought experiment in #syntheticPsychology #bookstodon
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