My history with AI. Imagine you looked after a toddler. They were struggling with lots of things, and there was deep prejudice against them. When you walked on the street with the toddler people would throw things at you. Time moves on, and the toddler grows up to become Stalin. #AI
If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse
Perhaps the most (in)famous and illustrious American computer scientist and acknowledged principal pioneer of the discipline now known as artificial intelligence (AI), Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’ It is significant that the English language distinguishes between ‘‘flesh’’ on the one hand, and ‘‘meat’’ on the other. The latter is dead and may be eaten, thrown in the garbage, fed to pigs, and so on. Flesh, on the other hand, is living matter and, as such, deserves the respect and dignity for life of which, among others, Albert Schweitzer spoke eloquently. The word ‘‘merely’’ in Minsky’s sentence means essentially ‘‘nothing but,’’ that is, also not deserving unusual respect. His statement is a clear reflection of a profound contempt for life that, as I see it, is shared explicitly by important sectors of the AI community, the artificial intelligentsia, as well as many scientists, engineers, and ordinary people. Daniel C. Dennett, an important American philosopher, once said that we must give up our awe of life if we are to make further progress in AI.From Weizenbaum, Joseph (2007). Social and Political Impact of the Long-term History of Computing
Maybe there isn't A Tipping Point, but several. Like milestones on the long road to freedom. I've just reached one.
Excellent article by Bruce Schneier "#AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge".
"The question is not simply whether #copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html
https://toobnix.org/w/9oA5WZEkbjKkfbsSxEoJ8v #archive
Okay I guess on the hour it's the Sunday-morning-in-Europe #lispyGopherClimate .
a. I will lightly go over my recent #commonLisp #symbolic #DL ( #ai!) algo / article.
b. Excitingly that gave me occasion to use
(this-function foo &rest keys &key &allow-other-keys)
which I used to pass data-like parameters along without cluttering up arguements (waters' functions of seven arguments). People had tried to explain it to me previously but now I underst
#PeterThiel #Palantir #SurveillanceState #USPolitics #Accountability #TechBillionaires #PoliticalMeme #CurrentEvents #SocialCritique #Hypocrisy #GenerativeAI #Privacy #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #MAGA #FBI #CIA #FuckICE #Project2025 #TrumpEpsteinCoverup #NoKings #AI #FuckAI #AIisTheft #Oligarchy
We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.
#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/
#claude #ai #llm #privacy #cybersecurity #spyware #fuckai #stopai #dataprivacy #anthropic
Components of A Coding Agent https://lobste.rs/s/teftmt #ai
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent
This definition of #AISlop popped out of my head after a bit of un-entrainment (if you dig).
https://realityfragments.com/2026/02/01/a-definition-of-ai-slop/
It's strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don't seem interested in natural intelligence.
In the early days, when "neural networks" were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It's not like that now. I'm sure some folks would say "yeah, and aerospace engineers don't worry about bird flight, either!" but that feels wrong to me.
If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are "biologically realistic". Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We'll just make the current solutions better.
But I think we've barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don't even notice that because they haven't actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116437600493037498
ALL YOUR PROPRIETARY BUSINESS ARE BELONG TO US
RE: https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/116226030767910474
As predicted, humans are being turned into accountability sinks for #AI. AI code doesn’t work? You're fired!
"After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"
AI Slop companies now advertise their crimes to hype up their slop bots, basically acknowledging their "product" is total worthless and does not do what it's instructed
All the while stealing our content to train on, flattening whole forests to make space for their crap centers, consume water and electricity meant for people
And they don't have a clue about the endgoal
What a terrible joke..
We're going to put together a resource for musicians on how they can have album art without using large language models. Do you have any resources you'd like to see in that? Free image libraries? Friends who can help do design? Basic how-tos?
#mutualaid #solidarity #helpingeachother #mirlo #resources #ai #llm
Thoughts: AI corps scraping data
The corporations assert that they can utilize public data without incurring any costs, citing fair use as their justification.
To address this issue, we should implement a law that compels corporations claiming fair use as a defense to make all their process data publicly available, free of charge. This would ensure that the scraped data, as well as data derived from the freely available data, is accessible to the public.
#AI #FairUse #Scraping #WebScraping
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html #Kagi #AI #AIHype
Why I am against GenAI and everything it stands for https://lobste.rs/s/2cjb1z #ai #culture #education
https://lpcvoid.com/blog/0018_why_i_am_against_genai/index.html
