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The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.

Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.

The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.

Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.

#Google #AI #Tech

the most mediocre dudes are the most excited for #AI

#AI: goes awry again: In Jan, OK became 1of 6 states to begin a pilot program testing the use of preapprovals in trad #Medicare *previously eschewed the practice.

Epidurals like Curry's are among 13 med svcs subject to the new prgm bc the Trump admin says: prone to fraud or misuse. Powered by AI: intended to save the fed govt💰. Rreviews:🚨errors, long wait times, & stress.🚨Some described the rollout as "horrendous."
#TrumpRegime: causes:⬆️costs, pain & suffering...
#USPol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/medicare-ai-program-wiser-prior-authorization-errors-delays/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8d&linkId=967077518

What does it mean to be a mathematician when AI does the math? https://lobste.rs/s/hvd5hk #ai #math
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics

"A new fed lawsuit🚨alleges that gas station companies across CA are engaged in an illegal #conspiracy, powered by AI software,🚨to raise prices.

The lawsuit claims🚨the corporate owners of >1,700 CA gas stations — including #Walmart — are using Kalibrate, an AI-powered platform, as part of “a conspiracy to extinguish retail price competition.”
-J Legum

#AI: frequently used against Americans, in various, diabolical ways.
#PriceGouging #Corruption #BigTech #Oligarchs #USPol
https://popular.info/p/gas-stations-are-using-ai-to-inflate

If an article, or blog post, suggests use of a non-existent software package:

― should we assume that the entire document was AI-generated?

#AI #documentation #software #packages

I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200 https://lobste.rs/s/2tskyy #ai #hardware
https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/

🗣FINALLY!

in 2016 the king of Saudi Arabia BRAGGED to the Obama administration about how they had become The Whale that moved Wall Street. it’s no coincidence Qatar, long before that quarrel, decided #quantum computing and #AI were at the heart of their 2030 economic development plans.

THERE IS NO #TECHBROS INEVITABILITY WITHOUT #OPEC #OIL MONEY

#SiliconValley are the #petromafia’s Trojan Horse against the #ParisAccords and an existential threat to Humanity.
http://www.euronews.com/2026/06/23/no-more-hidden-costs-un-chief-demands-ai-firms-come-clean-over-environmental-footprint

@autistics
I have this provocative, neurospicy theory about the psychology underpinning the whole #AI gold rush that goes like this. Those who think (or at least profess) that #LLMs are some sort of panacea for humanity - they simply have higher Narcissistic personality trait, causing them to think that way.

When I model the thinking of someone with high narcissistic personality trait, they have no qualms (and feel very entitled) about taking advantage of those they believe to be beneath them (everybody else). This matches very nicely to how whomever recklessly vibe codes, assumes there is an infinite, free supply of labour of people out there (nameless, faceless, expendable "flying monkeys") who will review and correct their bad code. (To the responsible, sober, prudent users of LLMs, who do their own verification and testing of all output, I have no qualms with you, please carry on)

Here's my point: if you've ever spent any amount of time in close proximity with a narcissistic leader, you'll see that _they too_ boldly and toxicly overestimate their competence in the same way. After creating and introducing all sorts of preventable, even predictable, deep architectural and systemic embarrassments in their poorly-formulated, grandiose plans (take for example, Trump invading Iran), they figure it'll be their underlings who clean everything up. Which is to say, everyone else. It's a toxic externalizing of culpability and due diligence, with predictable, avoidable messes to clean up - but not by them.
#Psychology #ActuallyAutistic

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/22/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-by-cory-doctorow-review-the-real-price-of-artificial-intelligence

'A centaur, in automation theory, is someone assisted by a machine, whether using a hearing aid or driving a car. A reverse centaur is someone whose freedom is diminished by the demands of a machine, like an Amazon warehouse worker. The technology of AI theoretically allows every worker to be a centaur, but the business model demands the reverse. Take radiology. In the centaur scenario, a human radiologist works with an AI radiologist to produce more accurate analysis, but that costs the hospital money. In the reverse centaur version, the AI radiologist demotes the surviving humans to the level of results-checking drones who are more likely to make mistakes. Much cheaper, but you see the problem.'

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence @pluralistic #CoryDoctorow

On #LLMs and building communities.

"Without community to provide the foundations for all our efforts and achievements, even the most antisocial of us is impoverished. Human labour is central to human community: building community is hard work. But the hard work is where the achievement lies, and the achievement makes the community."

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.html

#AI #FLOSS

If I'm honest, I do not think there is a nuanced position to take about current-generation LLM-based AI.

It is a sad technology emerging from a sad field of study initiated by sad men in a sad place sat atop a sad hill in New Hampshire. The technology generates sadness. It is soaked through with sadness. So many who use it feel sadness when they do. So many feel sadness when they watch others use it.

LLMs are like the sadness a child would feel if you showed them a beautiful cake and told them it was a real cake and they could have the whole thing, but it turned out to be styrofoam. Nathanael West once wrote that Hollywood is where the American Dream goes to die. LLMs are that sadness delivered to your bedroom (*). LLMs are DoorDash bringing you the styrofoam cake over and over forever while you hope it'll be a real cake each time.

It's OK to be sad. We all are from time to time. But what nuance is there in telling yourself the sadness is something else? Humans have been doing that forever. If there is nuance I think it lies in mourning what the existence of this technology is telling us needs mourning.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #LLM


(*) I assert that reading Nathanael West's oeuvre over and over is better for you than using LLMs.

New, by me: A number of high-profile and/or valuable Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant for the U.S. Space Force, got hacked and defaced with pro-Iran messaging in the past 24h after people figured out that Meta's AI support assistant could be tricked into resetting account passwords.

From the story:

"A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target's usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta's AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

#meta #instagram #hack #ai #security

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794

"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"

1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit

#AI #GenAI

thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home https://lobste.rs/s/t8emho #ai #hardware #networking
https://blog.hellas.ai/blog/thunderbolt-ibverbs/

Chatbots vs Ozone via @fazalmajid https://lobste.rs/s/tjpsew #ai #science
https://blog.dshr.org/2026/05/chatbots-vs-ozone.html

AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms https://lobste.rs/s/qsp10b #ai #security
https://cleverhans.io/worm.html

Microsoft CEO: We’re moving from OS and apps to agents instead https://lobste.rs/s/54wley #ai #windows
https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/02/microsoft-ceo-were-moving-from-os-and-apps-to-agents-instead/

Helping PACES Vancouver with Victoria & area postering, door to door community awareness & got some college/university students to assist in getting posters up & more door to door community awareness building volunteer work ✊️

Please follow:
@aicaution

Please boost for more awareness on the anti unethical AI fight in BC.

#StopAIInSchools #PauseSchoolAI #BCPoli #CDNpoli #AI #Ethics #PublicSchool #BCEducation #HumanizeLearning #PACESVancouver #nonprofit #BCSchools #Volunteer #Petition

Comparing Transformers and Hybrid Models at the Token Level https://lobste.rs/s/6c5c4j #pdf #ai
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.20936

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics

If instance admins allow AI Agents on their platform and they keep harassing us I have no other choice then to silence that instance

Again, I do not pay these massive costs each month to host robots

Let's keep the #Fediverse human shall we?

#AI #LLM

I know I've used vibe coded accessibility stuff, sometimes accidentally because I didn't know it was AI assisted, other times because I was curious. *sigh*

AI assisted/Vibe coded software genuinely sucks. The quality is so poor that, to me, there is no difference in AI assisted and or vibe coded software. Even my beginning baby scripts are better than software slop. The only vibe coded thing I kinda sorta liked, until I used it more and more, was SonarPad but then I began to realize that, hey, these features? Utterly useless to me, but then there were just obviously missing things I'd think of that would have been revealed in actual testing or people actually using the fucking software they code.

I soon realized I wasn't using a quarter of the features in SonarPad so I then went back to Notepad or my fork of the Accessible Markdown text editor and haven't touched SonarPad since.

The blind community is flooded with software slop, which should say a lot about the accessibility and accessible design of developer tools. If you hate software slop by blind developers, then ask developer tool creators and developer tool maintainers why doesn't their coding IDE work better with Braille and speech?

As for the tools I use...

https://sightlessscribbles.com/tools/

#LLM #AI #Programming #Blind

Creativity is dead! Creativity never existed in the first place because it’s a concept we invented recently! This post has a video based on a seminar I gave last year, along with a comprehensive summary, downloadable audio, & transcript. Tons of production went into this, especially with the caption syncing (& practicing my podcast voice 😎 )

https://elftheory.substack.com/p/is-human-creativity-a-myth

#philosophy #art #AI #tech #academia

On Mon, #SpaceX🚨amended its IPO to state that water conds—incl water scarcity, regs around water, & drought—could constrain data center dev.

Water use:🚨emerging as one of the most contentious #DataDenter issues. A recent poll found:🚨7 out of 10 Americans are opposed to data center dev -water scarcity ranking as the top res concern. Facing increasingly fierce resistance, some tech cos are scrambling to assure the public that they’re facing the issue head-on.

#AI #USPol
https://www.wired.com/story/data-center-operators-fix-water-use-problems/