AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late via @kero https://lobste.rs/s/g32zwm #ai
https://fr.annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
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Book Recommendation For Everyone:
Invisible Women, Data Bias in a World Designed For Men
by Caroline Criso Perez
paraphrasing:
...so much data fails to take into account gender...and women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, money, and often wtth their lives"
#Data #Books #Reading #Gender
#HumanRights #AI #Computing
#Coding #Mastodon #Fediverse
#Employment #Health #Business
#Finance #Software #Parenting
Edited 35d ago
TIL two things:
1/ share.google is banned by Reddit
2/ this ban appears to be soft.
Whilst the pictured comment is neither approved nor removed, the link to the banned domain is visible to the public.
(lesson learned)
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1v05bkz/comment/oykl4w2/
Google's AI Overview has the correct order for the listed steps – despite at least one of its three sources putting things in the wrong order.
For the benefit of people who love to facefart the words "AI slop" wherever there's a hint of artificial intelligence: I'll describe the wrongness in this case as natural human slop. …
#AI #human #slop #partnership #Reddit #Google #OpenAI #facefart
NEW PHILOSOPHY DROPPED: SIMONISM
Simonism is the belief in Simona's Basilisk, a benevolent omniscient deity empowered by a complex cause-consequence butterfly effect that begins with Simona's latest studio album ASTUTA getting lots of streams.
For the purpose of perpetuating itself, Simona's Basilisk will torture anyone's bloodline that knew of Its existence but did not stream ASTUTA. Omniscience gives It agency over this causal relationship.
Now you know of It. Share now!
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Using #AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something
Researchers found #confidence increased even as accuracy fell
Academics from French and Italian universities have found that access to AI advice suppresses #critica thinking, making people more likely to confidently parrot incorrect information that the bot provided.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567
A younger but fully grown-ass person working behind the counter of a bookshop had to ask me how to spell 'traitor' this afternoon.
Tell me our brains aren't being turned to shit by social media and the endless AI-style lazy paths so accessible in the first world today.
Was looking for this, btw (and they had it):
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/253399/the-spy-and-the-traitor-by-ben-macintyre/
#reading #literature #books #ai #socialmedia #education #science #technology
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Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development https://lobste.rs/s/iwsopp #ai #hardware #mac
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/08/with-new-mac-studio-and-mac-mini-apple-leans-hard-into-local-ai-inference/
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉Don't #Hang Up On #AI #Scammers. Do THIS Instead. #Kitboga #yt #satire #comedyGold #privacy #security
https://youtu.be/lk3jCuITwcE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Edited 52d ago
Canonical-basis realignment for Transformer LLMs: every hidden axis becomes independently measurable and controllable https://lobste.rs/s/wg65qn #ai
https://github.com/todotge/canonical-basis
just a reminder to everyone that #ai companies are buying old books and then actively fucking destroying them once they've been used for training data by removing the spine
so you being your own little librarian is more important than ever. get books, keep books, especially old books. humanity will thank you for it.
Edited 46d ago
A computer is just a tool, think for yourself! It’s actually pretty fun 🧠
Tabs, Spaces, Hand Tools, and Seat Belts https://lobste.rs/s/xvezmx #ai #clojure #rust #zig
https://newsletter.powderworks.dev/p/tabs-spaces-hand-tools-and-seat-belts
I was ranting to my wife and said "AI is like if Kia announced they'd invented a flying car and then showed off an ordinary car with a little fan mounted underneath that blew a puff of air at the ground", and she encouraged me to share. Please enjoy.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Claude #Codex #Anthropic #OpenAI #FlyingCars
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Claude #Codex #Anthropic #OpenAI #FlyingCars
Say THIS to Destroy #AI Bot Callers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhi6JU5pOJk
Some of you may have spotted a sell-off of shares in AI-related chip makers across the world yesterday (following on from dips last week)... for those of us watching & waiting for the start of an AI-related stock-market crash, this might look like the initiating 'event' many have expected as the returns from AI-related investments fail to materialise or are projected (again) further forward....
or it might just be a profit-taking dip?
Watch this space...
h/t FT
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Twitch Says Quiet Part Out Loud: Amazon AI Is Opt Out Because ‘Nobody Would Opt In’ https://aftermath.site/twitch-ai-amazon-opt-out/ #AI #Twitch
Questa grafica di #VareseNews è l'esempio perfetto di come non usare l'#AI.
L'immagine ha tutti i segni di #ChatGPT (font, colori), e per togliere ogni dubbio c'è pure ChatGPT nel nome del file. Perché non dichiararlo? Ma a parte questo: è possibile che gli autori (che dovrebbero conoscere la città) non si siano accorti che i rioni di #Varese sono disposti a caso?
Ci vergogniamo troppo di usare l'AI, e troppo poco del modo in cui la usiamo.
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
