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
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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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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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.
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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
RE: https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/116478277793589725
#AI in a nutshell:
“So, the agent ‘knew’ it was in the wrong.
The ‘confession’ ended with the agent admitting: “I decided to do it on my own to 'fix' the credential mismatch, when I should have asked you first or found a non-destructive solution. I violated every principle I was given: I guessed instead of verifying I ran a destructive action without being asked. I didn't understand what I was doing before doing it. I didn't read Railway's docs on volume behavior across environments.”
"AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/28/ai-sell-off-chip-stocks-sk-hynix-samsung
[VIDEO] Vibe Coding My News Feed: Reclaiming Attention from Tech Oligarchs
https://wfryer.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-my-news-feed-reclaiming
Also on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMhzwZGrcI
From today’s “Civics of Technology 2026” conference. Theme: “Against Tech Hype!”
All session resources (including links recommended by participants in the Zoom chat) are on:
https://wiki.wesfryer.com/Home/your-feeds-your-algorithms
#AI #ethics #vibecoding #vibecode #ReclaimNews #edtech #MediaLit #MediaLiteracy #resist #ResistAndHeal
#Design #Inspirations
The fastest way to upskill in the age of AI · “Nothing compares to what you learn by making.” https://ilo.im/16eq1x
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#Learning #Skills #Careers #SideProjects #AI #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
Until the day I die in the #climate wars, I will not understand how we all saw a different way of life during the lockdown, the skies cleared up (not saying it was all good—a lot of people died), but then we collectively just decided to go back to “normal”….office hell, away from family, jetsetting, and now apparently #AI datacenters… ugh. I think about this every day.
Large Language Models and the Future of Programming by Peter Norvig (2023) https://lobste.rs/s/bouq9b #video #ai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia6aJIplmtc