What can I realistically do with local AI on a Mac mini M5 Pro (48GB)? https://lobste.rs/s/umsitb #ask #ai #mac
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#Etsy has updated their Terms of Service to force sellers to allow the use of their photographs, videos, and text to train #AI. There is no opt-out.
It seems bonkers to me that Etsy, a website which ostensibly sells human-made creations, is forcing sellers to enable AI to learn from and subsequently copy their own products. I guess they now feel that they have enough market share that people will not leave over this.
https://www.valueaddedresource.net/etsy-expands-ai-training-rights/
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As I warned about months ago now, I can confirm that Google Chrome's #AI API is now actively being used for device fingerprinting and tracking purposes.
Out of 100 of the top global english language content sites - around 30% are actively using the API for fingerprinting, Google Advertising (profiling) or both) without the legally required consent (EU law).
Wer wissen will, warum ich seit zwei Wochen eigentlich nur noch wütend bin, sollte sich diesen Talk von @HonkHase@chaos.social auf den Datenspuren anschauen: (Trigger Warning: Gaza, War, Genocide, AI)
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Thinking will become a hobby https://lobste.rs/s/mosbat #ai #philosophy
https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20261008/?li261008
I saw the best minds of my generation consumed by demonstrating a machine that would never be expected to be able to do X actually cannot do X.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs
“PLEASE USE AI” — poem by Joanna Atkins-Potts
Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZaR5o_iKNy/
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#Alabama country boy vs #AI #surveillance and #privacy defilement
Jacob Rockwell at a #Pensacola, #Florida #CityCouncil meeting
👏 👏 👏
(Jacob's actually from Escambia County, which is the far Western tip of Florida, so basically Alabama)
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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB https://lobste.rs/s/lpomuo #ai
https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
Krishnamurti foresaw AI over 40 years ago
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Listening to Dreaming Against the Machine: Episode 31: Seeing Through Tech Hype, with Molly White. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dreaming-against-the-machine/id1890733564?i=1000800969131
Adam Becker speaks with cryptocurrency expert and tech critic Molly White about how hype inflated the crypto bubble and how to see through tech industry cycles. They discuss crypto’s political influence and what we can do.
This is farked.
Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices.
And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse:
"Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and television. And, as she told [a NSW stare government committee on AI], she owns none of them.
"Last financial year, Duncan earned about 30 per cent of what she had consistently made in the three years before. She now works a second job.
"'AI voices and performances have definitely played a big part,' she told this masthead. Clients have also used them to push down the rates the union spent years fighting for, she said. 'It’s faster and cheaper, so therefore we should be as well.'
"Duncan, the NSW president of Equity, the performers’ division of the media union, gave evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. 'I never gave consent for my work to be taken,' she said. 'Our members are already 62 per cent down on their work in the last 12 months,' Simon Kennedy, president of the Australian Association of Voice Actors, told the same hearing.
...
"OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google all put Canberra on notice – Australia’s copyright rules will dictate whether they train their flagship models on local soil. But copyright usually belongs to a studio, label, publisher or advertiser, not to the performer or writer who made the work. Under the deals and funds on the table, the alliance warned, the money flows to whoever holds the copyright.
"Duncan has never held the copyright to her own commercials. 'But if it’s my biometric data and 20 years of industry skills that go into those performances, I should have a say,' she said. Clients, she said, should not get a performance at all if it 'only exists because mine and thousands of others’ training, performance skills, experience and creative consciousness have all been whittled down to ones and zeros, fed into an LLM (for free) and then exported'.
...
"She knows voice artists and actors who have been replaced by AI copies of themselves, their voices or faces used in new campaigns without consent or payment.
"When one colleague asked a producer why he had not even been consulted, Duncan said, the producer replied that he 'assumed consent was given'."
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/i-never-gave-consent-the-australians-being-replaced-with-copies-of-themselves-20261010-p613x1.html
#AI #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #auspol #NSWpol #Gemini #Claude #Anthropic #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #AIBubble #capitalism #business #politics #nsw #nswpol
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Job post for "#AI Coding Trainer" and it makes me wonder what kind of idiotic business model is at play here.
Great news, everyone!
#ONLYOFFICE Docs 10.0 is finally out 🚀
#AI tools in every editor, 50+ new features, 4 new modular apps, 1,000+ bug fixes and 35 fixed vulnerabilities in one big release.
Based on community feedback, AI is no longer built into the open-source versions. Add it separately only if you want it, and connect any model, including local ones.
Which update will you try first?
Discover all the details in this blog post: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2026/10/onlyoffice-docs-10?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=fosstodon
Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post https://lobste.rs/s/j30pg4 #ai #math
https://www.patreon.com/vihart/posts/vi-harts-big-171939430
SFist: Smoking Becomes Trendy In Silicon Valley as Some Researchers Believe AI Will Cure Cancer
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We went to an event this afternoon as part of #StokeBookFestival. A local bookseller made a very interesting point: he finds it hard to sell books that have #AI generated covers.
He said that many people see an AI generated cover, assume the rest is AI, and look elsewhere.
Why are we even doing all this? https://lobste.rs/s/qvomvk #ai #culture #math
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/why-are-we-even-doing-all-this/
Neural Networks Are Already Clean https://lobste.rs/s/enjlpn #ai
https://already-clean.goodfire.com/
Why Math Dumped OpenAI https://lobste.rs/s/uj7pqu #ai #math #vibecoding
https://raymyers.org/post/math-dumped-openai/
Oopsie daisy! An AI agent that was granted access to the server of a Swedish TV production company has deleted the entire edited version of the upcoming series of reality show "The Challenge." It's now been pushed to 2027, weeks before it was due to premiere. Here's @Gizmodo with the details.
I’m blind and have multiple disabilities. Transcription helps me remember conversations. Cameras on my iPhone and Meta glasses help me understand the world. AI helps me get things done.
Privacy, consent, and transparency matter. Access matters too. Before restricting these tools, disabled people need a seat at the table.
https://taylorarndt.substack.com/p/before-you-decide-technology-is-the
Watched David Krakauer on StarTalk this weekend. His take: LLMs are capable, not intelligent. What I think they're missing is wisdom - intuition from experience.
So I had Claude interview me on whether an agent with memory could grow some. I landed on an adviser that argues with me but never makes the final call.
Would you want an AI that pushes back, or one that agrees?
Does moving a GPU server's request loop into the kernel save CPU? https://lobste.rs/s/6himy4 #ai #linux
https://eunomia.dev/blog/2026/10/17/bpf-gpu-server/