My job now forces me to use LLMs, so I'm looking for an engineering team to join that still remembers how to write code.
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My job now forces me to use LLMs, so I'm looking for an engineering team to join that still remembers how to write code.
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Taylor Lorenz, who thinks the Gen Z movement to use "dumb" phones is some dangerous conspiracy, uses Gen AI willingly.
🙃
Interviewer: "How much do you spend on AI tools every month?"
Taylor Lorenz: "Probably about $300 a month."
🙃
Just for today and because of today… here's a little sneak preview of what I'm currently working on for Schall und Stille's next album.
A deep heartfelt thanks to my wonderful musicians:
@MyLoFy – guitars, bass
Tobias Stutz – cello
Andrei Boulgakov – guitars
Susanne Balg - additional vocals
Lyrics in comments. Boost if you like 😊
Still haven't gotten around to an about page for this to properly explain it but…
If anyone finds themselves in need of a "shortlist" of examples of the downsides of AI, my collection is up to 369 entries:
My wife started making animations in the spirit of 2000s Flash clips and I couldn't be more proud.
#noai #animation #gif
FINALLY! A NoAI DuckDuckGo extension for firefox-based browsers!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-no-ai-search/
So it never occurred to Google that encouraging people to deepfake Google Earth images with AI was a terrible idea?
How are these people not fired on the spot for ideas like this, let alone allowed to bring such an obviously problematic “feature” to production? It’s bonkers.
“Hey, what if we add a feature that makes everyone question the output of one of our flagship products while also enabling internet trolls?”
“Great idea Carl!”
https://www.theverge.com/tech/973943/google-earth-ai-image-generation-deepfake-tool
I don’t know how else to say that if you are against using any LLM, then you should stop using AI checkers of any sort. Not only are they just another tool to slurp up text, but every bit of writing with common words and phrases will be flagged as generated when it’s not because every LLM has common words and phrases in its training data. Lastly, every one of these checkers is designed to eventually get you to pay the tech company money so they can pretend to make your writing more human. They do not work the way you assume.
I know this is radical but we may just have to trust artists! I know, what a shock.
Besides, these AI losers can't shut the fuck up about using their generator so it really isn't hard to find people that use these things if you really wanna point the finger at someone.
All right, folks! Here you go, a 40min video introduction to how I dot paint!
The first ~15mins are about making marks and paint, the rest is going over the different tools I use.
(I am not a video content creator so this is very amateur-ish; I'm also chronically ill and have brain fog, so I often forget my words, and my voice gets a bit raw by the end. X) Forgive me!)
I understand video isn't the best format for everyone, I'll try and do a text + photo version sometime in the future, too. <3
#Tutorial #Video #DotPaintingTutorial #DotPainting #DotMandala #MandalaStone #ArtStone #Mandala #Crafts #Crafting #NoAI
Quizás algunos recordéis la araña culona de la traducción al español de "Proyecto Hail Mary" ("fat ass spider" en el original, o sea, araña enorme). Pues bien, me he topado con una traducción aún peor.
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#TraduttoreTraditore #libros #llm #slop #noai
Tomorrow the next tarot card will be released 
Featuring - Page of Swords 💫
#art #mastoart #fediart #digitalArt #noai #tarot #space #animals #cute #earth #adventure #universe
RE: https://social.swordandfiddle.co.uk/notes/ar64iqiva218lj4g
Really great to get @amysparkes book into Kobo's Diverse Stories promotion this week.
Anyone want a free DRM-free historical fiction e-pub?
https://www.kobo.com/list/free-ebooks-diverse/0K8JUHSYBsAW2gjYatg68Q
#kobo #books #ebook #drmfree #noai #lgbtq #neurodiverse #bookstodon @bookstodon
A question for you kind folk: What would be the best filesystem to use on a partition to be shared by NetBSD and Gentoo?
I'm planning to set up a dual boot system to sort of A/B test them to see which works best for me for different things, and I'd like a data partition that they can both use.
My guess is that I will end up with at least one computer running each of these (where I am currently running Debian on everything).
A few anxious thoughts that have finally been put to digital paper (many more stay bumping around in my brain)
Want to contribute to #GNUHealth? Welcome!! Please make sure you first read the GNU Health Strict No Generative AI Policy.
Let's keep the art and science of computing a human virtue ❤️ 👇
https://docs.gnuhealth.org/his/techguide/contributing.html#contributing
#NoAI #SocialMedicine #OpenScience
Autumn is near & Raring Ringtail can't wait to shine amongst all the wonderful colors 💚🌈 
https://shop.sylvia-ritter.com/collections/stickers/products/raring-ringtail-holographic-sticker
#art #mastoart #animals #stickers #colorful #cute #noai #krita #digitalart #portrait
Prelaunch page is live! (Campaign isn't launched yet, will be launched very soon.)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/how-i-became-the-hacker-who-you-hate
Could you share, @davidgerard ?
A preview of things to come.
I love Cory Gerard's art. He made the covers for Technofascism Survival Guide and Recovering After Gen AI.
I will definitely pay him for his services again.
But for my memoir, I made the cover myself.
So, Codeberg (which is a FOSS/freedom-focused code hosting site) is run as a cooperative, with members able to nominate measures/policies and vote on them etc.
They just had a vote and approved policies making "AI" / LLM-based projects basically unwelcome there. The vote wasn't close; 70% voted in favour of the policy. It's not a hard & fast "if you use LLM, you're banned" or anything of the sort - it's quite a measured, reasoned stance.
The slopcoders are freaking out. They just don't understand how this is possible. Imagine! A community of people that makes their own decisions and you can't just make them do what you want or ignore them and consume their resources without their consent!
"I like slopcoding, actually" is turning out to be a *really* good litmus test for people you want to have absolutely nothing to do with your project or your community.
Look at some of the whining (this is the only reason I would ever link to YCombinator [1]):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021856
[1] Your occasional and irregular reminder: "Hacker" "News" is neither.
#NoAI #NoLLM #sloperator #slopcoding #vibecoding #consent #Codeberg #hosting #forge #community #FOSS #HackerNews #YCombinator
This is the first and last post I'll do about LLMs. I find them boring, counterproductive and damaging to a point that I don't want to waste any more space in my blog talking about them 😪. Still, I think the responsibility talk is an important talk to have, specially with the current state of the world. Feel free to share if you agree with the points in the article 😊
You know how far we've fallen when "no artificial intelligence" is called out as a feature.
Kudos, @libreoffice!
LibreOffice 26.8 brings professional typography, deeper support for the world’s writing systems, and no artificial intelligence
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/