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Open Source AI has been defined, and we think that's something to celebrate! 🧠

It is an important milestone for the Open Source movement, for AI, and for users — helping you choose the right #AI tools for your needs.

Read our opinion for details:

https://nextcloud.com/blog/open-source-ai-is-here/

#AI



This really disgusts me, and it confounds me. What is he thinking?

Certainly a smart, well-informed writer like Thom Hartmann knows all the problems caused by so-called artificial intelligence. Asking AI to create artwork is a *huge* waste of valuable resources — water and energy — not to mention probable infringement on the rights of original image creators. Plus it feeds right into the hands of thieving capitalist mega-corporations, the kind that a liberal like Hartmann presumably opposes.

Using AI in this way is indefensible. It’s wrong, and it must be condemned.

I’ve stopped following Hartmann (@ThomHartmann) and I hope you will too.

#AI #Capitalism

Screenshot of a Thom Hartmann blog article, showing crappy AI-produced artwork.


At this point in life I am willing to spend good money to get #software without #AI built in - no, not to be able to deactivate it but to not have it at all.


Google is absolutely cooked as a web search engine, thanks to the current crop of LLM chatbot AI.

The scope of the harm it will do while slowly sinking into irrelevance is immeasurable, though.

#AI #Google #StochasticParrots #LLM #ChatBot


Found this in a discussion about Strava but applicable to all tech companies

#AI

A meme about how every company is putting AI in their app now even though no one is asking for it
#AI


My problem with AI isn't the people who use it purposefully and meaningfully, but the people who sell it as a all-in-one tool which it isn't, cannot be and will never be.

Case in point: there were absolutely no malicious intent in the situation described in this post, and yet the AI user didn't have control over the output and it was a very bad surprise for the person in question.

#AI #StochasticParrots


uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist

A huge blocklist of sites (~950) that contain #AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines (Google Search, DuckDuckGo, and Bing) with uBlock Origin or uBlacklist.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

For #Firefox & #Chrome etc.



> #Microsoft confirms that #Windows 11 Recall #AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-confirms-that-windows-11-recall-ai-is-not-optional-a-glitch-made-it-appear-so-in-the-windows-11-24h2-kb5041865-update

But don't worry, the company that is unable to correctly implement a toggle switch assures us that they definitely implemented this new immensely complex piece of technology nobody asked for directly in the operating system in a way that is secure and under no circumstances puts anyone in danger in ways security researchers said it will.


Fortune magazine reports that: Nearly half of Nvidia’s revenue comes from just four mystery whales each buying $3 billion–plus - let me get this straight… four customers buying $3 billion plus in chips? FOUR!! Let me offer what I consider a safe guess: each of the four is working on vast #AI projects. That would mean Meta, Apple, Google and OpenAI, if my guess is correct, are sucking up almost half of #Nvidia chips being produced.


if you are a proton mail user, turn off the "writing assistant"

send @proton a clear message, we did not want LLM garbage, thank you.

#LLM #AI #EMail #Privacy


Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 39 - Newsrooms Pivot to Bullshit (Feat. Sam Cole)



Meta to chociaż poinformowała, że będzie wykorzystywała dane ludzi do trenowania #AI.

#X, który też z nich korzysta do trenowania chatbota #Grok, nie uznał za stosowne nikogo o tym informować.

Do organów ochrony danych osobowych w 9 krajach trafiły skargi przygotowane przez austriacką organizację @noyb.eu - na bezprawne wykorzystywanie danych osobowych użytkowników w UE/EOG do szkolenia technologii X.

Jedna skarga jest z Polski (a my maczaliśmy w tym palce)!

Źródło: https://noyb.eu/en/twitters-ai-plans-hit-9-more-gdpr-complaints

Skrin z X:

Napis dużym fontem:
Aplikacja xAI Grok chce uzyskać dostęp do Twojego konta w serwisie X.

Awatar i nawa konta

Duży niebieski przycisk z białym napisem o treści: Autoryzuj aplikację

Mały niebieski napis: Anuluj.
#AI #x #grok


Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?

Show folks this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.

#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley



All this #AI hate on Fedi makes me want to start a support group for people like me, who find the tech fascinating and useful. Sadly, all this hate probably discourages sensible people whilst tech bro yuppies have no such qualms.
#AI


My main instance is down, and I am unsure if it will return, so I cannot transfer my followers, so boosts would be helpful! I am a Blind Romance writer, #Accessibility advocate, and more! I do a lot of digital community work and love reading audiobooks. I still do penpals, the snail mail way! I detest #AI but love eating international candy! #Introduction #Introductions


#AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him.

Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.

Bilawal Sidhu:

It's wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.
Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.
Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to Al companies) - all by the age of 26.
All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he'd have made on the world if he was still alive today.

Susan Swartz, Jul 12:

11 years, 6 months. RIP my darling boy.

image of Aaron

6:53 AM Jul 13, 2024


TROM II: We can automate almost anything


Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/


We used to call it "cut-up". Nowadays, it is fashionable to call it "AI".

Früher haben wir sowas "Collage" genannt. Heutzutage ist es cooler, "KI" dazu zu sagen.


All Hardware Sucks, All Software Sucks.

AI Winter is coming.

#ai #ki #eggplant #ahsass


Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/in-ironic-twist-midjourney-bans-rival-ai-firm-employees-for-scraping-its-image-data/

Or the rivality between burglars...
#AI

#AI


Ed Zitron comments in the last episode of tech won't save us something that I find interesting to point out about #generativeAI , even if it is obvious:

Let's imagine we all accept #AI generators and create a new internet based on them (or a large majority, at least). In that case (which is somewhat the business model pursued by #bigtech), we would reach a point where systems would be able to be trained only on content created by themselves.

Thanks @parismarx 🥰

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/211_silicon_valley_deserves_your_anger_w_ed_zitron


Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 28 - LLMs Are Not Human Subjects



𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Now I'm going to publish it on social media and enjoy the likes and responses. 😊

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Before it will be ready to publish, I need to make a compilation of work-in-progress screenshots and wireframes, to prove that it's not AI-generated, and to avoid people asking what AI prompt I used to generate the image. 😖😖

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #GenerativeAI #design #art #3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt


Adobe used artworks of contributors in Adobe Stock as training data for their final #AI Solution to replace the artists in the first place. All done without consent of contributers. So, I'm quite convinced that they will do everything to fight their incorporated death.
#AI


@8Petros [Atlas Unshrugged]_ @Be Markaida aka Musi
Should at least be marked either with tags or in alt-text , that it is generated by #AI
#AI @Musi