Some of the prompts indicate the ChatGPT user does not expect that a human may end up reading their conversation, because they ask ChatGPT to keep the content to themselves.

This is infuriating for the obvious breach of trust, but also sad for the obviously misplaced trust in a human-shaped commercial system.

#AI #LLM

The AI agent gold rush (setting up an AI agent tasked with making money online) is here and the only people making money off of it are, once again, the shovel sellers. Except the buy-in is extremely low, the hope for returns minimal and hopefully quickly exhausted, so goodness forbids it should be brief.

#AI #LLM

There’s something inherently funny to me juxtaposing the fantasy doomsday scenario involving an AI agent “going rogue” mass-hacking devices including by offloading the compute required to do so to the already-hacked computers, servers and smart devices by distributing an open weight model and then running inferences on them; and on the other hand the real complaints of humans deploring that their high-end computer is barely enough to run inferences on existing open weights models.

#AI #LLM

Oh look, the websites I host are under siege again. I don't have to look at the logs to figure out that it's AI scrapers again, and people wonder why I'm so gung-ho against the 5 biggest LLM models that are sucking the soul out of my body without me having to ever use them.

#AI #LLM

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.

● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores

🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

#tech #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AISlop

I can't attest about the accuracy of this piece, but it makes a strong argument for why the AI bubble hasn't popped yet despite showing no tangible results compared to the marketing claims: it has devolved into a full-fledged cult and not buying into the faith, even superficially, can cost one's livelihood. And so the public positive reinforcement loop goes on, while in private people are often skeptical at best, and rightfully so.

#AI #LLM

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

^{hermit-tech.com}

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This article shows a reason why I often joke that I refuse to use LLM-powered systems to avoid being “tainted”.

Among humans, language has harmless local feedback loops. First you don’t know what “on fleek” means, and you start using it more or less voluntarily, to the visible displeasure of your teenage kid.

But the feedback loop with LLMs is global and one-way since individual context windows are small and temporary (or permanent and, I assume, costly).

And for the same reasons I shouldn’t use “on fleek” seriously, I do not want my language to be converging with LLM systems. It simply isn’t the crowd I want to be associated with.

And while I (still) have a choice, the people the LLMs used the language style from are rightfully upset, just like the artists whose style have permeated most AI-generated images.

#AI #LLM #Language

https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286611564057950

I strongly suggest blocking this instance if you don't like your toot ending up feeding an LLM.

#llm #fediblock #consent

I don't voluntarily use #LLM #AI systems out of principles, though I don't judge anyone for using them.

Still, I keep informed through people using it and people researching their effects. And so far I've seen a pretty massive discrepancy between the favorable impression these tools make on individuals while on aggregate, the value of the output is pretty low. That's why I dub them fooling machines: Even when they aren't intended to manipulate people, the natural language interface still makes a good impression, regardless of the actual quality of the output.

A good argument when pro-LLM accuse anti-LLM to be against technology is that anti-AI are, by definition, more tech savvy than pro-LLM.

It's like AI "artists" telling people who use oil paint, acrylic, pastels, charcoal, wax, gouache, watercolors, graphite, silver point, digital etc. they're against "artistic techniques".

#ai #llm #media #art #tech

You may have heard that #mozilla introduced an #AI kill switch into #Firefox.

If you would rather use a browser that is less interested in #LLM technologies, @Waterfox has been your companion for over a decade.

I had a chance to ask the founder and developer some questions about Waterfox's history, operations, and their take on AI.

Enjoy and and share!

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/02/fifteen-years-of-waterfox-alex-kontos-on-independence-ai-and-the-future-of-browsers.html

#browser #tech #opensource #interview #internet

Fifteen Years of Waterfox: Alex Kontos on Independence, AI, and the Future of Browsers

TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks.

^{Youssuff Quips}

I often use this when trying to explain LLMs to people

#AI #LLM #OhNoWereGonnaNeedAnotherTimmy

#PSA - I recently stopped my windows based computer backing every document and photo to the #Cloud because fuck #Microsoft and their #LLM - I never asked for their fucking cloud storage in the first place. Or their LLM that they incorrectly call AI - it is not AI and can’t even add up.

Anyway, as part of this process, Microsoft then automatically deleted all my files - *including* the versions on my own computer. Fuck Microsoft.

As it happens, I back up all my computer files on an external HardDisk on the first day of every month. As a result, I was able to copy the files and directories back to my computer with little disruption.

If you are going to disconnect from your cloud storage - be warned in advance … back up all your files and directories on an external Hard Disk first.

Public Service Announcement:

When someone says "I googled it" they NO LONGER MEAN "I did a web search and this is what one of the web sites that came up in the search said"...

..."I googled it" *now* means "I typed a question into google and google's AI spit out this answer."

Please adjust your conversation and cultural assumptions accordingly.

#AI #LLM

This is how to disable the new “AI” chatbot in #Firefox:

• type about:config into the awesome bar
• skip the warning for first time modders
• locate the browser.ml.chat.enabled setting and set it to false

In the #Librewolf fork, a thoughtful person has already done this for you.

(HT to @kuketzblog for the hint!)

#genAI #chatbot #bullshitgenerator #llm #dontCallItAI

Die Infrastruktur von FOSS wird von "KI"-Firmen angegriffen:
"LLM Scraper zerstören die Infrastruktur von FOSS-Projekten, und es wird immer schlimmer."

https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/

#OpenSource #FOSS #LLM #KI #AI

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

^{Niccolò Venerandi (LibreNews)}

European Open Source AI Index
https://osai-index.eu/the-index?type=text&view=grid

#LLM #AI #DHd2025

The Index

A community-driven public resource on open-source generative AI systems in the European Union.

^{European Open Source AI Index}

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

Peter

2024-10-23 19:53:59

cool cool cool. https://bsky.app/profile/singingpigs.online/post/3l63woonobj2l

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

CC @fedora (https://fedoraproject.limequery.com/142117?lang=en)

#GenerativeAI #AI #LLM #ethics #fedora #openSource #FOSS #BigTech #RedHat #IBM https://det.social/@jlink/112811798901196501

My company recently internally promoted using Microsoft Copilot for Web including to "Generate creative content (such as poems, stories, songs, and more).". I replied to the Slack message some snarky questions about author consent to have their work used by the LLM tool, after which I was directed to an internal feedback form about LLM usage.

I repeated my question "Do we have the details on the dataset Copilot was trained on and if the relevant authors were asked for their work to be used, especially for the “creative content generation” part?" and I received a personal response from the Senior Vice President of End User Technology & Experience that "No data is tracked, sent to LLM models and microsoft doesnt (sic) know what we ask and return".

I was initially only venting, but the escalation culminating in a non sequitur has made me even more frustrated.

#LLM #AI

#AI #LLM is gunking up the web, especially for lesser-represented languages. Spammers are creating garbage English language content using LLMs, then translating it into *multiple languages* at the same time, using Machine Translation, presumably to generate clickbait ad revenue in several languages at once.

In English, such gunk accounts for some 9% of total sampled web content. But in languages with less representation on the Internet, the figures could be much higher. In Malay, it’s something like 26%, and in Swahili it’s nearly HALF of everything found on the web.

Paper [pdf]: “A Shocking Amount of the Web is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749.pdf

Check this out:

Your AI-free Content Deserves a Badge

https://notbyai.fyi/

⚠️ Edit: Please read the license and the following toot ⚠️

https://floss.social/@amin@alpha.polymaths.social/111461825808009435

It is not ideal. If I had known this and read the fine-print, I probably wouldn't have shared it 😔

#AIFree #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NotByAI #LLM #LLMs #SALAMI

Not By AI — Add the Badge to Your Human-Created Content

Download and add the Not By AI badge to showcase your AI-free & human-first approach to content creation (writings, art, photos, paintings, videos, and music)

^notbyai.fyi

⚠️ Uwaga , kradom!
Nie umiejom napisać prompta więc kradnom! 😱
Kradom naszą ciężko ukradzioną pracę (milionom anonimowych artystów...)! 😱
"Kradzież w społeczności artystów AI"
https://medium.com/@JimTheAIWhisperer/stealing-in-the-ai-artist-community-ai-art-and-the-shared-imagination-4b65bfdaf986

#ai #llm

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