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Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV
#voices #assistants #ai
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjM9bWLdtQ
PS: This video is most definitely not AI-generated. Check out the rest of her channel!
65 years of the robot voice in movies and tv
Élvezd az általad kedvelt videókat és zenéket, tölts fel eredeti tartalmakat, és oszd meg azokat barátaiddal, családoddal és a YouTube-közösséggel.YouTube
Fediverse folks, especially from the UK! The Lib Dem spokesperson for science and technology has a short feedback form on AI to get public thoughts on the subject. If you have five minutes to fill it out, please do so: I think it'd be good for politicians in her position to be hearing more from small scale creators and academics and suchlike on the problems we're seeing with these technologies.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZiot9vGHvhOOt-1KX068gZSUwkvdE5vFQSRWTHBEoVIei3Q/viewform
Boosts welcome!
Everyday AI
The Liberal Democrats are gathering real-world insights on how the UK can make AI work for people. Whether you work in tech, policy, business, academia or civil society, or you’re an interested citizen – your perspective matters.Google Docs
great article on the rhetoric of "agency" / "you can just do things"
https://thebaffler.com/latest/high-agency-individuals-vincent
**Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit**
AUTHOR FRIENDS: the searchable claims database is up! Make sure you check for your works (and check misspellings of your names, titles, etc, the database is a mess).
TELL YOUR FRIENDS
https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/
The FAQ will answer your questions but I also wrote an editorial about the lawsuit in Sigma (local PGH SFF newsletter): https://parsec-sff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sigma-473-September-2025.pdf
Anyway, check it out!
Sue
#linkedin #alternative #AI
So advancing AI is a religious crusade now?
Thiel “encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist”
Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist - WSJ
#AI
https://archive.ph/BmHIs
Wow, I found an application where AI-generated illustrations and videos is really useful! Are you familiar with these mobile games ads that don’t look anything like the actual game? Now with AI these ads look even further from the actual games!
Isn’t it wonderful?
#AI #VideoGames
Forget it. There's no hope for humanity.
Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/millions-turn-to-ai-chatbots-for-spiritual-guidance-and-confession/
#ai #artificial-intelligence #artificial-stupidity #chatbot #chatbots #fall-of-human-civilization
Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession
Bible Chat hits 30 million downloads as users seek algorithmic absolution.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Even notepad in Windows has Copilot?
I just... I just want a text editor to keep quick scratch notes on without having to worry about anything being sniffed up or...
Eris...
I hate using Windows....
(note: I have no control or choice in the matter of OS at this specific project. It hurts. But I get paid. So yay.)
#AI #microsoft #windows #notepad #privacy
After watching a YouTube video a friend recorded of one of his Silksong playthrough, YouTube recommended me a recent provocative video about Denzel Washington allegedly storming off The Late Show with Stephen Colbert stage. I didn't click on it, but it did pique my curiosity, as I didn't expect either men to behave this way. A short web search later, I learned this was entirely made-up: https://burlingtongazette.ca/the-interview-that-never-happened/
And sure enough, Denzel Washington has not been a guest on this show since 2021: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Late_Show_with_Stephen_Colbert_episodes_(2025)
*sigh*
The Interview that Never Happened
By Pepper Parr June 3rd, 2025 BURLINGTON, ON There was what I thought a really good interview between Denzel Washington and Stephen Colbert on Facebook. Described as “The Late Show wit…Burlington Gazette - Local News, Politics, Community
Umstrukturierung bei OpenAI: Wenn die Persönlichkeit von ChatGPT zum Problem wird | t3n
OpenAI steht an einem Scheideweg. Was ist wichtiger: Die Beliebtheit eines KI-Modells oder die Korrektheit der Antworten? Um der Lösung näherzukommen, wird das Model-Behavior-Team jetzt neu organisiert.Noëlle Bölling (t3n Magazin)
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
#AI #health #intelligence #NaturalStupidity
A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-generated content often scored well, the brains behind it were shutting down.
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.
20250831 Selbstschießende KI
Für Freiheitsrechte, gegen Massen-Überwachung und Sicherheitswahnwww.a-fsa.de
I was saying recently that "having a human in the loop" is the less egregious case of using Large Language Model systems, but the way the very tech is implemented makes even this use case fraught.
#AI #LLM
There's magic trick that can make any #AI project successful. When the LLM's success rate is too low, just say "it's OK, we will have a human in the loop" and ship it anyway.There's just one problem with this magic trick: most #LLM implementations don't have the thoughtful and intentional guard rails that would make this a real human-in-the-loop system.
Instead, the loop becomes a vicious cycle of deception and deskilling, losing all benefits of oversight.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/human-in-the-loop-is-a-thought-terminating-cliche
"Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche
Without thoughtful guard rails, asking people to clean up after machines doesn't make machines better — it makes people worse.The Product Picnic
There's magic trick that can make any #AI project successful. When the LLM's success rate is too low, just say "it's OK, we will have a human in the loop" and ship it anyway.
There's just one problem with this magic trick: most #LLM implementations don't have the thoughtful and intentional guard rails that would make this a real human-in-the-loop system.
Instead, the loop becomes a vicious cycle of deception and deskilling, losing all benefits of oversight.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/human-in-the-loop-is-a-thought-terminating-cliche
"Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche
Without thoughtful guard rails, asking people to clean up after machines doesn't make machines better — it makes people worse.The Product Picnic
I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:
It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".
#ai #vibecoding
The Real Reason You Haven't Been Replaced by AI Yet
AI is already powerful enough to replace millions of jobs. The only thing stopping the mass layoffs isn't technology. It's that no CEO wants to be the first one to face the political firestorm.Luc Olinga (Gizmodo)
Lie, cheat and steal.... Now it's time to face the consequences. Let is buuuurn!
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
PS. Here’s where to go: @Codeberg
(As an additional bonus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing you’re part of an anti-fascist not-for-profit cooperative instead of a trillion-dollar US corporation that’s helping Israel commit genocide.)
#git #sourceControl #revisionControl #GitHub #Codeberg #dev #AI #BigTech #Microsoft #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.Alistair Barr (Business Insider)
OK! Best (broadly conceived) op-eds on #AI? Looking for 600-1200 word pieces in outlets great and small from the last few years.
What have you read that’s made a mark?
No one deserves this fate, even if they are the author of their own degradation
More, it's a cautionary tale for us all about the future of #society and #AI and its caustic effects on #mentalHealth
Even if this particular canary in the coal mine chose to place themselves into their predicament with enthusiasm, and is funding it
"A Prominent #OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a #ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say"
https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health
#ventureCapital #vultureCapital
A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
Why "AI" Is a Con: Our Book Launch! (feat. Vauhini Vara)
Elon Musk has built the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis. Residents are fighting back against the exploitation of the city’s resources
Organizers say they have less of a chance at making environmental reforms in the majority Black city than Musk and xAI do at causing harmray levy uyeda (Prism)
What a brilliant session with @emilymbender in conversation with @Kobotic at #RMIT tonight.
Key takeaways:
- #BenderRule - name the language you're working in
- #AI is not one technology - it's many in a trenchcoat. Be specific.
- Who benefits from the changes wrought by AI and who bears the harms and externalities?
- AI is hype - learn enough to cut through it, ask difficult questions
- "Pile of racist linear algebra"
- Read everything by @karenhao
- Read #TheAICon by Emily and @alex
- Read @CriticalAI
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Facebook will an unveröffentlichte Bilder auf Smartphones
Facebook fragte einige Nutzer nach der Erlaubnis, Bilder auf ihrem Smartphone automatisch in eine Cloud zu laden – möglicherweise zwecks KI-Training.Niklas Jan Engelking (heise online)