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*

#AI #Fake #AttentionEconomy

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}

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

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".

(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1mu6t8z/whats_the_point_of_vibe_coding_if_i_still_have_to/ )

#ai #vibecoding

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

https://codeberg.org

(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)}

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

BEWARE of Google AI generated video scams -- eight second segments can be a critical clue!

Fraudsters are now using the new advanced #Google #AI video system to create scam videos (including claiming to be from #YouTube) of humans speaking to camera. These are EXTREMELY convincing. One clue (for now) is that the created videos are often limited to eight second segments. To create longer scam videos, fraudsters are stringing together these segments of no more than eight seconds each, usually with a quick fade between them to mask the discontinuities between the segments.

Google is making life much easier for the fraudsters, but much worse for you.

That's it, I had to pull out one archive website I hosted because it was getting pummeled by AI crawlers and I wasn't able to find a good way to throttle requests with Apache 2.4 and mpm_itk.

You won, #AI, you have content that isn't available for anyone else anymore.

We’re two and a half years into the AI hype cycle. How is it still going?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @emilymbender and @alex to dig into the harms of generative AI and industry strategies to keep the public’s attention.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/277_generative_ai_is_not_inevitable_w_emily_m_bender_and_alex_hanna

#tech #ai #generativeai #openai

Emily and Alex pore through an elaborate science fiction scenario about the "inevitability" of Artificial General Intelligence or AGI by the year 2027 - which rests atop a foundation of TESCREAL nonsense, and Sinophobia to boot.

References:

AI 2027

Fresh AI Hell:

AI persona bots for undercover cops

Palantir heart eyes Keir Starmer

Anti-vaxxers are grifting off the measles outbreak with AI-formulated supplements

The cost, environmental and otherwise, of being polite to ChatGPT

Actors who sold voice & likeness find it used for scams

Addictive tendencies and ChatGPT (satire)

You can check out future streams at on Twitch, and send us any AI Hell you see for future episodes.

Our book, 'The AI Con,' is out! Get your copy now.

Follow Emily: Bluesky/Mastodon
Follow Alex: Bluesky/Mastodon

Music: Toby Menon.
Production: Christie Taylor.
Graphic Design: Naomi Pleasure-Park.

For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them

"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them

#AI #aipocalypse #capitalism #jobs #labor

For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care? says Ed Newton-Rex, founder of Fairly Trained

^{Ed Newton-Rex (The Guardian)}

What on earth, SoundCloud??

"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."

https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use

via @sarahdal https://crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/114477755873097160

#soundcloud #AI #copyright #musicians #AITraining

The statement “why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write?” almost perfectly captures so many peoples’ feelings about #AI.

And it evokes @pluralistic’s reminder that although AI probably can’t do your job, an AI salesman can probably convince your boss that it can.

In the end, this technology (or rather the market for this tech) is aimed squarely at its least noble use: cheapening and degrading human labor that doesn’t fit neatly into a balance sheet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzdjqxo

The people refusing to use AI

Worried about the environment and the loss of skills, some people are resisting the rise of AI.

^{Suzanne Bearne (BBC News)}

Public service announcement for artists: starting on 30 April 2025, Pinterest will start to use any image it finds on its platforms to train their AI slop machine.

You artwork might have been added to their platform without you knowing about it, because everyone can pin images from around the web.

If you want to remove your art from Pinterest, follow this guide (no account necessary):

https://juliabausenhardt.com/new-ai-bullshit-artists-have-to-put-up-with-spring-2025-edition-how-to-protect-your-art-against-ai/

(I'm in the process of this too and yes it's a pain.)

#pinterest #ai #noAi #art

New AI bullshit artists have to put up with - spring 2025 edition & how to protect your art against AI | Julia Bausenhardt

Are you as tired of AI bullshit as I am? They always come up with more, the fun never stops. Today we’ll have a roundup of new AI features that nobody asked for…

^{Julia (Julia Bausenhardt)}

I want to give #Mastodon a proper go this time, but it's hard to connect with people when no-one follows you, and hashtags only get you so far. 😞

So, if you like one of the hashtags below, please consider following me, and if you do, I'll follow you back! Thank you. 💗

#retrocomputing #msdos #windows #vintagecomputing #ai #lego #scifi #amiga #linux #doctorwho #drwho #startrek #starwars #space #uk #lgbtq #3dprinting #woodworking #discworld #reading

Ugh, Python got over 500 #GSoC applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.

So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.

#AI #Python #OpenSource

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)}

Generative AI isn’t delivering on its promises, but that hasn’t stopped governments from turning it into a geopolitical football.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @timnitGebru to discuss the state of AI in 2025 and how it continues to sustain the hype.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/267_ai_hype_enters_its_geopolitics_era_w_timnit_gebru

#tech #ai #generativeai #politics

A *very* interesting in-depth article about how the #russian #propaganda infiltrates machine analysed (#search) and learned (#AI) content.

What I'm missing is the AI used to identify these and filter from learn material/negatively score them in LLM.

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time

^{NewsGuard (NewsGuard's Reality Check)}

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}

Tak wyglądała ewolucja komputera ☺️

#komputer #technology #ai #news #evolution #mastodon #feditech #sroda #fediverse #ewolucja

DeepSeek does not answer some questions, but that is not a surprise.

@Mango talked about it earlier. No AI is fully free or always correct.

Every country controls its AI. The US is doing the same. What do you think?
#AI

hey help me out, is it good or bad that ai garbage has persuaded thousands of ppl to show up at an IRL location at least twice in the last three months?

#ai #capitalism #latecapitalism #surveillance #enshittification #aislop

Dublin Halloween parade hoax dupes thousands into packing Ireland capital's streets for nothing

Large crowds that gathered in central Dublin for a Halloween parade were tricked, not treated, by an apparent online hoax.

^{Emmet Lyons (CBS News)}

@Friendica Support
#fediAdmin #fediVerse #AI #KI

Text for robots.txt to disallow access for known AI crawlers:

User-Agent: GPTBot
User-Agent: ClaudeBot
User-Agent: Claude-Web
User-Agent: CCBot
User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
User-Agent: Facebookbot
User-Agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-Agent: diffbot
User-Agent: PerplexityBot
User-Agent: Omgili
User-Agent: Omgilibot
User-Agent: ImagesiftBot
User-Agent: Bytespider
User-Agent: Amazonbot
User-Agent: Youbot
Disallow: /

https://robotstxt.com/ai

Hopeful, but skeptical. I guess we'll never know.

#chatgpt #ai

My partner regularly receives similar Request For Proposals (RFP), so she created template responses that she validated with Legal in order to speed up the processing of RFP forms. Now her boss is suggesting her to use a custom ChatGPT integration fed with these template responses in order to ask the chatbot to regurgitate them later, in a form that needs to be vetted by Legal again, before filling in the same RFP forms. In order to "improve efficiency". 🤯

Now, I do get why unscrupulous bosses want to use AI to commodify intellectual work. I despise it, but I get it, it makes sense to me, even if every fiber of my being is against it. On the other hand, I don't understand this particular use other than ChatGPT being a hammer and everything is made into nails. This leads me to believe that the core market of OpenAI is simply stupid people wooed by a chatbot that sounds smarter than they are. It's brilliant, the scaling potential is infinite!

#AI #ChatBots #OpenAI #ChatGPT #StochasticParrots