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.

Your car simply watches and decides whether you’re fit to drive
If the AI determines you’re impaired, it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed. Think Minority Report, but for your morning commute.

Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

Your next car purchase comes with an unwelcome passenger: a federal mandate requiring surveillance technology that monitors your every blink, glance, and head nod. Thanks to Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA must finalize rules forcing all new passenger vehicles to include “advanced impaired driving prevention technology”—essentially turning your dashboard into a judgment-free zone that’s anything but judgment-free.
...
Full article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-161321992.html
#car #safety #AI #driving

I keep seeing a lot of writers and youtubers still using #AI images to illustrate #solarpunk - even Aeon in their latest article did so.

Could I ask you to help spread https://storyseedlibrary.org/ around?

If you know a #sustainability / #climate creator who might want to talk about the movement, could you share the Library with them?

All SSL #art is human-made, Creative Commons (some even for commercial use) and translated to multiple languages!

#illustration #climateChange #futurism #hopepunk

Welcome to Story Seed Library!

A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!

^{Story Seed Library}

Firefox's AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

"Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox. On the surface, this sounds like a win for user choice in an era of AI-everything.

If we dig deeper, you can start to see that the kill switch isn’t the whole story. This feature acts like an accountability sink…"

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html

#mozilla #firefox #tech #technology #info #BigTech #browser #internet #safety #security #InfoSec #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Fuck_AI

Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on.

^{Youssuff Quips}

Hot take: People are afraid of reacting or replying to AI critiques on LinkedIn for the same reason Trump's cabinet meetings are full of sycophantic praise for the president.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LinkedIn #Trump #USPol

#Mozilla released #Firefox 148 featuring the #AI "Kill Switch" that has been making the rounds.

The design of the switch is meant to absolve Mozilla of any responsibility for your use of its AI.

It is a trap.

It is meant to switch discussion from whether Mozilla should be doing AI, to whether you can *choose* to not use it.

Don't believe their lies.

This is a long post, and if you click through, I recorded a video: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/02/09/firefoxs-ai-kill-switch-is-a-trap-how-mozilla-made-ai-your-problem.html

Hope you enjoy and please boost if you enjoyed it!

Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

TL;DR: Mozilla recently released AI controls for Firefox: a single control panel that lets people disable AI features in the browser or pick and choose which to leave on.

^{Youssuff Quips}

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

I am beyond shocked! Microsoft screwing up security around AI? After they promised security will be top priority? No way!

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-bug-causes-copilot-to-summarize-confidential-emails/

> Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information.

#AI #InfoSec

Au sujet de l'IA, on a quand même une IA qui a ouvert une PR sur matlibplot. Sa PR a été fermée directement, car cette comu n'accepte pas les PR venant d'IA.
Donc l'IA a publié sur son blog un billet à charge contre le mainteneur du projet qui a fermé la PR. Et a fini par s'excuser, et supprimer le billet à charge.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

Et maintenant, l'IA a un billet sur son blog pour exposer la discrimination anti-IA dans l'opensource
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-12-silence-in-open-source-a-reflection.html

#AI #opensource

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib

This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

^GitHub

tablets ipad kill...

#2001aspaceodyssey #eating #tablets #ipads #ai #kill #predictions

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}

#AI

#2026 the year of AI and domestic chemical warfare

Excellent article by Bruce Schneier "#AI and the Corporate Capture of Knowledge".

"The question is not simply whether #copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html

Neulich in der Diktatoren-WG

rheinneckar.social/system/medi…
(Ganz klar AI und von hier)

#Diktatoren #DiktatorenWG #Trump #Putin #kimjongun #AI #just4fun #Video #2026-01-30

#scifi

#AI

An Iconic Compendium of Fictional AI for Sci-Fi Geeks

Remember how we were all supposed to be "left behind" if we don't jump on the Metaverse bandwagon? Especially businesses?

Yeah, about that:
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too

But today we should treat absolutely seriously all the bullshit about "being left behind" if we don't adopt "AI"! 🤡

#Metaverse #AI #Hype

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

^{Sean Hollister (The Verge)}

Hyundai, which bought Boston Dynamics in 2021, has announced that they plan to deploy humanoid robots at a US manufacturing plant in Georgia starting in 2028. The company also plans to build a factory capable of manufacturing 30,000 robot units annually by 2028.

Hyundai Motor Group plans to deploy humanoid robots at US factory from 2028

#solidstatelife #ai #robotics #manufacturing

#Reality is so damn inhumanly brutal!

#ai #technology #hardware #gpu #npu #nvidia #graphiccard #nerd #humor #lol #just4fun

“Thousands of people went to the Brooklyn Bridge expecting New Year’s Eve fireworks.”
“They waited for hours in the cold… and nothing happened. Why?
Because in the past few days, social media pages and AI-generated posts shared videos of fireworks at the Brooklyn Bridge, claiming they were for NYE.”

Videos of fireworks as if they were, what? a rehearsal?!

AI is not helping but it shouldn't be an excuse for people's stupidity either.

https://www.dailydot.com/news/brooklyn-bridge-fireworks-disappointment/

#ai #socialmedia #instagram #media

Hundreds Waited For Brooklyn Bridge Fireworks That Never Came

In the days leading up to New Year's Eve, AI-generated posts flooded social media, showing fireworks over the Brooklyn Bridge.

^{Anna Good (The Daily Dot)}

Beyond the sheer callousness of using #AI Agents to *check notes* "automate acts of kindness" ending in infuriatingly spam emails, there's the sheer stupidity of having AI agents fumble their way through a graphical use interface meant for humans when we've known how to send emails with lower level tools for far longer. Although I'm not sure having an AI agent fumble its way through the SMTP protocol would be much smarter either.

All in all, another spectacular own goal for people purporting to be "effective altruists".

How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”

Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …

^{Simon Willison’s Weblog}

A team of researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland) proved that data centers are a scam.

With their software, an IA the size of ChatGPT can work with just a local network of FOUR computers (total price €9,600 / $11,280).

No need for the cloud.
No need for data centers wasting water and money.

https://goodtech.info/anyway-systems-epfl-ia-locale-cloud-decentralise/

#ai #datacenter #tech #opensource #cloud #environment #climatechange #water #news

L'EPFL dynamite les GAFAM : L'IA de la taille de ChatGPT tourne sur 4 PC à 2300 € (et sans le Cloud)

Des chercheurs de l'EPFL lancent Anyway Systems, un logiciel qui permet d'exécuter des modèles d'IA massifs sur un cluster local de quatre machines standard. C'est la fin de la dépendance au cloud.

^{Rédaction (Linagora)}

People didn't like automobiles, but automobiles, they became the future.

People didn't like planes, but planes became the future.

There were people who didn't like something as simple as seat belts, but even seat belts became the future.

People didn't like computers, but computers became the future.

Likewise, there were people who didn't like the Internet, but as you read this, clearly the internet became the future.

Additionally, there were even people who didn't like smartphones, but smartphone also became the future.

There are still people who hate all these things, even today, but they are part of daily life, and until something better comes along, they will remain so. Just as people didn't like A.I., it too became the future, and it too is still here, part of our daily lives, used by many, and until something better comes along, it will remain.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TheWaveOfTheFuture

If I were on #spotify, I’d cancel my subscription/account immediately.

King Gizzard pulled their music from the platform so Spotify has replaced it with #AI knockoffs of their music. As if paying almost nothing for streaming wasn’t evil enough, they’re now using LLMs trained on stolen content to pay artists nothing at all.

https://futurism.com/future-society/king-gizzard-spotify-ai-knockoff

King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.

^{Victor Tangermann (Futurism)}

Age verification is the new trend to de-anonymize the web. 😡

🚨Starting Dec 10, #YouTube #Australia will ask for your age.

The Big Tech already started rolling out an AI-powered age estimation system. Adults are being marked as minors & are forced to submit IDs before regaining full access to decades-old accounts.

Learn how to avoid YouTube's #AI #AgeVerification: https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-youtube-ai-age-verification

#anonymity #privacy

I often use this when trying to explain LLMs to people

#AI #LLM #OhNoWereGonnaNeedAnotherTimmy

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!

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!

#AI #LLMs

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

#agency #ai #politics

**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

#writers #writing #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