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"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"

On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.

#office365 #AI #microsoft

To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences Edit: I just set the post to public. Feel free to share.
The Mac shell screen found under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy. Near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which is now unchecked and asking for a restart of Microsoft Office.
#microsoft #AI #office365

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 β€” helping you choose the right #AI tools for your needs.

Read our opinion for details:

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


Open Source AI is here - Nextcloud

Today, the Open Source Initiative has released its first official definition of Open Source AI. Find out why this is an important milestone.
Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)
#AI

#AI #przemyΕ›lenia

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 β€” water and energy β€” 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.
#Capitalism #AI @Thom Hartmann

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.
#Software #AI

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 Krupa

2024-10-23 19:53:59


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

#AI #google #llm #stochasticparrots #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

publictorsten

2024-10-16 07:48:31


https://x.com/elizlaraki/status/1846252781851890026?
Tweet: I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF... Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🀨 Immediately, I email the conference host. (FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.) He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue. He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website. She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller. AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🀯 β€” FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

#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.


GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

A huge blocklist of sites that contain AI generated content for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
GitHub
#firefox #Chrome #AI

Solingen: Polizei soll Gesichts- und Stimmerkennung im Netz durchfΓΌhren

Der Regierungsentwurf fΓΌr die Ampel zur TerrorismusbekΓ€mpfung aus dem "Sicherheitspaket" geht weiter als angekΓΌndigt und schließt einen Stimmenvergleich ein.​
Stefan Krempl (heise online)
#AI #polizei #Gesichtserkennung #biometrie #geheimdienste #missbrauch #hacking #palantir #analyse #ki #Verbraucherdatenschutz #Datensicherheit #kΓΌnstlicheIntelligenz #Stimmenerkennung #Rasterfahndung #DataMining

> #Microsoft confirms that #Windows 11 Recall #AI is not optional β€” 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.


Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional β€” a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update

Windows senior product manager Brandon LeBlanc says, "This will be fixed in an upcoming update."
Christopher Harper (Tom's Hardware)
#windows #microsoft #AI

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.
#AI #Nvidia

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

#privacy #AI #email #llm

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

Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances

Generative AI is transforming home appliances into smarter, more personalized helpers. GE's app offers AI-generated recipes, while Samsung's tech learns from user habits.
Bernard Marr (Forbes)
#AI #journalism #chatgpt #artificial intelligence #ai hype

Meta to chociaΕΌ poinformowaΕ‚a, ΕΌe bΔ™dzie wykorzystywaΕ‚a dane ludzi do trenowania #AI.

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

Do organΓ³w ochrony danych osobowych w 9 krajach trafiΕ‚y skargi przygotowane przez austriackΔ… organizacjΔ™ @noyb.eu - na bezprawne wykorzystywanie danych osobowych uΕΌytkownikΓ³w w UE/EOG do szkolenia technologii X.

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

ΕΉrΓ³dΕ‚o: 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.

Twitter’s AI plans hit with 9 more GDPR complaints

Twitter did not inform users about personal data being used for AI training and did not seek consent.
noyb.eu
#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


Honest Government Ad | AI

The Governmentβ„’ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informativeπŸ‘‰ Help us keep Government...
YouTube
#AI #ClimateCrisis #bigtech #siliconvalley #billionaires #corporations #corporatocracy @thejuicemedia


How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence

Experts warn growth of extremist influencers and β€˜micro-donations’ could create even bigger wave of unrest
Ben Quinn (The Guardian)
#socialmedia #AI #UK #fascism #england #unitedkingdom #farright #muslim #violence #fascist #Southport #stabbing

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
#introductions #Accessibility #AI #introduction

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

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

ο»ΏBilawal 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
#AI #aaronswartz

TROM II: We can automate almost anything
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

TROM 2

TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023Β Β  /Β Β  Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.
TROM
#technology #AI #jobs #automation #machines

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

FrΓΌher 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

period of reduced funding and interest in AI

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#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


Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images

Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on "bot-net like" activity from Stability AI employee.
Ars Technica
#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 πŸ₯°

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


Silicon Valley Deserves Your Anger w/ Ed Zitron - Tech Won’t Save Us

A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
Tech Won't Save Us
#AI #bigtech #generativeAI @Paris Marx

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