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Designers talk a big game about "empathy" for users. But empathy without respect is nothing more than pity.
And nowhere is the lack of respect more apparent than in how LLMs have been productized and adopted. The "human in the loop" excuse pushes consequences down onto scrupulous employees and ultimately onto the very users on whom we claim to be centered.
The consequences of disrespectful software are now becoming apparent across tech.
Meta Pulls AI Image Feature From Instagram Days After Launch
Remember that new feature Meta announced last week that let people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content? It didn't last long. Meta pulled the feature from Instagram late on Friday, following wides…
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/13/meta-pulls-ai-image-feature-from-instagram/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #MacRumors [MacRumors]
#lispyGopherClimate every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas weekly #lisp #tech #podcast since 2022! Going live in five (0UTC Wednesday)
https://toobnix.org/w/1wbMEGRvVeRrbSviJVxy8H?start=2m53s
@kentpitman #climateCrisis #haiku and also presence returns!
@ramin_hal9001 cohosting too.
This week let's (re)create a new #lisp #AI #lab in #lambdaMOO #VR #live !
In the #Philippines, #AI fluency is part of the school curriculum at the college/university level.
https://bobreyes.com/ipeople-mapua-set-ambitious-target-to-build-200000-ai-fluent-learners-by-2029/
There will be those who won't know or care until the bullshit bites them in the ass personally, and until then "AI is awesome!"
" #Meta Platforms is facing a federal #lawsuit in the #UnitedStates after 26 current and former #employees alleged that the company used #AI-assisted tools during a major round of #layoffs in a way that disproportionately affected workers with medical conditions, #disabilities, or those on protected medical or #familyLeave"
NEW: The FBI has explored using AI to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballots seized from Fulton County, Georgia, another push in the Trump administration’s continued reinvestigation of the 2020 vote.
#News #FBI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Vote #Election #Georgia #Trump
Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can aut…
https://www.theverge.com/tech/966442/1password-anthropic-claude-browser-integration
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TheVerge [The Verge]
Mural seen in San Francisco, California.
#bigtech #AI #Google #degoogle #oracle #microsoft #apple #Techbros #fascism #politics #streetart #graffiti #neoliberalisme #technology #Capitalism #Capitalisme #technofeudalism #technofascism
KIMI K3 刚刚发布
现在 KIMI 网页端现在的模型选择菜单，有三个选项：K3 · Max，擅长对话与 Agent 任务，全能旗舰；K3 集群 · Max，海量搜索、批量处理，一次完成更多；K2.6 · Fast，快速对话，即时响应。对话长度有标准和超长两个选项，超长对话仅 Allegro 及以上订阅会员可用，支持百万 Tokens，消耗额度更快
我们在 GTA 6 发布之前得到了 6 亿个国产开源大语言模型
Pangram AI Detection
https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/pangram-ai-detection/
"… Pangram Labs is the most accurate AI detector on the market, as verified by the University of Chicago and the University of Maryland. Check any text for AI on any page, in any document, without switching tabs. …"
Post-installation:
<https://www.pangram.com/chrome/onboarding?source=install> – account required. After a seven-day free trial:
― 4 scans per day (1,000 words max) free.
@pangramlabs (automated)
🤖 KI ist weder Heilsbringer noch Teufelszeug – sie ist ein Werkzeug.
Kaum ein technisches Thema wird derzeit so emotional diskutiert wie Künstliche Intelligenz.
Auf der einen Seite werden enorme Erwartungen geweckt. Auf der anderen Seite wird teilweise bereits die bloße Nutzung von KI pauschal verurteilt.
Ich finde: Beides hilft uns nicht weiter.
Für mich ist KI zunächst einmal ein Werkzeug. Eines, das inzwischen erstaunlich nützlich sein kann.
Bei der Fehlersuche auf einem Server. Beim Analysieren von Logdateien. Beim Programmieren. Bei der Recherche. Um komplizierte Zusammenhänge verständlicher aufzubereiten. Oder manchmal auch einfach für eine kreative Spielerei.
Aber wie bei jedem Werkzeug gilt:
Benutze das Werkzeug, das dir bei der Lösung eines Problems hilft – aber verstehe, was du damit tust.
Denn KI kann Fehler machen. Sie kann Dinge erfinden. Und sie kann falsche Antworten mit einer Überzeugung präsentieren, bei der man zweimal hinschauen sollte. 😉
Gerade deshalb ersetzt KI für mich weder Wissen noch Erfahrung oder eigenes Denken.
Genauso wenig sollten wir die berechtigte Kritik ausblenden: Energie- und Ressourcenverbrauch, Trainingsdaten und Urheberrecht, Datenschutz, Abhängigkeiten von großen Konzernen und die gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen dieser Technologie sind wichtige Themen.
Darüber müssen wir reden – sachlich und durchaus kritisch.
Was mir dagegen zunehmend schwerfällt, ist die pauschale Einteilung in „KI ist großartig“ oder „KI ist grundsätzlich schlecht“.
Zwischen blinder Begeisterung und vollständiger Verteufelung gibt es ziemlich viel Raum für einen vernünftigen Umgang mit dieser Technologie.
Und am Ende bleibt für mich ein entscheidender Punkt:
Ein Werkzeug nimmt uns die Verantwortung für seine Verwendung nicht ab.
Genau darüber habe ich im Admin-Blog etwas ausführlicher geschrieben:
➡️ KI im Werkzeugkasten des Admins – weder Heilsbringer noch Teufelszeug
Mich würde interessieren, wie ihr das seht: Welche Rolle spielt KI inzwischen für euch? Nützliches Werkzeug, etwas, das ihr bewusst meidet – oder irgendwo dazwischen?
#KI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #AI #OpenSource #Linux #Administration #DerAdmin
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
「我自豪地拥有一台几乎全新的面包机。
它的大小和微波炉差不多，就放在我的厨房台面上。
大概花了100美元。
制作基本面包的原料只有面粉、水、酵母和盐。一袋面粉售价两三美元，大约可以烤十个面包。一罐酵母可以用好几个月。盐很便宜，成本几乎可以忽略不计。
这台机器几乎包办一切：揉面、发酵、烘焙。我把原料倒进去，按下一个按钮，三个小时后面包就出炉了。
嗯，三年里我大概只用过这台机器两次。
相反，我每周都会去杂货店买一条用塑料袋包装的预切片工厂生产的面包。
这就是面包悖论。
这也解释了为什么 SaaS 公司远未走向衰落。」
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-bread-paradox-why-convenience
New by Sabot Media x We Will Free Us:
The U.S. government just put an antifascist communications collective on a terrorism blacklist.
For 25 years, Autistici/Inventati has built communications systems designed to survive censorship, surveillance, police raids and corporate interference. Now the state is attacking something harder to seize than a server: the financial and technological relationships that allow that infrastructure to exist.
Now that infrastructure itself is being treated as evidence of terrorism, and solidarity is turning into “material support.”
This isn't only an attack on A/I. It's a warning to anyone building servers, encrypted communications, independent publishing platforms and other infrastructure that makes organizing beyond state and corporate surveillance possible.
Please read and share. September 25th is approaching. Learn what is happening and don’t let the state write the only version of this story.
[REPOST] The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25
Ripubblichiamo (in inglese) un bel post di Sabot Media che ripercorre la nostra storia e la collega a quanto sta avvenendo con la nostra iscrizione nella lista delle organizzazioni globali terroristiche da parte dell'amministrazione americana. Ringraziamo Sabot Media perché ha fatto un lavoro
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083
#kaos #AI #AutisticiInventati #libro #Presentazione #USCrackdown2026
DOH! WHEN DID THE SKY
BECOME REAL ESTATE? 💎
I’ve just watched a fascinating and rather unsettling video about the next possible frontier of AI. Not another data centre on Earth. Data centres in orbit. SpaceX has filed plans for an enormous constellation of up to a million solar-powered satellites designed to carry AI computing into space. Other companies and countries are exploring similar ideas.
THE ATTRACTION IS OBVIOUS.
AI needs staggering amounts of electricity. Data centres also need enormous cooling systems and, on Earth, often huge amounts of water. In orbit, there is abundant sunlight and no local power grid to overwhelm.
INGENIOUS.
But then another question appears.
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE NIGHT SKY?
We already live with thousands of satellites overhead. Most of the time, we barely notice them. But if the numbers rise from thousands to hundreds of thousands, or even MILLIONS, the night sky itself begins to change.
Not metaphorically. Literally. More moving machines. More reflected light. More interference with astronomy. More objects travelling through crowded orbital paths at extraordinary speeds. And suddenly this stops being merely a technology story. It becomes a question about ownership.
WHO GETS TO DECIDE WHAT THE NIGHT SKY LOOKS LIKE?
The stars belong to nobody. The sky was not invented by a company. It was not built by a government. Human beings have looked into essentially the same dark sky for hundreds of thousands of years. It may be the oldest shared inheritance we have.
Yet decisions made by a relatively small number of companies and regulators could alter that view for everyone on Earth.
THAT FEELS IMPORTANT.
We have done this before. We enclosed the land. We commercialised attention. We turned personal information into a commodity. Now we may be approaching another enclosure.
THE SKY ITSELF.
None of this means orbital computing should never happen. The technology may prove extraordinarily useful, and many of the worst predictions may never come true. But technological possibility is not the same thing as permission.
Before we fill the heavens with machinery, perhaps humanity ought to have a rather larger conversation about what belongs to all of us. Because if we change the night sky itself, there may eventually be nowhere on Earth left to drive out to see it as it was.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
https://youtu.be/asggq4veVQc?si=-E7REY9NSHRlGcMF
#NightSky #Space #Astronomy #AI #Satellites #SpaceX #Technology
MARS HAS
A MAINTENANCE PROBLEM 💎
Yesterday, I was writing about human beings on Mars, and one question kept nagging at me. People say we’ll send the robots first.
Fine.
But getting to Mars, landing there, and then working for years in the Martian environment are brutal demands on machines, not to mention the ongoing industry, building and maintenance work to be done upon arrival.
Radiation damages electronics and computer chips. Extreme temperature swings stress materials. The red dust gets in everywhere. Moving parts wear out. Bearings fail. Electric motors fail. Cables fail. Sensors fail. And there is nobody there with a toolbox.
So the usual answer is: send lots of robots, make them modular, give them spare parts, and let them repair one another. Which sounds sensible until you ask the obvious question.
WHO REPAIRS THE ROBOT THAT REPAIRS THE ROBOTS?
A Mars colony built by machines would need far more than a few clever humanoids to unload the rockets.
MARS WILL NEED SOMETHING CLOSE TO AN AUTONOMOUS INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM.
Robots maintaining robots. Robots replacing worn parts. Robots diagnosing faults. Robots manufacturing components. Robots keeping power, communications, mining, transport and construction working for years without a single human engineer ever standing beside them.
And eventually, if the whole thing is supposed to become independent of Earth, they would need to make their own replacement parts from local Martian materials.
That is not a small detail.
THAT IS PRACTICALLY AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION OF MACHINES.
We have become very good at landing robots on Mars. We have not yet demonstrated a self-maintaining robotic economy on Earth, let alone on another world.
So perhaps the real question is not: “Can Elon Musk send robots to Mars?” Quite possibly. The harder question is:
CAN HE SEND A SYSTEM THAT CAN KEEP ITSELF ALIVE?
Because if the answer is no, then the robots are not building a colony.
They are just waiting to break.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#Mars #Space #Robotics #AI #robots #ElonMusk #SpaceX #Technology #Earth #toolbox #building #colony
I WILL NOT BE BULLIED 💎
I received a vicious reply today because I use AI. It wasn't a disagreement. Nor a criticism. It was a full-frontal personal attack! And I’ll admit it affected me more than I expected.
I USE AI MAINLY BECAUSE I'M PARALYSED.
Typing is physically difficult for me. I have the use of only one hand. So, tapping out a post or email with one finger is exhausting. Voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing in a normal amount of time.
THAT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A DEFENCE.
You can dislike AI. You can distrust it. You can argue about copyright concerns, energy and water use, labour, culture, or anything else that concerns you. I will listen to you and answer you.
But attacking people simply for using AI is not principled.
IT'S BULLYING.
And disabled people should not have to produce a medical justification every time they use a technology that makes their life easier.
AI is a tool. How it is used matters. Who gets harmed matters. Context matters. What does not help is turning “AI user” into a moral accusation and deciding that cruelty is suddenly acceptable.
I’m quite happy to discuss the technology with anyone.
HOWEVER, I WILL NOT BE BULLIED FOR USING IT.
I didn't need to do anything about the attack. Before I could even decide how to respond, both the post and the person disappeared from my notifications.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#AI #Accessibility #Disability #AssistiveTechnology #Fediverse #Bullying #PWD #Tool
AND THEN THERE
IS EVERYBODY ELSE 💎
Today I'm thinking about AI, LOL, again, and I think there are actually three quite distinct groups forming around Artificial Intelligence.
There is a small group so frightened by it that they have decided they want nothing at all to do with it. And an even smaller group that has gone further and decided that anyone who uses AI is somehow morally suspect, deserving of abuse and bullying for their choice to use the technology.
AND THEN THERE IS EVERYBODY ELSE.
Most of us are not marching around waving AI banners.
WE’RE WATCHING.
We are trying things. We’re asking where it helps and where it doesn’t. We’re learning what it can do for disability, accessibility, education, writing, research, communication, creativity, work and ordinary daily life.
Some of us will use AI a lot. Some will barely use it at all. Some will remain deeply sceptical, and that seems perfectly healthy to me.
WHAT'S NOT HEALTHY IS FEAR OF A TECHNOLOGY TURNING INTO HOSTILITY TOWARD THOSE WHO USE IT.
AI is still very new. None of us knows exactly where this is going. But I suspect the future will not belong to the people shouting loudest either for it or against it.
It will belong to the much larger group quietly discovering where it adds value to human life. And where it doesn’t.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#AI #Accessibility #Technology #Fediverse #ArtificialIntelligence #value #human #healthy #research #education #communication #creativity #work #WAR #EVERYBODY #life
I TESTED THE WATERS.
PEOPLE WERE KIND 💎
Over the past few days, I’ve been talking openly about something quite personal.
AI is not a novelty for me. It is an indispensable accessibility tool. Because I am paralysed and type with one hand, voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing without exhausting myself.
I wasn’t entirely sure how people would react when I said that plainly. A few people were awful. But only a few.
THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WAS THOUGHTFUL AND KIND.
People understood that you can have serious concerns about AI and still treat the person using it with decency and dignity. People understood that accessibility matters. People understood that context matters.
And some people shared their own experiences of using AI to read inaccessible screens, instructions, packaging, or simply to remain more independent.
I found that unexpectedly moving.
WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT HOW TERRIBLE PEOPLE ARE ON THE INTERNET.
Yet when I actually tested the waters, most people behaved like decent human beings. They listened. They disagreed without attacking. They made room for another person’s circumstances.
THAT HAS LEFT ME FEELING TRULY GRATEFUL.
Not grateful that everyone agrees with me. They don’t. Grateful that disagreement has not erased kindness. Perhaps human beings are still rather better than the internet sometimes makes us believe.
@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek
#AI #Accessibility #Disability #Kindness #Fediverse #GRATEFUL #THOUGHTFUL #KIND