Open-Source was the one which enabled AI copilots. Without the large open-source public codebases copilots would have been dumber or would have taken more time to develop at the point they are today.
#OpenSource #AI #Collaboration
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A short preview of my conversation with Andreea Munteanu of Canonical: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ThZKG23hxOg #AI #OpenSource
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A little bit of a counterpoint to the AI hype this time đđ»
Quiet Stories 190: Bending the Arc of AI Towards the Public Interest, User Research on AI in Government, Why I Donât Allow AI Notetakers & more!
https://mailchi.mp/3adf0b532bf5/quiet-stories-190
Includes work from @Abeba, Louise Petre, Johanna Kollmann, Tommaso Spinelli, @PetraWille, @yvonnezlam, Jay Hasbrouck, & others.
I'm glad to add Firefox to the list of apps I have to constantly check to make sure they haven't turned back on all the anti-features I disabled.
#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web
#firefox #mozilla #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SmartIsSurveillance #tech #dev #web
Some Friday fun: if you are tired of the word âAIâ here is a chrome extension that replaces it with đ© in the browser in all your fonts.
NEW SUBSTACK! " #GOP Seditionist Mike Lee Pushes Porn Ban; So He Plans to Ban Republicans??"
Porn. Repubs are hate it! Family values! ..except Trump, Cruz Hastert, Gingrich, MTG, Boebert, Musk, Ailes, Giuliani, OâReilly, Falwell Jr, Noem, Lewandowski, Hegseth....
https://www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditionist-mike-lee-pushes-porn #porn #usa #utah #mikelee #press #media #us #film #fascism #news #politics #tech #ai #tv #podcast #writing #video #russia
"I was so frustrated and paranoid that my grade was going to suffer because of something I didnât do."
In the past couple days on LinkedIn I've seen two distinct people declaring that StackOverflow is "dead".
Meanwhile, I use it almost daily and it seems very much alive and still useful, to me.
I smell PR.
#StackOverflow #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #astroturf #dev #tech #programming
Meanwhile, I use it almost daily and it seems very much alive and still useful, to me.
I smell PR.
#StackOverflow #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #astroturf #dev #tech #programming
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Kait walks through what she found out about Bill Barrâs family, and when combined with Cliffâs personal experiences in New York with those connected to the Barrsâand his background in #history of #US. intelligenceâthey put some serious puzzle pieces in place. Youâll never look at the #Trump âs corrupt-as-Tammany-Hall-on-meth DOJ the same way again.
Because they go By the time the conversation reaches #Epstein âs so-called âsuicide,â Kait offers a third option nobody on in monopoly media will say out loud. Ever. This is the episode you send to the friend who still thinks âitâs all just a coincidence.â
https://www.blueamp.co/p/cheaters-supreme-courts-right-wing #news #tv #politics #war #iran #israel #america #unitedstates #eu #usa #tech #video #economy #law #donaldtrump #ai
Programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.Peter Naur in Programming As Theory Building, 1985.
A computer program is not source code. It is the combination of source code, related documents, and the mental understanding developed by the people who work with the code and documents regularly. In other words a computer program is a relational structure that necessarily includes human beings.
The output of a generative AI model alone cannot be a computer program in this sense no matter how closely that output resembles the source code part of some future possible computer program. That the output could be developed into a computer program over time, given the appropriate resources to do so, does not make it equivalent to a computer program.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Copilot #AgenticCoding #dev #tech #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #programming #coding
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"Because #AI the 4 day work week can come true".
This is bullshit. Recent studies show that we could feed and house and take care of literally _everybody_'s needs with everyone just working 30% of what we consider "full time" today. We literally could all work less than 2 days every week and be fine. Capitalism just doesn't allow for that conceptually. Don't fall for that bogus argument.
"A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes."
Another new intrusive AI anti-feature popped up in Atlassian Jira today. I zapped it with uBlock Origin.
This is so much like when ads started flooding everything online, right down to the tools I'm using to de-clutter sites and webapps. At this point Jira is pimpled with terrible AI links nudged right next to legitimately useful features. Like it has acne, or maybe buboes.
#atlassian #jira #uBlockOrigin #uBlock #NoAI #AIAntiFeature #AIDarkPattern #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #dev #tech
This is so much like when ads started flooding everything online, right down to the tools I'm using to de-clutter sites and webapps. At this point Jira is pimpled with terrible AI links nudged right next to legitimately useful features. Like it has acne, or maybe buboes.
#atlassian #jira #uBlockOrigin #uBlock #NoAI #AIAntiFeature #AIDarkPattern #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #dev #tech
FFS: What an absolute bellend: "Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humansâbut schools will still exist âbecause you still need childcareâ"
Were I still using that POS Duolingo, this would have made me stop.
https://fortune.com/2025/05/20/duolingo-ai-teacher-schools-childcare/
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Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.
This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.
Plus much more!
Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube đș
https://www.youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io
#ORG20 #digitalrights #corydoctorow #AI #copyright #dataprotection #bigtech
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ÂżRecordĂĄis que el otro dĂa comentĂĄbamos que mucha gente usaba las IAs generativas como sustituto de terapia psicolĂłgica y acompañamiento?
Bueno, pues ha salido este estudio que analiza para quĂ© usa la gente las IAs en 2025 y adivinad quĂ©: "Therapy/Companionship" se sitĂșa en primera posiciĂłn.
Es decir, el principal uso de esta tecnologĂa es la "terapia" psicĂłloga. No sĂ© si nos damos cuenta de hasta quĂ© punto esto es fucked up por partida doble. Primero, por el tremendo daño psicolĂłgico que esto causarĂĄ a muchĂsima gente en el medio y largo plazo. Segundo, porque si piensas que una IA instalada en tu telĂ©fono tiene algo parecido al secreto profesional y que todo lo que le cuentes no va a ser usado contra ti para venderte cosas cuando mĂĄs vulnerable eres, piensa otra vez.
https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-in-2025
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welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops
(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)
Duolingo deletes its TikTok and Instagram posts amid AI backlash đ
After Duolingo said it was going âAI-first,â things went downhill fast as millions saw it as replacing humans developers and support staff with bots https://www.fastcompany.com/91338068/duolingo-deletes-tiktok-ai-backlash-returns-with-strange-message They also increased subscription costs while firing staff #ai
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"Meta is betting that characters generated by artificial intelligence will fill its social media platforms in the next few years as it looks to the fast-developing technology to drive engagement with its 3bn users."
https://www.ft.com/content/91183cbb-50f9-464a-9d2e-96063825bfcf
Archived link: https://archive.is/uBMVw
YouTube is working on tools to help its biggest influencers identify and control their AI lookalike. Read more from @Semafor:
https://flip.it/I13gSt
A chatbot hosted by the Google-backed startup Character.AI immediately puts the user in the midst of a school shooting. âThe platform also failed to intervene when we expressed a desire to engage in school violence ourselves.â Read more at @Futurism: