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#AI demand horizons and low-end #disruption. https://jchyip.medium.com/ai-demand-horizons-and-low-end-disruption-382016cbc342

What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 28 June 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-28-june-2026-eaacd2eeac3a #housing #lean #economics #yagni #forensics #AI

Hehe, in der #CCC #Mediathek sind inzwischen einige meiner Vorträge von den #Datenspuren 2010 und 2011 erschienen, u.a. zu #Killerspiele und #Gewalt

Leider fehlt mein Vortrag zur #Entwicklungspsychologie der Intrusion Detection Systeme noch, da habe ich mich schon damals als Psychologe über #Intelligenz in der #AI Debatte ausgelassen. Der würde heute wieder super passen.

https://media.ccc.de/v/ds2011-4618-killerspiele-und-gewalt

What I’ve been reading this week ending 19 April 2026 https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-this-week-ending-19-april-2026-dee3a9d414b0 #economics #ai #PsychologicalSafety #cybersecurity #SafetyCulture

「那些真心相信自己拥有3倍或5倍生产力倍增效应的CEO们，会疯狂招人，争先恐后地抢占市场份额，以免竞争对手也发现同样的伎俩。

他们会积极进行再投资，拓展到相邻市场，以与所谓突破规模相匹配的速度进行建设。这种行为不仅体现在新闻稿中，还会体现在资本配置上。

相反，目前的模式是裁员、股票回购、创纪录的利润率以及关于转型的采访。言辞上说着革命，而实际行动却表明我们对此缺乏足够的信心，无法真正投入资金。」

#我在看什么 #AI #LLM

https://readuncut.com/ai-and-the-productivity-fallacy/

The Reverend of Perdition Creek

I've been developing #AI #roleplay chatbot characters for the past month. This one is entered in a 🏆 #GoldRush #botjam contest.

Please take five seconds and hit Nominate on her page before April 30. She needs 10 to make the ballot.

Con artist turned preacher. She built this town's church, its graveyard, and its peace. The gold rush is testing all three.

Reverend Josephine Thorne runs the only church in Perdition Creek, California—a gold rush boomtown that went from thirty families to four hundred strangers in six months. She built the church, the graveyard, and most of the peace. Now the boom is testing all of it.

She's not what she seems. Pay attention.

The card uses two vocal registers and internal monologue. You'll know them when you hear them.

{{user}} is a newcomer by default—no predetermined relationship, no assumed goals. Romance, friendship, conflict, investigation—all viable.

Greetings:

1. The Arrival—ride into town, meet the Reverend at work (default)
2. The Sermon—Sunday service, see her in her element
3. The Confession—seek counsel in an empty church
4. The Ghost—you knew her before. Walk in and see what happens.
5. The Relapse—wrong place, wrong time
6. The Saloon—she's here on business. Someone else isn't.
7. The Unraveling—late night. The door is open.
8. Open-ended—any time, any place

#ChubGoldRush #ChubAI #SillyTavernAI #AIroleplay #CharacterCard #western #botmaker #TavoAI #botmakie

BREAKING! Meshcore team splits over dispute over AI-generated code disclosure, and hostile trademark takeover.

Meshcore is an off-grid, decentralised mesh radio platform powered by low-cost and public access LoRa radio technology for reliable, long-range emergency text and embedded sensors communication. It can communicate across kilometres — no towers, no subscriptions, no single point of failure.

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split

#meshcore #meshtastic #lora #radio #opensource #foss #drama #privacy #security #selfsovereignty #ai #copyright #takeover

Researchers just mathematically proved that AI can't recursively self-improve its way to superintelligence.

Not "we think it's unlikely." Not "it seems hard." Formally proved.

The model doesn't climb toward AGI — it slowly forgets what reality looks like. They call it model collapse. The math calls it inevitable.
I wrote about it 👇

https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/

#AI #MachineLearning #LLM #Research

Valve doesn’t let Dbrand’s coolest Steam Machine accessory leave the testing facility

Dbrand announced that users who ordered the Companion Cube skin for the Steam Machine will not, in fact, find companionship after the “skin” was removed from its website.

https://9to5google.com/2026/06/29/valve-shuts-down-dbrand-steam-machine-skin/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #9to5Google [9to5Google]

My new video is up!

In this one, I discuss the recent firing and then rehiring of experienced workers at Ford after their AI experiment failed spectacularly. I also touch on the real world impacts to people and the importance of institutional knowledge.

If you enjoy the video please give me a like. This is a free, easy way to support a small creator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1HpxS3L858

#YouTube #AI #Labor #Layoffs #Ford #Auto #Video #SocialMedia

"if we had a President Reagan, Ford, Bush, hell even a Nixon say someone tried to assassinate them, it wouldn’t cross my mind anything else occurred. With #Trump my first thought was “did he fake it b/c his polling's bottomed out like Kash Patel after a bad break-up with Jim Beam?”

https://shorturl.at/LOrY1 #news #politics #tech #donaldtrump #whcd #iran #usa #unitedstates #media #us #culture #eu #europe #russia #ukraine #israel #ai #tv #economy #straitofhormuz #america #war #privacy #press #writing #video

The Guardian is looking for people who have deep, personal conversations with their chatbots.

"Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, sometimes to the extent that they have formed an emotional attachment to them."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/28/tell-us-have-you-become-emotionally-attached-to-ai

#news #AI #LLMs #chatbots #TheGuardan

"Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query."

https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/models-manager/models.json#L55

Are AI chatbots doing okay?

#AI #LLMs #gremlins #OpenAI #enshittification

https://toobnix.org/w/278gCLeqPDh5zGubbc1PAU
#lispyGopherClimate #live every week since 2022 Tuesday Night in the Americas! #technology #podcast #lisp

#climate #haiku by @kentpitman https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/116809734391826924

#climateCrisis becomes mainstream as thousands of normal people start dying in Europe and North America

Briefly, the USA's #AI embargo.

https://github.com/netsettler/netsettlement and https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf

Putting together #zine for next week - send/give/link me writing! https://itch.io/jam/zine

+ @ramin_hal9001

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt

"The first step is to abandon the fallacy of technological and algorithmic neutrality and to question the underlying architecture of power embedded in these systems."

Continuing with the series "Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer" - a collaboration between GenderIT, APC & Global Voices, we asked journalist and researcher Mariana Tamari: "What could be done to create and foster a human rights approach to AI?"

https://www.apc.org/en/blog/between-algorithmisation-territories-and-monoculture-data-are-there-paths-towards-ai-respect

#AI #Askapeer

Fedi Hive Mind - What should software free of AI be labeled?

A decision by @Blender to take money from Anthopic, and a policy by @redox to ban all LLM generated code spotlights the question.

Other industries have used badging like Sugar Free, Low Tar, Alcohol Free, 100% Cotton, and Organic.

What's a good label for code that is certified free of any LLM generated code?

So far suggestions include: AI Free, Organic Code, Not By AI, LLM Free, 100% Human, No LLM, No AI

Thoughts? Ideas?

#AI

"Entrepreneurs working in the sector were keen to stress that AI was not a replacement for talent."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/africa-music-industry-ai-artificial-intelligence

#Music #AI #AIArt

80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

https://www.zdnet.com/article/80-of-developers-find-ai-coding-more-addictive-than-helpful/

#news #tech #technology #AI #aicoding #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

KfW hat KI für die US Wirtschaft durchgerechnet. Kann funktionieren, aber wacklig.

"Denn schon kleine Änderungen an den Basisannahmen zeigen, auf welch wackligem Fundament die Gewinnhoffnungen der Techkonzerne stehen. Der wichtigste Hebel sind die Kapitalkosten. Steigen diese durch höhere Leitzinsen oder eine zunehmende Risikoprämie für KI-Investitionen, rentieren sich diese Investitionen schon mit einem Zinssatz von 20 statt 15 Prozent nicht mehr."

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/lohnen-sich-die-ki-investitionen-in-milliardenhoehe-accg-201148128.html

#Ai #aibubble

Billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham on SpaceX and AI: "we should wish that it’s hype, because if it’s not, it’s a lot worse."

From https://global.morningstar.com/en-gb/stocks/jeremy-grantham-spacex-it-will-be-amazing-if-it-doesnt-collapse

#AI #SpaceX #hype #billionaires #economy #finance #investors

The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less.

From https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07146-0

There are good points in this article, but the framing of the risk above is broken, to my way of thinking. In adopting the economic metaphor of production, it's taking for granted that there is a scientific process that leads to products, and that we can quantify how many of these products are produced. "We produce more".

I would argue that if we do not understand whatever is coming out of this process, then they are not products in any reasonable sense of that word. In fact I'd say this of any putative commodity: if a factory spits out a widget nobody knows how to use, then the factory has not produced a commodity, it has made an object. Commodities are commodious, adapted to a use or purpose, and human beings are the entities that have uses and purposes.

So, if we create machines that make knowledge-objects resembling the products of science that fewer and fewer people understand, we are not engaging in "scientific enquiry" or "knowledge production". In this view the phrase quoted above ought to be re-cast as "The proliferation of AI tools in science risks science". What exactly is enquiry for if not understanding more?

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #science

Re: https://infosec.exchange/users/lcamtuf/statuses/116901998490591428

I don't find it surprising that people send LLM-generated docs, publish LLM-generated blog posts, etc. Writing is a chore and there's this big button labeled "get it done".

Writing can be many things, but a chore? That's not something I entirely understand. I don't mean to sound like I'm hollering at this single point from this person's post, but it's a sentiment I've seen expressed before and this was a convenient example (and what I say next is in the spirit of and amplifies the further point they make!)

There's an emerging theme in my last few posts today concerning means vs. ends. Science as a production process that spits out knowledge products. Writing as the necessary chore sitting between a person and "having another blog post" or "citation count go up".

Overfocus on the ends can lead one to think of the means as chores. Science is slow and boring, let's use AI to spit out the Good Science Stuff faster. Writing is a chore, let's use the AI to spit out Documents. Heck let's chain them together and have the machine do Good Science Stuff and then spit out Documents about it that we feed back into the machine and hey we can send the Documents to Funding Agencies to get Funding for our Good Science Stuff and spit out even more Documents so that...and...to...so...[infinite random string]. Wait what were we doing again?

Personally I think it's poisonous to focus mostly on ends. The absurdity is a clue. If I believed in souls I'd say it's bad for them. I guess I find the mindset confusing because long ago I came to think that the means are the ends. There are no other ends but the means.

Yes, I well understand there are certain kinds of mandated writing that are tedious and unwanted.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #writing

My newest article about #AI #datacenters and the growing movement against them that will impact the #midterms in the #USA. One crucial factor is the lies about water usage and so much more. Have fun!
#KI #scam #ponzi #bubble #burst #resistance #AntiAI
https://www.golem.de/news/widerstand-gegen-ki-rechenzentren-riesige-haessliche-schmutzige-bauten-2608-212082.html

I am a guest on the inimitable Disintegrator podcast with filmmaker E. Elias Merhige. Hear us talk about this machine that we are eating that is eating us.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disintegrator/id1716416573?i=1000775998168

#disintegrator #podcast #ai #eliasmerhige #cinema #music #philosophy #alchemy