The future of the Nobel Prize. 😭
#nobelprize #machinelearning #ai
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Apple is temporarily disabling its AI-generated news notifications, which were frequently error-filled, misleading or totally false @CNN reports. Alerts included fake stories that Luigi Mangione, who is charged with murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO, had shot himself, and that Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested.
"I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student. That sure feels like bullshit."
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So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it will catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”
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NEW #SUBSTACK: Apparently #ElonMusk has a punchable face by @BrianKarem
https://www.blueamp.co/p/apparently-elon-has-a-punchable-face #TACOTrump #trump #news #politics #press #media #usa #us #eu #doge #unitedstates #tech #ai #tv #maga #stockmarket #donaldtrump #russia #ukraine #europe #france #germany #uk #writing
Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application.
“We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.”
Mediating everything else in the world through an AI system is just fine, though, and non-AI-assisted communication skills are otherwise unimportant to them.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic
"What's worse, as Berlin historian Henrik Schönemann discovered while experimenting with the bot, is that it seems trained to avoid pinning blame for Frank's death on the actual Nazis responsible for her death, instead redirecting the conversation in a positive light."
So soulless, they can't even imagine people creating music for the fun, the self-expression, or the accomplishment of developing a skill. To these types, nothing matters but output.
https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/
Update2: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113860035702353891
Update: https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113856096099247855
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An '#AI-emulation' of Anne Frank made for use in schools.
Who the fuck thought this is appropriate?
Who in the everloving fuck coded this? Who approved it?
Who didn't stop them?
This needs to be luddited 🔥🔥🔥
Spoken as a (digital) historian, who uses #LLMs as tools.
I'm not one quick to anger, but I'm fuming 😤🤬🤬🤬
(Those chatbots are not new, but I hadn't seen this one until this morning in a post by @ct_bergstrom)
#AnneFrank
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In a Zoom meeting right now in which there are almost as many #AI notetakers as there are human attendees.
Pretty soon, no one will come to meetings and it will be just AI notetakers listening for someone to start talking.
“I have a PhD in AI, worked to develop some of the algorithms used by generative AI,” one developer wrote. “I deeply regret how naively I offered up my contributions.”
https://www.wired.com/story/video-game-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/
As with crypto, so with AI:
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #crypto #scam #grift #dev #tech #con #AICon
A $1.5 billion AI company backed by Microsoft has shuttered after its ‘neural network’ was discovered to actually be hundreds of computer engineers based in India.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #crypto #scam #grift #dev #tech #con #AICon
@gruber @apike This struck a chord: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/03/event-creation-still-largely-feels-like-an-unsolved-ui-problem
Because it's true, and it led me to build https://scheduleus.online
#fantastical, #superhuman, Google, Microsoft, (me) all see the fussy calendar interface as low-hanging fruit for AI. Form-input, like calendar events, is the new UI playground in the era of AI.
Schedule Us works with your default calendar--no need to switch email or calendar client. Works great as web app saved to home screen. #ai #ui #calendar #bicyclingdownhill
"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it."
https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/
via @henry
"Ultimately, the world — because of AI — has moved on, and the Glitch platform was not built for a world where AI helps you generate code, helps you run it."
Boo!
https://thenewstack.io/why-devs-must-rethink-their-role-in-modern-cdns-and-the-edge/
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If you use Telegram, now’s probably a good time to stop.
Musk has just signed a one-year partnership with Telegram to integrate his AI Grok into the message app.
xAI will invest $300 million, cash and equity, and share 50% of Grok subscription revenue.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250528-telegram-to-get-300-mn-in-partnership-with-musk-s-xai
aquí te dejo un texto para copiar y pegar en los comentarios cuando veas que han usado la IA para una ilustración:
el uso de #IA para generar ilustraciones tiene implicaciones morales muy graves: condiciones laborales infrahumanas en centros de datos del centro de Africa, robo de propiedad intelectual para el entrenamiento del programa, apoyo a una red de empresas que promueven el racismo y políticas anti-LGTBI+ en su cultura empresarial, el desastre ecológico creado por la alimentación y la refrigeración de los ordenadores, y la pérdida de trabajo de personas que necesitan cobrar por su arte
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Here's a a text to copy and paste in the comments when you see that they have used AI for an illustration
The use of #AI to generate illustrations has very serious moral implications: inhumane working conditions in data centers in central Africa, theft of intellectual property for program training, support for a network of companies that promote racism and anti-LGBTQ+ policies in their corporate culture, the ecological disaster created by computer power usage and its cooling systems, and the loss of jobs for people who need to charge for their art
#generativeAI #IAgenerativa #ilustracion #illustration #artificialintelligence #inteligenciaartificial #arte #art
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LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxevpzy3yko
Has anyone put together an article that lists all the different walkthroughs for disabling AI in various programs/services?
Something like this: https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/opting-out-of-ai-in-popular-software-and-services/
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Abstract: This paper will look at the various predictions that have been made about AI and propose decomposition schemas for analyzing them. It will propose a variety of theoretical tools for analyzing, judging, and improving these predictions. Focusing specifically on timeline predictions (dates given by which we should expect the creation of AI), it will show that there are strong theoretical grounds to expect predictions to be quite poor in this area. Using a database of 95 AI timeline predictions, it will show that these expectations are borne out in practice: expert predictions contradict each other considerably, and are indistinguishable from non-expert predictions and past failed predictions. Predictions that AI lie 15 to 25 years in the future are the most common, from experts and non-experts alike.
Armstrong, Stuart, and Kaj Sotala. 2012. “How We’re Predicting AI—or Failing To.” In Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams, edited by Jan Romportl, Pavel Ircing, Eva Zackova, Michal Polak, and Radek Schuster, 52–75. Pilsen: University of West Bohemia.
Note that this is from 2012.
One wonders what exactly an expert is when it comes to AI, if their track records are so consistently poor and unresponsive to their own failures.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AGI
Virgin Money's AI-powered chatbot will scold you if you use the word "virgin".
https://www.ft.com/content/670f5896-1fe5-4a31-b41f-ad4f5b91202f
Archived link: https://archive.is/gGVgt
DeepSeek launched a free, open-source large-language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million — a much smaller expense than the one called for by Western counterparts.
These developments have stoked concerns about the amount of money big tech companies have been investing in AI models and data centers, and raised alarm that the U.S. is not leading the sector as much as previously believed.
The sad reality is that the US could lead in this field (1), if we'd stop routinely putting narcissists and con artists in charge and showering them with praise even when they fail.
From https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #SnakeOil #hype #grift #MarketCapitalism
(1) Putting aside whether we should, which is an important question.
"You need suckers who think AI is effectively magic:
… people with lower AI literacy perceive AI to be more magical, and thus experience greater feelings of awe when thinking about AI completing tasks, which explain their greater receptivity towards using AI-based products and services.
AI marketing is 100% about whether the sucker is sufficiently wowed by an impressive demo."
From https://econtwitter.net/users/amycastor/statuses/113902204443133686
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SnakeOil
… people with lower AI literacy perceive AI to be more magical, and thus experience greater feelings of awe when thinking about AI completing tasks, which explain their greater receptivity towards using AI-based products and services.
AI marketing is 100% about whether the sucker is sufficiently wowed by an impressive demo."
From https://econtwitter.net/users/amycastor/statuses/113902204443133686
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #SnakeOil