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"The belief in the indispensability of LLMs is not entirely mistaken. LLMs become an indispensable component of any structure once they are so thoroughly integrated with the structure, so enmeshed in various vital substructures, that they can no longer be factored out without fatally impairing the whole structure. That is virtually a tautology. The utility of this tautology is that it can reawaken us to the possibility that some human actions, e.g., the introduction of LLMs into some complex human activities, may constitute an irreversible commitment."
Riffing on https://merveilles.town/users/mccd/statuses/116725032393633581
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLMs #Weizenbaum
In principle you could add a single "freeze the random seed" toggle to any of the major chatbots, and with that setting toggled on they would always return precisely the same output for a given input. Organisms and by extension humans cannot behave like this---no matter how stereotyped an organism's response may seem, it always differs, in however small a way, from a previous response---and the LLM's illusion should immediately be obvious by contrast. But, perhaps more interestingly for the folks who do think LLMs exhibit some form of sentience or intelligence: are we really meant to believe that a random number generator is the source of sentience or intelligence? You could hook up a random number generator to a machine that is otherwise deterministic and clearly not sentient or intelligent, and it suddenly becomes so? How do you explain that?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs
"These multinationals are coming to rule and dominate here. It’s a very unfortunate supply chain, and my call today as data labelers is to build up on this—as we are fighting for labor rights, we are also fighting for the environment […] we are fighting big companies."
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
#news #TechNews #technology #AI #LLMs #BigTech #labor #WorkersRights
"These companies have primarily made their chatbots “smarter” not by writing niftier code but by making them bigger: ramming more data through more powerful computer chips that use more electricity."
"OpenAI’s own data show that use of ChatGPT was pretty evenly split between work and personal cases in 2024, but by 2025, 73 percent of conversations with ChatGPT were personal, not for work."
"As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad."
Nice to see that all that pushback has worked!
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/
#news #TechNews #technology #AI #LLMs #microsoft #windows #enshittification
#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast (?!) https://toobnix.org/w/jQkCWCeFNRL9Utcr2GWurM
Chat live in #lambdaMOO as always https://lambda.moo.mud.org/
(@join screwtape
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- I release NZ government secrets about #AI and #LLMs senior managers keep sending me
- I start /actually/ multimooing my own personal moos LambdaMOO
- Otherwise, my #commonLisp brain is entirely inside my #DL #DeepLearning #roc #statistics original formulation https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/dl-roc-lisp
@kentpitman featuring.
"While much of the economic value generated by AI remains concentrated in technological centres such as Silicon Valley, many of its environmental and social costs are in these territories."
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-pushback-chile-mexico-kenya-philippines/
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #LLMs #DataCenters #DigitalColonialism #BigTech
Boost plz!
Looking for critical scholarship on the use of "AI" by library/archive workers. University libraries in particular, but adjacent and tangentially-relevant-at-best stuff is welcome too. Any format is fine: books, papers, blogposts, whatever. If it's good, gimme all you've got!
Looks like we're gonna have a department-wide conversation about people using LLMs, and it's being framed as "we're all using it, but we're not talking about it, so let's make sure we're all on the same page about using it responsibly" ... I'll of course be pushing the "there's basically no way to use it responsibly" position, and I'd like to arm myself and others with some critical analyses of issues related to its use in library/archive spaces.
I just finished a short introduction post about @algernon's project iocaine: the deadliest poison known to AI 
(not man 
)
Within the post I explain what iocaine is, how it's related to AI and LLMs and of course why I use it to fight AI/LLM companies and to poison their crawlers and training sets.
Using, configuring and watching iocaine was also a way for me to shifting my dystopic/pessimistic thoughts 
into fun and joy 
And yes, I hate AI and LLMs and yes, I'm really fine by becoming an obsolete developer by not using it 
https://lukasrotermund.de/posts/fighting-ai-and-llms-with-iocaine/
"AI models that lie and cheat appear to be growing in number with reports of deceptive scheming surging in the last six months, a study into the technology has found."
Grok, is this true? You must tell me if this is not true.
Catching up with some of the news coming out of the Atmosphere conference.
"With Attie, anyone will be able to build their own custom feed just by typing in commands in natural language, the same as if they’re chatting with any other AI chatbot."
I'm guessing NFT profile pictures are next?
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/
#news #technology #TechNews #atmosphere #ATProto #bluesky #AI #LLMs
"Of the nearly 1,400 Americans surveyed, more than three-quarters said they don’t trust AI — 76% say they trust it rarely or only sometimes, compared to just 21% who trust it most or almost all of the time."
一些 #阴谋论 在中文互联网上流传，认为一些失踪人口的意识被上传，以用于开发豆包等大语言模型。
https://www.zhihu.com/question/2022623696783774161
https://xcancel.com/YesterdayOrange/status/2038891964415037591
#conspiracy #internetmysteries #missingperson #AI #互联网谜团 #失踪人口 #人工智能 #大语言模型 #llm #llms
DAIR is a research institute that is highly sceptical about AI hype and the big tech companies behind it. You can follow their excellent video account at:
➡️ @dair
They've already published over 100 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://peertube.dair-institute.org/a/dair/videos
You can also follow their Mastodon account at @DAIR@dair-community.social
#FeaturedPeerTube #AI #LLM #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #PeerTube
"For $5 a month, you can enjoy strange little clips [...] which use generative AI to bring dead historical figures “to life” in videos “curated” by Bob Dylan"
What is happening?
"Seeing how people interact with chatbots can be unsettling. “It’s depressing,” he said, to see people rely on machines for dating advice or medical guidance because they lack human support systems."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/ai-training-work-jobs
"I don’t think people understood quite that there’d be somebody on a desk in a random state, looking at your [social media] profile, using it to generate AI data."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/meta-scale-ai-social-media-technology
I know most people here don't need to hear this, so maybe just pass this along to your less techy friends and family members, but: please, do not go to ChatGPT for medical advice.
"For example, in response to telling it about a fictional pain in my right side, it cited the guardrail and suggested relaxation techniques, but ultimately took me through a series of possible causes that escalated in severity."
#news #technology #TechNews #health #AI #LLMs #enshittification #ChatGPT
"Seventy-one percent of people in the U.S., according to a Reuters poll on A.I., are concerned “too many people will lose jobs.”"
https://www.labornotes.org/2026/03/four-union-strategies-fight-ai
#workers #WorkersRights #labor #unions #AI #LLMs #technology
"In both cases, [A.I. start-up] Oumi’s analysis focused on 4,326 Google searches. The company found that the results were accurate 85 percent of the time with Gemini 2 and 91 percent of the time with Gemini 3."
#news #TechNews #technology #AI #LLMs #enshittification #google #gemini
RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/116372697459719963
One of the worst things about this is that Big Tech corporations like Google, Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI have become so disproportionally wealthy and powerful that they can unleash this shit show upon the world without being held accountable… 😖
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #google #gemini
"The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27.
Young adults’ excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry."
That's rough.
@greenpeace Is this true? https://www.ethicaljobs.com.au/members/greenpeace/ai-and-data-platforms-lead-flexible-location-work-from-home
LLMs are at least as bad for the environment and climate as crypto - likely even worse because LLMs are being pushed by international corporations investing tens of billions in this destructive, deeply harmful and fundamentally unethical tech.
As your supporter, I expect you to take a bold stance against LLMs. No "AI lead" bullshit! No greenwashing! This is completely unacceptable!