ai

Edit: Thanks to @GeopJr for pointing this out: this AI assistant is a third-party project and not directly affiliated with the GNOME desktop. I was tripped up by the wording of the Phoronix post I shared, which could have made this point clearer. I'll leave the original post below for the sake of transparency and also in case it helps anyone else who was similarly confused.

I am very twitchy about what's happening with AI polluting every corner of Microsoft Windows and am worried the same will happen to at least some Linux distributions. I think the worry is warranted, but in this case I misfired--sorry about that.


I guess I won't be using GNOME ever again

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-Assistant-1.0

#tech #dev #FOSS #OpenSource #linux #software #GNOME #NoAI #AI

The wrongness density is approaching critical today:

Headline: The military’s new AI says ‘hypothetical’ boat strike scenario ‘unambiguously illegal’

https://san.com/cc/the-militarys-new-ai-says-hypothetical-boat-strike-scenario-unambiguously-illegal/

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #MilitaryAI #USMilitary #SaberRattling #geopolitics #USPol

cc @davidgerard

Oh come on.

"We are observing stealth crawling behavior from Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine. Although Perplexity initially crawls from their declared user agent, when they are presented with a network block, they appear to obscure their crawling identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences."

https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

Via https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114971052570561612

#AI #TheWeb #internet #technology #news #TechNews

Dear anti-AI folk: I hear you, but, please please please, complain about lacking laws and regulations, complain about the specific things you don't like, because being "against AI" is tone deaf, it doesn't arrive and it's too generic to act upon.
Whether #AI is here to stay I cannot predict, but in either case it's the boundaries we set right now that will be important for the coming decades/eons, so to actually exert control don't be against AI, be against lack of regulation and control thereof

All kinds of awful.

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant."

https://futurism.com/leaked-chatgpt-lawyer-displace-amazonian

#news #TechNews #technology #AI #law

Anthropic, the creator of the Claude AI chatbot now faces "hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months based on a class certification rushed at "warp speed" that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine".

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

#news #TechNews #technolog #AI #copyright

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Last month, job boards for actors were flooded with ads looking for people to record “conversations, character voices, and natural speech to help train AI systems," for a project by Microsoft. Payment was orders of magnitude more than a normal acting gig — up to $80,000, where a national ad campaign for a big brand might ordinarily pay $6,000. @404mediaco's Rosie Thomas spoke to voice actors about the "Faustian bargain" of accepting such roles. "You're still taking away tomorrow's meal because they're offering you a little bit more,” says Katie Clark Gray.

https://flip.it/XFIH26

#Movies #Cinema #Film #Acting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

#lispyGopherClimate #emacsconf ! #archive pending https://communitymedia.video/c/screwtape_channel/videos

#deepLearning #worstCaseScenario #chatGPT #LLM #academic e.g. 2024. (side topic) #ai

@eduardoochs #emacs problems and #eev
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/modern/

@ramin_hal9001 's #schemacs #scheme
https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/schemacs/

Mine (emacs as intelligent #lisp agents)
https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/115677498331867468

Neat: #python using lisp #swank + #slime

+ #climateCrisis #haiku from @kentpitman !

telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join mdh
"hey #emacs

If you are a published writer & object to Anthropic slurping up your writing for AI, you have until Aug 15 to sign up to help defend your copyright. First, check this database from The Atlantic to see whether they have taken your writing (you might want to check regardless):

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

Then go here to sign up to be considered as part of a class action lawsuit:

https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

It’s easy & self-explanatory.

Please boost to help get the word out.

#AI #Copyright #Writing

#worldcon opens in 20 minutes and we’re along the East wall of the 2nd floor.
Come beat the PDP-8/e at chess or adventure and learn about 1960s #ai under the MIT AI labs Incompatible Timesharing System

https://icm.museum

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #seattle

I'm thinking I'll get myself a copy of Samuel Butler's Erewhon. It's on Project Gutenberg but lately I've been acquiring paper books and this seems like a good one to have in hard copy. I feel vaguely embarrassed that I've never read it, given how closely it relates to what I've researched in computer science (evolutionary algorithms and artificial life) and what I spend my time thinking about these days (clarifying why I believe machines cannot be alive or intelligent in the way we usually mean these words).

Apparently Giles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri were influenced by this book and Butler's other writings on machine life. The Butlerian Jihad of Dune is possibly named after him (so far haven't found a definitive statement of this, though a very similar event happens in Erewhon). Even Alan Turing references it. Butler, in turn, was heavily influenced by Darwin's On the Origin of Species. So there is a fascinating confluence around this book.

Without spoiling it, does anyone have thoughts about Erewhon?

#Erewhon #Butler #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #evolution #MachineIntelligence #AI #ArtificialLife #ComputerScience #EvolutionaryBiology

To avoid some of the negative aspects of doomscrolling, avoid clicking on headlines that include words like may, might, could, possibly, projected to, etc. This isn't #news, it's speculation, less facts and more guesswork... a lot like #AI. And of course it's filled with worst case scenarios to keep us clicking. Modern #media profits from spreading misery, so be sure to remember that unimaginable things like #peace and love are always always always possible.

#Please #Take Me #Home by Kaye Menner #Photography
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#kitten #cute #eyes #greeneyes #fur #whiskers #flowers #meadow #grass #cat #animal #dof #digitalart #ai #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

👩‍⚕️ AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

｢ AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed, their ability to find tumors dropped by about 20% compared with rates before the tool was ever introduced, according to findings published Wednesday ｣

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/ai-eroded-doctors-ability-to-spot-cancer-within-months-in-study

#ai #medicine #science

If you take the stance that technical debt is code nobody understands, then current LLM-based code generators are technical debt generators until somebody reads and understands their output.

If you take the stance that writing is thinking--that writing is among other things a process by which we order our thoughts--then understanding code generator output will require substantial rewriting of the code by whomever is tasked with converting it from technical debt to technical asset.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #CodeAssistant #AgenticAI #tech #dev #coding #TechnicalDebt

Ich hab gestern übrigens ein kleines bisschen was gebloggt… über "#KI", nicht komponierte Soundtracks, rap-begeisterte Schulklassen… und vor allem über #Künstler und künstlerische Zusammenarbeit im Fediverse:

https://schallundstille.de/2025/08/12/liebe-kunstler-im-fediverse-wir-mussen-reden/

#blogging #art #AI

I've heard about some jobs pushing their workers into using AI, but now students?

"The reach and pace of AI’s impact to society, including many dimensions of higher education, means that we at Purdue must lean in and lean forward and do so across different functions at the university."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/12/13/purdue-university-approves-new-ai-requirement-for-all-undergrads/

#news #TechNews #technology #AI

Today's Poll 👇

How often do you use AI tools in your daily life?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Poll #Tech #FutureOfWork

Hacker News front page today.

Uh-oh.

"AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/

"Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/

"95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds"
https://thedailyadda.com/95-of-companies-see-zero-return-on-30-billion-generative-ai-spend-mit-report-finds/

#AI #AISlop

#Guardian of #Time The #Steampunk #Lion by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

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#lion #animal #steampunk #clock #fantasy #architecture #sky #majestic #imaginative #gears #architecture #time #brass #metal #industrial #sky #clouds #majestic #surreal #ai #digitalart #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

#Field of #Red #Poppies at #Sunset by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

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#floral #redfloral #flowers #redflowers #redpoppies #digitalart #ai #colorful #landscape #mountains #redyellow #sky #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

New piece on the blog! This one offering a theological commentary on Christianity and technology (and how it might be rooted in an eschatological heresy!)

#Christianity #Church #Episcopal #Anglican #Evangelical #technology #AI #AISlop

https://catecheticconverter.com/christians-are-supposed-to-be-left-behind

"Honing your discernment, exercising your brain, wracking your vocabulary to find the right phrase to express your inner world. These are not things that are supposed to be easy."

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/764519/ai-gemini-pixel-journal-app

#writing #thinking #AI #technology