You seem to be wondering why Clippy is in my profile picture.
Let me help you with that:
https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ
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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.
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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.
#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
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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.
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The Anti-AI Protests Have Arrived in Portland, and This is Only the Beginning
By @jaredwhite | @theinternet
According to reports from pro-#AI attendees at a business meetup in #Portland, #Oregon, anti-AI protesters showed up outside, throwing eggs and paint at cars and distributing pamphlets with the following message:
“BUTLERIAN JIHAD AGAINST AI
never ending destruction and death propels the machine of progress. AI rides on the front of this beast, annihilating humanity, leaving nothing in its wake but sterile boxes to lock us in and apps to keep us sedated. while the techies are inside sipping their cocktails the rest of us are faced with a choice: to accept our position at the bottom of the social order or find our people and bring the whole thing down. only we can decide to smash the screens that are brainwashing us into submission.
the time is now,
the day is here,
ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!”
Read more: https://theinternet.review/2025/08/15/the-anti-ai-protests-are-here/
👩⚕️ 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 ｣
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
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