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
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/
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Today's Poll 👇
How often do you use AI tools in your daily life?
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Poll #Tech #FutureOfWork
Options: (choose one)
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/
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#Field of #Red #Poppies at #Sunset by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
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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
Newest #Substack: READ THE REST & DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! https://blueamp.substack.com/p/dems-search-for-identity-psst-sherrod - "As #Democrats search for identity, #culture & policies to reinforce the values the first 2 communicate to voters, they must lean into the roadmap Sherrod provided for yrs to win handily in OH.
Even ignoring the dingos of the rw echoes-phere & corporate #media click bait ladies of the night, doesn't mean there’s not a problem. B/c there is, it’s a major & it’s one some of us have been screaming about for yrs"
#news #politics #trump #russia #usa #ukraine #us #unitedstates #eu #ai #writing #tech #senate #tariffs #ICE #economy #nato #donaldtrump
"We’re learning a lot, I’m going to be honest with you."
https://www.theverge.com/news/767421/taco-bell-ai-drive-thru-trolls-glitches
New in The Medium Blog: Our CEO @coachtony shares how our position on #AI has evolved, and asks for your feedback on how #writers can use AI tools to tell human stories.
Call for all creators: join the #ONLYOFFICE #AI Agent Competition!
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We’re inviting developers, students and tech enthusiasts to design custom functions for the ONLYOFFICE AI agent.
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More information: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2025/08/onlyoffice-ai-agent-competition?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=fosstodon
A fascinating thread beginning with #AI #management #jobs and branching off into #EV #BEV #riceCookers #sustainability #resilience #climateCrisis and more. Has my vote for #bestThreadEver
From: @RickiTarr
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/115129335224173175
Bit of a content warning that I'm about to share some #LLM-generated slop. Just two short bits, to make a point.
I made an #OpenToWork post on #LinkedIn today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #JobHunting #scams #AIScams #JobListingScams #JobScams
I made an #OpenToWork post on #LinkedIn today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #JobHunting #scams #AIScams #JobListingScams #JobScams
Congratulations to @WIRED for catching their AI-written article, retracting it, and publishing a candid 𝘮𝘦𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘢."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-wired-got-rolled-by-an-ai-freelancer/
Have any academic journals done that?
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wichtiger Retröt eines Pixelfed Posts von ... earlier this year 🤘
#StarterPack #AI #LoehweVsAI
"The only realistic path forward for generative AI firms is to start charging their users the direct costs for running their services, and I do not believe users will be enthusiastic to do so, because the amount of compute that the average user costs vastly exceeds the amount of money that the company generates from a user each month."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/
There's some really gross hypocricy on Fedi regarding AI by computer scientists/ tech enthusiasts who are vocally critical of some aspects of generative AI for appearances, but who are actively benefiting from the AI bubble professionally, and talking out of both sides of their mouth.
There is also some gross classism in the decrying of people's intelligence who are using it to take shortcuts (as if they are the problem, not the wealth-class or hypercompetitive neo-liberalism).
I think we are making a mistake listening to half-assed criticisms from uncredible sources while focusing on the users of generative AI, instead of directing our ire at the tech industry itself.
There is a complete lack of accountability from the tech world to begin with about all the decisions that led us to the AI bubble.
It is just one of a long string of disastrous failures (#enshittification) and framing it as an AI-only issue, or an issue of degrees ("I know how to use it ethically!"), evades responsibility for the decades long growth of tech-surveillance capitalism.
AI is the logical endpoint of early 21st century tech, and criticisms of it need to be grounded in criticisms of the tech industry in general. #AI #Tech
I like to poke LinkedIn once in awhile with an "AI" critique to see what I can stir up. One reason I do this is to keep an eye on the changing form of the booster rhetoric. Nowadays a lot of folks respond to critique with some form of "today's LLMs are bad but tomorrow's will be amazing", the true believer/quasi-religious response with a touch of false humility for flavor. Yesterday I got a "AI critics are just as bad as AI boosters" false dichotomy, which by my read was a variant of the "AI critics are hysterical and irrational" with the twist that the speaker was suggesting that boosters are too. That felt new-ish to me. Granted, the hubristic "we're the smart guys in the room, you should do what we say" framing is ancient in the tech industry. Suggesting the boosters are also not the smart guys in the room is an interesting move because it's an attempt to go meta. Neither the boosters nor the critics are the smart guys in the room; the smart guys in the room are actually the ones who can see that (and so you should do what they say, which is more LLMs always).
#LinkedIn #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM
#LinkedIn #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLM