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René Walter

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i learned more from a three minute record than i ever learned from a large language model. Meme Magic / SocMed Psy / AI / Climate / Ex-Nerdcore.de http://goodinternet.substack.com http://goodmusic.substack.com https://sigmoid.social/@rawx
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OMG www.nature.com/articles/s41...

State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
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  • Chinese state-media content appears in typical LLM training sets at roughly 41 times the rate of Chinese-language Wikipedia.
  • Across 37 countries, models prompted in the local language produce more regime-favorable responses in countries with lower press freedom.
  • A pretraining experiment with just 6,400 state-scripted documents pushed an open-weight model to pro-government responses nearly 80 percent of the time.
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*Chatbot "Caveman Plugin" destroys flowery Delvish AI dialect because Delvish costs way too much in tokens. www.404media.co/companies-ar...

Companies Are Making Claude and Codex Talk Like Cavemen to Stop AI’s Soaring Costs 404media.co
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  • A plugin called caveman, written by Julius Brussee in early April, strips verbose model output and cut tokens by roughly 65 to 75 percent in his tests.
  • Shayne Sweeney, OpenAI's director of engineering, contributed code to caveman to support Codex, and developers at Nvidia and GitHub are reportedly using it.
  • GitHub shifted to per-token billing in April, Uber blew through its entire AI budget in four months, and Legrand's internal memo points staff at caveman.
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I don't like the category True Believer due to its real world psychological connotations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tru... and i see myself more in the kontextmaschine sector... but these things never lie, so i have to live with it. Nice toy bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

The AI Compass bambamramfan.github.io
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This is interesting: Why Slop Matters arxiv.org/abs/2601.06060

Why Slop Matters arxiv.org
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  • A paper accepted by ACM AI Letters argues AI slop deserves rigorous academic study rather than dismissal as digital pollution.
  • The authors define slop by three features: superficial competence, asymmetry of effort, and mass producibility.
  • They sort slop along three dimensions, instrumental utility, personalization, and surrealism, and liken it to historically dismissed 'low' cultural forms.
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I'm intheweights.com

IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
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  • Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
  • The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
  • Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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Researchers had students "report both their own AI use and that of their peers" and found "a significant gap, with approximately 60% of students reporting that they use AI compared to 90% of their peers". 30% of people who claim to never use AI are lying for klout. papers.ssrn…

papers.ssrn.com
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"CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box (...) You can feel that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/

CrankGPT — fully offline, human-powered local AI squeezlabs.github.io
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  • CrankGPT runs a full voice-interactive AI pipeline on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB RAM, powered solely by a 20W hand-crank generator.
  • Cold-start to functional conversation takes roughly 30 seconds; time to first token ranges from 0.8 to 2.9 seconds depending on model size.
  • Memory bandwidth, not raw compute, is the primary bottleneck for on-device LLM inference, with DDR5 hardware achieving 29-58% faster token generation than DDR4.
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AI Critics often brush away the democratizing functions of generative AI, but here's a good example: "Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival". www.theguardian.com/film/202…

‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making? theguardian.com
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I mean I love to dunk on those ill informed scifi takes from tech bros like everyone with a braincell, but the fact remains that right now thousands of tech minded people read and evaluate an encyclical released by the pope re:AI and that's such a hard trope you'll read it in every scifi novel ever.

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Love Loab found in visualizations of AI generated solutions of an Erdos problem. (I asume the model picks up interference effects or compression artifacts, but who knows, maybe there *are* hidden messages in math.)

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