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Pavel
Raised gifted; non-practicing.
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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good nature.com
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case 404media.co
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Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops 404media.co
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The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com
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Arizona Students Boo Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt During Graduation Speech - Business Insider businessinsider.com
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Microsoft reports expose AI's cost problem: The tech is more expensive than paying human employees | Fortune fortune.com
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Here’s How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature wired.com
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Majority of City Council Members Urge Mamdani to Pause A.I. in Schools nytimes.com
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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International amnesty.org
Articles & links
Not liking AI is now a terrorist act
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
- A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
- The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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welcome to clown town population: all of us
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I am begging you to not upload personal information to AI apps www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...
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Great piece here from @karenhao.bsky.social We keep lazily saying "AI could cure cancer" when in fact *this* AI is more suited to mistakenly bombing schools and making people psychotic. We can only redirect it through investment, regulation and resistance. www.theguardian.com/…
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This paper doesn't use the term "intentional stance," but it does really expose that imputation of consciousness is an act by the observer that's usually not based on dispassionate analysis of the observed's internal structures. It's just vibes, and those aren't sufficient. ar…
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This fucking assholes compared AI to immigrants Get fucked
After six months of Claude Code, Microsoft has had enough
This, for example. In the service of showing how awesome and cutting edge they are, KPMG released a work of fiction masquerading as a report. All the case studies were made up. They have finally withdrawn it. But it's only a matter of time until they find another agentic rake …
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“Google is clear that it's starting to store much more than just what you type into Search. ‘Your saved media includes your images, files, and audio and video recordings from your interactions with Search services,’ reads the page’s description.”
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I appreciate that the letter, signed by 29 of 51 city council members, called for ongoing "'education on the multiple risks in employing the technology’”, an approach that reinforces teaching about and against AI technologies before (if ever) teaching with them.
"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."
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Recent commentary
Two businessmen meet. One says, I've got a truckload of vodka. The other says, I'll give you 300 dollars for it. They shake on the deal. Then they part ways — the first to try and find a truckload of vodka, the second to try and find $300. This is a joke about AI.
Every time I commit to write about something other than AI, the industry coughs up an absolute gem like GOOSE MATH that demands to be covered.
Every asshole is now talking about "the agentic web" as though "agents" are doing anything except driving model providers to crush people's websites with scrapers that are stealing any training data they can find.
"AI native" is the new term that reduces the semantic value of any sentence which contains it
My favorite genre of thinkpiece is "the way you use AI is roasting your brain right inside your tiny baby head; however the way I use AI actually makes me brilliant and powerful, kind of like a god or maybe even stronger than the gods"
Keep seeing linkedin posts like: "Just got laid off after automating my work with AI. I love AI and use it every day but..." And then immediately after, posts like: "You will get fired unless you 10x your productivity by automating your process with AI!"
"But it won't happen HERE/to ME" is the driving attitude behind LLM adoption. Sure it can hallucinate - but I am personally far too special for bad things to ever happen to me. So I will be safe trusting my credit card number to it.
AI is a cognitohazard (image via @jadedblueeyes@tech.lgbt)
Saw an executive read some slop, call it out as AI, and send it back. There is yet hope.
"but you use spellcheck, that's AI" Truly the label "AI" means nothing anymore.
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