Lana Sinapayen

Japan. miscellaneous ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/ Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology. talking dog insta @iikocookie

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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • DuckDuckGo US installs peaked 30.5% WoW on May 25, with iOS hitting 69.9%, directly following Google I/O 2026.
  • A 2026 DuckDuckGo poll found 93% of over 110,000 respondents actively rejecting AI search features outright.
  • Visits to DuckDuckGo's dedicated AI-free search version rose 27.7% WoW peak during the same post-I/O window.
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Oh no. I opened a YouTube video and the comments section opened on a bunch of "Comments summarized by AI", so that every "comment" is a regurgitate of an actual comment. I hate it here. Don't @ me if you're a llm user. You're part of this mess, no matter what you're using it for.

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It's funny to me that the hypothetical "an AI could destroy the entire world to make into paperclips!" was considered a serious and terrifying argument, but 3 men actually destroying the entire world to churn out text in an "AI" chatbot is considered so great all our governments are clapping

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I had this idea of running a neural network in Java, because if writing code with your own 2 hands is becoming as quaint as doing pottery, why would I continue torturing myself with python, a language I hate, 'in case other people want to reuse my code'?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 1 ↩ 2 · 4d ago

spamming a small research community with AI-generated papers is not going to win you medals

View on Bluesky · ♥ 4 ↻ 0 ↩ 0 · 28d ago

Any experiments with what happens when you make the [delta weights] at t+1 be an output of a deep neural net?

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