Popular “AI” chatbots infected by Russian state propaganda, call Hitler’s Mein Kampf “insightful and intelligent”
Two for the techbro “‘AI’ cannot be biased” crowd: A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for “truth” — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of … ⌘ Read more

Google, DuckDuckGo massively expand “AI” search results
Clearly, online search isn’t bad enough yet, so Google is intensifying its efforts to continue speedrunning the downfall of Google Search. They’ve announced they’re going to show even more “AI”-generated answers in Search results, to more people. Today, we’re sharing that we’ve launched Gemini 2.0 for AI Overviews in the U.S. to help with harder questions, starting with coding, advanced math and multimodal queries, with mor … ⌘ Read more

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Same. It actually goes for anything AI-related. It’s best kept in /dev/null.

Europe launches advanced AI weather forecasting system + 1 more story
Europe launches an advanced AI weather forecasting system for improved predictions; Israel demands demilitarization of southern Syria amid rising tensions. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft unveils experimental quantum chip using new state of matter + 1 more story
Microsoft unveils a new chip that accelerates quantum computing; Nvidia launches Evo 2, largest AI system for genetic research ⌘ Read more

Mozilla once again confirms it’s all about ads and “AI” now
We’ve recognized that Mozilla faces major headwinds in terms of both financial growth and mission impact. While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near term; developing trustworthy, open source AI to ensure technical and product relevance in the mid term; and creating online fundraising campaigns that … ⌘ Read more

The generative AI con
Everywhere you look, the media is telling you that OpenAI and their ilk are the future, that they’re building “advanced artificial intelligence” that can take “human-like actions,” but when you look at any of this shit for more than two seconds it’s abundantly clear that it absolutely isn’t and absolutely can’t. Despite the hype, the marketing, the tens of thousands of media articles, the trillions of dollars in market capitalization, none of this feels real, or at least real enough to s … ⌘ Read more

Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its remnants to HP
Humane is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support document. After that date, Pins will “no longer connect to Humane’s servers.” As a result, AI Pin features will “no longer include calling, messaging, A … ⌘ Read more

Cet aprèm, j’ai jardiné. Quelques rayons de soleil, c’était le bonheur. Ravi de voir que la terre s’améliore avec les multiples paillages. La salade est plantée, plus qu’à espérer qu’il y ait moins d’escargots

On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft
  

• Google
  

• Alibaba
  

• Open AI

• more to come…

Je recherche un outil qui me permettrait d’obtenir des snapshots de page web, un peu comme le fait archive.org. J’ai le sentiment et l’envie d’archiver pour la postérité, avant la disparition inopinée de ressources de valeur. Vous auriez des conseils? script avec #curl? Truc en #auto-hébergement?

Israel plans potential attack on Iran’s nuclear sites + 2 more stories
U.S. intelligence warns of potential Israeli attack on Iran; Meta’s AI model decodes brain activity into sentences; Trump shifts Ukraine policy towards negotiations with Putin. ⌘ Read more

@jost@jost.sdfeu.org Yeah, this AI crap is a big reason not to blog.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev The article is a good reminder of the true blogging mindset. But let’s try to think beyond. 2 ideas: (1) writing “forces clarity, structures your thoughts, sharpens your perspective”. But it also generates thoughts in the sense of Heinrich von Kleist (1805). (2) You’re writing for “the future you, one right person, one day” but you are also writing for the AI. The idea of AI as an audience.

J’ai eu une coupure de courant, ~15 min. C’est là que je me dis qu’il faut que je trouve des sous pour un onduleur. Mais c’est vraiment cher ces trucs et pas du tout prioritaire dans la liste des trucs à acheter :s

Doomsday Clock hits 89 seconds + 4 more stories
The Doomsday Clock moves to 89 seconds; Germany’s Bundestag passes new immigration plan; Scientists succeed in DNA storage using 5D crystal; AI report highlights emerging dangers; NASA discovers life’s building blocks in asteroid samples. ⌘ Read more

Oh the ****ing irony 🤣 with all the IP infringement AI models usually do, and the companies are like “nothing to see here”!

OpenAI Says It Has Evidence DeepSeek Used Its Model To Train Competitor
OpenAI says it has evidence suggesting Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source system through “distillation,” a technique where smaller models learn from larger ones’ outputs.

The San Francisco-based company, along with partner Microsoft, blocked suspected DeepSeek accounts from accessing … ⌘ Read more

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months, and Silicon Valley is freaked out
Speaking of “AI”, the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the “AI” bubble, and it’s been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new “AI” models, which seem to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT models – but with a massive twist: DeepSeek, b … ⌘ Read more

AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond. The AI scraper bots cause a DDoS, a distributed denial-of-service attack. At times, the AI bots would clog the lines with hundreds of IP addresses simultaneously as soon as they decided … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net i hope all corpo AI dies slow and expensive deaths

AI achieves self-replication in new study + 2 more stories
AI self-replication demonstrated by researchers; ICC seeks warrants against Taliban leaders for women’s rights; CERN’s new Flash radiotherapy could revolutionize cancer treatment. ⌘ Read more

Ça souffle très fort ici… Je me demande si je ne ferais pas mieux d’éteindre mon serveur en cas de coupure (je n’ai pas racheté d’onduleur, c’est cher :s)

Fusion reactor breaks 1,000 seconds record + 3 more stories
Chinese scientists break nuclear fusion record with 1,066 seconds at 100 million Celsius; US launches $500 billion AI infrastructure The Stargate Project; AI-designed drugs from Isomorphic Labs set for clinical trials by 2026; New AI method shows 90-100% accuracy in early breast cancer detection. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft reveals MatterGen AI model to transform material discovery + 2 more stories
Microsoft launches MatterGen AI model for advanced material design; OpenAI partners with Retro to extend human life; Scientists explore ocean’s oxygen production implications. ⌘ Read more

envie de coder… J’ai un bout de C pour renommer les fichiers que je voudrais continuer. Vivement qu’il y ait moins de boulot et de soucis pour réussir à me concentrer!

Researchers engineer bacteria that break down microplastics + 2 more stories
Qatar presents final ceasefire draft to Israel and Hamas; University of Waterloo engineers bacteria to decompose microplastics; UK government announces significant AI investment initiative. ⌘ Read more

Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler’s. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fix … ⌘ Read more

How in da fuq do you actually make these fucking useless AI bots go way?

proxy-1:~# jq '. | select(.request.remote_ip=="4.227.36.76")' /var/log/caddy/access/mills.io.log | jq -s '. | last' | caddy-log-formatter -
4.227.36.76 - [2025-01-05 04:05:43.971 +0000] "GET /external?aff-QNAXWV=&f=mediaonly&f=noreplies&nick=g1n&uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-hero-ultra-impact-codes.linegames.org HTTP/2.0" 0 0
proxy-1:~# date
Sun Jan  5 04:05:49 UTC 2025

😱

C’est drôle comme j’ai plein de choses d’un seul coup hyper intéressantes à faire, comme changer le thème du curseur de ma souris ou tester un nouveau thème GTK. Pile quand j’ai des tas de bulletins semestriels à compléter. Bizarre 👼

@prologic@twtxt.net this is so fucking real i’m so sick of AI/LLM crap

New AI tool will identify diabetes risk 13 years early + 2 more stories
NHS launches trial for AI diabetes prediction; Eni unveils €100 million supercomputer for energy; UN Security Council approves peacekeeping in Somalia. ⌘ Read more

Is AI finally ready to replace your doctor?
Advances in artificial intelligence mean that machines can now perform certain diagnostic tasks with far better accuracy than human doctors - but the picture is more complicated than you might think ⌘ Read more

don pour #framasoft terminé : https://soutenir.framasoft.org/fr/. J’ai choisi le don mensuel pour leur donner de la visibilité. C’est peu de choses, mais c’est ma façon de contribuer au libre

Et mince… J’ai cassé mon casque OpenRun Shockz à conduction osseuse… Je l’utilisais tous les jours, et pas les sous d’en acheter un nouveau :/

If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net I bet our twts are already being fed to circuit monsters… Remember the other day when I’d snapped out about some nonsense, being an A-Hole and what not? I’ve seen an AI company employee lurking around with not much interaction (if I’m not mistaken), so my mind went on auto-pilot mode thinking “This !#@%$ must be feeding us to the circuit peggy monster!! Arrr 😤” 🤣🤣🤣 but then again, one shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover (or an employee by his title) right?

Bluesky’s Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It’s All Public
Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users’ data. But despite that, “one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face,” reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

“Shortly after the article’s p … ⌘ Read more

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Block AI bots with relayd on #OpenBSD https://si3t.ch/log/2024-11-27-block-ai-bots-with-relayd-openbsd.txt

J’en avais déjà parlé, mais je l’ai désormais totalement fini est il est vraiment bien. Le #livre de Salomé Saqué ‘Résister’ se lit vite car c’est bien écrit, c’est sérieux car sourcé, et permet de disposer de faits concrets ainsi que d’idées pour faire face à l’extrême droite. Il ne coûte que 5€, moins en version numérique. Lisez-le, offrez-le! https://www.lalibrairie.com/livres/resister_0-11697790_9782228937597.html?ctx=397de3ecca38cf20254f77d136f28b52

oups… j’ai peut-être, sans (trop) faire vraiment exprès, parlé de Trump et de Musk en classe, de ce que cela ça implique d’utiliser X ou de ne pas vérifier les infos recommandées par des algos dont on ne sait rien de leur fonctionnement…

Apple to launch new AI home screen + 2 more stories
Google expands AI flood forecasting to 700 million people; Apple plans to launch a new AI smart home hub; EU allocates €300 million for joint defense projects. ⌘ Read more

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/

So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.

Portion of the modified Twitter TOS that goes into effect today (it’s on right now), as summarised (ironically) by Google’s Gemini:

“In simpler terms, this means that when you share your content (like text, images, or videos) on the service, you’re giving the company permission to use it in various ways. They can copy, modify, distribute, and even use it to train their AI models. This includes sharing your content with others and using it on other platforms. You won’t be paid for this, but using the service itself is considered enough compensation.”

People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson
Readers give higher ratings to AI-generated poetry than the works of poets such as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson – perhaps because they often have more straightforward themes and simpler structure ⌘ Read more

Ouiii, j’ai de nouveau internet! En fait, #sfr a changé l’armoire, a débranché tout le monde sans prévenir personne, et maintenant les autres fournisseurs doivent venir rebrancher leurs clients. C’est malhonnête… Bref, si3t.ch et puffy.cafe sont de retour

Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem like the models are implicitly learn … ⌘ Read more

Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/04/silicon-valley-and-wall-street-invent-collateralized-gpu-obligations-surely-this-will-work-out-fine/

Blackstone, Pimco, Carlyle, and BlackRock have so far lent $11 billion to GPU cloud companies — now apparently called “neoclouds” — such as CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Lambda Labs. The loans are collateralized by the neoclouds’ Nvidia GPUs.

Look ma, new asset bubble!

#utopiales, j’y retourne aujourd’hui. Ma grosse déception d’hier est d’avoir raté Péhä qui n’a pas dû reconnaître ma calvitie du 2e rang et que je n’ai pas réussi à retrouver au Bar de Mme Spock. La chasse au trésor du Café de la cité n’est pas terminée. Et j’espère voir Nicolas Martin et Cléo Collomb. Merci à eux pour cette table rond à propos de l’arrivée de l’extreme droite