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@phnt@fluffytail.orgIn the before times (5+ years ago), very few cared who was joining the network. (Notice the "network", this place isn't Mastodon and never was.) When someone joined, it was seen as a good thing no matter who that was, because it made the network larger, the decentralization was spreading. But in the last 5 years, the goals seemingly shifted. Suddenly more people on here turned to a bad thing, a decentralized network meant to allow anyone to have a voice turned into a fractured space of gatekept echo-chambers with very little bridges between them. Some might say, that is the result of not gatekeeping the today's gatekeepers, but I don't really care and still mostly have the old mindset in my mind. It is more of a reflection on how humanity changed.I've been using "the network" since the days of USENET, 1990 onward, and I can attest that, at least in my experience, none of this rings true even a little.Even so, the discourse I'm responding to is about Mastodon, not about some nebulous or idealized "network". Goalpost shifting is not constructive.Nobody has "power" hereOf course we do. I have the power to block whoever I want and whichever hashtags I want, for instance. I also have the power to restrict who registers an account on my fediverse instance. You are not permitted to join my instance, and in that sense I very much have power over you: I am able to restrict your liberty. You may not want an account and I don't blame you, but that doesn't change the equation.I said nothing about excluding people from the network. I literally said "excluding people and topics they don't wish to interact with". You seem to be arguing against something that wasn't said, which is not constructive.Oh, and if anyone cares, my little gatekept and bridgeless corner of the fediverse is quite lovely, thanks, and grand proclamations about fractured spaces or whatnot have no bearing whatsover on this simple reality.excluding anyone from this network is equivalent for both cases, marginalized groups and "AI people".These are obviously not equivalent in any sense that matters. You might as well include "people who love putting topsoil on their pizza" as a marginalized group because someone said "eww" once. Superficial associations like this sound disingenuous to my ears, and in any case are not constructive.And that it isn't healthy.Why would excluding "AI people" in particular be unhealthy? What exactly are the ill effects?

@adingbatponder@fosstodon.orgClaude code works....All I know is at the receiving end it feels like it is Christmas every day because the tool does stuff that helps novices do stuff.Claude Code "works" in the way that slot machines "work" for gambling addicts or Christmas "works" for children.Claude Code deliberately sets up an addiction loop the way casino gambling machines do, inducing the perception that it is helping when more and more data shows that it does exactly the opposite. It does not help novices "do stuff". Rather, it deskills them, prevents them from learning, and passes the negative consequences of these effects downstream to someone else, all while fooling them into believing they are being more productive.The reality is that insurance companies more and more won't insure companies that lean on AI for exactly this reason: the downsides are not documented and therefore not auditable, and are ultimately pushed outside the company, which introduces liability and other loss risk. Companies are of course free to take on needless and unaccounted-for internal risk, but insurance companies won't cover it and that is a very important signal about the actual real-world value of this technology."Christmas every day" is a phrase gambling addicts use too. But somebody has to clean up the wrapping paper and replace the batteries that die and dispose of the toys that break or are discarded after one use. Somebody has to buy them in the first place, and somebody has to make them for them to be available to buy. Christmas "works" for children, but it's a temporary illusion created for their benefit, not the basis for a sustainable workflow, business, or economy.

Here's one for the dystopia/AI Hell files: https://jaigp.orgJournal for AI Generated PapersWhere humans and machines are welcomed.The Open Prompting Journal Built Collaboratively by its Community.One positive I can think of is that folks who wish to "collaborate" with machines can congregate there, giving the rest of us a clear signal about who to block, ignore, critique, ridicule...cc @olivia@scholar.social @Iris@scholar.social @dingemansemark@scholar.social @alex@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AntiScience

Microsoft Copilot putting ads in pull requests on Microsoft Github is expected behavior.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #github #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment

What happens when I'm bored while my youngest plays at playgroup... #TimHortons #generativeAI

KI-Update: Der Sora-Stopp, KI-Schmeichelei, Nudifier, Bessere Siri, RoboterhändeDas "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Update-Der-Sora-Stopp-KI-Schmeichelei-Nudifier-Bessere-Siri-Roboterhaende-11227283.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#GenerativeAI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Journal #KIUpdate #Sprachverarbeitung #Wissenschaft #news

The "correction", when it comes, is going to be ugly. The quantities of misallocated capital involved in this AI mania look to be even more staggering than previously reported.I worry that few smaller companies or startups will survive, and the country will be pockmocked with half-constructed data centers and obsolete equipment. This is not like the dot-com crash that left useful and unused fiber networking.https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/private-credits-exposure-to-ailing-software-industry-is-bigger-than-advertised-d80da378hashtag#AI hashtag#GenAI hashtag#GenerativeAI hashtag#software hashtag#tech hashtag#dev hashtag#AssetBubble hashtag#PrivateCredit

Re-reading The Soul Gained and Lost: Artificial Intelligence as a Philosophical Project by Phil Agre as catharsis. Here.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI

KI-Update kompakt: KI-Rechenzentren, Cursor, Vibe-Coding, Finde-RoboterDas "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Update-kompakt-KI-Rechenzentren-Cursor-Vibe-Coding-Finde-Roboter-11219324.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#GenerativeAI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Journal #KIUpdate #Sprachverarbeitung #Wissenschaft #news

heise+ | Project Genie ausprobiert: Googles Weltmodell, das Gaming-Aktien purzeln lässtProject Genie erschafft interaktive Welten aus einem einfachen Prompt oder Foto. Wir testen, ob Googles KI-Tool echten Spielen gefährlich werden könnte.https://www.heise.de/tests/Project-Genie-ausprobiert-Googles-Weltmodell-das-Gaming-Aktien-purzeln-laesst-11190146.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#Entertainment #GenerativeAI #Google #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #news

A good review of reasons insurance companies are pulling back from insuring companies that lean on generative AI. Point 4, "The main problem is not just the error, but the incentive not to see it" is especially damning: use of AI not only obscures audit trails, it sets up perverse incentives against accountability, pushing costs and risk to other parts of an organization, its customers, or society. The net result is that whatever "local" advantages AI may provide turn into downstream risk that cannot be easily accounted for. Insurance companies are (rightly) allergic to this state of affairs.Another example of how (whole)-systems thinking is very helpful for parsing the effects of technology changes like this.https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AgenticAI #GPT #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #ActuarialScience #insurance

KI-Update kompakt: AI Act, Groundsource, NemoClaw, Perplexity ComputerDas "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Update-kompakt-AI-Act-Groundsource-NemoClaw-Perplexity-Computer-11212269.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon#GenerativeAI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Journal #KIUpdate #Sprachverarbeitung #Wissenschaft #news

I would like to thank the nascent "AI" industry for their significant contributions to all manner of artistic and creative endeavours in today's society: writing, coding, art, music, and everything else. [1]Because they have single-handedly created entire new markets for all of these things - new categories such as "writing with guaranteed no AI", "coding with guaranteed no AI", "art with guaranteed no AI", "music with guaranteed no AI", etc. Without them, these whole classes of creative output would simply not exist.[1] They are also innovating in the world of financial and investor fraud, but I'm not considering those areas in this post.#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #slop #NoAI #artistic #creative #GTFO #fraud #InvestorFraud #CoPilot #ChatGPT #ClaudeCode

@remixtures REa person who doesn’t exist...It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist...Just like the old (very old now) #Trump trick (strategy, suggestion, reference?) by his using "Sir..." to tell an untruth. What was it #GWBush said one time... "..... #FoolMeOnce we wouldn't get fooled again" ️Why does Trump still use this deception, it should end his political career@mycotropicThx 4 orig Miguel boost

@heiseonline Bitte lasst es, den Scheiß noch zu bewerben.

AI is closely aligned with power, and I've found a lot of people in tech have a problematic relationship with the notion of power. Tech has been an ascendant sector for awhile and is currently fusing with state power, which I think would naturally lead to people in this sector having internal conflict over what exactly they do. Also I think people with controlling personalities are drawn to the seemingly "clear", black-and-white nature of tech, where "truth" can be discerned with less ambiguity than in other areas of life. I don't get the sense from interactions I've had with people in tech that there is much introspection or circumspection about their relationship with various forms of power. Not to the extant that folks routinely grapple deeply with the power dynamics at play within this sector and its relation to the rest of society, anyway. Obviously I'm painting with broad strokes here, and I don't mean to downplay the acts of those who do grapple meaningfully with power. I'm just talking about a tendency I've observed over my own career.I think some of the strange shifts we're seeing in high-profile folks in tech who already had authoritarian impulses---which, let's be real, is uncomfortably common among tech workers---is that they are groping for ways to embrace taking power that do not run afoul of other values they've endorsed. This really can't be done unless the person was already pretty antisocial, so we see weird behavior such as running self-serving "surveys" about AI with foregone conclusions, microaggressions and dissembling, attacks and other forms of hostility, being "one shotted" or conflating a computer program with humanness, etc. It's really a general problem, in that view, given how the US regime has shifted away from social democracy/liberalism into a much more brash, violent, and authoritarian stance. There are a variety of ways to cope with such a shift, one being to embrace it while bursting into a cloud of internal contradictions.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #tech #dev #software #power

@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop People with the power of choice tend to make the products they need themselves.

@boscoandpeck Cyberpunk was originally meant to be a warning, not a documentary roadmap. But here we are. ‍️

The honeymoon phase of AI-driven productivity is meeting the harsh reality of system stability. Amazon has officially updated its internal policies to require senior engineers to sign-off for any code changes assisted by generative AI. This move follows a series of significant service disruptions—referred to internally as "high blast radius" incidents—where AI-generated code led to major product outages.For a company that values speed and a "you build it, you run it" culture, this is a massive shift. It turns out that while AI can write code in seconds, the cost of an error at AWS scale can be measured in hours of downtime and millions in lost revenue. We are seeing a necessary correction: AI is a powerful assistant, but it cannot yet be trusted with the keys to the kingdom without a seasoned human expert verifying the logic.🧠 Amazon now mandates senior review for all AI-assisted code deployments. The policy change follows a spike in high-priority Sev2 incidents. Senior engineers must now act as the ultimate "bar raisers" for synthetic code. This internal friction highlights the hidden costs of AI-driven development.https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/#EngineeringManagement #CloudComputing #GenerativeAI #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kaosenlared/116203724485292298Una IA por ser gratuita no contamina menos, ni roba menos a las ilustradoras, ni genera menos abusos laborales, ni es menos racista.Es posible gestionar un medio autogestionado sin beneficiar a una de las industrias más fascistas, colonialistas y destructoras de la vida. Existen muchos ejemplos.La coherencia no es un lujo, es el primer ladrillo de cualquier proyecto de izquierda.#generativeAI #IAgenerativa #ilustracion #illustration #artificialintelligence #inteligenciaartificial #arte #art #AlagrescaconlaIA #iagenerativa #inteligenciaartificial #IAÉticaEsMentira#ética #derechoshumanos