garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-…
If this is indeed the direction they are going in then: good news - scale is the not the direction which means it ain't a surprise that plans for new data-centers are being shelved; bad news - the employment implications, especially, for white-collar #jobs need to be taken seriously. 🤷🏾♂️
#llm #ai #genai #employment
thenation.com/article/society/…
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#TAX the #Billionaires #AI #GenAI #LLM #plutocrats #oligarchs
THAT is Step 1 of ANY conversation about this technology.
A manifesto for an AI revolution that works for the many, not just the billionaires.Jack Mirkinson (The Nation)
I read that huge tedious New Yorker piece about Altman, “Can He Be Trusted?”, so you don’t have to. Betteridge’s Law applies. Altman does seem to believe the things that he’s saying. Even when they turn out to be false or are the opposite of something he was saying recently. At least he’s apparently not a sex pest. Also, Musk hates him and that’s not nothing.
It’s pretty clear he doesn’t understand what the technology he’s peddling is and does. I think history won’t be kind to him.
IMPERDIBLE entrevista. Escuchen a Cecilia Rikap, economista argentina, hablar sobre el HUMO detrás de las promesas de inversiones billonarias para instalar centros de datos para la industria de la IA generativa, que terminan consumiendo cantidades descomunales de AGUA POTABLE y energía eléctrica.
Recuerden que toda la IAG funciona a base de expolio, extractivismo, contaminación, saqueo, apropiación y explotación.
#AI #genAI #generativeAI #IA #IAgenerativa #Milei #JavierMilei #Argentina #Gemini
Generative AI is our greatest downfall.
Image credit: «Ascent of AI» Adam Zyglis | Copyright 2023 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.
BY THE BUFFALO NEWS
PUBLISHED MAY 3, 2023
#AI #cartoon #IA #genAI #generativeAI #IAgenerativa #humor #graphic #drawing #art #evolution #automatizacion #jobs #job
«La IA ha venido para no solo destruir el empleo creativo, sino a destruir la creatividad, los avances sociales, el estado de derecho y el del bienestar: nos roba, nos manipula, es fascista, es racista, es machista, introduce sesgos, es antiecológica» 🔥 Marta C. Dehesa Abogada y Gestora cultural. Experta en derecho de autor y asesoramiento socio-laboral y fiscal de creativos gráficos.
Entrevista completa: revistamercurio.es/2026/04/01/…
#AI #IA #genAI #generativeAI #IAgenerativa #art #culture
Intensa, arrolladora, capaz de hablar a un velocidad endiablada, Marta C. Dehesa no deja indiferente en el cara a cara. Esta abogada del País Vasco manifiestaMartín Sacristán (Revista Mercurio)
«La IA generativa no es una herramienta sino todo un sistema extractivista, opresor y explotador, que vulnera los derechos de propiedad intelectual pero también derechos humanos, que beneficia a muy pocos y nos destruye y precariza a todos los demás» 🎯 Marta C. Dehesa Abogada y Gestora cultural. Experta en derecho de autor y asesoramiento socio-laboral y fiscal de creativos gráficos.
#AI #generativeAI #genAI #IA #IAgenerativa #derechosdeautor #derechoshumanos #culture #art
1. GenAI is probably going to impact us but how? Nobody knows.
2. The worst thing about GenAI isn't the technology, it's the shitty people: karlbode.com/the-problem-with-… [<must-read]
3. We can’t have a grown-up conversation on the subject because the trillion-dollar bet’s fear+greed pressure crowds out truth.
4. When the bubble pops, the shitty people will melt away. Then we can maybe figure it out.
5. We so *SO* need that bubble to pop. Next week would be ideal.
The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country too corrupt to have functioning regulators.Karl Bode (The Fine Print*)
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Such a weird article from a so-called #writer #author - maybe using #LLM #AI #GenAI has already fried his brain!
#writing #amwriting #writersofmastodon #writerscoffeeclub #scribesandmakers #wordweavers #authors
Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’tStephen Marche (the Guardian)
Every camera brand agrees: #GenerativeAI doesn't belong in photography: zorz.it/YExwx
#JaronSchneider #AI #photography #AICamera #Canon #Fujifilm #GenAI #interview #Lumix #Nikon #OMSystem #Panasonic #PanasonicLumix #Sigma #industry
This might be the first time that Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, OM System, Panasonic, and Sigma all agree on the same topic.Jaron Schneider (PetaPixel)
Gestern mit #mistral angefangen Tests für meinen Code zu generieren - und auch gleich ein paar Sicherheitslücken gefunden
shanakaanslemperera.substack.c…
Am I getting this right - if LNG infra in Qatar/Iran is massively damaged then a whole lot good for the world would result? Less of the chips in #LLM #AI #GenAI wastage, less of #weapons, less of #methane burning for #electricity, less #fertilizer polluting #land #water, less #plastics, etc.?
That is GOOD - right?
How One Reservoir, One Strait, and Five Manufacturers Became the Hidden Operating System of Seven Global IndustriesShanaka Anslem Perera
God damn.
You find a new open source project that is really good, and some asshole comes along and wastes the maintainer’s time with a careless Claude PR.
Sad thing is, the maintainer, after spending more time on it just to fix it up, and expressing displeasure toward the PR author, who admitted they don’t actually have time to improve it and presumably become a regular contributor, accepted the PR anyway and tainted the project. I would’ve thrown that fool out on their ear. Fucking hell, it makes my stomach turn.
theatlantic.com/technology/202…
This is quite a lucid account of how the #LLM #AI #GenAI is indeed a #polycrisis with links to the ongoing #war in the #MiddleEast and #Europe
The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.Matteo Wong (The Atlantic)
Hmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”. I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.
Here's where you go to tell GitHub that it can’t train CoPilot on your code & interactions: github.com/settings/copilot/fe…
Just sayin’
🔴 "RIP animation"
🔴 "Hollywood is getting cooked"
Remember all those shit headlines? 💩 Well, it's about time they got a taste of their own garbage.
🟢 RIP SORA
🟢 OpenAI is getting cooked
Much better 😎
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INFO: variety.com/2026/digital/news/…
#AI #OpenAI #genAI #SORA #video #IAgenerativa #IA #SamAltman #Disney
OpenAI is planning to discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024. Disney has ended its partnership for Sora.Todd Spangler (Variety)
«Es inevitable. Llegó para quedarse» 🤡
Chau SORA, vaya nomás 😂
Noticia completa: variety.com/2026/digital/news/…
#AI #OpenAI #SORA #genAI #video #IAgenerativa #IA #SamAltman #Disney #shutdown
OpenAI is planning to discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched in late 2024. Disney has ended its partnership for Sora.Todd Spangler (Variety)
404media.co/this-company-is-se…
Next time you get on a #Zoom call, remember, you maybe at the beginning of your #podcast career 😆
WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Got my performance review today.
Positive feedback: literally every member of my team says I'm the best manager they have ever had. I solved multiple long-standing problems the team has been dealing with for years. Team members feel safe to share their struggles, everyone feels empowered, everyone receives valuable feedback.
Negative feedback: I am not enthusiastic enough about AI.
Overall ranking: 3/5.
Anyone hiring for a fully remote team lead?
#GenAI #LLM #GetFediHired #FediHire
dylanmatthews.substack.com/p/p…
#Socialmedia = divergent technology
#LLM = convergent?
Definitely seeing evidence of this in my teaching. Worth thinking about.
Key caveat - higher chances of consensus but no guarantee that the consensus is the right one.
#ai #genai #democracy #politics #society #knowledge #education #elections #voting
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.
freakonometrics.hypotheses.org…
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AgenticAI #GPT #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini #ActuarialScience #insurance
This post was initially written in French, Si personne ne paie pour la preuve, tout le monde paiera pour le sinistre Let’s start with a truism. In ordinary life, just as in economic life, we have to make decisions without ever knowing everything.Arthur Charpentier (Freakonometrics)
I just opened a great role in my team at @openproject: Senior UI/UX Designer. 🥳 #getfediHired
Anyone looking for a full-time, remote* #design & #research role in #foss?
In case you would like to shape the future of OpenProject in a user-centric product team, please apply with your portfolio, CV and a cover letter. We want to hear from you and not your #genAI. Thanks! 😀
*In a location within 2 hours (time-zone) from Berlin.
careers.openproject.org/o/seni…
#opensource #opensourcedesign #ui #ux
We believe good software does not begin with mockups or code, but with an understanding of people's needs.OpenProject GmbH
YourVids: Remove ALL Generative/Open AI from your Platform FeaturesAlanna Burkhardt (Change.org)
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#NVIDIA #DLSS #DLSS5 #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer
nymag.com/intelligencer/articl…
"This is what concerns her more than the #AI itself: that it’s bringing to #knowledge work the sort of precarious #platform #labor that has transformed #taxi #driving and #food #delivery."
#genai #llm #employment #jobs #scientists #workers
ft.com/content/bd7a2d03-6df0-4…
"This year’s clash of waves is amplifying and escalating. That spells precarity, not stability — economically, financially, fiscally, politically."
Not to mention that #AI #GenAI #LLM could very well stop scaling as their revenues dry up and investors finally lose their patience.
No, #Amazon we should be encouraging kids to create and develop their own art skills, not conditioning them to use #GenAI from an early age.
It's hard enough getting people to be bothered to do things. If kids rely on #AI now, there won't be many true artists left.
This is anti-educational tripe.
Neither are perfect, but Apple’s photo cleanup tool is clearly not there. Removing the lamp posts and leaving slices through the aircraft is not what anybody would want.
Lightroom did better, but still failed on the word.
PSA: following the example from various other projects within GNOME, and based on libadwaita's policy document, GNOME Calendar now explicitly forbids AI-generated contributions: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
We honor the exquisite art of organic homegrown code made with care and a willingness to learn the craft, and want to protect the time of people who help review merge requests.
#MaintainerLife #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #OpenSource #GNOMECalendar #NoAI #aislop #genAI #LLM #GNOME #libadwaita
This is copied ad verbatum from libadwaita, which itself was introduced based on [1]. [1] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/loupe-no-longer-allows-generative-ai-contributions/27327GitLab
Seems painfully obvious that, whatever you think about #genai code, anyone using it is heading for a code-review logjam. Assuming that the org requires code review; if yours doesn’t, nothing I can say will help you. Anyhow, Rishi Baldawa writes smart stuff about the problem and possible ways forward, in ˚The Reviewer Isn't the Bottleneck”: rishi.baldawa.com/posts/review…
[My prediction: A lot of orgs will *not* do smart things about this and will suffer disastrous consequences in the near future.]
AI tools are flooding PR queues and the instinct everywhere is to call review the bottleneck. I think that’s the wrong question. The reviewer is the last sync point before production changes.Rishi Baldawa
Restored and colorized an old photo taken in Aden, Yemen in the 1950s by my uncle who was on his way to Malaysia (where he worked for a while). The annotation on the back of the photo says the ship is the Kenya, registered in London.
#photography #ai #GenAI #aden
"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"We're organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT."
#QuitGPT #news #USNews #USPol #technology #TechNews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #GenAI
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger BregmanRutger Bregman (the Guardian)
In which I compare the AI bubble to the Kansas Experiment: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…
(Tl;dr: In 2011, Kansas slashed taxes based on Tea-Party theories that this would stimulate growth and make everyone better off. It didn’t go well.)
Gerade bei Hacker News gelesen. Die realen Kosten eines #Datacenters
Ist schon echt übel, was das für Ressourcenschleudern sind, nur damit wir ein bisschen was in den #GenAI Prompt eintippen können.
Bestimmt auch was für dich @thomasfricke
🌀 timlig.com/posts/ai-supply-cha…
#supplychain #ai #chatgpt #infrastructure #datacenter
The AI boom created the worst electronics supply chain crisis in history. Here’s a simple map of what’s broken, who broke it, and when it gets fixed.timlig.com
2/2 … and in which I describe the second of the two Quamina-related Claude interventions, namely an automated port from Go to Rust: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…
1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20…
hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-haven…
The #billionaires have the money, the tools (#AI #GenAI #LLM ), and a so-called #democratic system that allows them to spend that cash and use those tools willy-nilly to swing #elections Against that? #Voters who barely bother to #vote and even if they do, most don't bother to think. How long do you think #democracy will last?
End billionaires. End money in elections. Explore sortition.
The terrifying math of money in politics.Hamilton Nolan (How Things Work)
404media.co/metas-ai-patent-to…
What fresh hell is this!
Researchers say Meta’s patent for simulating dead users could be a “turning point” in “AI resurrections.”Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
"A.I. is clearly not technology that is being universally encouraged as inevitable. Corporations often report that, so far, it does not seem to do much."
"Communities across the US are winning against environmental racism.
In Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and more, residents are packing council meetings, collecting signatures, and using their collective power to push back against destructive AI data centers. Our future will be written by us, not tech profits."
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#community #environment #AI #GenAI #DataCenters #technology #racism #EnvironmentalRacism
4,989 likes, 20 comments - intersectionalenvironmentalist on February 19, 2026: "Communities across the US are winning against environmental racism.Instagram
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Counterpoint to people saying that they need AI to be able to create art.
Via bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.b…
#AI #art #AIArt #GenerativeAI #GenAI
As much AI slop is filling up open source spaces, this was a long time coming.
Widelands, the open source Settlers-like, devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions
gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/wide…
#Widelands #Settlers #Ban #GenAI #AI #OpenSource Gaming
Widelands is a free and open source Settlers-like strategy game, and their developers appear to be setting a firm stance against any AI generated contributions.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
