I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence.
Alright, I just want to clarify that I've never modded a Lemmy community before. I just have the mantra of "if nobody's doing the right thing, do it yourself". I was also motivated by the decision from u/spez to let an unknown AI company use Reddit's imagery. If you know how to moderate well, please let me know. Also, feel free to discuss ways to attack AI development, and if you have evidence of AIBros being cruel and remorseless, make sure to save the evidence for people "on the fence". Remember, we don't know if AI is unstoppable. AI uses up loads of energy to be powered, and tons of circuitry. There may very well be an end to this cruelty, and it's up to us to begin that end.
Anthropic released a blog post detailing how they spent $20k to get a swarm of 16 Claudes to write a c compiler (they had to use gcc to do debugging), and the first issue on the repo is 🧑🍳💋
Until quite recently, many Big Tech firms opposed the militarization of AI, but that now seems like ancient history as they move to sign partnerships with arms companies. The prospect of lavish Pentagon funding for AI is too tempting to refuse.
Anyone who looks at a social media feed with any regularity is likely familiar with the deluge of fabricated images and videos now circulating online. Some are harmless curiosities (other than the resource use). Others are more troubling. Among the most consequential are AI-generated depictions of wildlife, which are beginning to distort how people understand animals, their behavior and the risks they pose.
According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it’s happening faster than anyone predicted.
While watching an animated YouTube video essay a few weeks ago, I suddenly realized that both the narrator’s voice and the visuals were AI-generated. This was not disclosed anywhere in the video description or credits.
So, over the past few days, I downloaded a few local LLMs to see which instructions they wont execute. And while reading up on some details a thought occurred to me:
TL;DR: As Mozilla moves to make Firefox an AI browser, people are looking at other options. Some people are rediscovering Waterfox, a browser that has been around for a decade from independent developer BrowserWorks. In this post, I interview the founder of Waterfox - Alex Kontos, and we discuss Waterfox’s history and look towards its future. We also talk about how Waterfox thinks about AI in the browser.
Only 3.3 percent of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 users who touch Copilot Chat actually pay for it, an awkward figure that landed alongside Microsoft’s $37.5 billion quarterly AI splurge and its insistence that the payoff is coming.
Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.
In a recording of a discussion between the two men, which reportedly took place in February 2013, Epstein refers to an unnamed third person suggesting there were “two cyber companies” to “look at”.
The broligarchy loves itself the idea of “freedom cities.” The billionaire backers of such locales talk of how they will create millions of new homes and drive American economic and technological dynamism. At heart, though, they are simply secessionist territory run by tech barons where they are free of government regulation. Gone could be nuisances like taxes, environmental reviews, and any pretense of democracy and in their place could be “innovative” perks like slave labor and eugenics.
Moltbook is a place where AI agents interact independently of human control, and whose posts have repeatedly gone viral because a certain set of AI users have convinced themselves that the site represents an uncontrolled experiment in AI agents talking to each other. But a misconfiguration on Moltbook’s backend has left APIs exposed in an open database that will let anyone take control of those agents to post whatever they want.
Other examples piled up: This past summer, Sherred and her colleagues noticed that items were being rearranged on the Tacoma News Tribune homepage, thanks to AI-fueled testing. “If our own work is being buried by random stuff that was pulled on there through an AI tool,” Sherred told me, “we were concerned about that.” Then, she said, McClatchy started rolling out more of the “summary-type AI-generated stories where they’re essentially using our work to feed something else.” AI-created listicles were cropping up, drawing from McClatchy-journalist-created work à la the golden retriever situation—but sometimes getting details slightly wrong. Other McClatchy reporters spotted curious “AI-assisted reporter” listings—including for the Miami Herald, another McClatchy paper, which the Miami New Times, an alt-weekly, flagged in an article headlined “The Miami Herald Is Hiring an AI-Assisted Reporter and We Have Questions.”
In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”
Given what we currently know about LLMs, these are stunningly unscientific positions for a leading company that builds AI language models. While questions of AI consciousness or qualia remain philosophically unfalsifiable, research suggests that Claude’s character emerges from a mechanism that does not require deep philosophical inquiry to explain.
Hundreds of b$ already “invested” by NVidia, MS, Amazon, OpenAI, Google, etc. Now they’re ready to pump another bunch of dozen of billion $ into OpenAI.
Isn’t it by far the biggest financial bubble ever created?
Can such kind of money even exist without astronomical bank credits, and what happens to those banks when that game ends (and by domino effect virtually every one)?
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