"AI" apologists are now touting fucking blockchains as a solution to making sure artists' rights are respected when training models and generating slop.

This industry should die already.

The Copilot Delusion

｢ It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down.

If you let that ghost fly the plane, you deserve the ball of flames you go up in ｣

https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

I have a #Windows update sitting there waiting for me to click Download & Install.

I looked it up; it adds #recall and #copilot #ai crap to the OS that I will NEVER want.

I said when I first got this machine that I would give Windows 11 a fair shake since it came preinstalled.

Needless to say, my visits to #DistroWatch have increased exponentially in the past few weeks.

#MS #Copilot erweist sich in meiner schreibenden Praxis als sehr hilfreich bei der Überarbeitung von Texten. Ich finde es intuitiver als die #Claude, #Perplexity und #ChatGPT, was die Formulierung von Prompts und die Art und den Fokus der Antworten angeht. Ich bin aber uunsicher, ob ich es angenehm oder nervig finde, dass das Tool erstmal mit Geschleime über die Texte beginnt...
#KI #AI #Wissenschaft #Schreiben

Microsoft hat mit "#Copilot #Appearance" begonnen, seinem KI-Assistenten ein Gesicht zu geben. Die virtuelle Figur erscheint als weiße "Wolke" mit Mimik, die auf Nutzereingaben reagieren soll. #Microsoft #KI https://winfuture.de/news,152507.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

#Alpha_Bank #Copilot Alpha Bank: Η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη αλλάζει την καθημερινότητα στην εργασία https://www.zougla.gr/money/etairika-nea/alpha-bank-i-techniti-noimosyni-allazei-tin-kathimerinotita-stin-ergasia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Previously I said local single-line code completion is the acceptable level of "AI" assistance for me and that JetBrains one was somewhat useful, only wrong half of the time, and easy to ignore when it is.

I've changed my mind.

See, I code primarily in TypeScript and Rust. Both of these languages have tooling that's really good at static analysis. I mean, in case of TS, static analysis is the whole product. It's slow, it requires a bunch of manual effort, but holy hell does it make life easier in the long run. Yes, it does take a whole minute to "compile" code to literally same code but with some bits removed. But it detects so many stupid mistakes as it does so, every day, it's amazing. Anyway, not the point.

The other thing modern statically-typed languages have is editor integration. You know, the first letter in IDE. This means that, as you are typing your code and completions pop up, those completions are provided by the same code that makes sure your code is correct.

Which means they are never wrong. Not "rarely". Not "except in edge cases". Zero percent of the time wrong.

If I type a dot and start typing "thing" and see "doThing(A, B)", I know this is what I was looking for. I might ctrl-click it and read the docs to make sure, but I know "doThing" exists and it takes two arguments and i can put it in and maybe even run the code and see what it does. This is the coding assistance we actually need. Exact answers, where available.

So, since I've enabled LLM completion a few months ago, I've noticed a couple of things. One: it's mostly useful when I'm doing some really basic boilerplate stuff. But if I wrote it often enough, I could find ways to automate that specific thing. It feels like this is saving me time, but it's probably seconds on a day.

Two: I am not used to code completion being wrong. Like, I see a suggestion, I accept it mentally before I accept it in the dropdown. I'm committed to going there and thinking about next steps.

And then it turns red because "doThing" is not, in fact, a method that exists.

And I stop working and go write this post because I forgot what I was even doing in the first place already.

I'm turning that shit off.

Microsoft has unveiled “Copilot Vision”, a successor to the controversial Recall feature, as part of its expanding suite of AI tools for Copilot+ PCs – and it's already drawing criticism for its privacy implications.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/windows-11s-copilot-vision-watches-your-screen-in-real-time

My new email signature for work.

I typed this up moments after receiving a "summary" email from read.ai

#AI
#Copilot

@alpine and I have been poking at #copilot vision. It looks like, as of right now, there’s NO OPTION to disable vision, or even copilot itself, domain wide. You need to disable or uninstall it *on every individual device*

Oh, and it reenabled itself without warning if you had it disabled org-wide previously

#ITadmin #sysadmin #ThreatIntel #DoesThisConstituteThreatIntel?

they said I could become anything so I became a proponent of enforcing GDPR compliance upon multinationals operating within the EU using all means available to me (up to and including becoming a bus) #gdpr #copilot #dpa #dataprotection #sueeverybody #sysadmin #wtf https://www.edpb.europa.eu/notify-data-breach_en

Part of me says "why is this even news" and part of me is "christ on a cracker, this actually needs to be said."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/microsoft_copilot_vision/

#GenAI: The reinvention of unreliable employees, to replace the proper employees. #windsurfai #Cursor_ai #Copilot #VibeCoding

Apparemment, si vous ne voulez pas payer 99€ pour renouveler votre abonnement #office365 il suffit d'aller dans la partie résiliation.
Avant de valider, #Microsoft vous proposera l'ancien tarif, soit 69€, mais vous n'aurez pas #Copilot.
Dommage.

Sinon vous prenez #LibreOffice, hein. C'est mieux, mais c'est moins cher.

I used #Copilot to summarise a piece of financial regulation today. It was very helpful.