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Pyrzout :vm:<p>AI can write your code, but nearly half of it may be insecure <a href="https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/07/create-ai-code-security-risks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/07</span><span class="invisible">/create-ai-code-security-risks/</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/riskmanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riskmanagement</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Don" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Don</span></a>'tmiss <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Veracode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Veracode</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/report" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>report</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RealJournalism</span></a></span> <br>I don’t know the details of it, but what this is is a long way from the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> slop we are being pummulled with today. We’re talking <a href="https://aus.social/tags/datasciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datasciences</span></a> here and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/statisticalEngines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statisticalEngines</span></a>, not <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> per se. </p><p>(Happy to be corrected it tooting in error though)</p><p>All <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TechJournalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechJournalist</span></a> ought to make the difference obvious to thier readers.</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Facebook announced a 5% across-the-board layoff and doubled its executives' bonuses – on the same day. They fired thousands of workers and then hired a single AI researcher for $200m:<br>(...)<br>Whatever else all this is, it's a performance. It's a way of demonstrating the efficacy of the product they're hoping your boss will buy and replace you with: Remember when techies were prized beyond all measure, pampered and flattered? AI is SO GOOD at replacing workers that we are dragging these arrogant little shits out by their hoodies and firing them over Interstate 280 with a special, AI-powered trebuchet. Imagine how many of the ungrateful useless eaters who clog up your payroll *you will be able to vaporize when you buy our product!*</p><p>Which is why you should always dig closely into announcements about AI-driven tech layoffs. It's true that tech job listings are down 36% since ChatGPT's debut – but that's pretty much true of all job listings:"</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-princes-of-labor/#hyper-criti-hype" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-</span><span class="invisible">princes-of-labor/#hyper-criti-hype</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Automation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Automation</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Unemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unemployment</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareDevelopment</span></a></p>
Kirus<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Stalker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stalker</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Patient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patient</span></a> Obsessed with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Psychiatrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychiatrist</span></a> Sinks into <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Delusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Delusion</span></a> When He Stops Responding </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4T3-INxsc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Wi4T3-INxsc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/psychosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychosis</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/schizophrenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schizophrenia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nowwatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nowwatching</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Youtube</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mentalillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentalillness</span></a></p>
Kirus<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Stalker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stalker</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Patient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patient</span></a> Obsessed with <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Psychiatrist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychiatrist</span></a> Sinks into <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Delusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Delusion</span></a> When He Stops Responding </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mentalhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentalhealth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/psychosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychosis</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/schizophrenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>schizophrenia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nowwatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nowwatching</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Youtube</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mentalillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mentalillness</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"Perplexity’s accusations aren’t exactly fair, either. One argument that Prince and Cloudflare used for calling out Perplexity’s methods was that OpenAI doesn’t behave in the same way.</p><p>“OpenAI is an example of a leading AI company that follows these best practices,” Cloudflare wrote. “They respect robots.txt and do not try to evade either a robots.txt directive or a network level block. And ChatGPT Agent is signing http requests using the newly proposed open standard Web Bot Auth.” </p><p>Web Bot Auth is a Cloudflare-supported standard being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force that hopes to create a cryptographic method for identifying AI agent web requests.</p><p>The debate comes as bot activity reshapes the internet. As TechCrunch has previously reported, bots seeking to scrape massive amounts of content to train AI models have become a menace, especially to smaller sites. </p><p>For the first time in the internet’s history, bot activity is currently outstripping human activity online, with AI traffic accounting for over 50%, according to Imperva’s Bad Bot report released last month. Most of that activity is coming from LLMs. But the report also found that malicious bots now make up 37% of all internet traffic. That’s activity that includes everything from persistent scraping to unauthorized login attempts."</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/some-people-are-defending-perplexity-after-cloudflare-named-and-shamed-it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/some</span><span class="invisible">-people-are-defending-perplexity-after-cloudflare-named-and-shamed-it/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Perplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Perplexity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cloudflare</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIAgents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIAgents</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WebCrawling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebCrawling</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbots</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p>
KProfsBlog<p>New Top Tens are out. Not much new there. But I did want to highlight “Generative Misinterpretation” by ‪@jtlg.bsky.social‬, Ben Sobel and @davidbstein.bsky.social, which is not yet on the list but should be soon. It already has nearly 400 downloads.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/contracts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contracts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholarship</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/08/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-august-5-2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lawprofessors.typepad.com/cont</span><span class="invisible">ractsprof_blog/2025/08/tuesday-top-ten-contracts-commercial-law-top-ssrn-downloads-for-august-5-2025.html</span></a></p>
Metin Seven 🎨<p>Source: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/greyduet-on-rteachers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/g</span><span class="invisible">reyduet-on-rteachers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineLearning</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/AIslop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIslop</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>
Tom Stafford<p>Encouraged by the reaction to yesterday's (very short) post : <a href="https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/ai-will-be-the-biro-of-thought" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tomstafford.substack.com/p/ai-</span><span class="invisible">will-be-the-biro-of-thought</span></a></p><p>I have a set of similar pre-baked talking points on how to make sense of the AI/LLM revolution, so this may be the first in a series</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CogSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CogSci</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>🤨 <br><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/report/718975/xai-grok-imagine-taylor-swifty-deepfake-nudes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/report/718975/xai</span><span class="invisible">-grok-imagine-taylor-swifty-deepfake-nudes</span></a></p>
Winbuzzer<p>Wikipedia Adopts ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy to Combat AI-Generated Slop</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wikipedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ContentModeration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://winbuzzer.com/2025/08/06/wikipedia-adopts-speedy-deletion-policy-to-combat-ai-generated-slop-xcxwbn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">winbuzzer.com/2025/08/06/wikip</span><span class="invisible">edia-adopts-speedy-deletion-policy-to-combat-ai-generated-slop-xcxwbn</span></a></p>
C++ Wage Slave<p>If you think MP3 sounds good, choose a song you love that has a detailed, spacious sound, and encode it in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MP3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MP3</span></a> at low bandwidth. Hear the jangly tuning, the compression artifacts, the lack of detail and stability and the claustrophobic sound. Now that you know it's there, you'll detect it even in MP3 samples at higher bitrates.</p><p>This toot is actually about <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a>. If you can, download <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ollama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ollama</span></a> and try some small models with no more than, say, 4bn parameters. Ask detailed questions about subjects you understand in depth. Watch the models hallucinate, miss the point, make logical errors and give bad advice. See them get hung up on one specific word and launch off at a tangent. Notice how the tone is always the same, whether they're talking sense or not.</p><p>Once you've seen the problems with small models, you'll spot them even in much larger models. You'll be inoculated against the idea that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> are intelligent, conscious or trustworthy. That, today, is an important life skill.</p>
Enola Knezevic<p>You can laugh at those who have made their chats with LLMs searchable. You can laugh at those who still chat with LLMs. But, believe me, your names and your messages are there. Your "friends" paste entire conversations with you, names and everything, and ask what to reply. Your coworkers paste entire mails from you, name and everything, and ask for a summary or a translation. Your "friends" are giving them your info, your phone number, address, finances, relationships, business ideas... </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/noAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noAI</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>New study: "To test whether the results might sometimes include retracted research, we identified 217 retracted or otherwise concerning academic studies with high altmetric scores and asked <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> 4o-mini to evaluate their quality 30 times each. Surprisingly, none of its 6510 reports mentioned that the articles were retracted or had relevant errors."<br><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/leap.2018?campaign=woletoc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/fu</span><span class="invisible">ll/10.1002/leap.2018?campaign=woletoc</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retractions</span></a></p>
Tiota Sram<p>It's time to lower your inhibitions towards just asking a human the answer to your question.</p><p>In the early nineties, effectively before the internet, that's how you learned a lot of stuff. Your other option was to look it up in a book. I was a kid then, so I asked my parents a lot of questions.</p><p>Then by ~2000 or a little later, it started to feel almost rude to do this, because Google was now a thing, along with Wikipedia. "Let me Google that for you" became a joke website used to satirize the poor fool who would waste someone's time answering a random question. There were some upsides to this, as well as downsides. I'm not here to judge them.</p><p>At this point, Google doesn't work any more for answering random questions, let alone more serous ones. That era is over. If you don't believe it, try it yourself. Between Google intentionally making their results worse to show you more ads, the SEO cruft that already existed pre-LLMs, and the massive tsunami of SEO slop enabled by LLMs, trustworthy information is hard to find, and hard to distinguish from the slop. (I posted an example earlier: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@tiotasram/114806352209256069" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@tiotasram/11</span><span class="invisible">4806352209256069</span></a>)</p><p>In fact, the problem is worse than in the '90s, because instead of hitting a dead end at the library, you'll be offered some Premium Synthetic Truth-Shaped Content™, and you'll have to learn to dodge that stuff even for questions that do have an answer out there somewhere.</p><p>Many people have opined more eloquently than me on this shift, but my conclusion is: it's time to start asking people questions again and not be embarrassed by it. "Asking the internet" like on social media is one way to do this, but that has a lot of the same problems. I'm talking about asking (online or not) a specific person you know and trust. Doesn't have to be an expert, just someone you think might know the answer, or who might have fun looking for it with you, or who might be bored and willing to help out. Lots of us are lonely on here and would sometimes love to help look something up (or might even know an answer). This can be a good excuse for more direct human-to-human dialog (online or offline) as well, which is something that's waned since the '90s. I'm not exactly nostalgic for 1998, but I think it's time to ask each other questions again. (Okay, yes, I still watch Broodwar; this season of ASL is set to be amazing.)</p><p>As a gesture of following my own advice here, if you've read this far, feel free (if you would like) to DM me a question, or reply that you're open to being asked questions and I might DM you one. No guarantees of a speedy response.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DigitalCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalCommons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AskAQuestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskAQuestion</span></a></p>
Jens Bannmann<p>Kritiker sehen »<a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> als stochastische Sprachwürfelmaschinen, die sich in manchen Bereichen besser schlagen als in anderen, unterm Strich aber meist enttäuschen – es sei denn, man würfelt so lange, bis das Ergebnis vorzeigbar genug ist, wobei mit jedem Würfelwurf Kosten entstehen.«</p><p>Diese griffige Formulierung kommt aus einem auch ansonsten lesenswerten Artikel von Philipp Steevens:<br><a href="https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Kurz-erklaert-Das-steckt-hinter-dem-Modewort-KI-Agenten-10508712.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/hintergrund/Kurz-erkl</span><span class="invisible">aert-Das-steckt-hinter-dem-Modewort-KI-Agenten-10508712.html</span></a></p><p>Laut einer dort verlinkten <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Studie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Studie</span></a> sind übrigens ganze 87% der Produkte für KI-Agenten nichts als heiße Luft. Und das kommt nicht von irgendwelchen Neinsagern, sondern von "Analysten bei <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Gartner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gartner</span></a>, die selbst gerne Hypes pushen und verkaufen".</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Agenten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Agenten</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Hype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hype</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>“According to the latest revised data by the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BLS</span></a>, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JobMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JobMarket</span></a> shrank by 26,500 YTD," Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis said of the latest data. "That is after adjusting the May data down by 4,300, June data down by 7,800 jobs, and reporting that 10,300 <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> were <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/lost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lost</span></a> in July."</p><p>For those keeping count, that's 20,300 more than the 6,200-job shortfall at the same point in 2024, and we're now in what tends to be the worst half of the year for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>layoffs</span></a>. “</p><p>… </p><p>“Janulaitis blamed economic uncertainty for continuing to drag down IT hiring - a sentiment <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CompTIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CompTIA</span></a> agreed on, though the firm noted that there were still some bright spots of demand.</p><p>CompTIA stated that, while staffing reductions were made in IT, custom <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> services, cloud <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> and telecom, other roles such as <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/developers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>developers</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SoftwareEngineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareEngineers</span></a>, system <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/architects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architects</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/support" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>support</span></a> specialists, and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> mavens are among those in demand. </p><p>Janco said that <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/unfilled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unfilled</span></a> IT-specific roles tend to be related to <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blockchain</span></a>, and OmniCommerce technologies.</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WhiteCollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteCollar</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ZeroWorkHours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZeroWorkHours</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://theregister.com/2025/08/04/it_job_market_july/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/04/it_</span><span class="invisible">job_market_july/</span></a>&gt;</p>
mnl mnl mnl mnl mnl<p>from my experience in both ai and anti-ai circles:</p><p>- people degrading discourse in ai-heavy circles because they used LLMs to summarize or write: 0<br>- people degrading discourse in anti-ai circles by aggressively accusing everybody using LLMs of degrading discourse: every time the topic of LLMs comes up</p><p>ok...</p><p>PS: there is a similar thing going on with critically reading research about LLMs.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
Duncan Blues<p>"Ihr Android Handy hat neue Funktionen!"<br>Okay, zeig mal her!<br>'Gemini dies, KI das, Google schnüffelt in diesen und jenen Sachen von dir rum...'</p><p>Ähm. _Nein???_ 🤨</p><p>Hallo Google, es hat einen Grund warum ich alles(!) rund um Gemini deaktiviert habe!<br>Das war Absicht!<br>Ja wirklich!<br>Nein, ich überlege mir das nicht anders!<br><a href="https://norden.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Datenschutz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datenschutz</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KI</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gemini</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Datenkraken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Datenkraken</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"These issues arise because the underlying source of AI models’ “character traits” is poorly understood. At Anthropic, we try to shape our models’ characteristics in positive ways, but this is more of an art than a science. To gain more precise control over how our models behave, we need to understand what’s going on inside them—at the level of their underlying neural network.</p><p>In a new paper, we identify patterns of activity within an AI model’s neural network that control its character traits. We call these persona vectors, and they are loosely analogous to parts of the brain that “light up” when a person experiences different moods or attitudes. Persona vectors can be used to:</p><p>- Monitor whether and how a model’s personality is changing during a conversation, or over training;<br>- Mitigate undesirable personality shifts, or prevent them from arising during training;<br>- Identify training data that will lead to these shifts."</p><p><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">anthropic.com/research/persona</span><span class="invisible">-vectors</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Anthropic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthropic</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Claude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Claude</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PersonaVectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PersonaVectors</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chatbots</span></a></p>
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