#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast since 2022 discussion with the #FSF scientist #gopher @bandali (subscribe to their new #snac instance! - boost for this please)

https://toobnix.org/w/wQJ63Utsw2SN16Bhh5f2iT

#climateCrisis #haiku by @kentpitman

Joined by schemacs #emacs implementor @ramin_hal9001 !

I have a stock of questions. If you think you don't know who bandali is check his monthly software release blog.

Major theme is https://human-emacs.org/ and #LLM #AI, #linux, #lisp, the #future

#lambdaMOO

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Lispy gopher climate emphasis gopher !

I was doing that anyway, but thank you, it's a good suggestion.

#LLM

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Repost from @makinSenseOfScience "OK I'm in love with this: 'Since AI is making everyone sound more generic and NPC, I recommend becoming the most unhinged version of you, to counterbalance. Write like a crazy person who hasn't interacted with humanity in years. Break any and all of the rules. Live like a mad, drunk poet. Now is the time to channel the weirdest version of you.'"

Update on my paper that was uncited by generative AI: The PLOS Publication Ethics Team responded to our email, confirming they are looking into the matter and providing a case number, which I won’t share here for confidentiality reasons. If you’d like to help increase visibility on the original post to support the review process, please check my LK profile.

#ai #llm #research #acdenic #walkability #pedestrian #quantum #urbansystem

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A screenshot of a social media post by Korawich Kavee, PhD Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The post text reads, "I discovered yesterday that a paper in PLOS ONE has an alarming amount of overlap with one of mine from 2023, yet not a single citation was given. It’s possible their ChatGPT or other LLM referenced our work but hallucinated and failed to cite the correct source. My co-author (my advisor) and I have just emailed PLOS with details of the overlap, and we hope this doesn't get ignored. #Boost welcome and especially in #academic circle". Included in the post is a screenshot of an academic webpage featuring the title "Street-Level Urban Gravity: A Quantum System Approach to Human Centered Urban Space Design" by authors Korawich Kavee and Katherine Flanagan, with an overlapping text fragment that reads "...inspired pedestrian mobility modeling: Applying spatial simulation to urban walkability and comfort in Sri Lanka". The bottom of the post shows "Zia Lyle, PhD and 40 others", "3 comments", and "5 reposts".

Cua is an open-source framework for building AI agents that can interact with desktop applications across Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Android.

It includes cross-platform computer-use drivers, isolated sandboxes, and benchmarking tools for training and evaluating autonomous agents, making it a great project for developers exploring AI-powered desktop automation.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=cua

#OpenSource #AI #AIAgents #Automation #LLM #Windows #Linux #macOS #Android

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Screenshot of the Cua project page in dark mode. A large koala logo appears above the tagline: "Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation." Below are buttons linking to the Cua website, Discord server, X account, and documentation. A badge at the bottom highlights Cua as the "#1 Repository of the Day" on GitHub Trending.

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/

> A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project

#ai #slop #llm #datacenters #technology

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116917555903146572

Nearly a quarterof all domestic power is consumed by hyper scalers' data centres in Ireland. Let that melt on your tongue and see whether this is sustainable for the given #ClimateCollapse situation.

#LLM #GenAI #ClimateCrisis #DataCentres #BigTech

Guy boosted

heise online English » 🤖 🌐 2026-07-14
@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

Ireland: Data centers consume 23 percent of the country's electricity

In 2025, data centers in Ireland consumed around 7663 GWh of electricity – more than all urban households combined. Despite a moratorium in greater Dublin area.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Ireland-Data-centers-consume-23-percent-of-the-country-s-electricity-11364060.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AmazonWebServices #Energie #Google #IT #Klimaschutz #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Microsoft #Netzausbau #news

• #kunstlicheintelligenz

OpenAI guy doing a presentation at work. For some reason we're celebrating burning 1 trillion tokens in the last 30 days.

None of this is reasonable or good.

#llm #openai #bullshit

PixelRAG is an open-source visual RAG framework that helps local AI models understand documents by analyzing screenshots instead of relying only on extracted text.

It preserves tables, charts, diagrams, and page layouts for more accurate retrieval, and can run locally with your own PDFs and webpages.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=pixelrag

#OpenSource #AI #RAG #LLM #SelfHosted #Privacy

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Screenshot of the PixelRAG project page. At the top is the PixelRAG logo with the tagline "Web Screenshots Beat Text." Below, an overview explains that PixelRAG renders web pages, PDFs, and images as screenshots so AI models can preserve visual elements like tables, charts, layouts, and infographics for more accurate document retrieval and question answering.

When someone wants to add an #LLM scraping tool into #Gentoo.

Yes, the kind of shit that's designed to work around all the scraping protections, mask itself and DDoS Gentoo. I mean, technically I don't think that violates any rules but seriously…

https://bugs.gentoo.org/974492

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

Learning to recognize artificial pseudo-photographs is a very interesting domain (if "interesting" is the word).
Again, repetition is the mother of learning, naturally.

Myself, I failed the sample tests (four and four images) in the article.
I partitioned them into two classes mostly correctly (real vs. artificial), but I swapped the classes.

BBC article:
See if you can spot an AI deepfake with our test
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d2wgvg55jo>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#FakeImageRecognition
#FakeImages
#ImageRecognition
#LargeLanguageModels
#LLM

Does anybody else feel like LLMs completely destroyed not only the job market, but the job hunting process itself? I apply to dozens of jobs and it's like I just don't exist. Nobody even notices me jumping in the back yelling, "Ooh, me! Pick me!" because of the throng of LLMs auto-applying and the other throng of LLMs doing the actual candidate selection. The game has changed. IDK how to play it anymore, and I'm literally going hungry as a result.

#LLM
#jobs
#JobMarket
#HR

There's a new meat eating hype. Meat companies are telling everyone people would have more energy if they only ate more meat. Employers are getting huge meat lunches for their employees and expecting a productivity boost. Against their better judgement, employees are stuffing themselves with loads of meat and struggling to work. But eventually, they figure out how to eat more and be more productive. In the meantime, a lot of people (including meat eaters) are crying over the obvious climate and health harm, both from increased meat consumption and from increased waste as people throw away even more food.

Meat eaters now put up a big banners of what meat they like, and invite others to join them with meat. More people are becoming vocally vegan, or at least trying to limit their meat consumption. Some also put "vegan" or even more aggressive "no meat allowed" signs.

Some meat eaters think it's fine to bring offering of meat to a stranger if they didn't put up an explicit "vegan" sign yet. "I won't get offensed, I'll just throw it in the trash", they say. Some go even further and try to trick you by saying it's actually a vegan meat-lookalike.

#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

This is a *really* interesting read about #GenAI and #LLM.

I don't agree with all points, but it's overall very well written, and not an *angry* piece at all, while it still raises everything that's ethically so wrong with the 'new business model'.

So, while Charity makes the point that it's not ethical to use 'AI' (as it is coined today), it's here to stay, and we need to work through how we're going to make it less harmful for us/the world.

Also, do make the effort to read the foot notes. These two stood out to me:

> 3 AI will absolutely be used by authoritarian governments everywhere — it already is. This genie is not going back in the bottle. I want every ethical person I know learning about AI, using AI, and thinking about how we are going to use AI to *fight back.*

and

> 4 I have to say how much whiplash it gives me, as a child of open source and copyleft, to find that copyright law and internet advertising are now… the good guys? this timeline is WEIRD you guys)

(yes, the brackets in the last quoted quote don't match up ...)

https://charity.wtf/p/make-ai-boring-again

What kind of work is it still good for a human to do, even if a machine could or does do it “better?” Definitions of “good” and “better” are free for you to define. #ai #machinelearning #humanity #llm

@jensorensen
I wouldn’t use ‘pattern recognition machines’ as a label for the current crop of ‘text regurgitating machines’ because your label also includes medical diagnostic tools that are providing specialists with great tools to aid diagnosis. Using #GenAI #GenAISlop #LLM based #GenAISlop #ChatBotsOnDrugs etc. , is more appropriate. There are AI differences to be recognised.

& now there's YA reason: last week, #GitHub urged the FOSS community to *oppose* important #California legislation that places transparency and consumer rights requirements on deployment of LLM-gen-AI!

GitHub's tactic? Disinformation claiming #FOSS licenses are incompatible with Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §22757 and California #SB1000 (which seeks to amend §22757).

Read the analysis: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/jul/03/github-gen-ai-california-22757-ok-for-foss-license/

#LLM #AI #copyleft #GPL #Microsoft #law

All these talks of "#AI achieved in a day what used to take a month" make me recall how a certain Polish person (known for the usual post-WW2 abstract hatred for Germans) noted how many great highways were built by the Nazi Germany. I think this needs no further comment.

#LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

Due to the thirst of #GenAI, #Google is now consuming as much power as Aotearoa New Zealand! That's what people get through the continued push for slop machines.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3mpmdvb47qc2e

#LLM #ClimateCrisis

NEW: How Google and AI Nearly Made a Seasoned Reporter Spiral

"I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users."

https://www.propublica.org/article/google-ai-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Google #AI #Journalism #Media #Technology #Tech #Research #LLM #artificialintelligence

I dislike the #AI #llm term "jailbreak" for the same reason many folks dislike "hallucination." Like it or not, they are both "terms of art" in the space, so we must deal with them.

But it's helpful to know what they mean. Broadly, "hallucination" is a non factual response, and "jailbreak" is an undesirable (to the creator) behavior.

But what both miss capturing, is that both are the system operating as designed. Possibly not as intended, but as designed.

Next probable token. That's it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk3jCuITwcE&feature=youtu.be

#ai #llm #spam #spammer

Les Années Vécues
https://philosophics.blog/2026/07/01/les-annees-vecues/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
I’ve shared a piece of fiction writing meta content and the rôle of LLMs in my writing workflow, in particular, a punch list to track idea instantiation. I don’t, however, discuss my fondness for diacritical marks, especially those with no phonetic function.
#philosophy #writing #fiction #timetravel #LLM #scifi #process #author #time #blof #podcast #language #workflow #frnech #english #shortstory #method #ai #matrix #spreadsheet #google #claude #chatgpt

New attack provides one more reason why #AI browsers are a bad idea

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/ai-browsers-can-be-lulled-into-a-dream-world-where-guardrails-no-longer-apply/

#LLM #PromptInjection #cybersecurity #AIAgent #AgenticAI

Гугля одну штуку, повелся на шизофренический заголовок и решил прочитать https://pochemu.kniga-vsluh.ru/pochemu-metro-iskhod-vyletaet-pri-zapuske/

Метро — это один из самых популярных видов общественного транспорта в крупных городах. Ежедневно миллионы людей пользуются метро, чтобы добраться до работы, школы или других мест. Однако, иногда при запуске метро может возникать неприятная ситуация — исход вылетает. Почему это происходит?
Прежде чем разобраться в причинах, давайте определим, что такое исход. Исход — это небольшое помещение, расположенное на платформе, через которое пассажиры попадают на поезд. Когда исход вылетает, это означает, что пассажиры не могут войти в вагон и продолжить свое путешествие. Это может вызывать большие неудобства и задержки.

"O'Leary has been a mainstay on TV screens for years, and he's famous for playing the jerk."

Kevin O'Leary has entered a new villain era [as datacentre tycoon] https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-oleary-data-centers-2026-6 #AI #GenAI #LLM #KevinOLeary #CDNPoli #DataCentres

The best way to learn to #write well is to read voraciously, and the best way to lean to #read well is to write incessantly. The most reliable way humanity preserves and expands its knowledge is through reading and writing.

Today, college kids are using #LLM to read and write for them. Their professors are using LLM to generate and grade assignments. The kids respond in kind by using LLM to do the assignments. #AI is the only party in this “efficient” exchange who is improving its reading and writing skills and is learning ever so deeply about the patterns of human behaviour.

Shout out to all the developers out there resisting the pull to become a project manager of a team of LLMs.

Your ability to accumulate skills and experience will prevent you from "falling behind" all those who are now spending their days writing markdown and managing slop PRs.

#ai #llm #developers #softwareengineering

AI and Liability

Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rej... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-and-liability.html

#softwareliability #Uncategorized #LLM #AI

LLM (noun): a machine used by software teams to turn piles of cash into technical debt

#LLM #AI #software #TechDebt #TechnicalDebt #coding #AmbroseBierce

Where every major LLM stands politically

https://trakkr.ai/bias

#HackerNews #LLM #politics #AI #bias #tech #trends

When seeing your local GP ...
How sensitive information can be gleaned from medical AIs

Medical records could be revealed by AI training-data vulnerability (podcast)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02032-3

Knolle, M.A., Menten, M.J., Jungmann, F. et al. Disparate privacy risks from medical AI. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10688-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10688-0
#privacy #PrivacyRisk #MedicalAI #DataSparcity #AI #LLM #MembershipInferenceAttack #health #MedicalRecords #consent #prosumer #PatientPrivacy #NSW

So there is value in oral examination (literally oral).

At Stanford University:
«Some classes have started reintroducing proctoring - the supervision of candidates during an examination - and spoken-word tests to avoid cheating, [Lucy Zimmerman, a computer science major who served as a teaching assistant] said.»

This is, of course, a detail of a much bigger picture.

BBC article:
Stanford was their golden ticket - could AI help or hinder that?
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c872j82j2qyo>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#Education
#LargeLanguageModels
#LLM
#LLMs
#UniversityEducation

Just reminding you all that #KeePassXC allows contributions from LLMs. https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/ #KeePass #AI #LLM #Security #InfoSec

RE: https://mastodon.social/@radioscout/116795938482887745

WTF? AI companies are buying antique and second hand books from shops and markets in bulk to ship them to the US. They use them as further 'training fodder' for their LLMs on things they don't have, yet. Afterwards, they're dumped (for 'recycling'), thus depriving and depleting the (human) market to benefit from them. So they're on top creating scarcity to force people towards their own products destroying our planet and humanity.

Note: Article in German.

#antiquebooks #books #GenAI #LLM

From comments: You know it's serious when Rick Beato talks about RAM and storage 😁
Actually, he's got a pretty sane point, the LLMs are being built for mass surveillance first, the rest is just byproduct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXy8mQeuObk
#LLM #AI

From comments: You know it's serious when Rick Beato talks about RAM and storage 😁
Actually, he's got a pretty sane point, the LLMs are being building for mass surveillance first, the rest is just byproducts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXy8mQeuObk
#LLM #AI

Dovrei citare ogni episodio, ogni singola parola, congiunzioni comprese, perchè credo di non avere mai trovato qualcosa che non condivido in questo podcast capolavoro!

Grazie Walter, davvero!
Quando ti ascolto, mi sento un po' meno solo 🤗

"Come in questo caso, l'illecita raccolta di fotogrammi dai video di sicurezza, l'illecito c'è a prescindere.

Detto questo, facciamo un altro passo: non è che siccome c'è la videosorveglianza il primo pirla che passa se la guarda e raccoglie le figurine. Esiste un elenco di persone, ed è molto ristretto, che hanno la possibilità, in casi molto particolari, di accedere ai video di sorveglianza.

E nei posti governati da gente con un cervello, la procedura richiede sempre almeno due persone: tipicamente, un tecnico e un manager, per riesaminare i video. Quindi OK i tramvieri laidi, ma chi gli ha dato accesso ai video ha fatto ancora di peggio, perché gli incaricati della gestione dei video di sicurezza hanno gli stessi obblighi di riservatezza e confidenzialità degli amministratori di sistema, e infatti sono spesso le stesse persone.

Io direi che, oltre ai laidi, deve saltare pure la testa di qualcuno nell'area tecnica e qualche manager.

Certo, in Italia perfino gli amministratori di sistema delle banche si mettono a ficcare il naso nei conti correnti della gente, figuriamoci in un'azienda di trasporti pubblici.

Ma non è un problema. Le leggi esistono, si prende questa gente, si predono i loro superiori che hanno l'obbligo di sorveglianza, si prende la gente che ha fatto gli audit e garantito la compliance, si prendono quelli che hanno approvato un sistema di videosorveglianza dove gli accessi ai video non vengono loggati, o se vengono loggati non vengono auditati e li si accompagna tutti, gentilmente, alla porta.

A CALCI IN CULO.

Perché mi sono anche rotto il cazzo di questa privacy di carta dove per fare una foto della festa di Natale ufficio ci sono moduli in triplo originale, e poi il primo coglione con la password di amministratore fa il cazzo che gli pare."

DK 10x36 - SpaceX, ma anche i tramvieri laidi

#dataknightmarelalgoritmicoepolitico #dataknightmare_it #podcast #privacy #llm #aislop #tecnologia
 @DataKnightmare

#nowlistening con
@FraNiky

https://dk.dataknightmare.eu/spacex-ma-anche-i-tramvieri-laidi/

Just one more LLM, bro. Just one more LLM and this code will surely work fine!

https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/8939

#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #slop

#LLM agents violate Hammerstein's Law, clause 4:

"One must beware of anyone who is both stupid and hardworking; he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always only cause damage."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord

If you hit a writer's block, it's because you don't know something. Learn something!

And don't for the love of god try to fix it by using a fucking #LLM

#noAi #ai #art #writersblock

@bkuhn @conservancy @dalias

> While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for using #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.
>
> Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

Sorry, I usually really value your opinions on stuff, as you tend to run contrary to the so-pragmatic-they'd-pimp-their-own-mothers attitude that is far too prevalent in (F)OSS, but hard disagree.

There's a big difference between knocking someone for using a MacBook and knocking someone for using an LLM.

Using a MacBook harms the user in ways that are somewhat debatable. Its harm outside of the user is very negligible and even more debatable.

Using LLMs harms us all. I don't doubt that there are valid and ethical applications for LLMs in many sectors, but you don't build a giant baby shredder on top of an indigenous burial ground and then suddenly pivot to saying, "But wait, it can process potatoes, too!"

If we're not talking about the theft of human creativity, the theft of potable water, the theft of human labor and wages, the promotion of über-fascist plutocrats, and all of the other horrendous harms associated with LLMs, then we're not talking about LLMs. We're engaging in some kind of fantasy roleplay.

Respectfully,

—Some dingbat named Dane, or something, who loves humanity and freedom.

When you're building software aimed at a niche related to hype, the only thing you can do is hook people onto it. I mean, you're targeting the kind people who have an attention span of a fruit fly. Unless they're literally addicted to your software, they're going to forget it as soon as they notice the next shiny thing.

#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

GLM 5.2 is really ripping it in benchmarks. For being roughly Opus-tier it's not as big as you'd think (~750B-A40B). All those bastards that shelled out for a 512GB mac studio can run it at home.

#llm

Given these days you can't even expect #Gentoo contributors to be respectable, I'm working on adding a git hook that rejects commits with #LLM attribution. Could you help me find all the common patterns used to mark LLM-assisted #git commits?

So far I'm checking for author and Co-authored-by using the following e-mail patterns:

• copilot@github.com
• *@anthropic.com
• claude@users.noreply.github.com
• *+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@openai.com
• *+chatgpt-codex-connector[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
• *@cursor.com
• *@x.ai
• *@google.com

I think some people came up with some other tags to mark LLM commits but can't find that right now.

EDIT: added Assisted-by.

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI

What a good read!

> A growing economy used to be a rising tide that lifted all boats. Post-AI, it may only lift a handful of yachts.

It's really long, but very well worth it. Puts some real substance and lessons from history against arguments, to try and paint an extrapolated picture of what #BigAI will likely do to us and our society.

**A true risk that #AI poses to liberal democracies.**

https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.html

#GenAI #LLM #BigTech

LLMs don't "know" anything. They're just guessing the next word. 🤯

But that guess is built from 100B+ parameters, trained on basically the internet.

We explain how it works, why it lies sometimes, and how to run one (Gemma 4 / Qwen 3.6) on your own PC.
https://geekrealmhub.com/what-is-llm-guide-large-language-models-local-ai/

#AI #LLM #Tech

It doesn’t matter if it works - by Henry From Online

https://henry.codes/writing/it-doesnt-matter-if-it-works/

Deskilling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskilling

"In economics, deskilling is the process by which skilled labor within an industry or economy is eliminated by the introduction of technologies operated by semi-skilled or unskilled workers. This results in cost savings due to lower investment in human capital, and reduces barriers to entry, weakening the bargaining power of the human capital."

#Society #Capitalism #AI #LLM #LLMs

I've seen where Torvalds said that he considers them as just another tool in the Arsenal, he doesn't really care, if the code is good.

He doesn't want his time to be wasted  He'll scream and shout if an LLM creates that time pit

These following words an extreme version of me would say

It looks like you will have to stop using Linux. Since from your perspective anything that uses remotely an LLM is bad, you will have to stop, otherwise you will contribute to the environment being destroyed willingly and actively

In practice that is impossible. If you drive a modern car it has the Linux kernel. If you have a smart TV or more you're also using the tainted kernel. Even if you have a stick which also streams or a camera you will have a Linux kernel in many cases.

These LLMs are an infection of the planet's  code base

Since you're already using BSD a solution would be to cut using Linux on your computers drastically

@rl_dane @FranklinFrank

#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding

Point me please, to projects which are heavily dependent on LLM code generation which are older than 10 years.

The Linux distributions I use,  have no code which is 100% LLM generated

@rl_dane @FranklinFrank

#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding

So when #Anthropic can't buy #GNU Toolchain project wholesome, it can always buy its developers.

Oh wait, this mail that starts with Anthropic marketing bullshit is not "an endorsement of Anthropic". And you're not permitted to criticize him.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2026-June/178028.html

#NoAI #NoLLM #AI #LLM

#interview #interviews #ai #llm #claude #systemdesign

Don't use LLM for writing cryptographic code. You have been warned.

#cryptography #AI #LLM