Huawei’s camera mistook a plane for a bird and…

…I really dislike “AI-enhanced” photography. It makes it harder and harder for me to trust any photo, even those taken by people I know on their personal devices.

Source: https://nitter.catsarch.com/youy1qwq/status/2075444313132351828#m

#ai #photography #computationalPhotography

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A photograph of a passenger plane in a plain blue sky, but all of its flight surfaces have the appearance of feathers.

If you don't want to chat with an AI bot, but with real friends and family, privately and securely...

Use Signal: https://signal.org/install 💙

No AI bots. No ads. No tracking. Just your conversations.

If your friends aren't on Signal yet, invite them this summer. Let the blue sky be your reminder ☀️

#signal #signalmessenger #signalapp #privacy #ai

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Blue story post with the Signal logo, a waving hand, and the text: "I'm on Signal now."

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

How scammers choose their targets #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-scammers-choose-their-targets/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

This is peak.
I'm even sorry for the machine. 😂

https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=lk3jCuITwcE

#ai

New post: Learning Enough to Change Direction

https://lanie.work/technology/learning-enough-to-change-direction/

#Accessibility #Disability #Chronic-Illness #Executive-Dysfunction #Education #Ai #Technology

Oh, ima gonna barf.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html

#surveillance #ai #🤮

"...To do so, users must go to Instagram's settings menu, select "Sharing and Reuse" and switch off "Allow people to reuse your content on Instagram and with AI features at Meta" for posts and reels...." #instagram #AI #privacy #meta

BBC: Outcry as Meta lets users make AI images from public Instagram profile pics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9lee19y1yo

#ai #privacy #meta #instagram #AIpocalypse

Proton users, what are your thoughts on the Lumo AI?

#proton #privacy #ai #lumo #security

#meta #instagram #ai #deepfake

https://mastodon.social/@verge/116898398585838581

When cryptography fails #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/when-cryptography-fails/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116898067548731485

“Personal anecdote: I was commissioned to ghostwrite an article. I researched and wrote the piece in my own words, but reflecting the author’s voice. A screening tool – operated by AI, checking for AI use – indicated that the article was more likely written by AI than a human. That in itself was infuriating, as my original material and writing style were being called into question. (More annoyingly, I suspect that my previously published material has been scraped and my style imitated by AI.) However, I kept tweaking the article until it had been approved by this gatekeeper and the client could formally submit their article. Counterintuitively, it didn’t pass until it sounded like all the other boilerplate garbage generated by AI and nothing like my original. The tool was enforcing homogeneity, blandness, and superficiality. All nuance, all stylistic quirks, were lost. Just another droplet in the AI swamp.”

#AI

#Microsoft expects more #Windows security updates from #AI-discovered flaws

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-expects-more-windows-security-updates-from-ai-discovered-flaws/

#cybersecurity

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A global emergent workspace in language models (J-space) https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

J-space wasn’t designed or programmed. It emerged on its own during training process. J-space has a number of unique properties:

- Claude can report on these representations. If you ask Claude what it's thinking about, it will tell you what’s in the J-space. Non-J-space representations are less reportable.

- It can also modulate them on request. If you ask Claude to think about something, or solve a problem silently in its head, it will light up the appropriate patterns in its J-space. By contrast, it has trouble modulating patterns not in the J-space.

- Claude uses its J-space for internal reasoning. If you ask Claude to solve a problem that requires multiple steps, the intermediate steps will light up in its J-space, even when it doesn’t say them out loud. These J-space patterns causally mediate its performance in such tasks, despite being smaller in magnitude than other representations.

- Representations in the J-space can be used flexibly for many tasks—for example, once “France” has lit up in Claude’s J-space, the model can recall its capital, or its national currency, or the continent it belongs to.

- However, despite its important role, the J-space is not involved in most of what a language model does—speaking fluently, recalling simple facts, using correct grammar, etc. In experiments where we prevented Claude from using its J-space, it still interacted normally, but lost its higher-order cognitive functions.

Full Paper:
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspace/index.html

External commentary https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/files/4zrzovbb/website/cc4be2488d65e54a6ed06492f8968398ddc18ebe.pdf

#consiousness #cogneuro #LLM #AI #cogneuro #cognitive #cognitiveNeuroscience

New #Forg365 #phishing platform uses #AI to target #Microsoft365 accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-forg365-phishing-platform-uses-ai-to-target-microsoft-365-accounts/

#Microsoft #cybersecurity

#KaiserPermanente nurses say technology is making their jobs — and patient care — worse

https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/07/09/kaiser-permanente-nurses-say-technology-is-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse

#healthcare #privacy #AI #bossware #surveillance

The brains behind the machines: how AI learns #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-brains-behind-the-machines-how-ai-learns/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the #privacy light

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/962514/meta-privacy-light-tampering-smart-glasses-update

#AI #RayBan #Oakley #IoT #SmartGlasses

A poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Connecting The Meta Privacy Dots
#Meta #AI #Privacy

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/07/09/connecting-the-meta-privacy-dots/

#Google will now disclose which ads are made with #AI - https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/google-will-now-disclose-which-ads-are-made-with-ai/ #adtech

CEOs are baffled at the high cost of moving to AI. Shockingly enough, sacking human workers isn't resulting in huge savings.

@TechRadar reports: https://flip.it/YHvH6L

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Online dating: the multi-billion dollar swipe #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-the-multi-billion-dollar-swipe/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

if you needed (no, you did't) more reasons to stop using Meta services 👇

Meta has enabled a setting that allows anyone to use your public Instagram photos to create AI-generated images of you unless you opt out.

To opt out, click your profile -> 3 bars in the top right -> scroll down to "Sharing and reuse" and toggle off for both Posts and for Reels.

Do you like posts like this one? this was first post in Debugging Memes channel, join here:
https://i.delta.chat/#B68D965B65A63BBE7EB32D56234652E2C899213F&v=3&x=ImcSr1dp4fEWrZreS4Emlb5u&j=eX6UqJEePp9y_i-225abLctf&s=NKEuhQYd9UlzXhnW7rCTHNbF&a=57cyvwkiidqqxnryms0q%40chat.in%2Dthe.eu&n=Debugging+Memes&b=Debugging+Memes

#ai #genai #meta #aislop

Woman calls Ronald Reagan Space Station in the year 2027, from the BBC sci-fi show Star Cops (1987). They got so much right 😂 😭

#StarCops #Scifi #AI #television

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A woman sits in front of a vid screen. The American flag fades to a picture of three American astronauts before fading to the logo of Ronald Regan Space Station. Another person appears on the screen but they are stilted and heavily pixelated.

Why so many scams go unreported #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/why-so-many-scams-go-unreported/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

I share my core philosophical positions on Substack.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/a-provisional-map-of-my-philosophical?r=pvxh5

See map and hashtags for content guidance.

#philosophy #metaphilosophy #ontology #objectivity #selfhood #ontologicalgrammar #language #languageinsufficiency #minds #ai #artificialintelligence #ethics #agency #substack #blog #podcast #video #subjectivity #institutions #law #map #history #politics #governance

Organized cybercrime: the Crime-as-a-Service model #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-crime-as-a-service-model/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Meta Muse Image allows the creation of #AI images using public #Instagram photos. Privacy experts are alarmed. Switch Insta from public to private to protect yourself, it is recommended. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/09/instagram-ai-image-generator-privacy

Your public Instagram photo is now raw material for anyone's AI. Meta's Muse Image remixes public profiles into new images with no consent and no notice. Public Citizen calls it an egregious invasion of privacy and wants Congress to require opt-in first.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

"Users can also pick from 17 main characters, including strong female lead, cute kid, underdog, ultra-rich tycoon, switched-at-birth heiress, female emperor, doppelgänger love interest, enemies-to-lovers."

Lavender Au for The Dial: https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/chinese-micro-dramas

#Longreads #China #Drama #Video #Storytelling #Content #AI #Media

Artificial intelligence has been built by robbing the collective work of humanity.

The public built AI — we should own it, not a handful of billionaires.

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-policy-nationalization-commons-work

#ai #Artificailintelligence

Meta's new Muse Image lets anyone tag a public Instagram account and turn its photos into AI images, no notice to you, opted in by default. Opting out only stops future ones. Block it: Instagram > Sharing and reuse > turn off AI content, or go private.

#Meta #Instagram #AI #indigoprivacy

Instagram is expanding its AI features.

Users can now generate AI images using public Instagram profiles by tagging accounts in their prompts.

The feature only works with public photos, raising new conversations about AI, creativity, and online privacy.

What do you think about this change?

#Instagram #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews

How do AI companies make money? @McSweeneysFlip break it down. "All you really need to know is that everything is totally working and everyone is making a lot of money, and you should just stop asking questions, luddite." It's satire but... is it?

https://flip.it/8inekL
#AI #Economics #Satire

Online dating: demographics, bias, and discrimination #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-demographics-bias-and-discrimination/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

OpenAI's new chatbots can listen and speak at the same time, offering quicker answers and letting you interrupt them when they inevitably drone on.

https://flip.it/5Dsxwk
#OpenAI #GPT #AI

#CISA orders feds to prioritize patching #Langflow auth bypass flaw

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-prioritize-patching-langflow-auth-bypass-flaw/

#cybersecurity #AI

The forced labour behind fraud operations #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-forced-labour-behind-fraud-operations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

I hope that after the #AI bubble pops something like #aidungeon remains, because it's actually pretty fun.

Hackers can use 9 of the most popular #AI tools to assemble massive botnets

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/hackers-can-use-9-of-the-most-popular-ai-tools-to-assemble-massive-botnets/

#HalluSquatting #cybersecurity #botnet

#Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your #Instagram Photos in #AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images-unless-you-opt-out/

#privacy

A new report has dropped today by the #ANU School of #Cybernetics and Google exploring #AI adoption in Australia. Co-authored by Dr Jessica Herrington, Dr Nick Biddle, Dr Safiya Okai-Ugbaje and Ellen O'Brien, the report shows that generative AI adoption is higher among younger Australians, higher-educated Australians and urban dwellers. However, security and privacy concerns remain as key inhibitors of use. The report puts forward several policy recommendations, including strong investment in national AI capability building and digital inclusion.

Read more 👇
https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/projects/AI_Adoption_in_Australia/

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Infographic titled 'AI Adoption in Australia' by ANU School of Cybernetics, sourced from an AI Adoption in Australia partnership between Google and ANU (May 2026). Key statistics: 48.6% of Australians have used Generative AI (GAI) at least once, with adoption higher among younger Australians, those with tertiary qualifications, and capital city residents. 70.3% report at least a basic or moderate understanding of GAI. Users report time savings as a key benefit, using saved time for more complex tasks, higher work volumes, and creative activities, with students and workers noting improved study quality and job performance. Barriers to use include lack of training/skills, privacy concerns, and fear of over-reliance. On governance, 66.2% believe government should regulate GAI while 48.1% favour an independent authority. 8 in 10 Australians are concerned or very concerned about GAI in politics, citing misinformation and sensitive data leaks as top worries. Among industry and government leaders interviewed, top AI adoption drivers are productivity (27%), strategy (23%), and value (20%), while top adoption inhibitors are security and privacy (18%), authenticity (15%), and inaccuracy (13%).

The psychology of cybercrime entrepreneurs #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-psychology-of-cybercriminal-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Voice as a Key: Biometric Gating for Consequential AI Actions

When an AI action moves money, changes a record or releases data, a text prompt is not enough to authorise it. Hardware-attested voice biometrics, with per-voiceprint revocation, tie each consequential action to a real, named person and a sealed audit trail.

https://mickai.co.uk/articles/voice-as-a-key-biometric-gating-for-consequential-ai-actions

#SovereignAI #AI #DataSovereignty #PostQuantum #AIgovernance

Trust without institutions: crypto and blockchain #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/trust-without-institutions-crypto-and-blockchain/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

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

"Quite frankly, it’s insulting that the government has launched their biggest ever campaign to encourage the British public to reduce water usage in a heatwave, while charging full steam ahead with data centre expansion"

#AI #DataCentres #Water #ClimateEmergency #Heatwave #UKPolitics

We’re being asked to save two buckets of water a day. Meanwhile data centres drink a town’s worth
https://www.thenerve.news/p/adele-walton-heatwave-data-centres-water-shortage

What I think is unarguable at this point is Sillicon Valley wants a soul-sucking surveillance dystopia for 99.99999% of us. A place only billionaires have the privilege to escape from. #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SiliconValley

Women in modern offensive security #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/women-in-modern-offensive-security/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@sjvn

seriously

i saw this and had to laugh

"Bespoke AI refrigerator with spherical ice cubes"

- spherical ice cubes: ok cool. but a marginally attractive gimmick at best

- bespoke: 😂 bespoke means custom made for you. i don't think that's how they are manufacturing these. so another word that has been destroyed by the marketing dept because "sounds cool"

- #AI: IT'S A FUCKING FRIDGE. what the fuck is AI about it? it's mining crypto in the background?!

https://www.samsung.com/us/refrigerators/side-by-side/bespoke-ai-27-cu-ft-side-by-side-refrigerator-with-sphere-ice-and-external-water-and-ice-dispenser-in-stainless-steel-sku-rs70h27sdraa/

EFF-led coalition (15+ groups) urges the FTC to reject X’s bid to end/weaken a 2022 privacy oversight order. They say X missed the legal standard, leadership changes don’t remove obligations, and new AI/data uses increase—rather than reduce—need for scrutiny. Learn more: https://cyberinsider.com/eff-led-coalition-urges-ftc-to-reject-xs-bid-to-end-privacy-oversight/ 🔒📣🤖 #FTC #EFF #Privacy #ConsumerProtection #AI

Well. There it is.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-caught-secretly-spying-on-users

#ai #privacy

"We cannot choose to become idiots." When Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home midterm for the first time, most of them did suspiciously well. Suspecting widespread AI use, he voided the results and told students he would reweigh the final, after which 18 students dropped out. The average score on the final was 48.6 percent, a historic low. Serrano spoke to Inside Higher Ed about the university administration's response, and how he believes they should respond to AI-enabled cheating.

https://flip.it/g4D2MG

#Education #AI #Technology

@lizmat Does the Raku community have a stance on AI gendered code contributions?

Some projects embrace AI. Some shun it. Others are more nuanced.

#rakulang #ai

Alien conspiracies on the web #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/alien-conspiracies-on-the-web/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Postel, Crocker, and RFC #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/postel-crocker-and-rfc/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

HBD, Yann LeCun! LeCun received the 2018 #ACMTuringAward for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. LeCun is often called a “godfather of #AI” because of his early work in the field. https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lecun_6017366.cfm

US cyber agency is using #Anthropic's #Mythos to audit government code, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-cyber-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-audit-government-code-sources-say-2026-07-06/

#AI #cybersecurity #CISA

The ‘first’ #AI-run #ransomware attack still needed a human

https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/06/the-first-ai-run-ransomware-attack-still-needed-a-human/

#cybersecurity

The year of the AI agents is upon us — and it's becoming a little pricey.

OpenAI and Anthropic might be struggling to persuade corporate America to pay the mounting costs for their AI tools. China may have a cheaper alternative called GLM-5.2, but there's always a catch.

This Atlantic piece by Matteo Wong explains more:
https://flip.it/C7qBMB

#AI #China

😂😂😂 taken from https://github.com/Vandivier/ladderly-3/issues/639 #satire #ai

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This is a screenshot of a GitHub issue titled "Please delete your repository #639," showing a satirical message claiming to from a "OpenAI Model Training Acquisition Team" claiming the repository's code is significantly reducing AI model performance 😂

@benno Of course, as we are training #AI, Actual Intelligence.

Digital addiction: when devices take over #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/digital-addiction-when-devices-take-over/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

It seems that in the "AI Idiot" race, China feels left behind and now decides that its biggest marketing and sales advantage, Open Source, is a risk, and they need to regulate it. Maybe they should look at the US experience in AI, Encryption, or Nukes and see how that didn't work out.
#opensource #AI #politics
https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-overseas-access-chinas-top-ai-models-sources-say-2026-07-07/

Organized cybercrime: the Ransomware cartels #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-ransomware-cartels/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Link and network analysis: the structure behind the data #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/link-and-network-analysis-the-structure-behind-the-data/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

AI Spy

Trying to live outside, without buying or selling with money, is prohibited.

"Audio sensors" have been installed, with the help of Yandex, in one of Russia's protected areas. Eavesdropping with artificial intelligence will detect violations:

hunting
cutting down trees and bushes
lighting fires
organizing tourist camps

Not allowed!

#Yandex #Russia #privacy #AI #camping #news

https://mastodon.ml/@Murga/116851094690327179