soc.octade.net is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
phone bad book good 7
#mobilek #phonebadbookgood #comic #unix_surrealism #art #fediart #mastoart #ai
#German Court Says #Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its #AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/01/german-court-says-google-is-liable-for-false-claims-in-its-ai-overviews-because-they-are-its-own-words/ "More generally, #liability concerns could mean that many current use cases for #agents won’t be commercially viable."
RE: https://mastodon.social/@EUauditors/116843191612247414
Interesting publication, one quote.
"In response, European data and AI policy will need to evolve. It must stop asking only who is allowed to hold which categories of data, and start asking what is allowed to be inferred from data, by whom, under what conditions, and with what disclosure to the subject. The shift is hard, because it requires regulating an action rather than an object; but that is the inescapable challenge we now face"
#AI #EU #ECA #EUDIW #wallets
Online dating: gamification, addiction, and the morale economy #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-gamification-addiction-and-the-morale-economy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Organized cybercrime: the money laundering pipeline #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-money-laundering-pipeline/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Hear hear. I must email my Labor MP to add pressure to this campaign.
"Australian authors who successfully sued artificial intelligence giant Anthropic for covertly scraping their work are urging the government to stand its ground against lobbying from the sector to weaken domestic copyright laws."
#auspol #ai https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/write-us-a-cheque-australian-authors-musicians-want-ai-forced-to-pay-for-using-their-work-20260701-p60bn9.html
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.
Ok, to start, let me define "#steganography" in #infosec. Steganography in computer security is the practice of hiding information within another file, message, image, or video, making the concealed information undetectable to an unsuspecting observer.
It is not necessarily malicious, but it certainly can be. I tell you that story to tell you this one:
#Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
CC silently alters the system prompt using invisible-ish Unicode markers. It encodes proxy / gateway classification into a sentence that looks like plain English. It hides the domain list behind XOR and base64.
Is it malicious? Probably not. Is a pretty big marker on the "Why not to trust AI companies" list of reasons? Yeah, yeah it is.
https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography
#AI #security #ClaudeCode #Anthropic
(Edit: doh, fingers faster than brain)
AI, chatbots, and mental health tech #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/ai-chatbots-and-mental-health-tech/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
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
FYI: Smartly builds AI memory layer for agents managing 7 billion in ad spend: Shared AI memory layer links campaign outcomes to agent decisions across 800 brands and 7 billion in spend, promising faster decisions and fewer manual handoffs. https://ppc.land/smartly-builds-ai-memory-layer-for-agents-managing-7-billion-in-ad-spend/ #AIMemory #AdTech #DigitalMarketing #Smartly #AI
This is the script of my national network radio tech report last Monday on the topic of Meta's monitoring of employees' computer activities, using that data to train AI -- and discussion of the broader implications of such projects. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.
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So yeah while this discussion is about Meta the same trend is happening at other Big Tech firms where employees are increasingly being subjected to mass layoffs or feel that they are being mistreated by management, and the impact of this could be quite dangerous for everyone who depends on services from these firms as the firms try to use AI as an excuse for all manner of bad corporate behaviors.
But regarding Meta, it's useful to recall that Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has never been the poster boy for particularly admirable corporate leadership. Of course before Meta was Meta it was Facebook, and before that it was The Facebook and before that it was Facemash. This takes us all the way back to when Mark started this entire sordid set of events when, while a student at Harvard, he built a platform to help guys avoid dating what he and his Harvard bros considered to be unattractive women, sometimes using terms like "farm animals" for their comparisons. Apparently he threw this project together after being dumped by his then girlfriend.
This was all back around 2003. Facebook didn't change its name to Meta until around five years ago or so, when Mark became convinced that everyone would want to wear virtual reality headsets, working and playing in his virtual reality "metaverse" all day, and threw reportedly tens of billions of dollars at that project, some reports say 80 billion or so. And while there are continuing to be amazing applications for VR and Meta VR headsets, the idea that this was going to be a dominant way for people to routinely interact was, what's that technical term? -- oh yeah, crazy.
Of course over the years Meta/Facebook has been embroiled in a wide variety of issues related to privacy and a long list of other controversies. So now Mark has changed his mind again, and has decided that he should throw most of Meta's resources at -- you guessed it -- AI. And the way he did this was for example, reportedly by reassigning product managers and skilled engineers to be essentially AI trainers, understandably considered to be work far below their skill levels, and laying off other employees. Then Meta came up with the idea that is somewhat akin to driving a stake through the heart of employee morale, already apparently at historically low levels for the firm. And while I don't know offhand who specifically originated this train wreck of a concept, it seems like something Mark would have quickly and enthusiastically endorsed.
So this is called MCI -- Model Capability Initiative. This was launched just a couple of months ago, and collected employee keystrokes, mouse movements, screen shots, etc. to be used for AI training. Initially there was no opt-out. Then they apparently introduced a limited half hour opt-out. As you MIGHT imagine this didn't go over well with most employees. Even when using a company provided computer as in this situation, employees routinely deal with personally sensitive subjects including financial and medical information and much more. And you can't blame employees for being decidedly unenthusiastic about being forced to train AI systems that they quite reasonably suspected Meta would like to use to lay them off and replace them.
Well, this was all bad enough, but then very recently the fan really got splattered when it was discovered that the data being collected this way had not been properly secured internally, and was reportedly accessible to pretty much anyone at the firm. Whammo. So about a week ago the MCI program was suspended for some indefinite period -- maybe forever, we don't know -- while "investigations" take place into how this happened. This whole awful affair seems pretty much on-brand for Zuckerberg, but again it would be a mistake to think that this kind of situation could only occur at Meta.
Because across the technology sector we see firms increasingly treating the employees who actually built these firms as expendable, sometimes to be replaced with half-baked, dangerous misinformation-laden AI, that drives customers and employees alike utterly nuts.
But it does seem like Large Language Model AI is close to "jumping the shark" as the saying goes, or perhaps already has, and is starting to face some serious reckonings. That recent German court decision I discussed recently, holding Google responsible for the content of their AI Overviews -- that spout 10s of millions of wrong answers an hour -- could be just the beginning.
If courts begin widely holding Big Tech AI firms responsible for their AI-generated content -- search answer overviews, chatbots, and so on, this very reasonable, common-sense approach could trigger massive changes in the way these firms operate and might signal an end to the abandon with which AI-created misinformation, sometimes dangerous and harmful, is so widely spewed.
How these firms treat their own employees could be viewed as somewhat akin to a canary in a coal mine regarding how these firms will treat all of us. And judging from the mess at Meta in this respect, we probably shouldn't expect a "customer is always right" approach from Big Tech firms, that's for sure.
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@Heterokromia
I’m a boomer. I’m not tired of #LLMs. What I am tired of is the pitches and platforming of #SnakeOil merchants and the #ChatBot tech those #Grifters like to call #AI. That, and the gullibility of executives and politicians championing #GenAISlop because they are drunk on the #KoolAid served up to make them believe that #TextRegurgitator machines will pay big dividends.
That’s what I’m tired of seeing/hearing.
How that particular slice of the AI tech revolution got to this is testament to the ingenuity of those sob #TechBros using smoke and mirrors and duping the #speculative #FinancialMarkets.
Hunker down for a stupefying #GenAIBubble busrt folks, ‘cause it’s coming.
#CoryDoctorow saw all this coming a long while ago and has been a clear voice in the brouhaha we are living through…
@pluralistic
#Antifa #noMoreBillionaires #Trillionaires are anti-social aberrations best erradicated.
What does a widowed tailor in Kurdistan, a sheep farmer in Kyrgyzstan and an engineer in Russia have in common? Romance scams. They and almost 50,000 other people are victims of online fraud carried out by one person who was trafficked and beaten at a scam compound in Myanmar. How did he pull off such a feat? American AI and tech.
Read more about the AP/"FRONTLINE" investigation:
https://flip.it/oSeWrO
FYI: AI takes control, identity cracks, and Google closes the spam loop: Brand automation without consent, the LiveRamp succession race, Amazon's expanding commerce data reach, the Google June spam update, and the first autonomous AI ad buy all converged in the final 48 hours of Cannes Lions week. https://ppc.land/ai-takes-control-identity-cracks-and-google-closes-the-spam-loop/ #AI #DigitalMarketing #CannesLions #ProgrammaticAds #AdTech
Quantum computing 20 years from now #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/quantum-computing-20-years-from-now/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Organized cybercrime: the dark web marketplaces #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-the-dark-web-marketplaces/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Behind Substack: Best, McKenzie, and Sethi #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-substack-best-mckenzie-and-sethi/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
https://toobnix.org/w/278gCLeqPDh5zGubbc1PAU
#lispyGopherClimate #live every week since 2022 Tuesday Night in the Americas! #technology #podcast #lisp
#climate #haiku by @kentpitman https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/116809734391826924
#climateCrisis becomes mainstream as thousands of normal people start dying in Europe and North America
Briefly, the USA's #AI embargo.
https://github.com/netsettler/netsettlement and https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf
Putting together #zine for next week - send/give/link me writing! https://itch.io/jam/zine
📢 LAST DAY to submit your talk for #SeaGL2026 !!
Do it now!! https://seagl.org/cfp
#cfp #linux #opensource #FLOSS #FOSS #OSS #oshw #openhardware #privacy #security #protocols #art #community #education #careers #ai #free #libre #open #tech #seattle #devops #hackerspace #hack
Inspiring to see so many people pushing back against corporate AI data centres, unleashed in their communities without democratic debate.
The Liberal government is all in on the AI hype fuelled by tech giants and wealthy investors.
But people will not stand by: the Carney government can’t race ahead with this world-changing technology without the guardrails we need to protect our jobs, data privacy, land, water and resources.
Just last week, Hamilton put a pause on new AI data centres, giving local government time to enact strong safeguards and make sure some of the benefits flow to people, not just tech giants.
We must do the same nationally. There’s too much at stake.
We don’t want to be looking back and wishing we’d done more once the damage is already done.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-ai-data-centre-protest-9.7251720
For the exact same reason that I have less patience than I should for the copyright-infringement concerns around LLM training, the notion of a "distillation attack" is very funny to me.
Oh no! Someone trained an AI by having a conversation with your AI? How awful for you! Next thing I know, you'll tell me people steal "newscaster voice" by watching the news, or do impressions of their favorite celebrities!
How dare people build new things by asking lots of questions of your question answering machine you built to answer questions! That's just... Awful!
Last week in #FDroid (LWIF) in your #RSS inbox:
* #ReproducibleBuild huge repo study
* @gardiner_bryant makes lists
* @ferlagod and @allibragi blog on app inclusion
* @99managers #99managers first #Godot reproducible game
* #Matrix clients security updates
* #Odysee native app
* #SimpleX gets help from #AI
* #Mercurygram #Telegram translates
* #GithubStore gone, welcome #KomiStore
+ 72 new apps
& 328 updates
- 3 archived
Tag, you're it! https://f-droid.org/2026/06/26/twif.html
So, how would you feel?
| A fix is a fix, a tool is a tool: | 26 |
| I care who controls the tool: | 90 |
| I care how the tool was created: | 110 |
| I already blogged about F-Droid and AI, see my bio: | 2 |
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Online dating: the rise of paid exclusivity #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/online-dating-the-rise-of-paid-exclusivity/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
"In a recent study, researchers conducted a first-ever patient-level privacy audit to see how easily individual patients could be identified from the underlying data used to train medical AI models."
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-patient-groups-vulnerable-privacy-medical.html
Original research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10688-0
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?ЩИТОА? Это из какой вселенной подробности? Исход, бля... Как же заебали своим нейрослопом, весь Интернет засрали уже откровенной шизофазией.
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.
From data to insights: the foundations of OSINT #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/from-data-to-insights-the-basics-of-osint/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
The dark side of AI: risks and ethics #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-dark-side-of-ai-risks-and-ethics/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Nearly 400 local newspapers are named in a lawsuit against tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright. The complaint describes the unlicensed use of news content to train AI models as a "death knell" for local journalism that is struggling on "thin budgets and shrinking newsrooms."
The Next Web has the details:
https://flip.it/-6DiNP
This is stupid, they are hiring minimum wage people to train the AI
7 cryptography failures that broke public trust #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/7-cryptography-failures-that-broke-public-trust/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Audrey Tang (@au / @audreyt.org ) will be giving a talk on Friday 22 May organised with our local #FOSS / #FLOSS group, from 15:30 to 16:30 UK time, in #Oxford and online. You're welcome to join (should also be recorded)!
The topic is "Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care across Generations". It will connect the software freedom movement to Audrey's and Caroline Green's framework for local, community-governed, more caring AI systems rather than reliance on centralised systems. Tang and Green work in the local University of Oxford Institute for AI Ethics. Tang is also first Digital Minister of Taiwan, and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate. Before ministership and research, Tang was a prolific FLOSS programmer, and since has for example helped persuade Pol.is to adopt the AGPL license.
#AI #anarchism #decentralization #federation #democracy #event #events #FreeSoftware #GoodEnoughAncestor #OpenSource #Plurality #SoftwareFreedom 
FYI: One in four consumers canceled over AI data - 52% will pay 7% more for trust: Usercentrics surveyed 11,000 consumers in March 2026 across seven markets. AI data concerns are driving cancellations and degrading ad platform signals globally. https://ppc.land/one-in-four-consumers-canceled-over-ai-data-52-will-pay-7-more-for-trust/ #AI #DataPrivacy #ConsumerTrust #DigitalMarketing #AdTech
RE: https://toad.social/@KimPerales/116835100069358351
#AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down, and that’s why wankers love 💕 it *so much!*
Voicebox is a free and open-source AI voice studio that runs entirely on your computer.
It lets you clone voices, generate speech, transcribe audio with Whisper, and use voice dictation without sending recordings to the cloud. It also supports multiple TTS engines and MCP integration for AI assistants.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=voicebox
#OpenSource #AI #Privacy #SelfHosted #Linux #Windows #macOS #SpeechToText #TextToSpeech
Call for proposals live for the 11th Computational Archival Science Workshop on Dec. 15 (part of the 2026 IEEE Big Data Conference). The workshop has brought together practitioners working in big data (and now #AI) in libraries, #archives, historical centers, etc., along with researchers, and across iSchools, as well as digital humanities and computer science programs, see: https://ai-collaboratory.net/ieee-big-data-2026-cas-11/
Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes:
https://julianoliver.com/projects/science-is-poetry/
The page may grow a bit. Just wanted to get it out the door.
Reminder that our #cfp for the 14th annual SeaGL is closing very soon. You have until Tuesday, June 30th 11:59:59pm PDT to submit your talk!!
Submit yours now!
https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/cfp
#SeaGL2026 #linux #FLOSS #FOSS #OSS #libre #opensource #ophw #privacy #ai #art #security #devops
"A little white box would sit under a table or chair and silently monitor for danger. It seemed like an easy way to help my dad preserve his independence and give me peace of mind from Europe."
Steven Blum for Architectural Digest and WIRED: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sensi-ai-seniors-homecare-aging-in-place
Behind Twitch: Justin Kan and Emmett Shear #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-twitch-justin-kan-and-emmett-shear/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Who will thrive in the AI age? The Atlantic's David Brooks describes three types of people who experience AI, from the "Productive Passengers," the "Reluctant Optimisers" to the "Mental Marathoners"—two of them seem to lead to cognitive decline and one could hold the key to mastering AI instead of being led by it.
Which one are you?
Organizations spend billions cleaning the same entity data. A new LF Research report with BrightQuery, FINOS, and Overture Maps Foundation examines how open entity graphs lower that cost, reduce AI hallucinations, and improve compliance across financial services, supply chains, and more.
Read the full report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-data-on-global-entities
#OpenData #LFResearch #FINOS #AI
OSINT search techniques: how to find what others miss #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/advanced-osint-search-techniques/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
ICYMI: AI takes control, identity cracks, and Google closes the spam loop: Brand automation without consent, the LiveRamp succession race, Amazon's expanding commerce data reach, the Google June spam update, and the first autonomous AI ad buy all converged in the final 48 hours of Cannes Lions week. https://ppc.land/ai-takes-control-identity-cracks-and-google-closes-the-spam-loop/ #AI #Marketing #CannesLions #DigitalMarketing #AdTech
‘#Datacentre developers often enter into nondisclosure agreements with local officials, so it is not possible to see why they were approved without environmental-impact assessments or input from residents.
“I am getting reports from people where their local leaders are changing zoning laws for this to happen,” she says, incredulous that anyone would bypass democracy to that degree.
Erin Brokovich seeing the bigger picture on why #AI datacentre growth is so hard to stop
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/29/were-up-against-forces-that-have-all-the-money-in-the-world-erin-brockovich-on-her-battle-against-ai-datacentres
8 underrated online tech resources #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/8-underrated-online-tech-resources/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
"A survivor of the #BondiBeach terror attack has said he received "an influx of hate, of abuse, of vilification, of #AI manipulation" after the #shooting in December.
#US-based #socialmedia platform #Gab has been "hostile" in its engagement with #Australia's #antisemitism #royalcommission, a counsel assisting says.
The third hearing block of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will focus on the spread of #hatespeech #online and in traditional media sources."
Women in cryptography: the architects of secrecy #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/women-in-cryptography-the-architects-of-secrecy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
"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
No. Time for more drastic legal.action.
All this crap is evidence for VERY strong antimonopoly action when voters throw the pedophile protection racket out. GOPedo
Shall not stand. Break up tech bros monopolies into dozens of small companies.
#ai #ram #drives #monopoly #marketControl #teddyRoosevelt #TrustBusters
Can you tell this voice is AI? It sounds very human to me.
Free tool used to generate audio: #Omnivoice on #Linux
This is the reading of Part II to the poem:
Muspilli
meaning "World's End"
(from the year 870 AD, originally written in Old German by anonymous)
Old High German is no longer used today in normal communications, but #AI could still translate it.
#German #OldGerman #poetry #poem #AIaudio #TextToSpeech #prophecy
Elicitation: the art of gathering information through conversation #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/elicitation-the-art-of-gathering-information-through-conversation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Organized cybercrime: access brokers and supply chain #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/organized-cybercrime-access-brokers-and-supply-chain/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
More cleanup and polishing in this month's Acuitas diary. I added the last features to the new Episodic Memory, and worked on (but couldn't quite finish) rule-following in the Game Engine.
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/06/acuitas-diary-98-june-2026.html
#SymbolicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots #NLP
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.
UK launched largest facial recognition programme in British history: 27 police forces, £26m, LFR in knife crime hotspots. Algorithm has documented racial bias, scans everyone, 50 vans deployed. Mainstream coverage: almost none.
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-uks-largest-facial-recognition
#FacialRecognition #LFR #Surveillance #Police #KnifeCrime #Privacy #AI #UKPolitics
Scientists Left 1000 AIs Alone in Minecraft. They Created A Civilization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRDBco-cSK4
When people look at an experiment like Project Sid in Minecraft and get frightened by 1,000 bots building an economy, they are falling for a parlor trick. The actual, terrifying execution of multi-agent surveillance and pattern-matching isn't a digital simulation; it has been running quietly in the real world, turning human lives into data points on a digital ledger.
ICYMI: One in four consumers canceled over AI data - 52% will pay 7% more for trust: Usercentrics surveyed 11,000 consumers in March 2026 across seven markets. AI data concerns are driving cancellations and degrading ad platform signals globally. https://ppc.land/one-in-four-consumers-canceled-over-ai-data-52-will-pay-7-more-for-trust/ #AI #ConsumerTrust #DataPrivacy #AdTech #DigitalMarketing
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.
✊️ It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for J.R.R. Tolkien: a humanist breakdown of surveillance architecture https://www.zig.art/p/its-time-to-reclaim-the-word-palantir
"Following the New York City premiere at Metrograph, Matt Godbolt moderates a panel discussion featuring Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Gabriel Dos Reis, Nina Ranns, and Eric Lubow." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMYZ5MFQAho #ai #softwaredevelopment #cpp
SOCMINT fundamentals for solid investigations #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/socmint-fundamentals-for-solid-investigations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Toho says it has no plans to actively introduce AI at this time.
The company acknowledged AI could improve efficiency but said using it in creative work remains "a very troubling and difficult issue."
It also noted ongoing legal concerns, adding:
"There are also various legal challenges that remain. Therefore, at this stage, we do not intend to take the lead and actively introduce AI."
HUMINT: the art of getting human intel #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/humint-the-art-of-getting-human-intel/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
The U.S. government has lifted its block on Anthropic’s powerful Mythos 5 AI model, a major de-escalation in the confrontation between the Trump administration and one of the world’s most valuable private companies. Read more from @Semafor, including why the timing of the announcement raises some intrigue: