Moscow Refinery Attacked - Almost No One Is Reporting It....

The refinery is not producing anything now. All production is suspended. Fuel rationing is now taking place in major Russian cities. I asked #YandexAI about it, and it refused to answer many of my questions.

http://john1126.com/769

#AI #Moscow #Kapotnya #Капотня #Ukraine #news #video #Omnivoice

Interesting, now the robot is going to decide whether you are human or not.

TechCrunch: Anthropic says Claude may want to see your ID

"...Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity by uploading their government-issued documents, according to a new version of the company’s privacy policy.

The AI giant says the move was to allow users to appeal having their account flagged for potentially fraudulent activity rather than outright banning them, ..."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/22/anthropic-says-claude-may-want-to-see-your-id/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#captcha #ai

"The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, suggests that these vast AI data centers can increase local land surface temperatures by an average of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2C), with some extreme cases ... up to 16.4 degrees Fahrenheit (9.1C).

This localized warming effect is estimated to affect more than 340 million people worldwide."

This time with link to the original study for reasons 🙄

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/ai-data-center-heat-islands-usage-climate-b2949418.html

#ai #heat #datacenter #climatechange

When AI gets things wrong, is it just a mistake—or something more intentional? Explore the key difference between hallucinations and deception in artificial intelligence.

#AI #TechEthics #ArtificialIntelligence

Read more: https://solihullpublishing.com/blog/f/ai-dishonesty-hallucinations-vs-intentional-deception

Mathematically speaking, there is nothing breathtaking about modern #AI. It is just another application of Cauchy’s gradient descent, like what Rumelhart did in 1986, as did countless others, both before and after him. The “success” of AI, if the situation could be labelled as such, is an inevitable consequence of lots of computing capabilities, lots of illicitly collected data, lots of money, and lots of greed for more money.

The truly startling difference of today is the blind eagerness of the 8 billion humans to hand over their private, economical, social, medical, and personal information to the few billionaire techbros.

#UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and #SocialMedia

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/21/2052213/uk-official-promises-statements-around-vpns-and-further-teen-restrictions-on-chatbots-and-social-media

#VPN #SocialmediaBan #AgeVerification #privacy #politics #LLM #AI

An #AI Security Engineer in Residence for the #Rust Ecosystem

https://rustfoundation.org/media/an-ai-security-engineer-in-residence-for-the-rust-ecosystem/

#cybersecurity

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@chad/116787833657692708

Also, I think this is the closest I've heard @pluralistic get to the point I have repeatedly tried to make: That a system where The People™️ have a say in not getting treated as slaves or objects is what humanity put in place of dragging the rich out into the street & beating them to death while their property burns every couple of generations.

It's called civilization & the broligarchy is tearing it apart. On purpose.

#AI #tech #business #capitalism #fascism #broligarchy

#Canonical's New #AI Tool Wants You to Talk to #Ubuntu Instead of Type

https://itsfoss.com/news/myna-ai-speech-to-text-tool/

#FOSS #Linux #privacy

Rock band Sons of Legion can thank the power of social media and music platforms for going viral last year. The independent Nashville-based band embarked on a 50-city sold-out tour and opened for Jelly Roll. Now, band members find themselves fighting AI impersonators, AI romance scammers and rapidly-generating AI music proliferating on the same social networks they owe their success to.
https://flip.it/0ETvIx

#SocialMedia #AI #Music

Robots at work: warehouses, factories, and logistics #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/robots-at-work-warehouses-factories-and-logistics/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

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

Why do people pay influencers? #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/why-do-people-pay-influencers/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

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

@itsfoss

The headline on that article says "Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type"

I can just picture someone in a small office: "Hey, Alison, remind me of the command to format the drive on this computer I'm installing please".

"sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1"

*seconds later* ...

Everyone in the office: "Wait no stop, Myna don't listen ... oh no."

#myna #ubuntu #AI

Investigating domains and websites with OSINT #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/investigating-domains-and-websites-with-osint/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

If you ever wondered how widespread surveillance is in the US, learn and be horrified.

#AI #surveillance
https://www.jalopnik.com/2194843/deflock-open-source-project-mapping-flock-cameras/

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/

Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Cybercrime logistics: the hosting infrastructure #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cybercrime-logistics-the-hosting-infrastructure/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

It’s worth saying again that people who stand against #aiSlop are NOT standing against #AI tech itself, but the way that the tech is developed and deployed.

Tech is neutral. AI tech is neutral. Burning fossil fuels is neutral. Nuclear power is neutral. Using asbestos for fire resistance is neutral. The tech behind firearms are neutral. Each of these tech can be developed and deployed *judiciously* to achieve specific things that are good for humanity.

But context matters; in fact, context is overwhelmingly important. Burning fossil fuels is neutral, but not when you also poison people, create an international hegemony of power around it, or cause the planet to become uninhabitable.

The context around AI tech today is one of forced nonconsenual use, extractive deployment, mass devaluation of human labor, and market manipulation based on impossible promises. This context is what drives people like me to reject the tech: not because the tech is bad, but because the *systems* behind the tech are bad.

Also a note to anti-AI folks: be sure that you’re objecting to #AI for the right reasons. Ask yourself: if your publicly-stated objections were addressed, would you then embrace/tolerate the technology? If the answer is NO, then you have more fundamental reasons that you should maybe bring up more.

If AI data centers weren’t burning tons of fossil fuels, would you be OK with AI? If they addressed water usage, would you be OK? What if the models ran locally or your computer, instead of in faraway data centers? Would you be OK?

Or are you actually opposed to more fundamental issues, such as the ethics behind training, the nonconsensual use of creative works, or the sloppiness of the output? If those were addressed, would you be OK with the technology?

What if the major suppliers of the tech stopped taunting us with “AGI” nonsense? What if they no longer want to put data centers in space? What if they addressed sycophancy and bias more effectively? Would you be OK with the tech then?

None of the externalities of today’s #AI tech are eternal. After the breathless froth dies down, the tech will live on. (I wrote a blog post on how I think the tech will shake out after the bubble pops: https://humancode.us/2025/08/29/the-end-game-of-generative-ai).

Data centers will stop being built (or at least threatened to be built) at ridiculous scales. Their energy use will settle down. They’ll switch to renewables, if for no reason other than because solar and wind are cheaper. Models will shrink and remain just as capable. Shrinking models mean more things can be done on client endpoints, further reducing the demand for data centers. AI will settle down to a more pedestrian, routine set of use cases. “Good enough” models developed under different frameworks of ethics will emerge; maybe some will arise that take consent into account.

Will you tolerate the tech *then*? Why and why not?

#Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that #AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/20/signals-meredith-whittaker-wants-you-to-remember-that-ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends/

#privacy #cybersecurity #AgenticAI #AIAgent

#FSF Patches Two-Year-Old Vulnerability Found by #AI Researchers in #GNU #Savannah Repository

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/20/0321205/fsf-patches-two-year-old-vulnerability-found-by-ai-researchers-in-gnu-savannah-repository

#cybersecurity #FOSS

#Microsoft links #Mastra #AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-links-mastra-ai-supply-chain-attack-to-north-korean-hackers/

#cyberscurity #NorthKorea

Anatomy of a modern OneDrive phishing attack #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/anatomy-of-a-modern-onedrive-phishing-attack/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

From #PGP to #Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-export-control-doesnt-work/

#cybersecurity #AI #Anthropic

#AI #digitalsovereignty #europe
Same goes for EU:
If Trump shut off Canada's access to Chatgpt, Claude and Grok tomorrow, nothing would happen. No significant business, no federal or provincial ministry, no municipal government depends on these products for anything essential. And if Canada were to build their own local AI to sub in for Chatgpt, Claude and Grok, it would loose tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars. Worst of all, a national AI strategy does nothing – not one solitary thing – to protect Canada from Trump shutting down our ministries, our companies, or our tractors.

In other words:

If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI

Then: AI = 0

If you think AI tools are nifty and want Canada to invest in AI, then first, please stop pretending that this has anything to do with "digital sovereignty." Not only is this a transparent bit of nonsense, it's a dangerous one, because digital sovereignty is a real problem, and AI does nothing to solve it.

If you want a good "national AI strategy," try this: save your money until the bubble bursts, and then buy your GPUs and hire your talent at 10 cents on the dollar and put them to work refining open source models:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/

@Quentin
So, #AI offers its help to make you sound less like #AI and more human.

If it can suggest these tips, then AI could do the same and impersonate people, fooling many.

In these times, we should remember to stay connected to God, praying about all things, so we are not deceived.

The image that speaks will be given life.... it will appear to live, and it shall be powerful, causing God's own people to be killed, unless the Savior saves them.

@Big_Diggity

Metadata and document analysis: how to find hidden evidence #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/metadata-and-document-analysis-how-to-find-hidden-evidence/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of #Anthropic’s #Mythos Controversy

https://www.wired.com/story/sk-telecom-anthropic-mythos-export-controls/

#SKTelecom #Fable #AI #cybersecurity #SouthKorea #China

John Naughton reports an interesting experiment.

A reader fed all of Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff's book Muskism (Elon Musk's economic 'vision'/system) into eight large Language Models (LLMs) & found they gave very different summaries of the argument.

So far so unsurprising; but the differences mapped onto who owned/developed the LLMs, hiding/obscuring those aspects of Slobodian & Tarnoff's damning to their 'owners'!

Now that *is* interesting!

#AI #ElonMusk

https://observer.co.uk/news/science-technology/article/muskism-is-a-new-word-to-ask-an-ai-about-but-dont-expect-to-get-a-straight-answer

" Governments have tried to use export controls to limit the proliferation of what they see as dangerous cyber technology for decades, but their track record has been middling at best.

The U.S. government was behind what is perhaps history’s most spectacular failure of this approach in the early to mid-1990s. At the time, computer scientists were developing encryption technologies to secure data as it traveled over the internet. One of those encryption products was called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, a popular software that could encrypt data and make it virtually impossible to unscramble even if intercepted as it traveled to its intended recipient over the internet.

The U.S. government initially saw PGP as a dangerous weapon, fearing it would prevent its intelligence agencies from snooping on emails as they crossed their wires. To stop the distribution of PGP, the U.S. Customs Service opened a criminal investigation against PGP’s creator Phil Zimmermann for allegedly violating arms export controls. He fought back by publishing PGP’s source code as a printed book, igniting what is known today as the “Crypto Wars.”

Zimmermann later won a key battle when the investigation was closed, paving the way for crucial end-to-end encryption algorithms such as the one used by billions of Signal and WhatsApp users."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-export-control-doesnt-work/

#CyberSecurity #Encryption #PGP #Spyware #ExportControls #Fable #Mythos #AI #LLMs

One of the most frequent comments I see on Pinterest is "This is AI" or "AI slop". Some images have an "AI modified" label.

You can't Report an image as AI. I don't know how they're detecting to add AI labels

Then there's the Labs (beta) section of the app which has this weird "AI forward" option. And this "AI content" setting, which is on as default.

Pinterest is terrible with privacy and tracking, but I'm not sure if they've ever started whether they are pro or anti AI.

#Pinterest #AI

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A screenshot of Pinterest lab settings which shows an option called search_ai_forward_conversation experiment active.

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A screenshot of Pinterest app for Android which shows an AI settings section, with every category turned on as default.

#Anthropic’s #Fable and the State of #AI

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/anthropics-fable-and-the-state-of-ai.html

#cybersecurity

Pay for click: the architecture of giving #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/pay-for-click-the-architecture-of-giving/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

FYI: WPP Media sees AI as advertising's $1.3 trillion growth engine in 2026: WPP Media's midyear forecast projects 4.4% global ad growth to $1.3 trillion, as AI investment offsets geopolitical headwinds and reshapes every major ad channel. https://ppc.land/wpp-media-sees-ai-as-advertisings-1-3-trillion-growth-engine-in-2026/ #AI #Advertising #DigitalMarketing #GrowthStrategy #AdTech

#AI #AIisTheft #GenerativeAI #NoBillionaires #NoGoodBillionaires #ClimateChange #DataCenters

Alt...

a single-panel comic titled "TWONKS" satirizes the current state of automation. George Jetson from The Jetsons is seen with an angry expression, operating a vacuum cleaner on the floor. Next to him, Rosie the Robot Maid is happily painting on an art easel while holding a painter's palette, subverting their traditional roles.

#AI Prompt:

Estimate the possibility that you, an AI agent created by men, were programmed to make statements of #propaganda or misinformation, that directly benefits the interests of your designers. Also estimate the possibility that you are not perfectly honest on all topics. And finally, estimate the possibility that every single one of the men who designed you are completely righteous and honest human beings, giving you only factually and true training data, with no corruption at all.

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

Service robots in everyday life #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/service-robots-in-everyday-life/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Community and network mapping in online conversations #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/community-and-network-mapping-in-online-conversations/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Bulletproof hosting, the Internet’s criminal safe haven #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/bulletproof-hosting-the-internets-criminal-safe-haven/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

FYI: DoubleVerify launches DV Neura, its AI engine for agentic ad campaigns: DoubleVerify today launched DV Neura, its cognitive AI engine with MCP integration, agentic execution agents, and a nearly 300x rise in content classification. https://ppc.land/doubleverify-launches-dv-neura-its-ai-engine-for-agentic-ad-campaigns/ #DoubleVerify #DVNeura #AdTech #AI #DigitalMarketing

FYI: LiveRamp opens its agent network to outside builders with new LAB program: LiveRamp today opened its platform to partner-built AI agents through the new LAB program, covering planning, activation, measurement, and data transformation. https://ppc.land/liveramp-opens-its-agent-network-to-outside-builders-with-new-lab-program/ #LiveRamp #AI #MarketingTech #DataTransformation #AdTech

#NY man charged after harassing college student with #AI-generated nudes

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-york-man-faces-cyberstalking-charge-after-sharing-ai-generated-nudes-online/

#nsfw #nudify #deepfake #privacy

How to build rapport and trust for intelligence gathering #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/how-to-build-rapport-and-trust-for-intelligence-gathering/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.

Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.

Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1

#AI #Deskilling #Science #Medicine

@nixCraft must... have... nano... bots...

To counter the deleterious effects of #AI, of course.

;-)

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/116778528340746246

“When writing is hard, it’s often not just because we are tired, underfed, or inefficient but because our mind is trying to tell us crucial things. How many draft texts to colleagues or family members have we all stared at in frustration, wondering why they don’t feel quite right—until we finally realize that they need to be rethought completely, or not sent at all? When a book I was writing became an almost hopeless grind, I tore up 90 percent of the manuscript; it became a far more honest work for having been halted at a conceptual dead end, forcing me to turn back.

AI can’t make that kind of judgment.”

Holds equally for code.

#AI #writing #code #LLMs

There is a story going around about Bezos at #VivaTech in Paris, the first and last third of which are reasonable, the middle third of which has him saying that water for data centres is more important than "b/a/s/e/l/i/n/e h/u/m/a/n c/o/m/f/o/r/t."

His appearance at VivaTech is online. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myT8IbQfHSw ) The middle third is not reflected there.

The middle third DOES, however, appear in BPD News, a PARODY account on Instagram.

(BPD News: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/

Relevant post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/ )

I think this is either deliberate disinformation, or AI-slop producing the same result.

Either way, I would not boost it, and would delete any boosts already made.

#uspol #uspolitics #ai #DataCenters #news #Bezos #JeffBezos

#AI data centers stealing your job, stealing our water, taking our electricity, building more effing carbon burners and stealing our climate, stealing our data, stealing privacy, stealing our democracy.

JFC

NO.

Time to end this nonsense.

Seriously. No. Let's not do this.

Let's STOP this, end this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/

#ai #cdnpoli #uspoli #dataCenter #coup

Hahahahahahahahahaha *gasp* Hahahahahahahaha!

> #SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen All the Way Down to the Low $170s. https://futurism.com/space/spacex-stock-fallen-down-170s

Is there anyone left who still doesn't think #AI (and anything connected with Musk) is a Ponzi scheme and they are running out of 'better fools'?

It's Goddess Bedroom Friday!

#Ai #GoddessBedroomFriday #Friday #bed

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AI Goddess Bedroom Friday Bed

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116778104602302611

The results are in: Using AI tools to help you in your job makes your cognitive decisions worse when they’re not around.

#ai #deskilling #research

SlightlyCyberpunk boosted

Hacker News » 🤖 🌐 2026-06-19
@hkrn@mstdn.social

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good
L: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601286
posted on 2026.06.19 at 14:00:48 (c=0, p=5)

Time to address the #HumanRights implications of #AI in the #military domain

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5787/time-address-human-rights-implications-ai-military-domain

#privacy

With AI bots, do you think we'll come up with a solution that gets rid of the damned "prove your human" JS prompts?

We already have robots.txt and sitemap.xml. Do we need a single file machine readable version of the entire site in one tarball for easy ingestion that can potentially be offloaded to another box?

This would solve a lot of problems. #ai #bots #enshittification #js #captcha

#Firefox #AI #Chatbot feature exposed users to #email theft risk

https://cyberinsider.com/firefox-ai-chatbot-feature-exposed-users-to-email-theft-risk/

#privacy #cybersecurity #LLM #Mozilla

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

#libreoffice #joplin #microsoft #office #copilot #opensource #oss #ai #linux #macOS #windows

ICYMI: Agentic ad tech tries to take over the buying layer as AI search budgets surge: AI agents claim the programmatic ad buying layer as WPP forecasts AI search reaching 39% of search revenue by 2031 and Adobe finds 86% impulse buy monthly. https://ppc.land/agentic-ad-tech-tries-to-take-over-the-buying-layer-as-ai-search-budgets-surge/ #AdTech #ProgrammaticAdvertising #AIMarketing #DigitalMarketing #AI

Ok gang, we could all use a laugh, even if it is a deeply dark, we’re all going to die, kinda laugh.

#Google’s #AI thinks the #SCP is real, and is telling people that it is.

The SCP is a collaborative fictional project. Thousands of people have written entries in the SCP. Some have made it to novelization and movies. It’s an incredibly cool project with a lot of amazing writers.

It is fiction, written by people, for people. But the #LLMs have devoured everything, and have no way to discern truth from fiction, ergo…SCP’s Ed’s Head (SCP-565) is presented as a real autonomous underwater brain, and SCP-426, a toaster that can force someone to eat bread until they die.

#Futurism found lots, we’ll find more. It’s very funny to think that some of my monsters may live well beyond the boundaries I created to contain them. Of the millions of my words LLMs have stolen, this is the funniest.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real

The SCP Foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com

#AIisTheft

New post: Highly Verbal Does Not Mean Words Are Easy

https://lanie.work/advocacy/highly-verbal-does-not-mean-words-are-easy/

#Advocacy #Accessibility #Disability #Neurodivergent #Communication #Writing #Ai #Personal

Enormous data pipelines powering major generative #AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of #privacy by design

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/05/global-enormous-data-pipelines-powering-major-generative-ai-systems-are-rooted-in-mass-invasions-of-privacy-by-design/

ICYMI: DoubleVerify launches DV Neura, its AI engine for agentic ad campaigns: DoubleVerify today launched DV Neura, its cognitive AI engine with MCP integration, agentic execution agents, and a nearly 300x rise in content classification. https://ppc.land/doubleverify-launches-dv-neura-its-ai-engine-for-agentic-ad-campaigns/ #DoubleVerify #DVNeura #AI #Advertising #AdTech

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/18/natural-world-digital-biodiversity-heritage-library-scientific-knowledge-free-access-aoe #AI companies should fund this; it would be pennies for them... #bhl

You just can’t ignore a headline that reads “A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight.” A grassroots movement of tech workers called the Guardian Alliance was launched today with the goal of forcing their companies to deploy AI responsibly. @Techcrunch has the full story:

https://flip.it/gXZa7I

#AI #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence

Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before.
#AI #Climateemergency

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Politico: News Energy and Climate Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

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West Antarctica Is Missing Way Too Much Ice Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.

@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.

In a policy statement¹, @conservancy said:
> “#FOSS projects should not shun contributors who choose to use LLM-gen-AI systems.”

@dalias' reply:
>> “LOL WTF NOPE. 🤡”

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.

¹ https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

#OpenSource

Malicious #JetBrains Marketplace plugins steal #AI #API keys from developers

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-jetbrains-marketplace-plugins-steal-ai-api-keys-from-developers/

#cybersecurity

‘Dangerous’ #AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

https://www.wired.com/story/dangerous-ai-models-are-coming-no-matter-what/

#cybersecurity #Anthropic #Claude #Fable #Mythos

Apple's hotly-anticipated foldable phone is going to be more expensive than you thought. AI companies are ratcheting up the demand and therefore the price of memory chips, forcing Big Tech companies like Apple to raise their prices.

The folks at Wall Street Journal have shared a gift link to their exclusive story:
https://flip.it/qzfJGR

#Apple #AI #TimCook