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.
If you own the tech ancient #googlehome mini.
Which at one time was being given away for free with whitegoods,
#google has recently upgraded the #Ai on it...
It's now a voice control for their #gemini #llm
Rather than the supremely dumb (pre LLM) "AI"
So now, you can have your privacy violated and live under total tech #surveillance in a smart way.
But, kudos to Google for not just junking their old tech.
You don't see that often.
The Youth #AI #Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-acts-privacy-paradox
I recently watched these two videos by a chemical process engineer and found them super educational, interesting, rational, and well explained. They might also be useful for people organizing action against data center construction projects elsewhere..
The Math Behind "Water-Efficient AI Data Centres" Is Laughably Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bbe-Ev-Yns
The Atelier Ryza franchise has announced an AI-powered RPG chat app!
Fans will be able to freely interact with Ryza using advanced AI, while the project emphasizes 100% human-made artwork, supervision from the original illustrator, and direct royalties for both the artists and Ryza's voice actress.
One player even confessed their love to Ryza... and she blushed, politely rejected them, and explained that it wasn't allowed.
"Som Maia Kahlke Lorentzen vil sige i videoen, hun skal optage om lidt: »Du ville heller ikke bruge et leksikon, hvor hvert tiende opslag var forkert.«
Det er virkeligheden med Google Gemini. Mindst ti procent af de oplysninger, den videregiver, er ukorrekte."
Omtalte video 📺 https://www.patreon.com/Cybernauterne/posts/ny-video-googles-161664770
Artikel 📰 (bag 💰 mur) https://www.information.dk/moti/2026/07/michelle-obama-faelden-venstrefloejen-laere-nye-hoejre
This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday discussing new instances of AIs attacking AIs, and more abuses by AI firms. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented the report live on air.
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Yeah, recently I discussed how OpenAI's AI model attacked another AI firm, not due to any flaw with the AI, but because OpenAI had sloppily not set their testing conditions to properly limit the AI's actions. Now we hear that another AI firm, Anthropic, found their Claude AI doing the same sort of thing, again due to corporate sloppiness in setting controls.
A person could go to prison for years doing attacks like these. The AI firms get away with it, as usual, since they know how to play the political games. They want us to trust their AIs monitoring our meetings. They assure us that they won't leak proprietary or personal information. They want us to let their AI agents run amok on work and personal computers, not only reading data but actually taking actions on systems and web sites on behalf of users. But these recent incidents show that there's no reason to believe that doing any of this is actually safe, especially since the firms routinely refuse to take any responsibility for anything that goes wrong. And when firms can't even get their own internal AI security controls to work properly, what possible reason would there be to trust them regarding any of this stuff?
Here's another new one. Google used to have a world class privacy team and a top-notch trust and safety team. But maybe most of the team members were laid off and replaced with AI, because Google really screwed up last week. Google announced that anyone could now create fake imagery using Google AI and combine it with Google Earth imagery. Google Earth has long been the gold standard for reliable geographic images. But immediately horrific deepfake images started to circulate with people using this new AI Slop feature to create realistic imagery portraying disasters and other horrible and misleading situations. Google's initial reaction to concerns about this dangerous misinformation was to try downplay the problem, but as warnings and examples built up Google relented and ultimately pulled down the feature entirely -- it was running less than 24 hours. Yet Google has made it clear that they want to bring it back, despite the entire idea being incredibly dangerous, no matter what new so-called guardrails they might try to implement.
One really has to ask, how did such an obviously disastrous Google Earth misinformation AI Slop feature get green-lighted in the first place? And by the way, there's new reports now that the AI industry has been quietly obtaining enormous numbers of physical books -- sometimes rare ones -- that they then destroy in the process of scanning them into their AIs. Another way to thumb their noses at society.
It's clear that these firms cannot be trusted to safely manage these AI technologies by themselves. They need to be firmly regulated with an eye towards society's needs, not the bottom lines of the Big Tech billionaire CEOs pushing these technologies. These firms have benefited from a lot of slack up to now thanks to their political connections with both parties, but it's way past time to tell these firms that their wild partying days are over, and that they're either going to play by society's rules, or they're not going to be permitted to play at all.
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Uhoh! Free open-weight Chinese AI models are undercutting American model makers as roughly 80% of U.S. AI startups opt for Chinese models.
"Belangrijke voorwaarde: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg en op de achtergrond Donald Trump (of Xi Jinping) mogen niet de baas worden. Europese bedrijven trekken aan de touwtjes en alles valt onder Europese wetten, qua privacy en ethiek.
Achttien EU-lidstaten, waaronder Duitsland en Frankrijk, zetten hun handtekening al onder het initiatief. Maar de toezegging van Nederland ontbreekt, en dat is opvallend. In het regeerakkoord schreven D66, CDA en VVD nog dat Nederland ‘koploper’ moet worden ‘in digitale innovatie en sleuteltechnologieën’. AI wordt expliciet genoemd, Europese technologische autonomie ook. Wat is hier gebeurd?"
RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@paulh/117035623618657210
This is what the #NZPol Coalition of Corruption is trying to convince #NZ is going to make #Aotearoa #NewZealand great.
While they are telling NZ the fast tracked DataGrid #Ai center is optimistically estimated to add a mere 0.1% to NZ's GDP at start up levels the Datagrid centre will require 280 megawatts (MW) that's 6% of NZ's total electricity generation.
What is not reported however is DataGrid chief executive Remi Galasso expressing a goal to ramp up its capacity to 1000MW which is approximately 10% of NZ's total electricity generation.
Never forget this coalition of morons fast tracked this environmental and economic disaster and are in the process of fast tracking a further 3 more Ai data centers in NZ.
NZ must change this corrupt government before it's too late. #DitchThePricksIn26
Advertisers face irreversible AI label field across 2 Google ad APIs: Setting syntheticContentAttestationStatus to IS_SYNTHETIC triggers labels in the EU, India and New York state. Once written, agencies cannot revert to unset. https://ppc.land/advertisers-face-irreversible-ai-label-field-across-2-google-ad-apis/ #AI #DigitalMarketing #GoogleAds #AdTech #Advertising
FYI: CIMM outlines six steps to stop AI from distorting ad budgets: The industry group's new paper says unclear MMM inputs could let AI systems misjudge TV and video value; six fixes target data gaps before 2027. https://ppc.land/cimm-outlines-six-steps-to-stop-ai-from-distorting-ad-budgets/ #AI #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #Advertising #DataStrategy
@Simon318ppm @RichardJMurphy
1/ Highly unlikely / not logical or even worth going for #Capitalism's #infinite #growth.
We should just be #happy at some point:
- Happy with what we have
- Working to making more happy
2/ #RichardMurphy says both highly precise and some backward things:
He equates #AI as similar to using a pencil which is not the same as a comparison:
"There is no requirement to say if paper has been used, or a pen or pencil, or of what type."
#Quote https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/
@RichardJMurphy The Wizard of Oz #Power & #Promises #Quote
"If you were really great and powerful you'd keep your promises."
#Dorothy + #OscarDiggs
[The #Wizard of #Oz characters]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_(character)
Investigations: building the narrative in a report #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/investigations-building-the-narrative-in-a-report/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
@hyperreal
You put some effort into this thoughtful reply.
The #Firefox browser I use does have built-in translation, which I sometimes use, but the results can be poor. Other AI produces better quality text.
I am working on a script that searches the internet in shell with #Yacy and no browser. The text is translated automatically and added to the same page, which I can read with no clicks.
#AI can do more than #translate. It can also summarize the web pages found and answer questions.
Lago is a free, open-source billing platform that supports subscription, usage-based, and hybrid pricing models. It includes APIs for metering, invoicing, analytics, and payment integrations, making it a flexible choice for developer-focused services.
More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=lago
#OpenSource #SaaS #Billing #FinTech #AI #Developers #FOSS
The Internet of digital aesthetics and escapes #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-internet-of-digital-aesthetics-and-escapes/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog
Quick Demonstration:
Translating text without using a web browser, no logins, using free tools:
#Linux
#LinuxMint
#AI
#llama
#ollama
(This translation revealed something that the philosopher, Plato, said, which surprised me.... and his warning is a good one.)
Stellar Blade: BLOODRAIN director Kim Hyung-tae has responded to criticism over EVIE's new music video being called "AI slop."
Kim says EVIE was created by the studio's artists and 3D modelers over more than a year, with AI only assisting parts of the production process.
"The AI is not creating her from scratch."
If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y
@RichardJMurphy 1/ Pic = too small
2/ 1st post (similar) is here
- with my #AI comments:
3/ You do good work but...
But see what's behind the #AI #curtain (WizardOfOz reference] and what's 'easy' or basically #AmericanIntelligence
All American stuff you have to wonder why a #free #service & heavily invested #finance ppl...
[#ANSWER BELOW]
because you are their #dinner / #money / #resource while you get your short gain 'using them' (and we all lose) ....
Why the small Town of Jay, Maine, with a population of 4,620, is embracing the idea of a data center despite the significant backlash against their construction seen in states across America.
A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur
So I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little
Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me
😵💫
I don't think I'm being rescued
I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI
ICYMI: Magnite CEO caps 2027 agentic ad spend near $700m as AI cuts contractor tasks: Barrett places protocol-based buying in a discovery phase and expects far fewer SSPs to survive. Walmart moved data to the sell side. Does the 2030 math work? https://ppc.land/magnite-ceo-caps-2027-agentic-ad-spend-near-700m-as-ai-cuts-contractor-tasks/ #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #AI #AdTech #Programmatic
I asked Google's AI to count to 60. just now
THEY MESSED IT UP
clowns. at scale. with billion dollar valuations. and non-stop lies, fraud and security risks, and massively wasteful resource usage
learned of this first from:
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194
This sounds bad. 😬
"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...
More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.
They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.
Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."
Nope
This is a page from the 1981 #comicBook "Power and Peril in the Promised Land" - The #IncredibleHulk issue 256
This shit's been going on for a long time
(Sadly the creator of this comic, #BillMantlo, was a victim of a hit-and-run in 1992. He's still alive, but he was brain damaged and has been institutionalized ever since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mantlo . He co-created the shit talking #MCU #Marvel #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #superhero #RocketRaccoon)
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boostedThe AUR situation:
"We have now disabled pushes altogether as well for the moment, while we
handle the situation. Sorry for the inconvenience."
FYI: AAMP 2.3 blocks AI agents from inventing ad prices, IAB Tech Lab says: Pricing provenance now stops fabricated bid prices, while a vendor approval gate and audience embeddings prepare the framework for wider enterprise deployment. https://ppc.land/aamp-2-3-blocks-ai-agents-from-inventing-ad-prices-iab-tech-lab-says/ #AdTech #DigitalMarketing #AI #IABTechLab #Advertising
RE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/117027629460304330
I'm on the fediverse to avoid this kind of BS.
Keep the #Fediverse human.
Not whatever #Bluesky is.
Bluesky’s Attie is an AI tool built on AT Protocol that helps people create custom social feeds from public social data. Interesting idea, but it also raises real privacy questions: when AI analyzes your public posts, likes, and follows, it can infer a lot more about you than you may expect.
Human rights group have grown extremely concerned over a future where robot soldiers fight the wars. But a startup founded in 2024 is racing to create humanoid robots that will automate factory work, build futuristic mega-cities, and, most strikingly, wage the wars of tomorrow. “It is so backwards that people in the Western world somehow have this disease of thinking that humanoid robots holding a gun is like as bad as a nuclear weapon,” Foundation Future Industries co-founder Sankaet Pathak says. Read more from @Independent:
"Starting Sunday in #EU, #AI #chatbots, receptionists, #media must reveal they are not human"
https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/02/starting-sunday-eu-ai-chatbots-receptionists-media-must-reveal-human
This is excellent
But:
Laws require enforcement
Or they are just feel-good declarations that rot the rule of law: a corpus of laws without bite means the law has no meaning. A dangerous precedent
So *how* do we fight AI. Especially on #socialMedia
You have to understand it's an existential threat. Not to #Mastodon/ #Fediverse, but *all* social media... all media
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🤖 You can now block many #AI websites & content from your search engine results!
✅ Step 1 - Add this free & open source #Adblocker to your #browser: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
✅ Step 2 - Open the setting "dashboard" of the plugin, go to "filter lists" > at the bottom "import"
✅ Step 3 - Add this list there & apply: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist/main/list.txt
🥳 Done 🥳
PS Opted for the oldschool #guide look, hope you like it too <3
#artificialintelligence #ublockorigin #tech #technology #foss #opensource #ki #web
The #OpenAI and #Anthropic #AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New #Legal Frontier
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-anthropic-ai-hacking-sprees-illegal/
There are many cases of end users who are totally ignorant in LLM use cases
I've been able to educate one with success
When she realized that before her one query
...She realized what Destruction she was causing, on a Global Scale because she knows personally what Global Warming does in her Area of the Country were flooding regularly occurs due to Climate Shifts
#LLM #slop #hallucinations #AI #programming #coding #weather #climate #change
@RichardJMurphy AI awareness is good:
3 things:
1/ YES many people might not get how bad #AI is and how different it is to just using a #pencil or #dictionary (in #RichardMurphy's words)...
1/ Richard's #AI #disclaimer:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/#gsc.tab=0
"...#Substack introduced a rule requiring authors on the site to disclose whether they use AI in the production of their work.
I have to say, I find that requirement very strange."
2/ #Link to post (same small pic):
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08/01/infographic-marxism/#gsc.tab=1
Open AI CEO Sam Altman shared a “cool use case” with his post describing how parents could prompt ChatGPT for ways to connect with their kids. One response: “Why don’t you just talk to your children?” @Techcrunch has more:
#OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/openai-reportedly-finds-evidence-that-more-of-its-agents-ran-amok/
Yesterday, we had a team meeting about “AI” and my brilliant & lovely colleagues talked about all the amazing things they're doing with #AI.
When it was my turn, I said “I have done nothing with the AI tools that you have so kindly provided because I haven't found anything I want to use them for yet.”
And everyone looked hurt and disappointed, and I went away feeling like a Person of Limited Vision and Not a Team Player.
1/
The #CHATBOTAct Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-act-forces-one-parenting-model-every-family
It is good to acknowledge that we don't know and not form strong opinions or narratives.
This Fed chart is one of those.
Anything past ±1% annually seem very unlikely to me , but I don't know that, because we have not discovered the best uses for current LLM-era AI, and other completely different developments on their way in robotics and world models are likely to be more transformative than what we have today.
Advances in AI will boost productivity, living standards over time
https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2025/0624
AI: Considerations for people who make decisions
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ai-for-decision-makers/
Phishing early detection: the warning signs #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/phishing-early-detection-the-warning-signs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog