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.
No one wants to be the one who gets duped into singing along to an AI-generated track. Deezer seems to be on to this and has introduced a tool that scans playlists and identifies The Velvet Sundowns of the music world. Read more from @Techcrunch:
Surveillance has harmful effects on cognition and identity - deeper research and social knowledge is needed to foster healthy communities.
#ai #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #socialmedia #blackposts #darkpatterns #privacy #privacymatters
A #German Court Has Ruled That #Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by #AIOverviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an #AI system must assume legal #liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
An AI cold war is an interesting comparison for the latest restrictions by the White House, especially as the law used is right from that era. However, the law will likely work as well as it did for encryption.
#AI #coldwar
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/international/start-of-ai-cold-war-why-us-cut-off-global-access-to-anthropics-frontier-models/articleshow/131707821.cms
The crackdown on Anthropic isn't about 'national security'—it’s about control. Dario Amodei drew red lines against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons. The DoD and White House, heavily influenced by the Thiel-Vance axis, demanded 'any lawful use' without exceptions. Resistance isn't a supply chain risk; it’s an ethical stand. #Anthropic #DoD #Surveillance #AI
Ad tech's trust layer fractures as sports budgets, bots, and AI reshape media: TAG's Google and Trade Desk certifications lapse, LinkedIn IVT hits 17.62%, political CTV doubles to $2.7bn, and sports reshape June's advertising budgets. https://ppc.land/ad-techs-trust-layer-fractures-as-sports-budgets-bots-and-ai-reshape-media/ #AdTech #DigitalMarketing #AI #SportsMarketing #Advertising
According to the court, correcting misinformation is not the responsibility of third parties. Google is the only entity with the ability to modify the technology underpinning its AI-generated summaries and, therefore, “must be held accountable.” Furthermore, the court found that Google's line of defense lacked merit, since the challenged summary “contains statements that do not appear at all in the search results.”
Data centers water consumption breaks 264,000,000,000 gallons in 2025, as devastating drought hits nearly 63% of USA
#datacenter #AI #sustainability #NoPlanetB #water #finiteplanet #billionaires
Patient and worker privacy is being overlooked when sweeping changes in the health-care system degrades human condition, autonomy and self-determination. Loss of privacy and living standard should not be equated with efficiency gain. There is no gain where the people end-up losing their quality of life through loss of freedom and loss of jobs.
#jobsecurity #ai #robots #privacy #privacymatters #nurses #2026
#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.
When the AI Detector Becomes the Academic Random Number Generator
A new study suggests Turnitin can be oddly harsher on mostly human-written assignments tha
https://schulz.dk/2026/06/13/when-the-ai-detector-becomes-the-academic-random-number-generator/?utm_campaign=blogpost&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter
#Academic #ai #Opinion #paper
Citing national security concerns, the U.S. Department of Commerce told Anthropic to cut off access to two of its most powerful AI models – Fable 5 and Mythos 5 – for foreign nationals. To do so, the company had to entirely disable them. Read more from NBC News:
Governments worldwide are #training #AI models... Under the cover of "fighting crime"
#Quote shortened from a @madeindex post
Posted here https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113301303081128298
I've seen where Torvalds said that he considers them as just another tool in the Arsenal, he doesn't really care, if the code is good.
He doesn't want his time to be wasted He'll scream and shout if an LLM creates that time pit
These following words an extreme version of me would say
It looks like you will have to stop using Linux. Since from your perspective anything that uses remotely an LLM is bad, you will have to stop, otherwise you will contribute to the environment being destroyed willingly and actively
In practice that is impossible. If you drive a modern car it has the Linux kernel. If you have a smart TV or more you're also using the tainted kernel. Even if you have a stick which also streams or a camera you will have a Linux kernel in many cases.
These LLMs are an infection of the planet's code base
Since you're already using BSD a solution would be to cut using Linux on your computers drastically
On June 12, developers across Europe woke up to a 403 error. Not a bug. A geopolitical decision. ⚠️
The U.S. government banned Anthropic's most advanced AI models for European users overnight. No warning. No appeal. Just a kill switch.
If the infrastructure is American, someone else holds the keys.
🐘 https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/06/antphoic-mythos-export-controls/
#CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to #AI Threats
https://www.wired.com/story/cisa-ai-vulnerability-directive/
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#ai #digitalart #oldsailor #weatheredface #expressive #wrinkles #beard #rugged #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
Point me please, to projects which are heavily dependent on LLM code generation which are older than 10 years.
The Linux distributions I use, have no code which is 100% LLM generated
Computers used to be fun. I used to use Windows 9x, and it was unstable as hell, and you kept having to lean over backwards to get things to work. Then I used bleeding edge Linux, and at some point I've ended up running pure framebuffer tty for months because X11 was broken. But despite all the breakage (or maybe even because of it), it was fun. It was fun because random accidental breakage was the worst you could expect.
Nowadays, accidental breakage is rare. Things are relatively stable. However, every step of the way you have to watch out for bad actors. No, not criminals, they are rare. Evil corporations who are looking at every opportunity to fuck you up. Using computer is no longer fun, it's no longer a tool that helps you, and it's no longer your choice. You are forced to use it, and if you don't want to be hurt every step of the way, you have to spend all the effort on fighting back. And you're fucked up anyway, because even if you manage, your family and all the people around you won't care and will let their devices, their computers and their smartphones fuck you up.
I've started using FLOSS so many years ago, for the trivial reason that I didn't want to pay for software. I stayed because I enjoyed doing it. And I wanted to make a difference, I wanted to contribute positively to the world. Even if in a little way, but I wanted to be able to say that as much harm I've done to the planet, there's at least something positive to balance it out.
But nowadays I hate FLOSS. It's been overrun by the worst people in the world. The people who aren't happy with just fucking you up. They want everyone to keep fucking everyone up. It's the kind of horror where whatever you do, it turns out you're causing harm.
I don't trust my #Gentoo #packaging work anymore. So much of the software I touch turns out to be #slop. When I file a pull request, I'm worried it will trigger #LLM reviews. When I file a bug, I'm worried it will trigger LLM responses. And today, I've learned that my old bug report to a #NoAI project resulted in a dozen slop pull requests already. Whatever you do, #AI folks smile and tell you "see, you fucked up the world even more after all".
Honestly, I don't know what to do. I hate all of this so much. But even if I managed to figure out something else to do for a living, I can't escape computers. And if I stop doing them, if I stop fighting them, I will only end up being fucked up more.
So when #Anthropic can't buy #GNU Toolchain project wholesome, it can always buy its developers.
Oh wait, this mail that starts with Anthropic marketing bullshit is not "an endorsement of Anthropic". And you're not permitted to criticize him.
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2026-June/178028.html