RE: https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295

This is perhaps the best illustration I've ever seen that LLM chatbots don't actually understand the input.

Most people think these bots have *some* understanding of meaning, perhaps rudimentary for now, but with potential for improvement.

This shows that there's nothing to "improve". The prompt is so short & specific - it's not complex or subtle & yet despite the confident response, this "intelligence" literally hasn't the vaguest idea what is being asked.

#AI

I've been forced to go back to LinkedIn this week, and oh boy, the AI insanity makes me want to pull out my hair.

#linkedin #socialmedia #jobhunting #ai

By now you may have seen or heard of the bogus AI-generated video of actors Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting. Hollywood organizations are pushing back against Seedance 2.0, the video model that created it in apparently just two prompts. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/z4I3e7

#Tech #AI #Seedance #Hollywood #TomCruise #BradPitt #ArtificialIntelligence

AI Privacy Guide: 4 Tools + 8 Rules
#AI #PRIVACY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qtx5mEToE

Such a friendly lot they are.

"Updates to OpenAI's #Privacy #Policy

We wanted to let you know that we're updating our Privacy Policy to give you even more information about what data we collect, how we use it, and how you can control it.

Here’s what’s changing:

Finding friends on OpenAI services
You can now choose to sync your contacts to see who else is using our services. This is completely optional. "

#openAI #AI #thereIsNoAI

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"Updates to OpenAI's Privacy Policy We wanted to let you know that we're updating our Privacy Policy to give you even more information about what data we collect, how we use it, and how you can control it. Here’s what’s changing: Finding friends on OpenAI services You can now choose to sync your contacts to see who else is using our services. This is completely optional. "

#LLM users be like:

Why are you accusing me of supporting slavery? I never said I support slavery. I merely buy cheap tobacco! It's not my fault that all the cheap tobacco is coming from slave-driven plantations! Find me a cheaper tobacco that's manufactured ethically, and I'll surely switch over!

Smokers are being persecuted again! All we wish for is for people to respect our constitutional right to poison everyone around us! Is it really that much?!

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

Meta is reportedly planning to add facial recognition to its smart glasses and timed the rollout for a “dynamic political environment” when critics are distracted.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/878725/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses-name-tag-privacy-advoates

#meta #smartglasses #facialrecognition #tech #privacy #surveillance #ai
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Damn!

Sometimes, voting with your wallet still works in 2026!

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled?utm_content=bufferff275&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bsky.app&utm_campaign=verge_social

#Ring #Amazon #Cameras #Flock #AI #Surveillance #Tech

🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️

Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.

Observed every Feb 13 since UNESCO’s 2011 proclamation, 2026 highlights “radio and artificial intelligence” 🧠📻

DLARC College Radio brings this to life with 1980s playlists, zines, flyers, stickers, and materials from stations across the U.S. and Canada 🎶

It’s all in our blog ⬇️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/Tuning_in_to_College_Radio_Materials_on_World_Radio_Day_2026

#WorldRadioDay #AI #CollegeRadio

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Cover of an issue of The Call Letter, a newsletter from KTSB 91.7 cable FM, the predecessor to KVRX-FM at the University of Texas, Austin. Source: DLARC College Radio (digitized from KVRX’s on-site collection) featuring cartoon aliens in spacecraft and text: "we're here.”

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Airplay list from UC Berkeley’s college radio station KALX-FM from 1982. Source: DLARC College Radio (donated by Get Smart!) is a red sheet listing music charts and top albums from June 11, 1982.

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Cover of the Spring 1983 joint program guide produced by the Cleveland College Radio Coalition. Source: DLARC College Radio (donated by Mary Cipriani), featuring a black-and-white cover titled “College Radio Coalition Joint Program Guide.” It shows a small screen displaying radio frequency numbers having been sliced like a loaf of bread.

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Black and white cover of ‘Static’ ‘zine from Barnard College radio station WBAR, promoting shows, reviews, and music for Spring 2000, with a collage and radio frequency details, surrounding an old-fashioned TV dinner that contains a human eye.

(popcorn, waiting for Spotify to collapse from AI sloppified source code, lol). Also, I am biased, you can't call yourself a "developer" if you're just shoveling up AI generated slop you did not write.

Slashdot Spotify Says Its Best Developers Haven't Written a Line of Code Since December, Thanks To AI

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/1834228/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai?

#software #ai

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Spotify's best developers have stopped writing code manually since December and now rely on an internal AI system called Honk that enables remote, real-time code deployment through Claude Code, the company's co-CEO Gustav Soderstrom said during a fourth-quarter earnings call this week.

Meta Explores Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses Amid Privacy Debates

https://newsletter.tf/meta-face-id-smart-glasses-privacy/

Meta may add facial recognition to smart glasses, raising privacy concerns.

#Meta, #SmartGlasses, #FacialRecognition, #Privacy, #AI

Meta May Add Face ID to Smart Glasses

Meta is thinking about adding technology to its smart glasses that can recognize faces. This idea has started a discussion about privacy and keeping personal information safe.

https://newsletter.tf/meta-face-id-smart-glasses-privacy/

#Meta, #SmartGlasses, #FacialRecognition, #Privacy, #AI

Meta Explores Facial Recognition for Smart Glasses Amid Privacy Scrutiny

https://newsletter.tf/meta-face-scan-smart-glasses-privacy/

Meta may put face scanning technology in its smart glasses, raising privacy concerns.

#Meta, #SmartGlasses, #FacialRecognition, #Privacy, #AI

Meta May Add Face Scanning to Smart Glasses Again

Meta is reportedly looking into adding facial recognition technology to its new smart glasses. This feature could help the glasses identify people. However, this has brought up new questions about privacy and how personal information will be kept safe.

https://newsletter.tf/meta-face-scan-smart-glasses-privacy/

#Meta, #SmartGlasses, #FacialRecognition, #Privacy, #AI

Daily Digest | 13 February 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

Say hello to the enshittification of AI:

"Many people frame the problem of funding A.I. as choosing the lesser of two evils: restrict access to transformative technology to a select group of people wealthy enough to pay for it, or accept advertisements even if it means exploiting users’ deepest fears and desires to sell them a product. I believe that’s a false choice. Tech companies can pursue options that could keep these tools broadly available while limiting any company’s incentives to surveil, profile and manipulate its users.

OpenAI says it will adhere to principles for running ads on ChatGPT: The ads will be clearly labeled, appear at the bottom of answers and will not influence responses. I believe the first iteration of ads will probably follow those principles. But I’m worried subsequent iterations won’t, because the company is building an economic engine that creates strong incentives to override its own rules. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI for copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. OpenAI has denied those claims.)

In its early years, Facebook promised that users would control their data and be able to vote on policy changes. Those commitments eroded. The company eliminated holding public votes on policy. Privacy changes marketed as giving users more control over their data were found by the Federal Trade Commission to have done the opposite, and in fact made private information public. All of this happened gradually under pressure from an advertising model that rewarded engagement above all else.

The erosion of OpenAI’s own principles to maximize engagement may already be underway. It’s against company principles to optimize user engagement solely to generate more advertising revenue, but it has been reported that the company already optimizes for daily active users anyway..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opinion/openai-ads-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LVA.-4Ct.gqIxHEe1V0i4&smid=url-share

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #LLMs #ChatGPTs #Chatbots #BigTech #AdTech #Privacy #DataProtection

@uberduck Hmmmm. Any suggestions on getting good at AI prompt engineering? #ai

With the advent of AI, people think they can turn grainy surveillance footage into sharp pictures, "CSI"-style. It doesn't work — but tell that to the armchair detectives hoping to find perpetrators in the Nancy Guthrie, Renee Good, and Charlie Kirk cases. Here's @parkermolloy.com's take, for her The Present Age newsletter.

https://flip.it/VCO3k_

#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Crime

Discord mandates global age checks: face scan or ID required for full access, else “teen‑by‑default” restrictions. 🔐
Non‑verified users lose adult servers and features, despite past vendor ID data breaches. 🌐
Raises privacy concerns amid a shift toward gated internet access. 🧩

🔗 https://www.theverge.com/policy/876131/discord-age-verification-mandates-web-future

#TechNews #Privacy #SocialMedia #Discord #AI #Safety #Surveillance #DataProtection #OnlineSafety #Regulation #DigitalRights #Security #Internet #UserRights #BigTech

„Digitalisierung, dieser Begriff charakterisiert Prozesse, durch die etwas mit uns geschieht, mit unseren Körpern, unserem Sein in der Welt. Wir wollen uns von den gegenwärtigen Phänomenen, die wir sehen, aber nur schwer begreifen, ein Bild machen.

Es geht um Technik, aber wir versuchen keine Technikerklärung. Mit welchen Veränderungen sind die Subjekte durch die Phänomene und Effekte der Digitalisierung konfrontiert?
All das findet nicht im luftleeren Raum statt, sondern in einer sich in ihren verheerenden Auswirkungen verschärfenden Weltsituation.

Können wir darin eine Weise zu leben behaupten, jenseits von dem, was uns die Subjekte des weltumspannenden Kapitalismus mit ihren Lebens- und Beziehungsformen als alternativlos aufoktroyieren wollen?“

Leben im Binärcode. Broschüre 68 Seiten.

https://exil.noblogs.org/post/2026/01/28/broschuere-leben-im-binaercode/

#Digitalisierung #Tech #Technology #AI #KI #Data #Datenschutz #Privacy #HumanBeing

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schwarzer hintergrund mit kleinem roten binärcode über die Seite. Davor steht in weiß "Leben im Binärcode" darunter etwas kleiner: "Ich habe da ein ganz mieses Gefühl...."

Oh. #ChatGPT rebelliert, lügt und klont sich selbst

"Besorgniserregendes Verhalten": ChatGPTs neue Version "o1" wehrte sich bei Tests offenbar dagegen, wieder abgeschaltet zu werden und wollte das auf Nachfrage partout nicht zugeben. Steht uns eine KI-Rebellion bevor?

https://www.br.de/nachrichten/netzwelt/chatgpt-rebelliert-luegt-und-klont-sich-selbst,UWXd8KC

#KI #AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Technology #Antireport

#ChatGPT über alles? Das gefährliche Vertrauen in vermeintlich allwissende #KI

"Es ist der Mic-Drop-Satz der KI-Ära: "Bei ChatGPT steht aber was anderes!" Link dazu. Fertig. Ende der Diskussion. Folgende Versuche, auf die real existierende Faktenlage zu verweisen: vergebens. Die oberste Instanz hat gesprochen."

Faktenwissen? Recherche? Das war gestern. Wer in Diskussionen glänzen will, greift auf das Wissen von Chatbots zurück. Warum das hochproblematisch und oftmals einfach falsch ist.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000259398/chatgpt-ueber-alles-das-gefaehrliche-vertrauen-in-vermeintlich-allwissende-ki

#Technology #AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz

I was insulted today - AI style

A colleague asked me to proof-read his work. I offered a small change.

https://forkingmad.blog/insulted-today-ai

#blogpost #ai

If you weren't already masking up at protests, now's the time to start.

US Border Patrol intelligence units will be gaining access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clearview-ai-deal-to-use-face-recognition-for-tactical-targeting/

#ice #cbp #gestapo #fascism #ai #facialrecognition #surveillance #demonstration #protest

Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

Amazon unveiled a new tracking system at a time when Americans are debating the value of persistent surveillance.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/10/ring-super-bowl-ad-dog-camera-privacy/88606738007/

#Ring #privacy #surveillance #AI #dystopia #technology

Daily Digest | 12 February 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

Coyote Media, a worker-owned outlet based in the Bay Area, was approached by Luke Nover, a freelancer with a great story idea. Then editor Soleil Ho noticed something iffy about his social security number, began asking questions, and "Nover" — likely the product of a scammer with ChatGPT — ghosted her. Here's their story about what happened.

https://flip.it/ygu_2d

#Tech #News #Media #Journalism #AI

Trump: Drain the swamp! <shreds files, SLAPPs journalists> Mission accomplished.

Privacy activists and Luddites: Protect the people!

Consequence: search engines and AIs refuse to assist in looking up local public figures and networks.

Trump: This is magnificent! <awards them with the Medal Of Honor>

#Journalism #Privacy #AI #Trump #ConflictOfInterest #DrainTheSwamp #Corruption

"The Article 49(2) transparency safeguard has an essential function and removing it, as proposed in the Commission’s AI Omnibus, will create a gaping loophole and undermine the core functioning of the AI Act.

Under Article 6(3), providers of AI systems which match the list of high-risk use cases in Annex III may decide that their system does not in fact pose a significant risk and unilaterally exempt themselves from all obligations for high-risk AI systems.

To stop the abuse of this derogation mechanism, providers who do exempt themselves are required by the Article 49(2) transparency safeguard to register their derogation in a publicly viewable database. Removing this transparency safeguard would have three key negative consequences:

- Market surveillance authorities will have no overview of how many companies exempt themselves from the high-risk requirements, and we have no way of tracking discrepancies across member states (e.g. that in Country A there were 3000 exemptions but only 6 in Country B), leading to potential lack of harmonisation across the Single Market.

- Providers are given a completely opaque and unaccountable way to opt out of the obligations for high-risk AI systems, creating a perverse incentive to sidestep the requirements of the AI Act. Importantly, this perverse incentive will work to the detriment of responsible providers who truly wish to develop responsible, trustworthy systems in the high-risk categories, allowing them to be undercut in the market.

- The public, including civil society organisations, will have no way of knowing which providers have exempted themselves from obligations, despite the fact that their systems fall under the high-risk categories in Annex III. This removes a key element of transparency, undermines public trust, and deprives those affected by AI systems of necessary information to challenge an exemption."

https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/a-call-to-eu-legislators-protect-transparency-safeguard-in-ai-act/

#EU #AIAct #AIOmnibus #AIGovernance #BigTech #AI #AISafety

New video about Signal📽️

Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal, talks with Sabrina Halper about the early days of #Signal, why #Telegram isn't secure, future of privacy, AI, Signal gate, and personal projects like Confer

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/videos-podcasts/videos/moxie-marlinspike-signal-vs-telegram-private-ai-encryption/

#signalmessenger #signalapp #privacy #ai

the great cyber war

#unix_surrealism #computer #ai

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vt100 on a stack of boxes, wearing a helmet with an m16 by its side YOUR PC NEXT?

"Fake images spread misinformation about animal behavior, and fake footage or photos of people playing with or cuddling wild animals can feed demand for the exotic pet trade, endangering already threatened species."

Sean Mowbray for Mongabay: https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wildlife-attacks-and-strange-animal-behavior-fake-images-spark-conservation-concerns

#Longreads #AI #Misinformation #Animals #Conservation #ArtificialIntelligence

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's #Surveillance Nightmare

In the ad, the company previewed future surveillance of our streets: a world where #biometric #identification could be unleashed from consumer devices to #identify , #track, & locate anything — human, pet, & otherwise.

The ad for Ring’s “ #SearchParty ” feature highlighted the #doorbell camera’s ability to scan footage across #Ring devices in a neighborhood, using #AI analysis
#privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

Daily Digest | 11 February 2026

Your daily dose of Privacy, Data Protection, AI & Cybersecurity news.

5 stories you should not miss.

Read more: https://www.nicfab.eu/daily-digest/

#Privacy #AI #GDPR #Cybersecurity #TechLaw

#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast hosted by @ramin_hal9001 https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html this week!

https://communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWFJ7NuDVCjkAv7fkX

My guess as to the topic from the main show toot which is

https://fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eba-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b <- visit

@kentpitman 's poem

Repudiating the #ai #llm hype!

And #environmental damage #climate

#commonLisp #lisp #typeTheory #coalton common lisp static typing DSL https://coalton-lang.github.io/ ,
#ELS 2025 talk by Robert Smith. Robert emailed a note.

#programming

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Two demons help the lisp alien and gopher carry radio equipment through flooded AI wreckage. LISPY GOPHER SHOW Every 0UTC Wednesday anonradio.net

"To date, the security measures implemented for LLM-based tools have not kept pace with the growing risks. In its response to The New York Times’ request for chat histories, Open AI indicated that it is working on “client-side encryption for your messages with ChatGPT” — yet even here the company hints at deploying “fully automated systems to detect safety issues in our products,” which sounds very much like client-side scanning (CSS). CSS, which involves scanning the content on an individual’s device for some class of objectionable material, before it is sent onwards via an encrypted messaging platform, is a lose-lose proposition that undermines encryption, increases the risk of attack, and opens the door to mission creep.

By contrast, the open source community has made positive strides in prioritizing confidentiality. OpenSecret’s MapleAI supports a multidevice end-to-end encrypted AI chatbot, while Moxie Marlinspike, co-author of Signal’s E2EE protocol, has launched ‘Confer,’ an open source AI assistant that protects all user prompts, responses, and related data. But for now at least, such rights-respecting solutions remain the exception rather than the norm.

Unbridled AI adoption combined with depressingly lax security practices demands urgent action. The security issues associated with advanced AI tools are the consequences of deliberately prioritizing profit and competitiveness over the security and safety of at-risk communities, and they will not resolve on their own. While we would love to see companies self-correct, governments should not shy away from demanding that these companies prioritize security and human rights, especially when public money is being spent to procure and build ‘public interest’ AI tools. In the meantime, we can all also choose to support open, accountable rights-respecting alternatives to the big name models and tools where possible."
https://www.accessnow.org/artificial-insecurity-compromising-confidentality/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Privacy #CyberSecurity #OpenSource #Encryption

Canada has the talent and R&D to lead in AI. What matters now is adoption at scale.
New research with The Linux Foundation and Meta provides evidence for how open source AI helps close the gap between R&D and real economic value, through transparency, cost efficiency, and shared innovation.
Read the full report: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/open-source-ai-canada
#OpenSource #AI #Canada #OpenInnovation #LinuxFoundation

📚 How do our searches shape who we are, and who profits?

Join Vauhini Vara, award-winning tech journalist and author, for a LIVE podcast recording and #booktalk on SEARCHES, co-hosted by Luca Messarra.

📅 Thurs Feb 26, 2026
🕙 10am PT / 1pm ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/book-talk-searches-selfhood-in-the-digital-age/

@internetarchive @AuthorsAlliance #ai #techculture

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Promotional graphic for an online book talk titled Searches. The layout features muted gray and cream tones with collage-style images. Text reads: “Book Talk. February 26th, 10am PT / 1pm ET. Online.” It invites viewers to join a conversation with author Vauhini Vara about her book Searches, in conversation with Luca Messarra, exploring how technology fulfills and exploits human desires for understanding and connection. The left side includes two portrait photos of the speakers and an illustration of a stack of books.