@nixCraft

He is completely out of touch with reality.

Society is disrupting their bubble.

#AI #Insanity

Court Watch: ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the ‘Haters,’ Indictment Says

DOJ Says Violent Stalker Used ChatGPT to Encourage Him to Find the ‘Wife Type’

https://www.courtwatch.news/p/chatgpt-told-a-violent-stalker-to-embrace-the-haters-indictment-says?utm_source=www.courtwatch.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=chatgpt-told-a-violent-stalker-to-embrace-the-haters-indictment-says&_bhlid=e0cd5316de7641a01382666d0ad9b3248c97ad72

#chatgpt #AI #LLM #crime

In addition to boosting productivity growth, increasing GDP growth, and helping the U.S. beat China in the #AI race, federal preemption of state AI laws would provide a fiscal windfall of about $600 billion through 2035. Trevor Wagener has the stats: https://ccianet.org/articles/600-billion-ai-abundance-dividend-from-federal-preemption-of-state-laws/

AI Reality Check: Open models deliver a stunning 90%+ of performance at a fraction of the cost. The result of their underuse? $48B in unrealized value every year.
Check out the full blog by LF’s Chief Economist Frank Nagle: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/revealing-the-hidden-economics-of-open-models-in-the-ai-era
#OpenSource #AI #OpenModels

#AI is transforming agriculture. @UF is building a new 40,000-sq-ft AI hub to help Florida farmers boost crop yields, use fewer chemicals, and protect the environment. Read more:
https://news.ufl.edu/2025/10/ai-center-aims-to-help-florida-farmers/

How's everyone doing tonight?

I slept most of the day because of pain from #Fibromyalgia and #RheumatoidArthritis, so now I'll probably be up all night. I'm going to try and get some studying done even though my hands hurt. Really hoping the compression gloves I ordered come in soon.

Since college didn’t work out, I've been building my own self-paced curriculum:

• Bible courses from Christian Leaders Institute to deepen my understanding and support future nonprofit work
  
• Coding lessons with #Codecademy (codecademy.com)
  
• Braille proofreading training through NLS and NFB
  
• And if I get the scholarship, AI Software Engineering at Maestro AI University. I applied two days ago and should hear back within 14 days.
  

Tonight I'm deciding whether to focus on Christian Leaders coursework, coding, or Braille proofreading.

Tomorrow's my 34th birthday. My mom’s taking me out to eat, and later we're visiting a new ocularist to see about prosthetic eyes. My current ones no longer fit and cause pain, so they'll likely need to start me with conformers first. I'm dreading that part, but it’s time. I haven't been refitted for new ones since I was 16, a few months after a surgery to remove my extremely painful right eye.

#ChronicIllness #Disability #Blind #Accessibility #PainAwareness
#Learning #Education #Coding #Braille #AI #EdTech
#Christian #BibleStudy #Faith #Christianity
#NonprofitLeadership #DisabilityAdvocacy
#Birthday #Turning34 #Ocularist #Prosthetics

I blog for 2 reasons:
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/02/a-key-point-of-departure-he-accepts-the-folk-psychology-i-reject/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
(1) to archive and share my ideas and musings, and (2) to facilitate interactions with others on these ideas.

I am exchanged ideas with a fellow philosopher. Having watched my video on Transductive Subjectivity, he shared that it seemed to relate to Stephen Batchelor's Secular Buddhism. I asked #ChatGPT.

#philosophy #blog #podcast #buddhism #self #atheism #igtheism #psychology #identity #metaphysics #chatgpt #ai #ontology #tradition

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Thank you for all your warm wishes everyone! I am still going to turn on a microphone in 30 minutes, against good judgement. #lisp #lispyGopherClimate https://archives.anonradio.net/#screwtape

- I lost track of it, but I think everyone should attend #emacsconf live https://emacsconf.org/2025 which is this weekend. Not to play favourites but see you at @ramin_hal9001 and @eduardoochs ' talks particularly. #emacs

- I have a note on a bait-and-switch I had missed in the quote unquote #ai skynet we all cannot escape

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How is AI really impacting jobs? @brianmerchant writes for Blood in the Machine about what the numbers are saying: "Generative AI is not reliable enough when it comes executing complex tasks to enable most organizations to displace jobs at scale, and it certainly can’t do jobs that require empathy or hands-on problem-solving," he writes. "What it can do is automate the production of work that need not be 'reliable' or 'accurate,' but that employers might find 'good enough.' Precisely the way many corporate executives already conceive of creative work, in other words."

https://flip.it/J2OZog

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech #JobMarket #Layoffs

📣 Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is our #NISOPlus26 in Baltimore opening keynote speaker!

Nonnecke is Senior Director of Policy at Americans for Responsible Innovation, and we're looking forward to hearing her insights on #AI and technology policy, governance, and more.

https://niso.plus/2025/12/brandie-nonnecke-to-deliver-opening-keynote-at-np26-baltimore/

The future of medicine is here. #AI on @awscloud allows researchers to analyze genomic data at scale, helping develop personalized breast cancer treatment plans that target specific cancer mutations.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/accelerate-breast-cancer-treatment-planning-with-agentic-ai/

Cutting entry-level roles in the AI era is a "profound strategic error."
The LF’s Chief Economist @Frank_Nagle explains in a new @FortuneMagazine article why sacrificing junior talent jeopardizes future leadership and institutional knowledge.

Read the full piece: https://fortune.com/2025/11/19/why-its-a-mistake-to-cut-entry-level-jobs-ai-mit-scientist/
#AI #FutureOfWork #OpenSource

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/115049621717082376

Looking to escape the whole AI browser trend? Switching is still surprisingly simple 🤷‍♀️

#AI #Tech #Apps #Technology #Vivaldi #Browser

Vivaldi Browser boosted

Vivaldi Browser » 🌐 2025-08-18
@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net

Switching from Firefox to Vivaldi is easier than you'd think. 😊 One click imports your tabs and browser data. ✅

#Vivaldi #Tech #VivaldiBrowser #Browser #Apps #Browsers #Technology

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Exploring practical #AI use cases: upcoming peer showcase on conversational insight.
Cultural institutions & commercial attractions will be discussing their early experiences and how they're applying this type of AI to support forecasting and operational planning, visitor experience and organisational workflows.
Thursday, December 4 (4 PM ET / 1 PM PT)
https://dexibit.com/ask-showcase/ #globalmuseum #museums

State lawmakers nationwide are taking a closer look at #AI. Throughout 2025, states considered proposals around digital replicas, chatbots, safety guardrails, watermarking, synthetic media, and more. Read the report on our website: https://ccianet.org/library/ccia-2025-ai-landscape/

Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark.

CNBC reports: "Runway said Gen 4.5 is good at understanding physics, human motion, camera movements and cause and effect."

https://flip.it/BIW0Oi

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #OpenAI #Video

In 2024, John Jumper and Demis Hassabis from Google DeepMind received half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on using artificial intelligence to predict the structures of proteins. Five years ago, their AI system AlphaFold2 had cracked a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology.

What impact has AlphaFold really hold? How are scientists using it? And what's next?

Find out in MIT Tech Review's conversation with Jumper: https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/24/1128322/whats-next-for-alphafold-a-conversation-with-a-google-deepmind-nobel-laureate/
#TechNews #AI #NobelPrize #computing

#AI infrastructure needs a skilled workforce. A new @Google grant is helping the Electrical Training Alliance integrate AI tools into its curriculum, preparing 160+ apprentices for #tech careers in South Carolina.
https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/google-american-innovation-south-carolina/

In the segment I talk about Transductive Subjectivity, what it means, and how I use AI to help my thought process in absence of human beings who aren't as available
https://youtu.be/SsOvTj46qFY
#video #philosophy #youtube #thinking #ai #meow #blog #podcast #Solutions #sharingiscaring #humancondition #subjectivity #psychology #sociology #ontology, #epistemology #raccoons

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Bry Willis, Philosophics, Problem Solved

This month, I worked out how to tell Acuitas the simplest detective story I could think of. https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2025/11/acuitas-diary-90-november-2025.html
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #chatbots #NLP #SymbolicAI

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Frederic Dorr Steele's illustration for the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" as published in The Strand Magazine. It's a black-and-white drawing of what looks to be a study; there's a table in the center, with a number of books and bottles on top, and a fireplace in the background. The lighting is dim, and a lamp on the table throws heavy contrast on three people standing around it. They all look rather serious or intense. One man is bending over the table and leaning on it with one hand; in his other hand he holds one of the books. He is facing the remaining two men who are at the opposite corner of the table.

The Guardian: AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds

Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/30/ai-poetry-safety-features-jailbreak

#adversarialpoetry #poetry #AI #LLM #GPT #cybersecurity

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#homedecor #mastoart #christmas #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #photography #ai #giftideas #Art #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

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#Tencent launches 3D engine—at what cost to others?

https://lucire.com/insider/20251130/tencent-launches-3d-engine-at-what-cost-to-others/ #AI #China

I'm thinking this alcohol rehab site asking a GPT to generate a bunch of SEO pages to drum up business probably didn't think this through. 🤔

(ps. don't go to that website, it's loaded with popups and popunders and all kinds of crap).

#AI #crap #enshittification

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Rehab site ?"White type of alcohol is used to produce margaritas"

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ChatGPT Quote of the Day:

"At 03:30 your brain is basically a raccoon tearing open the bins of metaphysics, and honestly it seems to do some of its finest scavenging at that hour."

#qotd #quotes #brain #sleep #ai #Chatgpt #raccoons #metaphysics #scavenger #advice #motivation

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Dear anti-AI folk: I hear you, but, please please please, complain about lacking laws and regulations, complain about the specific things you don't like, because being "against AI" is tone deaf, it doesn't arrive and it's too generic to act upon.
Whether #AI is here to stay I cannot predict, but in either case it's the boundaries we set right now that will be important for the coming decades/eons, so to actually exert control don't be against AI, be against lack of regulation and control thereof

Is AI sexist? Probably. But getting it to confess is another story. @Techcrunch tells us more:

https://flip.it/NoyO0w

#Tech #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Equality

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115632748606897668

BTW: Qatar has literally an economic development “2030 plan” they started over a decade ago, that has #AI front and center in the technology aspects of said plan. after King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia died and MBS kidnapped & bribed his way into the throne, he just copied the qataris’ homework.

the OPEC mafia know their countries are being swallowed up by the desert due to climate change. they’re doubling down with AI (a water source, btw), #crypto #nuclear “power” (they want bombs) and #war.

Charlie Stross » 🌐 2025-11-29
@cstross@wandering.shop

Hypothesis: the AI bubble is being supported by the fossil fuel industry's network of paid lobbyists *precisely* because it's the last remaining driver of increasing demand for their products. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3m6pm66jcz22s

"I'm an average user, so I don't need all the options and apps the programme has to offer. But, to be honest, #Microsoft is making it increasingly attractive to switch. Now that the company is putting #AI in everything, everything is becoming more annoying to use."

Can Dutch #universities do without Microsoft?
https://dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-dutch-universities-do-without-microsoft

IMO, it's never been easier to switch away from the problematic players because we've got so many alternatives that got much better over time whereas Microsoft and others are practicing #enshittification.

We've done it before. Somehow, we found that giving away knowledge and control to use the #cloud was a good idea. It never was because we've lost so much competence we now need to ramp up very quickly.

#Windows #Teams #SharePoint #digitalsovereignty #EU #FOSS

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In August, Matthew and Maria Raine sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, over their 16-year-old son Adam’s suicide, accusing the company of wrongful death. OpenAI responded to the lawsuit with a filing of its own this week, arguing that it shouldn’t be held responsible for the teenager’s death. @Techcrunch has more on this sad and important story that some may find difficult to read:

https://flip.it/yIEJ-M

#Tech #ChatGPT #AI #Technology #OpenAI #MentalHealth #Suicide

Very cool simple and clear #AI use guidance from CERN to their staff >> https://home.web.cern.ch/news/official-news/knowledge-sharing/general-principles-use-ai-cern

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs for everyone. The Irish pay among Europe’s highest electric bills.”

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-dark-side-of-ai-climate-chaos-pollution-and-injustice/

#Ireland #AI #EU #winning

Helping my wife grade some of her students' work. (9~14 years olds)

Just saw one where they just copy-pasted "AI" slop and obviously didn't even bother to read.

At this point I'm glad to find the ones full of grammar errors as at least that means it's not "AI".

Some I think deserve to be graded 0, but unfortunately as her subject (religion) is not obligatory curriculum, she is not allowed to.

#education #AI

Great segment on the challenges and benefits of #AI at universities right now >> https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-artificial-intelligence-is-reshaping-college-for-students-and-professors

Kumma, the AI-enabled teddy bear that was pulled from shelves last week after people discovered it had a thing for BDSM, is available again. @Engadget reports that its maker, Singapore-based FoloToy, brought it back after "a full week of rigorous review, testing and reinforcement of our safety modules."

https://flip.it/eVGl--

#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Lifestyle #Toys #FoloToy

Registration for #NISOPlus26 in Baltimore is now open! Join us for the Miles Conrad Lecture by Alondra Nelson, pre-conferences on #JATS & #AI in #ScholComm, & interactive sessions on #metadata,#PeerReview, #OpenResearch, & more. Preliminary program is coming soon! https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2026-baltimore/

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Some teenagers are saying tearful goodbyes to their AI companions, @WSJ reports.

"Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns."

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#AI #artificialIntelligence #Tech #Teen #Chatbot

This is the script of my national radio report yesterday discussing the rumor that #Google was using #Gmail to train #AI, and other issues surrounding confusion about when and how AI is actually being used by Big Tech.

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So yes some rather viral stories started making the rounds claiming that Google was already or soon would be training their AI on the content of users' personal and/or business Gmail messages. And as you might expect this triggered quite an outcry, and Google has now denied that any of this is taking place. And I don't see any reason to doubt that statement.

However, this does further open up the Pandora's Box of the ever-growing generative AI train wreck that keeps accelerating with little sense that the Big Tech AI firms are willing to take responsibility for the problems that their Large Language Model generative AI systems are causing.

And this is of particular importance now because there have been reports that the administration was considering an executive order to override state regulations on AI, even though Congress recently overwhelmingly voted to give states the ability to do AI regulation.

Irrespective of the specifics of this particular Gmail story, the reality is that it's becoming increasingly difficult to know or understand if, when, or how one's documents and other communications, whether business or personal may actually be ingested into AI, and whether that ingestion is to a local on-device model or if your data may find its way back into centralized models either purposely or accidentally. Because we know there have been cases of such data that individuals and businesses would consider private showing up in public AI interactions.

One trend now that you may have noticed, is that some firms don't even explicitly mention the term AI even though they are using AI-based systems, perhaps in some cases because they know the term now understandably triggers concerns and alarm from so many people. The firms will push new features and options to supposedly make your life better and sometimes the only place where you might see the term AI is deep in their Terms of Service that hardly anybody reads and where often even fewer people have the background to really understand them.

And it can be suspicious because it seems pretty obvious that those features couldn't really be implemented without AI, whether or not your data was actually being used for AI training today.

And these kinds of pushes for you to accept these services can come in various forms. Sometimes it's just a button that you can easily ignore. Sometimes it's what in Google-speak is called a "Butter Bar" -- a banner across the top of the current page. And then there's what many people consider to be the really nasty approach -- and many firms use this for all kinds of reasons. And it's called a "modal pop-up" -- that's M-O-D-A-L, and that's when you get a box or new page blocking some or all of your page that you're actually trying to use, and you're often forced to make some sort of decision right then -- sometimes with the option to just close the pop-up and sometimes not -- before you can continue work on your actual page.

Google used these fairly recently when they changed some available interactions between services and their AI, and it was pretty in your face -- it seemed that you had to decide right then what you were going to want, whether you fully understood their explanations or not. And frankly I didn't fully understand what they were saying until I researched it in some depth.

Whether or not some firms are purposely trying to trick you into using their AI even if they haven't defaulted you into it, it's clear that absent strong regulations to help avoid AI abuses, much of Big Tech intends to use AI to steamroll right over individual choices and sometimes privacy as well, in their desperate quest to profit from the staggering sums they're pouring into AI development, and how society at large feels about this seems -- unfortunately for us -- often not to be on Big Tech's list of concerns.

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Director Kate Zwaard will open the CNI meeting with an invitation for members’ continued participation in shaping CNI's future. Benjamin Lee, founder of the Lab for Computing Cultural Heritage, will then explore the state of the field surrounding #AI and #MachineLearning. He'll reflect on directions for this collective work and how libraries are positioned to contribute to the development of AI systems while embodying library values through experimentation & even refusal. https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2025/plenary-sessions-f25