@pluralistic
This classic Ed Zitron article will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about how corrupt CEOs advance their corporate juggernauts by any means they can get away with.
You'll also find out why NVIDIA's strange growth strategies are curiously reminding people of such historic market disasters as Lucent, WorldCom, and Enron.
In ironically saying that NVIDIA is NOT Enron, Sitron made ME think that that's only because the scale of the financial stakes are much higher today -- and, potentially more devastating.
Also the US currently has a regime that is all-in on making as much as they can off this scam before the bubble bursts.
Trust me, a lot of speculators are already shorting Ai stocks as fast as they can -- knowing that the party is about to come screeching to a halt.
Slightly off-topic side note: Trump is about to achieve a trifecta: crashing the US government and with it the economy, causing a stock market crash that will make Hoover's look minor by comparison, and destabilizing the world order leading to multiple new wars.
#NVIDIA #Ai #JensenHuang #EdZitron #USPolitics #Capitalism

"The rapid, largely unregulated rise of datacenters to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security.” New data centers should be paused until new regulations are put in place.

#AI #DataCenters #USA

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/us-data-centers

Cyanide and happiness, non ? 

#IA #AI
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Why is Big Tech so afraid of AI regulation?

Big Tech continues to push for no AI regulation and it is having an impact. They want us to forget the damage done by the lack of regulation of user profiling. Instead they argue that regulating user profiling and AI would be a disaster. Clearly they are having some success with this strategy.

Hopefully regulators will fight back, but in the meantime, you have a choice when it comes to OS and browsers. Choose the one that does not force AI on you.

#AI #politics #technology #browser #vivaldi #windows #macos #linux

What 20 years of working with #NASA human-robot teams taught me about #AI -- mostly how we could be doing this completely differently, and much, much better:

https://youtu.be/28pkHL4IHE4?si=vYSuuCpp2lRQP-_D

(This is an academic talk I gave at the University of Maryland virtually a few weeks back but open to all! Thoughts and comments welcome here)

Seriously, it's exhausting.

#AI #meme #humor #humour

Me, an average #GuillermodelToro admirer

Guillermo del Toro: "Fuck #AI"

Me, a Guillermo del Toro rabid hyper-stan

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/guillermo-del-toro-ai-frankenstein-gotham-award-1236596868/

"I’d like to tell the rest of our extraordinary cast and our crew that the artistry of all of them shines on every single frame of this film that was willfully made by humans, for humans. The designers, builders, make-up, wardrobe team, cinematographers, composers, editors… I would like to extend our gratitude and say: Fuck AI"

#GothamAwards #Frankenstein

“Optimistically, then, a surge in the productivity of misinformation generators may provide a similar advantage to the journalistic equivalent of the blue-throated lizards—publications that jealously guard their reputation for truth-telling. “

🎁🔗

#news #ai #media #journalism

by @TheEconomist

https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/12/04/ai-misinformation-may-have-paradoxical-consequences?giftId=NGJiN2EzNTYtNWY4Yy00OTY5LTgxZGYtMGRiYjY2MjBiNTRi&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Mozilla went into a charm offensive after getting pummeled left and right, I don't think Moz joining 14680 different NGOs will make any of us to just accept the betrayal.

#mozilla #ai

A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager

Cbre: A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out.

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#calibre #ai #opensource

"The short version is that YouTube used AI to 'enhance' the videos of Rick Beato and Rhett Shull. YouTube used an AI smoothing filter that made the videos look like they were AI generated, and didn’t tell Beato, Shull, or their viewers that they were doing it. They only admitted to it after the two made videos proving it happened, later claiming it was only a 'limited test'.”

@joshsjunkdrawer, 2025

https://joshgriffiths.site/youtube-is-awful-im-not-posting-there-anymore/

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#YouTube #MOLE #AI #enshittification

I feel like the general populace might not realize the importance of this idea that @pluralistic shares:

what Dan Davies calles an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.

this human (sometimes only nominally) in the loop is central to law as a whole not being broken

it's also of utmost importance for weapons of war, where AI actually is having life and death impact right now, with non-hypotheticals like "how do we make sure the system doesn't kill innocents without repercussions"

because if there's no repercussions the system will end up externalizing on the way to maximizing other metrics

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

#AI #accountability

#ai

Elkjøp, likely the largest Norwegian based electronics store, is now running ads for Copilot where they speak about how great Recall is. Likely the ad is paid for by Microsoft.

They show the picture below and they talk of how great it is that the machine remembers everything you have done with it (and has the pictures to prove it!).

I guess when you make something that most people do not want, you just push it harder.

Remember that you have a choice to move away from Big Tech.

#microsoft #windows #Linux #vivaldi
#technology #AI #computing #bigTech

#AI is Infringing on Your #CivilRights. Here’s How We Can Stop That

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport #security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that they are mundane things you do, but, in many of these instances, you’re actually interacting with #ArtificialIntelligence (AI).

Avoiding AI in our quotidian activities feels impossible nowadays
#privacy

https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/ai-is-infringing-on-your-civil-rights-heres-how-we-can-stop-that

Stop LinkedIn using your data to train unnamed AI! ⚠️

Quietly, LinkedIn have introduced opt-out AI training across all user content on LinkedIn without asking explicit permission.

LinkedIn is used by majority of working professionals, including many of us here on the Social Web.

Turn this setting off now if you want to protect your data and please boost for all to see!

#AI #LinkedIn #Boost #AITraining #DataPrivacy #SocialWeb #Tech