WARNING: #GOOGLE IS TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO USING GEMINI AI AND FEEDING GEMINI YOUR DATA IN GMAIL AND OTHER APPS!

What Google is now doing should be ILLEGAL. PERIOD. For the first time I can recall in history of using Gmail, it just now popped a modal dialogue box -- DEMANDING that I choose whether or not I wanted "Smart Features" turned on -- which when you read the verbiage mostly means goddamned Gemini AI AND if you enable this you're giving Google permission to use your data to "improve" this horrifically invasive, inept, and misinformation spewing tech that steals data from websites for its own use without permission of those sites. DON'T LET IT SUCK IN YOUR EMAIL AS WELL!

There was no way I could find to exit the modal window without choosing YES or NO, which means my existing selection to NOT use Gmail Smart Features (long my preference) was NOT being honored. After saying NO to this disgusting query by Google, I was pushed to ANOTHER page where I was forced to choose again about "smart features" in "other" Google apps. I chose NO again and finally was permitted to escape this trap.

Note that while you can fairly easily check to make sure "smart features" are turned off in Gmail settings, I offhand don't have a clue as to how to find the similar settings in other Google apps that may have been affected by this absolutely disrespectful forced dialogue, as Google keeps trying to ram Gemini AI down our throats.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Google has become a DISGRACE.

#Google#Gmail#Gemini#AI

🔮 “Navigating the Future of AI" - @anildash joins @leo, @jeffjarvis & Paris Martineau on Intelligent Machines to discuss investor vs. grassroots impact, ethics of large language models & the need for AI beyond chatbots. ▶️ https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/828#AI#Innovation

If you are enabling an AI feature scanning all your emails, consider this will also scan the emails people have sent you. This information could include personal or otherwise legally protected information.

If this data leaks later (as it regularly happens with these systems), this could mean severe legal consequences for you down the road.

YOU are responsible for protecting the data of others under your custody.

This includes the messages and emails others send to you.

#NoAI#AI#Privacy

"New servers are less energy-intensive." Really? 🤔

This is said so often that it could almost be taken as an absolute truth.

By extension, it is often said that each new generation of hardware consumes less energy than the previous one.

Manufacturers communicate pretty often about this, including HPE (1), Nvidia (2), etc..

A 🧵

#energy #it #ai #efficiency #datacenters

I'm very honoured to be among this year's NWO (Dutch Research Council) Veni research grant recipients, for my proposal "Finding Variables that Matter"!

I cannot quite believe it, but I'm excited to get started on the actual research.

Many congratulations to all of my colleagues who received their Veni grants. Over the last few months, I was lucky enough to get to know them and their research, and I can't wait to see what they do with the funds.

I'm grateful to Delft University of Technology and all my colleagues and trainers for their support and trust. The Veni application process was part of my life for almost a year. Could not have done it without their encouragement and wisdom. Many thanks also to NWO and all reviewers and committee members!

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/tu-delft/record-number-veni-grants-for-leading-tu-delft-researchers

#AcademicMastodon#AcademicLife#NWO#Veni#ResearchFunding#AI#AcademicChatter#TUDelft#Research#Grateful#GoodNews

I'm only surprised I haven't seen this sooner. Obviously I don't have a Large Lying Machine subscription to fail.

#phishing#AI

｢ we went through my slide deck reviewing each slide and removing anything that mentions “Gaza” or “Palestine” or “Israel” and editing the word “genocide” to “war crimes” untill a single slide that called for “No AI for War Crimes” remained. That is where I drew the line. I was then told that displaying that slide was not acceptable and I had to withdraw, a decision they reversed about 10 minutes later and shortly before I got on the Centre Stage ｣

https://aial.ie/blog/2025-ai-for-good-summit/

#ai #censorship

That one time when #AI didn't hallucinate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJhKli-dmk

🧑‍🏫 An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

｢ Current GenAI technologies represent unacceptable legal, ethical and environmental harms, including exploitative labour, piracy of countless creators' and artists' work, harmful biases, mass production of misinformation, and reversal of the global emissions reduction trajectory ｣

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

#ai #genai #education

Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.

This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.

Plus much more!

Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube 📺

https://www.youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io

#ORG20 #digitalrights #corydoctorow #AI #copyright #dataprotection #bigtech

Een van de weinige goede doeleinden van AI. Het leuke van dit nieuws is trouwens dat op het voormalige Twitter, je weet wel; de nazigrot van Elon Musk, dat rechtse schorem vast een hele slechte dag hebben.

NOS: *Zwarte pieten in Sinterklaasfilm Bennie Stout vervangen door roetveegpieten*

https://nos.nl/artikel/2575391

Maar kijk naar de laatste zin: "En het voordeel is dat je een compleet nieuwe film hebt en hem opnieuw kunt uitbrengen." Aldus producent Klaas de Jong. Hier komt de werkelijke reden naar boven. Het gaat helemaal niet over dat Zwarte Piet racisme is, maar het gaat om geld, geld en geld.

Ik plak hier trouwens een ongerelateerde afbeelding, om te voorkomen dat hier een preview tevoorschijn komt met Zwarte Piet. Blijkbaar vind de NOS het nog wel nodig om Zwarte Pieten in je gezicht te gooien.

Tot slot zijn roetveegpieten niet de oplossing. Er zijn nog steeds karikaturen van tot slaaf gemaakte mensen te zien, zoals de kleren en de zwarte pruik.

#ZwartePiet #RoetveegPiet #ZwartePietIsRacisme #RoetveegPietIsRacisme #AI

Guy next to me at the cafe I’m working out of this morning gets a call:

“… no we don’t live there anymore… no… no, we don’t live there anymore… are you serious?! [my ears perk up] Is this AI?… It is?!”

Spoke to him afterwards. Apparently “some energy company.” And it was an LLM on the other side. He said it sounded so real (a woman who gave him her name and sounded perfectly normal) until he asked it if it was AI when it responded “yes” and then restarted the script.

*smdh*

#AI #BigTech #bullshit #capitalism #Ireland

The only option is to get the everloving fuck out of the #Google ecosystem & then just hope they can't get to you in other ways, which they probably can but don't obey in advance. #Resistance is its own reward & also might actually work eventually. Not resisting definitely won't.