@emmadavidson From what I can tell, we are a lot further from everyone becoming redundant than many proponents of #AI are saying. However, we should start planning for the possibility, now. And a UBI would be a good idea, anyway.
Criminals in Southeast Asia are using inexpensive artificial intelligence tools to target bigger pools of potential victims at high speed, senior officials at Interpol say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/10/asia-pacific/crime-legal/ai-scam-centers-asia-victims/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #ai #fraud #southeastasia #myanmar #cambodia #organizedcrime #asia
We don't deserve computers.
@mttaggart
Be afraid, very afraid
We will need more smart folks while the #bigCorps are creating systems that will dumb us down.
The robot wars are here and the robots are winning because most folks don't even know the battle is going on.
Right now our only value to the system is that we can answer captcha questions like; check all images with a fire hydrant. Watch out for the time when the robots know what a fire hydrant looks like.
#ai #software #democracy is more than voting
I have a question about the rise of automation and machine learning to do work that customers will pay for.
When all the work that is valuable enough for us to pay for it to be done is being done by machines that do not need people employed to manage or operate the machines, who will be the customers of the work the machines produce? Because without a job, you have no money to be a customer.
Where do the billionaires think their customers will come from when all the employees are replaced by machines?
@emmadavidson From what I can tell, we are a lot further from everyone becoming redundant than many proponents of #AI are saying. However, we should start planning for the possibility, now. And a UBI would be a good idea, anyway.
It took a researcher fewer than 2 hours to hijack OpenClaw: https://thenewstack.io/openclaw-moltbot-security-concerns/ via @TheNewStack & @sjvn
Do not--I repeat--do not use #AI tools OpenClaw or Moltbook. They really have no security to speak of.
FINISHED IT. #AI #Tech #technology #embroidery #Handmade #FuckAI
We're going to put together a resource for musicians on how they can have album art without using large language models. Do you have any resources you'd like to see in that? Free image libraries? Friends who can help do design? Basic how-tos?
#mutualaid #solidarity #helpingeachother #mirlo #resources #ai #llm
You may already know that “data centers in space” is a cynical scam to tie AI funding to taxpayer-funded space operations. This article does a good job of explaining why the *physics* of putting data centers in space is an enormous problem unlikely to be solved any time soon.
🔚 Self-driving cars, drones hijacked by custom road signs
｢ The researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Johns Hopkins showed that, in simulated trials, AI systems and the large vision language models (LVLMs) underpinning them would reliably follow instructions if displayed on signs held up in their camera's view ｣
FFS #Microsoft , I now have 2 adverts on my lockscreen
#MicroSlop: "must...push...ai...to..everyone"
Bear in mind this is the BUSINESS edition of #Windows11, not "home" or "starter" (if they still do that!).
much lamness
..... another day, another shitty advert for some #Microslop crap on my work laptop lockscreen
Some more info on that ' #AI coded C compiler':
> Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 spends $20K trying to write a C compiler. AI agents build something that mostly works but worries the project's creator. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/claude_opus_46_compiler/
Twenty grand? That's two months of developer time. So maybe a *little* cheaper than hiring a coder. But not hugely cheaper and that's just the AI costs. Humans were still in the loop.
And what if they had to pay for the training data? They *stole* that.
AI Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/ai-chatbots-doctors-medicine.html
RE: https://mastodon.world/@bermaninstitute/116042102578384740
this ia bullshit propaganda. #AIslop is never going to be a substitute to a good doctor; but the #EpsteinClass investing in the #AI #ponzi want to create an air of eugenics inevitability.
don't believe the fascist hype.
🔚 Self-driving cars, drones hijacked by custom road signs
｢ The researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Johns Hopkins showed that, in simulated trials, AI systems and the large vision language models (LVLMs) underpinning them would reliably follow instructions if displayed on signs held up in their camera's view ｣
AI Is Making Doctors Answer a Question: What Are They Really Good For? Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. | The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/ai-chatbots-doctors-medicine.html
RE: https://mastodon.world/@bermaninstitute/116042102578384740
this ia bullshit propaganda. #AIslop is never going to be a substitute to a good doctor; but the #EpsteinClass investing in the #AI #ponzi want to create an air of eugenics inevitability.
don't believe the fascist hype.
"With generative AI we have essentially provided a tool for conducting denial of service attacks on the infrastructure of the scientific publishing process (broadly construed). And we have done this at the time when we are seeing well-funded campaigns seeking to undermine free and independent scientific research."
@UlrikeHahn, 2026
https://write.as/ulrikehahn/is-ai-killing-scientific-reform
Note to #fedi that #Catodon is being relaunched but is being built via #LLM because Panos believes being poor means he shouldn't be shamed for using a tool he acknowledges is extremely harmful. He also thinks that because airplanes are bad for the environment it's fine to use #AI
People need to be aware that the relaunched Catadon is both unsafe and unethical. Panos has also claimed that it's "elitist" to criticize LLM usage.
An interesting project by #Mozilla (hope it lasts 🤞 ) about #OpenData for #AI and #MachineLearning, the #Data Collective
An interesting project by #Mozilla (hope it lasts 🤞 ) about #OpenData for #AI and #MachineLearning, the #Data Collective
@inthehands This is why experienced developers can make use of LLMs, and why LLMs won't replace them.
@mamund
Nice essay! I’ve been experimenting with Claude Sonnet 4.5’s extended thinking and web search as a research tool.
I see the high end #LLM experience like working with a good horse—exceptionally skilled in horsey things, moving fast, etc.—a tool that’s exceptionally easy to use to augment your own abilities, not an #AI.
Simile warning: I rode a horse—only when I was led around on one in grade school. But I’m a horse fan from Hopalong Cassidy through today.
