Exposing the Unseen: Mapping MCP Servers Across the Internet

"We identified a total of 1,862 MCP servers exposed to the internet. From this set, we manually verified a sample of 119. All 119 servers granted access to internal tool listings without authentication."

this is why I keep a very watchful eye on Knostic about AI stuff, they know the tech, the risks, and how human behavior will interact with them.

#infosec #cybersecurity #genai

https://www.knostic.ai/blog/mapping-mcp-servers-study

Like we needed another good reason to block Threads

"Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads"

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/meta-appoints-generative-ai-vp-to-run-threads/

#threads #fedi #genai #aislop

🧑‍🏫 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

RAG has come to the tidyverse! Check out my step-by-step #InfoWorld tutorial on how to use the {ragnar} and {ellmer) #RStats 📦 to answer natural language questions about a document or Web page.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4020484/generative-ai-rag-comes-to-the-r-tidyverse.html

Huge thanks to pkg creator @kalinowski4ben1 at @Posit for answering questions about this month's new version of {ragnar}, which has a lot of changes.
#GenAI#LLMs

⇒ Please help me find #GenAI truth-telling sites! ⇐
In the past I've come across several websites that effectively debunk #GenerativeAI hype.
However, now that I actually need them, to help me make the case at work for strong oversight of the company's GenAI use, I can't find any of them.
It seems like no matter what search terms and search engine I use, I get garbage search results (hype, indeed!).
What are your go-to websites for debunking #AI hype?
#tech#LLM

Scheduled for tomorrow: "RAG comes to the tidyverse!" My step-by-step tutorial on using the {ragnar} #RStats 📦 to do retrieval augmented generation in R is supposed to be published July 17 at #InfoWorld.

#GenAI#LLMs#Tidyverse

｢ The Moderate Party of Sweden has removed an AI tool from its website after people used it to generate videos of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson asking Adolf Hitler for support.The tool allowed users to generate videos of Kristersson holding an AI-generated message in an attempt to promote the candidate ahead of the general election in Sweden next year ｣

https://www.404media.co/swedish-prime-minister-pulls-ai-campaign-tool-after-it-was-used-to-ask-hitler-for-support/

#sweden #nazis #genai

Selbiger bei #GenAI-Slop / #GrandTheftAutocorrect:
"Selber-denken trainiert das Gehirn nicht!!1!elf"

Die Industrie-Reaktionen auf https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ sind einfach pures Copium. 🤭

Merke: Luddite sein ist gesünder, an min. 2 Fronten.

🔫 AI is learning to lie, scheme and threaten its creators • Japan Times

｢ In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair ｣

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/29/tech/ai-learning-lie-threaten-creators/

#ai #genai

I took a survey today for Masterclass.com, a product I generally like and support. They appeared to be leaning into AI, which I detest. I thought about it after, so emailed them that if they started offering classes on how to use AI, I was probably going to cancel my membership, because I find it morally reprehensible.

I got an auto-respond email from an AI Bot offering to help me cancel my subscription. There you go.

#Fail#MasterClass#GenAI#AI

So what you're saying is 'Pigeons are smarter than what we call AI these days', yeah?

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34878151

#Pigeons#Cancer#GenAI