Nobody wants their personal data and chats to be used for AI Training. What are the Data Protection Authorities doing about this ? It could be so simple, just order AI programmes trained with personal data obtained illegally to be deleted. www.politico.eu/pro/german-u... #AI #GDPR #KI #DSGVO
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Nobody wants their personal data and chats to be used for AI Training. What are the Data Protection Authorities doing about this ? It could be so simple, just order AI programmes trained with personal data obtained illegally to be deleted. www.politico.eu/pro/german-u... #AI #GDPR #KI #DSGVO
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I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.
"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."
"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."
https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze
I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.
"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."
"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."
https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze
Don't miss episode 438 of my #MobTechCast! First, we explore @MediaTek's #AI strategy with @rahulsandil Second (19:43), @jasonhowell joins me to review @SamsungMobile's #GalaxyZFold7 and #GalaxyZFlip7, and chat about the latest mobile news 😊 Subscribe: https://worldpodcasts.com/exploring-mediateks-ai-strategy-samsung-galaxy-z-fold7-and-z-flip7-review-realme-15-series-and-more-with-rahul-sandil-and-jason-howell/
The best available open weight LLMs now come from China https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ #AI #OpenSource
The best available open weight LLMs now come from China https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ #AI #OpenSource
Training experimental models to behave like a MAGA idiot, so that they learn how to suppress the worst 'persona' traits in LLMs.
Unfortunately you can't do this with people.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors
Don't miss episode 438 of my #MobTechCast! First, we explore @MediaTek's #AI strategy with @rahulsandil Second (19:43), @jasonhowell joins me to review @SamsungMobile's #GalaxyZFold7 and #GalaxyZFlip7, and chat about the latest mobile news 😊 Subscribe: https://worldpodcasts.com/exploring-mediateks-ai-strategy-samsung-galaxy-z-fold7-and-z-flip7-review-realme-15-series-and-more-with-rahul-sandil-and-jason-howell/
The #Internet is Dying: #AI, Bots, and The End of #Human Content - by Vanessa Wingårdh
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg)
This should be common knowledge by now, but there is still a small chance that it's not, so let's make sure it definitely will be.
#Capitalism#Advertisment#Ads#Society#GenAI#GenerativeAI#Philosophy
The #Internet is Dying: #AI, Bots, and The End of #Human Content - by Vanessa Wingårdh
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZmLvy_Jfg)
This should be common knowledge by now, but there is still a small chance that it's not, so let's make sure it definitely will be.
#Capitalism#Advertisment#Ads#Society#GenAI#GenerativeAI#Philosophy
Developing our position on #AI - by Nicholas Bergson-Shilcock (Recurse Center - July 2025):
https://www.recurse.com/blog/191-developing-our-position-on-ai
"When interacting with another person at RC it’s likely the case that both people benefit from the time spent together [...]. I think when interacting with an #LLM, depending on how they’re used, one person can scratch some social itch, and they might benefit from it, but the energy goes kind of into a technological void, instead of into the community where it benefits others."
How does tech enable me as deafblind? – Torbjörn Svensson, GAAD 2025
How does tech enable me as deafblind? – Torbjörn Svensson, GAAD 2025
⚠️ A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data • Techreview
｢ The researchers found thousands of instances of validated identity documents—including images of credit cards, driver’s licenses, passports, and birth certificates—as well as over 800 validated job application documents (including résumés and cover letters), which were confirmed through LinkedIn and other web searches as being associated with real people ｣
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1120466/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data/
My personal theory is that getting a significant productivity boost from LLM assistance and AI tools has a much steeper learning curve than most people expect.
It’s super easy to get distracted in the downtime while LLMs are generating. The social media attention economy is brutal, and I think people spend 30 mins scrolling while “waiting” for their 30-second generation.
I cannot stay in the zone when using a time-saving AI coding tool; I need to do something else while code is being generated, so context switches are forced, and each one slows me down. It’s a distraction.
I can confirm the danger of getting distracted when working with AI. I’ve learnt and continue to learn how to best leverage Cursor in my daily work. I know its impact on my productivity is very different depending on the projects I work on. I know I must use Cursor differently depending on the codebase I work with. I know I’m not as productive as I would like with some project types, because I haven’t found the best way to organize my work yet.
But I think the same was true when I worked without the help of AI.
@w7voa "Fake news", indeed!
My personal theory is that getting a significant productivity boost from LLM assistance and AI tools has a much steeper learning curve than most people expect.
It’s super easy to get distracted in the downtime while LLMs are generating. The social media attention economy is brutal, and I think people spend 30 mins scrolling while “waiting” for their 30-second generation.
I cannot stay in the zone when using a time-saving AI coding tool; I need to do something else while code is being generated, so context switches are forced, and each one slows me down. It’s a distraction.
I can confirm the danger of getting distracted when working with AI. I’ve learnt and continue to learn how to best leverage Cursor in my daily work. I know its impact on my productivity is very different depending on the projects I work on. I know I must use Cursor differently depending on the codebase I work with. I know I’m not as productive as I would like with some project types, because I haven’t found the best way to organize my work yet.
But I think the same was true when I worked without the help of AI.
"Since January, estimates of what the big tech companies will spend this year on building out #AI #infrastructure have risen $60bn to $350bn... AI-driven bullishness is also lifting 🇺🇸 growth by keeping financial conditions loose, even with higher interest rates."
https://www.ft.com/content/bb355162-0973-4cdd-baf3-fe685c63e20a
"Since January, estimates of what the big tech companies will spend this year on building out #AI #infrastructure have risen $60bn to $350bn... AI-driven bullishness is also lifting 🇺🇸 growth by keeping financial conditions loose, even with higher interest rates."
https://www.ft.com/content/bb355162-0973-4cdd-baf3-fe685c63e20a
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