"Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-policy-for-ai-slop-articles/

#Wikipedia#AI#GenerativeAI#AISlop#ContentModeration

"Wikipedia editors just adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly delete an AI-generated article that meets a certain criteria, isn’t only important to Wikipedia, but also an important example for how to deal with the growing AI slop problem from a platform that has so far managed to withstand various forms of enshittification that have plagued the rest of the internet."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-editors-adopt-speedy-deletion-policy-for-ai-slop-articles/

#Wikipedia#AI#GenerativeAI#AISlop#ContentModeration

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

Mistral Challenges OpenAI and Google with New Voxtral Open-Source Voice AI Model

#AI#MistralAI#Voxtral#OpenSource#VoiceAI#GenerativeAI#SpeechTech

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/15/mistral-challenges-openai-and-google-with-new-voxtral-open-source-voice-ai-model-xcxwbn/

Asking the Fedi.

Is the expected hyperscaling of AI data centers a generativeAI/LLM thing? I cannot see "old school" ML type things (factory and port optimisation, medical image analysis) generating that leap in data center use.

Or am I missing something?

and if it is does that mean, if the bubble bursts, it will take out the big western base load electrical demand growth story as well?

#generativeAI #ml #ai #electricity

@Nonya_Bidniss

This is genius 🙂

Also, you now know that the LLM Tech bros have no real geek sense of humour because "Lobachevsky" would be the perfect name for one.

"Plagiarize!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize
Only be sure always to call it please 'training'"

#generativeAI

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.

But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

This isn’t just deceptive; it’s an abuse of market power. I’ve had it with Microsoft.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it-with-microsoft

#tech #microsoft #office#generativeai #deception #ai

"Alright, I’ve officially spent too much time reading Trump’s 28-page AI Action Plan, his three new AI executive orders, listening to his speech on the subject, and reading coverage of the event. I’ll put it bluntly: The vibes are bad. Worse than I expected, somehow.

Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke.

More specifically, the plan aims to further deregulate the tech industry, penalize US states that pass AI laws, speed adoption of AI in the federal government and beyond, fast-track data center development, fast-track nuclear and fossil fuel power to run them, move to limit China’s influence in AI, and restrict speech in AI and the frameworks governing them by making terms like diversity, inclusion, misinformation, and climate change forbidden. There’s also a section on American workers that’s presented as protecting them from AI, but in reality seeks to give employers more power over them. It all portends a much darker future than I thought we’d see in this thing."

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/trumps-ai-action-plan-is-a-blueprint

#USA#Trump#AI#GenerativeAI#AIActionPlan#BigTech #AIPolicy#Lobbying#Plutocracy

Last week, I got an email from Microsoft. It told me I’d be paying 46% more for my Office subscription, starting next month.

But when I tried to cancel, it offered me the same price I was already paying — without the generative AI features I never asked for in the first place.

This isn’t just deceptive; it’s an abuse of market power. I’ve had it with Microsoft.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/ive-had-it-with-microsoft

#tech #microsoft #office#generativeai #deception #ai

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan

#tech #decomputing #ai#generativeai #aihype #siliconvalley

Is it possible to imagine a better future where we use less computation? The effects of AI hype almost demand it.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @danmcquillan so he could lay out the concept of decomputing as a different way of assessing technology.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/286_decomputing_for_a_better_future_w_dan_mcquillan

#tech #decomputing #ai#generativeai #aihype #siliconvalley

"A Pew Research Center report published this spring analyzed data from 900 U.S. adults who agreed to share their online browsing activity. About six-in-ten respondents (58%) conducted at least one Google search in March 2025 that produced an AI-generated summary. Additional analysis found that Google users were less likely to click on result links when visiting search pages with an AI summary compared with those without one. For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.

Here’s more of what we learned about Google AI summaries and how users interact with them.

Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. Users who encountered an AI summary clicked on a traditional search result link in 8% of all visits. Those who did not encounter an AI summary clicked on a search result nearly twice as often (15% of visits).

A bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link when they encounter search pages with AI summaries.
Google users who encountered an AI summary also rarely clicked on a link in the summary itself. This occurred in just 1% of all visits to pages with such a summary.

Google users are more likely to end their browsing session entirely after visiting a search page with an AI summary than on pages without a summary. This happened on 26% of pages with an AI summary, compared with 16% of pages with only traditional search results."

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/

#AI#GenerativeAI#Google#AIOverview#OpenWeb#Search#SearchEngines