Flipboard Tech Desk
@TechDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "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," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"

https://flip.it/tMtohZ

#Tech#Technology#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#TrumpAdministration#DonaldTrump#Politics#DEI#SiliconValley
Flipboard Tech Desk
@TechDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

In the U.S., some publishers worry about "Google Zero," when they cease to get any web traffic from the search engine giant.

@arstechnica reports: "Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks."

https://flip.it/dYyI7X

#Google#SEO#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Media#Tech#Journalism
Roni Laukkarinen
@rolle@mementomori.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

It makes me sad that there are so many AI videos and audios of Ozzy Osbourne out there now. I don't care if he said the same things in an interview - creating and sharing artificial AI audio or video after someone's death just feels plain disrespectful unless they gave permission while alive. The worst part is you can't always tell the AI-generated ones from the real videos... that's where we're at now with the world.
Niklas Pivic
@pivic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/#coprophagic-ai

A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:

'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."

But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'

Don't use Google for search.

#google#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#AISlop#CoryDoctorow #search #slop
Linux Is Best
@Linux@mastodon.au  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Every post you’ve ever made anywhere within Meta’s ecosystem. Every photo you’ve ever shared. It doesn’t matter if you thought it was “private” or shared only with yourself — the AI has access to everything.

As the old saying goes: "All your base are belong to us!"

#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Meta#Facebook#Threads#Instagram#WhatsApp

Kathy Reid
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ABC Feeds
@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

More GPs and hospitals are using AI scribes. Is your data at risk?
By Emily Dobson

AI tools are becoming more prevalent in healthcare, helping overworked doctors to carry the workload. But experts say there are real risks, including accuracy and data protection.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/ai-scribes-gps-and-hospitals-accuracy-data-breach-risk/105490478

#ArtificialIntelligence#Health#EmilyDobson
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
@markwyner@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Alright, y’all. Follow-up on this poll as promised…

Creative Commons published it. Afterward they shared their perspective on AI vs CC content. In short, “to get a sense of the various views on this question, we launched a Twitter poll where nearly half of respondents said, ‘it depends.’ We agree.”

https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/

They made some questionable comments about it…

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#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#CC#ContentLicense #CreativeCommons#AITheft#EatTheRich
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114782533726610769