Hot take: People are afraid of reacting or replying to AI critiques on LinkedIn for the same reason Trump's cabinet meetings are full of sycophantic praise for the president.
Tragic: Against so much effort they undertook in the past few decades toward building autonomy and self-determination, the US Peace Corps regresses to techno-colonialist high-pressure American AI salespeople.
AI Agents Are Writing Blogs Now
At some point we won’t be able to tell what’s what or who’s who.
You can argue we’ve reached that point in real life given the propensity to push lie upon lie for political and economic gain. You can also argue we were fast approaching that point with Artificial Intelligence and AI agents that can write poems, plays, papers, and who knows what else.
Perhaps even a blog post. (For the record, this one is written by a very real human, flaws and all.)
Mark Sullivan, writing for Fast Company, tells the tale of an AI agent that autonomously wrote a blog post attacking a human for not allowing it to release some code.
Matplotlib, a popular Python plotting library with roughly 130 million monthly downloads, doesn’t allow AI agents to submit code. So Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer (like a curator for a repository of computer code) for Matplotlib, rejected and closed a routine code submission from the AI agent, called MJ Rathbun.
Here’s where it gets weird(er). MJ Rathbun, an agent built using the buzzy agent platform OpenClaw, responded by researching Shambaugh’s coding history and personal information, then publishing a blog post accusing him of discrimination.
Here’s a link to the AI agent’s blog.
Here’s a link to Scott Shambaugh’s post about it called An AI Agent Published A Hit Piece On Me.
On the one hand, the situation is comical. On the other, it just continues to be a large slap upside all of our heads, begging us to wake up and asking us just what the hell we are doing?
You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.
#ai #ArtificialIntelligence #chatgpt #llm #MJRathburn #Moltbook #OpenClaw #ScottShambaugh #technology
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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#AI will create a world of average - forever stuck in the past.
Jan :rust: :ferris:
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In the age of #AI there will be no more room for nuance or detail.
Everything will be coarse and average.
2026 is the year of #AI sobriety - a Quiet #Rebellion in a World full of #Slop
- by persistent bloom
Invidious:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39n3Mn6jac)
"Does this allow me to hear myself think? Or does it make it harder to hear what voice is my own?"
I absolutely love this! 💯 So many good points!
I also highly agree with the usefulness of smaller open language models.
#AISober #AISobriety #LLM #LLMs #ArtificialIntelligence #Art #Philosophy #CriticalThinking
@BrideOfLinux Real-time slop is still just slop. Just as full of mistakes, only faster.
@corespix Who needs technical writers nowadays?
Federico Mena Quintero
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🇺🇳 The United Nations Secretary-General has launched an open call for candidates to serve on the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI -- 40 leading experts to provide impartial, evidence-based assessments on the opportunities, risks, and impacts of AI.
➡️ Learn more and apply at https://un.org/ai-panel ... the call is open through 31 October.
🇺🇳 The United Nations Secretary-General has launched an open call for candidates to serve on the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI -- 40 leading experts to provide impartial, evidence-based assessments on the opportunities, risks, and impacts of AI.
➡️ Learn more and apply at https://un.org/ai-panel ... the call is open through 31 October.
Ulrike Hahn
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#OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It. Via @sciencealert #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #LLM #ChatGPT
OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucina...
#OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It. Via @sciencealert #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #LLM #ChatGPT
OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucina...
Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
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💡 Ed Zitron's new 16K-word "How to Argue With An AI Booster" is an essential communications toolkit for the next ~18 months. Go read it, and bookmark it.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #hype
https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/
Yogthos
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New AI model predicts which genetic mutations truly drive disease. Via @sciencedaily_official #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
New AI model predicts which ge...
New AI model predicts which genetic mutations truly drive disease. Via @sciencedaily_official #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #MedicalScience 💉💊🏥🩸😷
New AI model predicts which ge...
💡 Ed Zitron's new 16K-word "How to Argue With An AI Booster" is an essential communications toolkit for the next ~18 months. Go read it, and bookmark it.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #hype
https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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How to Block Meta AI?
You can’t.
But you can slow it down.
The first half of Meta’s bot behaves like any other bot — that part you can block. There are many scripts available that are effective at stopping bots, and they work well.
The second half of Meta’s AI is where the real problem lies.
Meta anticipated that people would eventually catch on to their AI scraping, so they designed a system that uses standard web browsers. The AI doesn’t directly visit your site — it interacts with a browser instance on another system. It just does this using countless small, distributed micro-instances.
#Meta #AI #ArtificialIntelligence#Fediverse #ActivityPub#Mastodon#Misskey
🫧 socialcoding..
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I’m not saying don’t try to block Meta’s AI.
I’m saying it won’t be easy.
Meta is using a mix of traditional scraping, along with a new method: AI browsing via a real browser. Additionally, they’re using multiple IPs (not identified as Meta) from various sources and locations.
I’m not claiming it’s impossible to stop AI — I just believe they’re making it very inconvenient to do so. Ultimately, that’s the goal — and you’re in a battle of attrition.
Will you block Mozilla Firefox?
Meta is counting on many people answering “no” to that question — especially among those it believes would oppose AI.
For years, Facebook has been building sociological profiles of individuals likely to resist a multi-billion dollar corporation.
And that’s exactly what they’re using against people right now.
#Firefox#Mozilla#Meta#Facebook #AI
I’m not saying don’t try to block Meta’s AI.
I’m saying it won’t be easy.
Meta is using a mix of traditional scraping, along with a new method: AI browsing via a real browser. Additionally, they’re using multiple IPs (not identified as Meta) from various sources and locations.
I’m not claiming it’s impossible to stop AI — I just believe they’re making it very inconvenient to do so. Ultimately, that’s the goal — and you’re in a battle of attrition.