Love this tarpit implementation by @asrg. It dynamically generates fake JPEGs alongside an endless stream of nonsense content to poison AI bots and scrapers that ignore robots.txt. Absolutely brilliant!

Tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/than-the-rods

Learn more: https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

#AI#AbolishAI

China’s World AI Conference highlighted its fast-paced, open-source AI boom and rivalry with the U.S., as both powers push competing strategies for global leadership in artificial intelligence. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/30/world/chinas-ai-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #worldartificialintelligenceconference #shanghai #china #us #artificialintelligence #ai #deepseek #nvidia

Respect to folks who put their jobs on the line to expose Big Tech's complicity with Israel's genocide

#Israel#Palestine#Gaza#Tech#AI

Mark Zuckerberg's take on "Personal Superintelligence".

This is where Meta is going. Short and worth reading.

https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/
#AI#Meta

Under very favorable conditions that omit many of the real life threats, AI can’t work as a cashier.

Another illustration of “unsupervised AI will just cause a mess and humans will have to clean up after it.”

https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1

#ai #anthropic #claude

Just got asked to sign an open letter to OpenAI asking for transparency on their announced restructuring. You’ll hear about it soon enough, no doubt, given some “big names” are attached to it.

While I agree with the premise of the letter, there’s no way I can sign it after seeing the level of cluelessness and perpetuation of harmful assumptions regurgitated in it. It’s depressing to see those supposedly pushing back against Big Tech’s AI grift having themselves accepted the core myths of this bullshit.

It starts:

“We write to you as the legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission.”

What charitable mission? Are you idiots? You’re talking to a ~$4B organisation.

“Your current structure includes important safeguards designed to ensure your technology serves humanity rather than merely generating profit…”

Oh, really, that’s news to me. I guess I must be missing how their current bullshit serves humanity.

“However, you have proposed a significant corporate restructuring that appears to weaken or eliminate many of these protections, and the public deserves to know the details.”

Ah, so they’re removing the smoke and mirrors, is that it?

Then a bunch of questions, including:

“Does OpenAI plan to commercialize AGI once developed?”

You do understand that there is NO path that leads from today’s mass bullshit factories that are LLMs to AGI, right? None. Zero. Nada. You’re playing right into their hands by taking this as given.

“We believe your response will help restore trust and establish whether OpenAI remains committed to its founding principles, or whether it is prioritizing private interests over its public mission.”

What trust? You trusted these assholes to begin with why exactly? Was it the asshat billionaire founder? How bloody naïve can you be?

“The stakes could not be higher. The decisions you make about governance, profit distribution, and accountability will shape not only OpenAI's future but also the future of society at large.”

Please, sirs, be kind.

No, fuck you. Why are we pleading? Burn this shit to the ground and dance on its smoldering remains.

“We look forward to your response and to working together to ensure AGI truly benefits everyone.”

🤦‍♂️

Yeah, no, I won’t be signing this. If this is what “resistance” looks like, we’re well and truly fucked.

#AI #AGI #LLMs #OpenAI #openLetter #wtf #getAFuckingClue #doBetter

🗑️ The End of Work as We Know It • Gizmodo

“As a CEO myself, I can tell you, I’m extremely excited about it. I’ve laid off employees myself because of AI. AI doesn’t go on strike. It doesn’t ask for a pay raise. These things that you don’t have to deal with as a CEO.”

https://gizmodo.com/the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-2000635294

#ai #automation #bubble

“We’re going to go pretty aggressively and try and collapse it all”

Yep, asshole, you fuckers are doing a great job there, that’s for sure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AIDangers/s/GTazdoLuTN

#microsoft #BigTech #AI #sociopaths

"The idea of frictionlessness has very narcissistic ... Because being actually touched, being inconvenienced, being emotionally moved, having your mind and perception changed means acknowledging your fellow human beings around you, realizing their differences to you and to recognize their value."

Bleak but true observations by @tante

https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/

#friction#AI #philosophy

@eloquence@social.coop

While I welcome your experiments like any other attempt to challenge the power structures of #capitalism.

However this specific attempt looks pretty naive and deeply misguided.

#AI is just opaque, statistically programmed, software.

As such, it embodies and reproduce the will of those who created it, selecting the source data (instead of writing the source code). They are always special-purpose software sold as general purpose.

In particular, #LLM are lossy compressions of source data selected for the sole purpose to fool people's minds and alienate them.

In general, wielding weapon of oppression against oppressor is a wild illusion that streghten their power as even the oppressed start relying on the infrastructure of their own oppression.

And unless you compile your own source dataset from scratch, without using pretrained models from third parties, you are going to serve the very same interests and power structures you are hoping to fight.

Apple has lost its fourth artificial intelligence researcher in a month to Meta Platforms, marking the latest setback to the iPhone maker’s AI efforts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/30/tech/apple-ai-researcher-meta-superintelligence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #apple #ai #meta

Protesters Rally Against New Tesla Diner in Hollywood | KOST 103.5

The newly opened Tesla Diner in Hollywood has become a focal point for protests against Tes…
#Europe#UnitedStates #ai-assisted #america#California#DepartmentofGovernmentEfficiency#ElonMusk#GavinNewsom#Hollywood #immigrationprotests#LAimmigrationprotests#LAprotests#LocalNews #losangeles#NationalGuard #protests#ResisttheCoup#TeslaDiner #unitedstatesofamerica#US#USnews#USA#USAnews
https://www.europesays.com/2286567/

@9to5Mac Top 5 don't really come across as beloved among consumers in my opinion. This only tells me Apple is doing something right. Its just #AI fad spooking their shareholders. If AI is that important, just download a third party app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.