AI & art. Cartoon for Trouw: trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaa…

#AI #art #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #bigtech

Vibe coding ftw.

#vibecoding #ai #programming #programmer

”I spoke up today because after learning that my org was powering the genocide of my people in Palestine, I saw no other moral choice. This is especially true when I’ve witnessed how Microsoft has tried to quell and suppress any dissent from my coworkers who tried to raise this issue. [..]
We are witnessing a genocide”

theverge.com/news/643670/micro…

#palestine #ghaza #microsoft #ai #genocide

Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

#TrumpeanTradeWars #TrumpTariffs
#EconomicPolicy
#CEUM

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A de facto "critical-minerals embargo" being imposed by #China on the #US was to be expected.
In fact, it is somewhat surprising that President #Xi did not implement it sooner, after the #US cut off high-end GPUs for #China, which are critical for the #AI race.

It might even be a 👉wise strategy to counter Trump's de facto all-out global #TradeWar.👈

To...

cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c…

China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica

In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.

^{Michael Barnard (CleanTechnica)}

#AI vs. art

There is no copyright in AI generated content.

It looks nice, but it seems kike a remake of the classic dystopia #Metropolis.

images.squarespace-cdn.com/con…

I recently listened to a Podcast about AI and Art.

My current stance is that #AI, being no art, destroys the livelihood of artists, whose income has mostly been hand-to-mouth in history.

While I often would like a quick cartoon for my threads for illustrational purposes, I have so fatlr refrained from doing so.

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Hi my dear friends ❤️ 🌐

Because the Fedi rocks ‼️
Show your love and whether you like the photo ❤️

This is an AI photo created by a lady who takes many of these photos on Twitter

I don't like AI very much, but I think this is very good

But what annoyed me...
My friend's account has 8600 followers and this picture was only shared 4 times and liked 33 times on the oh so great Twitter 😡
I don't understand that

Can we top that on Fedi?

#mastodon #fediverse #ai #aiphoto #roboter #boost

Shout out to Ibtihal Aboussad who told Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during Microsoft's 50 years celebration:

“Shame on you. You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #AI #microsoft

“‘Shame on you,’ said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. ‘You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.’”

theverge.com/news/643670/micro…

#Microsoft #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #AI

Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.

arstechnica.com/information-te…

#news #tech #technology #AI #wikimedia #security

AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%

^{Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)}

In the ongoing #wiki-#interview you can get to know #MayaFelixbrodt, #violist, #improviser, #composer, organizer.

But other things are mentioned too:
* Synzine -- journal of musical games,
* Screen Dive -- an online activity from #GaudeamusMuziekweek,
* Personal protest song generator -- an artistic research project (small-scale-local-ethical #AI), which now gathers entries in the survey below:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

take this survey if you like #PaulineOliveros and #deepListening :)

Screen Dive Questionnaire Jan. 25'

Thank you for taking the time to complete our demo questionnaire! This draft serves as a preliminary version of the questionnaire we will use in our artistic research.

^{Google Docs}

I didn't expect this to be the means through which #AI would take over the world.

theverge.com/news/642620/trump…

#USpol #Tariff #Trump

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s

ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same, simple tariff calculation that the White House appears to have used.

^{Dominic Preston (The Verge)}

I've compiled a short list of anti-AI tools

codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede…

#AI #NoToAI

low-carbon-computing/anti-AI-tools.md at master

low-carbon-computing - Files for papers and presentations about low carbon computing

^Codeberg.org

How can one engage in algorithmic sabotage to poison "AI" scrapers looking for images when one is running a static website? Thanks to @pengfold, I've implemented a quick and easy way for my own blog:

tzovar.as/algorithmic-sabotage…

Also thanks to @rostro & @asrg for the pointers and discussion!

#ai #sabotage #luddite

Algorithmic sabotage for static sites II: Images

tl;dr: Here’s a small addition to how you can also scramble images so that “AI” scrapers will end up with a poisoned data set Earlier this year, I’ve written about how I setup this static website to not only serve human-readable data, but also “poiso…

^{Bastian Greshake Tzovaras}

Influencers and AI.

#influencer #influencers #ai #coding #math #maths #algorithms

In ancient times, the japes of fools and jesters were heeded as warnings from the gods. I have not spent this much time burnishing my jester credentials for nothing -- dashbots are coming and they will ruin everything. #UXDesign #UX #ProductManagement #LLM #AI #GenAI #B2B

spavel.medium.com/dashbots-the…

“Dashbots” — the inevitable fusion of dashboards and chatbots

It’s April 1st, which for many parts of the world is April Fool’s Day. While the entertainment value of tricking people into believing the wrong thing steadily declines with age, I still enjoy taking…

^{Pavel Samsonov (Medium)}

Re. Not anthropomorphizing LLMs

I'm a sucker for this. I'll apologise to an inanimate object if I walk into it.

I find useful practical tips for myself in following this to be:
1. Use the verb "I prompted" rather than I told or I asked.
2. State that the program "output" rather than it replied.
3. I don't discuss "confabulation" because it's an anthropomorphization (the reality is that the computer program is doing exactly what it is instructed to do by the user), but if I was compelled to anthropomorphize, I would use "confabulation" rather than hallucination.

#LLM #AI #GAN #programming #language #linguistics #metacognition #philosophy #computers #anthropomorphization

#AI #GenerativeAI #artists

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#Technofeudalists and the perceived #AI threat incongruence

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I'm surprised that you as an #AI and #TESCREAL expert See a discrepancy in this. For the morbid and haughty minds of the #Longtermists line #Elon, there is no discrepancy, IMHO:

1) At least since Goebbels, fascists offen acuse others of what they have done or are about to do themselves; or they deflect, flood the zone, etc. That on a tactical/communications strategy level.

2) More...

People are using #ChatGPT to create Studio #Ghibli – style images. And the backlash is huge.

source: theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

#ai #technology #future #anime #entertainment #news

Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Nightmare

People are using ChatGPT to create Studio Ghibli–style images. And the backlash is huge.

^{Damon Beres (The Atlantic)}

Interview: "Fire the unelected social media dictators: Cory Doctorow on tech and US politics"

"Elon Musk’s rise to power in the United States is emblematic of the expanding power of Big Tech".

aljazeera.com/program/upfront/…

#musk #trump #oligarchy #ai #fascism #CoryDoctorow #uspol .

Fire the unelected social media dictators: Doctorow on tech and US politics

Is Big Tech out of control and AI beyond limits? Redi Tlhabi speaks with author and activist Cory Doctorow.

^{Al Jazeera}

Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

#psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu

"Researchers have found that #ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the #chatbot"

futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-…

Makes sense

1. People are lonely

2. Other people can often be complete assholes

But now you can have endlessly cheerful conversations with #AI

It doesn't bother me

What bothers me is some parents already outsource parenting to YouTube

What happens when we have children raised by AI?

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. 

^{Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)}

This post by photographer Jingna Zhang resonates with me.

#AI art is devoid of humanity, intention, and backstory. It’s a shallow remix of human works, designed to be consumed and discarded, grinding human creation down into a sandy paste, to be re-extruded into grotesque displays. It’s the opposite of what makes art so valuable.

#aiArt #art #plagiarism #artist

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