The Grinch did nothing wrong. He wasn't *stealing* #Christmas, he was just gathering a corpus for training his #AI model. Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the construction of the Whoville Data Center, ignoring concerns from residents.

#llm

I heard there was a secret tool
That you could use if you were a fool
But you don't care for PDF files, do ya?

It goes like this: you click "log in"
A chatbot bubble blocks the screen
Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in

#ai #llm

I was at Molasses Books in Bushwick last night, taking with my cousin about TBL's latest book, and the design of online systems. A shy but brave young woman asked if she could listen in. I introduced myself and welcomed her in to the conversation.

We talked a bit about various things, twitter and theater and art and connection. She was bright abd curious, made great points and asked great questions, had a charming sweet smile.

Near the end of it conversation, as we were getting ready to roll to our reservation at Win Son, she said something strange.

"Right now I think that ChatGPT has become my best friend."

I stopped and looked at her. "Don't trust it. It's lying to you. It's only pretending to be your friend."

"So I should trust people instead?"

"Yes. I mean, don't be foolish, but trust people over machines."

And then it was time to go. But I still want to go back and find her, give her a big hug, sit her down over a coffee, and tell her ...

DON'T TRUST THE ROBOTS

#ai #llm

It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi

If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.

vivaldi.com/blog/keep-explorin…

#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser

Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over…

^{Jon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)}

After seeing some #AI #privacy posts about #ChatGPT claiming to not be able to see your location, IP, or anything I decided to test it.

With no account or history, I asked it a few questions, and sure enough, it not only knows exactly where I am but is gaslighting me into thinking it was pure coincidence.

A friend followed the same instructions and got the same results in his location as well.

Yikes.

#ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI

I'd argue all posts written by #AI should be clearly labeled as such, maybe with a hashtag so they can be easily filtered.

I'd never let AI touch my words. My thoughts, my voice is the only thing that differentiates me from others.

When someone puts AI-written slop in front of me, I know not to value it, nor believe what it says is actually what the person meant. There's a long post about this eventually, but I have some other things to tackle today.

AI research is "Eating your own dog food" kind of field. It's both amusing and predictable.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
"Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. "

How did they find out, you ask? With the help of AI models, of course. "EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Textmodel." arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154

#ml #science #research #AIResearch #ai

EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text

A significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch.

^arXiv.org

Microsoft head of AI another clueless butthead who hasn't touched grass in 12 years

#microsoft #ai

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs for everyone. The Irish pay among Europe’s highest electric bills.”

commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion…

#Ireland #AI #EU #winning

The dark side of AI: Climate chaos, pollution, and injustice 

Unless we have a seat at the table to set regulations, the AI data center boom will hurt Black and brown frontline communities like mine in Roxbury first and worst.

^{Dwaign Tyndal (CommonWealth Beacon)}