Yes, this Alilo toy uses GPT4o-mini to raise your kids. It's $100, comes with a monthly subscription fee, and four modes—including a "mommy" and a "daddy" mode.

Mommy mode teaches useful things like where the kitchen knives are located, while daddy mode teaches kids about the merits of capitalism. It also sings in a "cute bunny voice".

#AI #ProductReviews

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Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/…

Mozilla's New CEO Bets Firefox's Future on AI - Slashdot

Mozilla has named Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its new chief executive, promoting the executive who has spent the past year leading the Firefox browser team and who now plans to make AI central to the company's future.

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🇪🇺 vs 🇬🇧 — Two approaches to facial recognition

EU AI Act (Aug 2026):
Bans real-time facial recognition in public spaces, except narrow law enforcement cases.

UK (Dec 2025):
Expanding police facial recognition vans to more cities while consulting on regulation.

EU: privacy by default.
UK: surveillance first, regulation later.

#Privacy #AI #FacialRecognition #EU #UK

If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #AI models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.

If you want to get a visual intuition of how model collapse looks like, look at this video.

When AI stares at its own reflection for too long, and its inference is purely rooted on statistics rather than reasoning, this becomes statistically inevitable.

Keep this in mind whenever you hear someone talking about “AI models learning from their own outputs” without addressing the statistical parrot issue.

Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool. At best, they're a way for skilled employees to save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.

extremetech.com/computing/micr…

#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #technology #layoffs

Agree.

#ai #technology

An Amazon AI chatbot that sums up the book you are reading while you are reading it. While trampling over the writer’s rights.

“Ask This Book."

“Your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without disrupting your reading flow.”

Enshittification is too polite a word for all this.

#Books #Bookstodon
#Enshittification #AI

writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k…

Star Trek : Atlantis

Wait! What?!!

A show that does not, never did, and is not likely to ever exist.

IMdb however has a stub for this show with a photo of a female captain in a TNG-era uniform sitting on a Galaxy class styled bridge.

It just came up while I was searching for the Starfleet Academy show that will premiere in January 2026.

There was never such a fan project that I am aware of.

So, my conclusion is that it’s an AI hallucination.

Am I missing something?

imdb.com/title/tt21450706

#StarTrek #StarGate #Atlantis #AISlop #enshittification #AI @zora @startrek

Star Trek Atlantis (TV Series) | Sci-Fi

IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows.

^IMDb

A new executive order directs the US Attorney General to challenge state laws regulating #AI. Big Tech companies have been lobbying to have one set of federal rules.

Here’s a look at some of the initiatives that states have taken, in the absence of federal regulation:

Apparently, down under, you can show a picture of a parent, and the AI will accept that.

Also, a picture of a Golden Retriever works also, but I have no knowledge of the age of the dog in human years.

#AI #Insanity

Every vibe-coding PM is baller until they are asked to take responsibility for maintaining that code.

#llm #ai #tech #softwaredevelopment

If I were on #spotify, I’d cancel my subscription/account immediately.

King Gizzard pulled their music from the platform so Spotify has replaced it with #AI knockoffs of their music. As if paying almost nothing for streaming wasn’t evil enough, they’re now using LLMs trained on stolen content to pay artists nothing at all.

futurism.com/future-society/ki…

King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.

^{Victor Tangermann (Futurism)}

There's a track I'd love to share from a small independent musician, but they've decided to use AI artwork so it makes it seem like the music itself is slop too (even though it isn't) 😞

I know most musicians don't have a budget for artwork, but there are many free alternatives to AI such as creative commons (commons.wikimedia.org has lots of CC images for example). Even just having the name of the track would be much better than AI.

#AI #Music

main page of a Wikimedia project

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Lawmakers are debating whether AI should prescribe medications without human oversight.

But perfectly organizing certain datasets isn’t possible, so AI systems trained on them will always make mistakes. And who will take the blame if the AI makes a deadly error?

Republished in U.S. News and World Report: usnews.com/news/health-news/ar…
#AI #health

📰 It's ironic when somebody starts selling the solution to a problem they were a major part of creating:

👁️ "World, the biometric ID verification project co-founded by Sam Altman...
in a world roiled by AI-generated digital fakery, it hopes to create digital “proof of human” tools that can help separate the humans from the bots."¹

¹ techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/worl…

#AI #News #Artificialintelligence #ChatGPT #Privacy #Fake #tech #it #technology #startup #samaltman #world #blockchain #article #ki #bot

World launches its 'super app,' including crypto pay and encrypted chat features | TechCrunch

Tools for Humanity, the company behind the app, is seeking to expand its "real human network."

^{Lucas Ropek (TechCrunch)}

The census sketch from SNL captures one of the central problems of LLMs perfectly.

"How long have you lived at this address?"
"...What do most people say?"

We never needed a machine to crowdsource our creativity, our businesses, even our identities. We're practicing parroting what others might want to hear instead of, you know, actual facts or personal truth.

What an inane way to flatten the human experience.

youtu.be/Rbuy4zxBoPk

#ai #llm #chatgpt #artificialintelligence

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticising AI
By Cory @pluralistic Doctorow
— pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…

Fantastic, essential piece on #AI #LLM #GenAI #art #work #bullshit #capitalism #bubble

If Cory didn't exist, we'd have to invent him.

(Via @manton)

A Developer Accidentally Found #CSAM in #AI Data. #Google #Banned Him For It

Google suspended a mobile app developer’s accts after he uploaded AI #training data to his #GoogleDrive. Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers & distributed via an #academic file sharing site, contained child #sexualAbuse material. The developer reported the dataset to a child safety org, which eventually resulted in the dataset’s removal

404media.co/a-developer-accide…

A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It

Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}