DuckDuckGo is running a poll on whether people are in favour of "AI" or not.

duckduckgo.com/vote/

#AI

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.

Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

^{duckduckgo.com}

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#CostEffective #AIonABudget #AI #LLM #WebSearch #SearXNG #SpreadsheetAI #Ollama #OllamaCloud #AITools #AIFormula

matasoft.hr/QTrendControl/inde…

This is quite a piece

planetearthandbeyond.co/p/real…

#AI #LLM #salesforce

#JustSayNo to #Clankers.

#AI stands for #ArtificialIdiots.

If anyone ever tries to tell you LLMs are just as good (or better!) in generating text (or code) as humans are in creating text (or code), ask them about "dogfooding".

Dogfooding means training LLMs on their own output. It is absolutely disastrous to such models:
nature.com/articles/s41586-024…

Every "AI" company will have layers upon layers of defenses against LLM-generated text ending up in training data.

Which is why they desperately seek out any and all human-created text out there.

#AI #Hype

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature

 Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality out…

^Nature

Remember how we were all supposed to be "left behind" if we don't jump on the Metaverse bandwagon? Especially businesses?

Yeah, about that:
theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-…

But today we should treat absolutely seriously all the bullshit about "being left behind" if we don't adopt "AI"! 🤡

#Metaverse #AI #Hype

Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

Meta is discontinuing Horizon Workrooms and Meta Horizon managed services, amidst its many VR layoffs.

^{Sean Hollister (The Verge)}

Over €307 million in funding are now available for #AI and related technologies.

Two new calls have just been launched under the Horizon Europe Work Programme, mobilising €307.3M to strengthen Europe’s digital innovation & competitiveness.

Apply now: link.europa.eu/Fftyjc

Let's close down schools, universities, training centres and all forms of qualifications.

Instead, people can do impressions of professionals so that outsiders think they are those professionals. No need to actually learn how to do stuff, giving the impression of doing things is enough apparently.

(THIS IS SATIRE)

#AI #LLM

»curl — Projekt beendet Bug-Bounty-Programm:
curl-Maintainer @bagder hat das Ende des Bug-Bounty-Programms angekündigt. Unbrauchbare KI-Meldungen nahmen wohl überhand.«

Ach was, die KI ist künstlich aber nicht intelligent oder was nun?!?? Ich bin sogar der Meinung, dass dies was die KI angeht noch das rel. kleinste "Problem" ist. Schade dass deswegen das curl Bug-Bounty aufgelöst wird.

🧑‍💻 heise.de/news/curl-Projekt-bee…

#curl #ki #bugbounty #unbrauchbar #ai #uberhang #ausserkontrolle #it #ittools

curl: Projekt beendet Bug-Bounty-Programm

curl-Maintainer Daniel Stenberg hat das Ende des Bug-Bounty-Programms angekündigt. Unbrauchbare KI-Meldungen nahmen wohl überhand.

^{Dirk Knop (heise online)}

At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users.

We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few around Europe and a couple in the US.

Our servers are based in Iceland.

If you want to get away from Big Tech, maybe give us a try? If you are already using Vivaldi, maybe introduce your friends?

Have a nice day!

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#Vivaldi #Browser #Windows #Macos #Linux #AI #Europa #Technology #EU #UK #Germany #France #Poland #Denmark #Norway #Iceland #Greenland

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^{Vivaldi Technologies}

AI has delayed the planned retirements of at least 15 coal plants, some indefinitely: e360.yale.edu/digest/ai-coal-n…

The head of the 2nd largest utility company in the U.S. says: "We're going to extend coal plants as long as we can because we need those resources on the grid."
#energy #AI #climate

A.I. Is Keeping Aging Coal Plants Online

^{Yale E360}

I noticed that more Gmail spam is getting through, but most are still being flagged. I think their spam classification is only partially driven by Gemini #AI

If they were concerned about spam, they would allow granular application of Smart Features, but we're the product.

#enshittification

It appears that turning off the new “Smart Features” in #GMail that “provide smart features and personalize your experience” also turns off a decades-old feature that categorizes spam away from your Inbox.

Smart Features uses Gemini #AI to enable LLM-assisted email composition and summary, and to suggest stuff from your calendars and promotional items.

In other words, disabling GMail’s AI features requires you to give up a categorization feature that you’ve had for decades, long before “AI” as we know it today was even a thing.

#enshittification

support.google.com/mail/thread…

Keen on losing money? Go #AI

#Cory #Doctorov @pluralistic says sorry:

"No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies.

There is no way to operate one of Nvidia's big AI-optimized GPUs without losing money. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs to age in warehouses. "

pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not…

#ThereIsNoAI #slop

Trained on nudifying women, the Department of Dumbness can now run Grok on photos of all soldiers (yes, men) to triumphantly go "listen, Private, show me your privates because the AI thinks you are a hidden trans". 😉

"Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says"

[Not linking because a photo of Whiskey Pete adds no value to the article.]

#media #LLM #AI #Grok #DOD #stupidity

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as possible into the developing technology."

Hegseth said his vision for military AI systems means that they operate "without ideological constraints that limit lawful military applications," before adding that the Pentagon's "AI will not be woke."

[To state the obvious, this is a very, very bad idea.]

npr.org/2026/01/13/nx-s1-56757…

#Hegseth #Trump #GOP #Pentagon #War #AI #Grok #Musk

Anybody else discovered customer service LLMs that reply to email prompts about *anything*? Not just the company's business? I found one that happily writes metal lyrics and converses in French.

#llm #ai

"According to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language – and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own."

Intriguing article by Benjamin Riley (founder of Cognitive Resonance) for @verge.

👇
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…

#neuroscience #linguistics #AI

Large language mistake

Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.

^{Benjamin Riley (The Verge)}