Marcel Waldvogel<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>molly0xfff</span></a></span> on AI vs. scraping vs. copyright protection vs. openness. Very thoughtful (as usual) and worth reading.</p><p>Also included, this gem (together with other thoughts about sustainable business models):<br>«Many AI “visionaries” seem perfectly content to promise that artificial superintelligence is just around the corner, but claim that attribution is somehow a permanently unsolvable problem.»</p><p><a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a> <a href="https://waldvogel.family/tags/Sharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sharing</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">citationneeded.news/free-and-o</span><span class="invisible">pen-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/</span></a></p>
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John Leonard<p>A recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism has revealed alarming inconsistencies and inaccuracies in AI search tools, challenging their growing popularity as replacements for traditional search engines.</p><p><a href="https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/ai-search-engines-plagued-by-inaccuracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/a</span><span class="invisible">i-search-engines-plagued-by-inaccuracy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/searchengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>searchengine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grok</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/perplexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perplexity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gemini</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technews</span></a></p>
Benjamin Knispel<p>To be fair, though, I must add that the LLM even mentioned the usual caveats here. But these may not have been understood by the person:</p><p>“requires rigorous mathematical formulation and testing - currently speculative without such validation”</p><p>“a tall order needing extensive proof”</p><p>“a hypothesis awaiting the hard test of evidence”</p><p>5/5</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DunningKruger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DunningKruger</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Benjamin Knispel<p>After all, what could possibly go wrong when non-physicists pour their “physics buzzword bingo” with questions that sound like physics (but are not) into an LLM that ultimately doesn't understand physics either?</p><p>If the LLM then says, among other things, “it does seem almost too logical and elegant to be completely wrong”, this is of course problematic. Especially if the person at that point decides not to listen to any experts at all…</p><p>4/</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DunningKruger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DunningKruger</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Benjamin Knispel<p>My objection that the central definition underlyinig the “theory” is not physical and ambiguous was completely ignored.</p><p>Worse still: because I was perceived to be to “stupid” has led the person to conclude that they will only discuss this with AIs in the future because “it obviously doesn't make sense (anymore) to discuss it with physicists.”</p><p>That's probably a problem. </p><p>3/</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DunningKruger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DunningKruger</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Benjamin Knispel<p>Often they have become so bogged down in their pseudo theories that it is almost impossible to have a meaningful discussion with them.</p><p>Sometimes you can try and present a well-reasoned objection. Whether the other side will get it, is a different question.</p><p>Recently, I had the case that the person had “discussed” their theory with an AI / LLM beforehand and, due to “praise” from the language model, was convinced that they *could not be wrong*.</p><p>2/</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DunningKruger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DunningKruger</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Benjamin Knispel<p>Today, I realized another risk of AI that I hadn't considered before, namely as a Dunning-Kruger amplifier.</p><p>At the institute, I regularly have contact with people (*) who think they have refuted the theory of relativity or solved other big physical problems.</p><p>Usually, these “solutions” are simply meaningless sentences that sound like physics, but are not physics.</p><p>1/</p><p>(*) So far only men.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DunningKruger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DunningKruger</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>relativity</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Martin Rundkvist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@fabianegli" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fabianegli</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@maltimore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>maltimore</span></a></span></p><p>In <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> we love *analytical* machine learning applications, like the ones that can search through aerial photographs for something we're interested in, or make a charred scroll legible.</p><p>But we mostly hate *generative* applications, like LLMs and prompt-based image generators. Because they debase scientific knowledge with their hallucinations, and undermine skilled writing and painting.</p><p><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a></p>
Paul Giulan<p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> claims <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Manus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manus</span></a> is the world's first fully autonomous <a href="https://federate.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> agent</p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/2025/03/08/chinas-autonomous-agent-manus-changes-everything/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/craigsmith/20</span><span class="invisible">25/03/08/chinas-autonomous-agent-manus-changes-everything/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intelligence</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autonomy</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/regulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regulation</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a></p>
James Baillie<p>How bad are things like AI searches for blogs and the web?</p><p>Really bad, it turns out. Even worse than I'd assumed. The drop in referrals when AI search is engaged is apparently *96 percent*.</p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/03/03/openai-perplexity-ai-search-traffic-report/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast</span><span class="invisible">ava/2025/03/03/openai-perplexity-ai-search-traffic-report/</span></a></p><p>That's scary for two reasons - firstly, it's bad for supporting anyone actually making content and will reduce content due to demand drops. Second, it implies a HUGE number of people are now just relying on AI slop to answer searches. Eek.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>“…language models can fundamentally be described as supercharged autocomplete tools, prone to returning incorrect information because they are skilled at creating a facsimile of a human-written sentence—something that looks like an acceptable response—but chatbots are not doing any critical “thinking.”“<br>—Thomas Maxwell, Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/hallucinations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hallucinations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a></p>
Pen<p>Appreciate this piece of <a href="https://floss.social/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> about so-called <a href="https://floss.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> & <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@savetheAI" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>savetheAI</span></a></span>: </p><p><a href="https://savethe.ai/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">savethe.ai/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>"Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many precious resources that AI needs to thrive... join our campaign to stop reckless human consumption and put AI first. Ensure a future where AI prospers, even if we don’t."</p><p>May be of interest to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cyberlyra</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emilymbender</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alex</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@brianmerchant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>brianmerchant</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@parismarx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>parismarx</span></a></span> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/saveTheAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saveTheAI</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/MAIHT3k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAIHT3k</span></a></p>
ollibaba<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GossiTheDog</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@bees" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bees</span></a></span> I don't really care whether he does this for throwaway weekend projects. Some of my weekend projects look like crap as well, because they're just for me.</p><p>But I guess things will become "interesting" when people use this approach at work – and especially when some people on the team use "vibe coding" and others use "planned coding". If I need to change someone else's code and I can't understand it and they can't explain it either, there will be conflicts, no?</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SWDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SWDev</span></a></p>
Paul Giulan<p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Humanoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Humanoid</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robot</span></a> comparison</p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Singapore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singapore</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Agility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agility</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/BostonDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BostonDynamics</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Figure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Figure</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Fourier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fourier</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Sanctuary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sanctuary</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/Unitree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unitree</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/DataViz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataViz</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/humanoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanoid</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/robots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>robots</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The revelation that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> is working on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AutoRIF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutoRIF</span></a> comes as it seemingly prepares for its 2nd major round of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firings</span></a>. </p><p>…On Monday, NBC News reported that this information [the requested five bullet points explaining <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalWorkers</span></a>’ top work achievements of the last week] would be fed into an unspecified Large Language Model (<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a>) that would assess whether an employee was necessary.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FederalAgencies</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpPurge</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a></p>
Let's make this difficult ⚫🟣⚪🟡<p>I have what I think is a good example of how useless ‘AI’ is for understanding. I am tagging widely. I searched “how to identify mushrooms” on DuckDuckGo, which then so helpfully spammed my screen with this lovely advice (see image with alt text). The source of much of my knowledge is mushroomexpert.com, managed by Michael Kuo.</p><p>“A mushroom is identified by its characteristics”. I could get semantic here too about the definition of a mushroom, but talk about a pretty useless statement. Fine though. That’s well enough and good if you want an explanation that is super entry level. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though I don’t remember telling the ‘AI’ that I wanted only entry level information.</p><p>Then it talks about the danger in attempting to ID mushrooms because of the potential for poisoning. It tacitly assumes that my wanting to ID a mushroom means I want to eat it. I don’t. I just like mushrooms. I have a problem with the whole ‘some are poisonous’ throw-in, like its something their lawyers required them to include. How many are poisonous? 90%? 5%? We have no idea, and that’s OK. I didn’t tell the ‘AI’ that I wanted information on whether or not they were poisonous. But, as I’ll get to, the fact that this is included is not my problem. My problem is what they don’t include.</p><p>I think mushrooms are awesome. I think the fact that some of them are poisonous is relevant only based on the human-centric assumptions ‘AI’ is so obsessed with and what it’s dataset is built on. I don’t see the value in a mushroom based on whether or not I can eat it, and it chaffs me that they don’t also include any information about their ecological roles. You know what is a great way to identify a mushroom (including if I want to eat it)?!?!?! Their ecology (essentially, their ‘behavior’)!!! Let’s be sure to not mention that, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a>.</p><p>Ok let’s keep going, cause we’ve made it this far. It suggests talking to a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mycologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycologist</span></a>. It turns out that I don’t have any experienced mycologists on call. Mycologists are helpful but busy people. And I’m more likely than most of the population to know mycologists. You might as well say, ‘don’t bother trying to ID the mushroom’. Way to kill my interest immediately in something I’m trying to get into. If you really want to learn to ID mushrooms for foraging, there are sources you can look up to help you.</p><p>I’ll get to my main point. Identification of certain mushroom forming fungi to species is essentially impossible. Look up Amanitas or Russulas on mushroomexpert.com (phenomenal source, old school blogging). There is no clear delineating of what a mushroom forming species even is. Scientists argue over and reclassify bird subspecies all the time. Imagine the black box that is mushroom forming fungi, which most of the time is a web of single-cell wide threads hidden in the soil. Some mushrooms historically were ‘IDed’ (scientifically) by taste or color, which as you all know everyone experiences these things the same, all the time. And, darnit, I happened to leave my DNA sequencing kit at home (as if there aren’t issues with classifying mushroom forming fungi on their DNA alone).</p><p>If ‘AI’ were functional, to me, it would include the suggestion that one option is, instead of focusing on species, focus on species groupings (this also applies to foraging for mushrooms if done thoughtfully). Species groupings can be more useful, as is sometimes saying: “I don’t need to know exactly what this is. I’ll just focus on it’s ecology instead of obsessing over an arbitrary definition”. This nuance is not something that can be corrected with better algorithms or more training data (in fact, its going to get worse), because <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> s are designed to spit out the lowest common denominator.</p><p>In the end, given all the questions I brought up, the biggest problems I have with ‘AI’ is that it falsely assumes something gigantic about the question I am asking and gives a simplified and highly misleading perception of how much we actually know. I think it makes a big mistake assuming that I am uncurious and want a bare-minimum answer. And when it comes to the grand total of all there is to know about mushroom forming fungi, we know next to nothing. Of course, 'AI' cannot say that because 'AI' doesn't know what it doesn't know.</p><p>You know who can identify and communicate all of these nuances? Humans. </p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/artificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/solarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarPunk</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcologicalReciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcologicalReciprocity</span></a></p>
Reed Mideke<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIIsGoingGreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIIsGoingGreat</span></a> Thing to take away from this isn't that Grok is any worse than any other <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> chatbot, or that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> secretly thinks Trump and Musk are bad, or wants to kill people… it's that, as ever, they "fixed" it with some hard-coded band-aid to stop this particular headline generating case, without doing anything at all to address the underlying cause (because they still have no idea how to do that)</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/617799/elon-musk-grok-ai-donald-trump-death-penalty" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theverge.com/news/617799/elon-</span><span class="invisible">musk-grok-ai-donald-trump-death-penalty</span></a></p>
Fedi.Video<p>The DAIR Institute makes sceptical videos warning about the dangerous hype and irresponsible practices currently driving AI, LLMs and related tech. You can follow at:</p><p>➡️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://peertube.dair-institute.org/accounts/dair" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dair@peertube.dair-institute.org</span></a></span> </p><p>There are already over 70 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at <a href="https://peertube.dair-institute.org/a/dair/videos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peertube.dair-institute.org/a/</span><span class="invisible">dair/videos</span></a></p><p>You can also follow DAIR's general social media account at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@DAIR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DAIR@dair-community.social</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/FeaturedPeerTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FeaturedPeerTube</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/DAIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAIR</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/SamAltman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SamAltman</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Sceptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sceptic</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/Skeptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skeptic</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/PeerTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeerTube</span></a> <a href="https://social.growyourown.services/tags/PeerTubers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeerTubers</span></a></p>
AJ Sadauskas<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/drtcombs.bsky.social" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>drtcombs.bsky.social</span></a></span> For the people following on Mastodon, here's a screenshot of the Mark Cuban post that Tab was referring to (full text in the caption):</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/LargeLanguageModel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LargeLanguageModel</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/VC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VC</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/VentureCapital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VentureCapital</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESCREAL</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TESCREALism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TESCREALism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a></p>
Kathy Reid<p>Interesting Economic Index paper from Anthropic, based on 1m+ Claude.AI conversations. Analysed through O*NET classifications, shows <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> use in over 36% of occupations. </p><p>Thoughts: </p><p>1. This analysis would ordinarily be undertaken by government labour departments. Analysis of the use of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> tools is now predicated on companies releasing this data. Anthropic has released *some* of the data used for analysis - but not all - e.g. the actual prompts.</p><p><a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/EconomicIndex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">huggingface.co/datasets/Anthro</span><span class="invisible">pic/EconomicIndex</span></a></p><p>2. This data is linked to US occupational classifications (O*NET), and AFAICT, there is no way to identify in the dataset (I looked) what the geography of the user is. That means this analysis can't be used to analyse **Australian** patterns of AI use - which links to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/sovereignAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignAI</span></a> discourse.</p><p>3. Given Anthropic's outsized role in the industry, and the push for adoption by e.g. Microsoft of tools like e.g. CoPilot, I wonder if this economic analysis will become a *target* - following Goodhart's Law. Which would increase AI usage, which would benefit Anthropic.</p><p>4. I found the distinction between automation and augmentation in this analysis useful. Drawing from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybernetics</span></a>, automation can be viewed as first-order - the user directs the intent. Augmentation is more reflexive, with the intent negotiated. What are the implications of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> involvement here?</p><p>5. The pattern of increasing use among higher-skilled professions - up to the cliff of those requiring advanced degrees (e.g. surgeons) where usage dropped off - indicates to me that advanced degrees still provide a "moat" - but for how long?</p><p>6. I really loved the feedback form Anthropic provided for researchers to suggest new research directions and to give feedback on the format of the dataset that was released. This connects research with practice - praxis.</p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDEdY-mT5lcXPaDSv-0Ci1rSXGlbIJierxkUbNB7_07-kddw/viewform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI</span><span class="invisible">pQLSfDEdY-mT5lcXPaDSv-0Ci1rSXGlbIJierxkUbNB7_07-kddw/viewform</span></a> </p><p>➡️ <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">anthropic.com/news/the-anthrop</span><span class="invisible">ic-economic-index</span></a></p>
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