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• Post #4493405

  "Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions will soon be partly fueled by a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that “could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States,”" (Original title: Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/amazon-funds-biggest-gas-power-plant-in-us-despite-climate-pledge/

• Post #4469182

  Der ÖRR ist reformbedürftig. Meine Strategie wäre die Depublikationsscheiße zu streichen, um ein öffentliches Repository aus hochqualitativen Medieninhalten zu erzeugen, und dann die Budgets für den ÖRR hochzufahren, um Mittel zu haben, mehr Leute anzusprechen.

• Post #4373534

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@derspiegel/netzwelt-io1e5qrjz/-/a-5b9YYkIeR8e6tVFm-6CrXw%3Aa%3A2114916517-%2F0 Diese Weigerung, "KI" Inhalte in politischer Kommunikation mit direktem Einfluss auf Gesetzgebung zu mindest mal zu kennzeichnen, ist ein Offenbarungseid für das Demokratieverständnis dieser Regierung. Sich die Reden von US-Tech-Bro-Text-Extrudern schreiben lassen und dann so tun als wäre das normal.

• Post #4240855

  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403 "Gigafactory" is a term coined and popularized by known fascist and racist Elon Musk. "AI Factory" was coined by NVIDIA to make investments into their graphics cards look like a reasonable way to use one's resources. That alone should stop anyone from using those terms or their composita. The fact that "AI" hasn't shown meaningful contribution to economic growth or increased product...

• Post #4239233

  RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/117008348161347403 Whenever you hear the EU say "There is no money for $somethingUseful" think about them pouring 10 billion EUR into the NVIDIA drain.

• Post #4046463

  I'm a decent cook but when I am home alone cooking something for myself is a challenge. I like cooking but mostly for others.

• Post #4039118

  Would you say that a "good" tool necessarily needs to be deterministic? (Edit: Exceptions of course for things like a random number generator)

• Post #4009722

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116963048258608122 Also: "Open Source AI" does not exist. It's all just open weights meaning it's Freeware, not free software.

• Post #4009311

  "If you really want an "AI strategy" for your country, it should be this: wait for the bubble to burst, then buy hardware and talent at fire-sale prices in the wave of ensuing bankruptcies, and use them to extract more performance from free, open source models." I totally agree that your "AI strategy" should be mostly to sit all the investments out. But not to use those fascist (https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/ ) systems yourself later - just c...

• Post #4009181

  Bissi lustig schon wie ein jetzt wirklich nicht besonders spannendes Lied alle Konservativen komplett aus der Spur haut. "Der Aufruf zum Stickern der Nachbarschaft ist ja quasi wie die RAF." Komm mal klar und lies mal was anderes als FAZ, NZZ und Nius FFS.

• Post #4008287

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116962763566729286 It does make sense: OpenAI was losing ground and mindshare to Anthropic. They are running out of money but couldn't IPO because SpaceX ruined it. This "our model is a Cyberweapon" is advertising directly to the Pentagon.

• Post #4008179

  No, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface. Per OpenAI's PR blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/): "This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths, in an effort to quantify their cyber capabilities. We estimate maximal cyber capabilities by running this evaluation without production classifiers used to prevent models from pu...

• Post #4006895

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116880003584050912 It passed. https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434 Codeberg bans vibe coded slop.

• Post #3999684

  Every other website now wants to send you a code when you login as 2nd factor. Awesome. If those companies actually managed to reliably send out those MF codes.

• Post #3990494

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@FirefoxOfficial/116958818480299400 I think you should not get back to posting on Elon Musk's fascist platform built around an image generator optimized for the production of depictions of sexual violence and racism.

• Post #3987345

  Die Zahlen der "KI"-Buden und ihrer Partner sind schlecht. Und immer noch massiv geschönt: (Original title: Rechenzentren und KI: Versteckte Konzernschulden wachsen auf 1,65 Billionen US-Dollar) https://www.golem.de/news/rechenzentren-und-ki-versteckte-konzernschulden-wachsen-auf-1-65-billionen-us-dollar-2607-211107.html

• Post #3982648

  "I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." (Original title: AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making) https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/

• Post #3969679

  European nationalism and stories about European exceptionalism are not part of liberatory practices.

• Post #3964060

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/116952836351215165 The best time to drop Chrome was months ago. The second best time is now.

• Post #3910125

  RE: https://ruby.social/@tekin/116939799012427504 DHH is a racist piece of shit and everyone supporting his shit by buying stuff from his company, inviting him to talks, using or promoting his garbage "distribution" (looking at you @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org ) is compliant and a morally bankrupt human being.

• Post #3886140

  RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782064773116 The ACM wants to open up their library to LLMs for inclusion in synthetic text extruders. This is obviously massively misguided. There's a form for you to tell them about your thoughts: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeq7MFM7TlSXIaIXQnIltiQeWE_w3cl36HFPwql4S7u-drmzg/viewform My response: "Science is a deeply human endeavor based on collaboration and mutual respect. Giving machines based on massive appropriation of data _a...

• Post #3886119

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116935501435173786 "Responsible inclusion of ACM Publications can help improve the quality and factual grounding of AI systems while making advanced computing knowledge more accessible across languages, regions, and levels of expertise." ACM is supposed to have the technical expertise to know that that's not how LLMs work. You could train an LLM just on perfectly validated texts and they still would create fabrications. This is really weak by @...

• Post #3855512

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@ngate/116927442772577349 With this thing going around, I think the argument is weak (and I don't mind shitting on Bluesky PBC, they are a company build around vibe-coding Crypto grifters). The trademark was already registered by someone else so they acquired it in order not get get hit with licensing fees. Sure it gives them a potentially damaging leverage over other atproto devs but with them running the centralized parts of the infrastructure they already hav...

• Post #3855388

  I am increasingly leaning away from calling "AI" generated stuff "slop" towards calling it "corrosion". Because that's what it does. To our information landscape. To the quality of artifacts around us. To our social connections. To our mental health. To our cognitive abilities.

• Post #3853414

  "The AI industry’s comms campaign isn’t particularly complicated. All they do is maintain a drumbeat of gee-whiz stories. If a couple months go by without a public conversation about the radical pace of AI change, then you manufacture one through the publication of another online manifesto or a sign-on letter" (Original title: On the strategic function of anodyne statements) https://davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/on-the-strategic-function-of-anodyne-statements

• Post #3840079

  Die Medienanstalten behandeln "KI-Suchmaschinen" und Chatbots als Inhalteanbieter. Gut. Jetzt bitte auch in die Durchsetzung gehen. (Original title: Bescheid für Google und Perplexity: Medienwächter gehen gegen KI-Übersichten vor) https://www.heise.de/news/Bescheid-fuer-Google-und-Perplexity-Medienwaechter-gehen-gegen-KI-Uebersichten-vor-11364818.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.atom.beitrag.beitrag

• Post #3837759

  "In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough." https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

• Post #3810881

  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116917227123480616 It is interesting that they are trying to establish a new term "transformative AI" (probably because #genAI is burned as a term that just signifies slop)

• Post #3810134

  Die Grünen bauen in BW _mit Boris Palmer_ DOGE nach und ich wundert bei denen ja auch gar nichts mehr. (Original title: Boris Palmer soll Bürokratie in Baden-Württemberg mit der Kettensäge stutzen) https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/boris-palmer-soll-buerokratie-in-baden-wuerttemberg-mit-der-kettensaege-stutzen-a-c1edfd06-2b5e-4bb8-8646-7480409d3156#ref=rss

• Post #3809700

  "I’ve struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity." (Original title: Hating AI in 2026) https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/