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“The board said that professors have begun using AI tools themselves to evaluate student assignments, creating what it called a scenario of ‘computers grading papers written by computers, students and professors idly observing, and parents paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for the […]

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this is going to be an interesting to keep abreast of, because the companies that went all-in on ai are gonna find themselves inside the jenga tower when it comes down https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/

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I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to manage a vending machine business by email in a simulated environment https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840 Highlights: — AI simply decides to close the business, which the simulation doesn’t know how to accommodate. When they get their next bill, they […]

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When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law two years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to This new database has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, and 20 of them were from just this month! […]

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New blog post was posted on Botwiki! https://botwiki.org/blog/glitch-announces-end-to-hosting-apps/ #bots

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In 2020 I was warning that deep fakes would be the greatest threat to humanity since the invention of war. 5 years later, it seems I understated the case. Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It https://futurism.com/google-ai-video-generator-realistic

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"On average, users of AI at work had a time savings of 3%, the researchers found. Some saved more time, but didn’t see better pay, with just 3%-7% of productivity gains being passed on to paychecks." https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/ […]

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@keith, former engineering lead at Glitch, sums up my feelings exactly. "The thing that breaks my heart isn’t just that another platform is shutting down—it’s that we’re losing one of the last places on the internet that prioritized joy and experimentation over engagement metrics and revenue […]

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Truly sad news about #glitch no longer hosting apps. It meant a lot to the creative botmaking community. Would love to know where everyone's moving their bots! (And hoping many will keep them alive!) #glitch #MadeWithGlitch #CreativeBots #botmakers

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Echoing what @anildash said here. Truly an end of an era. https://me.dm/@anildash/114552880104048455 I've been a huge fan of Glitch before it was called Glitch. I've hosted dozens of apps, which have been turned into remixes by the community, covered by the Verge, won a Glitch app of year […]

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If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work. https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

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"A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes." https://fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/ #news […]

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Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories on #github https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

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"I was so frustrated and paranoid that my grade was going to suffer because of something I didn’t do." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.yUV1.pYUJis5-NKxl&smid=url-share via https://dads.cool/@alex/114535537020457989 […]

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Happy 17th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, by @evan https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg #fediverse #history #FediverseHistory #OnThisDay #OTD #identica #FirstPost #FirstFediversePost

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I wrote about Great Replacement Grok and the growing number of ways that AI systems are working against their own users. It's the age of adversarial AI: https://www.platformer.news/grok-white-genocide-x-adversarial-ai/

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"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday." […]

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"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/ #news #technology […]

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oh the irony

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"Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone?" https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad #technology #design #keyboards #numbers

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I hate how the Turing Test has gone from an interesting philosophical thought experiment to something that's a necessity to apply to any online interactions that are even slightly suspicious

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I cannot overstate the degree to which society has failed this generation. https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-how-people-use-chatgpt-depends-on-their-age-and-college-students-are-relying-on-it-to-make-life-decisions

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For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them "...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI […]

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This whole article about who can and can't detect AI writing is fascinating! The average person essentially does no better than chance, but a panel of 5 people who use AI for writing every day got only 1 in 300 wrong. The screenshot describes how they look at the […] [Original post on zirk.us]

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Coca-Cola has a new AI-powered ad that proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book — except he didn't write the words, and it's not his book. @404mediaco explains what happened — and the irony of using Ballard's words in a commercial built with technology. "The ultimate role of 'Crash' is […]

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"As cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/klarna-turns-from-ai-to-real-person-customer-service Archived link: https://archive.is/wNUL6 Via […]

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Klarna plans to hire humans again, as new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver | Fortune https://fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-ai-humans-return-on-investment/

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What on earth, SoundCloud?? "In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the […]

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WSJ: Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI 🙄 😬 #AI #techbros

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"I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job - it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job." — Cory Doctorow at https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114466666309059661

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So if you thought that surveillance based ads couldn't get any worse... Meta: Hold my beer! #Facebook #Meta #surveillance #AI #LLM #Ads https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/mark-zuckerbergs-ai-ad-tool-sounds-like-a-social-media-nightmare/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic

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Come join the Botmakers online forum to learn about creative uses of automation in a safe, inclusive online space! https://botmakers.discourse.group #botmakers #CreativeAutomation

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"Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.”" […]

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Why is there no Fediverse bot for this yet? cc: @stefan https://chaos.social/@FlohEinstein/114431056473852558

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Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, a research fellow at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, explores how new technologies like "AI" chatbots are reshaping our understanding of death, loss and grief […]

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"Children shouldn’t speak with companion chatbots because such interactions risk self harm and could exacerbate mental health problems and addiction." https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/30/kids-should-avoid-ai-companion-bots-under-force-of-law-assessment-says #technology #ai […]

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"On 30 April 1993 CERN issued a public statement stating that the three components of Web software (the basic line-mode client, the basic server and the library of common code) were put in the Public Domain [...]" […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online]

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