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  "Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own." alignment problem = bad engineering https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/

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  Eine andere KI ist möglich http://versorgerin.stwst.at/artikel/09-2026/eine-andere-ki-ist-moglich

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  1/2 Ich durfte gestern beim Protest gegen das Google Center in Linz kurz sprechen (zb. @gordo den Text gelesen, weil ich im Zug stecken blieb).. Mir war es dabei wichtig, das Zukunftmonopol, das sich Bif Tech gerne zuschreibt, in Frage zu stellen. Google stellt sich gerne als smarte Zukunft dar. Doch ein Hyperscale-Datencenter ist nicht die Zukunft, die wir brauchen, und es ist alles andere als smart. Das Datencenter in Kronsdorf steht für die Vergangenheit der industriellen Megastrukturen; für...

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  Next entry in my lose series on AI terms. existential risk = potential for negative outcomes that affect even the most privileged groups of people.

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  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117268872282373081 We once had an agent applying by describing itself as "anti-genAI Luddite".🤦

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  “We are now as a society smart enough to know the future, but not prudent enough to act upon the knowledge.” https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/satellites-show-earth-lost-12-trillion-tons-ice-greenland-antarctica-rcna598084

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  TECHNOPOLITICS lädt ein / invites: Montag, 21. September, 2026. 19:00h Yvonne Volkart Was ist Pflanzenintelligenz? Ort: Studio Eckermann/Nestler, Neulinggasse 9, 1030 Wien Der Hype um KI verlangt sowohl nach einer allgemeingültigen, speziesübergreifenden Definitionen von Intelligenz wie auch nach einer Spezifizierung, Revisionierung und Anerkennung intelligiblier Eigenschaften von Akteuren, die traditionell aus dem Intelligenzraster herausgefallen sind. Insbesondere Pflanzen – Lebewesen, die...

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  Interesting story about the use of AI writing on Chinese webnovel platforms. It's a quite familiar picture, people resent AI written stuff, not only for the quality, but also for the lack of effort and care that goes in. Culture is, in one way of another, about human connection. Hard to draw the line, though. https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-web-novels/

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  RE: https://mastodon.art/@stefanie_wuschitz/116885478934952781 If you are in Vienna, this is tonight!

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  »Der Faschismus triumphierte, weil er in der Lage war, eine (reaktionäre) Antwort auf Fragen zu geben, die an sich nicht reaktionär waren«. Antonio Gramsci, via Carlo Ginsburg. https://jacobin.de/artikel/carlo-ginzburg-mikrogeschichte-antifaschismus

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  🖥️ GOOGLE Kronstorf. Wir fordern eine transparente Gesamtprüfung aller Risiken! 🖥️ In Oberösterreich entsteht eines der größten Google-Rechenzentren Europas. Die Auswirkungen auf Grundwasser, die Enns und die regionale Stromversorgung sind jedoch noch nicht ausreichend geklärt. Es braucht Transparenz, unabhängige Prüfungen und demokratische Kontrolle bei einem Projekt dieser Größenordnung. ✍️ Unterschreibe dafür jetzt: https://mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/stopp-der-einzelgenehmigungen-wir-fordern-ein...

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  The use of GenAI makes people more confident even as accuracy goes down. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567

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  1.5 billion to authors and publishers sounds like a lot, but it isn't. It's 3000 per plaintiff to be made redundant (potentially) and it firmly establishes that training on copyrighted materials is fair use. Just don't download torrents with 1000s of books for this purpose. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/

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  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@metaviews/116889858230538356 There's the questions if not all corporate-supplied are double agents, pretending to work for you while, in the last instance working for the corp.

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  https://crankgpt.com/

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  Come to think if it, it's something of a social miracle that open BitTorrent trackers and the file-sharing community still exist. Not only have they been subject to long-term, well-resourced and targeted repression, but they also require a large number of people continuously contributing time and resources without a direct return. While I can see how trackers try to make money, seeders are a different story.

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  I'm fascinated by this image. Meta's planned 5GW Hyperion Data Center overlaid on Manhattan to demonstrate its size. If you ever needed an image of how digital colonialism looks at home, here it is. And, remember, Zuckerberg published it himself. Btw, 5 GW requires 5 dedicated nuclear power plants (probably more if you factor in redundancy). https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DMF6tMAxkX8?xmt=AQF0I6-Ctn0leigUTf6ExxSz9KzG2zhB17D-AQ5kfFzBZQ

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  Letzte Woche gab ich ein Interview bei Deutschlandradio Kultur zum Urteil des EuGH (Pelham II), das nun endlich Sampling erlaubt. Ich hatte das alles schon nicht mehr ganz präsent, weil ich mich nicht mehr viel mit UHR Themen beschäftige, aber das Urteil setzt genau das um, was wir 2006/07 mit der Initiative Kunstfreiheit.ch gefordert haben. https://felix.openflows.com/events/2026.04_intverview_breitband_uhr.html Und schon damals dachten wir, dass das eigentlich überfällig sei. Nun ist es...

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  "Doch am Überwachungskapitalismus ist nicht die Überwachung das Problem, sondern der Kapitalismus!" Ein Satz genügt und ich will das Buch lesen.

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  Is it just me or can't the current calibre deDRM plugin remove adobe DRM from an epub? Usually, I don't buy DRM book, but here I didn't pay attention... I hate this so much!

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  We live in a moment of highly subsidized #AI. Even expensive subscriptions generate significant losses for the providers. Many people think this will lead to a collapse of the industry once the inflow of speculative capital stops. I think something else will happen. The costs for powerful models will rise significantly, to the point where they are available primarily to corporate users. Most others will be left with cheap models, which are more of a distraction than an actual tool. This wi...

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  "The instrumentalisation of everything: how nothing seems to be of value in itself any more but is only seen as useful in the service of some utilitarian function." https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/14/art-sex-nature-why-is-everything-sold-to-us-as-a-means-to-an-end-rather-than-an-end-in-itself

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  @m It will improve your heart rate by 0.003% :)

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  "A recent report found that although only 40% of companies had purchased official LLM subscriptions, employees from more than 90% of those companies reported regular personal AI use for work tasks. In many organizations, employees use LLMs multiple times daily while their company’s official AI initiatives remain stuck in “pilot purgatory.”" https://hbr.org/2026/04/the-hidden-demand-for-ai-inside-your-company

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  RE: https://social.servus.at/@servus/116409427898334983 One of the best, and the most humane, electronic arts/culture festivals in Europe!

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  RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116373402644907518 Capitalism really cannot live without "accumulation by dispossession". This is true self-cannibalization.

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  Wow, only now I came across the brilliant term "scenius" (the collective form of the singular genius) by Brian Eno.

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  I'm still remembering the Draconian rulings the courts handed down against non-commercial "file sharers" in the 00s. So I cannot but marvel at how flexible they are towards the interests of capital. Altman's "right to learn" argument was quickly picked up, setting a potentially major precedent. "Authors’ complaint is no different than it would be if they complained that training schoolchildren to write well would result in an explosion of competing works,” J...

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  "Versucht man, die „Kultur der Digitalität“ als historische Epoche über die letzten 50 Jahre als ganzes zu betrachten, lässt sich ... eine deutliche Verschiebung von gemeinschaftlichen, zu referenziellen und aktuell zu algorithmischen Aspekten beobachten. Zu Beginn – in unabhängigen Medienprojekten der 1970er- und 1980er-Jahre, wie in der frühen Netzkultur – standen gemeinschaftliche Aspekte im Vordergrund und die medialen Projekte wurden entsprechend ausgerichtet. Dies inspirierte große...

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  Oh, Sci-Hub has now an AI interface that queries and references its huge repository of scientific articles and provides access to the full source papers. I think this is the logical next step in access to large archives. "Hear the good news: recent advances in artificial intelligence enabled Sci-Hub to launch a robot that gives scientifically-grounded responses to questions. The robot starts with searching for relevant literature in Sci-Hub database, then turns to selecting and reading mos...