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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/117348034074132365 Das ist diese "Effizienz durch KI", von der alle sprechen

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  So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=jE7sd3rFOqDdQaD53F1IhcqkhImekiWN9aB9R67GhAo I understand wanting that bag, wanting to be in on a big thing. But if you thought OpenAI or Anthropic were okay a year ago or so, I really am not willing to give you any credit for leaving now. Like how much fucking money did you make and how much did you sell your book (that will of...

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  There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there". Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea of "AI" is build upon. That's a bad argument for relegitimizing X.

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  Researchers analyzed the epistemic diversity of LLMs (meaning: how many different positions/kinds of information do they produce for a given input). Result: "every system is less diverse than a search baseline. This gap is not uniform: RAG can improve diversity, while large models are counterintuitively less diverse than smaller ones. Moreover, LLM parametric knowledge systematically reflects English over local-language knowledge for country specific topics." https://arxiv.org/abs/25...

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  The only threat to humanity that "AI" represents is as the producer of increasing amounts of CO2, e-waste. As a massive polluter and destroyer of our ecosystem. Everything else is just bullshit.

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  RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/117363654848931561 Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution. This is exactly the kind of "Power Grab" I wrote about a few weeks ago: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/ DHH is working towards accumulating open source funding to be able to...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117358990093685067 100%. The whole "terrorists can use an LLM to build a bomb" is a dumb movie plot threat. If you want to hurt people, lack of knowledge is not your problem. And nobody needs to develop a new chemical to do terrorism. All you need is readily available. This is just "AI" labs creating imaginary issues to distract us from the real harm they cause.

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  "So what’s the AI artist paradox? It’s that by either having or lacking intelligence, AI-based art generators preclude the existence of so-called “AI artists”. By manifesting either an artwork or an artist, the AI monopolizes artistic contribution." (Article title: The AI Artist Paradox) https://heydonworks.com/article/the-ai-art-paradox/

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  "There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy." (Article title: Leaving them behind) https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/117348316997310623 "There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything. Simple as that. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy."

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  "These are – for actual human beings – very embarrassing things to admit. Why would techbros do that? Constantly." (Article title: The Test) https://tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test/

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  The EU AI Act forces you to label a lot of AI generated content like images or video or text - mostly as a way to fight mis/disinformation. For images for example you do not have to do that if they are just illustrative illustrations but you have to do it if anyone could mistake it for something real (like a generated picture of a person). I kinda wonder how that applies to code (software). The code is not illustrative but functional and "a person did it" carries a lot of weight in...

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  I had a few thoughts on why techbros always say these embarrassing, weird things https://tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test/

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  "GNOME exists as a collective that find joy in reaching beyond our individual limitations to achieve something bigger. These people, this joy, are the whole point of the project." (Article title: Jordan Petridis: The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want) https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/23/the-gnome-llm-policy-that-i-want/

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  Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/117308916091745498 Elon Musk wollte vor einigen Jahren schon auf Mond und Mars sein. Und selbstfahrende Autos haben. Und, und, und. Über Elon Musk Pläne berichten, grenzt oft an journalistisches Fehlverhalten.

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  So. Berlin. Morgen ist Wahl. Bitte geht hin. Und wenn ihr Euch unsicher seid: Also ich wähle die Linke. Kann man glaube ich gut machen. (Transparenzhinweis: Ich bin funktionsloses Parteimitglied) Wir brauchen eine Regierung für diese Stadt, die die Stadt mag, die das Leben der Menschen hier verbessern will.

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  Patriotismus ist der Weg in den Nationalismus, auch wenn's von eurem Lieblingsfußballtrainer kommt.

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  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117269357701498157 But in short: "FLOSS without Antifascism is not even doing the job it was set out to do because having fascists around will ensure that many marginalized groups do not gain any of the potential benefits." (and the bar FLOSS sets itself is not that high to begin with)

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  "Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”" (Article title: ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Micro...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/117288549065128153 "Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely...

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  "When authoritarian governments attack non-commercial, independent digital communication infrastructure like in this case, we can’t underestimate the impact. This time it was Italy, but next time might be closer to you. It is still much too quiet. " by @anneroth@systemli.social https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/what-it-means-to-lose-autistici-inventati/

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  After my comment on "Concerned AI bros" I got a message that basically went: "Congrats, your article got some traction. We both know that you are just saying those things cause you are a contrarian and want to make money." And I hear that not often but sometimes so a quick reality check. - you don't get paid well to criticize tech. A few people might get to make it work but mostly the other side is the one with the money - my criticism has basically destroyed my opportun...

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  Deplatforming is an effective kind of harm reduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFfAQNTo5Rc

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  Die Forderung nach einer "Pause der KI-Entwicklung" hat nichts mir ihren echten Gefahren oder so zu tun, sondern mit einem crashenden Businessmodell. Wir dürfen uns nicht auf diesen Effective Altrusim-verseuchten Diskurs einlassen. https://tante.cc/2026/09/14/der-besorgte-ki-bro/

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  Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. And sadly many influential organizations in that space are not up to the task for putting their foot down.

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  "You don't have to stay in a job you don't like." That is true. On the other hand I like my family to eat and have made myself basically unhireable because I criticize tech loudly.

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  "Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab." I wrote about why we have to care about Omarchy. As a fascist power grab within the FLOSS ecosystem. https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

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  Omarchy is FLOSS: Fascist Lead Open Source Software.

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  How a laxer "AI" contribution policy ruins a creative project environment: "caustic, antisocial behaviour causes people who previously were valued in the space to leave. When these people have left, the behaviour of the persons whose caused them to leave becomes the new community norm" https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/ (via @davidgerard@circumstances.run who I can't quote ;))