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  RE: https://social.erambert.me/@eramdam/117585440143804315 It would be the funniest thing though

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  #Etsy has updated their Terms of Service to force sellers to allow the use of their photographs, videos, and text to train #AI. There is no opt-out. It seems bonkers to me that Etsy, a website which ostensibly sells human-made creations, is forcing sellers to enable AI to learn from and subsequently copy their own products. I guess they now feel that they have enough market share that people will not leave over this. https://www.valueaddedresource.net/etsy-expands-ai-training-rights/

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/111350788885338476 HAH I WAS RIGHT #cybertruck #wankpanzer #incelCamino #cars

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  Prediction: The #Tesla #Cybertruck is going to be a flop. If it does manage to begin delivery this month, it’s going to be riddled with build quality issues and unforeseen (or foreseen, if you’re actually reasonable) problems with its body panels and bizarre design, leading potential buyers to look elsewhere. Now that you can actually buy decent (and decent-looking) EV trucks from Ford, GM, and Rivian, the Cybertruck’s competitive appeal is gone. I’m also taking guesses at the pricing. I thin...

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  I did this. You should do it to. Be sure to write your *elected* representative if you are getting a new one. @noondlyt@hellions.cloud https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/117561823020910196

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  RE: https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117542889228899060 Fucking cosigned.

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@skykiss/117464027681423558 Clearly Biden’s fault

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  Have you voted yet? #VOTE #VOTE #VOTE

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  IMO you can’t “manage” this; you have to ban it. You can’t spend time reviewing “how much” AI you want to let through, because AI is a DDoS on your staff’s attention. People can generate new AI submissions orders of magnitude faster than you can review them. You have to ban it. Reviewing doesn’t scale. You have to have submitters sign a legally binding contract requiring that they don’t use AI in their submissions, and you must ban developer accounts that violate that condition. The alternative...

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  One of the greatest scourge in public discourse to me is the lack of GOOD FAITH in communications. It’s virtually a sure bet that someone speaking loudly to a lot of people (especially if some rich person paid for their megaphone) has some kind of deceptive, profiteering motive behind them, and that they are grossly misrepresenting facts to influence the public. No fruitful discourse can occur until good faith is socially enforced. Just as it’s vital for a tolerant society to reject intolerance...

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  “On X, prominent traders complained that they had lost money; blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps reported that around 700 users appeared to have been affected, with approximately $2.7 million stolen.” #crypto “Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts” https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-flagship-platform-hack-traders-lose-money/

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  Had an interesting online exchange with an event organizer who asked me to repost their AI-generated car event flyer. I declined, and they asked why because AI is the latest and greatest thing. They were really polite and curious about it, so I linked my site https://whynoai.info and thanked them for being curious. A day later they came back to me and said that they now understood why I took my position and that they respected it. I like to think that I helped shine some light on this topic fo...

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  I’m sorry, but what did these #BostonDynamics employees think they were working on? Animatronic performers for Chuck E. Cheese? These robots are obviously weapons. They’ve always been obviously weapons. It’s always been pretty clear that it’s only a matter of time until the military deploys them. And US law enforcement too, because they are basically paramilitary forces now. Boston Dynamics took money from DARPA to develop their humanoid platforms. DARPA sponsored a series of humanoid robot co...

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  “I am proud to say that as part of our new union contract, Current Affairs recently adopted one of the strictest anti-AI policies in the publishing industry. No text that is AI-generated may be published in our magazine. No AI-generated art may be used as a Current Affairs illustration. When you read Current Affairs, you are going to be reading the thoughts of a human, and seeing the results of human artistry.” #ai #noAI #magazine “Why We’re Banning AI” https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/wh...

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  RE: https://mas.to/@fsinn/117423892102142792 “The platforms are not neutral infrastructure that bad actors have found a way to exploit. The platforms enable these operations. A destabilizing foreign influence campaign delivered through a platform engineered for addiction is not a misuse of the technology. It is the technology performing exactly as designed, for purposes its designers did not intend and have no structural incentive to prevent.”

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  Zelenskyy hit another Yandex data center in Russia, and I’m now hearing anecdotal reports that (pro-Republican) bot traffic has gone down considerably. There is probably never going to be another opportunity like this to study the impact that shutting down this data center has on disinformation bots. I’m looking forward to reading about how many seemingly US-local conservative accounts are actually sock-puppeted from Russia. It would be sweet irony to learn that Zelenskyy has saved the US midt...

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  RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117377497454605968 AI’s major, sustainable, long-term use case is spam generation using locally-run crappy models.

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  “For four minutes, heritage conservationist Udaya Kumar P L watched an AI agent wreak havoc on his computer. The agent was testing software it was developing and clearing the cache when “a quoting error in an AI-generated command turned the instruction into ‘delete everything’”. “When it understood and tried to kill the process, its safety system blocked the kill. Twice… The safety layer permitted the destruction,” Udaya wrote on X. A former IT professional, he eventually shut down the computer...

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115823112545139908 This seems to be ever more relevant because it seems like “Oops, I didn’t intend to do a felony, my script did it, whoopsie doopsie poopsie it’s so dangerous, please give me a government subsidy” is becoming a common alibi.

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/artificial-intelligence-7bv07f1uz/-/a-7rpi4ADFQamHkjTPFfEB7A%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0 “Listen, Donald. One Epstein guest to another…”

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  It’s galling that tech billionaires tell us that letting them destroy the climate to develop AI will allow AI to tell us (somehow? maybe? probably?) how to fix climate change. And even more frustrating that news outlets report this blather without so much as a wrinkled eyebrow. MY DUDES WE ALREADY KNOW HOW TO FIX CLIMATE CHANGE. We stop spewing carbon into the air; install solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and other renewable energy generation; build mass amounts of efficient public transit; and...

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  PSA: “Embrace the future” is gaslighting by tech entrepreneurs eager to become fabulously rich. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta “embrace” anything.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Roelmaalderink/117327040550433696 The video is here: https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/campagnes/gluurbril/ Edit: I learned that “gluurbril” means “peeping glasses” in Dutch

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  Can we please charge these horrible people with a crime already? It really is getting unbearably dumb when they blame “AI” for their negligence. #ai #cybercrime #felony “Australia launches urgent review after OpenAI programme hacks government health portal” https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt

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  Do not, under any circumstances, connect your appliances to the Internet. “Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/

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  How are you folks securing your furniture to the walls in case of #earthquake? I haven’t found any product that I like, and I think I’m way behind schedule. #sfba #california

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  “The tech leaders who once hailed AI use as the key to unlocking every employee’s full potential are now changing their tune. This includes Shopify cofounder and CEO Tobias Lütke. He told employees last year that using AI is “a baseline expectation,” and they should first prove they “cannot get what they want done using AI” before asking for more resources. He’s now saying Shopify employees are producing unexamined emails and code with AI and not taking responsibility for the sloppy output.””...

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  Getting my family to agree on dinner plans is like herding cats. With ADHD. Herding cats with ADHD. We all have ADHD. Sorry, what’s the plan for dinner?

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  Bob James’ “Angela” made a huge impression on me when I was a kid because I heard it regularly on “Taxi” when it came on TV. I didn’t care as much about the show as I wanted to hear the theme song every time it came on. It’s still one of songs I most strongly associate with the Fender Rhodes. #music #video #jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqw3UNXUdbU

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  There’s an AI “meeting transcription and summary tool” for video meetings at my workplace that comes with a disclaimer that it should not be used if anyone does not consent. I never consent. Last time I said I didn’t want to use the tool in a meeting with a group of people I’m new to meeting, the meeting organizer asked “may I know why?” and I responded “Because I don’t consent,” and gave a blank stare. The organizer was visibly annoyed. This is a pattern with all these AI tools. Non-consent...