Notices tagged with ai, page 7

In the #trump / #GOP budget bill—

A moratorium to prevent states from enforcing their own #AI regulations for 10 years if they want crucial federal internet infrastructure funding.

(CNN)

#USA #USpol

Connect the dots.

Reddit's CEO has pledged the site will remain :written by humans and voted on by humans" https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/reddit-ceo-pledges-site-will-remain-written-by-humans-and-voted-on-by-humans/ @arstechnica

H.o.w.e.v.e.r ...

"One of the many problems with allowing user posts to be used for AI training is that companies want their products and brands to appear in chatbot results. Since Reddit forms a key part of the training material for Google’s AI, then one effective way to make that happen is to spam Reddit."

9to4Mac: Reddit is being spammed by AI bots, and it’s all Reddit’s fault https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/ @9to5Mac @benlovejoy #Reddit #AI @threatresearch

Hey @creativecommons, how’s this for a CC signal for AI, you clowns?

🖕

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

#CCSignals #AI #CreativeCommons #SiliconValley #BigTech

One reason I think that complex #AI software projects are never going to happen is that the code it generates has no *intent* behind it.

Senior software devs spend an extraordinarily large amount of time reading existing code and asking not just HOW they work, but WHY they were written that way. Reading long-maintained, complex source code is more than mere reading comprehension; it’s LITERARY CRITIQUE. You’re constantly trying to understand the thought process and motivation of whoever wrote that code, in the hopes of gaining insight into their frame of mind.

Well, AI code has no motivation, thought process, nor frame of mind. While the code it generates MIGHT work correctly (a big assumption) at the point it was extruded, there is no plausible way of maintaining that code, and at some point of complexity (sooner than you think!) maintainability becomes critical.

#softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment

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Holy #surveillance hell, Batman.

Let me get this straight:

First, they feed your video, which is already stored in their cloud, into an #AI transformer to write descriptions.

Then they feed your descriptions into a pattern learning system (ML, maybe?) to figure out your patterns and habits.

All of this is stored in the cloud. So they not only have your video, but a narrative about your habits, ready to be exfiltrated, monetized, and shared with law enforcement.

#ai #enshittification #RingCamera

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/amazons_ring_ai_video_description/

#claude #ai #llm #programming #programmer

@stephenjudkins @MarkTurnerNC

(3/4)

"...You make software that's hostile to brains in the hopes a few rich people get poisoned by it and become willing to exchange money for higher numbers. In #twitter's case, they got eaten by the whale. They get slack notifications at 2am if the whale isn't getting enough numbers.

In a way, the app created its owner. That's a little fucked up to me, more so than the standard #AI domination tropes, that a system without agency ends up..."

@gerrymcgovern

#AI #ClimateCrisis

*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers Rising #WaterConsumption*

(6/n)

...The devastating effects that occur, when #Multinationals such as #Nestlé or #Danone monopolize the #FreshWater supply, can be seen in many locations. 6)

👉In my view, #DataCenter operators need to be obliged not only to purchase #CarbonOffsetCredits.
A similar program needs to be developed for the #Conservation of the world's dwindling #FreshWater resources,👈
As a starting...

@gerrymcgovern

#AI #ClimateCrisis

*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers Rising #WaterConsumption*

(5/n)

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4)
#Water Usage Effectiveness:
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/cooling/a-guide-to-data-center-water-usage-effectiveness-wue-and-best-practices

https://www.asce.org/publications-and-news/civil-engineering-source/civil-engineering-magazine/issues/magazine-issue/article/2024/03/engineers-often-need-a-lot-of-water-to-keep-data-centers-cool

...👉#Amazon, with 81, and #Microsoft, with 23.
As a share of their data centers, Microsoft ranks first with 52% in such arid spots.👈" 5)

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5) center locations in #arid regions:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data/

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-data-centers-are-deepening-the-water-crisis-2025-6?op=1

@gerrymcgovern

#AI #ClimateCrisis

*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers Rising #WaterConsumption*

(4/n)

...characterized as experiencing "extremely high" or "high" water scarcity.👈

The share is even larger, 43%, for the biggest centers, those that use 40 megawatt-hours or more of electricity each hour.

Two companies stood out in #BI's analysis as having the most data centers in high or extremely high water-stressed areas:

@gerrymcgovern

#AI #ClimateCrisis

*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers Rising #WaterConsumption*

(3/n)

...the installed base.
For another, through inefficient #water use. 4)

A whopping 40%, however, are due to building in already #arid regions of the globe:

"#BusinessInsider found that 👉40% of the nation's planned and existing data centers are in areas that the nonprofit World Resources Institute, which focuses on sustainability research, has...

@gerrymcgovern

#AI #ClimateCrisis

*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers Rising #WaterConsumption*

(2/n)

...water that had been underground for millions of years. 1)

So much so, that even the Earth's axis has been affected. 2)

#DataCenters are aggravating water scarcity. 3)

For one thing, through the rapid growth of...

1) #Acquifers:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111813528183188504

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/11204773648095498

2) #Axis: https://www.science.org/content/article/humanity-s-groundwater-pumping-has-altered-earth-s-tilt

3) #WaterConsumption by #DataCenters:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-021-00101-w

@gerrymcgovern

#AI #ClimateCrisis

*The Detrimental Effects of Data Centers Rising #WaterConsumption*

(1/n)

👉Increasing #WaterConsumption by #DataCenters threatens #Habitats, #Agriculture, and drinking #water for low-income families👈

Even before the trend of water-cooling technology for data centers, an unsustainable, yet growing global population had been sucking the world dry from fresh water, in several cases even consuming...

#YouTube #AI gets automatic key concept identification wrong:

I'm about to watch a video about two project interaction libraries for my favorite #TextEditor (#Emacs). They're called #Projectile and project.el.

Below the video, YouTube shows an image of a missile, under a heading that says "Key Concepts". Below the image, it says: "A projectile is an object that is propelled by the application".

The hashtags #OOP and #EditorWar come to my mind.

#YoutubeExperiment

What LLMs Know About Their Users

#LLM #ChatGPT #AI #AssistantResponsePreferences #MachineLearning

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/what-llms-know-about-their-users.html

Friends, I'm putting together a short little article about the environmental (and other) costs of #AI. What are the articles/papers/headlines in general about this issue that have made the most impact on you? Do you recommend any specific studies? I'd like this article to be very informative with lots of places for folks to go to learn more if needed.

Exclusive: US #CDC #vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says

A review on the use of the preservative thimerosal in vaccines slated to be presented on Thursday to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's outside vaccine committee cites a study that does not exist, the scientist listed as the study's author said.

#Trump #RFKJr #AI #HHS #science #medicine #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-cdc-report-shows-no-evidence-linking-thimerosal-containing-vaccines-autism-2025-06-24/

The report, called "Thimerosal as a Vaccine Preservative" published on the #CDC website on Tues, is to be presented by Lyn Redwood, a fmr leader of the #AntiVaccine group Children's Health Defense.

https://www.cdc.gov/acip/downloads/slides-2025-06-25-26/05-influenza-redwood-508.pdf

It makes reference to a study called "Low-level neonatal thimerosal exposure: Long-term consequences in the brain," published in the journal Neurotoxicology in 2008, & co-authored by UC Davis Professor Emeritus Robert Berman.

#Trump #RFKJr #AI #HHS #science #medicine

But acc/to Berman, "it's not making reference to a study I published or carried out."

Berman said he co-authored a similarly named study in a different journal - Toxicological Sciences - that came to different conclusions than those suggested by Redwood.

"We did not examine the effects of thimerosal in microglia... I do not endorse this misrepresentation of the research," he said.

Reuters is the first to report on the inaccurate citation from Redwood's planned presentation.

#Trump #RFKJr #AI