For anyone who wants to avoid using AI images, this site has public domain images by theme and category. There's some really great artwork that's free to use
In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence
Microsoft Warns Its Windows AI Feature Brings Data Theft and Malware Risks, and 'Occasionally May Hallucinate'
Most discourse on AI is low-quality. Most discourse on consciousness is super-abysmal-double-low quality. Multiply these - or maybe raise one to the exponent of the other, or something - and you get the quality of discourse on AI consciousness. It’s not great
Popular AI Models Aren’t Ready to Safely Power Robots
At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors
Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation
I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org.
Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community
AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time
AI ecosystem capital flows
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed
From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future
Meta Launches Vibes, an Endless Feed of AI Slop for Your Viewing Displeasure
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms
a.) There's little interest in interrogating the downsides of generative AI, such as the environmental impact, the data theft impact, the treatment and exploitation of data workers.
b.) There's little interest in considering the extent to which, by incorporating generative AI into our teaching, we end up supporting a handful of companies that are burning billions in a vain attempt to each achieve performance that is a scintilla better than everyone else's.
c.) There's little interest in thinking about what's going to happen when the LLM companies decide that they have plateaued, that there's no more money to burn/spend, and a bunch of them fold—but we've perturbed education to such an extent that our students can no longer function without their AI helpers.
Kinderschutzorganisation hat Alarm wegen Googles Gemini AI geschlagen und nach Feststellung, dass der Chatbot unangemessene Inhalte teilen kann und ernsthafte Symptome psychischer Gesundheit nicht erkennt
How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills