I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I’m not that frightened by it. It’s awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won’t completely upend society. I’ll have articles abound on AI hype, because they’re quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it’s way harder to fake actual evidence.
While the article mentions that it’s mostly enterprise grade hard drives that are becoming more expensive, nonetheless it’s also affecting consumer-level hardware – in addition to memory and GPUs becoming difficult to afford for anyone wishing to just play computer games or create human-made content.
Regardless of whether his own feelings seeped into the show, Gilligan has been a vocal skeptic of artificial intelligence. Tucked away in the “Pluribus” credits, it reads, “This show was made by humans.” It’s an important reminder as Big Tech continues to infiltrate Hollywood, and the trillion-dollar companies behind shows like “Pluribus” are also driving the future of AI.
Alright, so YouTube search has gotten pretty bad lately. If you’re trying to find smaller creators, people making cool stuff but not getting millions of views, it’s harder than it used to be. Here are a few ways I’ve found that still work decently.
Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Four of the lawsuits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in family members’ suicides, while the other three claim that ChatGPT reinforced harmful delusions that in some cases resulted in inpatient psychiatric care.
The Israeli government has signed contracts worth millions of dollars in recent months to rehabilitate Israel’s standing in American public opinion, both online and offline. Amid a sharp drop in support from the conservative right, Israel has hired firms to conduct not just “hasbara [public diplomacy] campaigns” but also campaigns targeting millions of Christian churchgoers, bot networks to amplify pro-Israel messages online, and efforts to influence both search results and the responses given by popular AI services like ChatGPT.
A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft’s official VS Code marketplace. Named susvsex and published by ‘suspublisher18,’ the extension’s malicious functionality is openly advertised in its description. Secure Annex researcher John Tuckner discovered susvsex and says that it is the product of “vibe coding” and is far from sophisticated.
Internal documents have revealed that Meta has projected it earns billions from ignoring scam ads that its platforms then targeted to users most likely to click on them.
Each person I spoke to for this article told me they could talk about the right-wing project to erode trust in expertise, and the way AI has amplified this effort, for hours. In writing this article, I realized that I could endlessly tie much of our reporting on attacks on civil society and human knowledge to the force multiplier that is AI and the AI maximalist political and economic project. One need look no further than Grokipedia as one of the many recent reminders of this effort—a project by the world’s richest man and perhaps its most powerful right-wing political figure to replace a crowdsourced, meticulously edited fount of human knowledge with a robotic imitation built to further his political project.
Elon Musk has long made a habit of hyper-focusing on a specific project, forcing an entire team to attend to his every whim while letting his other responsibilities fall by the wayside — whether it’s his obsession with Robotaxis impacting Tesla or his weird procreation kink disrupting the private messages of countless women.
In 2020, Microsoft said it would be carbon-negative by 2030 and offset all historical emissions by 2050. Fast-forward to 2025: AI is the main objective of tech firms and a U.S. growth engine. Microsoft has planned to invest $80 billion in data centers over 2025, apart from other AI-related investments. AI needs data, data needs data centers, and data centers need electricity—a lot of it (not to mention water). UNEP notes:
The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that have been previously accepted by a peer-reviewed venue, such as a journal or conference.
Google on Wednesday revealed five recent malware samples that were built using generative AI. The end results of each one were far below par with professional malware development, a finding that shows that vibe coding of malicious wares lags behind more traditional forms of development and, thus, still has a long way to go before it poses a real-world threat.
Tell your congress person — today — that you don’t want your taxes used to bail out overhyping and economically shaky AI companies that spend far more than they earn. Workers, already feeling the knife from layoffs, should not be footing the bill.
Burry’s fund, Scion Asset Management, disclosed on Monday that it bought puts — bets that share prices will fall — on two stars of the AI wave: Nvidia and Palantir. Scion bought roughly US$187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million in puts on Palantir, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Just heard this today - co worker used an LLM to find him some shoes that fit. Basically prompted it to find specific shoes that fit wider/narrower feet and it just scraped reviews and told him what to get. I guess it worked perfectly for him.
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
The paper is absolutely ridiculous. It describes almost every major ransomware group as using AI — without any evidence (it’s also not true, I monitor many of them). It even talks about Emotet (which hasn’t existed for many years) as being AI driven. It cites things like CISA reports for GenAI usage … but CISA never said AI anywhere.
I’ve been watching him since I think 2020. He made some of the best tech content of YouTube and I’ve never seen another individual have more knowledge of Windows internals than him. He was accused by Youtube in the past many times for spreading viruses in the description of some of his videos.
The article itself is from August, but after seeing Flock cameras at a local Lowe’s store that were missing from the DeFlock map, I thought it’d be worth bringing increased attention to such companies contributing to the propagation of Flock cameras. If there’s a Home Depot or Lowe’s near you that’s not on the DeFlock map already, it might just not have been added yet.
This might belong in some circlejerk sub, but I think it’s somewhat clever. Basically, if AI datacenters get shut down, the power that would’ve been used to generate AI slop could be used for magnificent things.
I mean, it’s purely clean energy because instead of using gas or oil, you take energy that COULD be used for something useless and put it to better use. Think of all the applications.
- We could power countless electric cars, trains, and bikes.
- We could power countless medical devices like pacemakers and defibrillators.
- We could power countless lights in people’s homes.
Mostly entirely unfunny bird talking videos ending in the cringiest generated laugh track, but the people sending them didn’t realize they was fake even after I pointed out they still had the sora logo just blurred or pixellated. I’m so damn tired
After two decades influencing some of the world’s most powerful people through blogging and fanfiction, writing a mainstream (if not airport) book seems unnecessary. Eliezer Yudkowsky was already one of the key figures providing the intellectual underpinnings of the artificial intelligence industry that is keeping the US economy from recession. Every breathless editorial that makes any intelligent person feel like we’re living through the cultural equivalent of a gas leak should be another victory lap. He has, however, dramatically changed his mind since he began writing in the early 2000s and published the book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, with Nate Soares (whose contribution was to curtail Yudkowsky’s logorrhea). Now, blurbed supportively by Stephen Fry and Grimes, he thinks that artificial intelligence is going to kill us all.
On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Reuters during a livestream that going public “is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we’ll have.” Now sources familiar with the matter say the ChatGPT maker is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $1 trillion, with filings possible as early as the second half of 2026. However, news of the potential IPO comes as the company faces mounting losses that may have reached as much as $11.5 billion in the most recent quarter, according to one estimate.
I downloaded tiktok today for the very first time out of curiosity and it’s all Sora. All of it. The default is AI spoonfed to you in a feed. I’m someone who is somewhat impartial when it comes to AI, and I don’t have any social media outside lemmy, so this was a huge shock to my system that so many videos with endless bot and user engagement are so easily accessible to the stupid masses.
They always say self-driving cars are safer, but the way they prove it feels kind of dishonest. They compare crash data from all human drivers, including people who are distracted, drunk, tired, or just reckless, to self-driving cars that have top-tier sensors and operate only in very controlled areas, like parts of Phoenix or San Francisco. These cars do not drive in snow, heavy rain, or complex rural roads. They are pampered.
Microsoft’s collaboration with Israeli occupation forces raises concerns over the use of cloud technology in surveillance and warfare amid the genocide in Gaza.
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