TONIGHT – Come along to our townhall event in London!

The #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition is bringing the community together to delve into how the Met is using harmful AI and 'crime prediction' tech.

Refreshments and food provided 😋

🕕 6-9pm
📍The Liberation Centre, Brixton

Register your place ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/safety-not-surveillance-london-townhall/

#ai #policing #precrime #surveillance #predictivepolicing #london #ukpolitics #event

@eff Instead of continuing to suck on those clankers' big fat vape pens, maybe you should do something about those same AI companies engaging in #DDoS attacks on people's websites by scraping them to death.

I had this happen to my small blog last night. One of the main culprits was a seedbox company. These #AI #Clankers aren't artists or remixers. They are cyber criminals!

Stop clanking off these cyber criminals already!

Relevant info in my blog post:
https://alicegotchained.faba.icu/2026/09/17/my-server-was-ddosd-by-a-seedbox-company/

Colleague about my age, English not her first language. Remarked that "AI" is super helpful for making her written English more correct.

"Wow, hadn't thought of that. I still have huge problems with all the ethical issues with LLMs."

"Oh, no, it's VERY ethical."

"Hm. How do you mean?"

"I had a really problematic student in the lab. Extremely disruptive, inappropriate behavior. I asked AI what to do and its advice was very helpful."

Honestly don't know what happened next, everything went black

#fuckai #noai #ai

Techno-Mage in: FATES

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #openblade #art #openbsd #linux #foss #fosschild #ai

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OB: After some freakish accident, it became omniscient and made a lot of people uncomfortable. So they hid it. Mage: Why didn't they kill it? OB: I don't think it was ever truly alive. Mage: So how do _WE_ kill it? OB: You've been so violent lately, Girl. We'll see what it has to say first. Mage: Don't get sentimental now, OB. We're here to make sure MATA never gets their hands on it.

Alt...

Mage: We're at the top! FOSSCHILD: Why is she doing this again? Penguin: Why does anyone do anything? Because she can. And maybe spite.

Alt...

OB: Looks creepy enough. Mage: Hmmm.This is some sort of an ancient military compound. OB: They did make the best cursed tech. OB: After you.

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"": MAGE OB & Mage: Who said that? "": THE PROTAGONIST VENTURES INTO THE PAST WITH THE LAST OF THE OPEN CLAN TRAPPED INSIDE BITS OF PAINT MACHINE BRAINS SEEKING GRIEVING DRESSED IN VENGEANCE MISGUIDED WARRIORS COMPUTER KILLERS

My take on workslop: if your job can be done by just copying and pasting #AI slop… why are you here, exactly? Maybe we need an update on the old sysadmin threat of “go away, or I will replace you with a very small shell script”; these days, it would be “a very short prompt”.

https://charity.wtf/p/confessions-of-an-unrepentant-slop

So, #TIL about #ShitHub. #Github w/o #CoPilot #AI.

And here I thought I'd seen it all. 💩 ​

https://shithub.sh/

GPT-6 is totally Artificial General Intelligence, guys - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2oDT-9hsNw

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #AGI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Hype

Can someone help me understand the lore behind the claim "what the AI companies are working on will kill us all"?

Because from where I'm sitting, it looks like this:

1. LLMs and machine learning
2. Secret research
3. ???
4. Sentient self-improving AI arises and kills us all

But maybe I'm confused about the lore?

(For context, this post was inspired by https://bsky.app/profile/faineg.bsky.social/post/3mvlgfb5jus2c , which I learned about from @hyperreal )

#AI #ML #rationalism #tescreal

I watched 5 mins so that you don't have to.
As it has all the humanity of a vacuum cleaner, I'm sure that non-sentient non-humans find it hilarious. The makers also have an #AI bot replying to criticisms under the video.
Execrable.

https://www.perspectivemedia.com/sitcom-produced-entirely-by-ai-is-released-on-youtube/

#NoBigDeal

Should there be an AI slowdown?

#EvanPoll #poll #ai #AiSlowdown

Wherever you are in the world, your experience of AI matters.

Black AI Futures is gathering the global Black community's experience of AI, from healthcare and hiring to online life, into evidence that is carried into national and international policy conversations.

Anonymous, and about 12 to 15 minutes.

Add your voice: https://blackaifutures.org/survey?source=org

#ai #survey #digitalrights

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Black AI Futures INTERNATIONAL SURVEY • 2026/2027 The State of AI & Black Communities Wherever you are in the world, your experience of Al counts. The first survey mapping how the global Black community lives with Al, carried into national and international policy conversations. Take the survey: https://blackaifutures.org/survey

This bot thing is fascinating... and also illustrates why the Open Social Web including Mastodon is going to prevail in this hellscape the billionaires started.

"The messages are the work of iLands, a company whose website appears to be substantially written by poorly trained AI. While the independently minded Mastodon admins have largely blocked the bots, iLands agents have found homes on both Bluesky and X.”

#Ars #Mastodon #Bots #AI #fake #slop #opensocialweb

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/ai-agents-flood-the-internet-with-slop-infused-spam/

A neighbor of mine was making the point that #AI is just a natural evolution of tool-ing. After all we don't expect students to know how to start a fire with sticks, tan a hide, or sharpen a quill. I felt moved to point out that I did, in fact, know how to do all those skills by the time I was 25.

I guess the fact that I still write every damn like of code myself is just a reflection of me hanging onto antiquated skill sets. #Luddite

@Fotoptikon Wysłuchałem pierwszą minutę. Na #podkasty poświęcam dużo czasu, ale nie słuchałem, nie słucham i nigdy nie będę słuchał podkastów tworzonych przy pomocy #AI. Po prostu odmawiam słuchania czegoś takiego.

Canada has binding legal regulations on everything from guns to butter.

And none for AI.

Are we going to trust people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman to regulate themselves?

Or is our government going to stop cheerleading and start regulating in the public interest?

It’s literally what government is for.

https://www.ft.com/content/31220b59-b0c6-401c-a146-2b7b5d138837?syn-25a6b1a6=1

#cdnpoli #canada #tech #AI

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Screenshot of an article headline from the Financial Times: Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown. Subheading: Warring tech bosses unite behind warnings that humans could lose control of the technology.

Friend: Why on earth are you so positive about #AI and all that?!

Me: Positive? No. Realistic? Yes. AI isn't going away. You can't restrict or ban it. We should make the best of it and use it for the common good: curing cancer, fixing software, optimizing our work time—and the machine does the programming while I go for a walk in the park.

Coming up this week 🔔

It's the first of a series of townhall events delivered by the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.

Join us in London to explore how AI and ‘crime-predicting’ technologies are currently being used by the Met.

🗓️ Thurs 17 September
🕕 6-9pm
📍The Liberation Centre, SW9 7QR

Register now ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/safety-not-surveillance-london-townhall/

#surveillance #policing #metpolice #ai #precrime #ukpolitics #ukpol

‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn | Pfas | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/pfas-firms-tidal-wave-forever-chemicals-ai-industry-demand-datacentres

All that matters is increasing profits. Even human life matters less.

#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Toxins #AI #BigTech #Capitalism

I'm sounding like a broken record. But my #bot headaches with Open Context aren't just a simple function of our limited #archaeology resources.

#AIbots are currently overwhelming #Zenodo, a major repository (with CERN infrastructure!).

This problem cannot be ignored and needs a public policy response.

#opendata #AI #webscraping #openaccess

See example: https://zenodo.org/records/22276836

after much thought I have figured out my #ai policy:

humans are interesting and if you dont agree you can fuck off

Microsoft Vibe Gaming: an AI to play your games for you - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIsARMEsZg
by @davidgerard

Oh brother. Why bother even playing if you're not going to play.

#AI #AgenticAI #VibeGaming #Games #Gaming

When CFCs were destroying the ozone layer they were removed from society.

When leaded petrol was rotting children's brains, it was phased out in favour of unleaded alternatives.

When asbestos was found to cause horrible deaths it was banned.

When radium was found to be incredibly dangerous for general use, it was restricted to just a small niche of medical applications.

Technology is not something that has to be accepted forever, no matter how popular it seems. It can be recalled and restricted if it is found to cause a lot more harm than good.

#AI #LLMs #GenAI

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 is perceived as an annoyance. The people refusing to use AI are perceived as the problem, not the AI tool. Consent is an inconvenience, not a right to be respected.

#AI #consent #ethics

#AI #artificialintelligence

Bernie is SO fucking close to getting it.

WE NEED TO NATIONALIZE VENTURE CAPITAL.

NOT AI companies for fucks sake.

Everyone focusing on the tech is missing the actual POWER and how to democratize it.

The VCs can and will fuckup EVERY technology and science and turn it into a torment nexus.

The fastest solution is to push out the VCs who keep crashing our economy from positions of economic power.

#AI #LLM #VC #VentureCapital #BernieSanders

Look, I beat a copyright strike from the Beastie Boys making this shitty explainer for how FTX happened.

OpenAI + Anthropic is the SAME DAMNED STORY.

Just stand back and think twice before investing in these IPOs ...

https://youtu.be/5zg7_-EgPJs

#IPO #SEC #VC #OpenAI #Anthropic #LLM #AI #Startups #stocks #economics

The comedians have caught up to these "whistle blowers"

📸https://linktr.ee/vinn_ayy

#LLM #AI #OpenAI #Anthropic

UK AI medical transcription: dangerous, doesn’t work - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKx4y9sC008

by @davidgerard

#AI #GenAI #AmbientScribing #UK #NHS

The rage that I am suppressing at this moment could set countries alight. I want tribunals. I want public executions. I want heads on spikes. I am not kidding. I am “bathe the land in blood” angry. As someone who has worked my whole life against the death penalty, I will admit perhaps I was wrong, and I am fully prepared to accept the ethical consequences of kill them all and let God sort them out.

#meta #ai #nudify #csam #predators #epsteinClass #guillotines2026 #eattherich #banbillionaires #freeLuigi
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/real-photos-of-young-girls-were-in-nudify-app-ads-on-facebook-instagram/

#neverslop #ai #noai #DoUglyThings #artwork

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A doodle by Ángel Ortega depicting Boro The Robot saying robot things and being a sycophant as AIs do