Anyone else getting tired of the #ai bots trying to hook onto every thought process you experience?

Beware of geeks bearing grifts.


#crypto #AI #enshittification

Mashable: LinkedIn and Adobe announce partnership to help creators protect their work against AI. “Adobe and LinkedIn are knocking out two birds with one stone, combining their identity verification and content validation tools into one shared system under a new ‘Verified on LinkedIn’ program.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/mashable-linkedin-and-adobe-announce-partnership-to-help-creators-protect-their-work-against-ai/

Financial Times: DeepMind UK staff seek to unionise and challenge defence deals and Israel links. “Google DeepMind staff in the UK are seeking to unionise in an effort to challenge the company’s decision to sell its artificial intelligence technologies to defence groups and ties to the Israeli government. Around 300 London-based employees of the tech giant’s AI arm, which is led by […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/financial-times-deepmind-uk-staff-seek-to-unionise-and-challenge-defence-deals-and-israel-links/

How-To Geek: The Humane Pin Is Dead, but OpenPin Wants to Bring It Back. “A group of udevelopers started an open-source project called OpenPin with the goal of bringing the device back to life. OpenPin gets around the problem of Humane’s dead servers by providing a new server system. By modifying the AI Pin’s software, users can connect their devices to the OpenPin server and get back […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/how-to-geek-the-humane-pin-is-dead-but-openpin-wants-to-bring-it-back/

Do i like to see AI shit on my TL?
No.
(if i want to see uncreativity, i can watch conservatives try to make good politics)
Can i appreciate when ppl using AI and posting such images at least tag it accordingly?
Yes. That i can do.

Will it change that i place mutes and blocks in order to hold places free in my not very big attention span for human made art/designs?
No.
But i still appreciate honesty and giving possibilities for other Fediversians to filter AI materials out.

Can We Still Detect AI-generated Content? https://www.byteseu.com/963831/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

I’m glad to not be traveling to #RSAC2025 this week. I’m already somewhat sick (cold/allergies who knows) and the flight to west coast would kill me.

That and listening to a bunch of #AI

Gizmodo: Lawyer for MyPillow Founder Filed AI-Generated Brief with ‘Nearly 30’ Bogus Citations. ” Eric Coomer, who previously worked for the election vendor, has accused [Mike] Lindell of having defamed him with his paranoid rantings about the 2020 presidential election having been rigged against Trump. In a situation that is already adequately stupid, there is always room for things to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/gizmodo-lawyer-for-mypillow-founder-filed-ai-generated-brief-with-nearly-30-bogus-citations/

Wall Street Journal: The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete. “Two years ago, prompt engineering was one of the buzziest jobs in tech, fetching salaries of up to $200,000 on the promise of becoming any company’s ‘AI Whisperer.’ Now, the role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/wall-street-journal-the-hottest-ai-job-of-2023-is-already-obsolete/

Unauthorized #AI #Bot Experiment Infiltrated #Reddit To Test Persuasion Capabilities - Slashdot

https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/28/1642223/unauthorized-ai-bot-experiment-infiltrated-reddit-to-test-persuasion-capabilities?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An Acclaimed Book About Digital #Manipulation Was Actually Written by #AI

#Italian essayist Andrea #Colamedici tells WIRED #Hypnocracy : #Trump , #Musk , and the New Architecture of Reality was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist.

https://www.wired.com/story/an-acclaimed-book-about-digital-manipulation-was-actually-written-by-ai/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/58365/ ChatGPT is getting better for shopping #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #News #openai #Tech #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

“Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says

xAI faces calls to deny permits to power gas turbines at supercomputer facility. "

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/elon-musks-xai-accused-of-lying-to-black-communities-about-harmful-pollution/

What we can learn from Brian W. Aldiss's 1958 sci-fi tale "But Who Can Replace a Man?", which eerily foreshadows today’s generative AI.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/technology/2024/11/replace-man

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized #AI Persuasion Experiment on #Reddit Users

A team of researchers who say they are from the University of #Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit called r/changemyview in an attempt to research whether AI could be used to change people’s mindsabout contentious topics.

https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/

Trump’s polling sucks so he’s wants to investigate..the pollsters! The Murdoch Cinematic Universe went woke on #Trump. #Fox. WSJ. NY Post.

All in this week's Blue Letter!
https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/trump-threatens-investigations-as?r=j0lyx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #news #politics #video #writing #us #eu #usa #america #unitedstates #ai #nato #tech#canada #china #media #russia #ukraine #europe #tariffs #tv #stockmarket #podcast #press

UK Children’s Commissioner Calls for Ban on AI ‘Nudification’ Apps https://petapixel.com/2025/04/28/uk-childrens-commissioner-calls-for-ban-on-ai-nudification-apps/ #artificialintelligence #unitedkingdom #Technology #children #deepfake #News #Law #app #ai #uk

ICYMI: AI pioneer warns of superintelligence takeover within next two decades https://ppc.land/ai-pioneer-warns-of-superintelligence-takeover-within-next-two-decades/ #AI #Superintelligence #AIPredictions #FutureOfAI #AIEthics