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61 items tagged 'AI'

(Including its variant 'ai'.)

Items tagged 'AI'
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Labor Day linkblogging
Late August link dump
21 August link roundup
Mid-August links
Early August link roundup
Late July link roundup
21 July link roundup
Mid-July link roundup
Early July link roundup
21 June link roundup
Mid-June pile of links
Late May link roundup
21 May link roundup
Early May link roundup
Workers’ Memorial Links
2026 年 04 月 21 日
Mid-April link roundup
Farm-fresh, cage-free links
Boost (W3C): 📢 If you’re based in the EU 🇪🇺 , don’t miss the chance to get financial support for your @w3c #WebStandards work and present your contributions at #w3cTPAC , taking place in #Dublin 🇮🇪 this October! ⏰ Submit your proposal(s) by 24 April: https://standict.eu/open-call/open-call-2 📂 From the wide range of eligible topics: #a11y , #AI , #IoT , #payments , and many more. — W3C Developers (@w3cdevs@w3c.social)
Late March link roundup
Spring equinox link roundup
Mid-March link roundup
Early March link roundup
Link roundup, “holy shit, they’ve started yet another war in the Middle East” edition
Links sure do come at you fast these days
Early February linky links
A week of links
Some illogical links on World Logic Day
On the fourth day of Christmas, my browser gave to me some links in a pear tree…
December 21st, 2025
Mid-December link dump
Thanksgiving week link roundup
Several links for your perusal
外部リンクス (External links)
Some links from this past week
Early October link roundup
September sure comes at you fast
Early September pile of links
Late August tumblin’
21 August link roundup
14 August link roundup
I’ll Tumble 4 Ya
Mid-July link dump, ça ira, ça ira, ça ira edition
Chocolate-covered URLs!
I drink my horchata warm because fuck ICE: a mid-June link roundup
Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and links; egg bacon and links; egg bacon sausage and links; links bacon sausage and links; links egg links links bacon and links…
Tumbling in anticipation and dismay
There’s a “converts are the worst” joke in there somewhere.
Robotaxis
Taking a tumble right off the cliff
mid-September tumbling
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Link roundup, はなみ (hanami) edition
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
“The scale of the theft and exploitation…”
On Being Listed in the Court Document of Artists Whose Work Was Used to Train Midjourney With 4,000 of My Closest Friends and Willem De Kooning
Mid-month roundup
Boost (Mastodon): A lot of people have responded to my Duolingo post with things like "Never work for free," and "I would never donate my time to a corporation.” Which I completely agree with. But here's the thing about Duolingo and all of the other companies like it. You already work for them. You just don’t know it. On Duo, I thought I was learning a language. Participating in the community by helping other learners and building resources seemed like part of the process. Luis Von Ahn, the CEO of Duolingo, was one of the creators of CAPTCHA, which was originally supposed to stop bot spam by getting a human to do a task a machine couldn’t do. In 2009 Google bought CAPTCHA and used it to get humans to proofread the books they were digitising (without permission from the authors of those books btw). So in order to access much of the web, people had to work for Google. Most of them didn’t know they were working for Google - they thought they were visiting websites. This is how they get you. They make it seem like they’re giving you something valuable (access to a website, tools to learn a language), while they’re actually taking something from you (your skills, your time, your knowledge, your labour). They make you think they’re helping you, but really you're helping them (and they’re serving you ads while you do it). Maybe if people had known what CAPTCHA was really for they would’ve done it anyway. Maybe I still would’ve done all that work for Duo if I’d known it would one day disappear from the web and become training data for an LLM ... ... Or maybe I would’ve proofread books for Project Gutenberg, or donated my time to citizen science projects, or worked on an accessibility app, or a million other things which genuinely improve people’s lives and the quality of the web. I didn’t get an informed choice. I got lured into helping a tech company become profitable, while they made the internet a shittier place to be. How many things are you doing on the web every day which are actually hidden work for tech companies? Probably dozens, or hundreds. We all are. That’s why this is so insidious. It’s everywhere. The tech industry is built on free labour. (And not just free – we often end up paying for the end results of our own work, delivered back to us in garbled, enshittified form). And it’s a problem that’s only getting worse with AI. Is that thoughtful answer you gave someone on reddit or Mastodon something that will stay on the web for years, helping people in future with the same problem? Or is it just grist for the LLMs? Do you really get a choice about it? #enshittification #duolingo #capitalism #AI #LLM #google — thermonuclear small claims (@fullfathomfive@aus.social)
A tumble into 2024
RT @EricTopol: The #AI Pull Over.....hope it doesn't come to this :-) @NewYorker https://t.co/GWKEQst7rk
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