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"If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines"
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-not-peer-so-it-cant-do-peer-review
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/116925717178519995
"I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.
Or just walk away.
AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.
There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.
But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.
The solution is to make sure those LLM tools _help_ maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.
We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.
And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.
Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.
The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.
Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the _point_ of the project.
This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.
In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.
And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools."
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The crypto industry wants favorable policy, and it certain helps with the Trump family is making big bucks from it.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @molly0xfff to discuss how the AI industry is trying to replicate how crypto bought political influence.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/336_the_ai_industry_is_spending_big_on_the_us_midterms_w_molly_white
#tech #politics #donaldtrump #artificialintelligence #ai #crypto
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"We put the exploit in a picture. The AI code reviewer never opened it."
This line from the article:
CodeRabbit ships with a default configuration that excludes image files from review outright (!**/*.png).
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“Impossible to predict this”, says the CxO class that keeps ignoring all predictions of this exact outcome
> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
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honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
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I took to coding when I was 9 years old because I liked the fact that the computer did _exactly_ what you asked it to (even if that turned out to be the wrong thing).
Now my professional life has turned into a negotiation with the computer, where nuance and persuasion play a huge part in getting a successful outcome.
I wish we had fixed the tooling and languages instead. #AI
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Another great story about the impact of AI with no mention to it in the headline of the story:
In South Korea a Starbucks marketing campaign is created using AI and executives don't even bother to open the email attachments to check the proposals. The campaign was published on the date of a pro-democracy protesters massacre calling it Tank Day and using slogans clearly drawing from the deadly military attack, which felt deeply unrespectful to the victims. The AI most likely learned that from far-right forums like Ilbe where mocking the victims is common.
They cancelled the campaign hours after publishing it but it was too late, the CEO has been sacked, card payments went down a 26%, refunds haven been requested from prepaid cards, police is investigating and Starbucks asked costumers to refrain from directing their anger to staff.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder
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Look at what Google's AI just did to a Japanese artist...
It permanently banned their entire Google account, simply for uploading their own old manga files to Drive.
The artist's appeal was rejected. An algorithm decided that an artist's work was a violation.
And they didn't just lose Drive. Gmail, YouTube, every service.. gone!
Artists must take care. Never rely solely on the cloud for irreplaceable items like your own copyrighted data. Physical storage is the best approach.
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Not really here nor there, but I thought I would reiterate that #commonLisp 's @kentpitman and myself #interview ed @bagder about #curl and #AI on May 10th, one day before that #news article.
https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo
Curl is a popular #networking #software
https://curl.se/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Pitman
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🦾Hoe zorgen we dat digitale innovatie niet alleen slim, maar ook verantwoord en duurzaam is?
Tijdens de Staat van het Internet bij @waag Futurelab gaf Fieke Jansen (UvA) een inspirerende keynote over de impact van AI op onze fysieke leefomgeving: van de groei van datacenters en energieverbruik tot de machtsstructuren achter AI-systemen.
Vanuit de @gemeenteamsterdam werken we met de Agenda Digitale Stad en de Amsterdamse Visie op AI aan een digitale stad die menselijk, betrouwbaar en toekomstbestendig is.
AI Innovatielead Swaan Dekkers ging tijdens de sessie in op de verantwoorde inzet van AI in de stad. Ze benadrukte het belang van inclusieve digitale dienstverlening en het continu ontwikkelen en testen van toepassingen, samen met Amsterdammers.
Projectmanager @douwe liet vanuit de Agenda Digitale Stad zien hoe we ook werken aan digitale voorzieningen die van en voor iedereen zijn. Met de pilot NodeNet worden meshnetwerken voor noodcommunicatie getest met bewoners in de Nieuwmarktbuurt. Hiermee onderzoeken we hoe digitale netwerken in de toekomst ook onafhankelijk van big tech en in handen van bewoners kunnen functioneren.
⏯️ De sessie terugkijken kan hier: https://tube.waag.org/w/aHtkW4u45jWwosEp5mMXg3?start=1h56m7s
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Daniel Stenberg of #curl and Kent Pitman of #commonLisp (and @screwlisp no affiliation) on #AI and #softwareEngineering
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#interview #archive ! https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo
8UTC Sunday 10th May ("tomorrow, Sunday morning in Europe") speaking to
@bagder of #curl https://curl.se/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(software)
targetted by trillions of dollars of #AI companies #cybersecurity scanning, especially after he rejected their ai-content merge requests. And having to close bug bounties due to #llm spam.
...And what it means for #indie #programming today. #commonLisp #ecl 's 2010 example is curl, and and and.
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@bagder That's not what I said.
I just expect people to not just copy & paste garbage, but actually deliver some proper info and actually verify stuff before submitting it.
- All "#AIslop" is, is just a garbage #UI for a #Fuzzer that does the most #WastefulComputing version of randomly fucking around…
- This isn't even as much #AI as just fully-automated testing.
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Just so I understand this correctly...
We don't want machine generated vulerability reports...
...so we can leave our #foss projects vulnerable to hackers who are not constrained by ideology in their sploits using #Ai ?
Yeah, that tracks with the current majority of #infosec "professionals" letting the Rome burn while they roast the marshmallows, feeling super pure and superior.
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@Gargron @scottjenson Hot take : "gen A.I. is a fascist tool" /me 2026 #fascism #antifa #TaxTheRich #SaveThePlanet #noai #AI
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