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  "AI is not a good idea for serious software but it's okay for my dumb projects." Who hurt you? Why do you think that your personal project and interest does not deserve the care that you'd expect from serious things? It's your project, your opportunity to have fun.

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  RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117581501051894340 And that is maybe the most insidious thing about LLMs: It gives everyone the permission to disrespect everyone else's knowledge and experience while in practice making everyone's position when trying to defend against capital worse. That is the core economic corrosion: LLMs destroy the foundation for solidarity and cooperation.

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117581420638052854 I have heard that exact framing a lot. It's basically the design profession's revenge on the power that developers have held in the past not understaning that they also made themseves redundant to management.

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  RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117568277192872783 That's what the "AI is gonna help solve the climate crisis" folks mean: "AI" is just gonna end our ability to live on this planet. That _is_ one solution.

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  Important reporting on the working conditions of the people building all those data centers. Sure, capitalism, it's exploitative, but the degree of neglect of safety standards and human rights is staggering. https://www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/electrocutions-mental-terror-and-withheld-wages-the-exploited-workers-building-europes-data-centres

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  LLMs have put some pressure on software development and that has lead to sort of a victory lap amongst designy/product people: Finally they no longer need devs to fight with. Just shows the typical "AI" bias: Everyone else's skills are irrelevant, just mine matter. But of course design and product shit is gonna be next. With similarly bad results. "AI" means everything is fast fashion now: Disposable, crappy, shit for the environment.

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  "Workers describe an environment where employees have genuine concerns about security or being asked to develop security products with AI, but feel unable to voice them, lest Yen berates them in front of everyone or threatens their employment at the company." Proton is just garbage (Article title: Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning) https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons-ai-reckoning/

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  "Nerds would rather be slavers than admit that their stochastic token predictor is not intelligent" reveals way more about nerds and their views on other human beings than it says about Chatbots.

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  Seeing the damage that "AI" is doing to the Kernel (not just in Slop code being integrated that will bite us later but in making becoming a new kernel developer even harder than it is at a time where we should really be thinking about how to fill that pipeline) is super painful. I think that - like Wikipedia - Linux as an alternative platform for computing was one of the new wonders of the world, something that showed that a better world is possible. And we're just pissing it awa...

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  "I suggest the social action: shame. Shame these people. Their actions are shameful. AI bros hate being shamed and they try to make rules against shaming — because shame works. None of these people doing shameful things deserve a place in polite company. They should be shamed for their shameful choices. The AI industry is also running a PR push to redefine common word usage. The word “slop” is also super effective — so the bros really hate “slop” and try to define it to mean slop they don...

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  There's a form of grief about the state of the climate, the species we killed with out actions, the damage we've done to the ecosystem. Grief about not what we "lost" but what we destroyed (often through negligence). I do feel a very similar kind of grief when I think about "AI" and what its usage does to our cultural expression and our collaborative infrasturctures.

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  RE: https://social.kit.edu/@KIT_Karlsruhe/117444063768135059 Wichtiger Schritt. Noch wichtiger ist natürlich eine Umgebung, in der die Lernenden keine "KI" Systeme nutzen und damit dann die Chance haben, Kompetenzen auszubilden.

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  If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a bigger project of disenfranchisement some willingly embrace.

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  "I find it both astounding yet also entirely expected that we are now years into the AI bubble and everything coming out of it still looks like complete shit. And will continue to do so: these companies can iterate and tweak all they want, tell us this is the future for as long as they want and and they'll never learn, because the things they're making are without any kind of soul or spark, and so will always look like shit." (Article title: Unity's New AI Thing Is A Soull...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/117348034074132365 Das ist diese "Effizienz durch KI", von der alle sprechen

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  So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/openai-safety-team-resignation/688881/?gift=jE7sd3rFOqDdQaD53F1IhcqkhImekiWN9aB9R67GhAo I understand wanting that bag, wanting to be in on a big thing. But if you thought OpenAI or Anthropic were okay a year ago or so, I really am not willing to give you any credit for leaving now. Like how much fucking money did you make and how much did you sell your book (that will of...

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  There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there". Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea of "AI" is build upon. That's a bad argument for relegitimizing X.

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  Researchers analyzed the epistemic diversity of LLMs (meaning: how many different positions/kinds of information do they produce for a given input). Result: "every system is less diverse than a search baseline. This gap is not uniform: RAG can improve diversity, while large models are counterintuitively less diverse than smaller ones. Moreover, LLM parametric knowledge systematically reflects English over local-language knowledge for country specific topics." https://arxiv.org/abs/25...

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  The only threat to humanity that "AI" represents is as the producer of increasing amounts of CO2, e-waste. As a massive polluter and destroyer of our ecosystem. Everything else is just bullshit.

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  RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/117363654848931561 Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution. This is exactly the kind of "Power Grab" I wrote about a few weeks ago: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/ DHH is working towards accumulating open source funding to be able to...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117358990093685067 100%. The whole "terrorists can use an LLM to build a bomb" is a dumb movie plot threat. If you want to hurt people, lack of knowledge is not your problem. And nobody needs to develop a new chemical to do terrorism. All you need is readily available. This is just "AI" labs creating imaginary issues to distract us from the real harm they cause.

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  "So what’s the AI artist paradox? It’s that by either having or lacking intelligence, AI-based art generators preclude the existence of so-called “AI artists”. By manifesting either an artwork or an artist, the AI monopolizes artistic contribution." (Article title: The AI Artist Paradox) https://heydonworks.com/article/the-ai-art-paradox/

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  "There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy." (Article title: Leaving them behind) https://dbushell.com/2026/09/28/leaving-them-behind/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/117348316997310623 "There is no worthwhile career in AI-anything. Simple as that. The AI industry is designed to dehumanise and commoditise labour. Everyone who has dedicated their life to token servitude has become a dull fungible meat proxy."

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  "These are – for actual human beings – very embarrassing things to admit. Why would techbros do that? Constantly." (Article title: The Test) https://tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test/

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  The EU AI Act forces you to label a lot of AI generated content like images or video or text - mostly as a way to fight mis/disinformation. For images for example you do not have to do that if they are just illustrative illustrations but you have to do it if anyone could mistake it for something real (like a generated picture of a person). I kinda wonder how that applies to code (software). The code is not illustrative but functional and "a person did it" carries a lot of weight in...

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  I had a few thoughts on why techbros always say these embarrassing, weird things https://tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test/

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  "GNOME exists as a collective that find joy in reaching beyond our individual limitations to achieve something bigger. These people, this joy, are the whole point of the project." (Article title: Jordan Petridis: The GNOME LLM Policy That I Want) https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/23/the-gnome-llm-policy-that-i-want/

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  Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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  RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/117308916091745498 Elon Musk wollte vor einigen Jahren schon auf Mond und Mars sein. Und selbstfahrende Autos haben. Und, und, und. Über Elon Musk Pläne berichten, grenzt oft an journalistisches Fehlverhalten.