The worst thing about Mozilla's AI activities? They are basically just taking existing models and slapping them mindlessly on stuff. It doesn't even feel like they know what they want to do, it feels very much like just copy and pasting README.md files from GitHub into an editor to see what happens.

Seriously Mozilla.ai: The fuck? The whole project is a bit of a mess but this meme is so tone deaf, such a slap in the face. In a time where people feel corporations abusing all data they can find it is a special kind of brain worm to claim: "Yeah, we also believe that."

It is super weird how little reception David Golumbia's last book "Cyberlibertarianism" has had. I mean I know why, he dropped a bunch of uncomfortable truth bombs there but it's still weird how little that book is talked about. It is probably the most important book about tech in the last decade.

I am a German citizen (so citizen of a member state) and I can confirm that this is a huge waste of money that shows an utter lack of vision and strategy.

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Martin (@abandonedwig@mastodon.social)

Look, I’m just an ignorant American immigrant to Europe, but simply allocating money to buy Nvidia hardware in order to train LLMs doesn’t seem...

Okay so my lecture for the Edinburgh University studies on the Politics of AI is done. We'll investigate the question if AI has built-in politics and if yes, which politics those are. Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.

Immer dran denken: Einen Feiertag zu streichen ist eine direkte Lohnkürzung. (Original title: Streichung eines Feiertags könnte Milliarden Euro bringen)

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Streichung eines Feiertags könnte Milliarden Euro bringen

Was passiert mit der Wirtschaft, wenn Deutschland einen Feiertag streicht? Diese Frage wird gerade diskutiert. Berechnungen zeigen: Das Bruttoinlan...

Oh I had not seen yet that the EFF is in the "training AI is fair use" camp but of course they are.

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David Gerard (@davidgerard@circumstances.run)

The EFF has shit the bed again. This is a stirring cry to encourage startups ... specifically, AI startups. This ain't it chief. https://www.eff.o...

LLM crawlers are aggressively destroying important community infrastructures but sadly there is not an easy fix. Still: Blocking those crawlers should be high on your list of todos (EDIT: You do not need to link me to nepenthes, etc. I am aware of those as is sourcehut) (Original title: LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut)

LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut | sr.ht status

We have deployed Anubis to git.sr.ht. After some internal discussions we have ultimately decided that the best course of action to protect git.sr.h...