kalkulat
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- Comment on Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 18 hours ago:
From the article:
“A total of 178 out of the 3,078 articles came back as flagged for AI … About half of our staff spent a month during summer 2025 painstakingly reviewing the text from these 178 articles…
Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source.”
- Comment on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native 2 days ago:
This is the guy who bankrupted 4 casinos. Clearly what he’s best at.
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- Comment on Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit 3 days ago:
Cash they’ve got. Jail time for CEOs will work better.
- Comment on AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive 5 days ago:
Richard Stallman sez we should call it ‘PI’ … pretend intelligence.
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 5 days ago:
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 5 days ago:
Headline suggests that this is an observed fact, rather than the result of a simulation based on a model created by several EU scientists.
Furthermore the article asserts that “The observed motions … can only be properly explained with this “flat” mass distribution.” That premature assertion, based on this paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02770-w
will have to stand up in the court of opinion of scientific peers. I hope to see Sabine go after that headline.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
Profit?
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
That’s a really fancy way to say ‘dumb terminals to the mainframe’ … only without wires.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 1 week ago:
The link says ‘zero-emissions-cooling’
The article sez: “It relies on the temperature change of materials called shape memory alloys (SMAs) when they are stretched and released.”
How do you stretch something without producing any emissions?
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 1 week ago:
Hmmm. And this is the work of the ‘Genius at Davos’, you say? And where was the electricity generated … that state that ran out of electric for weeks a few years back?
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 1 week ago:
The bot shouldn’t give lethal advice The person or company that runs the bot that gave lethal advice should be charged with homicide.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 1 week ago:
A LOT of fraternities have gotten in BIG trouble for hazing practices that led to the death of a ‘candidate’.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 1 week ago:
I asked an AI to describe itself and it told me: “I am not a sentient being; I’m a program designed to process and respond to text based on patterns in data. I don’t possess consciousness, emotions, or intentions, so I can’t be held accountable in the same way a human would be.”
The other day an AI replied: “If you have more thoughts on best practices or specific measures that could enhance clarity and safety in AI, I’d love to hear them!”
That last phrase contains the words ‘I’ (suggesting it’s a sentient being) and ‘love’ (suggesting emotion).
These ‘programs’ have clearly been designed/allowed to create a fraudulent impression that they are sentient, conscious, and emotional.
The words “I can’t be held accountable” also suggest that SOMEONE should be.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
nobody important cares And you’re sure of that because …
In most fairy tales, it takes more than one blow to kill the dragon…
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
Since the beginning of human history …
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
Because he knows his shit.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention all the adverts after all the stories … including anti-capitalism stories
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
He’s been writing a lot lately … ever since enshittification hit the fans
His blog: pluralistic.net
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure a solid writer like Cory chose those words for a reason - to make it clear that a human is becoming a slave to a machine.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 2 weeks ago:
A few more years? Try Mint 22.3 Cinnamon, like millions of others are!
- Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patchwww.theregister.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 214 comments
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 2 weeks ago:
Reading the other day a June 2011 Elec. Musician mag. Story on Moby in it, he’d collected hundreds of old analog boxes, after digital came along. Used to make his ‘Destroyed’ album.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 2 weeks ago:
it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. I quit all that tech & dozens of learning curves when I realized I was spending more time on that than on music. Think how technically shitty that record ‘Louis, Louis’ was, yet it got covered thousands of times. Can’t ‘quantize’ or ‘EQ’ or ‘reverb’ or ‘mike arrange’ a great song.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 2 weeks ago:
Oh geez, so your electric bills go up a little bit. But in 4 more years they’ll make so much money you’ll never have to work any more, just party until the day you die!
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 3 weeks ago:
There are no other alternatives for baseline power generation.
- Natural gas is FAR preferable to coal. I completely agree that coal is unacceptable.
- Efficient use of existing capacity: How many heat pumps can be purchased by the decades-long costs of a 1GB nuke? Can your country subsidize low-energy lighting? Installing more insulation in old homes?
- Datacenter urgency is B.S. … AI slop was supposed to be the topic of this post
You can’t run a national grid on 100% renewables and batteries Of course not, but the quickest and lowest-cost solutions should have much high priority. Ergo nukes should be lowest.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 3 weeks ago:
(to my understanding) renewables don’t have the output and stability required to fill that void.
Your understanding would change if you actually looked into the facts and the numbers, and change even more if you’d been keeping track of what financial markets have put their money into for well over a decade.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 3 weeks ago:
What has worked great for France is keeping their nuclear mishaps very well hidden… as it did for the Saint-Laurent meltdown in 1980, and at the Centraco plant in 2011, for two examples.
- Comment on ‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? 3 weeks ago:
That expenditure would displace the 10x the power which renewables + storage have already proven to do all over the world… that’s what nuclear would replace. Nuclear is never good news.
- Comment on The Birth & Death of JavaScript 3 weeks ago:
Well-done, funny stuff!