What if #AI Isn't #Intelligence but #AntiIntelligence?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202505/what-if-ai-isnt-intelligence-but-anti-intelligence

Received this survey through work. I'm sure everyone knows what I checked off...

Natural Intelligence - Orion Magazine
Mushrooms made the world what it is
#Mycology #Mushrooms #MariaPopova #ai
https://orionmagazine.org/article/natural-intelligence/

Meta’s “Private Processing” for WhatsApp AI claims privacy, but critics say routing messages through cloud TEEs undermines end-to-end encryption.

https://engineering.fb.com/2025/04/29/security/whatsapp-private-processing-ai-tools/

Researchers Warn Against Treating #AI Outputs as Human-Like #Reasoning - Slashdot

#Arizona State University researchers are pushing back [PDF] against the widespread practice of describing AI language models' intermediate text generation as "reasoning" or "thinking," arguing this #anthropomorphization creates dangerous misconceptions about how these systems actually work

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/1411236/researchers-warn-against-treating-ai-outputs-as-human-like-reasoning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Researchers Warn Against Treating AI Outputs as Human-Like Reasoning - Arizona State University researchers are pushing back [PDF] against the widespread... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/29/1411236/researchers-warn-against-treating-ai-outputs-as-human-like-reasoning?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

The New York Times has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Amazon that will include summaries and short excerpts of The Times’ content in products like Alexa, and will also use Times articles to help train its AI models. Read more at @theverge. #AI #NYT #Amazon #Journalism #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/HoQlN4

“An AI version of Gayanne Potter's voice is being used on Scotland’s trains

– but she has told Sky News she had no idea until a friend called her”

Is this even legal?

https://news.sky.com/video/womans-voice-used-as-artificial-intelligence-train-announcer-without-her-knowing-13375688

Hallucinating #GoldStandard science

"The #MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist."
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

"Health Secretary #RFKJr says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science, citing more than 500 studies and other sources to back up its claims. Those citations, though, are rife with errors, from broken links to misstated conclusions. Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all."

"Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:

AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office.

Amodei said AI companies and government need to stop "sugar-coating" what's coming: the possible mass elimination of jobs across technology, finance, law, consulting and other white-collar professions, especially entry-level gigs."

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

At BIML, we have been talking about recursive pollution and model collapse since 2020. Need some evidence? Look no further than search...

#MLsec #ML #AI

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse

‘Without data, there is no AI’ has become a mantra for our data-centric AI programme. But what does that mean in 2025? We’ve taken a look at the rapidly evolving AI data ecosystem to see. Find out more
#Data #AI
https://theodi.org/news-and-events/blog/how-the-data-for-ai-ecosystem-is-evolving/

Disillusioned & distanced from #Trump, #Musk says he’s exiting Washington & made clear he is frustrated w/obstacles he encountered as he tried to upend the #FederalGovernment

Musk dissed Trump’s signature domestic policy, saying it would add to the #deficit. He complained about a lucrative deal that went to a rival co to build an #AI #DataCenter in the #MiddleEast. And he has yet to make good on a $100M pledge to Trump’s political operation.

#BooMutherFuckinHoo #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=94709C91-3556-4635-8095-65DC81177EF3

AI rip-offs targeting sapphic books https://jae-fiction.com/ai-rip-offs-targeting-sapphic-books/ #AI @bookstodon #PSA #Books

Telegram’s $300M xAI deal to integrate Grok endangers privacy. With no default end-to-end encryption, chats are vulnerable to AI misuse. Switch to secure alternatives like Signal or Simplex for real privacy protection.

#AI #Privacy #tech #telegram #x

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/xai-to-invest-300m-in-telegram-integrate-grok-into-app/

reCAPTCHA: Verify you are human by selecting all images below that match this species <AI-slop image of a dog>.
Me: bulldog, chihuahua, something with fur and sunglasses that looks as though it's escaped from a David Cronenberg film, avocado. <laugh-groans awkwardly and clicks the "Submit" button>
CAPTCHA: Excellent, human, you may proceed!

However you feel about AI, it's a big part of the modern software landscape.

@ProPublica is hiring a two-year AI engineering fellow in collaboration with @lenfestinstitute.

We're not cheerleaders or naysayers; we want to explore ways that it might support the newsroom, while remaining anchored in real human problems and strongly adhering to our values, standards, and strict need for safety.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4563500006

At this point, I really can't tell if Mozilla hates the web or hates publishers more. This is pitched as a good thing for users, but this will also, well, hurt indieweb folk too!

Even though this is pitched as a win for users, I think Mozilla is trying to be Google. They see what they are doing and are like aw shucks! You mean we could have been this web hostile all along?

Just another thing to add to their anti-web practices they've been doing lately.

I utterly despise Engadget as a publication, but,

excerpt. Mozilla's Firefox has joined Chrome, Edge and other browsers in offering AI-powered overviews, but this time with a twist. The latest version lets you use a keyboard shortcut to open a pop-up that previews a link's contents when you hover over it from any web page. It's a new way that AI is being integrated into browsers that may help users but hurt publishers.

*sigh* hey Engadget, it makes up text, so it automatically is broken and not useful to users.

If this were a standard link preview feature? I'd be fine with it, but it scrapes and extracts texts. Also, fucking Hugging Face. Really?

https://www.engadget.com/ai/the-war-on-links-escalates-with-firefoxs-experimental-ai-previews-123059735.html/

I think we know most of this thinking, but it still chills to see it spelled out.

Silicon Valley’s Misguided Utopian Visions - The Atlantic
#Tech #AI #Culture
https://archive.ph/8FUXn