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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

So my view is that whatever worst case scenario you could imagine under malevolent artificial intelligence, exists today. The "life part" is fashy billionaires. The "capability part" is today's crop of ML systems. For most of humanity, we're already there.

Fashy billionaires already don't make decisions that prioritize humanity. The only thing that would change if malevolent AI developed on silicon, is that ~100 fashy billionaires would suddenly find themselves on our side of the fence. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/

"Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs."

These motherfuckers get all the resources in the world for their cult and all they can built is "Minority Report"

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Time to move away from DigitalOcean.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

@glyph When my workplace started requiring me to use them, I took the position that this was the psychological and cognitive equivalent of having to work with hazardous materials - but since there was no guidance, I cobbled together some usage patterns based on what people I know and trust have done. Mostly I tried very hard to avoid the "slot machine mechanic", because I have OCD, and there is a very good reason I have avoided anything that even resembles gambling throughout my life.

I don't think I've become dumber. I've avoided vibecoding entirely; I've taken the approach that the machine can make comments and suggestions, but I write the code and I make the decisions. (those two are, for me, very closely connected.)

But I do think my mental health in general has cratered. My depressive bouts have become more frequent and intense. I'm constantly anxious and on edge. I'm *exhausted* when I come home from work, to the extent that even "dumb" activities like playing video games is more than I can handle.

And I've gotten addicted, like I knew I would. Even though I detest LLMs and the AI industry, I now find myself *compulsively* chatting with bots, even if I hate doing so and would wish I didn't.

I'm so, so tired of this.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Has the AI situation gotten markedly worse for you this week?

Specifically: has something happened in your personal or work life, like a mandate to use LLMs at work, or a relative developing an obvious chatbot dependency, to make your own situation worse?

Or have you learned new information from a public source, like social media or a newspaper, that you didn't previously know which is worse?

Boosts for reach appreciated.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Multi-Track Fursuiting?!

Last month, I attended both DEFCON and Megaplex. If you're not familiar with either event, here's all you need to know....

http://soatok.blog/2026/09/08/multi-track-fursuiting/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

at airport awaiting flight west, Transportation inSecurity did not blink an eye at the radio transceiver and associated electronics in my carryon bag. amusing how much I was concerned … to the point of putting a copy of that FCC license in the bag

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I think it might be high time I start learning to draw boxes

Boosted by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):
balinares@furry.engineer ("Balinares") wrote:

It's fascism o'clock everywhere and meanwhile the world is like "yes but what if we can run God on Nvidia cards?" and I don't know, I'm just so tired.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social ("Nazo") wrote:

@0xabad1dea This is interesting because the result of this seems to be some pretty excellent fear-mongering that I suspect is the biggest reason so many things (like the Linux kernel) have decided to integrate such tools into processes that really shouldn't have them directly integrated. These things fire off so many "critical warning! Dangerous! Be scared!" warnings that people kneejerk into panic.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tmw@ioc.exchange ("tmw 🌈") wrote:

my cat when i try to pet her after i've been petting other cats

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
h5e@tech.lgbt ("Hanneke") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117237284464854551

well that is certainly a way to put those words together and form a sentence

i don’t think we *needed* that sentence, per sé, but it exists now and can no longer not exist

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
zip@furry.engineer ("Zip") wrote:

@soatok
That shirt is absolutely wonderful!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
whyrl@furry.engineer ("Whyrl") wrote:

@glyph @soatok The sort of person who would say "chatbots are harmless fun" would also say "don't use ouija boards - those are dangerous!!"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

when.... the....

"Nyquist sets the floor. The hardware sets the number."
that's a-Claudespeak!

when the
"Voicing is load-bearing. The critical differentiator is the cadence."
you're LLM!

When
"Outsource-maxxing escapes the trap. The goal sequence is trivial."
you're a Claude....

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

My cat speaks in a demonic language to her favorite toy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/09/cat-and-familiar/

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
orsinium@fosstodon.org ("gram") wrote:

My job now forces me to use LLMs, so I'm looking for an engineering team to join that still remembers how to write code.

https://orsinium.dev/

1/2

#NoAI #GetFediHired

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

THE DARK TOWER: THE ARTIST'S DOOR (2004)
Oil on Panel - 28" x 18"

Patrick Danville, the magical artist, draws the door into existence. Note the 2 brushes on the doorknob. The marks of the tire treads on the ground are a callback to Susannah’s trike, depicted in another painting THE DARK TOWER: KA-TET.

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/dark-tower-artists-door/

#fantasy #illustration #stephenking #darktower

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

AGI any minute now.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Blow this abomination up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/09/a-call-to-action-for-the-post-trump-era/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
imp3tuz@mastodon.gamedev.place ("imp (hiatus arc)") wrote:

Please pay attention because this is the most important #Skateboarding post I will make this year! MY CITY IS FINALLY GETTING A COMMUNITY SKATEPARK!!!

An actual home, place to call ours, to be safe, to exist!

As it stands Harare Skate Club is trying to raise $3000. I have got into touch with the organisers and I will be on the grounds with my moms car to help when construction starts! PLEASE SUPPORT US

https://tributejar.com/campaign/harare-s-first-skatepark

#MutualAid #Crowdfunding #BlackMutualAid #Zimbabwe #Africa

Attachments:

• video: a tiktok showing the skateboarders of Harare, Zimbabwe navigating harsh environments and having to skate in places with cars and no meaningful skate architecture. the narrator then proposes the project at hand to build the first fully open community park in the city of Harare. They are looking for monetary donations, and even materials (bricks, cement, etc) or shovels.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

I think the important thing to remember about science and engineering research is that even if we perfectly understood the rules of reality (we don't, and probably never can) we still wouldn't know all the implications of those rules. The laws of physics seem to allow for practically infinite combinations of stuff. We simply do not know what is possible.

So even if you don't value knowledge for the sake of knowledge, you still shouldn't laugh if someone wants money to study, like, parrot intestines, or slime molds, or rocks, or stare at an empty patch of sky with a radio telescope, or just seeing what happens if you mix a bunch of random chemicals. The universe's possibility space is so wide that it is impossible to know ahead of time what will turn out to be "useful".

So if a passionate and knowledgeable nerd wants to explore something silly, the right decision is to give them money and a pat on the back.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
707Kat@mastodon.art wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arteesetica/117232280941609264

The European Union have deadline for public responses about generative AI and the arts on the 11th of September.

Artists and people who care about art. Let your voice be heard before then if you haven't already.

PS: If you aren't from the EU but would like a story about displacement and harm in the arts to come forward I'm making a document to send in today or tomorrow.

Please share the story with a link to a source below.

Link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/18592-Artificial-intelligence-strategy-for-the-cultural-and-creative-sectors%5Fen

#mastoArt #artist #noAI

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
trisweb@m.trisweb.com wrote:

@GossiTheDog

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

the OTHER interpretation you could take from this result is that if OpenAI DIDNT steal the human labor outright by abusing (read: using exactly as intended) its access to customer data, then they just said "if we hear about anything happening, we will shoot our trillion dollar information gun at it until something sticks, claim victory, and kill your ass for fun afterwards"

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

the audacity to publish that nightmare fucking script as a way to do anything, i'm offended on an aesthetic level but also there comes a point when the amount of disrespect you have for people crosses into an attack. are you telling me you won't give me a --goblin-mode flag like an adult. god forbid a girl edits a file. instead you want me to pipe the config through jq and grep into a temporary file every time i launch your program? the standards have slipped so low that a company that wants to be valued at a trillion dollars will post an absolute mess like that anywhere on its corporate domain

Boosted by pixxl:
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

When reading about these companies and these ventures it seems very much like money isn't real.

But for most people, money is very real. I have this theory about the cognitive capacity allocated to financial decisions.

A person like me shopping at Dollar General for groceries makes many financial decisions and thinks about how to allocate money with far more care than Nvidia does when trying to find a place to park their obscene glut of cash.

Smart economic decisions make markets work.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
aCrownOfMoths@mastodon.gamedev.place ("[screaming moth]") wrote:

Hey Fedi void, I got laid off from Niantic (of Pokémon Go fame) a little while back, and bills are starting to make me sweat, a lot. I'm a senior technical artist, damn good at 3D, but skilled at almost every gamedev discipline, and I really need some remote friendly paid work (I'm NZ based). Part time, full time, short term or long term doesn't matter.

Art portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/loths/albums/648835

Itch page:
https://acrownofmoths.itch.io/

#getfedihired #freelance #jobs #fedijobs #gamedev

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
ronanmcd@mastodon.green ("Ronan") wrote:

"you may hate data centers and be scared of what AI is going to do to society in general, but as these things get even more humanlike, most of us will establish an emotional bond with our personal agents"
"we’ll probably spend more time talking with it—and, because there are a finite number of hours in the day, less time talking with people"
Urgh #noAI
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/open-ai-consciousness-morality/688535/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

"Is that encryption load bearing?"
"No, it's emotional support cryptography"