Found an interesting sneer that compares the AI bubble to the Great Leap Forward.

Also discovered an “anti-distill” program through the article, which aims to sabotage attempts to replace workers with AI “agents”.

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Starting this Stubsack off, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have threatened to blow up OpenAI’s Stargate datacentre in Abu Dhabi.

They’ve already bombed commercial data centres before, so I’m inclined to believe this isn’t an empty threat.

On the one hand, Yud’s vision of AI doomsday is specifically “AI turns sentient/superintelligent and kills us all because reasons”, not “Humanity wipes itself out because they trusted lying machines”.

On the other hand, the absence of sentience/superintelligence hasn’t stopped AI from causing untold damage anyways, as the past two to three years can attest.

That, and plenty of FOSS software’s been infected with AI-extruded “code”. And plenty of software engineers got one-tapped by the slop bots.

DeviantArt decided to make an “AI-powered” “video creator” (roughly a day before Sora got shitcanned), because its not like dA can make things worse by doubling-down on that shit. Special highlight goes to the opening of that announcement, which asks:

What if your art could (quite literally) move?

Have these people ever heard of animation

(h/t @krakelwok on Bluesky)

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NVidia’s announced an AI filter for PC gaming, calling it “AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games” and hyping the ever-loving shit out of it.

The results are, unsurprisingly, complete garbage, and its already getting ripped apart by the gaming press.

New post from Iris Meredith: Tech’s empiricism problem

New AI Killed My Job, focusing on educators getting screwed and the widespread impact on education.

OT: an interesting musing I found on fedi:

Starting this Stubsack off, I’ve found another FOSS project that hit the digital krokodil - ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI

the books3 guy

Copyright was created to protect artists from people like him, you’re not being too mean in the slightest.

A second LLM shitshow has hit vim - this time, its the lead maintainer losing his marbles:

If you wanna see the disaster for yourself, the entire thread’s still on GitHub as of this writing.

OT: A spiritual successor to Adobe Flash is in the works, and its dev already has a Patreon up and running

The HarfBuzz maintainer has drunk the slop-aid - Baldur has commented on it, warning of the potentially catastrophic consequences:

Fonts are a lucrative target. They require a complex parser, usually written in a language that isn’t memory safe, and often directly exposed to outside data (websites, PDFs, etc. that contain fonts). This means a flaw could lead to an attack worst case scenario: arbitrary code execution. HarfBuzz is pretty much the only full-featured library for that takes font files, parses them, and returns glyphs ready to render. It is ubiquitous. A security flaw in HarfBuzz could make a good portion of the world’s user-facing software (i.e. that renders text) unsafe.

Recently discovered Donald Knuth got oneshot by Claude recently (indirectly, through fedi) - feeling the itch to write about tech’s vulnerability to LLMs because of it.

The purpose of AI is theft, part infinity: chardet steals LGPL code for profit using Claude

John Scalzi’s shitcanned any book club plans for the foreseeable future, and AI spammers are the reason why.

Skyview.social mirror so everyone can see - he’s locked out everyone who’s not signed in.