Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
This is really demented. And Google's response is incredible, amounting to something like, Every extremely misleading image that didn't need to exist in the first place made by our dearest Gooberboo can be verified to be fake by means of a mechanism nobody will ever use. We're sure you'll love it!
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
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*Sitting with so many tech critics, staring at the camera(s) like Jim from The Office*
unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 11mo agoFrom yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Linnemann im Deutschlandfunk (Dez. 2024): "Es reicht nicht aus Register anzulegen für Rechtsextremisten und Islamisten, sondern in Zukunft sollte das auch für psychisch Kranke gelten.“
A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter than it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.
A Stenographer Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says
A judge in Indiana warns a court reporter than it's their job to proofread their work, after catching errors likely made by AI transcription services.
404media.co
Hey @grok, what are the chances that someone recording academic lectures with Meta glasses are doing it for anti-academic purposes?
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2w agohas anyone encountered Meta glasses being used to record lectures in the university classroom *I hate that I have to think up policies around this, as if things aren't difficult enough
With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video. www.wired.com/story/the-be...
Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.
wired.com
As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵
Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher
Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.
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"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."
Danger Dan wurde vom ZDF ausgeladen, weil es keine "angemessen kritische Einordnung und Distanzierung von den problematischen Inhalten in der Sendung und in angemessener Länge" gäbe, trotz 7 Minuten dafür. Beim Sommerinterview mit Rechtsextremistin Weidel gibt es immer noch keine Live-Faktenchecks
“On Friday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that Flock was officially ending its ‘human distress detection’ pilot program, an always-on audio surveillance tool that monitored public places for sounds of ‘screaming.’”
In Light of Overwhelming Backlash, Flock Cancels Creepy Audio Surveillance Feature
The company blanketing the US in dystopian surveillance towers discontinued a program alerting police about human "screaming."
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"Und das ist genau die spannende Frage: Was passiert, wenn der Staat sein Gewaltmonopol nicht durchsetzt und Menschen ungeschützt sind vor Nazis? Wer springt da ein? Und was würden wir da tun? Und ich weiß es auch nicht. Ich weiß nur, wie wichtig diese Debatte ist." Danke an die Anstalt!
Der Kulturstaatsminister wählt beim Dt Verlagspreis demnächst selbst aus, wer ausgezeichnet wird. Und der Börsenverein des Dt Buchhandels ist fein damit. Was sagen denn einzelne Verlage dazu, nur zum Beispiel die @verbrecherverlag.bsky.social ?
Wolfseule@wolfseule.bsky.social · 4w ago
Automated emotion detection based on speech is wildly unreliable, and also, this is just evil. ““The AI assistant may listen to a user(s) at predefined times to hear various types of communication, such as sighs, laughter, and/or the tone(s) of a voice(s)”. www.404media.co/meta-patents...
Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.
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Interesting: AI summaries mean Google is now indisputably a content creator and can be held libel (in Germany, at least) for incorrect AI information. www.dw.com/en/german-co...
German court holds Google liable for fake AI answers
Judges in Bavaria drew a distinction between standard search engine results and AI-generated summaries. They ruled that tech giants themselves are responsible for the content of answers provided by AI...
dw.com
"AI is forcing itself in as a gatekeeper of knowledge and understanding." #NihilismAndTechnology
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
Does looking at this sign at a restroom visit during the exam already count as cheating, @ethicistforhire.bsky.social? 😂 #askingforafriend #heidegger #hammer #veryreadytohand
Glyn Moody@glynmoody.bsky.social · last mo.“BioShocking” tricks #AI browsers into leaking your passwords - thenextweb.com/news/bioshoc... "convinced six AI browsers, including ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity’s Comet, and Anthropic’s Claude, that stealing your credentials was just the next level of a puzzle. Most of them still fall for it. " great
"This company is turning people into food, but damn they make some delicious meals!" #NihilismAndTechnology
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.I’d be cool if I never ever saw another review like this. The fact that these companies are actively making everything worse is not independent of the fact that they also make hardware—it’s actually the same problem. gizmodo.com/meta-fury-ai...
„Sie hat (…) mit 9- bis 12-Jährigen gesprochen – nicht über Influencer-Kinder, sondern nur über das Teilen von Fotos generell. Die Kinder hätten eine klare Meinung: Auf gar keinen Fall sollten Alltagssituationen im Internet geteilt werden – etwa Momente, wenn jemand mit der Mama kuschle...“
»Family-Influencing «: Das Netz vergisst nichts. Und auch nicht unsere Kinder
Family-Influencer leben von der Aufmerksamkeit für ihr Familienleben. Doch der Druck, immer neue Inhalte zu liefern, kann Kinder gefährden, warnen Experten.
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If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.
It’s just weird advertising - “our product is so amazing it should be stopped”