Just worked with #RooCode and
1. Solved a Python circular dependency problem
2. Moved 5 dirs of code to another place
3. Generated all __init__.py for all the modules and packages
4. Updated all code and ran all tests
At the end, I just typed: “revise docs”!
I AM THE IRON MAN!
How about having a new /.aibots.txt (or maybe just /.ai.txt)?
All AI-focused crawlers expected to read it.
Start off with the exact same syntax as /.robots.txt - then there’s scope for adding genAI-specific stuff like iP claims and optimized paths and so on.
#salami #SlopholmSyndrome
#BotLickers
also hyped in a gigantic marketing stunt als #AI #GenAI
#LLM
LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
Interesting observation by Langdon Winner regarding technological transformation: “by the time the issue of ‘use’ comes up for consideration at all, many of the most interesting questions involved in how technologies are constituted and how they affect what we do are settled or sub-merged.”
This is happening right now with #GenAI .
RIP hype. Mucha inversión, mucha narrativa, pero los datos reflejan que llevamos tres años de IA y los "beneficios" siguen siendo anecdóticos. Los analistas hablan de "ciclos de sobreexpectación" tecnológica y que la IA generativa se dirige hacia "la zanja de la desilusión". Ya era hora, por cierto.
Noticia completa: https://www.nytimes.com/es/2025/08/13/espanol/negocios/trabajo-ia-resultados.html
@grimalkina how surprising that a paper bigging up #GenAI could be found to be fraudulent.
And here was I thinking that the promoters of generative artificial intelligence were decent, upright folks -- scholars and gentlemen.
More on Facebook, Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg started his path to become one of the wealthiest people on Earth, with influence over literal billions of people, by creating an online place for men to rate (and deride) women.
He has never given the first fuck about anyone who isn't Mark Zuckerberg.
And he never will.
#Facebook #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #CSAM #GenAI
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/mark-zuckerberg-never-more-dangerous-20819500.php
#PSA: Via authora Gabino Iglesias and Niko Stratis, a warning about the Eden Mills Writers's Festival and their GenAI "writer".
Weekend project: New actionsMonitoR #RStats 
gets all the GitHub workflows in your GitHub account (authorized by PAT) and can display them in a searchable table
https://github.com/smach/actionsMonitoR
Written almost 
by Google Gemini 2.5 Pro - I wanted to test out Gemini on writing R code. It did quite well except for writing tests, when it went a bit off the rails.
#GenAI
[There's also a repo name column not in image]
As we approach another semester, I just want to reshare this collection of syllabus AI Policies that I've been crowdsourcing for the last 2.5 years. There's nearly 200 to look at across different disciplines. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lM6g4yveQMyWeUbEwBM6FZVxEWCLfvWDh1aWUErWWbQ/edit?gid=118697409#gid=118697409
Feel free to submit your own policy (or update your previous one!): https://forms.gle/VZXtRCJf3YnRebYr6
Alerte sur les sites #GenAI : notre extension signale plus de 6 000 sites et passe en v2.3
En six mois, nous avons multiplié par six la liste des sites GenAI de notre extension. La liste mise à jour sera automatiquement récupérée par l’extension dans les 24 h, mais vous pouvez aussi forcer le destin. Notre extension passe aussi en version 2.3 avec quelques nouveautés au programme.
#MedicalEditors and #MedicalWriters), if you're a member of the American Medical Writers Association, please take the organization's #survey on how #generative #ArtificialIntelligence is changing how you work, wherever you are on the spectrum of #GenAI usage. AMWA will send you a link to by email.
Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children | Technology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/15/meta-ai-chat-children
'...guidelines for its chatbots allowed the AI to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual”, generate false medical information, and assist users in arguing that Black people are “dumber than white people”.'
Yet I bet most will continue to use FB, Instagram, etc.
Neil Young is done with facebook, after it's been made public that Meta first created a chatbot that flirted with children, and later created a second chatbot that rationalized and justified the first chatbot's sexualized interaztions with children.
#Facebook #Meta #CSAM #NeilYoung #GenAI
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-quits-facebook-1235408277/
This is most excellent:
"Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI
Allegations
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations
L'extension de @nextinpact qui alerte sur les sites #GenAI vient de s'ouvrir en arrivant sur Google Maps.
L'odeur de sapin flotte un peu plus fortement que d'habitude sur les services de Google, ce matin...
#PSA #Authors #Writing #GenAI #Meta #Anthropic #AnthropicClassAction
Deadline to join the class action against Meta/Anthropic: Friday August 15, 2025.
"Submitting your information here does not make you a member of the Class. But, if you are a member of the class, submitting your information will help us direct formal notice of the class action at the appropriate time."
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/
Gift link to The Atlantic database search tool:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/?gift=uvbqc-y7RgcozRTSY7kANHrt8LyDF9nPyN5h5Dmp4rE
Please share widely!
Why is this happening?
Hmmm... let's see...
unaffordable #housing
#unemployment thanks to #genai
#climatechange
#misinformation
#disinformation
#aislop
#authoritarianism #fascism
#enshittification #socialmedia
What else?
Reading more and more about #LLM inherent limitations, either from design or data *scarcity*[^1], I can't help but notice that they perfectly illustrate Michael Polanyi's vision of scientific knowledge as an construction rising from what is actually written and publicly communicated among peers, what is not written and still communicated among peers (direct teaching, empirical recipes...), and what is not written nor taught, that is personal knowledge.[^2]
This also extends to some degrees to other constructed knowledge and is one the reasons the current #GenAI goals (or at least the one people think Generative AI is made for) are doomed to fail. If AI models can only interact with written data and can't make "inner working models" of the world, they're basically useless as sources of insights. If they analyze only textual description through their statistical training without taking context into account, they can't/don't interact with described material, and hence can't make any relevant "inner working models". This is something that I see more and more when several different people conclude again and again that training data and parameters are more important when summing up a text than the actual content of the text to sum up.
This convinces me that the best way to fight genAI brute force enforcement in institutions is to teach people how they work and give them all the tools to provide the counter-arguments against it and its false promises. It can't replace people so it won't replace peoples' work and that is something we have to tell again and again to all the technophilic bigots out there.
Thought inspired by the last piece from @Iris. Thanks for sharing.
[^1]: Pun intended. They poured the whole internet in their shit. So now what?
[^2]: A good read: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo19722848.html
