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@dangoodin LWN has an interesting article on this. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1070698/f0546e940e1ed08d/
One takeaway from both articles is that these tools can be used for good or bad, and that the LLM will only look for what it's told. Evaluation and fix is drinking from the fire hose, and while one team reports zero false positives, another may find a bigger number.
Is this help or an attempt to kill free software?
AI slop is killing online communities
Most of the communities I'm in are doing just fine, with healthy discussions, much cheer and joy (and an occassional spiral into doom and gloom, as is the nature of modern humanity). There's no AI slop in there, and it ain't killing them in any shape or form.
The trick? These communities banned AI. Not just AI slop, everything LLMs and what is today known as "AI". They took a hard stance, and it paid off.
Now, the author of this article sees their communities struggle - because like the author, those communities did not take a hard stand. On the contrary! They embraced "AI"! And with that embrace comes the slop.
Want to keep AI slop out of your communities? Enact a hard anti-LLM policy for code and for everything else too, and enforce it. It's that simple.
Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/
@freecad Needed to drill a hole through a house wall for an EV charger cable... so used #FreeCAD to get the angle spot on!
Also designed a 17deg angled cover, as the hole isn't perpendicular.
#freecadfriday
Made with #gradia #FOSS
this is why we're seeing so much performative slop from those working at big tech
if you ain't in, you're out
@db ...and #Clownflare (#Cloudflare) can gate out those of us with unapproved browser configurations. :-( No #LLM nightmare scenario here.
RE: https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/116536950302945076
Related question: Can anyone recommend a good alternative to Zoom for hosting webinars A) that doesn't have AI or data harvesting issues (are there any?) and B) that is freely available and easy to use for non-technical people?
@ShaulaEvans jitsi, big blue marble, and zulip are some I've heard of. Maybe @lightweight will chime in as he's posted such things before..
On May 4th 1945, the BBC broadcast news of the German surrender in Denmark. Danes tore down their Nazi-imposed curfew blackout blinds and lit candles in their windows. Every May 4th since, people mark the liberation by putting a candle in their window at dusk. Every year, someone says: that tradition is dying out. Only old people do it now. Every year, the candles in windows and on balconies in our mixed-use, mixed-generation, mixed-age neighbourhood tell a different story.
ICE protesters sue to stop DHS from seizing DNA samples
Lawsuit accuses DHS of plugging DNA database into ICE surveillance machine.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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