#ai

Bit of a content warning that I'm about to share some #LLM-generated slop. Just two short bits, to make a point.

I made an #OpenToWork post on #LinkedIn today partly as an experiment, and as before was immediately inundated with HR bots. I spent a few minutes from time to time stringing one along, out of curiosity. One way I know it's a bot is that no human recruiter would stick with me for that long a duration given the nonsense I was entering. Anyway, at one point it emitted that there was a job it was "recruiting" for, titled "Generative AI & LLM Remediation Consultant | United States (Remote/Onsite)" at a company named "Independent Consultant (Contract Role)". It's fairly clear to me that the bot was tasked with constructing fake job listings based off information people share. I can only guess what its actual purpose is.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #JobHunting #scams #AIScams #JobListingScams #JobScams

On "AI"...

I finally had an opportunity to personally evaluate the output of an #LLM that was asked to do a technical evaluation / summary of the state of an industry. A friend asked a modern model about a particular #technical field and asked it to summarize various aspects of it. It happened to involve supercomputing, which I have some knowledge of, and he asked me to look at the answer it gave.

It was a detailed writeup, a little over 1300 words. It had the structure of the kind of document he'd asked it to create, with appropriate sections, headers, with the information divided up sensibly, etc. It very much sounded like the type of thing you would expect a computer science #expert to respond with if asked the same question.

But some of the specific points in the answers were obviously wrong to me. Some I suspected were wrong. Some I didn't know. So I checked. I didn't check every fact and figure, but a decent number of them - and every single one I checked was flat-out wrong. It gave specific numbers or attributes for many aspects of the state of the #tech, and they were all wrong. Sometimes badly #wrong, and some stupendously wrong.

There were only a couple of things in the text that were obviously inconsistent, so unless you happened to already know something about the subject, there was almost no hint of how incorrectly it stated the facts. And of course it sounded supremely confident.

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#AI #fact #incorrect #GIGO #garbage #model

🤖 Most people still treat AI chatbots like a private confessional, but they aren’t. 😳 Every question is logged, stored, and potentially discoverable, sometimes even after you’ve deleted it. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all retain user prompts by default, often under the guise of “memory” or “service improvement.”

And here’s the kicker: a federal court order now forces OpenAI to preserve all ChatGPT conversations, including “Temporary” ones users assumed were erased. So the notion of ephemeral chats is gone. That should change how people think about what they type into these systems.

The bigger issue is that the line between “helpful personalization” and “permanent surveillance record” is blurring fast. What looks convenient today could look like an exposure tomorrow.

TL;DR
⚠️ AI queries are logged
🔐 Deleted chats still saved
🧠 “Memory” is default setting
📂 Court orders enforce retention

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/opinion_column_ai_surveillance/
#AI #Privacy #DataSecurity #Surveillance #FRCP #EDRM #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #LegalHold

Books will soon be obsolete in school

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/books-will-soon-be-obsolete-in-school/

I recently had a chance to ask a question to one of the top AI people. At a Q&A session, I raised my hand and asked simply "What is your estimation of the future educational value of AI?"

The response was swift and utterly devastating for those laggards who want to hold back progress. The AI guy said:

Books will soon be obsolete in schools. Scholars will be instructed through AI. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with AI. Our school system will be completely changed inside of ten years.

We have been working for some time on educational AI. It proves conclusively the worth of AI in chemistry, physics and other branches of study, making the scientific truths, difficult to understand from text books, plain and clear to children.

That's it. We can throw away all those outdated paper books. Children will learn directly from an AI which, coincidentally, is sold by the company. We can trust their studies on such matters and be assured that they have no ulterior motive.

But, ah my friends, I have told a slight untruth. I didn't ask that question. Frederick James Smith asked the question to Thomas Edison in 1913. The question was about the new and exciting world of motion pictures.

You can read the full exchange from The New York Dramatic Mirror.

A hundred-plus years since the great and humble Edison made his prediction and… books are still used in schools! Those of us of a certain age remember a TV occasionally being wheeled in for one lesson or another. Today's kids watch more video content than ever - of mixed quality - but still rely on books and teachers.

Videos are good for some aspects of learning, but woefully inadequate for others.

I'm not trying to say that just because one technology failed, so will all others. But it is amazing how AI-proponents are recycling the same arguments with basically the same timescale. Will AI be part of education? Sure! Just like videos, pocket computers, the Metaverse, and performance enhancing drugs.

Will it be the only tool ever needed for education? I doubt it. Will vested interests and uncritical journalists continue to boost it? You don't need to have read many history books to work out the answer.

Further reading: In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

#AI #education #history #schools

I trust #IA with government documents more than I do the government! (Or #AI for that matter...)

#InternetArchive is now an official #USGovernment document #library

by Steve Dent
Fri, July 25, 2025

"The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, #KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. 'The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern #FederalDepositoryLibrary, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,' he wrote.

"Established by Congress in 1813, the Federal Depository Library Program is designed to help the public access government records. Each congressional member can designate up to two libraries, which include government information like budgets, a code of federal regulations, presidential documents, economic reports and census data.

"With its new status, the Internet Archive will be gain improved access to government materials, founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. 'By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries.' The Archive could also help other #libraries move toward #DigitalPreservation, given its experience in that area.

"It's some good news for the site which has faced legal battles of late. It was sued by major #publishers over loans of #DigitalBooks during the #Coronavirus epidemic and was forced by a federal court in 2023 to remove more than half a million titles. And more recently, major music labels filed lawsuits over its #Great78Project that strove to preserve #78RPM records. If it loses that case it could owe more than $700 million damages and possibly be forced to shut down.

"The new designation likely won't aid its legal problems, but it does affirm the site's importance to the public. 'In October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages,' Kahle wrote. 'And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an #EducatedPopulace.' "

https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/internet-archive-now-official-us-123036550.html

#BigPublishing #Archives #BigMusic #CulturalPreservation #DigitalPreservation #WaybackMachine #Archiving #FairUse #Archives #Capitalism #Corporatism #FightForTheFuture #EmpoweringLibraries

𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗜 𝗗𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗔 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗔'!

𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝘂𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗹𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶 𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮+.
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗰.

L'obiettivo è trasformare le interazioni vocali in opportunità per promuovere prodotti, sfruttando le conversazioni per suggerire gli articoli più adatti al contesto.

Servizio o nuova "invadente" tecnica di marketing?

Leggi su ZEUS News: https://www.zeusnews.it/n.php?c=31230

#Amazon #Alexa #marketing #pubblicità #AI #IA #Anthropic

@tecnologia

DuckDuckGo ora permette di bloccare immagini AI nei risultati di ricerca! Una nuova opzione per un'esperienza personalizzata e rispettosa della privacy.
- MYCUS News 24

#Ai #privacy #duckduckgo

@sicurezza

🐢 What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study

｢ In the study, 16 programmers were given roughly 250 coding tasks and asked to either use no AI assistance, or employ what METR characterized as "early-2025 AI tools" like Anthropic's Claude and Cursor Pro. The results were surprising, and perhaps profound: the programmers actually spent 19 percent more time when using AI than when forgoing it ｣

https://futurism.com/ai-coding-programmers-reality

#ai #aicode #vibecoding