#aiassisted — Public Fediverse posts

Forward Kentucky: Kentucky counties struggle with how to regulate data centers. “In rural Bell County, Kentucky, residents’ activism led to a two-year moratorium on data center construction, while other counties continue to grapple with how to zone and regulate the massive, energy-intensive facilities.”

NASA: NASA’s COFFIES Uses AI to Predict Storm-Causing Active Regions on Sun . “As humanity looks to the Moon and stars for future exploration, predicting space weather — conditions in space primarily driven by the Sun — is more important than ever. Now, a team of astrophysicists and data scientists with NASA’s COFFIES (Consequence Of Fields and Flows in the Interior and Exterior of the […]

New York Times: Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App. This link goes to a gift article. “Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automatically enabled Gemini in Classroom only for students 18 or older.”

The Guardian: ‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech. “Near the collonaded entrance to Sony Pictures’ historic Culver City film studio, a tech-powered rival has sprung up this summer. The artists at Promise, a new studio feeding off the potential of AI, can glimpse the lots where Singin’ in the Rain and Men in Black were […]

Mother Jones: The Tate Brothers’ Lawyer Is on an Aggressive, AI-Riddled Quest to Win Their Release. “[Joseph] McBride, a New York attorney representing both brothers, has launched an aggressive, quixotic, and highly public quest to free the Tates and promote a positive image of the two men. He’s using several tools to do so, including podcasting (both on his own, entitled Judgment Day, and […]

San Francisco Standard: This BlackRock analyst wants to fix journalism. Step one? Skip the journalists. “In one example of The Dissent’s parasitic approach, [Dakota] Carrasco’s site regurgitated and reduced a 7,000-word investigation of a complex real-estate battle by The Standard’s Sam Mondros into a 400-word summary(opens in new tab) without mentioning the original work at all.”

Gowers’s Weblog: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?. “A first remark here is that LLMs are not just good at finding counterexamples: they can find proofs of difficult statements as well. However, it is notable that the most famous problems they have solved have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs. That is true of the two problems mentioned above, and also of the Jacobian […]

Sun-Journal: Is the Maine news on your social media feed AI-generated? How you can tell.. “Paywall-free, editorially derelict and tuned for social media engagement, AI local news is exploding online in Maine in the age of the attention-grabbing algorithm and declining trust in legacy media. While some avid news readers are skeptical of these sites, others engage unknowingly, with the sometimes […]

Alabama Reflector: The data center industry’s PR blitz is backfiring. “The public relations push isn’t working, said Jeremy Solomon, president and founder of Learnewable. His company uses AI to analyze government ordinances, moratoria and public comments about data centers, renewable energy and electric transmission projects in each of the nation’s 3,144 counties. Nationwide, […]

Arizona Republic: Data centers guzzle Arizona’s water and power. We calculated how much. “The Republic found that data centers already operating in the region have a combined capacity of at least 2.3 gigawatts. That’s enough power to serve a medium-sized city composed of 300,000 to 500,000 homes. Planned data centers could bring at least 8.5 additional gigawatts onto the local grid. That’s […]

Washington Post: Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight. “Across the Capitol, lawmakers and staffers are using artificial intelligence to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, prepare questions for congressional hearings and draft amendments. Even as politicians are debating how to govern AI for the rest of America, Congress has already settled how it […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google AI Overviews With AI-Generated Images In The Wild. “A month ago, we reported that Google said it would be rolling out AI-generated images within AI Overviews in Google Search. Well, it seems Google is starting to roll out those AI-generated images in AI Overviews this week.”

The Register: Russian missile uses Nvidia AI chip to help target Ukraine. “The Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported this week that it spotted an Nvidia Jetson Orin module in the remains of a Russian S-71 Monochrome cruise missile. The S-71M is an air-launched weapon with autonomous capabilities that can reportedly search for and engage targets using optical sensors and […]

NASA: Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Rare Clouds. “Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes (e.g. shifts in Earth’s long-term weather patterns), scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images of these clouds as a part […]

Search Engine Journal: OpenAI Says Robots.txt May Not Apply To ChatGPT’s Fetch Bot. “ChatGPT’s page-fetching bot is disallowed by more sites than any other AI bot of its kind. It also reached disallowed pages on more sites than any other bot. OpenAI says robots.txt rules may not apply to it because a person asked for the page.”

Spectrum News: Ohio schools now required to enforce an AI policy. “The state of Ohio now requires all grades K-12 schools to adopt an AI policy. State officials say it allows schools to integrate the software to help students learn and process new material.”

Futurism: Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia. “Elon Musk’s “maximum truth-seeking” AI Grok is dropping some nuclear takes about its creator. ‘ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN,’ the notoriously foul-mouthed chatbot raged on X this Tuesday. Shortly afterwards, as if hyping up a political campaign, it called for violence: ‘ASSASSINATE ELON MUSK 2026.'”

AL.com: VA says AI helps staff serve veterans faster, answers 53,000 questions since April. “The AI tool, VA ChatEHR, uses VA procedures, policies and training materials to answer medical staff questions about workflows and navigation of the Federal EHR, said Alan Greilsamer, a communications executive with the department, in a news release on Aug. 4.”

TechSpot: Microsoft is killing off SMS login codes, citing AI-powered hacking. “Sending codes to users via SMS has long been discredited as the least secure multi-factor authentication method, and Microsoft will soon discontinue support for this practice altogether. Citing the rising danger of hackers armed with AI tools, the company has now provided a timeline for phasing out SMS codes.”

Pocketables: You’ve got a 4GB Gemini Nano AI in your Chrome folder – want to talk to it?. “Assuming you are running Windows or on a Mac and have not uninstalled and blocked that, and you’re running an up-to-date Chrome, you might be wondering ‘can I talk to Gemini Nano on my computer from this totally not sketchy looking website?’ The answer appears to be yes. Might work on Android and […]

Pennsylvania Capital-Star: More data center proposals keep coming to Pennsylvania. So does the outcry.. “In January, as her curiosity about data centers grew, longtime Pennsylvania environmental activist Karen Feridun turned to Facebook to create a group she hoped would allow those who felt similar to ask questions, too. Two months later, the group surpassed 500 members. And in the weeks that […]

Futurism: Internal Google Document Reveals That Its HR AI Has Been Throwing Résumés From Qualified Applicants Straight Into the Trash. “The document, which contains the delicious disclaimer ‘PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS DOC WIDELY,’ is ironically the product of Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team. Taken at face value, it pretty blatantly admits that whatever AI-integrated hiring […]

UC Berkeley News: Why we don’t need more data centers to build better AI. “The explosive growth of AI technology is fueling massive demand for data centers, spurring some seemingly outlandish ideas about where to put these new facilities. At the same time, growing concern about the environmental costs of data centers — which gobble up large amounts of energy and water — is prompting some […]

Ars Technica: Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?. “The number of papers indexed in the databases Scopus and Web of Science, for example, has recently been increasing exponentially, at a rate of 5.6 percent per year. By one estimate, researchers around the globe are devoting a collective 15,000 years of work to peer review every year—work that, if paid, would cost $1.5 […]

Hackaday: Grading Tomatoes With An ESP32 And ML. “If you’ve ever worked with produce, you might know about grading. In addition to deciding if, say, a strawberry is good or not, they also have to sort them by color. Turns out, you don’t care if one package of berries is a bit redder than another, but you do care if one package has too much color variation. [Pmalfa31] applied an ESP32 and […]

Fast Company: AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive. “…the LGBT History Project… recently passed 50 million views since its launch in 2011 and has been archived by the British Library for posterity. But an onslaught of AI bots seeking to scrape its content nearly took it offline, bringing the site to a crawl while also making it more […]

Columbia Journalism Review: Axios Wants to Save Local News with AI. “Every media company faces existential questions about the rise of AI, especially this one: How should newsrooms get paid for the information AI spits out and the models that were trained on journalists’ work? The New York Times has sought to answer this question in court. Some (including the Times) have struck licensing […]

MakeUseOf: This site lets you compare frontier AI models with your own prompt (and for free) . “Sure, newer models are better, but people have preferences, and certain models may provide better results than others. I, for example, prefer to use Claude Sonnet 5 because it’s usually straightforward and uses fewer fluff words. The problem is that trying different AI models usually means jumping […]

Stateline: Schools spend billions on AI, but struggle to figure out what’s worth buying. “As a new school year begins, some classrooms may use artificial intelligence tools to flag a student struggling with classwork, track attendance or try to raise reading scores. But as school districts make decisions on which tools are safe and worth spending thousands or millions of dollars on, some […]

The Register: ‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency. “Suspected Chinese cyber operatives used publicly available AI tools to compromise Taiwanese government systems before expanding the attack to its nuclear safety agency, supply-chain vendors, and at least seven energy companies in what security researchers called a ‘near-autonomous attack.'”