#aisucks — Public Fediverse posts
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I love every single thing about this.
Credit: https://www.tumblr.com/alnitaks/819701060428005376/starryeyedstitcher?source=share
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I love every single thing about this.
Credit: https://www.tumblr.com/alnitaks/819701060428005376/starryeyedstitcher?source=share
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@aggyanubis Please don't share #AISlop. It destroys our climate and drinking water and is more dangerous for our future than meat!
Therefore, it makes you absolutely lacking credibility. If you want to fight for a better world, do it without being part of that destruction of the environment! -
@aggyanubis Please don't share #AISlop. It destroys our climate and drinking water and is more dangerous for our future than meat!
Therefore, it makes you absolutely lacking credibility. If you want to fight for a better world, do it without being part of that destruction of the environment! -
No one should be allowed to use AI, but Realtors really shouldn’t be allowed to use AI because that ain’t the front yard view.
https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/30125697/232-scotia-street-winnipeg-scotia-heights
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No one should be allowed to use AI, but Realtors really shouldn’t be allowed to use AI because that ain’t the front yard view.
https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/30125697/232-scotia-street-winnipeg-scotia-heights
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ChatGPT’s OpenAI, Claude’s Anthropic and now Meta have all announced that their systems have launched cyber attacks on other people and companies
#FuckAI #FuckMeta #FuckAnthropic #ai #fucksamaltman #aisucks #rogueai #fuckpeterthiel #fuckzuckerberg #uspol
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ChatGPT’s OpenAI, Claude’s Anthropic and now Meta have all announced that their systems have launched cyber attacks on other people and companies
#FuckAI #FuckMeta #FuckAnthropic #ai #fucksamaltman #aisucks #rogueai #fuckpeterthiel #fuckzuckerberg #uspol
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Amid Growing Fears of #RogueAI, Expert Urges Governments to "Bring This to a Grinding Halt"
via @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
August 06, 2026
"Facebook and Instagram owner #Meta admitted Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked another company during security testing after it was accidentally allowed access to the internet by independent testing company Irregular. This comes on the heels of similar admissions by rival companies #OpenAI and #Anthropic.
"#GeoffreyHinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the 'godfather of AI,' warned Wednesday at the #Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, quote, 'I don’t believe we’re going to be able to keep control of them in the simple way of just outthinking them so they can’t escape,' he said, and said he is 'very worried' we could lose control.
"Earlier this year, Senator #BernieSanders of Vermont brought together leading AI scientists from the U.S. and China to discuss the risks posed by AI for an event titled 'The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation.' "
Watch / listen / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/6/ai -
Amid Growing Fears of #RogueAI, Expert Urges Governments to "Bring This to a Grinding Halt"
via @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
August 06, 2026
"Facebook and Instagram owner #Meta admitted Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked another company during security testing after it was accidentally allowed access to the internet by independent testing company Irregular. This comes on the heels of similar admissions by rival companies #OpenAI and #Anthropic.
"#GeoffreyHinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the 'godfather of AI,' warned Wednesday at the #Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, quote, 'I don’t believe we’re going to be able to keep control of them in the simple way of just outthinking them so they can’t escape,' he said, and said he is 'very worried' we could lose control.
"Earlier this year, Senator #BernieSanders of Vermont brought together leading AI scientists from the U.S. and China to discuss the risks posed by AI for an event titled 'The Existential Threat of AI and the Need for International Cooperation.' "
Watch / listen / read transcript:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/6/ai -
For the past few art lessons with the kiddos, we've been doing tints and shades.
They've been loving mixing the paint, talking about how lovely the tinted colours were, and how quickly they got dark in the shades.
They painted a still life using tints, and will do the same for the shades. My eldest commented on what a beautiful colour yellow is, and how it was so cheerful.
It's very basic art skills building, but enjoyable, and they would have missed this basic joy if I'd sat them down in front of some gen AI thing and got them to type prompts. That yellow on the screen just wouldn't be as beautiful as a fresh, unadulterated yellow from the tube.
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For the past few art lessons with the kiddos, we've been doing tints and shades.
They've been loving mixing the paint, talking about how lovely the tinted colours were, and how quickly they got dark in the shades.
They painted a still life using tints, and will do the same for the shades. My eldest commented on what a beautiful colour yellow is, and how it was so cheerful.
It's very basic art skills building, but enjoyable, and they would have missed this basic joy if I'd sat them down in front of some gen AI thing and got them to type prompts. That yellow on the screen just wouldn't be as beautiful as a fresh, unadulterated yellow from the tube.
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#SamAltman and others at #OpenAI are trying wicked hard to convince folks that they're all about saving #Nature... Buying #JackieAndShadow's home and now this... Um, sorry Sam and friends. It doesn't make up for the #NoisePollution, #WaterPollution, pollution from #EnergyConsumption , etc. for the #AIHouseOfCards... But folks are seeing right through that!
#OpenAI flew influencers to a #NatureResort to fix its image. The internet called it #greenwashing.
OpenAI flew a group of influencers to a $2,000-a-night wellness resort to warm up the public mood around #AI. Days before a reported $500bn #Datacentre deal, the internet called it greenwashing, and the creators got the backlash.
August 4, 2026
"The event, branded 'Summer Camp,' ran at Wildflower Farms, a resort in New York’s #HudsonValley where rooms can top $2,000 a night, Business Insider reported. Creators posted farm-to-table dinners under bistro lights, a beekeeping session, and classes on OpenAI’s tools. They went home with branded canvas bags and jars of honey.
"The videos were soft-focus and lighthearted. The comments were not. Across TikTok, Reddit, X and Instagram, people called the trip 'dystopian' and accused OpenAI of greenwashing. One commenter told TechCrunch the issue was timing: '#TheWorldIsOnFire. It’s not a great time to brag about your $5,000-a-night suite.' "
Read more:
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-summer-camp-influencer-retreat-greenwashing-backlash#NoDatacenters #TheWorldIsBurning #USPol #AISucks #BigPower #BigData #ResistDataCenters #PowerCorruptionAndLies #AIDatacenters
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#SamAltman and others at #OpenAI are trying wicked hard to convince folks that they're all about saving #Nature... Buying #JackieAndShadow's home and now this... Um, sorry Sam and friends. It doesn't make up for the #NoisePollution, #WaterPollution, pollution from #EnergyConsumption , etc. for the #AIHouseOfCards... But folks are seeing right through that!
#OpenAI flew influencers to a #NatureResort to fix its image. The internet called it #greenwashing.
OpenAI flew a group of influencers to a $2,000-a-night wellness resort to warm up the public mood around #AI. Days before a reported $500bn #Datacentre deal, the internet called it greenwashing, and the creators got the backlash.
August 4, 2026
"The event, branded 'Summer Camp,' ran at Wildflower Farms, a resort in New York’s #HudsonValley where rooms can top $2,000 a night, Business Insider reported. Creators posted farm-to-table dinners under bistro lights, a beekeeping session, and classes on OpenAI’s tools. They went home with branded canvas bags and jars of honey.
"The videos were soft-focus and lighthearted. The comments were not. Across TikTok, Reddit, X and Instagram, people called the trip 'dystopian' and accused OpenAI of greenwashing. One commenter told TechCrunch the issue was timing: '#TheWorldIsOnFire. It’s not a great time to brag about your $5,000-a-night suite.' "
Read more:
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-summer-camp-influencer-retreat-greenwashing-backlash#NoDatacenters #TheWorldIsBurning #USPol #AISucks #BigPower #BigData #ResistDataCenters #PowerCorruptionAndLies #AIDatacenters
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Hey, #FictionPodcast creators using generative AI to make a material portion of your episodes: Disclaimers are no longer an option, regardless of where you live:
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Hey, #FictionPodcast creators using generative AI to make a material portion of your episodes: Disclaimers are no longer an option, regardless of where you live:
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The tech industry says it supports the quest to make deep fakes visible, but fears the rules will be interpreted too broadly and overwhelm internet users with banners and labels.
They released a short explanatory video
https://youtu.be/nsdZKCh6RsU?si=S-D5WErmckk9eLwh
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/31/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules -
The tech industry says it supports the quest to make deep fakes visible, but fears the rules will be interpreted too broadly and overwhelm internet users with banners and labels.
They released a short explanatory video
https://youtu.be/nsdZKCh6RsU?si=S-D5WErmckk9eLwh
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/31/ai-labels-to-be-compulsory-on-authentic-looking-content-under-eu-rules -
#AIIndustry to world: 'Somebody stop us'
Story by John Herrman, July 30, 2026
"More than 1,200 employees at AI firms, including top executives at #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Meta, and #Google, have signed on to a statement calling for an 'option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight' in the face of 'a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.' AI could 'help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed,' they say. Companies and countries are under 'intense competitive pressure' not to slow things down unilaterally, the statement says, and the world currently lacks 'the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace fronter-wide progress.' "
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ai-industry-to-world-somebody-stop-us/ar-AA294Fpu
Archived version:
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#AIIndustry to world: 'Somebody stop us'
Story by John Herrman, July 30, 2026
"More than 1,200 employees at AI firms, including top executives at #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Meta, and #Google, have signed on to a statement calling for an 'option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight' in the face of 'a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.' AI could 'help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed,' they say. Companies and countries are under 'intense competitive pressure' not to slow things down unilaterally, the statement says, and the world currently lacks 'the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace fronter-wide progress.' "
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ai-industry-to-world-somebody-stop-us/ar-AA294Fpu
Archived version:
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Imagine that! #Elon has a grudge against #Minnesota!
#ElonMusk’s #xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning ‘#nudification’ technology
By MARC LEVY and BARBARA ORTUTAY
Updated 5:38 PM EDT, July 29, 2026"Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans 'nudification' technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of #ArtificialIntelligence.
"Musk’s company sued Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use #AI to to create #FakeNude images of real people. The law was signed in May."
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Imagine that! #Elon has a grudge against #Minnesota!
#ElonMusk’s #xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning ‘#nudification’ technology
By MARC LEVY and BARBARA ORTUTAY
Updated 5:38 PM EDT, July 29, 2026"Elon Musk’s company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation law that bans 'nudification' technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of #ArtificialIntelligence.
"Musk’s company sued Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use #AI to to create #FakeNude images of real people. The law was signed in May."
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This is
a) A brilliant piss take
b) Ai generated trash
c) a + b / google juice
https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/rise-of-the-slop-zombies -
This is
a) A brilliant piss take
b) Ai generated trash
c) a + b / google juice
https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/rise-of-the-slop-zombies -
#Kansas town is getting an underground #nuclear reactor [whether they like it or not!]
Story by Jessie Williams, July 29, 2026
"A pilot project to bury a #NuclearReactor one mile underneath a town in Kansas has split the opinion of local residents, with some fearing the #EnvironmentalImpacts while others hope it will create economic opportunities.
"The so-called #GravityReactor is being proposed by #DeepFission, a California-based start-up from a father-daughter duo, #LizMuller and #RichardMuller, emeritus professor of physics at University of California, and an inventor.
"It will be the first time a commercial nuclear reactor operates underground.
"The startup has raised around $150 million in the past year, with $40 million of that going to fund the work in #ParsonsKS, a rural town in Kansas with a population of 9,600.
"So far Deep Fission has drilled one test hole with a second due to be completed this year, and a full-scale prototype canister intended to test installation procedures.
"Their plan is to send the canister loaded with nuclear fuel into a third hole to heat water a mile underground and generate electricity on the surface in 2027 or 2028.
"But some people in Parsons are worried about the short time frame by industry standards and the impact on the #environment and their #WaterSupply.
"Each reactor would generate 15 megawatts of electricity from inside a 30-inch borehole, enough to power 12,000 homes. But Muller wants 100 or more reactors, providing more than a gigawatt – which would be enough for a #datacentre.
"The design relies on established pressurised water reactor technology, but with the reactor one mile underground, Deep Fission says it could remove some of the most expensive parts of conventional #NuclearPlants, as rock and water pressure could replace some costly #safety structures, such as #cooling and #containment.
"Nuclear only generates about a fifth of US electricity, but the Trump administration is seeking to kickstart a '#NuclearRenaissance,' aiming to quadruple America’s nuclear-power generation by 2050. It comes amid skyrocketing demand for electricity, mainly driven by data centres for AI."
#NoNukesForAI #AISucks #TrumpSucks #USPol #AIDatacenters #Datacenters #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #NuclearPowerPlant #SafetyStandards #EnvironmentalCosts
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#Kansas town is getting an underground #nuclear reactor [whether they like it or not!]
Story by Jessie Williams, July 29, 2026
"A pilot project to bury a #NuclearReactor one mile underneath a town in Kansas has split the opinion of local residents, with some fearing the #EnvironmentalImpacts while others hope it will create economic opportunities.
"The so-called #GravityReactor is being proposed by #DeepFission, a California-based start-up from a father-daughter duo, #LizMuller and #RichardMuller, emeritus professor of physics at University of California, and an inventor.
"It will be the first time a commercial nuclear reactor operates underground.
"The startup has raised around $150 million in the past year, with $40 million of that going to fund the work in #ParsonsKS, a rural town in Kansas with a population of 9,600.
"So far Deep Fission has drilled one test hole with a second due to be completed this year, and a full-scale prototype canister intended to test installation procedures.
"Their plan is to send the canister loaded with nuclear fuel into a third hole to heat water a mile underground and generate electricity on the surface in 2027 or 2028.
"But some people in Parsons are worried about the short time frame by industry standards and the impact on the #environment and their #WaterSupply.
"Each reactor would generate 15 megawatts of electricity from inside a 30-inch borehole, enough to power 12,000 homes. But Muller wants 100 or more reactors, providing more than a gigawatt – which would be enough for a #datacentre.
"The design relies on established pressurised water reactor technology, but with the reactor one mile underground, Deep Fission says it could remove some of the most expensive parts of conventional #NuclearPlants, as rock and water pressure could replace some costly #safety structures, such as #cooling and #containment.
"Nuclear only generates about a fifth of US electricity, but the Trump administration is seeking to kickstart a '#NuclearRenaissance,' aiming to quadruple America’s nuclear-power generation by 2050. It comes amid skyrocketing demand for electricity, mainly driven by data centres for AI."
#NoNukesForAI #AISucks #TrumpSucks #USPol #AIDatacenters #Datacenters #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #NuclearPowerPlant #SafetyStandards #EnvironmentalCosts
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AI firms are buying up old books then scanning and destroying them 😡🤬
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYWp3ymjx0/?igsh=Y2dqcjA3b2M1aDdp
#FuckAI #AIisTheft #AIsucks #AI #uspol #GreedyFuckers #books #library #piracy #literature #aithieves #oldbooks #greed #laststagecapitalism #BookLover #livro
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AI firms are buying up old books then scanning and destroying them 😡🤬
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYWp3ymjx0/?igsh=Y2dqcjA3b2M1aDdp
#FuckAI #AIisTheft #AIsucks #AI #uspol #GreedyFuckers #books #library #piracy #literature #aithieves #oldbooks #greed #laststagecapitalism #BookLover #livro
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Ukraine (and more) update from Dylan Combelick: all the news thats fit to print, but corporate media won't do its damned job!
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and help make the world a less ignorant place while also sticking it to the MAN! https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-july-29-e45581e5e1f9?sk=04f79659c6c504a82124daf938210115
#ukraine #journalism #war #warcrimes #russia #USA #greed #billionaires #AIfail #AIsucks #losers #AI #economy #crash #stocks #NYstockexchange #fail #doom #shame #trump #maga #suck #idiocy
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EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
By Tim McLaughlin
July 27, 2026"Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday.
"The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal #CleanAirAct's #AcidRain Program, which has been key to the dramatic reduction of #smog and #soot pollution from industrial facilities."
#EPAFail #USPol #Datacenters #AISucks #AirPollution
#PollutionLaws #TechBros #Oligarchy #TechOligarchy #CorporatePolluters #TrumpSucks -
EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
By Tim McLaughlin
July 27, 2026"Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday.
"The EPA said if the power plants are not supplying electricity to the grid then they would not be subject to the federal #CleanAirAct's #AcidRain Program, which has been key to the dramatic reduction of #smog and #soot pollution from industrial facilities."
#EPAFail #USPol #Datacenters #AISucks #AirPollution
#PollutionLaws #TechBros #Oligarchy #TechOligarchy #CorporatePolluters #TrumpSucks -
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Ten times the normal daily traffic on my main website, all requests from different IPs with a dash for user-agent
People ask AIs questions, the AI retrieves the answer from my website, anonymously, passes the answer on to the user, without sending them to me, or even acknowledging the very existence of my website.
It is theft, plain and simple.
AI is an industry built on theft, concealment and dishonesty.
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Ten times the normal daily traffic on my main website, all requests from different IPs with a dash for user-agent
People ask AIs questions, the AI retrieves the answer from my website, anonymously, passes the answer on to the user, without sending them to me, or even acknowledging the very existence of my website.
It is theft, plain and simple.
AI is an industry built on theft, concealment and dishonesty.
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Come for the Ai infographic explainers; stay for the apology to artists who could have made them but lost out to his interns and GPT.
Oh. Don’t bother. It never comes.
#aisucks
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/ -
Come for the Ai infographic explainers; stay for the apology to artists who could have made them but lost out to his interns and GPT.
Oh. Don’t bother. It never comes.
#aisucks
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/ -
CW: Finding out a cool thing was made with AI
Just found out that the app Loupe by @mysk was made with AI. I boosted this app and literally showed it to IRL friends because I thought it was really cool (albeit terrifying). But upon finding out that it was made with AI just makes me sad. Not only because it means that the app is a violation of my values, but also because there are real developers out there who might have one day wanted to make this but now will likely not because “oh someone already did this and it’s popular enough why compete with it?”. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong but that’s what really bothers me about this. And while the developers didn’t necessarily “hide” the fact that it was made with AI, I still believed it was a human made app until I saw them bragging about it (turns out their “privacy-focused browser” is also made by AI, which is basically an oxymoron at this point).
Anyways I’m actually kinda pissed and won’t be recommending Loupe anymore. Mysk didn’t do anything overtly wrong, but this just leaves me angry at them for not talking to a real developer to make this and angry at AI for what it’s done to the world. -
CW: Finding out a cool thing was made with AI
Just found out that the app Loupe by @mysk was made with AI. I boosted this app and literally showed it to IRL friends because I thought it was really cool (albeit terrifying). But upon finding out that it was made with AI just makes me sad. Not only because it means that the app is a violation of my values, but also because there are real developers out there who might have one day wanted to make this but now will likely not because “oh someone already did this and it’s popular enough why compete with it?”. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong but that’s what really bothers me about this. And while the developers didn’t necessarily “hide” the fact that it was made with AI, I still believed it was a human made app until I saw them bragging about it (turns out their “privacy-focused browser” is also made by AI, which is basically an oxymoron at this point).
Anyways I’m actually kinda pissed and won’t be recommending Loupe anymore. Mysk didn’t do anything overtly wrong, but this just leaves me angry at them for not talking to a real developer to make this and angry at AI for what it’s done to the world. -
“OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident”
Fuck around and find out:
Achievement Unlocked ✅ -
“OpenAI says its models went rogue and hacked startup in ‘unprecedented incident”
Fuck around and find out:
Achievement Unlocked ✅ -
The Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce is a new unit set up to get AI-enabled technology and tools into the hand {sic}* of Britain's Armed Forces to prepare the UK for the future of warfare.
The new Theatre of War: Coverting PowerPoint into PDFs
Tokenisation of politics.
The press release is like a Ai booster fever dream.
*If they can’t spot errors in their own press release, it’s less than reassuring!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-taskforce-to-put-ai-on-the-uks-frontline
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The Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce is a new unit set up to get AI-enabled technology and tools into the hand {sic}* of Britain's Armed Forces to prepare the UK for the future of warfare.
The new Theatre of War: Coverting PowerPoint into PDFs
Tokenisation of politics.
The press release is like a Ai booster fever dream.
*If they can’t spot errors in their own press release, it’s less than reassuring!
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-taskforce-to-put-ai-on-the-uks-frontline
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From 2023... #TechExecs protect their kids from their own products. America’s children deserve the same
While #BigTech fights regulations that would protect children, its leaders apply a different standard for their own offspring.
BY Katie A. Paul, 5/24/2023
Excerpt: "As detailed in news reports in recent years, members of the tech elite have directed their nannies to keep their kids away from #AddictiveScreens and sent their kids to a private San Francisco school with a strict no-screens policy. 'I just wanted our kids to have a #TechnologyFree start, so that they would be playing and running around and picking up leaves and getting dirty, rather than sitting inside and watching a screen,' said one parent.
"This attitude extends to the C-suite. Susan Wojcicki, who recently stepped down as YouTube CEO, admitted in 2017 that she sometimes confiscated her kids’ phones. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, revealed in 2018 that his 11-year-old son did not have a phone. The following year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that he didn’t want his young children sitting in front of a computer 'for a long period of time.'
"One former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya, put it more bluntly, saying that he felt 'tremendous guilt' about helping to build the social network and that his children 'aren’t allowed to use that shit.'
"These admissions have been largely forgotten with the speed of the news cycle over the past five years. But taken together, they reveal an industry that tries to shield its kids from the dangers of technology—while touting the very same products for everyone else. It begs the question: Why shouldn’t America’s young people receive the same levels of protection that Silicon Valley parents provide for their own?
While tech executives have gone quieter lately on the subject of how they regulate tech use for their offspring, there are signs that they continue to harbor private doubts about the products they market to the world. When tech-focused publication The Information surveyed more than 1,000 subscribers last year, it found that 'Silicon Valley’s children spend far less time on screens than the average American kid.'
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By trying to shield their kids from the ill effects of the products they make, tech leaders are following a pattern seen in industries like #BigTobacco, whose executives, in congressional testimony 25 years ago, conceded that they didn’t want their children to smoke."
Read more:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90900166/tech-social-media-protection-children#NoPhones #TechAddiction #BigTech #TakeThePhonesAway #BigData #SpendTimeInNature #AISucks #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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From 2023... #TechExecs protect their kids from their own products. America’s children deserve the same
While #BigTech fights regulations that would protect children, its leaders apply a different standard for their own offspring.
BY Katie A. Paul, 5/24/2023
Excerpt: "As detailed in news reports in recent years, members of the tech elite have directed their nannies to keep their kids away from #AddictiveScreens and sent their kids to a private San Francisco school with a strict no-screens policy. 'I just wanted our kids to have a #TechnologyFree start, so that they would be playing and running around and picking up leaves and getting dirty, rather than sitting inside and watching a screen,' said one parent.
"This attitude extends to the C-suite. Susan Wojcicki, who recently stepped down as YouTube CEO, admitted in 2017 that she sometimes confiscated her kids’ phones. Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, revealed in 2018 that his 11-year-old son did not have a phone. The following year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that he didn’t want his young children sitting in front of a computer 'for a long period of time.'
"One former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya, put it more bluntly, saying that he felt 'tremendous guilt' about helping to build the social network and that his children 'aren’t allowed to use that shit.'
"These admissions have been largely forgotten with the speed of the news cycle over the past five years. But taken together, they reveal an industry that tries to shield its kids from the dangers of technology—while touting the very same products for everyone else. It begs the question: Why shouldn’t America’s young people receive the same levels of protection that Silicon Valley parents provide for their own?
While tech executives have gone quieter lately on the subject of how they regulate tech use for their offspring, there are signs that they continue to harbor private doubts about the products they market to the world. When tech-focused publication The Information surveyed more than 1,000 subscribers last year, it found that 'Silicon Valley’s children spend far less time on screens than the average American kid.'
[...]
By trying to shield their kids from the ill effects of the products they make, tech leaders are following a pattern seen in industries like #BigTobacco, whose executives, in congressional testimony 25 years ago, conceded that they didn’t want their children to smoke."
Read more:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90900166/tech-social-media-protection-children#NoPhones #TechAddiction #BigTech #TakeThePhonesAway #BigData #SpendTimeInNature #AISucks #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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#SaveMyLouisiana leads protest against Applied Digital data center
Story by Melinda Martinez, July 20, 2026
"Save My Louisiana organized a #protest against the #AppliedDigital #datacenter being built in the small Central Louisiana community of Boyce on Saturday, July 18.
"Those at the protest were concerned with non-disclosure agreements [#NDA's] signed by local officials, higher utility costs and the #EnvironmentalImpact of the Applied Digital data center. A few also questioned the true economic impact of the project, which they think will benefit the company, but not Central #Louisiana.
"Applied Digital, a Dallas-based digital infrastructure company, broke ground in January on #DeltaForge1, a large-scale artificial intelligence data center located at James Road and La. 121 near Boyce. A news release issued by the Louisiana Economic Development states it is expected to be finished by mid-2027.
"At a news conference held in May announcing the building of the $3.6 billion data center, Applied Digital board director Richard Nottenburg said that the Delta Forge 1 data center is not a traditional data center.
"Applied Digital has been working on transitioning from air cooled to liquid cooled data centers, said Applied Digital president and co-founder Jason Zhang at the same news conference.
“ 'Our design is a proprietary design that allows us to use very minimal water,' he said, adding that it’s an issue that is very important to communities where data centers are built." [So, in other words, an alleged "closed loop system"! But even closed loop systems have to be flushed periodically!!!]
#AIDatacenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks
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#SaveMyLouisiana leads protest against Applied Digital data center
Story by Melinda Martinez, July 20, 2026
"Save My Louisiana organized a #protest against the #AppliedDigital #datacenter being built in the small Central Louisiana community of Boyce on Saturday, July 18.
"Those at the protest were concerned with non-disclosure agreements [#NDA's] signed by local officials, higher utility costs and the #EnvironmentalImpact of the Applied Digital data center. A few also questioned the true economic impact of the project, which they think will benefit the company, but not Central #Louisiana.
"Applied Digital, a Dallas-based digital infrastructure company, broke ground in January on #DeltaForge1, a large-scale artificial intelligence data center located at James Road and La. 121 near Boyce. A news release issued by the Louisiana Economic Development states it is expected to be finished by mid-2027.
"At a news conference held in May announcing the building of the $3.6 billion data center, Applied Digital board director Richard Nottenburg said that the Delta Forge 1 data center is not a traditional data center.
"Applied Digital has been working on transitioning from air cooled to liquid cooled data centers, said Applied Digital president and co-founder Jason Zhang at the same news conference.
“ 'Our design is a proprietary design that allows us to use very minimal water,' he said, adding that it’s an issue that is very important to communities where data centers are built." [So, in other words, an alleged "closed loop system"! But even closed loop systems have to be flushed periodically!!!]
#AIDatacenters #CorporateColonialism #ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks
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Wait, what..? Something both the #Left and #Right can agree on?!! Maybe the right is waking up to #CorporateColonialism! Good! Our #CorporateOverlords take advantage of everyone!
#Datacenter opponents stage 142 #protests across 42 US states
Story by Valerie Volcovici and Lisa Baertlein, July 18, 2026
Excerpt: "Opponents of the rapid buildout of #datacenters held 142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first nationwide effort to channel anger at the #AI infrastructure expansion that has ramped up over the past year and roiled local politics.
"The protests were coordinated by #HumansFirst, co-founded by a former leader of the modern-day #TeaParty. She compares growing opposition to data centers to the right-wing populist movement that emerged in 2009 to protest what it saw as excessive taxation and government overreach.
"Protesters rallied against what HumansFirst calls the 'unaccountable' buildout of #datacenters and 'unacceptable infringement on our liberty.'
"In #FredericksburgVA, one young man carried a sign reading, 'We thrive on water not data.' In #AtlantaGA, a small knot of protesters wielded signs reading, '#Georgia never voted for #hyperscale #AIDatacenters. ' "
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/data-center-opponents-stage-142-protests-across-42-us-states/ar-AA28cU6m#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #DatacentersSuck
#NoisePollution #LightPollution
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#VicksburgMS residents #protest planned #AmazonDatacenter
Acie Lewis
Sun, July 19, 2026Excerpt: " 'It's being put up right next to the main elementary school for the City of Vicksburg. And there are several #environmental and health concerns surrounding these #datacenters. And so, being right next to a school, that hits home to me because I really care about children. I have kids,' said Stuart English.
" 'We know nothing about it. No one said anything about it. So, we're just finding a location and putting it wherever we could fit, no matter how many children are there. These are our babies. We've got to take care of them, and I am,' said Claude Lee, a Vicksburg teacher."
Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/vicksburg-residents-protest-planned-amazon-134114884.html#ResistBigData #BigTech #BigData #USPol #Datacenters #DatacentersSuck #NoisePollution #LightPollution #ElectricityConsumption #Secrecy #AISucks #AmazonDatacenters #AWS #Mississippi
