#theaicon — Public Fediverse posts
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It wasn't intentional, but I just realised I'm on a loosely themed #AI reading spree. I'm currently working my way through The #Murderbot Diaries, which is thoroughly enjoyable. I interrupted the series because I wanted to read #Neuromancer though, and I just finished it. That one is now up there among the best books I have read. I loved it! I recently ordered #theAIcon by @emilymbender and @alex , but as it's still in the mail I'm now doing Network Effect first. More Murderbot goodness! #books #reading
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It wasn't intentional, but I just realised I'm on a loosely themed #AI reading spree. I'm currently working my way through The #Murderbot Diaries, which is thoroughly enjoyable. I interrupted the series because I wanted to read #Neuromancer though, and I just finished it. That one is now up there among the best books I have read. I loved it! I recently ordered #theAIcon by @emilymbender and @alex , but as it's still in the mail I'm now doing Network Effect first. More Murderbot goodness! #books #reading
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[...] “I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”
Senior executive at #Microsoft about #OpenAI's Sam Altman.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted or https://archive.ph/9jqJ7
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[...] “I think there’s a small but real chance he’s eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer.”
Senior executive at #Microsoft about #OpenAI's Sam Altman.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted or https://archive.ph/9jqJ7
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One thing I thought #LLMs were good for was translation. Apparently #Gemini and others aren’t that great at that either.
#Wikipedia restricted contributors from a nonprofit called the Open Knowledge Association (#OKA) after editors discovered #AI-assisted translations added factual errors and incorrect citations.
As predicted, humans will be relegated to cleaning up the mess LLMs leave behind, for salaries far below the value of full-time employment to do the job properly.
[…] Zimmerman added that if this method proves insufficient, OKA is considering introducing formal peer‑review mechanisms.
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
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One thing I thought #LLMs were good for was translation. Apparently #Gemini and others aren’t that great at that either.
#Wikipedia restricted contributors from a nonprofit called the Open Knowledge Association (#OKA) after editors discovered #AI-assisted translations added factual errors and incorrect citations.
As predicted, humans will be relegated to cleaning up the mess LLMs leave behind, for salaries far below the value of full-time employment to do the job properly.
[…] Zimmerman added that if this method proves insufficient, OKA is considering introducing formal peer‑review mechanisms.
https://www.404media.co/ai-translations-are-adding-hallucinations-to-wikipedia-articles/
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#DigitalColonialism Good to see it’s finally being discussed in mainstream media. It’s not just exploitation and low wages it’s also trauma and mental health. Bender & Hanna’s The AI Con exposes the industry’s hype and how trauma is outsourced to the “Global South”.
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#DigitalColonialism Good to see it’s finally being discussed in mainstream media. It’s not just exploitation and low wages it’s also trauma and mental health. Bender & Hanna’s The AI Con exposes the industry’s hype and how trauma is outsourced to the “Global South”.
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@peter these companies, including #Anthropic are playing both the hero and the villain in the same script of regulatory theater which is a microcosm of the #AI industry’s much broader deception. Publicly they warn of doom (existential risk, #bioterrorism) while privately they lobby against oversight to preserve profits. The bioterrorism research he cited? That’s potentially “dual-use” justification for the what they are already doing with fascist #Palantir (a company whose entire business model is surveillance and military applications).
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@peter these companies, including #Anthropic are playing both the hero and the villain in the same script of regulatory theater which is a microcosm of the #AI industry’s much broader deception. Publicly they warn of doom (existential risk, #bioterrorism) while privately they lobby against oversight to preserve profits. The bioterrorism research he cited? That’s potentially “dual-use” justification for the what they are already doing with fascist #Palantir (a company whose entire business model is surveillance and military applications).
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@br00t4c A great expose. None should doubt what ends the autonomous control of information serves. It is not Ai and it’s not an ethically sustainable morality, but the capture of minds to preserve industrial ecocide, as should be obvious. HAL 9000 is not sorry! #MetaHeuristicLies #TheAiCon #IPTheft #FascistsTools #TechIsNotASoutionJustATool #AiBS #EmpiresEnd #TheFederation #NotHAL
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@br00t4c A great expose. None should doubt what ends the autonomous control of information serves. It is not Ai and it’s not an ethically sustainable morality, but the capture of minds to preserve industrial ecocide, as should be obvious. HAL 9000 is not sorry! #MetaHeuristicLies #TheAiCon #IPTheft #FascistsTools #TechIsNotASoutionJustATool #AiBS #EmpiresEnd #TheFederation #NotHAL
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“ #Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of #discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding #technology and the social systems it is embedded in.” - #EmilyMBender & #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the #Future We Want
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“ #Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of #discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding #technology and the social systems it is embedded in.” - #EmilyMBender & #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the #Future We Want
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“ #Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of #discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding #technology and the social systems it is embedded in.” - #EmilyMBender & #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the #Future We Want
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“ #Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of #discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding #technology and the social systems it is embedded in.” - #EmilyMBender & #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the #Future We Want
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“ #Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of #discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding #technology and the social systems it is embedded in.” - #EmilyMBender & #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the #Future We Want
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“Today’s #SyntheticMediaExtrudingMachines are all based on #datatheft and #laborexploitation, and enable some of the worst, most perverse incentives in each of these attendant fields.” #EmilyMBender & #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the #FutureWeWant
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“Today’s #SyntheticMediaExtrudingMachines are all based on #datatheft and #laborexploitation, and enable some of the worst, most perverse incentives in each of these attendant fields.” #EmilyMBender & #AlexHanna, #TheAICon: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the #FutureWeWant