Mastodawn

Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.

Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.

Where did the traffic come from?

meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).

I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.

#AIcritic #NoAI

poleguy looking for lost tools 4d ago

New blog post.

https://poleguy.com/blog/john-henry-and-the-steam-hammer.html

#AI #NoAI #AIcritic #slop #FPGA #verilog #vhdl

izzy | Technically Good ✨6d ago

For a fantastic list of folks to add to your #noAI #AICritic follow lists, see this post by @_elena - as well as tons of great suggestions in the thread!

.. and while you're here, if you are looking for a #Canadian perspective on resisting this #grandTheftAutocomplete industry....

https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116210085518302030

#digitalSovereignty #slop

Show thread

bsmall2 Jan 19

🧵
> ... how to be a good AI critic.. “How to be a critic whose criticism inflicts maximum damage on the parts of AI that are doing the most harm.”
> .. AI can’t do your job. It can help you do your job, but that does not mean it is going to save anyone money.
> Take radiology: there is some evidence that AI can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss... no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate.
#AICritic