RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116677365033982746
#EssentialReadingOnAI
Everyone should be paying attention to the evidence about the dangers and magnitude of the #AICon regardless of the madness of the new IPOs about to be dropped on the #GreedCulture
When AI stops being a solution and becomes a risk you didn't account forβ¦
The uncomfortable truth is that companies are racing to ship autonomous agents without building the operational muscle to handle what happens when those agents behave unpredictably. Price is $600 billion per year in unplanned downtime (total), up 50% in two years. That's from Splunk and Oxford Economics covering AI automation errors, model drift, and AI integration bugs across enterprises.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91549985/ai-outages-splunk-report
RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116659484433359308
the industry wants us to believe the βblack boxβ is mystical rather than statistical, because mystery sells and helps them defer accountability.
This #TIME page is a reminder that βAIβ is the equivalent of a pop-up ad. No one ever wanted them either.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116648209688298468
The #AICon is off the charts
Very foolish. Very dangerous.
A Reddit post about the frustration of a developer who contributed #emacsclient support to #Gemini CLI, only for #Google to transition the tool to an enterprise-only, closed-source model shortly after.
[β¦] My takeaway is that in the future I will think very carefully before contributing again to non-FOSS projects.
https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1tkn8sw/emacsclient_landed_in_gemini_cli_and_why_i_wont/
Yes. Also, the small problem of Google and AI use in genocide and war crimes, but not a priority I guess.
On how to unconvincingly weasel your way out of a big LLM π© β¦
[β¦] Mr. Rosenbaumβs book contains many quotes that are accurate, but the misattributed and invented quotes are scattered throughout.
[β¦] In his statement, Mr. Rosenbaum said that if the episode βserves as a warning about the risks of A.I.-assisted research and verification, that is why I wrote the book.β
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/media/future-of-truth-ai-quotes.html
#AI is a marketing term, not a technology. Preferred term should be the term #llm because thatβs what it is. Also, Iβm pretty sure this will be normalized soon enough and we will be told to just relax and accept this equivalent of ultra-processed food as acceptable compromise.
Brazilian Lawyers Fined R$84,000 for Prompt Injection in Court
β¦ possibly first judicial sanction of attorneys who attempted to manipulate AI legal tools through adversarial input injection.
Source in Portuguese https://www.jota.info/trabalho/juiz-multa-em-r-84-mil-advogadas-por-prompt-injection-para-manipular-ia-usada-no-trt8
Sir Dr Rusty o the Isle π€πβ€οΈ
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