Mastodawn

Aron D'Souza's startup, Objection, uses LLMs (stochastic text prediction*) to adjudicate journalistic claims for a $2,000 fee, aiming to restore trust in media but facing criticism for potentially chilling whistleblowers and favoring powerful actors.

[…] First Amendment and defamation lawyer Chris Mattei was even more blunt, saying the platform “seems like a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful.”

oatmeal (@[email protected])

A large international study coordinated by the #EBU and led by the #BBC found that AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time across different languages and platforms, with #Gemini performing the worst. […] Key findings: • 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. • 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. • 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. • Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance. • Comparison between the BBC’s results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content #aihype #llm #openai #perplexity #chatgpt

kolektiva.social

oatmeal Apr 12

In #technofeudalism and #antihumanism:

The narrative of #AI's “inevitability” is a tactic used by tech companies to discourage resistance and encourage compliance.

[…] When tech boosters want to demonise resistance, they invoke the luddites. By their telling, the luddites were primitive idiots, who smashed machines they were too stupid to understand. History though, tells a different story. As recounted by Brian Merchant’s sublime work Blood in the Machine, luddites were skilled artisans, fighting for their way of life against the “satanic mills” – textile sweatshops powered by child semi-slaves. Forbidden from unionising, luddites smashed machines as a protest tactic. And they did not lose to the inevitable march of progress. They lost to physical force. The government called in troops, and the luddites were either executed or shipped to penal colonies in Australia.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

#technofeudalism #antihumanism #ai #promptingwithhitler #nerdreich #llm #theaicon #aihype #histodons

Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

The Guardian

oatmeal Apr 12

[No] profit from genocide.

[...] Mubi spent much of last year denying accusations it was profiting from what critics called genocide in Gaza, at the same time that its costliest-ever movie, “Die My Love,” flopped. The company ended 2025 with nearly 1.2 million subscribers, fewer than it started the year with, and lost $7.3 million on some $200 million of revenue, according to people familiar with the matter.

[...] Shaun Maguire, a Sequoia partner close to Elon Musk, became a focal point of criticism. He had supported Israel, criticized diversity policies, and in July wrote that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani was an "Islamist" who "comes from a culture that lies about everything"

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/how-vc-money-and-israel-outrage-derailed-a-hot-hollywood-startup-3d6f46ff (archived https://archive.ph/nGEKn)

#mubi #gazagenocide #bds #israel #Sequoia #ElonMusk #NerdReich

oatmeal Mar 31

Iran’s #IRGC has issued a statement via Tasnim News Agency listing 18 major Western tech and financial companies including #Google, #Microsoft, #Apple, #Nvidia, and #Boeing, as “legitimate targets” warning employees to evacuate immediately. This follows years of killings of Iranian scientists, military commanders, and officials by #Israel and the #US Iran has signaled in the past it will respond to what it describes as state terrorism with symmetric escalation.

Farsi https://xcancel.com/Tasnimnews_Fa/status/2038989536793854020#m

#ai #bigtech #nerdreich

oatmeal Mar 27

#NYC hospitals drop #palantir genocide tech …

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals

The Guardian

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oatmeal Mar 22

@ChrisMayLA6 #Palantir and #BigTech (#Google Project Nimbus, #Microsoft, #AWS …) are in the same position #IBM was in 1930s #Germany. They are the infrastructure enabling the most inconceivable crimes against humanity. If that infrastructure exists, it’s only a question of time who will use it, and when. The efficiency of the German extermination machine was, after all, made possible by IBM punch card technology.

#ai #nerdreich #fascism

Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson Mar 17

RE: https://me.dm/@ropetin/116244812224847923

We are dealing with a historic level of evil ambition here. The #Epstein class will not stop on their own. They must be encouraged intensely to do so.

Time to get creative & think outside of the box. Before they put us in one.

#ThisIsFascism #Fascism #History #TTJ #Resist #protest #resist #technofascism #NerdReich

GaryRLundberg Mar 16

Some news from the #NerdReich…

Elite “‘distinguished political thinkers’” huddle “at an intellectual confab” at a spa hotel as mad men, sociopaths, and psychopaths fan the flames in a burning world

Curtis Yarvin Compares Africans to Cattle, Cuddles A Soros
https://www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvin-compares-africans-to-cattle-cuddles-a-soros/

Curtis Yarvin Compares Africans to Cattle, Cuddles A Soros

Curtis Yarvin, the Dark Enlightenment guru beloved by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, compares Africans to cattle and befriends a Soros

The Nerd Reich

MusiqueNow

✡️ 🇵🇸

Mar 6

#NerdReich podcast

#tech #techfascists #techbillionairesSUCK

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-kwZdkiOA&pp=ygUicHN5Y2hvbG9neSwgb3ZlcndoZWxtZWQgYnkgZmFzY2lzbQ%3D%3D

The Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism — Paulina Borsook Was Right

YouTube

oatmeal Feb 26

LLMs Don’t.

Model Collapse Ends AI Hype. George D. Montañez, PhD.

LLMs Don’t Think: They process tokens via statistical patterns, lacking internal states or understanding

LLMs Don’t Reason: They exploit superficial cues and rationalize answers post-hoc, failing at adaptive problem-solving

LLMs Don’t Create: They recycle and degrade existing information, unable to escape the "syntax trap" (manipulating symbols without semantic grounding)

https://yewtu.be/ShusuVq32hc or on the #nerdreich ’s attention farm https://youtu.be/ShusuVq32hc

#nerdreic #aihype #aislop #theaicon #llm #genai