credulous amoral idiot writes article highlighting their credulous amoral idiocy

wired.com/story/malevolent-ai-…

Fuck Generative AI, coz:

• largest theft of private IP in human history
• generates authoritative bullshit via unsolvable hallucination
• massive water & energy demands as climate crisis intensifies

#AI #LLMs #FuckGenerativeAI #FuckTechBros #CredulousFools #IPTheft #Hallucinations #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #SocialDestruction #FuckCapitalism #weareselfishcruelbastards #wearetotallyfucked #AsteroidNow

A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05867v1

The authors prefer the term "mysterious citations" which they define this way: "No paper [with] a similar enough title exists. The cited location either does not exist or holds an unrelated paper with different authors."

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm

journo spends entire essay whingeing about the ai-enshitification of social media, without once addressing actual social media, talking only about cesspit media

we are surrounded & overrun by abject pig-ignorance

abc.net.au/news/2026-02-10/ai-…

#journalism #WriteGooder #socialmedia #cesspitmedia #enshitification #AI #LLMs #FuckGenerativeAI #FuckTechBros #CredulousFools #IPTheft #Hallucinations #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #SocialDestruction #FuckCapitalism #weareselfishcruelbastards #wearetotallyfucked #AsteroidNow

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#Wordle
#wordle1694
#Motivation
#mastodon
#softwaredevelopment
#ai
#transcription
#hallucinations
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My father-in-law is secretary for an organization, and he needed help producing minutes from the Zoom recordings of meetings (the #AI in Zoom produced too-brief summaries rather than minutes).

After I realized Microsoft #transcription in Word would require posting the recordings to their cloud, I opted for a transcriber that could run on his laptop: Whisper Desktop (https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper).

It seems to work reasonably well, though the Whisper model, created by OpenAI, is known to insert its #hallucinations in its transcripts (https://fortune.com/2024/10/26/openai-transcription-tool-whisper-hallucination-rate-ai-tools-hospitals-patients-doctors/). I was quite surprised that the implementation I chose could even run on his very outdated i5 4300u laptop CPU (albeit running at far below real-time pace).

Have I just compromised my anti-LLM stance by setting up this transformer-based software to solve this transcription challenge?

The case of “vegetative electron microscopy” illustrated here shows what is badly needed in current #LLM research and has implications far beyond. We need tools that help us curate huge corpora. We need to be able to trace #hallucinations back to the training data and understand what are the specific (to a surprise, often #deterministic) reasons in the model input that cause that particular output.

If anyone is interested in collaborating on this, I'm in, have done some small-scale experiments and have already submitted a grant proposal.
https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463

While reviewing scientific papers, Lidiany Cerqueira had a recurring problem: each reference needed to be checked, as more and more of them were #hallucinations introduced by LLMs and Chatbots. As a solution, she created CERCA during her Christmas holiday. Thanks to #Java, #JavaFX, open-source libraries, and free APIs, the number of references to check is significantly reduced, making her work much easier!

Interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVN57j1zcik

More info on:
https://webtechie.be/post/2026-02-05-jfxinaction-lidiany-cerqueira-cerca/.