Species in Chernobyl disaster zone is mutating to feed on nuclear radiation

A unique species living at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site has evolved to have a special ability which could help humans protect themselves against radiation and even cancer.

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Uberspace, Cloudflare, ReadtheDocs: “Customers don’t want AI scrapers”

More and more websites report to suffer from AI attacks. To be precise, LLMs are the problem, again. Uberspace, independent free of charge self-hosting is running into trouble with their data and network usage. ReadtheDocs has Terabyte of unwanted data, and Clouflare is offering help. And the source of it all? AI scrapers. Half of...

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Open Source is sexy: AI Openwashing has arrived https://korium.org/2024/08/14/open-source-is-sexy-ai-openwashing-has-arrived/ #opensource #Korium # - Korium.org, An AI Meltdown blog by Feilner IT. #AI #KI #opensource #cyber
Open Source is sexy: AI Openwashing has arrived

If you wondered about all those "open-source" AI solutions on the market, you might be right. Not every "AI" solution is artificial intelligence, not every one of them that claims open-source really is open-source. The topic has become so prominent and wide-spread that even the New York Times made a feature on it: "Openwashing" is...

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Doggy-Style? Why AI is creating so many Golden Retrievers (A Nature study) https://korium.org/2024/08/12/doggy-style-why-ai-is-creating-so-many-golden-retrievers-a-nature-study/ #ai #KI #links #Korium # - Korium.org, An AI Meltdown blog by Feilner IT. #AI #KI #opensource #cyber
Doggy-Style? Why AI is creating so many Golden Retrievers (A Nature study)

During the last hype of AI the end of which we are currently witnessing, many AI experts believed that bigger, faster, deeper learning would yield better, more correct and faster results. It turned out that wasn't what happened, in reality AI data started flodding the internet with "slop", a process called "enshitification" – a nightmare...

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Goldman Sachs: “You probably won’t ever get the ROI from all that AI investments” https://korium.org/2024/08/07/goldman-sachs-you-probably-wont-ever-get-the-roi-from-all-that-ai-investments/ #ai #goldmansachs #KI #links #Korium # - Korium.org, An AI Meltdown blog by Feilner IT. #AI #KI #opensource #cyber
Goldman Sachs: “You probably won’t ever get the ROI from all that AI investments”

In a study published already in June 2024 – which is gaining traction among media recently –, the world's second largest investment bank titled with "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?". Tech giants are spending over 1 $tn (for Europeans: More than a billion US dollar) on AI capex in the coming years,...

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“Copyright puzzle” – Music Lawsuits vs. AI https://korium.org/2024/08/04/copyright-puzzle-music-lawsuits-vs-ai/ #ai #links - Korium.org, An AI Meltdown blog by Feilner IT. #korium
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“Copyright puzzle” – Music Lawsuits vs. AI

"'This is a great demonstration of the extent to which this technology is not transformative at all,' Merritt said. 'It's stealing.'", reports Reuters. Merrit is a country musician who feels AI is copying without permission. And maybe there's something to it: Even the big music labels are afraid and have released statements. Reuters continues: "'Ingesting...

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konterfAI – An AI tool to poison disrespectful AI’s models and training data https://korium.org/2024/08/02/konterfai/ #ai #cybersecurity #links - Korium.org, An AI Meltdown blog by Feilner IT. #Korium #AI #KI
konterfAI – An AI tool to poison disrespectful AI’s models and training data (Updated)

Some open source people have published code on codeberg that can be used in defense of your web server (or home network). It's called konterfAI and works anywhere where there's docker (or ollama itself), even on a raspberry Pi and is amazingly simple. konterfAI is a proof-of-concept for a model-poisoner for LLM (Large Language Models)...

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Announcing a new Feilner IT project: #Korium. Stay tuned, I just created a lava pile of expectations and glowing eagerness to contribute. #Korium is spelled with a "K" so there might be something to hear about it at #KDE #akademy (if I make it through CfP). #September, Würzburg, #Akademy24 #Korium!