#AI will make language barriers disappear – and diminish our understanding of other cultures. Machines may soon translate every conversation flawlessly. But language is more than information – it is curiosity, intimacy and cultural discovery.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/may/09/ai-interpretation-diego-marani

Me: Verify.

#Claude: "The claim was fabricated. (...) I made it up. I have no basis for it. It's the same failure mode as the last one — a plausible-sounding specific claim invented to make a generalization feel concrete and supported. (...) I'm prone to inventing supporting detail that sounds locally plausible."

#AI #LLM

AI token subsidies seem to be ending across the industry.

GitHub Copilot has paused new signups on a number of plans, removed Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing later this year.

Usage quotas are also being reduced and users will hit limits sooner.

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/

The reason Keir Starmer cannot condemn this extrajudicial killing of Alex Pretti is because HE has used the same process as the DHS ICE agents.

ICE agents have claimed he was a ‘domestic terrorist’.

Keir Starmer has claimed that 83 year old vicars, people using wheelchairs, pensioners and others holding cardboard signs are ‘domestic terrorists’.

How can he condemn ICE when his pathetic, weak use of ‘domestic terrorism classifications’ makes him complicit.