Mastodawn

Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT.

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Casey 6d ago

Liam Proven 6d ago

Hating AI is good, actually

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually

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LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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By Marisa Kabas

Hating AI is good, actually

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

The Handbasket

Casey 6d ago

Joseph Cox 6d ago

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404 Media

Casey 6d ago

Jessamyn 6d ago

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded policies or laws, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program where they can get digital access to banned or restricted books thanks to the cooperation of larger libraries in more open-minded locations.

It's a great program that more people should know about.

#pride #libraries

https://booksunbanned.com/card

Books Unbanned - Get a Card

Casey 6d ago

Kim Possible

May 31

In anticipation of June beginning Pride Month:

Casey 6d ago

Col 6d ago

In the US, insurance company’s use AI to deny claims in just 1.2 seconds. No exaggeration. Cigna built an algorithm that reviewed and rejected 300,000 claims in 2 months. Each in an average of 1.2 seconds of “review.” That same system gets overturned on appeal 80% of the time. But the insurance company knows that less than 0.2% of people ever appeal. Not 20%. Not 2% but point 2% They’re not rejecting your claim because it’s wrong. They’re rejecting it because statistically, you’ll give up.

Casey May 28

Joseph Cox May 28

Therapy platform Headway is forcing patients to scan their faces to keep getting care. Is using Persona, the Peter Thiel funded company, to do the face scanning

https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.

404 Media

Casey May 25

No human is illegal. Nazi punks fuck off.

#NapalmDeath #Portland #Maine #Genos

Casey May 25

Dare Obasanjo May 24

McKinsey’s clients are pushing back against the billable hours model given its clear AI makes that a farce.

Instead clients are increasingly tying payment to actual results.

I expect every white collar field that bills based on human effort to face a similar shift to a performance based model.
https://www.ft.com/content/8318a754-7b63-4f1f-8978-7691e7ed3511

How AI is forcing McKinsey and its peers to rethink pricing

Clients are questioning the value of advice while getting more used to fees based on successful task completion

Financial Times

Casey May 24

Per Axbom May 24

If you are considering the Kagi search engine, there are aspects you should be aware of from an ethics perspective.

https://khevans.com/2025/08/21/kagi-ethics.html

”A portion of your fee goes towards Yandex, indirectly funding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Vlad, the CEO, has stated that 2% of their total costs in 2024 goes towards Yandex. He has also stated that there is no intent of changing this.”

”At least other search engines like DuckDuckGo have halted their partnerships with Yandex. Kagi’s refusal to do so and Vlad’s firm support of Yandex is quite telling. If others have ceased partnering with Yandex, why can’t Vlad?”

”It’s worth mentioning that Kagi previously listed the sources they used in their search. It seems that they’ve now hidden that information on that page, seemingly contradictory to their “commitment to transparency.”

”A portion of your fee goes towards Elon Musk’s xAI, of X/Twitter, to support Grok in their AI assistant. Indeed, you can simply not use this assistant, however all paying users are effectively subsidizing the cost of the Grok API calls. There is no way to opt-out of this.”

Ethics of Kagi

Spoiler: Kagi doesn’t seem very ethical

Kevin’s Blog