Do you still wear a mask?
I hardly ever see people with masks anymore, at least here, so I'd be interested in a more global answer. Thanks!
| Yes, always | |
| Yes, often | |
| Hardly ever | |
| Not anymore |
Bike geek and computer toucher living in Oxford, UK. Will boost puns. Inception date 1976, fediverse since 2016.
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I don't normally accept followers without pronouns, profile pics, and actual personality in their bio. Generative AI slop isn't welcome on my timeline.
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| refugees | welcome here |
| trans rights | now |
| fedi since | 2016-11-22 |
Do you still wear a mask?
I hardly ever see people with masks anymore, at least here, so I'd be interested in a more global answer. Thanks!
| Yes, always | |
| Yes, often | |
| Hardly ever | |
| Not anymore |
Here's a thought experiment.
Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.
If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?
If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one would you buy?
| AI mark signals HIGHER quality | |
| AI mark signals NO DIFFERENCE in quality | |
| AI mark signals LOWER quality |
Anyone sleeping on the #LearnLockpickingWithAlice posts is seriously missing out! 🔓
Just LOADS of amazing advice. 🤩
So Ars Technica "wrote" an "article" about the "AI" bot instructed to puke some slop pretending to be discriminated against, and the Ars article contained "comments" from a developer that were not in the linked article, and were, in fact, entirely made up, 99% likely by "AI", possibly because the Ars author instructed the "AI" to summarize the linked article, and now Ars has deleted the "article" and comments?
How ever could this happen to a for-profit website owned by a giant media conglomerate who also sold their content rights to "AI" companies? It will always remain a mystery.

Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name
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Ever wonder how many times you fart per day? Now’s your chance to find out and help researchers at the University of Maryland develop a baseline for measuring flatulence that’ll aid physicians responding to patients’ complaints about gas.
👉 You'll get to wear Smart Underwear to track intestinal gas and be on the Human Flatus Atlas!
The goal of the nationwide study is to quantify human farting and assess what various ranges reveal about people’s gut health.
Meanwhile, the UK has signed contracts worth over £800 million with Palantir for NHS and Ministry of Defence systems. British MPs are now asking awkward questions about why their due diligence has reached such a different conclusion.
Switzerland chose sovereignty over convenience. They chose not to risk using Palantir.
Other countries should be asking themselves: if Switzerland deemed these risks unacceptable, what are we missing?
What do you think?
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