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Research finds AI users scarily willing to "surrender" their cognition to LLMs
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Axel Leroy 55m ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116342671306825221

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Axel Leroy 1h ago

How's your Friday evening? I flashed my PS3 with a custom firmware in the hope to use modern controllers to play The Last of Us. Unfortunately that last bit does not work, but at least I now can read that Brazilian DVD I bought 2 years and a half ago!

Axel Leroy 7h ago

Lori Emerson 1d ago

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

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Axel Leroy 14h ago

Of course @mozilla is an inactive account. Remember mozilla.social? 🙃

Axel Leroy 14h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116337103950983183

Perplexity allegedly shares chats to Google and Meta, and their privacy policy is hard to find.

Great to know that #Mozilla pushes this service in #Firefox...

Axel Leroy 1d ago

404 Media 1d ago

A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’

TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.

https://www.404media.co/a-secure-chat-apps-encryption-is-so-bad-it-is-meaningless/

A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’

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Axel Leroy 1d ago

404 Media 2d ago

Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.

https://www.404media.co/blockade-the-right-is-using-ai-content-scanners-to-try-to-supercharge-book-banning/

‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning

Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.

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Axel Leroy 1d ago

Admiral Wonderboat 1d ago

the "upside" to AI

Axel Leroy 1d ago

« Il est désormais interdit d’ouvrir ses fenêtres » : Reworld hallucine (encore) une infox

Quand les LLMs plagient une info en surenchérissant au passage

https://next.ink/231686/il-est-desormais-interdit-douvrir-ses-fenetres-reworld-hallucine-encore-une-infox/

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A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’

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