@noisediver

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I post about epidemiology/public health and other stuff that interests me. Bio: PhD/CS(2007); MSc/Epi(2018), currently work in public health.

Dear Fedi friends,

I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.

Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.

Do you have any recommendations?

So far, at the top of my list I have:

@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR

plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante

Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?

"The Internet's Most-Read Tech Publications Have Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024."
https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse

Related: Human visitors to Wikipedia declined by about 8% in 2025.
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7117795

PS: I'm not surprised that #AI tools are having these effects. They answer questions directly and cut the need to click through to sources, even when they link to sources.

But I haven't yet seen data on the effects at academic journals. Have you?

#Search

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 | Growtika

We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 65 million monthly visits.

Growtika
@pluralistic Fantastic article that resonates on every level. Newsboat (command line RSS reader) + cron scheduling has been my go-to when the news cycle gets overwhelming (such as over the past week). I wrote about it several years ago: https://noisediver.org/lifehack-using-automation-to-deal-with-compulsive-news-reading/
Lifehack: Using Automation To Deal With Compulsive News Reading, noisediver

This article is about using a linux command-line tool called Newsbeuter1 to automatically download and archive the latest news headlines from chosen...

noisediver
Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place? | Quanta Magazine

Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores whether applied category theory can be “green” math.

Quanta Magazine

RE: https://c.im/@matdevdug/116183052079063047

@matdevdug speaks my mind. This is why I love Mastodon and the Fediverse.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hackmag/116175038236533804

Link to preprint: https://arxiv.org/html/2602.16800v1

This has implications for those working with anonymised free-text and interview transcript data, as guaranteed anonymisation of this type of data has become essentially impossible. #LLMs #DataGovernance #infosec

Hi all, just migrated from med-mastodon.com, which is sadly shutting down due to various ownership disputes.