How many studies do researchers need to do before the threat of LLMs is taken seriously? This technology *might* have some useful niche applications, but widespread deployment will be a disaster for humanity.

This shit is an existential hazard, and not in the way the AI companies love to talk about. It's not going to take over the world like Skynet, it's a cognitohazard that turns anyone that interacts with it into an idiot.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimfuller/116289265413622539

Discussing this with @26aafa19 and suggested that vibe coding hacks the second to feel like the first.

I'm looking at newsletter SaaS now. Any recommendations for EU-hosted / privacy / ideally-not-nazi-platforming focussed mass newsletter email.

Don't need tracking or "engagement" or really anything like that, just a central place to send out updates and news.

Audience in the low thousands rather than millions.

No cost/fee for audience.

Spotted my first tiny balancing sheep in the wilds of Wales!

#tinybalancingsheep #wales