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Starting this Stubsack off, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have threatened to blow up OpenAI’s Stargate datacentre in Abu Dhabi.
They’ve already bombed commercial data centres before, so I’m inclined to believe this isn’t an empty threat.
On the one hand, Yud’s vision of AI doomsday is specifically “AI turns sentient/superintelligent and kills us all because reasons”, not “Humanity wipes itself out because they trusted lying machines”.
On the other hand, the absence of sentience/superintelligence hasn’t stopped AI from causing untold damage anyways, as the past two to three years can attest.
That, and plenty of FOSS software’s been infected with AI-extruded “code”. And plenty of software engineers got one-tapped by the slop bots.
DeviantArt decided to make an “AI-powered” “video creator” (roughly a day before Sora got shitcanned), because its not like dA can make things worse by doubling-down on that shit. Special highlight goes to the opening of that announcement, which asks:
What if your art could (quite literally) move?
Have these people ever heard of animation
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NVidia’s announced an AI filter for PC gaming, calling it “AI-Powered Breakthrough In Visual Fidelity For Games” and hyping the ever-loving shit out of it.
The results are, unsurprisingly, complete garbage, and its already getting ripped apart by the gaming press.
New post from Iris Meredith: Tech’s empiricism problem
New AI Killed My Job, focusing on educators getting screwed and the widespread impact on education.
OT: an interesting musing I found on fedi:
Starting this Stubsack off, I’ve found another FOSS project that hit the digital krokodil - ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI
the books3 guy
Copyright was created to protect artists from people like him, you’re not being too mean in the slightest.
A second LLM shitshow has hit vim - this time, its the lead maintainer losing his marbles:
If you wanna see the disaster for yourself, the entire thread’s still on GitHub as of this writing.
The HarfBuzz maintainer has drunk the slop-aid - Baldur has commented on it, warning of the potentially catastrophic consequences:
Fonts are a lucrative target. They require a complex parser, usually written in a language that isn’t memory safe, and often directly exposed to outside data (websites, PDFs, etc. that contain fonts). This means a flaw could lead to an attack worst case scenario: arbitrary code execution. HarfBuzz is pretty much the only full-featured library for that takes font files, parses them, and returns glyphs ready to render. It is ubiquitous. A security flaw in HarfBuzz could make a good portion of the world’s user-facing software (i.e. that renders text) unsafe.
Recently discovered Donald Knuth got oneshot by Claude recently (indirectly, through fedi) - feeling the itch to write about tech’s vulnerability to LLMs because of it.
The purpose of AI is theft, part infinity: chardet steals LGPL code for profit using Claude
John Scalzi’s shitcanned any book club plans for the foreseeable future, and AI spammers are the reason why.
Skyview.social mirror so everyone can see - he’s locked out everyone who’s not signed in.
The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.
You might think using a hallucination machine was risking their lives already.
They are being issued a handgun which goes off on its own (which killed an airman in 2025), so that tracks.
The army’s shiny new service rifle from SIG Sauer (in a shiny new caliber that nobody else in NATO uses) also got slammed by Army troops and gun nerds alike for a variety of reasons, so its not just AI that the brass is being braindead on.
(Meanwhile, the USMC told SIG to fuck off and stuck with their M27 IARs, which had served them well since 2011.)
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