Bitter lesson of the degradation of the online commons: although vendors of digital media failed to recognize it, literacy and know-how are not externalities. Will #llm vendors enable their media products to teach people how to use them? Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.
Bitter lesson of the degradation of the online commons: although vendors of digital media failed to recognize it, literacy and know-how are not externalities. Will #llm vendors enable their media products to teach people how to use them? Educational institutions proved not to be up to the task over a decade ago when they failed to teach crap detection around internet search.
The Guardian: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
(via @cdarwin )
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers?
The Guardian: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
(via @cdarwin )
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers?
Right, last #Hackster round-up of the week, and we're starting with an all-in-one development board from RT-Thread which comes running an on-board local large language model, because of course it does:
@cstross @GossiTheDog The thing I like most about the Metaverse is that it flopped hard before it made it impossible to buy some entire class of hardware, like GPUs (Bitcoin) or RAM (“AI”). There’s a lot to be said for hype bubbles that pop early rather than late.
New from me: nearly 4,000 words on AI, the people who use it, the people who criticize it, the limitations of mainstream online platforms as vehicles for public discourse, and much more.
https://read-only.net/posts/2025-12-02-What%20Others%20Have%20Seen.html
#Blog #Blogging #WritingCommunity #Writing #amWriting #AI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #ChatGPT #YouTube #tech #technology
New from me: nearly 4,000 words on AI, the people who use it, the people who criticize it, the limitations of mainstream online platforms as vehicles for public discourse, and much more.
https://read-only.net/posts/2025-12-02-What%20Others%20Have%20Seen.html
#Blog #Blogging #WritingCommunity #Writing #amWriting #AI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #ChatGPT #YouTube #tech #technology
Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
In his 2020 book, “Future Politics,” British barrister Jamie Susskind wrote that the dominant question of the 20th cent... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/like-social-media-ai-requires-difficult-choices.html
It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi
If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/
#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos
It seems like most every other browser is all in on AI. We have chosen a different path at @Vivaldi
If you would prefer AI not to be integrated into your browser, but still like a feature rich browser, I welcome you to try Vivaldi.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/
#vivaldi #AI #LLM #browser #firefox #Mozilla #Linux #windows #Macos