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- on How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month in c/technology@beehaw.org · 3d ago
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on Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed… in c/technology@beehaw.org · 3d ago
This headline should be eye opening for LLM AI users, regarless of the outcome of this lawsuit.
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on US coal ‘biggest contributor by far’ to rise in global emissions in c/technology@beehaw.org · 15 Sep 2026
The rise in coal use was largely driven by the growth of data centres
AI summaries, agents, chatbots, brought to you by coal and tech oligarchs.
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on Matrix Metadata Problem: the server sees everything except your messages in c/foss@beehaw.org · 11 Sep 2026
It lacks a comparison to other apps…
Yes. Would love to see this compared to XMPP, maybe Signal.
And does it actually matter? What is important to encrypt?
It matters a lot! Here’s one dramatic example:
Some may find this acceptable, considering the army is rightfully targetting terrorists. However the same techniques are used by autoritarian states to target political opponents, journalists, human right defenders…
It’s strange that the server shares the IP to other servers. That’s not really useful for another server.
Even if there’s a technical reason, it shows the protocol or implementations lack good metadata protections. Hopefully the matrix foundation can fix this soon. If not, people should look for more secure options.
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on AMD unveils ‘personal super computer’ for new era of computing (if you have €100,000+) in c/technology@piefed.social · 8 Sep 2026
This is a symptom of a regression in the democratization of general purpose computing. An extreme case for sure.
Machines are getting increasingly expensive, and the number of person who can affort a computer decreases. Reversing decades of progress in computer availability, thanks to AI and techbros.
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on AI Is Creating New Jobs But Millions of Workers May Not Be Ready in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5 Sep 2026
This article have lots of signs it was in large part AI generated. Multiples lists, em-dashes, AI generated illustrations.
I don’t see any clear disclosure on the article’s page, but there’s a AI policy page explaining how it’s used in many way, including for the writing.
It makes it hard to take this seriously. If this online media don’t bother writing articles themselves, why bother reading them?
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on Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images in c/technology@beehaw.org · 30 Aug 2026
1.67 MB in size, which is unusually large for such trivial functionality
Don’t underestimate Microsoft’s ability to write bloated software. Any sloppy developer really.
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on Quantum Computer Solves a Problem in 15 Minutes That Classical Methods Can’t Practically Compute in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23 Aug 2026
It’s too early to publish a news article about it, then.
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on ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected in c/technology@beehaw.org · 13 Aug 2026
They are losing billions… of investor money.
This may include people investing in index funds, now that Musk’s Space/AI company is publicly listed. Maybe a piece of people’s pension fund as well, if NVIDIA’s wish comes true. fortune.com/…/nvidia-wants-your-pension-fund-in-t…
The layman with money in index or pension fund probably don’t intend to invest in AI, but here we are.
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on Alternative search engines to Google in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Aug 2026
Do users actually want such AI summaries? Is there any good polling on this?
I mostly read about people being annoyed by companies pushing hard for AI, and trying to get rid of those unrequested summaries.
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on This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 in c/technology@piefed.social · 12 Aug 2026
737 is old tech. I’m surprised they found something compatible to connect it to.
Ad-blockers like uBlock origin can filter slop websites.
A blocklist for AI images codeberg.org/…/uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist/ this is a “fork and expansion of laylavish’ AI image blocklist on github”.
I’m not aware of a similar blocklist for written content, which could block slop farms like the one mention in the article. Recommandations are welcome.