Only superficially informed … but basically all business users are being forced to agree to allow meta to train on all of their content, including content external to meta.

Just sighs. Facebook was toxic trash in 2010, and we’ve let it grow into this giant monster.

I wanna be drown out by amazing and good projects, not AI slop created by people still pissed about their classmates not making then their billion dollar ideas.

We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that is not primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exist.

TW: Sexual Assault

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53498853

A senseless destruction of so many animals' lives for the pursuit of enriching the few.

Stop supporting Big Tech, starting with your browser, search engine and email... a small act goes a long way.

Michigan Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow said after the group's "poll" in late June showed her support in the single digits, she said "donations dried up," volunteers were "devastated," and the media "hounded" her "with calls to drop out."

"It killed us," McMorrow wrote on X.

The revelations come amid warnings that AI-powered tools were enabling the fakery.

"It's getting easier to conduct low-quality polls -- or fake them altogether," FiftyPlusOne said.

Sophisticated AI tools were also making it difficult to identify phony pollsters and made-up data, the American Association for Public Opinion Research said in a statement.

LinkedIn is kind of the bad place, but I'm on there a lot looking for work. I happened to see an informal poll asking if people would go back to a world before AI. I fully expected LinkedIn to be gushing over how great AI is, but (with an admittedly tiny sample size) it's not so hot.

• 59% absolutely want to go back
• 14% say AI is the future
• 22% say they're excited but concerned
• 2% are undecided, somehow.

This made me feel a little better, somehow.

The mounting worry among big investors, insiders say, is the threat of a left-wing takeover of Congress, conjuring nightmare scenarios of Democratic Socialists on Capitol Hill looking to throttle deals as they grill tech executives over everything from AI-sparked job losses to deepfakes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54396848

If you want to know whether artificial intelligence is a gigantic economic bubble, don’t just take pundits’ word for it. Major investors are now moving their money to try to protect themselves from the AI bubble popping.

For an industry that we’re told is central to our collective future, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry increasingly seems to be built on a combination of artificially inflated hopes and bad accounting.

The industry’s critics have been raising concerns about its finances for a while: the fact that most of its flagship firms are grossly unprofitable, that they’ve had to jack up their prices to try break even (leading their business customers to pump the brakes on using their products), or that many of the eye-popping investment announcements that are meant to show demand for AI is strong have actually been circular financing — meaning different AI firms cycling money to and from each other.

But none of it has seemed to slow the industry’s boom or the relentless hype machine behind it. Until now, anyway. It used to be that you mostly heard concerns about the industry’s underlying economics in newspapers, blogs, social media posts, and podcasts, and that those concerns went completely unreflected in the markets. But these concerns seem now to have finally bled over into investors’ thinking.

Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell Axios.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53497698

AI slop corporation working on AI slop solution, right...

(TikTok screencap)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53497216

WHAT DID META EXPECT TO HAPPEN?

Yes, I know the difference in DCs and AI DCs. We all know what he's talking about here. :)

From https://infosec.exchange/@flyingpenguin/117485961581578272

NoAiList.org Lists projects that have specifically chosen not to use AI. Do you have a project that is not using AI? Be sure to add your project to the list. As of writing, the project counter is at 340. We are 10 away from reaching 350!

I was surprised to see that this lovely write-up wasn't posted here already. Also see the author's Mastodon post about it: https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/117470082684445346

Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, recorded a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first six months of 2026, exposing the enormous financial costs behind one of Silicon Valley's fastest-growing companies just as it prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering. The loss, disclosed in a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by The Wall Street

A majority of Americans say artificial intelligence is a bad thing for society and about two-thirds oppose the construction of new data centers in the U.S.

worked on it since 1998

AI investment has helped keep markets and economic growth ticking along, but the IMF fears the boom could quickly turn to bust if the promised profits fail to materialize. With tech giants borrowing billions and investors piling into the same handful of companies, a selloff could leave more than just Silicon Valley nursing a hangover.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53440357

Classic Meta ;) Meta Muse ain't Kawaii btw!