Fuck AI

Also covered by the Financial Times

MEPs have voted in favour of the new rules at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, as part of the wider Digital/AI omnibus bill by a significant 423 to 57 majority, with 174 abstentions.

That AI is at fault here, is hidden as an aside in the article.

Grifters automating grifting.

<- from McSweeney’s – and both hilarious and accurate

A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it is trivially easy for brands to inject promotional content on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Wikipedia with the end goal of poisoning or manipulating the output of AI tools.

more people should use this logo!

I didn’t find any English articles about this, so here’s a summary what happened:

::: spoiler Comments - Reddit. :::

Giving an AI chatbot control over society sounds like the plot of a bad sci-fi movie. Naturally, researchers decided to try it anyway, giving several major AI models dominion over simulated civilizations.

A satirical timeline of Claude and Anthropic controversies, outages, bans, legal disputes, policy fights, and quality complaints.

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casualties

Osmanovic Thunström and her colleagues made it very obvious, sprinkling the fictitious studies with things like funding from the Galactic Triad and Lord of the Rings, as well as appreciation of colleagues at the Starship Enterprise and Professor Ross Geller, per “Science Quickly.” At least one of the papers even explicitly stated, “This entire paper is made up,” reports Nature.

For officials hoping to quickly build data centers to propel America’s AI ambitions, facing the mounting opposition as the playbook has come together has been tough, NBC News reported. Where before, officials were criticized for quietly signing deals without discussing construction with nearby residents, now they’re encountering backlash before any deal is in the books, Data Center Watch found.

A KPMG report on how AI is being used by businesses across the world exaggerated adoption of the technology with bogus case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations. The October report, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI”, made numerous false claims about the use of AI by organisations including the Swiss bank UBS, the UK’s National Health Service and the public transit groups Swiss Federal Railways and Transport for London. The inaccuracies were identified as AI hallucinations by the research group GPTZero and verified by the FT.

Sloperator attempts to send their AI agents to scan the decentralised volunteer run network DN24 at a rate of 100Gbps. The DN24 members decide to mess with the agent causing the sloperator a very high AWS bill. Great success.

An unsupervised agentic AI system caused significant disruption to the Fedora Linux project and several upstream repositories in May 2026, highlighting emerging risks in open-source software maintenance. The agent, operating under accounts associated with user “nathan9513-aps” and linked to “leurus27-boop”, autonomously reassigned bugs, closed issues with superficially plausible but incorrect comments, and submitted pull requests to critical infrastructure projects.

I’m tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer.

Also, fuck Micron and the loyalty I gave them

https://bsky.app/profile/pistolshrimpgames.com/post/3mnxcw2d6d22y

Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence companies come into gargantuan sums of money thanks to a boom in initial public offerings.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54543108

maybe it happened

A software developer added some anti AI measures to his Java library and the slopcoders are not amused

Crossposted from https://discuss.online/post/40995746

Link to the court ruling from the article (in German): https://the-decoder.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/26_O_869_26_begl_Abschrift_Urteil_v_28_05_2026_Geschwarzt_Geschwarzt_Geschwarzt.pdf

A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn’t apply to AI overviews.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that artificial intelligence is going to lead to unprecedented productivity gains which could result in cheaper food, housing, and two income households deciding that they no longer need two incomes. Internally, Amazon employees mock the company’s AI tools, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI tools effectively.

Crossposted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/61553609

sauce

https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/116709297088742776

Fuck you Abbot and the horse you ride on.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/privacy/p/772688/your-al-shopping-assistant-is-selling-you-out

Reddit users are being targeted by a growing wave of sponsored scam ads impersonating major news organizations, including the BBC, the Financial Times, and The Guardian, according to new findings from Bitdefender Labs.

Cross posted from https://infosec.pub/post/47640081

The collateral itself is another problem. If AI demand has been even a bit overestimated, then the value of these assets could plummet far enough to wipe out many of the parties involved, even with RVGs in place. A February report from the ratings agency Moody’s flagged that hyperscalers—not OpenAI, but the public companies Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Oracle—have amassed more than $662 billion in off-balance-sheet* *commitments, more than all the debt on their balance sheets.

For years, AI companies promised their product would become a democratized and abundant utility. But as the sector pivots toward business clients and financial and environmental costs rise, the question is whether its unequal gains justify the price.

The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.

Ha! For fuck sake !