Fuck AI

Hey there! Some of you may have seen my post from a couple weeks ago to the open source community about this project, if you haven't, feel free to go there and read it for some context.

But for a quick rundown: A friend of mine showed me how both the official clients and the actual tldr-pages repo either openly took AI submissions, or had a relaxed/non-existant AI policy. She also pointed me to ethical-tldr, which is a repo committed to removing all of the AI submissions from tldr, they have their own client forked from the official, but since it's still written in python, it's slow, (and python is very tainted). Thus, I decided to learn C from scratch over just a couple of days, and wrote my own client. Hence, my client is called cldr, opposed to tldr.

Now, let's look at what makes cldr better than tldr. And yes, this is absolutely me "shilling out" for my project, I think it's awesome and I want people to use it!

For some direct statistics: at best, when printing a page, tldr is 20 times slower than cldr, but on some systems, (my laptop), it can be over 150 times slower, taking 200ms compared to cldr's 1-2ms. tldr is slow enough to see a very noticeable gap between the moment you run the command and when it actually prints the page. cldr is also smaller than tldr! Taking only 55kB opposed to the 100+kB of tldr.

cldr just overall has a much more polished user experience, with a cleaner interface (compare cldr --list -p common to tldr --list -p common), detailed error messages and debug logs, and when something goes wrong, cldr gives you suggestions on how you can fix it.
By the way, if you don't want the fancy visuals (maybe you're scripting) just add --plain to your arguments.

cldr adds the notes feature, allowing you to write as much additional information about a command as you want. For example, if you frequently use a special ffmpeg command, but can never remember it, just write a note about it! And hey, you can make the note as fancy as you'd like, with all of the formatting of normal page files. To get an in-depth lesson on how to write formatted notes, run cldr --help-notes.

cldr also lets you customize the rendering even more than tldr, you can choose from many different colors, backgrounds, and formatting keys to make different parts of pages look however you want! You can run cldr --colors to see everything available!

cldr stores the database of pages locally at $HOME/.local/share/cldr (this can be customized!) instead of tldr's default behavior of fetching the pages over the internet, this leads to much faster loading, and means you don't need an internet connection to use cldr.

And best of all, cldr was (and always will be) developed without the usage of any generative ai.

Oh and, by the way, cldr is a direct replacement for tldr in the command line, meaning for *any command you'd run in tldr, you can simply replace the 't' with a 'c' and it will work the exact same.

*The only exceptions to this are with -s/--source, -s must instead be changed to -S, AND, while writing this, I realized that the source functionality is broken. Also, -c/--color and -r/--render are not implemented, because I couldn't even notice them doing anything in the original client.

Source

from Source code for Rush, android app to fetch song lyrics

Was browsing the code for android apps I regularly use after being disappointed by some of them becoming somewhat buggy, and finding out the devs started using AI to build them (Newsblur :-( ).

Stumbled upon this, got baited real hard lmao

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52800634

They added a Claude extension to Google Drive...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52799193

Being a doctor is one of the jobs expected to be least at risk from AI replacement. But a new program launched in Utah is raising questions over that assumption. A healthcare startup will begin offering AI examinations and prescriptions to patients without direct human oversight, making Utah the first state to replace a doctor with an AI.

The good news is that the program is currently very limited in its scope. It's just one year long and only for patients with mild-to-moderate acne.

The process works when a person signs up for Nolla Health's $4.99-per-month app and uses it to scan their face. After completing a medical history and personal information form, the AI analyzes their skin, identifies the acne problem, rates the skin's oiliness, and then generates a numerical acne severity score that ranges between clear skin and severe acne, reports Bloomberg.

Any problems - that LLMs don't know things; the human, societal, engironmental impacts; whatever.

Personally the 3blue1brown LLM video is a good source that can keep people's interest.

Plagiarism machine; and now literal forgery machine.

I'm really wondering when you think the AI "bubble" will burst, and I admit I'm really waiting for that moment!

Apologies if this question has already been asked somewhere else in this community. I'm not the best at searching to see if it's already been asked..

A debunk of the recent AI doomer pseudoscientific video by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkD4SxPKOI . Yes, it's over 3 hours.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52752723

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the big AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”.

In an interview released on Monday, Altman was asked about how OpenAI’s approach to safety differed from that of Anthropic, which has called for the industry to slow down after one of its researchers quit, warning that AI experts believed “it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.

“I think there’s a lot of daylight,” Altman said. “One of the differences between us and some of the stricter AI safety people is that we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency [to use AI widely].

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

yes, it's a real thing

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits “something’s clearly not working” with the artificial intelligence money that has flooded the midterm elections — and he doesn’t expect President Donald Trump’s rebrand of the technology to improve his industry’s image with the American public, either.

“I get why AI has a really negative perception right now,” Altman told Brendan Bordelon in an exclusive interview marking the launch of Decoded by POLITICO. “I don’t think spending money on politics is what’s going to make people feel better about it. The industry needs to figure out a way to address what the actual concerns are, and right now, a lot of people in the industry are being quite tone deaf.”

In the wide-ranging conversation, Altman offered a window into how OpenAI is confronting new political pressures and intensified competition with Anthropic, its corporate archrival run by former employee Dario Amodei.

Altman says OpenAI is more tolerant than Anthropic of less-than-catastrophic harms from AI, drawing out what he sees as a fundamental split in worldview between the two leading labs even as they converge on tougher rules in the wake of high-profile autonomous hacking incidents.

“We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency,” said Altman, who characterized those harms as linked to “the lighter touch regulatory stance that we advocate for.”

Emphasis above is mine. This guy needs to be stopped.

There are now a wide variety of categories and projects on noailist.org, the list of projects that have specifically chosen not to use AI.

So long story short someone I know is losing their mind over ai and keeps mailing me bits of things they are asking a chatbot about. (End of world, ai solving the economic and ecological problems of the world etc its batshit. ) They asked me what this "code" is. To me, its bullshit and meaningless.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76486627

What just happened? Another incident has taken place that illustrates the need to be careful what you tell AI. A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote that she planned to "shoot up" the Sheriff's office. After a human reviewer examined the statements, they were reported to police.

According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that she uses Anthropic's chatbot like a "diary."

Claude's safety systems flagged the entry and it was escalated to a human reviewer. After deciding it was a credible threat, the reviewer reported it to law enforcement.

The company says it may share user information in limited emergencies if it believes disclosure is necessary to prevent death or serious physical injury.

Deputies identified Heller and visited her home. She was detained without incident before an LCSO intelligence detective took over the investigation.

Heller faces a charge of making a written threat of violence under Florida law. Florida Statute 836.10 makes it a second-degree felony to send, post, or transmit a written or electronic record threatening to kill or injure someone, carry out a mass shooting, or commit an act of terrorism. The communication must be made in a manner in which another person may view it.

Anthropic isn't going to be taking any chances when it comes to anything it deems a potential threat. Last month, it was reported that OpenAI and Sam Altman are being sued by British Columbia over claims that the company could have prevented a mass shooting in the Canadian province.

The shooter, eighteen-year-old former pupil Jesse Van ⁠Rootselaar, had previously been flagged by OpenAI's safety team for her conversations about gun violence, but OpenAI never alerted police because the conversations did not meet the threshold for legal referral.

In June, Florida also sued OpenAI and Altman, alleging that ChatGPT had contributed to real-world harms, including the 2025 Florida State University shooting.

The latest incident is another reminder to think before you enter something into a chatbot that could get you into trouble. It's certainly not a private diary whose contents are for your eyes only.

Reports last month revealed that human contractors reviewing Microsoft Copilot's image editor can see users' prompts, uploaded photos and AI-generated edits. Documents show that some of those assignments contain sexual, disturbing or potentially illegal material, though the reviewers are not there to flag the content – only to assess whether the output is accurate.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/mildlyinfuriating/p/1444350/if-this-survey-is-any-indication-audacity-wants-to-add-generative-ai-because-of-course-t

Link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3ClP3sHiEQZmwwPMiJ3OzUO586yInWIME076unOdV9kG5-Q/viewform

I was invited to partake upon opening the software. I thought Lemmy might get a kick out of this.