Fuck AI

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/47200357

One critic called the move “petulance beyond measure.”

Existing apps are grandfathered in and there are other exceptions, but in general LLM generated code is not permitted on the Linux app store anymore.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1159425/ronny-chieng-s-f-ck-ai-speech-met-with-cheers-from-harvard-graduates

Extra.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/47504963

Still Vreni on Bluesky

Sorry I couldnt find how to crosspost on old lemmy UI, saw this in another comm and had to share.

Original Post

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs

Archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20260528114303/https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs

Why it matters: Companies that rushed to embrace AI are now confronting ballooning IT costs, uncertain productivity gains and growing employee skepticism.

Driving the news: Microsoft canceled most of its Claude Code licenses, in part over costs, according to The Verge, and Uber's COO said AI costs are getting "harder to justify."

An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees.

Companies are citing AI's ability to automate jobs as a cause for layoffs, though Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees, told Axios that workforce cuts may simply be "the only lever they can pull" to offset their AI bills.

Consumer sentiment around AI is also nosediving, and employees are rebelling against the use of the technology at work. 

What they're saying: The enterprise is undergoing a "healthy swing" away from AI overuse — or "tokenmaxxing," the push to burn as many AI tokens as possible — Ali Ansari, CEO of model training firm Micro1, told Axios.

Ansari hopes this correction will push companies toward more efficient AI use.
While the market views these tools as working equally well across the enterprise, Ansari says "the reality of AI right now is that it only works for coding."
That disconnect can drive up IT bills without leading to high return on investment in agents, he said. 

Friction point: Corporate AI adoption is running into four unique problems.

Use cases: "Most people default to automating tasks they dislike rather than tasks most valuable to the company," Sophia Velastegui, CEO of Velastegui Ventures and former chief AI officer at Microsoft told Axios. Instead, they should focus on using AI to drive revenue.

Costs: One CTO told Axios that employees were using AI models to check the weather. That gets expensive fast: Enterprise AI plans are not truly 'all you can eat,' and even simple chatbot queries can carry heavy token costs.

They also have a nice .noai policy: https://github.com/jqwik-team/jqwik/blob/981f6b8403cf4c446e0dbe49823fb5da960707eb/.noai

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47499598

We’ll soon get a chance to see whether, frankly, our last hope, evil corp Google, can still distinguish content created by AI from Human one 🤖

Here’s how I would rank the detection difficulty: 1️⃣ Text 2️⃣ Code 3️⃣ Images 4️⃣ Gifs 5️⃣ Videos If they already fail at level 5, we have a SERIOUS problem.

Cross posted from https://lemmy.today/post/53815538

Cross posted from https://lemmy.today/post/53815017

First tool ban is here! A new law was just signed in New York that requires blueprint blocking technology on every CNC machine, laser cutter, lathe and 3D printer. This affects everyone who makes, builds or fixes things. This isn't a firearms law. It's a manufacturing law. And they buried it in the budget because they knew exactly what it was.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/65160131

Companies told us AI would replace human workers and cut costs. Turns out the math doesn’t work. An Nvidia VP just confirmed that compute costs for his team exceed what they pay their employees. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. And a startup CEO ran up a $113,000 monthly AI bill, with a four-person team.

This episode breaks down exactly why AI is costing companies more than the humans they laid off, what “tokenmaxxing” is and why engineers are doing it, and whether any of this spending is actually returning anything. Because at some point the ROI question stops being awkward and starts being a board-level emergency.

Voter turnout skyrocketed by 129%

FAIFO MF'ers

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47956348

Here is an excerpt of of David Gerard and Amy Castor's post about it:

So what does this mean? What follows from this?

An encyclical isn’t a set of religious directives. It’s a position paper. The Pope has not charged Catholics worldwide to burn down the data centres. Cool as that would be.

Catholics probably can’t go into work and claim a religious exemption from Claude Code. Though the encyclical does give Catholics who hate AI an excellent set of talking points to answer that AI bro who just doesn’t stop.

The encyclical does not have direct consequences. Functionally, this is just a letter. But it’s a letter that’s in every newspaper this week. It’s going to be influential.

The Pope calls for government regulation to stop AI abuses. And up against that, we have a ton of money. But the encyclical will still give politicians a bit of think tank input on things they have to consider politically.

Even the rich tech bros are treating this encyclical as a threat. The AI companies lobbied the Vatican quite hard in the leadup to the encyclical. We’re not sure they got a lot of what they wanted. [Politico]

But again, an encyclical is just a letter. Pope Francis did a quite good encyclical on climate change in 2015. Then he followed that up in 2023 annoyed that nothing much had been done. There’s only so much a letter, even from the Pope, can do in the face of the money.

This encyclical will help swing the vibe against AI, however. Maybe J.D. Vance will excommunicate the Pope. You know he wants to.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47956398

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46320128

Literally speaking, there's some truth to Olah's musing. AI systems are not cold – Blackwell chips idle at 32 to 38°C. They are not calculating – they're bad at math. And they're not robots – AI models are specialized binary blobs of tensors and metadata that can be instantiated across multiple servers.

But the notion that there's some AI mystery in the spiritual sense is just hot garbage. 

AI systems are indeed "made from us, from our words" and that is why Anthropic and its rivals have been named in more than 100 lawsuits. One of the reasons those systems remain mysterious is that Anthropic and its rivals don't disclose where they got their training data.

Cross posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/60948229

A bill that would allow cameras inside nursing homes is waiting for Arizona lawmakers in the senate to bring it for a debate and vote.

Wildly disrespectful to any artist that ever lived. I'm all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists. Still evaluating my choices, but meanwhile this seems like the only and rather easy signal the streaming community can give as to spread the word if they agree (next to stopping your own subscription). Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/spotifys-ai-bet-more-of-everything-less-of-what-you-want/