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TheShellyTeaI feel like grading gen ed college papers in the before-LLM times was useful preparation for identifying <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> content in the wild today. Probably because there's a big element of BS detection to both.I don't know if this would be useful to anyone, but here are some of my checks...

SecretAntelope 🌈☕I really hate the term "vibe coding" - particularly because there is an assumption that it's easy to get usable and bug-free code out of an LLM. I use it as a tool to bounce ideas off of and spend most of my time telling it how wrong it is. Occasionally, you get some great results in a much faster way. It's definitely not plug and play - or a substitute for experience.<a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chatgpt</a> <a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#datascience</a> <a href="https://covertcreatures.xyz/tags/sql" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sql</a>

janhoglund”The reality…is that large language models are no longer living up to expectations, and its purveyors appear to be making dodgy choices to keep that fact from becoming obvious.” —Gary Marcus <a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deep-learning-deep-scandal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deep-learning-deep-scandal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a>

Cerstin MahlowInteresting case: How to prove that the text from UniGe is in fact plagiarizing the one from Oxford instead of *both* author groups got help by <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> (not necessarily the same system)?<a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/Plagiarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plagiarism</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a>? <a href="https://piaille.fr/@rts/114295623932014134" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://piaille.fr/@rts/114295623932014134</a>

HiramFromTheChi 👨🏽‍💻💭I've wanted to write this blog post for such a long time.It's about something that affects all of us: being sold the concept of "free."But what is "free"? If it's free, how does it make money? And how does it generate 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 money?Read why we're long overdue for a definition of "free." 👇<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#free</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#content</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#security</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#infosec</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybersec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybersec</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/informationage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#informationage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digitalage</a> <a href="https://www.hiram.io/blog/redefine-free" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hiram.io/blog/redefine-free</a>

Alexander HayAnother reason to despise AI and its grifters:"AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia"As AI developers harvest Wikipedia content to train their models, the resulting surge in automated traffic is driving up costs for the non-profit that runs the popular crowdsourced encyclopaedia..."<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475215-ai-data-scrapers-are-an-existential-threat-to-wikipedia/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2475215-ai-data-scrapers-are-an-existential-threat-to-wikipedia/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IT</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Traffic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Traffic</a>

Peter BinkleyI'm liking OLMO2 as a general-purpose local model for summarizing texts in Ollama. Much faster than the others I've been using, and does a good job at things like extracting lists of persons, places and organizations. <a href="https://code4lib.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a>

Nate GaylinnPeople want LLMs to be general purpose minds that can solve problems of all sorts. They're not. But some people are trying to "fix" this by giving LLMs plug-ins that serve as tools. Maybe Chat GPT sucks at solving math problems, but what if we gave it a pocket calculator?I get the urge to mix LLM's amazing natural language ability with the precision and efficiency of traditional computing. That makes perfect sense! But we should be using LLMs to implement the language parts of our program, not using the LLM as our program and letting it decide when to defer to traditional computing.Why? Because LLM's don't problem solve, they generate text! They are not reliable, predictable, or verifiable, by design. They are meant for fuzzy pattern matching and NLP. It's fascinating that LLMs can sorta do math and reasoning at all, but that doesn't mean they're the right tool for the job.<a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a>

Hellday"Generative AI has laid bare exactly how little the markets think about ideas, and how willing the powerful are to try and shove something unprofitable, unsustainable and questionably-useful down people's throats as a means of promoting growth." Une citation que j'ai bien aimée du dernier billet d'Ed Zitron<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/</a><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/generativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#generativeAI</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Ciarán Ferrie"The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet...If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem.If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made."Via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@adactio" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@adactio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://adactio.com/journal/21831" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://adactio.com/journal/21831</a>

FID RomanistikDas waren spannende Einblicke, in das, was in Sachen <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/KI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KI</a> und <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> schon passiert in der <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Romanistik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Romanistik</a> und was noch geplant ist. Die Folien des Workshops werden (und sich es auch größtenteils schon) nachträglich veröffentlicht. <a href="https://openbiblio.social/@fidromanistik/114238646440319059" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://openbiblio.social/@fidromanistik/114238646440319059</a>

Petr Nuska<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AcademicJob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicJob</a>AI & Audio Scientist📍 Universal Music Group (London or remote in EMEA)Join UMG’s Music and Audio Machine Learning Lab (MAML) to develop cutting-edge AI/ML tools for music. Ideal for those with experience in MIR, generative models, multimodal learning, or music LLMs.<a href="https://umusic.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UMGUK/job/Kings-Cross-London/AI---Audio-Scientist_UMG-19885" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://umusic.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UMGUK/job/Kings-Cross-London/AI---Audio-Scientist_UMG-19885</a>CC <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicjobs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicjobs</a><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MIR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MusicTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MachineLearning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AudioAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AudioAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DigitalMusicology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMusicology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ComputationalMusicology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputationalMusicology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ComputationalMusicProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputationalMusicProcessing</a>

Yora<a href="https://newsie.social/@royaards" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@royaards</a> Has anyone actually made any profits with slop yet?<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/slop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/aislop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aislop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a>

Erik JonkerInteresting pre-paper on Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling, the basis for the soon to be released new DeepSeek models I think. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deepseek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deepseek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SPCT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SPCT</a> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02495" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02495</a>

Metin Seven 🎨<a href="https://universeodon.com/@devsimsek" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@devsimsek</a> You might find this interesting:<a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4mvphwx5pdsZLMmpY/recent-ai-model-progress-feels-mostly-like-bullshit</a><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ML</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/MachineLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MachineLearning</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a>

Enalys :enalys:I don't know how to explain this, but with time, it look like I can see if a picture was AIGen or not, not 100% accurate, but it's like you can smell it.I'm sure I'm not the only one. Maybe it was with AIGen texts too.<a href="https://mastodon.zergy.net/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.zergy.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a>

ハンスエメラダさんにHidden Apple Watch Features Boostの話をしたら、急に怒り出してしまいました。なぜなのかさっぱり分かりません……Apple Clinician Reveals 9 Hidden Apple Watch Features <a href="https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/apple-clinician-reveals-9-hidden-apple-watch-features/#ftag=CAD590a51e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/apple-clinician-reveals-9-hidden-apple-watch-features/#ftag=CAD590a51e</a><a href="https://mastodon.crazynewworld.net/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://mastodon.crazynewworld.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.crazynewworld.net/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.crazynewworld.net/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bot</a>

Kompot.si :unverified:🐌 Doing some research on 🤖 <a href="https://toot.si/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://toot.si/tags/bot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bot</a> protection for our selfhosted services. We had multiple downtimes per week for last few months mostly due to crawlers DDOSing our <a href="https://toot.si/tags/gitea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gitea</a> service which brought the whole server to its knees (running more than 15 web services). It would be nice to hand out invoices for our devops work...Anyways <a href="https://toot.si/tags/askFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#askFedi</a> what kind of protection would you recommend? We're opting for solution that's quick and easy to implement and lightweight.

m0bi ⁂📰 "Generatywna sztuczna inteligencja już teraz podnosi czerwone flagi przez dezinformację, stronniczość i szkodliwe wyniki. Jednak ryzyko to znacznie wzrasta, gdy dane treningowe pochodzą ze słabo moderowanych lub toksycznych środowisk mediów społecznościowych. Rezultatem jest nowy rodzaj algorytmicznego wpływu - taki, który wykracza poza silniki rekomendacji i zaczyna przekształcać samą architekturę wiedzy.Kiedy generatywna sztuczna inteligencja jest szkolona na toksycznych lub słabo moderowanych platformach mediów społecznościowych, nie tylko odzwierciedla uprzedzenia - wzmacnia je i systematyzuje. Modele te absorbują nie tylko język i zachowanie, ale także podstawową dynamikę samych platform, w tym ich ideologiczne echa, dyskryminujące wzorce i luźne standardy moderacji."Dobry artykuł, m.in. o <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grok</a> od <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/xAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xAI</a>, firmy <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a>-a która kupiła <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/X" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#X</a> czyli <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a>-a. Polecam.Całość [EN]: <a href="https://www.techpolicy.press/in-house-data-harvest-how-social-platforms-ai-ambitions-threaten-user-rights/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techpolicy.press/in-house-data-harvest-how-social-platforms-ai-ambitions-threaten-user-rights/</a><a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/SI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/wykluczenie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wykluczenie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/prywatno%C5%9B%C4%87" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prywatność</a> <a href="https://mastodon.com.pl/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a>

janhoglund”Scaling has run out…; models still don’t reason reliably…; the financial bubble may be bursting; there still ain’t no GPT-5; Sam Altman can’t be trusted; an overreliance on unreliable LLMs…has indeed gotten the world into deep doodoo. … LLMs are not the way. We definitely need something better.” —Gary Marcus <a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/scaling-is-over-the-bubble-may-be" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/scaling-is-over-the-bubble-may-be</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#llms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/largelanguagemodels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#largelanguagemodels</a>

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