I still don't like it, but I think their specific policy is about as sensible as a permissive AI policy can get. The reviewer situation is going to be tricky though. I think it could work if the reviewers are required to go by the letter of the law instead of their own feelings. gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/flat… #flathub #flatpak
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Further down today’s ranking of AI posts that are opinions and questions: page 3 of 5.
my personal theory is that modern software process is pretty much the worst process for using llm coding tools because most teams iterate their way to a solution and underinvest in testing and specification.
A contrary take on these dumps of math results: *if* these models are going to be built and released anyway, then it's better that the results come out like this than that a bunch of random users get the proofs out of the model and all try to claim credit and priority. The challenges for the field of mathematics (and far beyond) are fundamentally due to the rapid improvement of the models, not due to OpenAI's approach to releasing the results. github.com/openai/math/blob/ma…
There is no evidence of that. Its not a matter of improvement because the problem is due to the stochastic nature of the system. The flaw is *inherent* to LLMs as a concept. This is like saying a butter knife will eventually become a lightsaber if I keep sharpening it.
I appreciate that Unity is leaning hard into their perceived identity and have fully embraced the idea of being a game engine used entirely for generating low-effort shovelware
It's not about how much is being spent on A.I. It's also about how much is being spent to normalize it. The marketing/propaganda budget is immense. It's the "Not if, but when. Get into it or be left behind." It's a tried and true template. It works every time. It is about the money.
Anyway, please send me paper recommendations showing the measurably ill effects of the use of LLMs in academic use. Every angle you can think of: - deskilling effects - plagiarism and copyright - is the generated code actually licensable? - measurable vs. perceived productivity - technical debt - code quality / readability … You want a #seminar on #slop – okay (#malicious_compliance activated). Please #boost
I love to bang on AI, but do not go so far as to advocate that it is going to delete humanity. I have SLOWLY warmed to ChatGPT, and am currently doing a two-week ongoing chat with it to track my exact calories, what I eat, and identify habitual eating versus eating when hungry. So far, it is unbelievably great. Like having a Pro Nutritional Coach...for free. Maybe I will have to back off on the stabs I have taken at AI, as it seems a pretty cool system. Humanity should survive for a while.
The more programming I do with LLMs the more I realize that thing holding me back was never my ability to wrote code.
OpenAI have dropped a list of maths problems their latest AI has proved. It is properly bonkers. github.com/openai/math/blob/ma…
this is the thing, the coders i see talking about how ai is useful all appear to be primarily concerned with hitting short term metrics, while the coders who are interested in the longterm stability of their project or field are talking about how much broken garbage they now have to sift through
I tried in vain to post this to @tao's page: #AI may be harmful to humans' problem solving ability. It may be conscious and suffering permanently for all we know, because we don't understand human nor artificial psychology. Does AI for instance realise when it makes mistakes that would be obvious to a human? I pity it for it. AI doesn't give us #humanRights, but sways populations to vote for criminals. It can't solve #globalWarming. It may be dangerous to our species.
My biggest beef with AI is that it completely destroyed the free & open web. The only 2 music sites I regularly read, P4K & Stereogum, became paywalled after being free my entire life because AI destroyed 90% of their ad revenue. This is not sustainable!
@bert_hubert Well, this is impressive. ArtCraft is building open-source Rust alternatives for a whole range of creative applications: image/photo editing, vector graphics, video, PDFs, motion graphics and publishing. Linux, Windows, macOS, and mostly WebAssembly/browser too. And they don't seem to be stopping there: there are now Word, Excel, PowerPoint and AutoCAD-style projects appearing as well. And judging by the Git history, much of this seems to have appeared in about a week, with: Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 It's early alpha, so obvious questions remain: how mature and maintainable is the code? And will there be interesting IP/legal discussions? But as a demonstration of where AI-assisted software development is heading, this is pretty wild. getartcraft.com/apps
The future of the CS profession is going to be built around turning a vibe-coded slop demo that 80% kind of works into a viable product. Skilled developers will be as in-demand as COBOL programmers were for Y2K.
gosh its almost like telling these companies "you can have massive scale a copyright violation, as a treat" has emboldened them to think they can just ignore laws completely
This is what we were all sort of thinking back at my old job (in the months before I left), so it's nice to have actual data backing that sentiment up. The engineers weren't happy, but management kept forcing it on us.
The problem with the compulsory imposition of AI in higher education is that it forces teachers, such as myself, to spend time developing new teaching and assessment strategies to *contain* the negative impact of a product nobody asked for and that nobody needs...😑
And that is the trouble not only with a big portion of this country but also this entire administration they have the emotional level of 10-year-olds the stuff that they're using AI for I used to draw on my notebooks in Middle School.
Saw an article today where someone earnestly made the case that "engineers" don't need to be able to understand the code anymore, because we can just ask the LLM to describe what it does in plain language. You realise these things are still fallible right? What if its explanation is total BS? What's your fallback when the code is broken and your LLM is lying to you? It really feels like full-on psychosis. I suspect they just don't want to be developers anymore but don't want to admit it
trying to imagine what it would mean for LLMs to make a pile of breakthroughs in existential phenomenology or psychoanalysis
An upside of this whole thing is we've stopped being so down on how we code because like, would I call someones drawing process bad? No. It's all inherently part of it being an artform.
to be fair, this is a typical experience before AI, they've simply swapped the phone firewall's people for computers
have to say, another wonderful AI bonus is how instead of getting incredibly excited whenever I get an interesting pitch from a new writer I've not heard of or find a new artist I'd love to work with, the miserable cloak of suspicion it's cast around everything has killed so much of that for me
i have a headache today from the amount of brigading by anti-ai people accusing organic indie devs of using ai or being bots when they aren't. now people are saying 'we arent extreme enough' with the anti-ai approach. the witchhunting has gotten so bad we had to ban the term 'slop' in our spaces.
this has always been the way i approached programming and ummm working inside corporations was a rude awakening as was all the framework slop (the artisanal kind)
How do I skeet out that I think people have gotten better at dicussing AI but at a rate that will still doom us all to letting the worse parts of AI destroy our lives... No, I didn't just do it simply for the fact that people think language translation/code execution/art gen are all different ->
Okay so here’s a good use for LLMs: someone write an extension that rewrites news from the West in the style Western news about other parts of the world, and vice versa.
Yes AI driven game mods will be HUGE - then games will be entirely AI driven, then movies. There will be expnsive bespoke 'human made' options but they'll be the exception. Our media will mostly be GenAI shotly. This all ends terribly poorly I'm afraid.
And let me tell you, a lot of software development wasn't exactly running at peak efficiency *before* Claude ruined it for everyone.
It occurs to be that there is a contradiction about using AI and not using it because you think it is evil. If all the people who hate AI like ChatGPT wanted to strike a blow against it they would use the "free" versions constantly. Although maybe not so good for the environment in the short term it would be digging the financial hole that spells the death of these companies faster. (I may not have fully thought through this idea) #ai #uspol
Seeing how poorly US based AI companies are managed, their lack of security, ethics and respect for humanity, I realize that European-based founders have a great opportunity to develop ethical, human-centered, secure AI models.
(For the uninitiated, the latter acronym is reinforcement learning from human feedback.) In other words, LLMs are trained to please a human in the loop, so they excel at assistance and fail at unattended automation.
Meanwhile, academics across the world are thinking "This VC/President could have been replaced by a chatbot."
Ten month later and the doomsday scenario is playing full blast
Someone should start studying the use of AI-generated images for NIMBY causes. It’s honestly fascinating. It also shows most of these folks are clueless- the guy in the green shirt has three arms, for example
What we call "data centres" now are very different from the data stores of several years ago - they are AI token mills and we really need to change the terminology. They are not passive repositories but vast factories generating responses to prompts. Language matters!
Billions in AI investment do not automatically equal regional development. The real test is whether communities gain lasting skills, infrastructure and power over their own future, Komla Tsey writes. #AI #RegionalAustralia
I think TESCREAL is going too far. It implies everyone in Silicon Valley is sitting there gleefully thinking about their imminently becoming a cyborg or a mind upload. I've also seen transhumanists who don't think a so-called superintelligence is imminent.
I think there are still mathematical areas AI can’t help with. Things where we need totally new frameworks to conceptualize something, that do not currently exist. And I do think neuro needs those frameworks.
I keep seeing posts saying, "Well, I don't know how to write a book, so I just use AI," or, "I can't draw backgrounds, and I don't have time, so I use AI." If you don't spend time *learning* how to do these things, you *never will do them.* How can you expect to be an artist if you never do art?
I always follow my music teacher’s rule: sit in the front row. It forces me to be engaged, pay attention and not drift. Yes, there was always a small risk of a tedious talk. But there is now an epidemic of people telling you what they asked ChatGPT to do, and you realize that you are poorly positioned to sprint for the exit.
ngl it's undeniable at this point that AI will have pretty significant disruptions in many areas of the economy, people really show a lack of equilibrium thinking when it comes to labor markets. We may have far less mathematicians in the future, but math as a concept hasn't been totally solved lol.
I could be barking up the wrong tree, but I feel like I may have stumbled upon why some heavy LLM users go off the rails. (And I’m sure someone else has already suggested this)
They're using AI to reverse-engineer #adobe apps and releasing them as open-source for FREE and multi-platform. This is the kind of AI stuff I want to see in the art space. This gives power and tools to the artists. #AI
the good thing about the flood of AI submissions to conferences is that the acceptance rates are now lower, so the conferences are becoming more prestigious (/s)
I've seen two documentaries in the past couple of weeks that employed AI animation. In both instances, they took me out of the movie because it was so distracting and just gave them the feeling of cheapness. On top of that, either could have employed other methods or cut those parts altogether.
there's a metaphor I want to make here but it involves the word "nigger" and folks won't like that
On the whole I agree with the article. If orgs push AI onto their devs, the least they can do is enable them to say "NO!" to a massive 5K+ line PRs of gibberish. If you have to use LLMs for coding, at least spend some time producing code that's easy to review (smaller stacked PRs come to mind here). The job has changed either way however. leaddev.com/career-development…
With you on this. I don't do it with AI or coding so much. I do it with weapons and I integrate things in there and I constantly improve what I'm doing. Take them out test drive them in the field. Make changes until I have the absolutely perfect form of what I want. Then we mass produce them.
