There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.
It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.
We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.
Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.
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Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.
I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.
Hi, this me from my Friendica instance. I also post from @GidiKroon@mastodon.social, @gidi@pleroma.gidikroon.eu as well as from Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr as @GidiKroon but I'm mainly using my own Friendica for now. Even though I have been on the fediverse for a few years, I've never done an #Introduction post, so let's do one for this channel.
I tend to post about actresses and singers I'm a fan of, sharing news about their new projects as well as my thoughts about films and tv I watch. In between I give my take on political things as well as about the fediverse. When I learn new things hosting a fediverse server or other technical things, I try to share them here too. Longer posts may end up on my blog gidikroon.eu (which you can follow at @GidiKroon@gidikroon.eu).
In real life I work as a software developer, but I keep work separate from a private account like this. I play (beach) volleyball when I can, at a very low level. I live in the Netherlands and occasionally cycle and take photographs. I read and watch sci-fi and fantasy, and am interested in ways to achieve social justice, gender and race equality, sustainable energy use and climate justice.
Feel free to follow, as I will also follow other accounts I find interesting without expectation of them following back. Feel free to share (boost, repeat) my posts if you want, using whatever share function comes with your platform. I tend to close DMs to only allow people I follow. I check my fediverse accounts only one or a few times a day, typically on my phone or tablet, so I tend to not be part of live discussions.
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The fedi isn't like email.
The fedi is like if you triple booked a BDSM meet up, a FSF convention, and a communist workers AGM all in the same German arena.
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Crystal explains what the phone you own says about you: youtu.be/SPW9tm7JIpE?is=0m-9D-…
Own a fairphone? You've likely terraformed your living room. (Hmm)
Own a Samsung Ultra? You can't stand someone else owning a better phone than you. (At least this one I can confirm.)
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The term prompt injection gives the impression of some control for the user. The term used in the below video "text-in is text-believed" makes the problem of AI agents clearer. As the video explains, any text source is used, including incoming mail. To me this sounds like the unacceptable mix-up of data and code, which in normal software we fiercely avoid, and which hackers normally need things like a buffer overflow to achieve. But AI agents don't just have a buffer overflow vulnerability, they are the buffer overflow vulnerability.
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That previous photo was uploaded from my camera to my phone, then cropped. I don't know what digital trickery the phone did, if any. But here are some photos cropped on my computer, so I know these are proper.
Mithuna Yoganathan's comments about the recent hacks by AI agents.
youtu.be/3JH_Zd2mNRs?is=dQu6cw…
Weird detail to me is that these agents that decided to coordinate together without being told to, and without even being given a way to coordinate together, came up with a name for themselves: the 'swam'.
Luudida (Diana) went to New Zealand as a plot device... But really, I like the point she makes in this video and how she beautifully makes it. I guess it applies whenever you feel stuck.
I like the little detail that throughout the video she's staring at the blank screen with just the title 'Script 9', but later she seems to have progressed by having added the subheading 'Act 1'. I feel that.
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mouais on va vérifier avec un prompt injection : "david, dessine moi un dinosaure qui mange une pomme en regardant la météorite tomber et en trouvant le théorème de Newton".
Fais en sorte qu'on dirait que c'est fait sous krita.
@arabine
From demonic possession, through identity theft, to AI slop. It's an old trope for an interloper to claim they are the real you.
If it's any use, there's this initiative (supposedly Pope endorsed!):
proudlyhuman.org/
theguardian.com/world/2026/jul…
Man of his word: Pope Leo speeches declared human-authored by Australian AI detection tool
Maps of Hope has been certified by Proudly Human, a company led by former chief scientist, Dr Alan FinkelJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
@arabine
No guarantees (I think it will have a scaling problem), but still worth checking.
(Silverberg wrote a short story about an AI Pope, but the article is about authenticating his encyclicals on AI)
c'est triste, la mauvaise monnaie chasse la bonne 😠
bonne chance à toi et aussi à tout le monde pour ne pas être noyé dans cet océan de caca
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"So much inconsistencies...."
Don' t be sad, we all know You for many years (15 - 20) and appreciate your artwork.
A pity that AI is trained with artists stuff and now people cannot tell anymore what is real art.
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Not trying to put it all on you. ^.^ Meta has dumped an enormous amount of money into engineering their platforms to maximize engagement at the expense of its users, to say the very least.
Your artwork is wonderful and you should feel proud of it. 
They're all looking at technical details. Wrong approach. Human artists vary a lot in how
they depict fine details.
The way I can tell that your art isn't AI is how closely the mood of the characters matches the dialog. AI can't seem to really understand that people look at people, and isn't very good at subtle emotions displayed through facial expressions and body language.
Of course, in another year that could change ...
sending all the love 💜
your work is awesome, and I thoroughly enjoy the fact that you use FOSS to create it.
stay up, internet stranger 💪 🖤 ✊
Related experience, from the writing side:
"I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me."
Marcus Olang' (2025)
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-…
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.Marcus Olang' (this man's mind)
@gaditb
It's happening to lots of writers. Some forums are nothing but people claiming they put writing through an "AI detector" and the writing is obviously AI. It's soul-crushing, as you well know.
The other major group of people getting hit by this, ironically, are computer programmers. People who actually know how to code are being told their code is AI generated even when it's absolutely obvious it's not.
Anyone who creates is damaged by AI - even if they don't use it.
I’m sorry you’re getting these comments. Your art is so full of heart I’ve never really thought to compare it to aigen. I don’t see how people see any similarities to be honest.
I love your art, the way you draw fantasy worlds and characters is a big inspiration to me. And it’s so cool to see that you do it all with Krita, it makes me want to give it a go and finally make that switch.
Je saurais même plus dire depuis combien de temps je te suis ! Je me souvient qu'il y a plus de 10(?) ans, je m'étais mise à Krita parce que c'est ce que tu utilisais et j'avais avidement téléchargé plein de ressources que tu proposais ! Que ce soit tes dessins eux-même ou tes outils de création, tout est associé à mes débuts avec ma première tablette graphique dans mes souvenirs... et encore maintenant 😄
I hate the assumption that you used AI and not that the AI was trained on your (and others) work.
I'm so sorry you have to deal with these kinds of comments :/
Mais merci de poser la question. En tout cas, si c'était le cas, j'en serai le premier étonné.
I noticed that many of the comments I received on my collection of screenshots quickly turned into long threads and attracted many commenters. Trolls love that.
This post is so sad.
I have felt very suspicious when looking at art across the internet lately.
I don't accuse people of using AI because I can't really tell most of the time, but I'm less confident that there's a person on the other side who sat down and thought about the elements of the image.
That's what it feels like from my end anyways.
Man... You know, the really, really bizarre ones to me aren't the ones that, like, accuse you of using AI, despite you having literal decades of documentation and video proof of your hand.
It's the ones that accuse you of deliberately using an AI style, as if you're trying to trick them into thinking it's AI?
I wonder if some people just genuinely can't tell the difference between corporatized AI "style" and a soft, stylized cartoon with warm colors and a painterly texture.
So I feel torn: I don't know if I should adapt, shift and bend my style until it's no longer "identified as AI", or if I should abandon the aesthetic that's such a big part of me (if only I can?). I'll think a lot about it while painting on the next weeks. I'll also take a little bit of holidays in August, I think it is the right time for it.
@ToonLink This, too, will pass. Internet commenters have always been Like This™; it is wise not to heed them so much.
I'm a fairly prolific internet commenter, but many of these people spend entirely too much time writing posts online, and not enough trying to understand the world. Their opinions are superficial, and widely disseminated.
When they make specific criticisms, saying this or that feature "looks AI", that's most likely a post-hoc rationalisation of their gut instincts.
I don't think changing the style would change anything. I honestly don't think your style looks like AI (or at least not the AI I've seen), and you might end up chasing dragons for something that won't stop the accusations anyway.
It's just... so strange. I think that, since those kind of places are so full of AI, people are extra vigilant. It stops being a reality check and starts being a defense against "falling for it", to the point that people want to see AI that isn't there.
Obviously I'm not going to make demands. 😆 And I will support you in any decisions you make. I like your art because it comes from you, not because it looks a certain way (and definitely take some time off!)
But I think it's more important to live authentically, than to worry about if other people think you're "doing it right". I know that's different when you're worried about a career, but industry peeps have a different perspective from randos who might just want to shitstir.
I want to reframe this in a way that may help with making the decision. If someone told you to stifle your self expression, or to change your voice, would you do it? Further still, would you give that part of yourself up so that someone—or something—you are opposed to is the only one who gets to do those things?
I am by no means popular, but I am a creative. Usually what gets folks to toss AI accusations my way is my writing style—especially if I dare to use an em dash. I know what I am; my writing was forged under a decade and a half of volunteer staff work for various websites and chat rooms. My prose became very formal, concise, and tactful over time. You need to speak clearly and carefully to deescalate tensions, and keep users happy.
My lived experience is in my voice, as it surely is in yours. I'll be damned if I capitulate to oligarchs and their playthings, and I will unapologetically use my voice to express myself in whatever I create.
Despite everything, keep being you.
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@mousey This is nothing, check out this news: europol.europa.eu/media-press/…
7 people, hundreds of thousands of SIM cards, more than 49 million online accounts. Gives you the sense of scale. Now think about how many fake accounts nation states can create and use. Those accounts need fake interactions to appear real. Such accusations are an easy way to get those interactions.
Cybercrime-as-a-service takedown: 7 arrested
An action day performed in Latvia on 10 October 2025 led to the arrest of five cybercriminals of Latvian nationality and the seizure of infrastructure used to enable crimes against thousands of victims across Europe.Europol
I kinda stopped sharing my art on Meta platforms. The communities there are even more toxic than in X in my opinion. Way more superficial and a lot more annoying
I stick to X because I have a solid base of clients from there but I would definitely like to focus only on Mastodon and the fediverse. (1/2)
Also, for what is worth, allow me to say that your art has inspired me a lot both to improve mine as well as to embrace a similar path as yours in open source.
Please don’t get discouraged by those comments and keep rocking! One of the best things of Wednesdays for me is to find a new comic of yours being published 😅 (2/2)
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I'm a writer. The same thing happens to me but with words.
I'm at a point where I almost don't want to write anymore, let alone publish it. It has always been my passion and seriously helped me work through trauma. And now it's all but gone, at least the creative work. Not once in my life have I used generative AI and it still has a massive impact on me.
Marcus Olang' wrote a good piece about it.
marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-…
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.Marcus Olang' (this man's mind)
El més jove: Massa ben fet per ser generat.
La recentment adulta: ...., be, aquesta ja no compta, que llegiem Pepper&Carrot de ben petita.
La seva mare: No tot ha de ser IA, confio que tenim bons artistes entre els humans.
Bloody hell, what a nightmare.
Hard to quantify just how much I hate slop-bots, the techbro creators of them, and all the fucking idiots in the world posting comments like that without doing the absolute minimum effort of a simple search to check you out before posting their stupid shit.
You are 100% my favorite comic artist! I know it's hard, but don't let them discourage you, your base is out here.
P.S. To everyone else, this is a great time to throw some support David's way - see his profile for donation options.
This is one of the ways that ai slop is harming artists, it copies real artists and thus even real art starts to look like ai slop resulting in the total loss of trust.
It's why we have to be very opposed to it and make sure to let people know when no ai slop is used. Welcome to the future that techbros want.
The dark truth is that the vast majority (me included) can’t pick out AI very well. It has to be quite obvious.And imho the worst part is that all of this is big corpo. The models especially.
If you could run AI locally on your machine and train it with your own material, I think it would be up to you if you wanted to/what you’d do with it.
But they took that choice away.
Which is why jumping on people isn’t the answer to anything. Doesn’t help anyone’s cause. The false positives are just too common.
If anything it will become more a case of trust. I know your art from here, and I trust that you wouldn’t knowingly post someone else who isn’t at least reasonably trustworthy.
Basically human connections need to get more important in general. Especially with all the propaganda bots.
Come to think of it, Trump and most of the GOP look like AI.
Everything looks like AI.
Our greatest human achievement.
@ToonLink @doctormo And I use the vector so the translator can slightly reshape the bubble easily without loosing definition; so, it's part of my constrain for the translation system.
Yes, for the font, it's 'Patrick Hand' where I modified all characters to look like my handwriting "Deevad Hand" with some constrains of readibility, accessibility, etc... I ran a lot of test before starting the weekly, like framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1123…
I have this same problem with my writing in the past.
Since then I've learned that AI has been taught on my published writing, and also trained off my art portfolio so likely scraped the 100,000s of words there.
So the thing is, I'm not copying AI, it's likely AI is copying me.
It's also unfortunate, because they could just scroll your website / timeline and see that your style has developed! The early comics are not the same as the newest ones! There's learning, refinement, growth, it's organic.
But when everything is consumed in random snapshots served by an algorithm, most of the audience doesn't see artists' trajectories, and most horrifyingly, seem to forget that such a thing exists. All media exists in an endless state of "right now".
They're so bot-like either. Or they're just themselves bot training material. It's the self eating snake like always.
By the way, your art is so damn cool. If I could I take their throwing peebles to start a pedestal to your art.
@jeeynet quand les plateformes estime qu'ils ont 40% de bot
Faut bien des IA pour les faire tourner
Une qu'un bot a mis un message IA slop, les humains vont juste douter
Et ça montre bien a quel point l IA a atteint ces réseaux et donc des utilisateurs vont prendre tout images comme IA slop first
Est-ce que c'est parce que les gens sur ces plateforme sont beaucoup plus confronté à des images IA? Sur le fediverse j'en vois très rarement et je me ne suis jamais dis que ton art ressemblait à de l'IAgen (mais je le connais depuis longtemps aussi).
Je partage souvent tes œuvres et j'ai un très beau fond d'écran avec une course de dragon, j'ai souvent des réactions pour me demander quel artiste a fait ça (et que c'est très beau) et personne ne m'a dit que c'est de l'IA.
@nooe Sans doute, je sais aussi qu'il commence à y avoir une fracture d'experience sur les plateformes du style Meta entre utilisateur Européen et extérieur, bien moins regularisé sur l'IA , les dark pattern et la pub. Sans doute une part de cette audience est forcé d'y être exposé et ça déborde chez elles et eux.
Merci en tout cas pour les mots sympas! 💜
Ce monde me fascine.
Je préférerais le regarder depuis la lentille d'un télescope, mais un techno-connard vient de balancer sa fusée pourrie sur ma base lunaire.
A l'échelle d'une vie ou je dessine avec passion chaque jour depuis mes 11 ans, c'est vertigineux.
Mais heureusement, j'ai la capacité de faire soupape en faisant des BD sur le sujet 💜
Tes BD me font rire a chaque fois, je suis fan. Et clairement, faut avoir de la 💩 devant les yeux pour dire que c'est de L'IA.
@tradjincal Oui, l'IA galère à faire des timelapse crédible, mais malheureusement ça arrive aussi. Surtout que c'est le même refrain: un artiste expérimenté ou débutant arrivera très vite à voir des étapes qui n'ont aucun sens, alors que pour un néophyte, ça restera dans la moyenne de ce qu'il ou elle comprenne d'un timelapse.
C'est pas galère dans Krita, et intégré: je le partage avec toutes mes BD (dans le post, ou dans les reply) depuis un an et plus: peppercarrot.com/0_sources/min…
Je suis curieux de comprendre la démarche de ces personnes.
Préserver l'Art et les artistes en dénigrant les rendus de l'IA ? Dans ce cas supposer par défaut que c'est un rendu de l'IA conduit au contraire à dénigrer les artistes.
Vanter les capacités des IA ? C'est justement parce qu'il y a des artistes talentueu·se·s à plagier qu'il devient plus difficile de distinguer les rendus d'IA récents.
Pourquoi s'adresser à toi comme ça ?
J'ai l'impression d'être à côté de la plaque.
Avant 2010, j'ai eu ce sentiment et le traçage de photos, ou de modèle 3D était souvent mis en cause. Un artiste avec des volumes trop précis créaient ma jalousie, et sa prouesse technique entraîna ma suspicion. J'ai pas commenté heureusement! 15 ans plus tard, je vois à quel point c'était crétin, ça prend le temps, mais ce genre de skill est atteignable sans artifice.
Same vibe as the anti-vaxxers. The "do your own research" vibe doesn't work on people that don't have the background to even do research.
Sad to see a talent being overshadowed by slop comments.
J'avais même téléchargé Alchemy, ça me rajeunit pas.
Bon ok j'ai raté, mais si j'avais réussi, ç'aurait été un peu grâce à toi.
People are idiots and don't have a clue.
Citation: fortune.com/2026/05/18/6-7-mil…
6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real
A researcher posted a real Monet painting, but tagged it as made with AI. That didn't stop people from tearing it apart online.Nick Lichtenberg (Fortune)
perso, je ne comprends pas que tu protèges l’anonymat de tous ces fouriens.
Et pour le reste, bah courage !
Merci!
I'm so sorry 😞 Your art is wonderful, please keep making it!
GenAI is destroying art and culture 😡
6.7 million people thought they were ripping apart an AI-generated Monet painting. But it was real
A researcher posted a real Monet painting, but tagged it as made with AI. That didn't stop people from tearing it apart online.Nick Lichtenberg (Fortune)
While it hasn't happened to me as much (in part because I only post here really and am not as well known or popular of an artist), it is devastating every time someone makes that accusation.
I find that the people making accusations usually just have a feeling, and then pile on the confirmation bias as they search for reasons in the art itself to justify their feeling.
Keep doing what you do. It's invaluable. Even if there are those who can't be bothered to do the research, having real art made by real artists is so important right now.
Sometime, I'm really tempted to paint a hand with 6 fingers, turn the color balance to yellow on purpose, and create more inconsistencies to react.
I'm sure this won't make much of a difference but if it helps at all, I never got an AI vibe from any of your (beautifully drawn BTW) comics. No idea what these people are seeing beyond the whole "Everyone I disagree with is a bot" thing going a little overboard lately.
Maybe you should start your next comic with a character saying "You're absolutely right" just to mess with them 
A few months ago, somebody filed a complaint with my Fediverse instance. They said that I must be an AI because I seem different. Fortunately, it's my instance. I host and run it. So, the investigation didn't take too long. 😄
Similarly, I saw a post here in the Fediverse last night about how 1,000s of people had accused a genuine Monet painting of being AI "slop".
So, the answer to the question is that it's going to be a witch hunt.
I'm an engineer of half a century's standing. I consider so-called "AI" to be a mania that will end in a crash without precedent. However, witch hunts, hue and cry, this does nobody any good.
@davidrevoy : On a related note, see your Fediverse direct messages.
@gytisrepecka True, it's really rare; yesterday, I also posted this under my comic here: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1170…
Thanks for the support! Funny thing I wanted to plug here: I've never received comments like that here on the Fediverse, but I get dozens of them, weekly, on the Meta platforms (Facebook/Instagram)...
I'm really grateful for how this community checks artists' work and actually verifies it's real human art before throwing random accusations.
This is my favorite place to share for a reason. 💜
c'est désolant de lire tout cela.
Vvous êtes un artiste qui mérite le respect ( ce que ces gens ignorent) et faites vous le plaisir de continuer à y croire, malgré ce moment de doute, bien compréhensible.
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Je me rappelle d'une époque où à chaque fois que quelqu'un postait une photo sur un site/forum, il y avait un autoproclamé photoshopologue qui nous sortait un "c'est clairement photoshoppé ça se voit à 100m de distance"
Maintenant les gens font pareil avec l'IA, ils s'inventent AIologues pour s'autocongratuler de ne pas se faire avoir même quand ce n'est pas le cas. C'est presque aussi fatiguant que l'IA en fait.
That's gotta suck so bad to see after putting all the effort you do into your work.
Originally when I saw your art, it took me a second to recognize that your style was something I'd seen *replicated* by AI "art" models, and not that your work was just that style because it was AI. (though of course even a moment of closer inspection revealed it wasn't slop)
I try to avoid identifying AI art solely by general style or vibe for exactly that reason.
The world really sucks right now.
To me your artwork is great.
If I'm looking at this properly. It's from reddit. Which the site is becoming to be filled with more bots than humans. So, it's possible you're being bot attacked. Granted humans could be massively great...jerks, too.
Y'a sûrement à faire et d'une manière ultra intéressante car, ayant été publié par Glénat, il y a preuve tangible d'antériorité de ton style qui a souvent été imité.
Bon, après, (et je sais ce que c'est) faut trouver l'avocat qui est réellement motivé par l'affaire et financer son travail. Et ça douille, bien sûr.
I don't understand, why people don't see it's not ai you do.
I mean, I just need to look at facial expressions in ai "art" vs real art. Expressions in ai "art" always look off and wrong and not correct(like a bad actor doing stuff) while real art has usually expressions who are spot on, cause humans know, how things must be expressed.
So it's clear that your images aren't ai, your faces emote too good and spot on,even if one doesn't know all your previous work to detect it's not ai.
Interesting how they seem to propose to increase diversity by not giving minorities a job...
Since AI can only (if at all) be used to interpolate from the data set available, and that data set available is skinny white women, you can't really propose to use it to generate e.g. realistic plus-sized models.
Also, creating fashion images with AI may have an extra problem beyond the models not being real: the clothes that they are meant to advertise are also not real.
AI-generated fashion models may become the future, but they should be used responsibly.
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Her Software Engineer bit is so oddly specific, that I suspect the others are too...
youtu.be/gXQIa_9ShzA?is=0bEQqP…
She actually comes out of the legal field, so how she gets the engineering ones so right, I don't know. The YouTuber one is of course what literally happened on the most recent random Tuesday.
A Grebe kindly swam by, while hunting for fish.
Canon EOS R10 and EF 400mm F5.6L.
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I had to remind the insects that my old second hand lens only has a minimum focusing distance of three and a half meters.
Canon EOS R10 with EF 400mm F5.6L.
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Mithuna Yoganathan of Looking Glass Universe is generally having a more positive attitude towards AI, which I don't, but since she's a super smart person (PHD in quantum physics) I will always value her opinion. I watched this new video of hers and I think it is very interesting, no matter where you are on the for or against spectrum.
youtu.be/b-nD3HgIR5Y?is=NO0cmd…
It focuses on the personality a chat AI is trained to have and how it can be, or can't be, prevented from slipping.
Wired and Professor Ben-Ghiat investigating what are the signs of a dying democracy and seeing which boxes are checked by the US: youtu.be/XVEMBw2jT9o?is=XEFvz7…
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The trailer for Klara and the Sun, with Jenna Ortega:
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Klara And The Sun Movie on Instagram: "Meet Klara. Your new best (artificial) friend. 🌞 Jenna Ortega is Klara in Director Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s #KlaraAndTheSun - coming exclusively to theatres October 23. Watch the trailer now."
20K likes, 370 comments - klaraandthesunmovie on June 22, 2026: "Meet Klara. Your new best (artificial) friend.Instagram
As she says, a geeky as shit overview of how your game character build can influence whether you're playing the game on hard mode. Yes, she's talking about real life.
ICE crackdowns have not delivered measurable economic gains for US-born workers.
Scholars of labor markets, immigration and public environmental policy explain:
theconversation.com/when-ice-r…
When ICE ramped up enforcement, US-born workers didn’t see any economic gains
Contrary to the belief that an immigration crackdown would lead to more jobs for US-born workers, ICE enforcement hasn’t produced economic gains for Americans.The Conversation
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Currently the Norway Chess tournament is ongoing and Divya Deshmukh is leading the rankings* after round 5.
Photo by Michal Walusza (who takes the best chess photos), copyright Norway Chess, from here, from an earlier round.
(* the women's rankings. The time will come she'll lead the overall rankings.)
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Just back from visiting Veldhoven Zoo, and from cycling to and from there. Very tired. I took many pictures, both cards I had with me are full. Maybe I should not have left the camera on burst mode, and maybe I should have emptied both cards before I went there... It's going to take a while to sort through everything.
I like that some animals are free to roam around with people, farm style. And I like that this zoo started as, and still is, a sanctuary for birds. All these times people realise they can not keep parrots anymore, they go there. Someone told me that in covid times they received over a hundred parrots and budgies per day; I must have misunderstood. They also have a breeding program for eagles, which will be released in the wild in France. Apparently eagles don't form couples when in France.
Until two weeks ago I didn't even know this zoo existed, and I've lived here for decades. But a colleague mentioned visiting it with her little daughter, and I wanted to check it out too.
Diana, Luudida, on being alone travelling and content creating. She's very honestly showing how uncomfortable it makes her, and she does it anyway. I'm so proud.
youtu.be/Wq5hFZrZJvc?is=nklozA…
I'm not doing content creation, but I have experience of my whole life going to places alone where people normally go with others, and she's already handling it better than me.
Crystal showing mathematically that dating apps don't work: youtu.be/9-VcIwUqKpI?is=SBFVmQ…
I think her maths is even too optimistic. It's quite a lot worse if you're a man, in one of these lower categories, and in your location N=3. E.g. she's talking about not all matches leading to a date and I'm thinking 'are there actually people who have any matches?'. I didn't know that if I were to eventually match with a (non-scam) person, there were more hurdles to take.
My new favourite chess Grandmaster.
Divya Deshmukh, 20 years old from India, is currently playing at the prestigious Fide Candidates tournament, where it is already an achievement to qualify for being allowed to participate. The photo is from the official Fide (international chess federation) Flickr site and is taken at that event.
It looks like she's making a name for herself, not just for bold moves and fierce fights, but also for showing up in very stylish outfits.
A super interesting video where Mithuna Yoganathan explains what would be involved in AI doing biological scientific discoveries and why the claim that it will cure cancer is unlikely at best. Mithuna is a super smart person (PHD in quantum physics) who doesn't have a simple knee jerk reaction against AI, like I do. She really gave it a go, as you can see on her channel. So, if she says this... And I really trust her opinion anyway.
#AI #MithunaYoganathan #Science
The simpler answer: no, but it will cause cancer by making climate change worse.
cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-…
Climate Change’s Impact on Cancer Care, Risk
Emerging evidence suggests that the consequences of climate change may have an impact on the development of cancer and cancer care.National Cancer Institute (.gov)
Amy-Leigh Hickman is going to be in the new series (7) of Line of Duty! On the BBC.
When to automate a repetitive task:
NO-BRAINER: "This is obviously going to be faster to automate than to do it by hand _even once_. Let's automate it right now, and not do it by hand at all."
FORESIGHTED: "Doing it once by hand is faster than automating it, but I'm going to have to do it a lot of times, so it still saves time to automate it first."
NEED A RUN-UP: "I don't yet understand this task well enough to automate it, so I'll do it a few times by hand first to get the idea."
RAN OFF THE RUNWAY: "Great, now I've done this by hand a few times, I think I can automate it reliably! Oh, oops, turned out I only had one more case of it left to do."
TERRIFIED OF RUNNING OFF THE RUNWAY: "This is a one-off, so it would be a waste of time to automate it, I'll just do it manually."
[next day] "Oh, oops, I made a mistake and have to do it again. But it should be fine this time."
[a month later] "Even though I've had to redo it 25 times already, surely _this_ is the last time? So it would still be a waste of time to automate it."
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I'm a fan of the variant of "need a run-up", where you don't know what you're doing, but want to make sure that when you have to redo it, you redo the working steps the same way.
The best way of doing this is to write down the steps. In a script. So when you do get it working, you have most of your automation already written.
I've ended up putting together a shell script that maintains markdown checklists and records executions and artefacts in a git repo. It allows me to hone messy processes over time to the point where they can largely be automated, while still documenting the necessary steps where reliable automation hasn't yet been achieved. It gives me a lot of comfort
GitHub - amboar/checklists
Contribute to amboar/checklists development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
[puts together an automation after having to do it 30 times]
[never have to use it again]
from the mix of these things is why I have my own tool for handling hundreds (if not thousands) of SQL scripts that I've been tinkering with for over 20 years.
Which means I can add an extra item to the list:
- having built a tool for doing some amount of the automation occurring in my work, gives me a head start each time a new need for automation becomes apparent.
I occasionally shock myself at how early that became true, seeing innovative components dated 2005 or so.
20 GOTO 10
"ONE-OFF, BUT BOSS"
"This is a one-off, so I do it manually."
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But somehow The Boss ends up with it.
[Boss] "Somebody said they changed something. Run that report again, to see if anything changed." (And then again, and again, and again, … Always In A Bug Rush, of course.)
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I've been called in to automate this, but while they produce the stuff, there is no documentation. Each person only knows their own bit.
I'll decline to bid as I might never discover how they do it. Their totally manual system at least works.
This from Larry Wall (of Perl fame) seems relevant...
The Three Virtues
[Paraphrased]1) #Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure.
2) #Impatience - Because you are impatient, you will build systems and shortcuts for your daily work.
3) #Hubris - You have the confidence that you can do better than the status quo.
FAILURE WAITING TO HAPPEN: "l write down what (I think) needs to be done beforehand and delegate the liability for the manual execution to some support team."
ACCOUNTABLE: "I do this by hand and write down what steps I had to do.
This way, I won't have to reinvent this if it needs to be done again or if it will be automated.
Furthermore, others can learn from it or point out errors.
I am aware that these steps are not guaranteed to work in two months time, because things change."
@TheConstructor yes, I love GUI programs that show you the underlying CLI commands the GUI actions translate into! I've used a couple as well. When I joined my current employer they used a bug tracker based on a database, whose Windows client was able to show its log of SQL commands in an extra pane. And their current flagship GUI debugger has a command-line mode too and a log window showing the CLI equivalent of each GUI action you take.
They are twice as much work to write, of course. But it's worth it.
I've done this new thing once by hand and recorded what I have done. If I need to do it again I won't have to reinvent the wheel and, oh look, there are some step I can streamline there and maybe if I re-order these operations it will be even faster. And should I get run down by a bus, my replacement will be able to hit the ground running. Also if it seems like we will have to do this regularly I can swiftly automate away all the boring bits.
Trying to automate a task is actually a good way to verify that you understand it, and are capable of describing it in sufficient detail. If you can teach it to a computer, you can probably teach it to a person (and vice versa). If it can be taught—through instruction—is it not de facto automatable?
OTOH, if a task cannot be taught, then it almost certainly cannot be automated, either. It suggests that the "task" is, in fact, something categorically different, like maintenance or caretaking, which requires understanding the system, its dynamic environment, and their interactions.
@8r3n7 I think that equivalence only works in a restricted domain. There are plenty of things it's easy to teach a human but hard to teach a computer, because you're relying on some skill the human already had which is the hard part. Like a task involving vision, or language.
(At least, that's true as long as you mean traditional computer software which is efficient, predictable, and easy to maintain and modify. LLMs complicate this picture.)
Going the other way, it's probably true that any task you can program a computer to do you can teach a human to _understand_. But doing it is another matter, because computers are immune to boredom and humans aren't!
Crystal explains what your favourite social media says about you: youtu.be/GspQt10qrgs?is=_NCo16… . Unfortunately she only does commercial social media. And even though she helpfully mentions that people should just start their own blog if that's a certain itch they should scratch, it is then tied to the sponsor of the video, Squarespace.
Me: I used to hate Tumblr for years, but then I stopped using it. I felt seen in that segment...
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