Hey, someone else is seeing the animism! Fi 🏳️⚧️
@munin@infosec.exchange
So, something that's been bugging the shit out of me?
These fucking assholes who let LLMs run rampant and delete prod?
They query the LLM for "why" it did that.
This is delusional behavior.
LLMs do not have a concept of 'why': they assemble a response based on a
statistical sampling of likely continuations of the original prompt in
their database.
LLMs do not have the ability to have motivation. It is a machine.
LLMs, further, function by instantiating a new runtime -for each query-
that reads the prompt and any cache, if they exist, from prior sessions:
which means, fundamentally, "asking" the LLM to explain "why" "it" did a
thing is thrice-divorced from reality:
It cannot have a why;
It cannot have a self to have motivations;
And the LLM you ask is not the one that did it, but is a new instance
reading from its predecessors notes.
Treating it as tho it is an entity with continuity of existence is
fucking delusional and I am fucking sick of pandering to this horseshit.
Touch some grass and get a fucking therapist.
(I thought I'd mentioned it more, but at least here)
Mariatta 🤦🏻♀️
@mariatta@fosstodon.org
That should be my next motto after "no spreadsheets".
"No copy pasting". Especially for data that is always changing. My calendar, my
availability, conference budget. Share data straight from the source instead of copy
pasting from one sheet to another.
Which, of course, also needs an update mechanism
Lina
@lina@neuromatch.social
anybody got any anti-"ai" or luddite songs to share? I'd love to get a playlist going
boosts welcome
All of this: monkϵyborg
🦾🐵
@monkeyborg@triangletoot.party
All those people saying “I was skeptical of AI, until I tried Claude and I was
amazed that it could tell me this and this and this” sound just like
“I was skeptical of psychics, but then Madame Fortuna told me something only my
dead wife would know!”
Human perception has certain well-documented flaws that confidence men prey
upon, and you are not immune from these
And yet it feels like there's something in code generation, as dangerous as it is.
Okay, Google Intelligence, I kinda get how you got there, but, uh, no.
KDE is turning 30 this year!
KDE contributor Farid inspired us to take on the “30 for 30”
challenge:
for our 30th birthday, we are asking you to do something to help the environment and make
the planet a nicer place to live in. Farid is planting 30 trees and we want you to come up
with something similar.
Film you and your crew carrying out your effort and we will promote your
project on social media.
Here are some more ideas:
- Rescue 30 computers (or more!) from ending up in a landfill
- Upcycle 30 phones with a free mobile operating system
- Clean up 30 hectares of woodland
- Convert 30 people to a free operating system
- Take 30 techbros to court so they stop building AI datacenters
Via.
dave
@dthompson@toot.cat
all this talk about tokens this and tokens that. they turned my profession
into chuck e cheese.
University of British Columbia: Are you addicted to your AI chatbot? It might be
by design
AI chatbots can grant almost any request—a celebrity in love with you, a
research assistant, a book character sprung to life—instantly and with little effort. New
research presented at the
2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems suggests that this
genie-like quality is fuelling AI addiction, and that chatbot design could be partly to
blame.
Via
ResearchBuzz
