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Bookmarks with tag “ai”:

Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents

This talk demonstrates end-to-end prompt injection exploits that compromise agentic systems. Specifically, we will discuss exploits that target computer-use and coding agents, such as Anthropic's Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Jules, Devin AI, ChatGPT Operator, Amazon Q, AWS Kiro, and others.

Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao

Insightful interview with the author of the book "Empire of AI", which I bought for myself after hearing it.

VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

Microsoft has deactivated the IntelliCode extensions for VS Code and refers to Copilot, which has a limited free volume.

Important notice: AI-generated archival references

We are aware that some AI chatbots (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Bard and others) may generate incorrect or fabricated archival references. These systems do not conduct research, verify sources, or cross-check information. They generate new content based on statistical patterns, and may therefore produce invented catalogue numbers, descriptions of documents, or even references to platforms that have never existed.

Court Sanctions Attorneys for Submitting Brief with AI-Generated False Citations

The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado has sanctioned two attorneys for submitting a brief containing “nearly thirty defective citations” that were generated by artificial intelligence.

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models

An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs

RAM for me, not for thee.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

remove ai

2025.11.22. Sadly, everytime a company adds AI features to their tools they do so automatically and without letting people opt-out by default. And so it is necessary to exorcize AI features out of the tools that we use ourselves by following these instructions: […]

Neat, I didn’t even know uBlockOrigin had an AI blocklist :)

Increase in AI generated "vulnerability reports" and CVE requests

OpenWrt’s mailing list getting hit by nonsense AI vulnerability reports.

Only 8% of Americans would pay extra for AI, according to ZDNET-Aberdeen research

Tech vendors are racing to integrate AI into everything and selling it as a transformational moment. New data reveals a big enthusiasm gap from users.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

‘You’re not rushing. You’re just ready:’ Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself

..that one’s tough to read.

Helping people when they need it most

I guess OpenAI is selling ChatGPT as a therapist now..

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers

arXiv got flooded with worthless review articles and position papers created with the help of LLMs, and now stops accepting them.

Die KI(rche) im Dorf lassen

Plädoyer für eine klima- und sozialverträgliche Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz

OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are Horny

Just two months ago, Sam Altman acknowledged that putting a “sex bot avatar” in ChatGPT would be a move to “juice growth.” Something the company had been tempted to do, he said, but had resisted.

AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all

More fiction than science

Palantir Linkliste

Wird laufend aktualisiert. Achtung, harter Tobak.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin suggests threatening AI for better results

So much for buttering up ChatGPT with 'Please' and 'Thank you'

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits.

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education.

The end of critical thinking in the classroom

AI slop attacks on the curl project

In these days of "vibe coding" and chatbots, users ask AIs for help with everything. Asked to find security problems in Open Source projects, AI bots tell users something that sounds right. Reporting these "findings" wastes everyone's time and causes much frustration and fatigue. Daniel shows how this looks, how it creates a DDoS on projects and how totally beyond absurd this is. With examples and insights from the curl project.

A Case of Bromism Influenced by Use of Artificial Intelligence

Ingestion of bromide can lead to a toxidrome known as bromism. While this condition is less common than it was in the early 20th century, it remains important to describe the associated symptoms and risks, because bromide-containing substances have become more readily available on the internet. We present an interesting case of a patient who developed bromism after consulting the artificial intelligence–based conversational large language model, ChatGPT, for health information.

LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut

Resolved after 168h 30m of downtime.

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

It’s a bubble, that’s for sure.

Boston University Suggests Replacing Striking Grad Students With AI

In response to a grad student worker strike, the school recommends that staff utilize generative AI tools “to give feedback or facilitate ‘discussion’ on readings or assignments.”