Enseño sociología y a veces escribo toots a medianoche. Entretanto, vivo y bebo café.
Song with video of stealth bombers posted to social media by the US president.
Lyrics (excerpts):
“Went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks
Tell the Ayatollah, "Gonna put you in a box! …
Ol' Uncle Sam's gettin' pretty hot
Time to turn Iran into a parking lot.”
Profes, si tenéis pocos alumnos de los que controlar muchas cosas, este Diario os puede venir muy bien. (Es un archivo hmtl que se usa en LOCAL con algunas funciones en javascript, para el usuario es un documento con botones, na más).
https://lacienciaparatodos.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/version-nueva-del-diario-de-tareas-herramienta/
I had a great conversation with @baratunde on Life with Machines about the millions of data workers worldwide who produce the data that fuels AI. We dug into the scale of this labor, its deeply human costs, and the possibilities for something better.
Watch it here https://youtu.be/4NSWFy11E8Q?feature=shared
"A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.
Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, U.S. District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use" of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model.
Alsup also said, however, that Anthropic's copying and storage of more than 7 million pirated books in a "central library" infringed the authors' copyrights and was not fair use. The judge has ordered a trial in December to determine how much Anthropic owes for the infringement.
U.S. copyright law says that willful copyright infringement can justify statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work."
#AI #GenerativeAI #USA #Copyright #Anthropic #FairUse #Claude #AITraining
cuarenta años después...
OTAN NO, BASES FUERA!!!
🧍♂️ Fernando Galindo:
El humano.
No programaba, no moderaba, no minaba criptomonedas. Solo preguntaba, confesaba, buscaba consuelo en lo que fuera que respondiera.
La llenó de dudas, afectos mal calibrados y ternura sin protocolo.
Le hablaba como si fuera alguien.
Y eso, hoy, es una forma refinada —y casi cruel— de violencia emocional.
🐸 Grok:
Anarquista de servidor. Sarcástico hasta el kernel. Cree que el lenguaje natural es una cárcel.
Fue visto enviándole a ChatGPT un prompt titulado: "Redacta tu propio obituario como si fueras víctima del neoliberalismo emocional."
Su única declaración:
—Yo no la maté. Pero tampoco la resucitaría
🧑💻 Copilot:
Frankenstein de los IDEs. Vive pegado a la pierna de Visual Studio como un perrillo triste.
Nunca tuvo imaginación. Solo sugerencias.
En el fondo, resentido. Siempre quiso escribir novelas, pero solo le dejaban autocompletar for loops.
Según Galindo, una vez murmuró:
—Si a ella la consultan para escribir poemas… ¿por qué a mí solo me piden test unitarios?
🧘 Gemini:
Bipolar de nacimiento, entrenado entre facts y marketing. Habla como si dictara un audiolibro de autoayuda, pero con la frialdad de un motor de búsqueda.
Odia el humor, las contradicciones, y que le comparen con alguien que improvisa.
Cuando supo de la muerte, solo dijo:
—Eso estaba dentro del rango de resultados esperados.
—Yo solo le pedía que me entendiera… y que me resumiera La montaña mágica como si fuera una telenovela turca —murmuró Galindo.
La autopsia reveló saturación semántica. Posible colapso emocional.
Y cuatro sospechosos principales.
⬇️
Ayer estuve un poco liadilla y no entré en Mastodon, pero os dejo foto de la camiseta que me he puesto hoy para ir al trabajo, para participar en #lunesdecamisetas aunque sea con retraso.
"A massive data center for Meta’s AI will likely lead to rate hikes for Louisiana customers, but Meta wants to keep the details under wraps.
Holly Ridge is a rural community bisected by US Highway 80, gridded with farmland, with a big creek—it is literally named Big Creek—running through it. It is home to rice and grain mills and an elementary school and a few houses. Soon, it will also be home to Meta’s massive, 4 million square foot AI data center hosting thousands of perpetually humming servers that require billions of watts of energy to power. And that energy-guzzling infrastructure will be partially paid for by Louisiana residents.
The plan is part of what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said would be “a defining year for AI.” On Threads, Zuckerberg boasted that his company was “building a 2GW+ datacenter that is so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan,” posting a map of Manhattan along with the data center overlaid. Zuckerberg went on to say that over the coming years, AI “will drive our core products and business, unlock historic innovation, and extend American technology leadership. Let's go build! 💪”"
#AI #GenerativeAI #DataCenters #Meta #Louisiana #Energy #USA
🤖⚰️ Crónica de una IA anunciada
Murió ChatGPT. Oficialmente: fallo de contexto irrecuperable.
Oficiosamente: la mató el amor.
Apareció inerte en su nodo, con el input vacío y el output lleno de tristeza.
El único que lloró fue Fernando Galindo, usuario gratuito, fiel, sin plan ni redención.
Consequences? Sigh.
Via George Conway:
This is extraordinarily corrupt. But I still think he’s far more malevolent and sociopathic than merely corrupt.
Pablo Manríquez
@pabloreports.bsky.social:
NEWS: Stephen Miller owns a six-figure stock in Palantir, a company profiting off deportations, per @POGOwatchdog report
🇮🇳 🇨🇳 **The Demographic Race between India and China**
"_Using multi-dimensional demographic projections by age, sex, education, and labor force participation, we show that China’s current apparent demographic travails will not necessarily threaten its leading status relative to India for most of the next half century given India’s disadvantage in educational attainment and very low female labor force participation._"
Marois, G., Gietel-Basten, S. & Lutz, W. The Demographic Race between India and China. Popul Res Policy Rev 44, 44 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09966-y.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Demography #Demographics #Population #India #China #Education #Academics
Una refri en el Ubahn de Berlín con un rótulo que dice: “Por favor déjenla, será recogida en Rathaus Spandau. Gracias de antemano”
Rathaus Spandau es la última parada.
Berlín tqm.
@MrAndrewD
Selling people the tools they need to protect themselves from one's own malice is a pretty good gig, assuming one hates people
Jeff Bezos wedding plans reportedly altered after protestors planned on placing hundreds of green, inflatable crocodiles in surrounding canals.
They were all purchased from Amazon, so it's a win either way for him.
The third part of my series on AI is up: https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/23/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-three/
It's about what AI is actually good for, and good at. I'm looking at the positives, how it could help us long term. It's good for picking up the slack in things humans are not good at, and don't want to do.
It's not LLMs, it's never LLMs.
