Update. More evidence that this fear has come true.

"Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Stress Among Students."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2026/02/25/fear-being-flagged-ai-detectors-drives-student

"More than half (52 percent) of all those polled cited 'being accused of cheating when I did nothing wrong' as one of the factors causing them stress."

#AI #LLMs #Plagiarism

Ugh. "Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge."
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

It's not yet clear what this means for the high-stakes negotiation between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Two of the Anthropic sticking points have been that Claude not be used for "mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai

#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Hegseth #LLMs #Pentagon #USPol #USPolitics

Update. More evidence that this fear has come true.

"Fear of Being Flagged by AI Detectors Drives Stress Among Students."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2026/02/25/fear-being-flagged-ai-detectors-drives-student

"More than half (52 percent) of all those polled cited 'being accused of cheating when I did nothing wrong' as one of the factors causing them stress."

#AI #LLMs #Plagiarism

Ugh. "Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge."
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/

It's not yet clear what this means for the high-stakes negotiation between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Two of the Anthropic sticking points have been that Claude not be used for "mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai

#AI #Anthropic #Claude #Hegseth #LLMs #Pentagon #USPol #USPolitics

@Mimesatwork @bootlessbuck @scott

There is no 'I' and there is no 'lie'. #LLMs are averaging machines. They produce word salad. They are fed everything, fact or fiction, and do not and cannot distinguish between the two. Giving facts was never their purpose.

Taking artist and writers work. Collecting data. All of it. Is what they were programmed for.

There is no ethical use of LLMs.

Regardless of the above, the energy and water usage is argument enough that there is no ethical justification.

@Mimesatwork @bootlessbuck @scott

There is no 'I' and there is no 'lie'. #LLMs are averaging machines. They produce word salad. They are fed everything, fact or fiction, and do not and cannot distinguish between the two. Giving facts was never their purpose.

Taking artist and writers work. Collecting data. All of it. Is what they were programmed for.

There is no ethical use of LLMs.

Regardless of the above, the energy and water usage is argument enough that there is no ethical justification.

friends don’t let friends use spicy autocarrot to generate #passwords… 💁‍♀️

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way

“AI security company Irregular looked at Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and found all three #GenAI tools put forward seemingly strong passwords that were, in fact, easily guessable.”
…
“Irregular found that all three AI #chatbots produced passwords with common patterns, and if hackers understood them, they could use that knowledge to inform their brute-force strategies.”
…
“Knowing the patterns also reveals how many times #LLMs are used to create passwords in open source projects. The researchers showed that by searching common character sequences across #GitHub and the wider web, queries return test code, setup instructions, technical documentation, and more.”

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/

friends don’t let friends use spicy autocarrot to generate #passwords… 💁‍♀️

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way

“AI security company Irregular looked at Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and found all three #GenAI tools put forward seemingly strong passwords that were, in fact, easily guessable.”
…
“Irregular found that all three AI #chatbots produced passwords with common patterns, and if hackers understood them, they could use that knowledge to inform their brute-force strategies.”
…
“Knowing the patterns also reveals how many times #LLMs are used to create passwords in open source projects. The researchers showed that by searching common character sequences across #GitHub and the wider web, queries return test code, setup instructions, technical documentation, and more.”

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/

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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox

#tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI #Meta #AIAgent

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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox

#tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Fuck_AI #Meta #AIAgent

Another interesting perspective on the potential impact of agentic coding / #LLMs on programming https://felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-inevitable-the-economics-of-language-choice-in-the-llm-era/

I'd love to see languages like #Clojure gaining popularity from this trend, but I certainly have my doubts that this will actually happen.

This morning I got an email from a sender that identified itself as an AI agent.

So - plus for being upfront about it, but... please don't do this.

I get that a lot of people are really, really, really into AI tools. OK. I have my opinions on them, you have yours. I have major qualms about them, some people think they're the best thing ever.

OK. Fine. But when your use of these things spills over into the rest of the world, it's no longer a question of my opinion vs. your opinion, my decisions vs. your decisions.

At this point, things have moved from each person doing their own thing to inflicting your use of AI onto me without my consent.

Before this spirals out of control, which I can see happening *very* quickly, I'd like for us to agree on a piece of netiquette:

- it is rude in the extreme to set loose an AI agent to reach out to people who have not consented to interact with these things.

- it is rude to have an AI agent submit pull requests that human maintainers have to review.

- it is rude to have an AI agent autonomously interact with humans in any way when they have not consented to take part in whatever experiment you are running.

- it is unacceptable to have an AI agent autonomously interact with humans without identifying the person or organization behind the agent. If you're not willing to unmask and have a person reach out to you with their thoughts on this, then don't have an AI agent reach out to me.

Stuff like this really sours me on technology right now. If I didn't have a family and responsibilities, I'd be seriously considering how I could go live off the grid somewhere without having to interact with this stuff.

Again: I'm not demanding that other people not use AI/LLMs, etc. But when your use spills out into my having to have interactions with an agent's output, you need to reconsider. Your ability to spew things out into the universe puts an unwanted burden on other humans who have not consented to this.

#LLMs #AI #AgenticAI #OpenClaw #OpenSource

At this point, open-source development itself is being DDoS'ed by LLMs and their human users.

At the risk of being a bit gross: this is the software development version of peeing in the pool. If *one* person does it, it's gross but will probably go unnoticed. However, at this point, it's like having 100 people all lined up on the side of the pool peeing into it in unison. I don't really want to swim in that, do you? And now they've started eyeing the punchbowl and watercoolers too. #AI #AIslop #LLMs

The most prominent 'tech critic' on Mastodon arguing that tech is neutral and apolitical. Jesus fucking christ. #AI #Enshittification #LLMs #Tech

The most prominent 'tech critic' on Mastodon arguing that tech is neutral and apolitical. Jesus fucking christ. #AI #Enshittification #LLMs #Tech