AGI isn’t just buzz—it’s a systems problem.

In this #podcast, Your Undivided Attention explores what AGI actually means and how we might (or might not) be ready for it.

your-undivided-attention.simpl…

#AI #AGI #TechEthics #FutureOfAI

So beautiful and to the point 🥲\
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#ai

What on earth, SoundCloud??

"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."

soundcloud.com/terms-of-use

via @sarahdal crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/11447…

#soundcloud #AI #copyright #musicians #AITraining

Who on this #mastodon uses #RSS? I just made 🥯 FeedBagel – feedbagel.com

An RSS feed finder #API that categorises feeds with #AI, and saves them for browsing and searching

any feedback welcome and appreciated! #webdev #design

So I was browsing the Internet today, and so I found some weird script someone made for Linux which takes a screenshot and describes it with Gemini. As usual, read the script before running it and all that, I obviously wasn't the one who created it because I don't code, so I cannot answer any questions about it or make new features or anything like that. But yeah I mean it's also AI, so don't use it, and Linux will obviously be filled with slop because of this awful person who added A11yAI to Linux, but yeah here it is:

dropbox.com/scl/fi/qy49ewvvj0g…

#ai #blind #linux

"Mir reicht's": #Curl-Entwickler spricht Machtwort gegen "KI-Schrott"

golem.de/news/mir-reicht-s-cur…

> Entwickler @bagder zeigt sich frustriert über durch KI generierte Bug-Reports. Reporter werden künftig einem Intelligenztest unterzogen.

Btw., #Golem garniert den Artikel mit einem KI generierten Bild 🤷

Aber das mit den Intelligenztest finde ich gut. Die Frage ist, ob man mit Captchas gegen LLMs ankommt.

#AI #LLM

Viewpoint is a Windows program that uses Gemini AI to make user interfaces that aren't accessible, pretty accessible! I was able to navigate the PPSSPP interface with it pretty well! So yeah, it's starting to happen, the use of AI for more than just image descriptions.

viewpoint.nibblenerds.com/

#accessibility #blind #ai #ViewPoint #GeminiAI #google

I was happy to attend #DrupalCamp Ottawa today. Lots of great people I was happy to see.

I also presented about #DrupalCMS & #AI highlighting how it can support better #AltText and & #PlainLanguage

It was also exciting to see so many new people join!

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

#Drupal #A11y

DrupalCamp Ottawa : Boosting Web Accessibility with Drupal CMS and AI

Boosting Web Accessibility with Drupal CMS and AI DrupalCamp Ottawa, May 2, 2025 https://drupalcampottawa.com/en/sessions/schedule Web accessibility is a journey—and with the right tools, Drupal can help you get there faster.

^{Google Docs}

Maybe we are on the cusp of AGI…

#agrokinference #ai #agi #naturalstupidity

Konečně jsem našel rozumnou náhradu za znak &, který se v IFTTT nedá rozumně vyescapovat a skript je pak okamžitě ukončen.

Trvalo to asi 2,5 roku, nesčetně hodin různých testů a pak…

Jsem se zeptal Perplexity AI a za 30s je problém vyřešen…d8-D

P.S.: Bude to 1. možnost.

#zpravobot #ai

This is the kind of thing that should be banned. It is time to realize that indiscriminate data collection and profiling is harming our society.
techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp…

#Vivaldi #Browser #Spyware #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #Windows #Macos #Linux

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

^{Julie Bort (TechCrunch)}

A verified ID is required to access AI models in OpenAI's API to prevent IP theft. 😂 They went from stealing everything from everyone to now claiming it's their original work, despite hundreds of pending copyright cases against them in the courts. Why is this even allowed? That's hypocrisy at best.

#ai

🚨 EU citizens - Meta will start using your data for AI 🚨

Say NO and object!

Here's how 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

#MetaAI #EU #AI

age of balloons

#unix_surrealism #rabbit #9front #art #ai #noai #nine

🧠 Microsoft is reintroducing Recall in Windows 11 — a feature that captures screenshots every 3 seconds of your activity to create an AI-powered memory. What could go wrong?

It now includes:
🔐 Opt-in only
📍 Local device processing
🧑‍💻 Windows Hello authentication

But many still ask: is it a productivity boost or a privacy liability? 😳
Even with safeguards, the idea of your system quietly watching everything you do raises serious concerns about digital trust.

#Privacy #Windows11 #AI #Cybersecurity #TechNews
arstechnica.com/security/2025/…

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

^{Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)}

If you want to know how a spoon, ai, Matrix and accessibility are connected, then check out the #btconf talk description by @tink with the title “There Is No Spoon” beyondtellerrand.com/events/du…

#a11y #ai #accessibility #presentation #tellerrand

Léonie Watson is speaking at beyond tellerrand 2025 in Düsseldorf

Léonie is a Director of TetraLogical; Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group. She

^{beyond tellerrand Events}

mind the WCAG automation gap

"Disclaimer: this content was partially produced via automation FTW! Don’t fear the AI future or the reaper."

#a11y #WCAG #testing #automation #ai

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

Final update: The developer is now on Mastodon via @andrew_guide.

Update: The developer has removed the ability to download Guide until the security issues mentioned in the linked thread are fixed.

Update: this product contains some code flaws that are concerning from a security perspective, beyond just giving control of your computer to an LLM. You might want to read this thread before installing the product: toot.cafe/@matt/114258349401221651

Update: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do everything all the time kind of guy. He's also investigating deeper screen reader interaction, to let AI just do the things we can't do that it's best at. I stand by my thoughts that the project isn't yet ready for prime time. But as someone else in the thread said, I don't think it should be written off entirely as yet another "AI will save us from inaccessibility" hype train. There is, in fact, something here if it gets polished and scoped a bit more.

Just tried guide for fun. It's supposed to be an app to use #AI to help #blind folks get things done. I asked "Where are the best liver and onions in Ottawa?" It:
1. Decided it needed to search the web.
2. Thought that the "stardew access" icon on my desktop was a kind of web browser, so clicked it.
3. Imagined an "accept cookies" dialogue it needed to accept.
4. Decided that didn't work, so looked for Google Chrome (I don't have chrome installed on that machine)
5. Finally opened edge from the start menu. By the way, it just...left Stardew open and running. Because apparently having Stardew Valley running in the background is a vital part of finding liver and onions in Ottawa.
6. Opened a random extension from my edge toolbar (goodlinks).
7. Clicked the address bar and loaded google.com, instead of just doing the search right from the address bar.
8. Got blocked because it couldn't sign into my Google account, even though it could have also searched from the Google homepage.

To be fair to AI, that was the kind of open-ended task AI is terrible at. If I had asked it to check an inaccessible checkbox, or read a screenshot, or something, I'm sure it would have been fine.

Anyway, I'm still better at using a computer than an AI. So is my 87 year old grandfather, for that matter. www.guideinteraction.com

Guide - AI assistant for people with low vision or blindness

With Guide, inaccessible doesn't have to mean undoable. Guide is a Windows AI assistant that helps people with low vision or blindness navigate the digital world.

^Guide

Matt Campbell

2025-03-31 18:00:52

There's a new product that has been gaining some buzz in the blind community, a Windows app called Guide that uses AI to perform tasks on your computer. It's pitched as a way to get around web accessibility problems in particular. I won't link to the thing itself, because I don't want to give it that validation, but I'll link to a previous discussion thread about it: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a5wf4ys…

I've spent some time taking this app apart. The level of shoddy work here is deeply disgusting. 1/?

Wow. For a few months, I was wondering why I suddenly have bandwidth issues when activating my camera in MS Teams meetings, so others can't understand me any more.

A look into my #nginx logs seems to clarify. Bots are eagerly fetching my (partially pretty large) #poudriere build logs. 🧐 (#AI "watching shit scroll by"?)

I see GPTBot at least occassionally requests robots.txt, which I don't have so far. Other bots don't seem to be interested. Especially PetalBot is hammering my server. And there are others (bytedance, google, ...)

Now what? Robots.txt would actually *help* well-behaved bots here (I assume build logs aren't valuable for anything). The most pragmatic thing here would be to add some http basic auth in the reverse proxy for all poudriere stuff. It's currently only public because there's no reason to keep it private....

Have to admit I feel inclined to try one of the tarpitting/poisoning approaches, too. 😏

💰 Spain is done with AI slop and disinfo

｢ The Spanish bill, which needs to be approved by the lower house, classifies non-compliance with proper labelling of AI-generated content as a "serious offence" that can lead to fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover ｣

reuters.com/technology/artific…

#spain #ai #deepfakes #disinformation

the machine box

#unix_surrealism #mastodon #ai #cable #phone

the computer can't

#unix_surrealism #glenda #9front #ai #mnt

Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved:

saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag…

#ai #meta #writing

#CNA A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference

A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference We took a look at the robots featured at Nvidia's developer conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday (Mar 18). #ai #robotics #robots #nvidia #nvda #news from CNA Video YouTube untuk artikel ini boleh ditonton di sini 💛

shibuyaworldnews.online/cna-a-…

#CNA A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference - SHIBUYA World News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_xW8hub2x0 A look at the robots at Nvidia’s conference We took a look at the robots featured at Nvidia's developer conference in San Jose, California on Tuesday (Mar 18).

^{🐈 (SHIBUYA World News)}

About time roflmeow

• AI comes to Narrator. Rich image descriptions powered by AI will be coming to Narrator in Windows Insider Preview this spring

blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/…

#accessibility #microsoft #ai

Microsoft Ability Summit 2025: Accessibility in the AI era - The Official Microsoft Blog

Today, we hosted the 15th annual Microsoft Ability Summit, with over 20,000 attendees from 164 countries coming together virtually to discuss the future of AI and accessibility.

^{Jenny Lay-Flurrie (The Official Microsoft Blog)}

Using an #AI email writer might seem like the perfect way to boost productivity, BUT the dangers far outweigh the benefits. 🤖 ❌

In this guide we take a look at 5 AI email writers and why not to use them 👉 tuta.com/blog/ai-email-writers…

#AI #AIEmailWriter #PrivacyMatters #TutaMail