It's not "#AI is stealing your job", it's "The CEO is stealing your wages". It's not "#AI is stealing your job", it's "The CEO is stealing your wages". It's not "#AI is stealing your job", it's "The CEO is stealing your wages". It's not "#AI is stealing your job", it's "The CEO is stealing your wages". It's not "#AI is stealing your job", it's "The CEO is stealing your wages". It's not "#AI is stealing your job", it's "The CEO is stealing your wages". It's not "#AI is stealing your
🚀 Thanks for all the feedback on my German post about AI & critical thinking! I’ve just published the English version: »AI makes us humans unlearn how to think — and we mistake it for progress.«
If you care about culture, education, and how convenience can quietly erode our judgement, give it a read and let me know what you think. 👇
Issue 3 of my newsletter is live! I talk about how I started in mobile development, lessons learned, and big changes coming to Techopolis. Topics: • Native app development • Accessibility-first tech • AI + mobile strategy Read it here: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/new… #Accessibility #MobileDevelopment #AI #AppDev #SwiftUI
Telegram established a partnership with Elon Musk's xAI to provide the Grok generative artificial intelligence program on the messaging service for one year, Telegram's CEO announced Wednesday.
Everyone's trying to be the next platform. The next gatekeeper. Nobody likes open platforms except when they need good PR. Io, Jony Ive's startup that was recently bought by OpenAI for 6.5 billion dollars seeks to make a platform device for AI. I don't think that's necessary. I despise the idea of another closed platform device and I hope it burns like Humane #AI pin. Ironically, Humane was also an Apple veterans' outfit so hopefully the outcome will be the same, even if it's Jony Ive himself.
I chatted with @bagder about #Curl and the recent #AI happenings
It's always fun talking to Daniel, and I think there's a lot of good ideas in this one, especially on how to approach AI fueled contributions that aren't slop. And even suggestions on how to deal with slop contributions :)
Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of Curl, discusses the increase in AI security reports that are wasting the time of maintainers. We discuss Curl’s new policy of banning the bad actors while establishing some pretty sane AI usage guidelines.
Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content! 🎬
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Seen many blind people advocating for Audible's AI narration instead of having narrators they don't like record the audiobook and its takes like this that make me super ashamed of some in my own community. I can't even think of what to call these people.
The reasoning is that an AI voice won't be busy or expensive so we can get more audiobooks and just... I strongly suspect these are Blind people that hate audiobooks and want them gone or otherwise reduced in pop culture. I can't understand the logic otherwise.
As part of my job, I have to evaluate AI tools. Part of that evaluation is pushing them to their limit. Today, I realised Cursor has a setting where if you critique its work enough, it goes silent and refuses to apply changes.
It's a moody junior dev whose overconfidence and bravado quickly turn to surly silence when their work is questioned. The happy, helpful (and frequently wrong) AI is gone, replaced by a useless one with a bad attitude that won't make it past the next performance review.
Christ. I'm used to managing engineers, but I draw the line at managing AIs.
Duolingo deletes its TikTok and Instagram posts amid AI backlash 😂
After Duolingo said it was going “AI-first,” things went downhill fast as millions saw it as replacing humans developers and support staff with bots fastcompany.com/91338068/duoli… They also increased subscription costs while firing staff #ai
Google NotebookLM is now available for iOS. VoiceOver users, take note: when opening the app, audio will route to the earpiece at reduced volume. To fix this, simply move focus away from the app and then back to it. apps.apple.com/us/app/google-n… #Accessibility #Google #AI
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#Google putting wrong medical advice in their #AI Overviews.
This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.
They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.
They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.
Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI didn't understand the wording. Measurements wrong. Math wrong.
It doesn't matter how often AI Overviews are correct, because you NEVER KNOW when they're going to be wrong, either completely or partly (again, mixing true with false -- like contaminating a well).
And now Google is trying to convince users to use "AI Search" instead -- "Hey Ma', no more list of blue links!" -- making it even harder to see that so many of their answers are, if you'll excuse the expression, bulls*it, sometimes dangerous as well.
This is unconscionable. Frankly, whether Google understands this or not, this behavior is uncaring and evil. Apparently Google's leadership no longer feels any shame at all. Disgusting.
My take after watching Google I/O is that Google has its hands in so many areas: hardware with Android, Chrome, and now XR devices; web with search, advertising, and shopping; mobile apps and operating systems; social media with YouTube; communication with Gmail; and daily productivity with Google Workspace. They have very unique potential to shape the world with AI. #Google #AI
Lyria 2 is our latest music generation model. It delivers high-fidelity music and professional-grade audio, across a range of genres and intricate compositions.
I never really used github in any personal capacity but ever since copilot became a thing, I realised that every contribution you make feeds the infernal machine, so I started looking for alternatives
Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Microsoft Build 2025 brought bold updates in AI agents, secure development, and developer tooling across Windows, Azure, and GitHub. I put together a detailed overview for those who missed the keynotes and announcements. Read here: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/mic… @microsoft@mastodon.social #Build2025 #AI #Microsoft #Windows #Azure #OpenAgenticWeb #DeveloperTools
Above all, I hope you will fight for a democratic and sustainable future, now under threaten by the authoritarian technocrats that own the AI infrastructure.
When you ask a question and instead of genuinely trying to answer or simply admitting "I don't know" someone asks a generative AI and feed you that garbage answer against your consent.
Microsoft claims that 30% of the code is already generated by AI. Why isn't it 100%. So I tried it. I "created" an application whose code is 100% generated by AI. I didn't write a single line of code. The goal was not to create some large or complex application. Simply just a test. If you are interested, the app is available on Google Play (currently not for iOS, maybe later). I may publish the source codes later, but for now only here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
It’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day. AI is moving fast—but can it really make everything accessible? Or are we ignoring the basics? I wrote about this on Substack, including a new idea: Vibe Coding—building software with empathy, not just code. Read & join the convo: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/hap… #GAAD #Accessibility #AI #VibeCoding #Inclusion
Today is Global #accessibility awareness day and I think I speak for a lot of people in the community when I say I'm tired. Particularly over the last few months, the overall climate towards accessibility and #diversity hasn't been super welcoming and while I have a good support network that can remind me that I am, in fact, human and worth existing, many do not. If you receive a request to make something #accessible, from anyone, keep in mind that may very well be the 5th, 10th or even 100th attempt this person has made today at screaming into the void hoping to be seen as a person rather than a potential drain on resources. Rather tna big companies showing off #AI gizmos that mean we've offloaded a problem we didn't want to deal with onto a fallible set of algorithms, maybe #gaad should be about being aware of how ridiculous it is that accessibility professionals and consumers need to fight to even be seen as human these days, because make no mistake, we do.
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
Select Topic Area Question Body "I'm experiencing an issue when trying to access files from a GitHub repository without logging in. After 3 attempts, I receive an Error 429 (Too Many Requests) and ...
Got thinking about the whole question of using AI to create alt-text based upon the attached image and it struck me - what makes people who rely upon alt text less worth your creative time than those viewing the image? #AI
