Tag archives for AI
One can’t ask Chinese chatbots literally anything about China!
Post-output self-censorship is a well-known “feature” of all Chinese chatbots, but today I encountered it in a double way, so to speak. I came across this article on Al Jazeera:…
Erik Dubois is still on steroids
Does anyone remember ArcoLinux, a distro now discontinued? I do. It was quite famous, much more than EndeavourOS is today, because it offered a bunch of different ISOs, each with…
A few notes about Antigravity CLI and non-alternatives
Exactly one week ago, I had to release the bug-fix version 2.5.1 of ComicStripBrowser because Marmaduke was broken. The culprit was a typo that actually meant I inadvertently pasted a…
A cursory look at WPS Office
Years ago, I quite liked Kingsoft Office. I remember I have used it under Win7 and Android. Since the suite became WPS Office (from Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheets, not from “Wonderfully…
The umpteenth AI compromise
I can't even remember how many times I changed my choice of chatbots in everyday use. Every time one chatbot angered me, I wanted to replace it, but each chatbot…
Did Gemini Pro really get that worse? 4 threads to test it!
I just had 3 conversations with Gemini Pro Extended Thinking. It all started from my refusal to watch two videos about Claude skills, but the first thread evolved into covering…
Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch
I don’t use chatbots to write either texts or code for me. For code, Gemini CLI wasn’t bad when I used it, and Qwen Code was very decent, too, but…
Some changes in Gemini AI
While everyone is expecting Gemini AI 3.5 to be released tomorrow, May 19, at Google I/O 2026, some changes took place in advance. Starting on May 17, 2026, there are…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…
Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?
I’m not a huge fan of Kagi's products and services. Their web search is not free. Kagi Translate seems to be temporarily free, and it usually performs great translations, except…
Zooming out (not zoning out!) on some Linux & IT idiocies
① Someone felt contemplative... I was looking for a review of Argent Linux and I noticed this ad hoc philosophy at the end of a review of it in DistroWatch…
Gemini’s Nano Banana 2 can hallucinate images it was never given 😸😹😻 UPDATED!
I just noticed in r/GeminiAI someone being puzzled by the fact that he asked Gemini (Nano Banana 2) to create an image from an attachment, and he got an image…
The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS
I'm trying to collect my thoughts on the current situation regarding the public availability of LLMs. This post comes as a quick follow-up to “Free AI coding agents are becoming…
Why are people using Brave Search?
Lately, I noticed a large number of visits coming from search.brave.com. I could never understand people's interest in the Brave browser, and I couldn't be interested in Brave Search, either.…
Exposing AI, one scam at a time: today, NOLO (Updated!)
Sometimes, people who try to monetize the AI hype might inadvertently break the law. However, in most such cases, it's not only the law that's not observed, but the lack…
Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce
Once again, I had this post in drafts for a week! It's time to put it in a readable form. ① Artificial Idiocy at work?② Interlude #1: No Gemma, no…
Agentic AI 101 with Tina Huang
While I abhor OpenClaw for reasons I won’t list here, there are some advantages of it over more traditional agentic AI workflows. To oversimplify, let’s say it’s a shift from…
The Claude Apocalypse has been averted—Dario Amodei is a nice guy, just like Donald Trump
Oh my, that was a close call! Thankfully, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing: Today we’re announcing Project Glasswing, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco,…
Today, I visited China (online)
The day started with my reading this article in the BBC app: How China fell for a lobster: What an AI assistant tells us about Beijing's ambition. What lobster, you…
Dafuq: Claude Code appears to have leaked! 😱
Via Reddit, via Hacker News: Claude Code's source code has been leaked! 🗄️src.zip Claude code source code has been leaked via a map file in their npm registry! Code: https://t.co/jBiMoOzt8G…