Tag archives for AI
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…
La musique n’existe plus. L’IA l’a tuée !
Je ne lis plus Le Monde depuis des lustres. Si YouTube n'avait pas existé, je n'aurais jamais lu l'article qui accompagne cette vidéo, Comment les faux artistes générés par IA…
The Reg’s sinophobia is pathetic
I read The Reg for articles by Liam Proven and by SJVN. So far, I've used the global RSS, which includes the whole crap posted by all kinds of idiots:…
Kiro seems to have gone amok
If I ever considered paying something to use Kiro ($20, not $200), it was high time I reconsidered. I happened to discover, by pure accident (I visited Reddit), that the…
Why do they still not explain AI properly?
There are three kinds of people on Earth. Monkeys who use chatbots, monkeys who pretend to explain how they work, so some other monkeys believe they understand, and the few…
Random shitheads who use AI to monetize shit
As I logged in on GitHub, I was suggested one so-called trending repository. It was FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinterV2. I then discovered harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo, at some point “number one shit of the day”! GitHub…
Privacy aside, LLMs don’t learn when they could (and should)
I might be wrong. Maybe I don't understand that what I would do is not feasible or shouldn't be done this way. But the way these chatbots talked made me…
Weebs, waifus, Nyarch and its AI Assistant: pure madness!
There is a crazy Arch-based distro made for crazy people and featuring crazy utilities, including a sui generis AI assistant, yet nobody seems to be talking about it in the…
Guess which of Copilot and DeepSeek is censoring critical thought about this war
My starting question was this one: Are the Academy Awards (the Oscars), organized and presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), pro-Trump or anti-Trump? Why didn't…