Now on FirstView: the open-access article "The Need for Prospective Integrity Standards for the Use of Generative AI in Research" by @kaytesb.bsky.social, from the upcoming issue Research Integrity and Misconduct. #GenerativeAI #GenAI #AI www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gemini 2.5 Pro Appears to Be the First AI Model to Fully Understand PDF Layouts, Enabling Precise Citations
#AI #GoogleAI #Gemini #GeminiPro #LLM #PDF #MultimodalAI #AICitations #Alphabet #Google #GenAI
Con il rilascio di #Gemini 2.5 Flash, #Google introduce un’innovazione importante: la possibilità di attivare o disattivare il ragionamento in base al contesto e alle esigenze.
I dettagli: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alessiopomaro_google-llm-gemini-activity-7320043115485003776-wa6F
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Even being from the EU, it seems we aren’t protected from Meta opting us into its GenAI training by default
This is an email after the fact (they already started gathering data), the link to oppose is just one word in the body of this email, and it leads to a web form with a text area to explain our reasons for opposing 
And from the language used, I’d surmise they reserve the right to deny our opposing this (or try to)
Just received emails from both Facebook and Instagram (via Meta Platforms Ireland Limited) with the subject: “Learn how we’ll use your information as we improve AI at Meta” with links to object.
Done and done.
Doesn’t apply to any use before the objection though…
…but my abandoned accounts have been private for a while.
please don't with the AI pictures of non-existent protestors holding pithy signs, there are plenty of real people holding pithy protest signs right now, honour their effort and not some AI Bro's prompt engineering.
From HBR*, a tale about the time saving benefits of #GenAI in four parts.
Part one: the question.
“How is your team spending the time saved by GenAI?”
*yes I still like the physical version
>>> Lava lamps better than massive computers
> To produce unpredictable, chaotic data for strong encryption, a computer must have source random data. The real world is a great source for randomness, bc events in the physical world are unpredictable
This strikes me as a metaphor for most of GenAI, certainly in terms of inventive, bonkers, off-kilter unique creativity and original thinking. It just can't.
#ai #genai #academicchatter #academia #learning #creativity
https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/
AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink https://buff.ly/juc0gA3
"While 75% of company leaders thought their AI rollout over the past 12 months has been successful, only 45% of employees said the same. "
New from BBC. Head teacher's remarks miss the boat: 'She said: "If AI can write a better essay than most students, the real question is why are we spending seven years of a student's life teaching them how to write essays?"' OR...what are you doing wrong in those 7 years that makes your students so bad at writing essays? Most AI-written essays are subpar. If student essays are worse, then we are REALLY doing something wrong. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx201dgp2v9o #education #genAI #writing #communication
The more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
The now-ubiquitous AI-generated answers — and the way Google has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, according to Bloomberg interviews with 25 publishers and people who work with them.From https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/google-ai-search-shift-leaves-website-makers-feeling-betrayed
Spent a couple minutes watching my web server feed. Up until 2024 or so, traffic was dominated by RSS/Atom fetching, various flavors of SEO bot, and Google/Bing. Today, half the traffic is AI bots, you’d recognize the names. I’m not sure where this trend ends…
ps: do yourself a favour & avoid searching for images of benjamin. there's a fucktonne of AI portraits out there & they bear no resemblance whatsoever to the man. my illustrations may not be great shakes, but they look more like him than the GenAI shite.
#benjaminZephaniah #art #genAI
Smithery https://buff.ly/NSpTkyz
"Smithery is a platform to help developers find and ship agentic services."
so damn close to sending this to my boss who keeps asking to use AI where it's never been needed
Mike Amundsen 
