@alienghic
> they really should put the warning at the top
At least Brave are a) transparent about the answer being algorithmically-generated, b) giving a warning about potential inaccuracies, c) giving links to the sources the algorithm is drawing from, and d) giving a normal list of search results underneath, so you can ignore the algorithmic answer. That's a huge improvement over what most companies deploying a Trained #MOLE are doing.
I find it amazing how unwilling people are to accept that current "#AI" tech (including the "LLM" tech that I call #MOLE Training) is not intelligent, by any meaningful definition of the word. The nonsense arguments they use to wriggle out of this conclusion are nothing if not creative.
Most common is the consensus reality wriggle; more people talk as if they think Trained MOLEs are intelligent, therefore they are. So if most people think perpetual energy is possible, then it is? Nope.
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"We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project, which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used for and estimated the cost of creating similar content without AI."
#SayashKapoor, #ArvindNarayanan, Dec 2024
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/we-looked-at-78-election-deepfakes
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Bestial Human Mole
Hand drawn Ink art by William McAusland, writing by Colin Chapman
With their velvety fur, tiny eyes, squat builds, and overlarge shovel-like hands, bestial human moles are inoffensive, but this belies the fact that they are aggressive, constantly hungry omnivores who prefer a diet of meat.
https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm
#mole #moleman #rodent #beast #bestial #manimal #RPG #ttrpg #bestialhuman #characters #noaiart #williammcausland #wasteland #mutantepoch #apocalyptic #expansionrules #postapocalyptic #themutantepoch #outlandsystem #outlandarts #mutants #mutant #epoch #inkartist #Kamloopsartist #apocalyptic #fallout like #gammaworld #humanoidanimal #roleplayinggame #indiegame #characterdesign
@lhgmk2 aye. Thinking #fascist #farage a prime example. Knocking on the door and f'ing #LINO #Starmer too dumb to notice, or, more paranoically, does that eejit think #farage will help him hang on. As usual, can't tell till #conference season starts and we'll be informed then. I'll try to stay ahead via #moley #mole but very quiet down there at the moment.
"DeepSeek used a 'mixture of experts' model. Which means rather than training one large model, they trained tens of smaller ones, on more specific data, that then gets switched on and off as needed."
#PatrickBoyle, 2025
To the degree that #MOLE Training will be a useful technology in the long term, I think this is how it will be used. Models that are intensively trained on narrow areas to create niche expert systems. The AGI talk is pure sales hype.
Ukraine Uncovers High-Ranking FSB Mole in Spy Agency
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47012
#kyivpost.com
#WarOfAggression #European #Mole #spy #Uncovers #Ukraine #Armee #Weapons #war #Russia #Ukraine #MilitaryLogistics #SBU
#перемогаYкраїни
Random culinary.
Went away this past weekend, for a combo of business and (later) family fun.
Bumped into a restaurant that is chocolate themed. Huh.
Among the quirky, unexpected combos, a chicken mole gnocchi dish that surprised me. If you MUST combine pasta with a mole, I guess gnocchi would be a consideration. Noodles or other flat pasta types would not retain the sauce, or absorb it. Maybe tortellini or ravioli might do, but the filling would be trick. The gnocchi was both absorbent and neutral enough that it offered a foil for the intense flavors of the mole, which was NOT gringo-toned-down, at all.
Not gonna say that mole with pasta made my list of faves, but I was impressed by the execution.
Lighting was terrible (theme...) and the picture doesn't make justice to the presentation, since I had dug into the dish, already
https://www.europesays.com/1824552/ MAJA: A New Era of Après-Schi in Austria and Beyond #2025 #Alps #après #ApresSchi #ApresSki #austria #BackcountrySkiing #DJ #Hahnenkamm #hahnenkammrennen #JeanPhilippe #Kitzbühel #maja #MajaEvent #mole #Nachrichten #NicholasSasson #Österreich #powder #sasson #SkiIndustryNews #SkiNews #SkiResort #SkiResorts #skiing #snow #SnowReport #video #winter
#Ukraine #HIMARS #KurskHQ #Mole
"HIMARS Destroys the HQ of Russia's 810th Brigade in Kursk" [2:35 min]
by Suchomimus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pbxCACtjEY
Quote by S:
"Jan 3, 2025
In Ivanivske, Kursk the HQ of the 810th Marine Brigade was hit by presumably HIMARS."
For #ManuscriptMonday / #MedievalMonday: a cute little #mole in a 13th c. English #bestiary!
British Library Harley MS 3244 fol 49v (England, c. 1236-1250)
(Cobalt:) A tiny mole! Popping out of a pile of sand! His name is Baxter 
Baxter would like to explore the Fediverse. If you boost him, he can pop up in your profile and look around a little!
(Baxter and his friend Adam can be adopted here https://artisans.coop/products/tiny-knitted-mole )
Mole negro, mole oaxaqueño, if you’re into that kind of thing. #mole #mendocinocounty
My eye was drawn to an unusual sight of a Buzzard (Buteo buteo), on the ground. They were listening next to a mole hill, maybe trying their luck with an unsuspecting mole (Talpa europaea)?
Taken with a Lumix FZ200
@pre
> I think it's more that they promote lots of junk that shouldn't be included than that they demote some stuff
Possibly. But I'm assuming that your standard web search engine is just a Trained #MOLE minus the chat front-end. So it's possible that the limits they use to stop the MOLE putting on jodhpurs and goosestepping around, also affects other non-mainstream content due to the law of unintended consequences (or centrist biases that conflate radical left with far right).
Proof positive that common web #search engines are now shadowbanning from their results. Banning what? Authors Publishers?Whole topics? Not sure.
But I used a metasearch engines to search for this subdomain and keyword combo;
https://monocles.de/search?q=disintermedia.substack.com+trained+mole
The top results were links to fediverse servers with a copy of my posts linking to the SubStsck post about #MOLE Training I was looking for;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers
Not a single link to the piece itself, nor to the original versions of my posts.
"The US Copyright Office has issued a series of rulings, upheld by the courts, asserting that nothing made by an AI can be copyrighted. By statute and international treaty, copyright is a right reserved for works of human creativity."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/19/gander-sauce/
Well that is good news.
I met the garden interloper. Mole in a hole making piles and eating stuff. Not very big… yet.
