cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30862067

Germany has been one of the worst Western countries for whitewashing Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Now it wants to do it with AI.

Becker was consulted by the Tagesspiegel because of his affiliation with the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, which he led from 2019 until 2025. With the help of a large language computing model, the project aims to create “an [AI] algorithm that will automatically recognize antisemitic statements in web comments . . . so that antisemitic posts can be removed more efficiently and accurately” by online platforms.

The dataset is divided into labels of differing forms of supposed antisemitisms such as “analogies with Nazism,” fascism, apartheid, or colonialism; calling Israel a racist or terrorist state; accusing it of genocide; referencing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS); giving Israel the sole blame for the plight of the Palestinians; applying double standards; and denying Israel’s right to exist.

On the topic of Palestine and Israel, the glossary seems to operate within a logic that sees emotional responses to a live-streamed genocide not as a human reaction but as an indicator of antisemitic beliefs.

In an interview with Israeli news outlet Mako, Becker suggests that social media providers are opening their doors and hearing concerns like his. This strongly suggests hopes to commercialize and implement its findings with online platforms. Five years after its inception, it appears that its conceptual framework and glossary have been overtaken by reality.

Asking out of curiosity

'Chicago Sun-Times' Slammed After Letting AI Generate Summer Reading List—Full Of Fake Book Titles

The spin doctors at it again. Waiting with glee for some toxic positive optimism. I live with and around the elderly. They want a sense of community so much they start believing in angels.

AI doesn’t act—humans do.

AI isn’t inherently good or evil—it mirrors human choices. Let’s stop blaming code and start fixing systems.

https://telegra.ph/AI-Myths-Debunked-Separating-Fear-from-Fact-05-14

So, I have a 16GB vram GPU (4070 ti Super) and 32GB DDR4 RAM. The RAM is slow af and thus I tend to run models fully on GPU.

I can easily run up to 21b-ish models with Q4, sometimes high Q3.

I am testing various models out there but I was wondering if you guys have any reccommendation.

I am also really interested in understanding if quantization really decrease the model quality so much. Like, It would be better to have a Q6 12b model (like Gemma 3 12b), a Q2_K_L 32b model (such as QwQ 32b) or a Q3_XS model (such as Gemma 3 27b)?

THE AI CON is out in a week, and @emilymbender and I are kicking it off with multiple events!

1. @DAIR launch event is on Thursday, in conversation with Vauhini Vara, at 2 PM PT.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ai-con-virtual-book-launch-tickets-1330295943979?aff=oddtdtcreator

2. Then on Monday, we'll be chatting with @timnitGebru in an event with the Family Action Network, at 5 PM PT/7 PM CT.

https://bit.ly/BHFANWebinar

Detailed manuscript critiques on all aspects of your novel — plot, prose, structure, and more. Powered by AI. Trained on editorial best practices.

Seems like an application that fits LLMs well.

For much of modern history, technological progress has been expected to lighten the burden of work. Keynes (1930) predicted that by 2030, rising productivity would allow people to work 15 hours a week. As artificial intelligence is integrated into workplaces, early evidence suggests a paradox: instead of reducing workloads, many AI-equipped employees are busier than ever. While AI-driven automation and delegation allow workers to complete the same tasks more efficiently, employees in AI-exposed occupations might well be working longer hours and spending less time on socialisation and leisure. …

• "Ein dog run dans le park, et son owner rennt après."
• "Un dog läuft in le parc, son master run après."
• "Ein doggy cour dans le parc, und der owner läuft nach ihm."

The silly language used in the 'Poland ball' memes got me wondering if that language was actually easier to understand for users of multiple languages. So I tried to get chatGPT to unite multiple languages (I tried Le Chat first but it wasn't as good).

My prompt:

Rewrite this phrase so that it is most understandable to people that only speak English, other people that only speak french, and a third group that only speaks German. You may use words from any language and you may misspell words if the word you use, although being mispelled, is more easily understood by speakers of both languages. You may not use slashes to separate two words for the same thing. You may change the phrase's structure as long as the meaning is the same. The phrase is: There is a dog running in the park. The owner is running after it

It's answer:

Here’s a version of the phrase rewritten to be easily understood by English, French, and German speakers:

"Un dog is courir in the park, und le master cour après."

Explanation of choices:

"Un dog": "Dog" is a simple English word that’s often understood by French and German speakers, and “un” is French for “a,” also recognizable to many.

"is courir": A mix of English “is” and French “courir” (to run), easy to guess even for German speakers who know “laufen” or “rennen.”

"in the park": Fully English, but all three languages share similar terms (“le parc,” “der Park”).

"und le master": “Und” is German for “and,” “le” is French for “the,” and “master” is close to “maître” (FR) and “Herrchen” (DE), but more internationally recognized.

"cour après": French phrase for “running after,” also intuitive to others.

I've used deep research on Gemini 2 and the results were absolutely incredible. To the point that I was shocked. There was no hallucination, no mistake and did what would take me 4 days of research and did it in under 2 mins. (I'm not saying it can't or won't make mistakes or hallucinations at other times for people, but this was clearly so much better than anything else I'd tried). And this wasn't even the best model. Its Gemini 2. Ive heard chat gpt has a research feature that is much better, although i haven't tried that. And according to industry folk, gpt 5 is another massive leap forward.

If you havent tried the deep research feature, you absolutely must.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28274434

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Recognize AI & ML for Nextcloud Photos documentation

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Beatles use AI to complete a new song

Nextcloud Assistant

• Project github
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Summary Bot for Nextcloud Talk Chat

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Ollama, supporting Deepseek and other kinds of models, from small to large.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27865986

my go-to llms in no specific order –

1. Llama 4 behemoth
2. Grok 3
3. Claude 3.7 sonnet (extended thinking)

What's your go-to?

When in a hurry, I just use Gemini by telling my phone "Hey Google."

Washington (AFP) – Climate change deniers are pushing an AI-generated paper questioning human-induced warming, leading experts

Interesting discussion about using AI in science generally and Google AI co-scientist in particular.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28125709

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

“Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”

Sources at Microsoft tell The Verge that shortly after Aboussad was ushered out of Microsoft’s event, she sent an email to a number of email distribution lists that contain hundreds or thousands of Microsoft employees. Here is Aboussad’s email in full

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28035952

Israel’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip – aided by tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon – is fueling concerns over the normalization of mass civilian casualties and raising serious questions about the complicity of these firms in potential war crimes, according to a leading AI expert.

Multiple reports have confirmed that Israel has deployed AI models such as Lavender, Gospel, and Where’s Daddy? to conduct mass surveillance, identify targets, and direct strikes against tens of thousands of individuals in Gaza – often in their own homes – all with minimal human oversight.

Rights groups and experts say these systems have played a critical role in Israel’s incessant and apparently indiscriminate attacks, which have laid to waste massive swaths of the besieged enclave and killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27657674

People on twitter at each other’s throats for a recent trend in which you can use imageai filters to reproduce images in Studio Ghibli style.

Lots of people are throwing around the Miyazaki quote where he calls AI an “insult to life itself” - it’s worth noting that this came after he witnessed a simulation using AI animation to make a zombie body crawl across the ground. Miyazaki remarked that he has a very disabled friend he sees regularly, and that he can't find this usage cool or interesting. He goes on to remark about generative AI later in the clip, but let’s be clear, that specific statement was disconnected.

I’m curious what the Lemmy opinion is here. Is this a short-lived fad or does it speak to larger ramifications in the creative industry? Is this a silly little image filter or a harbinger of global artistic doom?

In case that were to be fun to post somewhere? Is there a better place to ponder such things?