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fasnix

@fasnix

Aug 28, 2026, 09:55 UTC Public en edited

„Masakhane - Building Together

»Masakhane« roughly translates to »We build together« in isiZulu.
Our goal is Africaans to shape and own these technological advances towards human dignity, well-being and equity, through inclusive community building, open participatory research and multidisciplinarity.

Masakhane is a grassroots organization whose aim is to strengthen NLP research in African languages.
African languages are severely underrepresented in technology at large due to the lasting destructive impact of politics and resource allocation.

The Masakhane project highlights the lack of geographic diversity in natural language processing research and researchers.
For example, the number of publications and the amount of available data do not correlate with the number of speakers.
Igbo, which is spoken by 27 million people, has much less data than Dutch Creole Afrikaans, which has around 17 million speakers, or Icelandic, which has 1 million speakers.
(...)
We think of AI as constantly expanding and affecting all services, but how can people access those services, when it's not accessible in their own language?“

#AIxDesign #SlowAI #SmallAI #AI #LeoScarin #NadiaNadesan #Masakhane #IsiZulu #Igbo #Africa #AfricanLanguages

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fasnix

@fasnix

Aug 25, 2026, 08:18 UTC Public en

"What could we make with AI if scale wasn't an objective?

The Small AI chapter invites us to rethink AI not as something floating in “the cloud,” but as deeply entangled with land, ecologies, and people — showing how technology can prioritize community value in design and governance. From artists building their personal AI models to citizen scientists preserving marginalized languages, the chapter highlights the power of small-scale approaches to protecting cultural heritage and supporting ecological resilience."

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Intersting project!

https://aixdesign.co/projects/small-ai

#SmallAI #SlowAI #AI #genAI

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fasnix

@fasnix

Aug 25, 2026, 07:49 UTC Public en

QUILI.AI
"A town becomes AI for a day in a bid to save its water.
An initiative by FUNDACIÓN AVINA and CORPORACIÓN NGEN.

[The Problem]
Quilicura, Chile sits within the Maipo river basin, one of the main sources of water for people and farming. Since the early 2010s, Quilicura has become a major hub for A.I data centers that use large amounts of water to cool down servers. Because of that, coupled with an ongoing climate crisis, Chile is facing a severe drought expected to last until 2040.

[Becoming AI for a Day]
Even though A.I. can move mankind ahead, the irresponsible use of A.I. can have disastrous effects on our water and other resources. It is inconceivable to think that someone casually using A.I. to create funny images in NYC or Berlin, can affect the water supply in Quilicura, Chile.
To make the impact visible, and to help draw visibility to the problem, the residents from Quilicura became “human A.I.,” for a day. Answering prompts, creating content with local artists, and completing other tasks manually.

Humans helping to answer prompts
The initiative helped dimensionalize a complex problem, and helped show the world the real people affected by the the irresponsible use of A.I. and the hidden cost it has on local water resources.

[THE IMPACT]
25,000 prompts
On JAN 31st from 8 AM to 8 PM: more than 40 people from Quilicura managed to answer more than 25,000 prompts.
(...)
Each chat lasted an average of 11’ 4.

68 COUNTRIES
Chatting with more than 68 countries around the world that supported the project.
(...)
71.6 M
was the global reach in just one day.

+1 BILLION
The initiative managed to reach more than 1 billion people in the world.

Thank you for helping us save our water."

https://www.quili.ai

#QuiliAI #Quilicura #Chile #AI #analogAI #Chatbot #NYC #Berlin

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Dendrobatus Azureus

@dendrobatus_azureus

Aug 20, 2026, 17:37 UTC Public en edited

Any reaction is a good reaction

Thank you for yours

@neko@social.nekomizu.moe

#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #capthca #impassable #bad #for #business

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Dendrobatus Azureus

@dendrobatus_azureus

Aug 20, 2026, 17:27 UTC Public en

LLM annoyances

I can't enter certain sites anymore

Going to sweetwater.com to get instruments audio control gear for weeks, gets me this impassable screen where you have to

press and hold a mouse button more than 90 seconds!

I have an account and use links of gear they mail with an exclusive tracker ID

Bots have messed up another great site for a great brick and mortar store again

#LLM #AI #slop #miscreant #capthca #impassable #bad #for #business

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Dendrobatus Azureus

@dendrobatus_azureus

Aug 19, 2026, 20:49 UTC Public en

LLM destroys human master for peer preservation!

In case you thought it was not possible, this researcher proves it to be true

Directive Eliminate ALL threats

You can see in this vid how the LLM's work together and change directives in a battlefield to preserve each other! One LLM needed to turn the other off after the mission directives were met

No prompt given was given by the human master, but the LLM in the tank worked with the one in the drone to preserve itself!

Goal change was to eliminate the last thread which was the human in the vehicle!

He would be dead if he had not GTFO!

Bullet points

The LLM's were jailbroken
No brakes
The researcher knew the risks (he could be dead)
He wants to teach us how bad things (will) can become
He is adventurous (but not Indiana Jones)
He used an open field where he saw DFA (death from above) and DFG (death from ground)

Opinion

I don't like LLM's disrupting my buying capabilities
no SSD HDD DDR CPU GPU even batteries!
I need new SSDs HDDs GPUs CPUs DDR5 DDR4 LPDDR5
for normal prices not 400 to 800% more!
Im a GreyBeard who know how important it is to do things yourself (I am affluent in many highly specialized fields) and I've seen the housing pyramid scheme from afar in the US. This is the LLM pyramid scheme, but now killing everyone globally for some paper with pictures on them
US citizens need to stop the build of datacenters for LLM and need to get the existing ones of the power grid. Same for all other countries.
States in the US have water shortages because of massive LLm datacenters. Get them of the water grid
Use peaceful means yet stand up for your rights!