cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7826164

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations

more in the link

this shit is bananas

i'm going to bed

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55683898

Usually code contributions by various LLMs are easily identifiable because the agent is the author for the git commit. Mozilla on the other hand seem to be explicitly encourage unattributed LLM code in Firefox. Also note jakearchibald, Mozillas AI spin doctor whenever devs question their intentions, lying about the reasons for this change. I think their true intentions are to muddy the waters to hide the amount of slop contributions in Firefox.

this post is actually mostly good news; the bad news is that (1) LLMs exist and will continue to be used to edit Wikipedia, and (2) Wiki Education's analysis and cleanup only covered articles created through their own programs, and (3) their system to use an LLM detector to screen new edits is only being applied to their own editors.

Ahmed Abu Saadeh, a young Palestinian in his twenties, is living in deep grief after losing his wife just two days after their wedding. A partially collapsed wall from a previously bombed building fell on their tent near Gaza’s coastline, killing Walaa Juha instantly.

Abu Saadeh, who has a hearing disability, had hoped to start a stable life after surviving two years of war. He married Juha in a modest ceremony on December 27, aiming to build a future amid displacement and destruction.

But their happiness was short-lived. A severe winter storm brought heavy rain and strong winds, causing the unstable wall of a building damaged in past ‘Israel’ bombings to collapse onto their tent.

At a time when US consumers are frustrated with high energy bills, in part due to data centres, Saudi Arabia is pitching itself as an AI hub with a different message: invest in data centres here, and we will power them on the cheap.

“Saudi Arabia has one real comparative advantage when it comes to AI, and that is cheap electricity,” Greg Priddy, an energy expert at the Center for the National Interest, told Middle East Eye.

“By almost every other metric, it would be better to build centres somewhere else,” he said.

But the lure of ultra-cheap energy, thanks to old-school fossil fuels, means Saudi Arabia has a fighting chance to become an AI powerhouse, experts say.

Note: this lemmy post was originally titled MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline and linked to this article, which I cross-posted from this post in !fuck_ai@lemmy.world.

Someone pointed out that the "Science, Public Health Policy and the Law" website which published this click-bait summary of the MIT study is not a reputable publication deserving of traffic, so, 16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT's page about the study instead.

The actual paper is here and was previously posted on !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and other lemmy communities here.

Note that the study with its original title got far less upvotes than the click-bait summary did 🤡

paywall bypass: https://archive.is/whVMI

the study the article is about: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

article text:

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

By Harry Black

August 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM UTC

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

AI helped health professionals to better detect pre-cancerous growths in the colon, but when the assistance was removed, their ability to find tumors dropped by about 20% compared with rates before the tool was ever introduced, according to findings published Wednesday.

Health-care systems around the world are embracing AI with a view to boosting patient outcomes and productivity. Just this year, the UK government announced £11 million ($14.8 million) in funding for a new trial to test how AI can help catch breast cancer earlier.

The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, “leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,” the scientists said in the paper.

They surveyed four endoscopy centers in Poland and compared detection success rates three months before AI implementation and three months after. Some colonoscopies were performed with AI and some without, at random. The results were published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal.

Yuichi Mori, a researcher at the University of Oslo and one of the scientists involved, predicted that the effects of de-skilling will “probably be higher” as AI becomes more powerful.

What’s more, the 19 doctors in the study were highly experienced, having performed more than 2,000 colonoscopies each. The effect on trainees or novices might be starker, said Omer Ahmad, a consultant gastroenterologist at University College Hospital London.

“Although AI continues to offer great promise to enhance clinical outcomes, we must also safeguard against the quiet erosion of fundamental skills required for high-quality endoscopy,” Ahmad, who wasn’t involved in the research, wrote a comment alongside the article.

A study conducted by MIT this year raised similar concerns after finding that using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to write essays led to less brain engagement and cognitive activity.

paywall bypass: https://archive.is/N7m24

Appalling footage shows the moment a male tourist suddenly picks up and hurls a helpless 18-month-old boy head first on the ground in the arrivals hall of a Moscow airport.

The boy is now fighting for his life in a coma with serious skull fractures and spinal injuries.

The child had arrived in Russia after he and his mother fled the bombing in Iran, say reports.

The tourist - identified as Vladimir Vitkov, 31, from Belarus - is seen on security footage looking closely at the boy who is next to his suitcase.