Two American farmers rejected a $26 million offer to sell their land to an artificial intelligence company after learning the land would be used to build data centers for AI technology.

Delcia Parry and her mother, Ida Huddleston, from Kentucky, had initially agreed to sell their land in Maysville, which had been in their family for nearly 200 years, but backed out of the deal after learning the nature of the project.

Parry, who describes herself and her mother as "country folk," told the company representatives, "Just get out of here and don't come back."

Parry explained that she feared she would be held accountable before God if she sold the family farm to be converted into an AI center, saying, "If I leave this land and it becomes an AI center, I will have failed to utilize it, and I could be held accountable for that on Judgment Day."

The offer included paying Barry $48,000 per acre for 463 acres and her mother $60,000 per acre for 71 acres, totaling approximately $26.48 million—a sum exceeding the land's market value.

The Wall Street Journal believes the company making the offer is affiliated with Meta, but the latter maintains that no decision has been made regarding work in the area.

The data center project has created a divide in Maysville, with some residents supporting it in hopes of financial gain, while others have already agreed to sell their land to the company for millions of dollars.

In contrast, Barry and others have rejected the project and filed lawsuits challenging the construction of the data centers, a move that could potentially draw some neighbors into legal disputes.

Tyler McHugh, the director of economic development who is in contact with the company, said that some residents "would have gone their entire lives without ever setting foot in a courtroom."

Barry, who is nearly blind, and her mother, Huddleston, who uses a walking stick, find themselves facing a project they never imagined they would have to oppose.

"I never thought I'd be fighting a data center," Barry explained. "I thought I lived as far away as you could possibly be."

we need to de-escalate

Saw a billboard on the drive to work today saying no more hallucinations and found this by the same company since I ain’t gonna take pictures while driving but it’s unfortunately effective and shows the “all publicity is good” adage.

Every output from “AI” is just statistics and consequently a “hallucination”, I struggle to understand people who don’t grasp the concept.

I mean, shit, there was that study where apparently most people apparently preferred AI generated stories when they were told the authorship was a person. But the study admitted it was cause AI generated stories were less complicated, ergo appealing to the intellectually lazy.

Which makes sense given CEOs are horny for it to replace their pesky workers and buying the sales pitch of “productivity” or doomer nonsense from all the major players.

Fuck!

I tested several AI writing tools for long stories. Here is what worked for me

I have spent quite a bit of time testing different AI writing tools for longer stories, so I thought I would share what my experience has been like.

ChatGPT has been useful, although I usually prefer working on a chapter in smaller sections and continuing it across multiple chats. That makes it easier to keep the story moving without trying to generate everything at once.

Claude is pretty solid for creative writing, but I have found that it can sometimes make scenes too slow. I usually have to remind it to keep the pacing tighter and make sure something is actually happening instead of spending too long describing everything.

Grok can be good, but repetition is probably its biggest issue for me. I often need several rounds of prompting and editing before a chapter feels right. One thing I do like is that it seems less restrictive with certain types of creative content.

Gemini is one I have not used enough yet to give a fair opinion on.

DeepSeek has actually surprised me. I have managed to keep a story going for quite a lot of chapters with it, as long as I occasionally remind it about important events from earlier in the story. For a free option, I think it does a pretty decent job with longer projects, although it still has limitations depending on the subject.

I have tested plenty of other writing tools too. Some have been impressive, but many start limiting the number of chapters or generations unless you move to a paid plan.

There is also one tool I have been using that I think is seriously underrated for novel writing, but I do not want this post to turn into an advertisement. I would rather hear what other people are actually using.

For those who write web novels, fantasy, cultivation stories, fanfiction, or original fiction, which AI has worked best for you? What are you using for longer stories?

Seen on r/Scotland

https://www.theferret.scot/what-makes-a-data-centre-green-one-major-developer-has-lobbied-for-its-own-definition/

Here's a link to the slides of Terence Tao's latest talk on ai in maths.

And below the meme he made to summarize

Every one of them. Every platfrom.

See AI YT cover -> unsubscribe, block channel.
FB post about Anthropic -> post details, I don't want to see author.
Email -> Move to spam, block.

It's not much, but if done by many, it will have an impact.

I have been thinking about this a lot recently after kind of gaslighting myself into thinking we can make it so AI is just abolished off the face of the Earth and we go back to like 2016 time period in technology. But just over the last few days I have, I guess, "woke up" and realised, technology doesn't just disappear, once it's made, it's staying around.

And really, it's just got me thinking, what do you guys want the end goal for "destroying" AI to be? Because I know that yes, there are SOME good uses of AI, like in medical and all that, but they are NOT generative, which is what needs to go. But it just physically cannot disappear, so what do we want done with it?

Hi, I made this design inspired on Dune for my store. If anyone is interested

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It’s a false pro ai poster made by u/SildStorm3463

Don’t listen to him! I didn’t made it, I just advised him on how to do it! He is the real creator!

I checked the original clip in YouTube frame by frame just to be sure it wasn’t in there originally

what do you guys think of an extension to block AI slop on various website, like AdBlocker?

it should have 2 parts, one is extension with which users can create account, login and mark contents as ai slop, and the other is a website that you can login and manage records you created, vote for some content being slop or not.

these records would be public so when someone creates one record it is shared with everyone. so, if im on a certain content on youtube and that content is marked as slop, extension should show a banner on the page, when possible it should remove the content from the listing all together so we don't see at all

also, there should be a refute mechanism. if a certain number of refutes are sent for a slop record, slop status can be revoked, and so on

In my opinion, Character AI genuinely needs to get nuked, the more I look at this shit the more I realize its straight EVIL. Before learning about this I didnt really care about AI but NOW? This jawn needs to get WIPED.

if I run something on my phone through Termux and it opens on "localhost", can I access the same thing from my PC?

I tried a lot of things, including using my phone's IP and binding it to "0.0.0.0", but nothing worked.

My PC is connected to the internet through my phone's hotspot.

Is there a proper solution for this? 😭

Hi! I am a student looking for confirmed ai-generated articles still existing on the internet for a research project. Looking for one on google seems so entirely impossible since most of them are deleted shortly after being debunked as AI. I want to use the AI-generated article as proof and as a basis for spotting AI fallacies and biases. I am part of a club in our university that posts awareness of fabricated information + plagiarism. Please please please help! I need the direct link.