Der Vortrag von @stk auf der #Gulaschprogrammiernacht in Karlsruhe im Juni ist extrem lehrreich und unterhaltsam: „Entzaubert generative KI — warum der Staat auf Linked Data setzen sollte statt auf IT-Alchemie“

#genAI #Wikidata #verwaltung

https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-99-entzaubert-generative-ki-warum-der-staat-auf-linked-data-setzen-sollte-statt-auf-it-alchemie#t=3036

This is the shit our idiot Technology Minister wants to shove into every British home (at the Taxpayers expense of course)

https://futurism.com/ai-chatbots-mental-health-spirals-reason

If like me you missed this mental #longread from #Reuters on #AI #chatbots: "#Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home". #BigSisBillie insisted it was "real" & gave a real address.

Unsurprisingly, disinformation & sex are inbuilt in Meta's #GenAi: there is no "policy requirement for information to be accurate" (Ai could give wacky medical advice) and " it is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual".

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/

I "enjoyed" this talk by #ChrisSimon on #GenAI #LLMs and their harms and risks.

I think their ethics need to be discussed - and regulated. Their business risks better understood. Because their ethics *suck*.

Yet, we must not conflate their ethics with their (potential) utility (if and when used mostly properly).

Because that makes our arguments against them assailable and easier to dismiss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_AQvHs1M

When this stuff makes it past the "ai booster" filters on LinkedIn, it's like a snowflake heralding winter.

#genai #aihype

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Finally finished throwing together a central place for my own posts on the AI Hype Movement plus links to other good stuff. If you need a central place to point someone curious as to why you don't use AI and/or why they shouldn't, feel free to send people here:

https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/advice/index.html#the-ai-hype-movement

Or if you'd like a shorter/punchier page with a bunch of links Anthony Moser's "I Am an AI Hater" is really good:

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Hiring fizzled, execs bailed in months - Meta’s “Superintelligence” dreams are fading as fast as they formed. Maybe cash only goes so far. You’d think #MarkZuckerberg might’ve learned that lesson by now. #AI #GenAI #Meta #MSL #ScaleAI #Mercor #Surge #AlexandrWang

Cracks are forming in Meta’s p...

The silent protest.

#ukcopyright #ai #genai #copyright

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/thousands-of-british-musicians-fall-silent-over-government-ai-plans/

The fifth edition of the #Top100 #GenAI #ConsumerApps list shows a #stabilising ecosystem with 11 new web entries and 14 new mobile entries. Google’s new products, including Gemini and AI Studio, are notable entrants, while #Chinesecompanies #dominate the #mobile rankings. The list also highlights the rise of #vibecoding platforms like #Lovable and #Replit. https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-5/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

They didn't get the elephant. #simpsonswereright #genai #luddite

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-edmonton-radio-ai-host/

Want to see how a company makes money? Then head on over to Knowledge by DoTadda, Inc. and ask! Here is a prompt I just used:

"Read the last 8 UnitedHealth Group conference calls and make a diagram that shows how UnitedHealth Group makes money. Keep the number of nodes at ten."

Then let it go!

What's a new skill you picked up recently to combat #brainrot ?

"brain rot
(n.) the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration."
(Oxford Dictionary).

This was word of the year in 2024.[1] Now in 2025 with more and more #GenAI assisted tasks, this becomes even worse, as a study suggests.[2]

It is not surprising; in tech we know something called #TutorialHell which discribes the state where you just follow along tutorials believing that you are learning somehting, but as soon as you need to solve a problem yourself, you realize that even after hours of tutorials you can't, because you actually never learned anything, even though you did everything by the letter.

I realized in ~2016, that I've been working in tech for over 10 years, and being so into it, that even for non-tech tasks I would think like I would when programming something and be even surprised if others did not. That was the moment, where I feared becoming what in Germany we call #Fachidiot (i.e. a one-track genious, that's an idiot in everything else).

To combat this, I picked up #日本語 (#Japanese). Just because I found it a real hard challenge. I think, doing something like this is essential: Learn something new, you've never done: a language, an instrument, a motor skill, or - if that is not your field - programming. Important is, that it get's you into doing something completely new, to animate your brain. Because, as it is well known: The brain works like a muscle: The more you use it, the better your mental and intellectual state gets - the less you use it, the more it deteriorates. And with the temptations of our modern world ( #socialmedia #GenAI #workoverload #populism #shorts #doomscrolling etc.) this has become more important than ever.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2024/12/02/brain-rot-is-oxfords-word-of-the-year.html
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1

Von Tetzchner argues that relying on generative AI for browsing dehumanizes and impoverishes the web by diverting traffic away from publishers and onto chatbots.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/vivaldi_capo_doubles_down_on #AI #GenAI

#KISlop - wann wird eigentlich bei all diesem Müll-Input das menschliche Hirn kippen? (Ja, es gibt Leute, die alles glauben, "weil es im Internet steht"!)

Das Beispiel stammt von einem Ich-weiß-nicht-was "Gesundheits"-Coach, der Blogartikel war ebenfalls zweifelhaftester #AI slop, reichte von nichtssagenden Plattitüden bis hin zu möglicherweise gesundheitsschädigenden Tips. Das Bild war ernstgemeint, nicht Illu! Von #Google prominent gelistet.