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“
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“
The Tech Bros latest product is sending users insane and they don't care and our Governments seem oblivious to the danger.
#GenAI #AI #LLMs #TechBros #SiliconValley #OpenAI #ChatGPT #PeterKyle #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Technology #MentalHealth
"Into every home in the UK!"
"But the Salesmen from the US were really, really convincing, they told me I was wonderful and have a keen eye for Progress, why would they lie to me?" - Peter Kyle, UK Technology Minister
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
@cstross I love how that website has NOT bought into the AI hype
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/
@hacks4pancakes Always look on the bright side. Finally, someone wants to use #GenAI for something that the technology is truly good at.
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.
When this stuff makes it past the "ai booster" filters on LinkedIn, it's like a snowflake heralding winter.
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
@MikeElgan Please don't give them clicks. (A screenshot only would prevent it.) They do this after steeling all the originals for training the #genAI.
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 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
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.