Search results for tag #aihype
Local Councils are building huge ai #datacentres in the UK, right next to #cleanairzones where you get penalised for driving to work.
those #datacentres will use tonnes of fresh water and emit vast amounts of co2
..but dont forget to insulate your walls or you'll get fined..
This, so much. It’s so easy to *NOT* use an LLM for day to day stuff. And in many ways it’s more rewarding too. Read things. Write things. Think about something and then execute on it. It’s better for literally everyone in every way. #aihype #aibubble
https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/
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Something seems to be lost on my peers
today: it's still easy to not use AI. The food
we eat, clothes we wear, and every electronic
device we touch may embody innumerable
injuries to the world, and all this is
inescapable. Eschewing Al is one thing that
we can actually do to live out ethics that
affirm values of human and environmental
rights. It's almost a gift! Just use a computer
the same way you did three years ago!
This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Face and failed to isolate it in a sandbox.
typical words of a conman..
‘Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward’: SoftBank’s CEO estimates $5 trillion needed annually to meet AI demand
“Those who refuse to evolve are closing down their world. Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward,” Son added.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/softbank-ceo-5-trillion-ai-demand-critics-bubble/
Rolling my eyes at Cory Doctorow [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Thought about reading The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow and just… didn't, because I don't have to. The synopsis gives me enough to where I don't need to read the book.
Rolls eyes. I just want to know the chapter where all the marginalized people objecting to data centers because they don't have water and the artists objecting to LLM companies being bastards are called neoliberal purists.
> The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI is not another anti-AI screed. Cory Doctorow uses AI in his work every day. As a creative person, he has no moral or dogmatic issue with AI—he thinks the technology is useful, even exciting, and full of potential.
No mention of comparing local LLMs trained on *your data you willingly give to it* to these goons that just steal your labor because rules suck bro! No mention of the harm these data centers are doing...
No wonder I deleted his RSS feed.
More progress on "de-Googling" my friends and relatives!
While talking with my sister-in-law she said "there's so much AI everywhere" and was sad that folks around her are asking ChatGPT for answers to every single question.
When I suggested that she could try using a different search engine, one that doesn't include AI results, she asked me to send her the link! 😁
Gestern hat die Europäische Kommission reichlich verspätet ihre #TechSouvereigntyPackage vorgelegt. Ist es die erhoffte Antwort auf Basisinitiativen wie #UnplugTrump und #DIday? Es sieht nicht so aus.
@alineblankertz meint, es gehe der EU-Kommission in dem Strategiepapier v.a. darum, Nachfrage für »KI«-Rechenzentren und -Chips zu generieren – in der Hoffnung, dass die EU-Industrie ein Scheibchen davon abbekommt: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116692284482725366
Das deckt sich mit der Einschätzung europäischen Digitalrechte-Dachorganisation @edri : https://eupolicy.social/@edri/116686684971074313
Nur einen Aspekt findet #EDRi an dem Papier positiv: die anerkennenden Worte über die #FOSS-Gemeinschaft: https://eupolicy.social/@edri/116686692215990866
Aber Worte sind billig. Die Bundesregierung hat die FOSS-Förderung gerade erst zusammengestrichen.
#EU #EUcommission #digitaleSouveränität #privacy #digitalRights #digitaleUnabhängigkeit #digitaleAutonomie #Stategiepapier #EUKommision #aislop #kikritik #rechenzentren #aihype #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen #UmweltVerbrechen
You may say, these tech representatives are tone deaf fools or the students that booed them are "cool", "alright", whatever, but that is not the point. It must be SUCH a slap in the face to be graduating and getting YOUR day ruined by your university allowing that. What kind of asshole do you have to be to not make that about them and their achievements but to belittle them and act as if they just don't know that they really want that?
File under: AI Resistance
I'm reading – and enjoying immensely – @emilymbender and @alex's book #TheAICon.
I've been learning a lot of things and something that really stood out recently is the need to be careful about the language we use to describe these systems. Bender and Hanna helpfully explain:
"It matters what words we use when we talk about these technologies. For instance, in our writing, we don’t use the term “hallucination” to discuss the errors of LLMs, for two reasons. First, if it’s used tongue-in-cheek, it is making light of what can be symptoms of serious mental illness. Second,
“hallucination” refers to the experience of perceiving things that aren’t there. But LLMs actually don’t have perceptions, and suggesting that they do is yet more unhelpful anthropomorphization. That means we also avoid assigning thought processes to these systems, or saying that they can
“think”. Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding technology and the social systems it is embedded in."
Antropomorphizing AI contributes to AI hype. Thanks Emily and Alex for helping me see things this way!
The #StateOfAI2026 results reveal that 70 % of participants agree or strongly agree that we're in the midst of an #AIBubble
https://2026.stateofai.dev/en-US#:~:text=We're%20currently%20in%20an%20%E2%80%9CAI%20bubble%E2%80%9D
#amCoding #amProgramming #StateOfAI #AI #artificialIntelligence #noAI #AIHype #softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment #StateOfWebDev
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Only time will tell if this increased monetization will justify the current eye-popping AI company valuations, or if they instead mean we're in the midst of an AI bubble. But either way, survey respondents certainly think that we are.
Statement: "We're currently in an "AI bubble'"
Strongly Disagree: 3% (162 participants)
Disagree: 9% (545 participants)
Neutral: 19% (1,167 participants)
Agree: 37% (2,317 participants)
Strongly Agree 33% (2,068 participants)
While the pentagon makes deals with #AI companies, the concern of military use of #artificialIntelligence comes second(!) in the #StateOfAI2026 survey
#amCoding #amProgramming #StateOfAI #noAI #AIHype #softwareEngineering #softwareDevelopment #StateOfWebDev
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Right now, armed forces throughout the world are working on autonomous drones and targeting systems that could lead to diminished responsibility and accountability; and this is of course happening against a backdrop of ever-increasing AI resource consumption and accelerating climate change.
1. Job displacement: 48% (3,003 participants)
2. Military use of AI: 45% (2,804 participants)
3. Environmental impact: 40% (2,490 participants)
4. AI slop takeover: 34% (2,107 participants)
5. Negative cognitive impacts: 30% (1,850 participants)
6. Security issues: 29% (1,821 participants)
7. AI overuse: 18% (1,106 participants)
8. Rising AI costs: 16% (1,031 participants)
9. Copyright and ethics issues: 12% (730 participants)
10. Open-source disruption: 10% (597 participants)
One speaks of "exposure" to a concerning risk, not to a bonanza of wealth creation. Some of the quotes in this article seem to be cherrypicked to minimize alarm, which I disagree with: there is cause for alarm. Looking between the lines (e.g. use of words like "exposure" and "choking"), one sees a dismal picture emerge.
Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt
Global lenders explore private deals and risk transfers to cut exposure to AI boomFrom https://www.ft.com/content/08aba5e4-5834-4e79-a48d-989a2c5bad0f (paywalled)
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLMs #Claude #ChatGPT #Gemini #NoAI #AIBubble #AIHype
📣 Friends, fans, job seekers…
AI is struggling.
Humans keep applying for jobs. We had to intervene.
Definitely don’t share these posters on May 1st. International Workers’ Day. Shush! 🤫
#SaveTheAI #AIhype #FutureOfWork #Jobs #Workers #Workersday #Trabajadores #DiaInternacionaldelosTrabajadores
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Four illustrated posters read in bold:
Don’t apply to that job!
AI needs it more than you do.
Stop complaining.
AI works harder than you do.
Why hire a team?
AI can do it all.
You trained me to do your job.
Why aren’t you relaxing yet?
The posters invite people to visit the website savethe.ai/jobs
@Zitron via Bsky:
"Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs."
"Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse"
Where's Your Ed At newsletter
4/21/2026
https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/
#AI #AIhype #AIbubble #EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #technofascism #technoligarchy
｢ The “181 Firefox exploits” ran with the browser sandbox ( yes, the thing that stops browser exploits) off. The FreeBSD exploit transcript shows substantial human guidance, not autonomy. The “thousands of severe vulnerabilities” extrapolates from 198 manually reviewed reports. The Linux kernel bug was found by Opus 4.6, the public model, not Mythos. ｣
https://www.artificialintelligencemadesimple.com/p/anthropics-claude-mythos-launch-is
Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining MastodonIf this were not a disingenuous strawman---because it's impossible for one thing---I'd ask "why not?" I wouldn't invite the "AI People" I've encountered into my house either, because I've found them to be unpleasant and I get to choose who enters my space. This solution has worked quite well for me over the years.
It seems to me that what this person is saying is that people should give up the power they have---namely, their power to exclude people and topics they don't wish to interact with---because it favors them. That's a typical rhetorical move of AI boosters: demanding you give up your power because you having and exercising that power inconveniences them.
any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.One should ask why this person chose to use the most offensive possible metaphor to make their case for inclusion. It's almost as though they don't believe the argument their words are shaped into resembling.
I’ve made this point before about how inane AI hype is now, but a computer beat the best chess player in the world in 1997. No one pretended, after 1997, it wasn’t worthwhile to have humans compete in chess. In fact, the world of chess developed strict protocols around computer use and you can get banned from tournaments if you use a computer program as you play. You are certainly shamed and mocked.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #LLMs #writing #tech #dev #coding #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngneering #softwareAI and writing needs to be treated the same way. I do think people should be shamed for using AI to help them write creatively. It’s an embarrassment, and a form of cheating.
Also, "generational gap"? Are you going to tell us next that millennials eat too much avocado toast?
Inspired by @Iris 's recent poll, I suppose... I’m writing up my #psych #phd thesis, and am currently looking at the methods chapter. I’m describing all the samples, procedures, measures, statistical tools and procedures I’ve used in my articles, and ethical considerations. However, although I haven’t seen this in other theses, and although nobody has told me I need to do it, I feel like including a section on «the use of #AI technologies» (read: chatGPT and other LLMs). The thing is, I’m getting the sense that this has become extremely prevalent in a very short amount of time. If nothing else, than to use it «as a brainstorming partner», or help to paraphrase sentences for clarity or fix punctuation. And the reason I want to make a statement out of this in my thesis is that I haven’t. Not one bit, in the least sense. I never wanted to, and I’m very happy I haven’t. Is this worth making a statement of in the methods chapter? How would you go about writing it? What info would you include? Do you know good examples of this kinds of disclaimers/statements, in academic writing? #AIhype
I'm all for challenging received wisdom and assumptions, and I think magical thinking can be quite good if practiced well. But this is something else. To me this feels like the celebration of a dangerous kind of induced ignorance.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #delusions #MagicalThinking
The reason for this shouldn't be hard to see but apparently is. Simplistically, science is about hypothesis-driven investigation of research questions. You formulate the question first, you derive hypotheses from it, and then you make observations designed to tell you something about the hypotheses. (1)(2) If you stuff an LLM in what should be the observations part, you are not performing observations relevant to your hypothesis, you are filtering what might have been observations through a black box. If you knew how to de-convolve the LLM's response function from the signal that matters to your question, maybe you'd be OK, but nobody knows how to do that. (3)
If you stick an LLM in the question-generating part, or the hypothesis-generating part, then forget it, at that point you're playing a scientistic video game. The possibility of a scientific discovery coming out of it is the same as the possibility of getting physically wet while watching a computer simulation of rain. (4)
If you stick an LLM in the communication part, then you're putting yourself on the Retraction Watch list, not communicating.
#science #LLM #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #hype
(1) I know this is a cartoonishly simple view of science, but I do firmly believe that something along these lines is the backbone of it, however real-world messy it becomes in practice.
(2) A large number of computer scientists are very sloppy about this process--and I have been in the past too--but that does not mean it should be condoned.
(3) Things are so dire that very few even seem to have the thought that this is something you should try to do.
(4) Yes, you might discover something while watching the LLM glop, but that's you, the human being, making the discovery, not the AI, in a chance manner despite the process, not in a systematic manner enhanced by the process. You could likewise accidentally spill a glass of water on yourself while watching RainSim.
🎬🎥🍿 Video of my keynote at MathPsych2024 now available online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwNPVTjJpo
#CogSci #CriticalAI #AIhype #AGI #PsychSci #PhilSci 🧪 https://youtu.be/WrwNPVTjJpo?feature=shared
The redefinist fallacy occurs when, instead of working through a question to find a real answer, we simply define one possibility to be the answer.Something to think about whenever someone tells you that ChatGPT is better than human beings at some task or another.
Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, indicating the platform’s embrace of AI tools has been a success.
I'm not going to link it. It should be easy enough to find if you must.
"indicating the platform's embrace of AI tools has largely polluted the information ecosystem there" is how it ought to read. "Success" is a wholly inappropriate word to use.