Fuck AI

I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I’m not that frightened by it. It’s awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won’t completely upend society. I’ll have articles abound on AI hype, because they’re quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it’s way harder to fake actual evidence.

I take back everything I said in my previous post because of this

Guess which it is. No, seriously. Guess.

Open Slopware - Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.

Buying Android phone is increasingly just the entry fee for Google’s AI ecosystem.

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Well done, Character.AI. You really managed to tick me off with this.

This is bullshit and should be stop. Yet this local paper cheers for this dystopia crap.

Brought to you by Amazon. For those who thought listening to two voices having a discussion was too human. If anybody knows inhumane, it’s Amazon!

Amazing for motivation: “Everyone is unhappy; the only people who are not unhappy are, literally, executives,” an Instagram employee told WIRED”

Screenshot/lyrics from an old CollegeHumor parody of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” called "Sing Talk" that lambasts the autotune trend back in 2010.

IP Address - 104.21.92.219 Hostname(s) - andersonchristian.com

https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/116594227712369614

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Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw. Art by Tjeerd Royaards

Cross posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/60361701

Google is encouraging its database developers to lean “heavily” on AI coding tools as it ramps up contributions to open source projects such as PostgreSQL.

Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’

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Due to it’s danger, no public access, only accesible by selected partners, like Google, MS and nVidia “for security”, so I’m calm, I think

Butlerian Jihad When?

found this on bluesky

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One in five people who use AI for health advice say it has discouraged them from seeking professional healthcare

The uncomfortable part of all this is that it is not a technology problem. It is a leadership problem. AI does not make bad executives worse. It gives them a faster way to prove they are bad. The leaders still standing in 2030 will be the ones honest enough to put the rehiring cost in the business case before the ink dries on the layoff letter.

But it can see your balances, transactions, stock portfolio, and liabilities like a mortgage and credit card debt. And OpenAI — a company that eventually needs to turn a profit — doesn’t specify what the company itself will do with all that financial information outside of AI training, or if there are any additional protections in place to protect users’ financial data from a system hack.

From The Cooldown

The story of the US-China race, amplified by Silicon Valley, has been overstated. And the specific narrative of a race towards decisive strategic advantage is a “dangerous fiction,” as my co-author Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh writes — dangerous not only because it distorts reality, but also because it carries the potential to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy. “The world should not be lost on the basis of a fiction.”

The Army data center buildout comes as the Pentagon increases its use of “AI” in military operations.

I swear this reads no different than all the talk about NFTs a couple years ago, yet these morons don’t see it.

GitLab, a significant player in the open-source and DevOps communities, has announced a major restructuring as it prepares for what CEO Bill Staples calls the “agentic era” of software development, in which AI agents play a larger role in planning, coding, reviewing, deployment, and maintenance.

I’ve written this blogpost, this isn’t just “AI is bad”, but it’s mostly “AI is almost all the time bad”.

This is an old opinion piece by Northrop Frye way back in 1986(!) about thought, articulation, social control, and militancy. It’s an increasingly difficult article to find (for some reason/s) so I’ve liberated it and posted it.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.radio/post/13319258

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A Google Gemini-powered AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and is quickly burning through its budget.