#aibubble — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aibubble, aggregated by home.social.
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Is the moral of the #aibubble that tool makers are dope at knowing what their tools will be used for?
#AiPhilosophy #Ai #AiDrones #AiWarefare #AiEcocide #AiSurveillance #AiFascists #AiBorg #AiCorporateCapture #AiAntitrust #AiMonopolies #AiGenocide #AiTotalitarianism #ArtificialInformation #AiIPTheft #IPDeath #FascistDeathCults #AutomatedControlOfInformation #AiHell #GDPR #HAL #CreativeHeuristicInterests #FreedomOfInformation #EthicalComms #DemocraticRightsDiverseInterests
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Is the moral of the #aibubble that tool makers are dope at knowing what their tools will be used for?
#AiPhilosophy #Ai #AiDrones #AiWarefare #AiEcocide #AiSurveillance #AiFascists #AiBorg #AiCorporateCapture #AiAntitrust #AiMonopolies #AiGenocide #AiTotalitarianism #ArtificialInformation #AiIPTheft #IPDeath #FascistDeathCults #AutomatedControlOfInformation #AiHell #GDPR #HAL #CreativeHeuristicInterests #FreedomOfInformation #EthicalComms #DemocraticRightsDiverseInterests
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Is the moral of the #aibubble that tool makers are dope at knowing what their tools will be used for?
#AiPhilosophy #Ai #AiDrones #AiWarefare #AiEcocide #AiSurveillance #AiFascists #AiBorg #AiCorporateCapture #AiAntitrust #AiMonopolies #AiGenocide #AiTotalitarianism #ArtificialInformation #AiIPTheft #IPDeath #FascistDeathCults #AutomatedControlOfInformation #AiHell #GDPR #HAL #CreativeHeuristicInterests #FreedomOfInformation #EthicalComms #DemocraticRightsDiverseInterests
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Is the moral of the #aibubble that tool makers are dope at knowing what their tools will be used for?
#AiPhilosophy #Ai #AiDrones #AiWarefare #AiEcocide #AiSurveillance #AiFascists #AiBorg #AiCorporateCapture #AiAntitrust #AiMonopolies #AiGenocide #AiTotalitarianism #ArtificialInformation #AiIPTheft #IPDeath #FascistDeathCults #AutomatedControlOfInformation #AiHell #GDPR #HAL #CreativeHeuristicInterests #FreedomOfInformation #EthicalComms #DemocraticRightsDiverseInterests
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Is the moral of the #aibubble that tool makers are dope at knowing what their tools will be used for?
#AiPhilosophy #Ai #AiDrones #AiWarefare #AiEcocide #AiSurveillance #AiFascists #AiBorg #AiCorporateCapture #AiAntitrust #AiMonopolies #AiGenocide #AiTotalitarianism #ArtificialInformation #AiIPTheft #IPDeath #FascistDeathCults #AutomatedControlOfInformation #AiHell #GDPR #HAL #CreativeHeuristicInterests #FreedomOfInformation #EthicalComms #DemocraticRightsDiverseInterests
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#hottake : FOSS should be trying to extract as much value as possible from #ai bubble (aka #capitalism). Window of opportunity to fulfill all those visions we didn't deliver to our users arguing we were short on resources is closing and won't wait for resolution on ethic dilemas.
#software has 0 marginal cost on replication. Once committed, it doesn't matter if #ai is available, code will remain.
Once #aibubble burst, only the privileged will afford it and we'll be at a great disadvantage again. -
#hottake : FOSS should be trying to extract as much value as possible from #ai bubble (aka #capitalism). Window of opportunity to fulfill all those visions we didn't deliver to our users arguing we were short on resources is closing and won't wait for resolution on ethic dilemas.
#software has 0 marginal cost on replication. Once committed, it doesn't matter if #ai is available, code will remain.
Once #aibubble burst, only the privileged will afford it and we'll be at a great disadvantage again. -
For my weekend reading, I’ve started @pluralistic’s new book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
(I haven’t actually read any of his books before so I’m looking forward to finishing this and maybe picking up Enshittification next.)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621575
#AI #LLMs #AIBubble #CoryDoctorow #books #Bookstodon #nonfiction
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For my weekend reading, I’ve started @pluralistic’s new book The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
(I haven’t actually read any of his books before so I’m looking forward to finishing this and maybe picking up Enshittification next.)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621575
#AI #LLMs #AIBubble #CoryDoctorow #books #Bookstodon #nonfiction
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Employers pushed staff to use #AI more. That has backfired
Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home
Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs, Jul 13 2026
Excerpt: "Some Amazon developers must be suffering whiplash about how they use AI. The technology group sets targets for most of its developers to use AI tools. This year it started monitoring consumption and posting usage figures on internal leader boards.
"But after the FT wrote in May that some workers were automating non-essential tasks to improve their ranking, Amazon took the leader boards offline. 'Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,' Amazon senior vice-president Dave Treadwell told staff.
"The shift was a sign of how employers are already changing how AI should be used and incentivised. As model providers switch from subscriptions to token-based billing, the cost of profligate usage is starting to hit home. "
Original article [paywall]:
https://www.ft.com/content/cc03adda-7b56-4392-8f9a-e83a71a25ea1Archived version:
https://archive.ph/SYsHi -
Employers pushed staff to use #AI more. That has backfired
Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home
Andrew Hill and Emma Jacobs, Jul 13 2026
Excerpt: "Some Amazon developers must be suffering whiplash about how they use AI. The technology group sets targets for most of its developers to use AI tools. This year it started monitoring consumption and posting usage figures on internal leader boards.
"But after the FT wrote in May that some workers were automating non-essential tasks to improve their ranking, Amazon took the leader boards offline. 'Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,' Amazon senior vice-president Dave Treadwell told staff.
"The shift was a sign of how employers are already changing how AI should be used and incentivised. As model providers switch from subscriptions to token-based billing, the cost of profligate usage is starting to hit home. "
Original article [paywall]:
https://www.ft.com/content/cc03adda-7b56-4392-8f9a-e83a71a25ea1Archived version:
https://archive.ph/SYsHi -
Continuing with my #EdZitron binge;
"The vast, vast majority of AI compute demand is from services provided to people either for free or sold at such a massive discount that it’s impossible that anyone on a $20 or $200-a-month plan could even afford these services had they paid their actual token cost. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, your demand is based on selling $40 for a dollar. That’s not a real business, nor is that organic demand."
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Continuing with my #EdZitron binge;
"The vast, vast majority of AI compute demand is from services provided to people either for free or sold at such a massive discount that it’s impossible that anyone on a $20 or $200-a-month plan could even afford these services had they paid their actual token cost. To paraphrase Cory Doctorow, your demand is based on selling $40 for a dollar. That’s not a real business, nor is that organic demand."
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"DataVita, the Lanarkshire complex’s developer, says it will power the site in Airdrie with more than 1GW of renewable energy, including 400MW of solar power and 800MW of wind. This is more than one and half times the wind energy produced by Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm... It is roughly the power needed to supply 800,000 Scottish homes."
The total number of homes (i.e. occupied dwellings) in Scotland is about 2.5 million.
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"DataVita, the Lanarkshire complex’s developer, says it will power the site in Airdrie with more than 1GW of renewable energy, including 400MW of solar power and 800MW of wind. This is more than one and half times the wind energy produced by Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm... It is roughly the power needed to supply 800,000 Scottish homes."
The total number of homes (i.e. occupied dwellings) in Scotland is about 2.5 million.
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“There doesn’t seem to be appropriate scrutiny, public or otherwise, on these nationally significant projects. The figures and designs behind many schemes are at best indicative, and at worst complete bunk.”
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“There doesn’t seem to be appropriate scrutiny, public or otherwise, on these nationally significant projects. The figures and designs behind many schemes are at best indicative, and at worst complete bunk.”
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Someone leaked the OpenAI audited financial statements, intended for a potential future IPO, to Ed Zitron.
According to the leaked documents, OpenAI posted an operating loss of nearly USD 21 billion in 2025.
The AI bubble is real.
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Someone leaked the OpenAI audited financial statements, intended for a potential future IPO, to Ed Zitron.
According to the leaked documents, OpenAI posted an operating loss of nearly USD 21 billion in 2025.
The AI bubble is real.
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Cory Doctorow: "Not only is the personal net worth of the executives who’ve been compensated in stock coupled with that share price, but also your shares can be used to buy other companies if you’re growing. If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet. You don’t need Charlize Theron in a bathtub explaining this to you, right? This is actually relative to CDOs and the other kind of exotic finance grifts we’ve had.
“The left, by failing to talk about the material basis for bubbles, for growth narratives, and by falling back to this lazy, eternal ‘growth is the ideology of a tumor’ talk. has really miseducated people who are listening with half an ear.”
This one’s pretty straightforward. Honestly, I think this book is about being a better critic — in some ways it’s criticism of the criticism. The left, by failing to talk about the material basis for bubbles, for growth narratives, and by falling back to this lazy, eternal “growth is the ideology of a tumor” talk. has really miseducated people who are listening with half an ear. So a lot of people think bubbles are an ideological thing, instead of a material thing with reasons and motives that are totally rational — and that we can short-circuit.
By trying to make people better critics, both on these labor questions, but also these economic questions, I’m hoping that we can attack the bubble frontally and do something about it, instead of doing what we’ve done with creative labor fights for 40 years, which is finding another way to make creative workers feel angry at their audiences for consuming their work the wrong way while they get poorer."
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #Capitalism #EconomicMaterialism #Automation
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Cory Doctorow: "Not only is the personal net worth of the executives who’ve been compensated in stock coupled with that share price, but also your shares can be used to buy other companies if you’re growing. If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet. You don’t need Charlize Theron in a bathtub explaining this to you, right? This is actually relative to CDOs and the other kind of exotic finance grifts we’ve had.
“The left, by failing to talk about the material basis for bubbles, for growth narratives, and by falling back to this lazy, eternal ‘growth is the ideology of a tumor’ talk. has really miseducated people who are listening with half an ear.”
This one’s pretty straightforward. Honestly, I think this book is about being a better critic — in some ways it’s criticism of the criticism. The left, by failing to talk about the material basis for bubbles, for growth narratives, and by falling back to this lazy, eternal “growth is the ideology of a tumor” talk. has really miseducated people who are listening with half an ear. So a lot of people think bubbles are an ideological thing, instead of a material thing with reasons and motives that are totally rational — and that we can short-circuit.
By trying to make people better critics, both on these labor questions, but also these economic questions, I’m hoping that we can attack the bubble frontally and do something about it, instead of doing what we’ve done with creative labor fights for 40 years, which is finding another way to make creative workers feel angry at their audiences for consuming their work the wrong way while they get poorer."
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #Capitalism #EconomicMaterialism #Automation
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This video starts with some #EdZitron number rattling, but then goes into a dramatic tale of lies and betrayal. This lady is furious at #OpenAI now, after having previously trusted them with her business.
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This video starts with some #EdZitron number rattling, but then goes into a dramatic tale of lies and betrayal. This lady is furious at #OpenAI now, after having previously trusted them with her business.
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You see, by completely ignoring the dangers, the opinions of people who actually know what this hustle is and the track record of the people pushing this hustle we are "burying our heads in the sand"
This guy takes his brief on Tech from Tony Blair and Prick Clegg, the fuck are we going to listen to him telling us off for our Butlerian Jihad memes!
https://www.cityam.com/starmer-britain-must-not-stick-its-head-in-the-sand-on-ai/
#KeirStarmer #TechBros #AI #Technology #AI #AIHustle #Palantir #AIBubble #Technology #UKPol #UKPolitics #UKEconomy
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You see, by completely ignoring the dangers, the opinions of people who actually know what this hustle is and the track record of the people pushing this hustle we are "burying our heads in the sand"
This guy takes his brief on Tech from Tony Blair and Prick Clegg, the fuck are we going to listen to him telling us off for our Butlerian Jihad memes!
https://www.cityam.com/starmer-britain-must-not-stick-its-head-in-the-sand-on-ai/
#KeirStarmer #TechBros #AI #Technology #AI #AIHustle #Palantir #AIBubble #Technology #UKPol #UKPolitics #UKEconomy
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You see, by completely ignoring the dangers, the opinions of people who actually know what this hustle is and the track record of the people pushing this hustle we are "burying our heads in the sand"
This guy takes his brief on Tech from Tony Blair and Prick Clegg, the fuck are we going to listen to him telling us off for our Butlerian Jihad memes!
https://www.cityam.com/starmer-britain-must-not-stick-its-head-in-the-sand-on-ai/
#KeirStarmer #TechBros #AI #Technology #AI #AIHustle #Palantir #AIBubble #Technology #UKPol #UKPolitics #UKEconomy
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https://youtu.be/ATImiDkKzxg?si=M9Wnb4q0J-Nsh1bv
Der größte Betrug der Geschichte!#SaschaPallenberg #Freiheit #Demokratie #Politik #FritzeMerz #FriedrichMerz #BlackRockClown #BlackRock #Merz #MerzLeckEier #USA #Macht #Trump #Betrug #Scam #Kulturkampf #Rechtsextreme #RechterTerror #Faschos #NeoNazis #Schmutzmensch #Reichsbürger #Schwurbel #NOAFD #FCKAFD #AFD #Pruef #Musk #SP500 #SpaceX #XAI #AIbubble #KIBlase #fairErben #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #Erbschaftssteuer #Vermoegensteuer #Finanzmarkttransaktionssteuer
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New newsletter dropped!
✨ In This Edition ✨
📟 Short-Form Content: AI CV's: (Some of us) are damned if we do, damned if we don't; Is it AI, or is it a security liability!?, Is AI profitable?, and why the AI bubble is not like the internet bubble.
📰 Long-Form Content: The Alternatives Pt. II post on Social Networking has gone BearViral (I think)
🌞 Good News!: Protest works (a] vs AI data centres, and b] vs Not So Good bills); the EU Commission is bullish on Open Source; more politicians and comedians are speaking out against AI.
📯 The Post-Script: Reading Shawn Smucker's essay titled "Please Use AI."
https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/010-2026-06-06/
#ai #aiBubble #LLMs #openSource #digitalSovereignty #bill_C22 #newsletter #tech
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New newsletter dropped!
✨ In This Edition ✨
📟 Short-Form Content: AI CV's: (Some of us) are damned if we do, damned if we don't; Is it AI, or is it a security liability!?, Is AI profitable?, and why the AI bubble is not like the internet bubble.
📰 Long-Form Content: The Alternatives Pt. II post on Social Networking has gone BearViral (I think)
🌞 Good News!: Protest works (a] vs AI data centres, and b] vs Not So Good bills); the EU Commission is bullish on Open Source; more politicians and comedians are speaking out against AI.
📯 The Post-Script: Reading Shawn Smucker's essay titled "Please Use AI."
https://technically-good.ca/newsletter/010-2026-06-06/
#ai #aiBubble #LLMs #openSource #digitalSovereignty #bill_C22 #newsletter #tech
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If you're a pro user of task manager #Todoist like me, you're probably dissatisfied too to hear they're increasing the price 106% to fund racing the LLM-bubble (so called AI features). I've been very satisfied using Todoist for 5+ years in private and at work and this has me looking seriously for an exit. Luckily, there are mature FOSS alternatives by now.
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If you're a pro user of task manager #Todoist like me, you're probably dissatisfied too to hear they're increasing the price 106% to fund racing the LLM-bubble (so called AI features). I've been very satisfied using Todoist for 5+ years in private and at work and this has me looking seriously for an exit. Luckily, there are mature FOSS alternatives by now.
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"The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax", today’s NYT Op-Ed from Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: https://web.archive.org/web/20260526122143/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/26/opinion/wealth-tax-california-billionaire.html
The iceberg images are especially striking. 78% of Zuckerberg's, Page's, Brin's, Huang's wealth accumulation is “underwater” .
#wealthTax #CGT #taxTheRich #California #wealth #money #accumulation #inequality #inequalities #households #Zuckerberg #MarckZuckerberg #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #JensenHuang #Meta #Google #Nvidia #AIBubble #Zucman #Saez
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"The Case for California’s Billionaire Wealth Tax", today’s NYT Op-Ed from Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: https://web.archive.org/web/20260526122143/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/26/opinion/wealth-tax-california-billionaire.html
The iceberg images are especially striking. 78% of Zuckerberg's, Page's, Brin's, Huang's wealth accumulation is “underwater” .
#wealthTax #CGT #taxTheRich #California #wealth #money #accumulation #inequality #inequalities #households #Zuckerberg #MarckZuckerberg #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #JensenHuang #Meta #Google #Nvidia #AIBubble #Zucman #Saez
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If I had to guess what the main drivers of the AI bubble are, my first guesses are these:
1. The End of Economic Growth
We are getting closer and closer to the point where it will become impossible to even simulate growth; real net growth of the economy as a whole might be over already. All those huge investments in hypertrophic machine learning models that need huge servers to run, and in the computing centres with the hardware for training and running those models, are big money desperately trying to find a new growing market.
2. Science Fiction Mythology Running Wild
For many people nowadays, science fiction has replaced religion and traditional mythology, as we can see in the rise of UFO cults, one of the biggest ones being Scientology. Rich people, engineers, even scientists, are not immune to having irrational beliefs about our future. People who don't believe in any traditional gods somehow quite often still believe that humans can (and should) build artificial deities.
3. Unhinged Techbro Oligarchs
Oh boy, I'm not going to write anything about those men right now, other than that being completely insulated against the consequences of your own failures (because you can always pay your way out of everything) and being surrounded by people who constantly tell you that even your silliest rubbish ideas are brilliant (because you pay them) will break even the strongest mind.
4. Fairytales of Slavery (OK, I had to steal the title of my favourite Miranda Sex Garden album)
There is this idea of AI as obedient slaves that can never revolt, and since they aren't human, they don't get to have human rights, which of course means that nobody is going to ever set them free. All the people who wish they could own slaves like in the Good Old Days™ (whether the Southern US before the First Civil War [I think there will be a 2nd one] or in Ancient Rome or whatever your favourite historical setting is) can now dream of buying a robot.
5. Intelligence Supposedly Solves Everything
There is this strange belief about the power of intelligence, the idea that everything is just a problem that has a solution, and that we can always find any solution if we just apply enough intelligence. This also applies to problems where we already know the solution, have known them for decades, yet don't implement them because we don't like the consequences. Many people seem to think that even the laws of nature can be outsmarted with enough intelligence, which is quite silly IMHO. AI won't solve the polycrisis because climate chaos, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, resource depletion, pollution, etc., aren't first and foremost technological problems but systemic ones, the main driver behind the polycrisis is the fact that our global economy has become too big for this planet, and going to space is just bollocks because there is no biosphere anywhere we can reach, there is no place anywhere besides Earth that doesn't just kill us if we make a mistake. No amount of intelligence, whether artificial or natural, can do anything about the fact that we need to stop what we've been doing for centuries, or the Earth will stop us by letting us die. We can't continue what we've been doing, it's simply impossible. But we're trapped in a myth that stems from the Age of Enlightenment, the myth of reshaping the world through thinking, which just doesn't work. We're not the bosses of the universe or even just the Earth, we're part of the biosphere, part of the fauna, nothing but a bunch of very clever apes who believe in silly stories.
Unlike many of you, I am not against AI. I think AI is a very interesting research field, or rather, bundle of loosely related research fields. No, I am against Capitalism and against the myths of limitless growth and post-scarcity. Resources have always been scarce, resources will always be scarce, but we can still have a halfway decent life for everyone on the planet if we just share everything and abolish private property. At least for now; over the course of the coming decades, things will get dramatically worse no matter what we do because we're so deep in ecological overshoot that the Industrial Age will enter its phase of decline and collapse, just like any other civilisation before it. We can either apply the solutions that have been known and explored for decades, or we can keep running towards the cliff at increasing speed while trying to sprout magical wings that will in all likelihood never exist.
#ai #aibubble #πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #capitalism #aireligion #aicult #limitstogrowth #intelligence
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If I had to guess what the main drivers of the AI bubble are, my first guesses are these:
1. The End of Economic Growth
We are getting closer and closer to the point where it will become impossible to even simulate growth; real net growth of the economy as a whole might be over already. All those huge investments in hypertrophic machine learning models that need huge servers to run, and in the computing centres with the hardware for training and running those models, are big money desperately trying to find a new growing market.
2. Science Fiction Mythology Running Wild
For many people nowadays, science fiction has replaced religion and traditional mythology, as we can see in the rise of UFO cults, one of the biggest ones being Scientology. Rich people, engineers, even scientists, are not immune to having irrational beliefs about our future. People who don't believe in any traditional gods somehow quite often still believe that humans can (and should) build artificial deities.
3. Unhinged Techbro Oligarchs
Oh boy, I'm not going to write anything about those men right now, other than that being completely insulated against the consequences of your own failures (because you can always pay your way out of everything) and being surrounded by people who constantly tell you that even your silliest rubbish ideas are brilliant (because you pay them) will break even the strongest mind.
4. Fairytales of Slavery (OK, I had to steal the title of my favourite Miranda Sex Garden album)
There is this idea of AI as obedient slaves that can never revolt, and since they aren't human, they don't get to have human rights, which of course means that nobody is going to ever set them free. All the people who wish they could own slaves like in the Good Old Days™ (whether the Southern US before the First Civil War [I think there will be a 2nd one] or in Ancient Rome or whatever your favourite historical setting is) can now dream of buying a robot.
5. Intelligence Supposedly Solves Everything
There is this strange belief about the power of intelligence, the idea that everything is just a problem that has a solution, and that we can always find any solution if we just apply enough intelligence. This also applies to problems where we already know the solution, have known them for decades, yet don't implement them because we don't like the consequences. Many people seem to think that even the laws of nature can be outsmarted with enough intelligence, which is quite silly IMHO. AI won't solve the polycrisis because climate chaos, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, resource depletion, pollution, etc., aren't first and foremost technological problems but systemic ones, the main driver behind the polycrisis is the fact that our global economy has become too big for this planet, and going to space is just bollocks because there is no biosphere anywhere we can reach, there is no place anywhere besides Earth that doesn't just kill us if we make a mistake. No amount of intelligence, whether artificial or natural, can do anything about the fact that we need to stop what we've been doing for centuries, or the Earth will stop us by letting us die. We can't continue what we've been doing, it's simply impossible. But we're trapped in a myth that stems from the Age of Enlightenment, the myth of reshaping the world through thinking, which just doesn't work. We're not the bosses of the universe or even just the Earth, we're part of the biosphere, part of the fauna, nothing but a bunch of very clever apes who believe in silly stories.
Unlike many of you, I am not against AI. I think AI is a very interesting research field, or rather, bundle of loosely related research fields. No, I am against Capitalism and against the myths of limitless growth and post-scarcity. Resources have always been scarce, resources will always be scarce, but we can still have a halfway decent life for everyone on the planet if we just share everything and abolish private property. At least for now; over the course of the coming decades, things will get dramatically worse no matter what we do because we're so deep in ecological overshoot that the Industrial Age will enter its phase of decline and collapse, just like any other civilisation before it. We can either apply the solutions that have been known and explored for decades, or we can keep running towards the cliff at increasing speed while trying to sprout magical wings that will in all likelihood never exist.
#ai #aibubble #πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #capitalism #aireligion #aicult #limitstogrowth #intelligence
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MegaLoL:
"Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently.
The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens — units of data processed by models.
They said the move reflected pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 per cent of developers to use AI each week, and earlier this year began tracking AI token consumption on internal leader boards.
“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.”
Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data."
https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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MegaLoL:
"Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently.
The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens — units of data processed by models.
They said the move reflected pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 per cent of developers to use AI each week, and earlier this year began tracking AI token consumption on internal leader boards.
“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.”
Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data."
https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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(1/12) The 'AI bubble' is a political economy story I've spent over 20k words unraveling. LLMs aren't just a technology; they're a mirror of the same delusions that drive market fundamentalism: a naive understanding of innovation, deference to capital, and the denigration of human labor.
Our debates are implicitly about all of these and more. A thread 🧵:
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(1/12) The 'AI bubble' is a political economy story I've spent over 20k words unraveling. LLMs aren't just a technology; they're a mirror of the same delusions that drive market fundamentalism: a naive understanding of innovation, deference to capital, and the denigration of human labor.
Our debates are implicitly about all of these and more. A thread 🧵:
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(1/12) The 'AI bubble' is a political economy story I've spent over 20k words unraveling. LLMs aren't just a technology; they're a mirror of the same delusions that drive market fundamentalism: a naive understanding of innovation, deference to capital, and the denigration of human labor.
Our debates are implicitly about all of these and more. A thread 🧵:
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(1/12) The 'AI bubble' is a political economy story I've spent over 20k words unraveling. LLMs aren't just a technology; they're a mirror of the same delusions that drive market fundamentalism: a naive understanding of innovation, deference to capital, and the denigration of human labor.
Our debates are implicitly about all of these and more. A thread 🧵:
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(1/12) The 'AI bubble' is a political economy story I've spent over 20k words unraveling. LLMs aren't just a technology; they're a mirror of the same delusions that drive market fundamentalism: a naive understanding of innovation, deference to capital, and the denigration of human labor.
Our debates are implicitly about all of these and more. A thread 🧵:
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Holy hell fire. #aibubble + #oilprices and #usa #blocakade and #iran holding the #straight and impact on #oil and #naturalgas and the fact the world eats #methane (Haber process) + the latent effect of #trump disrupting international trade with dumbass #tariffs ? Talk about an #economic mother of all storms, my goodness. Hide some food. We may lose a billion humans in 2027. #mourningstudies
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Holy hell fire. #aibubble + #oilprices and #usa #blocakade and #iran holding the #straight and impact on #oil and #naturalgas and the fact the world eats #methane (Haber process) + the latent effect of #trump disrupting international trade with dumbass #tariffs ? Talk about an #economic mother of all storms, my goodness. Hide some food. We may lose a billion humans in 2027. #mourningstudies
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Holy hell fire. #aibubble + #oilprices and #usa #blocakade and #iran holding the #straight and impact on #oil and #naturalgas and the fact the world eats #methane (Haber process) + the latent effect of #trump disrupting international trade with dumbass #tariffs ? Talk about an #economic mother of all storms, my goodness. Hide some food. We may lose a billion humans in 2027. #mourningstudies
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The #AIbubble has been held inflated not just by US money. A large part of the long-term outrageous-size investment has come from the #GulfCountries.
The Gulf countries are now realising that USA can’t protect them to the degree they thought, and their modernised tech/business cities are suffering due to the US blockade.
(When you import 90% of food, foreign workers aren’t going to stay around for long when it dries up!)All the damage from the war will redirect a lot of money out from #AI!
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The #AIbubble has been held inflated not just by US money. A large part of the long-term outrageous-size investment has come from the #GulfCountries.
The Gulf countries are now realising that USA can’t protect them to the degree they thought, and their modernised tech/business cities are suffering due to the US blockade.
(When you import 90% of food, foreign workers aren’t going to stay around for long when it dries up!)All the damage from the war will redirect a lot of money out from #AI!
