#aihype — Public Fediverse posts
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We are not getting "Artificial General Intelligence" from anything like the current systems (or ever, probably). This from Marty Hart-Landsberg:
"All multimodal generative AI systems are built using the same basic architecture, one based on largescale pattern recognition shaped by training data and statistical prediction, which makes it incapable of serving as a bridge to anything resembling AGI. This structure also limits its usefulness. Among the most serious problems: the amplification of biases and falsehoods contained in the training data and the tendency to hallucinate or present incorrect or entirely fabricated information as factual. These problems are a major reason why AI developers felt it necessary to pursue a growth strategy that relied on heavily subsidizing the cost of using their systems."
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Strongly recommend the writings of Marty Hart-Landsberg for an introduction to AI hype and economic issues. Good overviews in Monthly Review and on his website:
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/
https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/
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Strongly recommend the writings of Marty Hart-Landsberg for an introduction to AI hype and economic issues. Good overviews in Monthly Review and on his website:
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/
https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/
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Strongly recommend the writings of Marty Hart-Landsberg for an introduction to AI hype and economic issues. Good overviews in Monthly Review and on his website:
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/
https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/
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Strongly recommend the writings of Marty Hart-Landsberg for an introduction to AI hype and economic issues. Good overviews in Monthly Review and on his website:
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/
https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/
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Strongly recommend the writings of Marty Hart-Landsberg for an introduction to AI hype and economic issues. Good overviews in Monthly Review and on his website:
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/
https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/
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Weekly output: DDoS attacks, Ed Zitron at Ai4, Delta WiFi spoofing, security perspectives from Black Hat’s NOC, AT&T’s Turbo Live
Having zero in-person work events on my calendar this week was a real treat after spending the prior week in Vegas bouncing between two conferences. That downtime also allowed me to finish two stories from those events.
8/11/2026: Major DDoS Attacks Are Booming, But US No Longer the Most Targeted Country, PCMag
I wrote up a Cloudflare report on trends in distributed denial-of-service attacks and closed it out with a reminder of how efforts to set security standards for the connected gadgets that are often enlisted into DDoS botnets continue to lag.
8/11/2026: This Tech Expert Thinks It’s ‘Time to Call Bullshit on the AI Industry’, PCMag
The easier thing to do with Ed Zitron’s talk at Ai4 would have been to write a scaffold of a post around his most memorable lines, but I wanted to provide some context for the numbers he threw out. The required research started feeling like an exercise in yak shaving, in part because the AI data-center news cycle did not stop.
8/12/2026: Delta Passenger Spoofs Wi-Fi in the Air (Pro Tip: Don’t Do This), PCMag
After seeing so many other places jump on this story, I decided I should do my part–and make sure that my own post, unlike so many others, would feature a photo of 757 in Delta colors instead of some other plane in DL’s fleet.
8/14/2026: At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones, Fast Company
This was a Black Hat meeting request that I enthusiastically obliged, because Black Hat network admins don’t hold back when they’re talking about unwise behavior they’ve seen on the conference’s WiFi. James Pope (outside this information-security conference, senior director of security product research at Corelight) had some forceful advice for people using AI to vibe-code their own software: “Stop having janky apps.”
8/15/2026: At Rush Concert, AT&T’s Turbo Live Rocked, With Dazzling Download Speeds, PCMag
This story ran almost a month after the concert in question; first I had to field various bits of breaking news, then I had to tell my AT&T PR contact to set aside my questions about this data-only power-up and instead answer a query about a round of retroactive rate hikes, then Ai4 and Black Hat monopolized my journalistic bandwidth. I may or may not have also needed additional time to see how many Rush song-title references I could sneak into this post.
#AI #AIHype #Ai4 #ATT #BlackHat #Cloudflare #cybersecurity #dataCenters #DDoS #Delta #DeltaWiFi #DeltaWiFi #DL #EdZitron #informationSecurity #infosec #NetworkOperationsCenter #NOC #Rush #TurboLive #UnitedCenter #vibeCoding -
Not entirely clear on what exactly I'm disqualified for, but to make you happy / happier...
It's a lot more typing, but would "uninformed despecialized prompt-writing to cause an LLM to generate source code that might in some way look like it's an attempt at solving the described problem if you squint really hard and eat a few THC gummies" be a more acceptable description?
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Bond investors are more risk averse than stock investors so they call out problems in business models. To build AI data centers investors are requiring rates above 9% coupon on bonds. - almost double the interest for similar non-data center bonds.
In my past life I was a fixed income (bond) analyst, so this very interesting to me, at the intersection of #AI and #Fixedincome. 🤓 #aihype #aibubble
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/business/ai-debt-investors.html
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Global equities closed 2025 strong, but the rally was narrow and uneven. Moreover, India was among the weakest major markets. As 2026 begins, can easing global headwinds and better earnings help Indian equities recover? Today’s Number Theory explores this.
Read on free HT news app: https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/what-will-the-markets-bring-in-2026-for-india-number-theory-101767327504906.html
#Markets #Sensex #BSE #AIhype #SP500 #NASDAQ #Earnings #MastIndia #India @mastodonindians
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Tesla ends 2025 struggling with falling demand, aging models, shrinking margins, and delayed AI ambitions like robotaxis and Optimus. Competition especially from Chinese EV makers is surging, and the end of U.S. tax credits hit sales hard. Energy storage is growing, but not enough to offset weakening automotive cash flow.
#Tesla #EVSlowdown #MarketReality #AIHype #Margins #Competition #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/tesla-stock-rises-on-market-sentiment/
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Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes:
https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes#aihype
#aibubble
#genaihype
#genaibubble
#fuckai
#fuckgenai
#fucktechceos
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Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes:
https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes#aihype
#aibubble
#genaihype
#genaibubble
#fuckai
#fuckgenai
#fucktechceos
#fuckceos
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Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes:
https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes#aihype
#aibubble
#genaihype
#genaibubble
#fuckai
#fuckgenai
#fucktechceos
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Not surprising that Tech CEOs are lying about AI.
https://youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU?si=zjQpejvuEdsZW573 -
Not surprising that Tech CEOs are lying about AI.
https://youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU?si=zjQpejvuEdsZW573 -
Not surprising that Tech CEOs are lying about AI.
https://youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU?si=zjQpejvuEdsZW573 -
Not surprising that Tech CEOs are lying about AI.
https://youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU?si=zjQpejvuEdsZW573 -
Not surprising that Tech CEOs are lying about AI.
https://youtu.be/8enXRDlWguU?si=zjQpejvuEdsZW573 -
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AIMyths: "Before creating beneficial myths to direct our use of technologies, we first should understand the current myths surrounding artificial intelligence. Myths don’t have to be cynically deployed, though they aren’t always innocent. Many seem obvious, but they continue to shape our thinking around AI. They infiltrate our thinking through convenience, as reliable shorthand, and as commonly understood references.
I’ve sorted a handful of these myths into rough categories. There are certainly others. The goal is to provide a way of looking at technology that scratches against the spectacle of metaphor to think more clearly about what AI is and does." https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
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#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AIMyths: "Before creating beneficial myths to direct our use of technologies, we first should understand the current myths surrounding artificial intelligence. Myths don’t have to be cynically deployed, though they aren’t always innocent. Many seem obvious, but they continue to shape our thinking around AI. They infiltrate our thinking through convenience, as reliable shorthand, and as commonly understood references.
I’ve sorted a handful of these myths into rough categories. There are certainly others. The goal is to provide a way of looking at technology that scratches against the spectacle of metaphor to think more clearly about what AI is and does." https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
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#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AIMyths: "Before creating beneficial myths to direct our use of technologies, we first should understand the current myths surrounding artificial intelligence. Myths don’t have to be cynically deployed, though they aren’t always innocent. Many seem obvious, but they continue to shape our thinking around AI. They infiltrate our thinking through convenience, as reliable shorthand, and as commonly understood references.
I’ve sorted a handful of these myths into rough categories. There are certainly others. The goal is to provide a way of looking at technology that scratches against the spectacle of metaphor to think more clearly about what AI is and does." https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
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#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AIMyths: "Before creating beneficial myths to direct our use of technologies, we first should understand the current myths surrounding artificial intelligence. Myths don’t have to be cynically deployed, though they aren’t always innocent. Many seem obvious, but they continue to shape our thinking around AI. They infiltrate our thinking through convenience, as reliable shorthand, and as commonly understood references.
I’ve sorted a handful of these myths into rough categories. There are certainly others. The goal is to provide a way of looking at technology that scratches against the spectacle of metaphor to think more clearly about what AI is and does." https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
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CW: crisis lines USA - privatization - data exploits
The privatization of crisis care is here #CrisisLineIndustry. Data-driven has its good side. What disturbs me is these are thieves of data from all those sensitive, private words, without consent, into private sector " #AI " systems. USA has closely aligned private to #988Lifeline.
Example for-profit:
5 Lanes Crisis Partners, and yes one of the lanes is data/software.
https://fivelanescrisis.com/who-we-are/Dr. John Draper was w/ #VibrantEmotionalHealth for years (#SAMHSA 's grantee contractor for #988Lifeline), is now President of Research & Development at #BehavioralHealthLink, which is researching so-called sentiment analysis & operates #GCAL (Georgia).
Receipts for Behavioral Health Link here (they took this page down) Scroll to "VOICE-powered by MIMOSYS"
http://web.archive.org/web/20221202203617/https://behavioralhealthlink.com/saas/Article link about the MIMOSYS "Mind Monitoring" system: https://openaccessgovernment.org/voice-analysis-technology-2/79800/
references at bottom of article. I worry about this #AIHype, harms it can bring to vulnerable + profit motive. -
I guess this pretty sums it up:
" The answers generated on the basis of this data do not include
references to understand where certain information was taken from, and may be
biased. Additionally, #ChatGPT excels at providing answers that sound very plausible,
but that are often inaccurate or wrong".Would you trust a person whose answers are #biased, #inaccurate or outright #wrong? I wouldn't.
#Europol #Report #LLM #AIHype #TechWatchFlash
Link to report
https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/publications/chatgpt-impact-of-large-language-models-law-enforcement
