#aihype — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: AI, books
@anthropy Not weird at all. I’ve looked but not found any *direct* evidence at all of book shredding, not even Amazon which was widely re-reported. No photos. No identified whistleblower. BBC followup reported a secondhand shop selling 3 boxes of books - which is evidence of what exactly? I posted once on #AmazonVGT3. The book shredding story had people justly riled, but is it a story intended to rile people? Apparently Musk said people shouldn’t shred books. Is it all part of an #AIHype machine?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think this is clearly a bit bullshit from Anthropic's side but anyway...:
"The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.
We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern. Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or “jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass."
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
#AI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #USA #Claude #ClaudeFable #ClaudeMythos #AIHype #CyberSecurity
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Gestern hat die Europäische Kommission reichlich verspätet ihre #TechSovereigntyPackage 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.
PS: @esthermenhard hat für @netzpolitik_feed weitere Kommentare gesammelt. Spoiler: alle negativ. https://netzpolitik.org/2026/rechenzentren-in-der-eu-stromfresser-sollen-uns-souveraen-machen/
#EU #EUcommission #digitaleSouveränität #privacy #digitalRights #digitaleUnabhängigkeit #digitaleAutonomie #Stategiepapier #EUKommision #aislop #kikritik #rechenzentren #aihype #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen #UmweltVerbrechen
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RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116098129762953036
Professor Emily M. Bender's replies are always so on point—huge recommendation if you want to know about the problems with #AI
#noAI #artificialIntelligence #LLMs #LargeLanguageModels #genAI #ChatBots #vibeCoding #TheAICon #ComputationalLinguistics #AgentsOfTech #DataWorkers #AI2027 #AGI #artificialGeneralIntelligence #GeoffreyHinton #AIReasoning #NeuralNetworks #EmilyBender #ReinforcementLearning #AIHype
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«KI macht kaputt — Ein Dutzend Beispiele dafür, wie der KI-Hype alles erstickt. Beflügelt von KI?
Wir erleben gerade die größte technologische Disruption aller Zeiten – und wenn nicht die größte, dann sicherlich die schnellste. Enorme Produktivitätssteigerungen, wissenschaftliche Durchbrüche. Sie kennen das Narrativ.»Gibt es über die KI auch positive Artikel die fachlich und keine Werbungen sind?
🤔 https://www.computerwoche.de/article/4137800/ki-macht-kaputt.html
#kikritik #kihype #ki #kritik #hype #aihype #aicriticism #aislop #tech
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"AI doomerism" und AGI-Horrorgeschichten lenken von der berechtigten und dringend notwendigen Kritik am aktuellen AI-Hype ab. AI-Startups verwenden die Horrorgeschichten paradoxerweise sogar als Werbung. Man muss also höllisch aufpassen, welcher Kritik man sich anschließt.
Sehr gut auseinanderklamüsert bekommen das @emilymbender und @alex in ihrem extrem wichtigen Buch The AI Con, von dem es leider noch keine deutsche Übersetzung gibt.
Im Deutschen empfehle ich das exzellente schmale Reclambändchen von @RainerMuehlhoff: Künstliche Intelligenz und der neue Faschismus.
Wer lieber zuhört, kann sich ein großartiges Gespräch anhören, das @kattascha mit Prof. Mühlhoff für ihren Podcast geführt hat: https://www.denkangebot.org/allgemein/rainer-muehlhoff-ueber-ki-und-autoritaere-sehnsuechte-im-silicon-valley/ – Audio-Download: https://www.denkangebot.org/podlove/file/52/s/feed/c/mp3/DA046-1.mp3
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RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/115890507145344401
So sad, another case of #AIhype crossing the blood-brain barrier, skipping the part of your brain that always asks „but why?”.
Yes, #LLM #chatbots have a inherent econonic #privacy problem, but … that's not our biggest problem with them.
Yes, Trump reeks of old man stench, but that really is not our biggest problem with him.What a waste of time and talent.
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This article on #SmallNuclearReactors (or #SmallModularReactors #SMR) bears some striking similarities to the #AIHype:
"This vision never materialized. No turnkey reactors were carted cross-country or floated up rivers. Then, as earlier, they were deemed too expensive.
[...] Once again, we see history repeating itself in today’s claims for small reactors—that the demand will be large, that they will be cheap and quick to construct.
[...] In fact, the record is pretty clear: Without exception, small reactors cost too much for the little electricity they produced [...]"
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-forgotten-history-of-small-nuclear-reactors
Current #AIModels easily cost twice their revenue. But not only training, also the sheer operation is becoming more and more expensive when usage grows. The way these (so called) businesses are run can not be sustained.
There is an irony in bringing up the obsolete small reactor idea every now and then for this deeply flawed technology.
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How humans can hold the line against AI hype
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/05/19/how-to-hold-the-line-against-ai-hype/
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"Narayanan and Kapoor, both Princeton University computer scientists, argue that if we knew what types of AI do and don’t exist—as well as what they can and can’t do—then we’d be that much better at spotting bullshit and unlocking the transformative potential of genuine innovations. Right now, we are surrounded by “AI snake oil” or “AI that does not and cannot work as advertised,” and it is making it impossible to distinguish between hype, hysteria, ad copy, scam, or market consolidation. “Since AI refers to a vast array of technologies and applications,” Narayanan and Kapoor explain, “most people cannot yet fluently distinguish which types of AI are actually capable of functioning as promised and which types are simply snake oil.”
Narayanan and Kapoor’s efforts are clarifying, as are their attempts to deflate hype. They demystify the technical details behind what we call AI with ease, cutting against the deluge of corporate marketing from this sector. And yet, their goal of separating AI snake oil from AI that they consider promising, even idealistic, means that they don’t engage with some of the greatest problems this technology poses. To understand AI and the ways it might reshape society, we need to understand not just how and when it works, but who controls it and to what ends."
https://newrepublic.com/article/188313/artifical-intelligence-scams-propaganda-deceit
#AI #PredictiveAI #SiliconValley #SnakeOil #Scams #Propaganda #AIHype #AIBubble #PoliticalEconomy
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Who goes bankrupt first?
#AiHype #BigTech #TechGiants #TechTitans #Alphabet #Amazon #Apple #Meta #Microsoft #Nvidia #Tesla