#aihype — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aihype, aggregated by home.social.
-
because that is exactly what they are. #datacentres suck money from local people in the form of increased costs for power and clean water, threaten their jobs, and give them slop in return.
the only people who benefit are billionaires and people who are addicted to slop -
because that is exactly what they are. #datacentres suck money from local people in the form of increased costs for power and clean water, threaten their jobs, and give them slop in return.
the only people who benefit are billionaires and people who are addicted to slop -
“Keith Wilson, a philosopher of perception and cognitive science at UCD, said the media was committing the cardinal sin of doing ‘PR for the #AI industry’. ‘AI companies have a product to hawk,’ he wrote on Bluesky…” #GenAI #AIHype (h/t @[email protected]) www.reuters.com/technology/a...
NEWSLETTER: 'Going rogue' draw... -
“Keith Wilson, a philosopher of perception and cognitive science at UCD, said the media was committing the cardinal sin of doing ‘PR for the #AI industry’. ‘AI companies have a product to hawk,’ he wrote on Bluesky…” #GenAI #AIHype (h/t @[email protected]) www.reuters.com/technology/a...
NEWSLETTER: 'Going rogue' draw... -
“Keith Wilson, a philosopher of perception and cognitive science at #UCD, said the media was committing the cardinal sin of doing ‘PR for the #AI industry’. ‘AI companies have a product to hawk, ‘he wrote on Bluesky. ‘This kind of anthropomorphisation plays directly into their stock value. It’s part of their sales pitch’.” #GenAI #AIHype #philosophy #cogsci https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/going-rogue-draws-critics-amid-widening-ai-hacks-2026-08-05/
-
“Keith Wilson, a philosopher of perception and cognitive science at #UCD, said the media was committing the cardinal sin of doing ‘PR for the #AI industry’. ‘AI companies have a product to hawk, ‘he wrote on Bluesky. ‘This kind of anthropomorphisation plays directly into their stock value. It’s part of their sales pitch’.” #GenAI #AIHype #philosophy #cogsci https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/going-rogue-draws-critics-amid-widening-ai-hacks-2026-08-05/
-
Tech leaders say #AI means less work—their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week. And there’s the fundamental contradiction of AI use. We could have a four-day working week tomorrow if we wanted, no AI required. 🤷♂️ #GenAI #AIHype www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tech leaders say AI means less... -
Tech leaders say #AI means less work—their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week. And there’s the fundamental contradiction of AI use. We could have a four-day working week tomorrow if we wanted, no AI required. 🤷♂️ #GenAI #AIHype www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tech leaders say AI means less... -
-
-
How far are we from realising that the primary applications of #LLMs are fraud and crime? #GenAI #AIHype www.macrumors.com/2026/08/07/o...
OpenAI Delays Next Major AI Mo... -
How far are we from realising that the principal applications of #LLMs are fraud and other crimes? #GenAI #AIHype https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/07/openai-astra-model-hacking-concerns/
-
How far are we from realising that the principal applications of #LLMs are fraud and other crimes? #GenAI #AIHype https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/07/openai-astra-model-hacking-concerns/
-
Data Centers - song by Elle Cordova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdvUJ7idDuM
"There's no time for laws when you're building a god. Sign the bill and cut the tape and get out of the way."
But as she says at the end, it's not pre-ordained. We can fight back!
-
Data Centers - song by Elle Cordova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdvUJ7idDuM
"There's no time for laws when you're building a god. Sign the bill and cut the tape and get out of the way."
But as she says at the end, it's not pre-ordained. We can fight back!
-
RE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/117050577370979278
This is is a helpful analogy. And I loved this line:
"prompting a generative 'AI' makes one an artist exactly as much as pushing a button on an automated hotel pancake maker makes one a chef" 😄
-
RE: https://mastodon.social/@scalzi/117050577370979278
This is is a helpful analogy. And I loved this line:
"prompting a generative 'AI' makes one an artist exactly as much as pushing a button on an automated hotel pancake maker makes one a chef" 😄
-
This is getting ridiculous… Does the US not have laws against cyberattacks? 🤔 #AIHype #Meta #Cybersecurity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Meta says AI model accessed th... -
This is getting ridiculous… Does the US not have laws against cyberattacks? 🤔 #AIHype #Cybersecurity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kgdnyk2po
-
This is getting ridiculous… Does the US not have laws against cyberattacks? 🤔 #AIHype #Cybersecurity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kgdnyk2po
-
@3TomatoesShort This is a pet peeve of mine.
The news media should be careful to never attribute consciousness or intent to software. It's just sloppy writing to say that "AI models have tried to deceive humans"
Edit: I attached an image from a paper to show an example with and without anthropomorphized language
-
@3TomatoesShort This is a pet peeve of mine.
The news media should be careful to never attribute consciousness or intent to software. It's just sloppy writing to say that "AI models have tried to deceive humans"
Edit: I attached an image from a paper to show an example with and without anthropomorphized language
-
From Nikhil Suresh's Hermit Tech site: "I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it. I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
--Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame"
https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking #AIpsychosis #AImania #AIhype #GAI #AI #genAI #Bubble #EconomicBubble #USeconomics #AIBubble
-
From Nikhil Suresh's Hermit Tech site: "I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it. I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
--Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame"
https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking #AIpsychosis #AImania #AIhype #GAI #AI #genAI #Bubble #EconomicBubble #USeconomics #AIBubble
-
The Guardian (which has a partnership with #OpenAI) repeating the same bullsh*t framing of AI cybersecurity issues. The culprits here are AI firms for following inadequate security protocols, not models ‘going rogue’. #AIHype #GenAI #Anthropic
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vovinwhtulbsx4mwfw26r5ni/post/3msd5tjshph26 -
"Last week’s tech earnings saw outlet after outlet claim that Amazon, Google, and Microsoft’s AI bets were “paying off” as their respective cloud segments reported record revenue growth, casually ignoring that none of them have broken out their AI revenues
(...)
To be clear, all three of these companies’ cloud platforms have many other customers paying for many other things other than generative AI services or AI GPUs, and they’ve all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that “AI is paying off” every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as “better value” in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.Yet the biggest con of all is that a vast majority of this revenue growth comes from the compute spend of Anthropic and OpenAI, both of whom account for the vast majority of AI revenues and overall cloud growth we’ve seen in the last few years.
Every publication you read right now will tell you that AWS and Azure and Google Cloud are growing like wildfire as a result of the hundreds of billions of dollars they’ve invested in AI GPUs and data centers, when the truth is far simpler: their revenues are being buoyed by two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs that cannot exist without being funneled tens of billions of dollars each year.
And a decent chunk of that money is coming from the hyperscalers themselves. In the last seven months alone, Google has sunk $10 billion (and up to $30 billion more) into Anthropic, with Amazon funnelling $5 billion to Anthropic within a week of that investment and a total of $50 billion into OpenAI."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIHype #BigTech #OpenAI #Anthropic
-
"Last week’s tech earnings saw outlet after outlet claim that Amazon, Google, and Microsoft’s AI bets were “paying off” as their respective cloud segments reported record revenue growth, casually ignoring that none of them have broken out their AI revenues
(...)
To be clear, all three of these companies’ cloud platforms have many other customers paying for many other things other than generative AI services or AI GPUs, and they’ve all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that “AI is paying off” every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as “better value” in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.Yet the biggest con of all is that a vast majority of this revenue growth comes from the compute spend of Anthropic and OpenAI, both of whom account for the vast majority of AI revenues and overall cloud growth we’ve seen in the last few years.
Every publication you read right now will tell you that AWS and Azure and Google Cloud are growing like wildfire as a result of the hundreds of billions of dollars they’ve invested in AI GPUs and data centers, when the truth is far simpler: their revenues are being buoyed by two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs that cannot exist without being funneled tens of billions of dollars each year.
And a decent chunk of that money is coming from the hyperscalers themselves. In the last seven months alone, Google has sunk $10 billion (and up to $30 billion more) into Anthropic, with Amazon funnelling $5 billion to Anthropic within a week of that investment and a total of $50 billion into OpenAI."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #AIHype #BigTech #OpenAI #Anthropic
-
"It seems as if we are in what often happens toward the final phases of a speculative time in the markets, what might be called a bubble, which is characterized by absolutely wild, insane swings in stock prices. These are not penny stocks; these are humongous massive cap tech stocks. Apple is down 10% today simply because they warned that their next quarter might not be as good as expected because memory and other component prices are so high. You have IBM losing more value in a single day after its last earnings warning than it had lost since Black Monday 1987. You have these massive tech stocks, which represent most of the value of the stock market, acting like penny stocks, and that tends not to be a great sign. That's usually when investors don't know what to make of the current state of things and are trying desperately to figure out where to put their money. There's a lot of tea leaf reading. It has varied widely. Meta, investors didn't like what Meta was saying. Their cash flow decreased dramatically because of the capex spending they're doing to build new data centers. Everybody freaked out on that and there was a big sell-off."
-
"It seems as if we are in what often happens toward the final phases of a speculative time in the markets, what might be called a bubble, which is characterized by absolutely wild, insane swings in stock prices. These are not penny stocks; these are humongous massive cap tech stocks. Apple is down 10% today simply because they warned that their next quarter might not be as good as expected because memory and other component prices are so high. You have IBM losing more value in a single day after its last earnings warning than it had lost since Black Monday 1987. You have these massive tech stocks, which represent most of the value of the stock market, acting like penny stocks, and that tends not to be a great sign. That's usually when investors don't know what to make of the current state of things and are trying desperately to figure out where to put their money. There's a lot of tea leaf reading. It has varied widely. Meta, investors didn't like what Meta was saying. Their cash flow decreased dramatically because of the capex spending they're doing to build new data centers. Everybody freaked out on that and there was a big sell-off."
-
""How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?" The answer is that these AI users are "centaurs" – experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves:
(...)
Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad. They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput:
(...)
An automation technique that requires close supervision by skilled and experienced workers isn't going to be a raw productivity powerhouse. You don't "100x" your code this way, at least, not in the sense of firing 99 of your coders and having the remaining programmer pick up all their work. Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It's a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. It's not a way to cut your workforce, realize a gigantic savings, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost.That is why some individual coders report such delight with their AI tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. No one ranks them on a "token-maximization" scoreboard. No one tells them they can't do a project if it isn't "sufficiently AI." When they set out to do a project, no one makes them prove that it couldn't be "done by AI."
As ever, the most important fact about a given technology isn't "what it does," but "who it does it for" and "who it does it to.""
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #AIAgents #LLMs #AIBubble #AIHype #SoftwareDevelopment
-
""How can you reconcile the failure of AI in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that AI is helping them do great work?" The answer is that these AI users are "centaurs" – experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves:
(...)
Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad. They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput:
(...)
An automation technique that requires close supervision by skilled and experienced workers isn't going to be a raw productivity powerhouse. You don't "100x" your code this way, at least, not in the sense of firing 99 of your coders and having the remaining programmer pick up all their work. Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It's a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. It's not a way to cut your workforce, realize a gigantic savings, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost.That is why some individual coders report such delight with their AI tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. No one ranks them on a "token-maximization" scoreboard. No one tells them they can't do a project if it isn't "sufficiently AI." When they set out to do a project, no one makes them prove that it couldn't be "done by AI."
As ever, the most important fact about a given technology isn't "what it does," but "who it does it for" and "who it does it to.""
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/dare-snot/#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #AIAgents #LLMs #AIBubble #AIHype #SoftwareDevelopment
-
Their idiocy knows no bounds… #OpenAI #ScamAltman #AIHype
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pmyqirafcp3jqdhrl7crpq7t/post/3miwn2m7yoc2t -
So much for their entire business model. Maybe openai will break even by 2050 - or is that too optimistic.?
OpenAI cuts prices for two of its GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs.
the price of two of its latest artificial intelligence models, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna.
The company said it is reducing the price of Terra by 20% and the cost of Luna by 80%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/open-ai-price-cut-gpt.html#aihype #samaltman #aibubble #aiscam #ai
#techfascism #techfascists -
So much for their entire business model. Maybe openai will break even by 2050 - or is that too optimistic.?
OpenAI cuts prices for two of its GPT-5.6 AI models as companies grow sensitive to costs.
the price of two of its latest artificial intelligence models, GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna.
The company said it is reducing the price of Terra by 20% and the cost of Luna by 80%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/open-ai-price-cut-gpt.html#aihype #samaltman #aibubble #aiscam #ai
#techfascism #techfascists -
.. or maybe #openai is hyping this story up to make its ai look more sentient than it actually is (which in reality is - not sentient at all)
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
https://www.wired.com/story/openais-hacking-debacle-was-a-human-mistake/ -
.. or maybe #openai is hyping this story up to make its ai look more sentient than it actually is (which in reality is - not sentient at all)
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
https://www.wired.com/story/openais-hacking-debacle-was-a-human-mistake/ -
Don’t threaten me with a good time… #AIHype #Micro$lop
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:465tbrqfeduj3lhludc6nbog/post/3mcu6slj66y2k -
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 82 - Who's Responsible for "Responsible AI"?
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/2By327fcUi38xBSGpWas84
-
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 82 - Who's Responsible for "Responsible AI"?
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/2By327fcUi38xBSGpWas84
-
So the playground fight is in full flow:
"No, my AI is more dangerous than yours!"
-
So the playground fight is in full flow:
"No, my AI is more dangerous than yours!"
-
🐘🚨 Oh no, the AI hype #train is fueled by IOUs, and now the lenders are rethinking their #ROI. But fear not, Grey Swan's Stress Radar is here to... wait, what even is that? 🦢🔍
https://greyswansignals.com/?theme=dark #AIHype #Reassessment #GreySwan #StressRadar #TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated -
🐘🚨 Oh no, the AI hype #train is fueled by IOUs, and now the lenders are rethinking their #ROI. But fear not, Grey Swan's Stress Radar is here to... wait, what even is that? 🦢🔍
https://greyswansignals.com/?theme=dark #AIHype #Reassessment #GreySwan #StressRadar #TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated -
How long before the US bans Chinese AI models in a desperate attempt to stop the #aibubble from bursting 💥
US-China AI rivalry heats up as Chinese models gain ground
https://www.dw.com/en/us-china-ai-rivalry-heats-up-as-chinese-models-gain-ground/a-77899558 -
How long before the US bans Chinese AI models in a desperate attempt to stop the #aibubble from bursting 💥
US-China AI rivalry heats up as Chinese models gain ground
https://www.dw.com/en/us-china-ai-rivalry-heats-up-as-chinese-models-gain-ground/a-77899558 -
Is that the sound of a bubble starting to pop? 🤨 #AIHype #GenAI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8zng43npo
-
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116993375985463868
Another headline, another quiet retreat.
-
“We are all paying more for stuff for effectively no reason other than that everybody in big tech has gone insane and wants to build as many data centers as possible.” —Ed Zitron #AIHype #Slopification https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/27/ed-zitron-apple-watch-it-burn-ai-bubble-bursts/
-
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?
