#aihype — Public Fediverse posts

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."

#AiAiAi #AI #AIHype

https://economicfront.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/artificial-intelligence-the-hype-the-dangers-and-the-resistance-part-i/

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:

#AI #AIHype #AiAiAi

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/

https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/

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:

#AI #AIHype #AiAiAi

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/

https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/

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:

#AI #AIHype #AiAiAi

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/

https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/

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:

#AI #AIHype #AiAiAi

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/

https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/

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:

#AI #AIHype #AiAiAi

https://monthlyreview.org/articles/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/

https://economicfront.wordpress.com/artificial-intelligence-challenges-and-resistance/

The only productivity metric #genAI has raised among historians is the number of articles explaining how #AI doesn't work for our discipline.

#AIHype #histodons

The only productivity metric #genAI has raised among historians is the number of articles explaining how #AI doesn't work for our discipline.

#AIHype #histodons

The only productivity metric #genAI has raised among historians is the number of articles explaining how #AI doesn't work for our discipline.

#AIHype #histodons

The only productivity metric #genAI has raised among historians is the number of articles explaining how #AI doesn't work for our discipline.

#AIHype #histodons

The only productivity metric #genAI has raised among historians is the number of articles explaining how #AI doesn't work for our discipline.

#AIHype #histodons

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

#raspberrypi #raspberrypi500plus #luxus #insane #aihype #ramshortage #broligarchy #thanksai #luxury #singleboard #sbc #pihole @altbot

#raspberrypi #raspberrypi500plus #luxus #insane #aihype #ramshortage #broligarchy #thanksai #luxury #singleboard #sbc #pihole @altbot

#raspberrypi #raspberrypi500plus #luxus #insane #aihype #ramshortage #broligarchy #thanksai #luxury #singleboard #sbc #pihole @altbot

#raspberrypi #raspberrypi500plus #luxus #insane #aihype #ramshortage #broligarchy #thanksai #luxury #singleboard #sbc #pihole @altbot

#raspberrypi #raspberrypi500plus #luxus #insane #aihype #ramshortage #broligarchy #thanksai #luxury #singleboard #sbc #pihole @altbot

#GenZ likes #AI less and less + boos #AIEvangelicists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i4hgyJ01ZQ

https://piped.video/watch?v=-i4hgyJ01ZQ

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=-i4hgyJ01ZQ

#noAI #artificialIntelligence #AIHype #AIDisillusionment #AIFrustration #AIFatigue #DavidDoel #TheRationalNational

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

Oh, look! Another tech 'visionary' gushing over AI as if it's the second coming of sliced bread. 🙄 Apparently, if you're not worshipping the AI overlords, you're just a dinosaur waiting for extinction. 🦖🚂 Better hop on that bandwagon, folks, before it leaves you coding in the stone age! 🧱💻
https://cekrem.github.io/posts/coding-as-craft-going-back-to-the-old-gym/ #techvisionary #AIhype #codingrevolution #digitaltransformation #extinctionrisk #HackerNews #ngated

The first book on the #AISkepticsReadingGroup's list is #RebootingAIBuildingArtificialIntelligenceWeCanTrust by #GaryMarcus and #ErnestDavis.

#AmReading #Bookstodon #AI #AIHype #AISkepticism

The free/libre sofware and free/libre hardware community needs to focus on libre AI on risc-v (fpgas). Instead of having us all depend on nvidia for AI.

Nvidia’s GTC Event: Every AI Announcement Revealed in 11 Minutes https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tg332P3IfOU

GTC 2023 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DiGB5uAYKAg

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/03/21/gtc-keynote-spring-2023/

#nvidia #ai #aihype #dgx #riscv #libreai #riscvai #h100 #nvidiaAI