#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

@swaldorff

Don't much fancy being at the mercy of big tech companies.

plus, the planet will burn up given the rate of ai #DataCenters being built.

unless the #aibubble pops soon, and the #aihype diminishes.

anderes, ebenso geiles, neues Feature in #MSOutlook bei meinem Konzern?

Jeden Morgen poppt ein Button auf, der mir anbietet mir per LLM meine nächtlichen Mails zusammenfassen zu lassen.

Sowohl Funktionsweise als auch Resultat sind ein wunderbares #AIHype #Symbolbild!

When reading the chapter of Michael Ende's Momo in which the Man in Grey, agent XYQ‍/‍384‍/‍b visits Mr Fusi, the hairdresser, and Ende describes how the people, in their attempt to "save time", become increasingly dissatisfied, unfriendly, and wreaked, it reads shockingly like the transformation of the computer science industry and the working environment in general towards #LLM usage

#noAI #amReading #AI #artificialIntelligence #vibeCoding #lifeImitatesArt #propheticNovels #AIHype #AIFatigue

The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality

It is widely accepted that there is an AI bubble in the financial markets at the moment. The moderate opinion is however that LLMs are constantly improving and will eventually take over more and more tasks from humans and increase productivity. But are LLMs actually getting smarter, or just better at fooling us?
— by @ottok

📃 https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/why-open-source-projects-ban-ai/

#opensource #aihype #LLMs #aibubble #ai #software #development #smart #aislop

🤖✨ Ah, the classic tale of AI hype versus reality! This piece suggests that AI is like a magician's hat: full of empty promises and rabbits that never appear. 🐇🔮 Meanwhile, software engineers roll their eyes, waiting for the day AI will actually do more than just write mediocre blog posts about itself. 🙄💻
https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/why-open-source-projects-ban-ai/ #AIHype #AIReality #TechHumor #SoftwareEngineering #BloggingChallenges #HackerNews #ngated

@brejoc

here is the video without ig
#aibubble #ai #aiscam #aihype

Chart Shows How Free Cash Flow Has Gone From #Hyperscalers To Semiconductor Companies
https://officechai.com/ai/chart-shows-how-free-cash-flow-has-gone-from-hyperscalers-to-semiconductor-companies/

#hyperfailures #openai #ai #aiscam #aibubble #aihype

@top_news

maybe just ban #ai ?

#aihype #aibubble #aiscam

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 84 - Working 9 to Hype

https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/6rNs4RwsYoNk57iUC6t33k

Or in any way whatsoever. 🤷‍♂️ #AIHype

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g2syplhduvniqojxe2qpc4uh/post/3mtz2wxfxcc2k

Situational disaster. #AIHype #Slopification

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bn3tlklhjlz2pn2sapgns64b/post/3mtw467lowc22

Serious question:

Any idea why some folks who use "AI" tools (chatbots/LLMs) try so hard to convince me to use them?

I mean actual end users, not the CEOs and advertisers - they have obvious reasons for wanting to convince me.

There are so many other products or services I don't use but only in this one area do I get folks who aren't selling it urging me to try it, saying I'll be "left behind" if I don't.

What motivates them? What do they gain from my use?

#AI #AIHype #Chatbots #LLMs #NoAI

Taps the Disability Dongle sign. By Karl Groves. AI is the future of #Accessibility https://karlgroves.com/ai-is-the-future-of-accessibility/ #AI #LLM #AIHype #A11y

What caught my attention was the logo of a dinosaur devouring a book. Twice curious.

This is not a post about destruction of rare books, not is it a post about AI itself. It's about the #AmazonVGT3 logo as reported by 404Media. (Article links below in reply.)

The article shows two logos; as you'll see they're different. One appears in the "storefront" window. The other is "clean" - perhaps reasonably generated for purposes of the article.

The storefront logo is more curious. It's only recently been added. It's not in the last Google streetview (February this year). Why would #Amazon add the window stickers now? If they wanted to keep quiet about shredding books, why rile people with this logo? As an AI company, is it all part of a continuous #AIHype cycle?

The answers are not as important as us asking the questions.

>>

Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s book “The AI Con” (2025) is a highly accessible read for a general audience. I found it a much needed pick-me-up.

Three big takeaways:
* make jokes about it
* ask questions like: What is being automated, what goes in and what comes out? How is it evaluated? Is it being described as human-like? Who benefits, who is harmed?
* Both AI “boosters” and AI “doomers” are, counterintuitively, two sides of the same #AIHype coin

Both authors are active on Mastodon.

@gvwilson Thanks for sharing this paper!

By the way, this thread got broken somehow so here's a link for folks looking for posts 2 & 3.

https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/117123157792440564

#GenerativeAI #GenAI #AIHype

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.

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Are they really booming? And, no. #AIHype

The article quotes the owner of Barter Books in Northumberland who had one extraordinary sale of a week's (!) worth of books. A quick check of BBC's source (see their barterbooks.co.uk) - they're not exactly a prime target for bulk buying. "Incoming books for Barter: Please note that we cannot handle more than 10 books (or 20 paperbacks) per visit." However the BBC article **is** good free publicity for their bookshop.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o

The BBC article rehashes a story of shredded rare and secondhand books. It continues a story that came out (at least) as early as January in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ I did a quick read and it seems unknown how many, if any, secondhand books were bought and scanned. No mention of a rare book destroyed.

@moncur_d Not much data from booksellers in this article, but much about AI. It seems odd that companies that are trying hard to spend hundreds of billions of dollars could be bothered with secondhand book buying. This may more likely be #AIHype.

How convenient for the #BigTech cartel: Use #AIhype to constrain supply, increase prices, then lure people into renting more and owning less of their tech... 😞💩

"...Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program... with the option to easily upgrade at the end of the lease term."

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/28/apple-upgrade-leasing-program-debuts-how-it-works/

"The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html

#noAI #enshittification #AI

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 83 - Rumors of a Singularity Have Been Grossly Exaggerated

https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/bWuMF4sfF4oeG55BdWXuTp

📢 Behold the latest in AI alphabet soup: Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B! 🤖🔍 Because apparently, naming models like keyboard smashes makes them more advanced. 🥴 Dive into Hugging Face's endless buzzwords and acronyms, because who doesn't love a side of confusion with their daily dose of AI hype? 😂
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B #AIModels #AIHype #TechBuzzwords #MachineLearning #HuggingFace #HackerNews #ngated

@Ashedryden Kudos to the kid! 👏

It's sad to hear that a school curriculum includes AI slop which the teacher is either encouraged or forced (don't know which) to present.

#AISlop #AIHype #NoAI

Always IPOing, never IPOed… #OpenAI #AIHype

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/post/3msrqv4amec2w

@SaanichGuy @igd_news

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

#aihype #aibubble #aislop

“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...

@zopyx

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?

#hype #AIhype #apologia #SlopCoding

🚀✨ Listen up, folks: AI, our savior, makes devs "feel" like #coding #ninjas while actually turning them into 🐌 snails. Turns out the real #innovation is measuring how fast we can fool ourselves. #AIhype #EpicFail 🤖⌛️
https://intrepidkarthi.com/writing/the-gauge-broke/ #AIhype #EpicFail #selfdeception #HackerNews #ngated

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

@Zitron via Bsky:

"Today's free newsletter is about four signs that the AI bubble is bursting: Anthropic's services and economics are decaying, AI demand is inflated, more than 50% of data centers under construction are for two companies, and NVIDIA is warehousing $150bn+ of GPUs."

"Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse"
Where's Your Ed At newsletter
4/21/2026

https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/

#AI #AIhype #AIbubble #EdZitron #WheresYourEdAt #technofascism #technoligarchy

«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

"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

#aislop #aihype #aidoomerism #kikritik

#LeShow w/ #HarryShearer

#AI expert #GaryMarcus on the AI illusion and why it isn't intelligence

https://harryshearer.com/le-shows/december-21-2025/#
#artificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #AIhype

"My gut instinct is that this is an industry-wide problem. Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue in 2024 between AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI. And one abstraction higher (as I'll get into), OpenAI spent 50% of its revenue on inference compute costs alone, and 75% of its revenue on training compute too (and ended up spending $9 billion to lose $5 billion). Yes, those numbers add up to more than 100%, that's my god damn point.

Large Language Models are too expensive, to the point that anybody funding an "AI startup" is effectively sending that money to Anthropic or OpenAI, who then immediately send that money to Amazon, Google or Microsoft, who are yet to show that they make any profit on selling it.

Please don't waste your breath saying "costs will come down." They haven't been, and they're not going to.

Despite categorically wrong boosters claiming otherwise, the cost of inference — everything that happens from when you put a prompt in to generate an output from a model — is increasing, in part thanks to the token-heavy generations necessary for "reasoning" models to generate their outputs, and with reasoning being the only way to get "better" outputs, they're here to stay (and continue burning shit tons of tokens).

This has a very, very real consequence."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #BusinessModels #LLMs #Chatbots #AIHype #AIBubble

A crop of startups is selling stealthy AI-powered recording devices and software that’s becoming increasingly popular. “My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a ______ way to live your life.”

Full story about the lovely gadgets at your next party:
https://sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/ai-wearables-recording-devices/

#AI #LLM #AIslop #AIhype #genAI #wearableAI #surveillancecapitalism #blackmirror #utopia

Lúcida y fundamentada lectura anticapitalista de domingo:

"En términos más sencillos, el 35% del mercado bursátil estadounidense está sostenido por seis empresas que compran adaptadores gráficos GPU. Si la historia de crecimiento de NVIDIA tropieza, repercutirá en los otros siete, haciéndoles depender de sus propias historias de comercio de IA.

Y, como paso a explicar, no existe el comercio de IA, porque la IA generativa no está haciendo ganar dinero a nadie."

Enlace traducido: https://www-wheresyoured-at.translate.goog/the-haters-gui/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es-419&_x_tr_pto=wapp

#aihype #generativeAI #corrupcion
#llmjoke #ai2025 #LLM #oligopoly
#eeuu #bolsadenuevayork #ai #noAI

Carl Brown (Internet of Bugs) interviewed by @proofnews
on #AIhype #DevinAI
https://youtu.be/xmnRpW7psQc
#GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDeveloper

In #AI demos most of the time everyone is making things up.
[Nobody Special Finance] chats with Carl from [Internet of Bugs] who exposed what #DevinAI was really doing in that demo
https://youtu.be/LajT08Lb9as

#AIhype #AIbubble #Sora_AI #TeslaFSD #GoogleGemini #GoogleDuplex

[Internet of Bugs] is very skeptical of the #AIhype being pumped out by #AI tech companies
https://youtu.be/VctsqOo8wsc

#OpenAI #Sora #GoogleGemini #GPT4o #RabbitR1 #HumaneAI