#aihype — Public Fediverse posts
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Is that the sound of a bubble starting to pop? 🤨 #AIHype #GenAI www.bbc.com/news/article...
Chip stocks slide in US and As... -
Is that the sound of a bubble starting to pop? 🤨 #AIHype #GenAI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8zng43npo
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Is that the sound of a bubble starting to pop? 🤨 #AIHype #GenAI https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8zng43npo
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116993375985463868
Another headline, another quiet retreat.
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RE: https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116993375985463868
Another headline, another quiet retreat.
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“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 www.macrumors.com/2026/07/27/e...
Ed Zitron: Apple Will 'Watch E... -
“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/
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“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/
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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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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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Framing #LLMs as emotionless interfaces to systems and information, and not as ‘chatbots’ with their own personalities, would be less misleading and problematic. But it doesn’t fit the tech bro fantasy. #AIEthics #AIHype
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ap35rus77cg3lzju2v43jxn/post/3mrhpd47l7k24 -
Framing #LLMs as emotionless interfaces to systems and information, and not as ‘chatbots’ with their own personalities, would be less misleading and problematic. But it doesn’t fit the tech bro fantasy. #AIEthics #AIHype
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ap35rus77cg3lzju2v43jxn/post/3mrhpd47l7k24 -
Local Councils are building huge ai #datacentres in the UK, right next to #cleanairzones where you get penalised for driving to work.
those #datacentres will use tonnes of fresh water and emit vast amounts of co2
..but dont forget to insulate your walls or you'll get fined..
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Local Councils are building huge ai #datacentres in the UK, right next to #cleanairzones where you get penalised for driving to work.
those #datacentres will use tonnes of fresh water and emit vast amounts of co2
..but dont forget to insulate your walls or you'll get fined..
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If you haven't listened to this episode (link below) of Techtonic where @markhurst has a conversation with @carissaveliz about her new book "Prophecy".
Go listen to it now! It is a great conversation on #AIHype and how we can regain our collective sanity!
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-07-20-carissa-veliz-author-prophecy
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If you haven't listened to this episode (link below) of Techtonic where @markhurst has a conversation with @carissaveliz about her new book "Prophecy".
Go listen to it now! It is a great conversation on #AIHype and how we can regain our collective sanity!
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-07-20-carissa-veliz-author-prophecy
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A colleague shared this on the oligarchy feeds, so only thought it fair to post here.
tl;dr - students don't want to cheat, the real problem is universities buying the #AIhype and sending mixed messages
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A colleague shared this on the oligarchy feeds, so only thought it fair to post here.
tl;dr - students don't want to cheat, the real problem is universities buying the #AIhype and sending mixed messages
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The #AI booster at the heart of government… #AIHype #UKPolitics
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tfsbnpnsnbnuz5jzuod6qlgt/post/3mr7n64zd6s2g -
The #AI booster at the heart of government… #AIHype #UKPolitics
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tfsbnpnsnbnuz5jzuod6qlgt/post/3mr7n64zd6s2g -
This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Face and failed to isolate it in a sandbox.
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This is #AIhype disguised as a confession. OpenAI wants to pretend that its product has supernatural powers. The LLM didn't "go rogue" and it didn't "infer" anything. It did what its programmers designed it to do, when they gave it the necessary information to target Hugging Face and failed to isolate it in a sandbox.
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Slumping AI stocks drag down markets around the world
https://apnews.com/article/stock-markets-iran-inflation-oil-e1c646be279423406586c67c79e738e4
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Slumping AI stocks drag down markets around the world
https://apnews.com/article/stock-markets-iran-inflation-oil-e1c646be279423406586c67c79e738e4
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Wer immernoch denkt, wir bräuchten wie die USA auch so richtig große Sprachmodelle, sollte mal schauen, wie sie auf China reagieren. China trainiert mit den Modellen der Amerikaner ihre eigenen Modelle, bieten die günstiger an setzen dem US-Duopol heftig zu. Das würde auch den europöpäischen Modellen drohen. Die europäische Alternative sollte also nicht groß sein, sondern schlauer, nachhaltiger, sozialer, nischiger, etc.
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Wer immernoch denkt, wir bräuchten wie die USA auch so richtig große Sprachmodelle, sollte mal schauen, wie sie auf China reagieren. China trainiert mit den Modellen der Amerikaner ihre eigenen Modelle, bieten die günstiger an setzen dem US-Duopol heftig zu. Das würde auch den europöpäischen Modellen drohen. Die europäische Alternative sollte also nicht groß sein, sondern schlauer, nachhaltiger, sozialer, nischiger, etc.
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This has already been making the rounds but allow me to add my favorite part that I actually lol’d at…
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This has already been making the rounds but allow me to add my favorite part that I actually lol’d at…
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AI usage is stagnating in the US..
"..usage of US models actually fell in the most recent week. The story of a huge AI boom is usage rising at an extremely rapid, and maybe even increasing, pace. A decline in usage is not supposed to be in the cards."Chinese AI is 1/5 the price of US AI..
"Chinese AI that is comparable in quality for most uses and sells for a fifth or even a tenth the price will pose a serious obstacle."The #aibubble gets bigger...
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AI usage is stagnating in the US..
"..usage of US models actually fell in the most recent week. The story of a huge AI boom is usage rising at an extremely rapid, and maybe even increasing, pace. A decline in usage is not supposed to be in the cards."Chinese AI is 1/5 the price of US AI..
"Chinese AI that is comparable in quality for most uses and sells for a fifth or even a tenth the price will pose a serious obstacle."The #aibubble gets bigger...
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typical words of a conman..
‘Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward’: SoftBank’s CEO estimates $5 trillion needed annually to meet AI demand
“Those who refuse to evolve are closing down their world. Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward,” Son added.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/softbank-ceo-5-trillion-ai-demand-critics-bubble/
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typical words of a conman..
‘Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward’: SoftBank’s CEO estimates $5 trillion needed annually to meet AI demand
“Those who refuse to evolve are closing down their world. Those who condemn AI are themselves spitting upward,” Son added.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/14/softbank-ceo-5-trillion-ai-demand-critics-bubble/
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Bank of England warns #AIbubble fallout could shrink UK economy by 2.2%
Governor Andrew Bailey outlines a 'triple whammy' scenario where AI market corrections could tip Britain into recession and force interest rate changes
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Bank of England warns #AIbubble fallout could shrink UK economy by 2.2%
Governor Andrew Bailey outlines a 'triple whammy' scenario where AI market corrections could tip Britain into recession and force interest rate changes
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By @malwaretech Every Reason Why I Hate AI https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html #AI #LLM #AIHype
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By @malwaretech Every Reason Why I Hate AI https://malwaretech.com/2025/08/every-reason-why-i-hate-ai.html #AI #LLM #AIHype
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Michal Malewich is pretty sure that the generative AI boom will be over VERY shortly. Good article!
In these two years I benefited a lot of generative AI. Just when I switched job, it helped me catching up in a totally new field of expertise.
I will miss this if it will be too expensive. But I also wait for the old way of learning again. Slower, but probably deeper.
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Michal Malewich is pretty sure that the generative AI boom will be over VERY shortly. Good article!
In these two years I benefited a lot of generative AI. Just when I switched job, it helped me catching up in a totally new field of expertise.
I will miss this if it will be too expensive. But I also wait for the old way of learning again. Slower, but probably deeper.
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RE: https://zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/116880386752691798
Catch last week’s episode of The Last Enclosure putting AI boosters into different buckets to better understand where #aihype is coming from. #ai #technology #tech #technews
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RE: https://zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/116880386752691798
Catch last week’s episode of The Last Enclosure putting AI boosters into different buckets to better understand where #aihype is coming from. #ai #technology #tech #technews
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CW: AI Bullshit
I never thought I’d be conceding that tech has become a fucking religion. Then I heard VPs, grown-ass adults with budget authority over actual human beings, describe themselves as “true believers” in AI.
“True believers.” Their actual God damned words. Not “I evaluated the evidence.” Not “here’s where it works and where it fails.” Belief. Faith. In a statistical text generator they could not explain if you held their bonus, wife, and LLM-parented offspring hostage.
Here’s what makes my blood boil about faith in the board room, VP sphere and C-suite: a true believer needs no Real fucking evidence, so no verifiable evidence will ever change their minds unless it hits their bank account. Or over-indexed investments in AI. They mandate AI for problems it can’t solve and impact the lives of the people who could solve those problems if they were given half the empowerment they give their faith-enhanced savior tech. They cargo-cult whatever the flashiest vendors (who’ve been around less time than the Switch 2 has been out, but are now self-professed AI experts) preached at the last overhyped AI conference. And when someone walks in with data that contradicts the gospel, that person gets branded a heretic, “resistant to change”, ostracized and increasingly, much worse. The one real fucking adult in the room gets managed out while the congregation nods along. The only way to survive is to keep singing from the fuckwit hymn book and hope the worship ceremony ends soon.
I’ve spent almost 30 years breaking software, hardware, security, performance, etc. for a living. Everything. Has. Fucking. Failure. Modes. EVERYTHING. My entire discipline exists because every company that ever said “trust me, it works” and wanted to bypass expert validation, real actual disciplined work, got burned to the fucking ground by it. The “dark factory” board room wet dream of AI will be more like the company burning itself to the ground in the pursuit of salvation.
These high level company people aren’t leading. They’re witnessing. Your VP doesn’t understand the technology, he understands the sermon, and now your roadmap is a fucking prosperity gospel: believe harder, sacrifice your best engineers on the altar, and the ROI will surely come.
It won’t. It never does. But it will impact the real lives of real people with real skills while rewarding the charlatans who keep right on fooling the idiots who are fine with being wrong because being wrong is the safe bet when the majority of the idiot US economy is betting on the same tech-as-savior.
When it all goes to shit, the AI tech dudebros will just rebrand the diminished shit as “2.0.” Or their asinine “New Testament.”
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CW: AI Bullshit
I never thought I’d be conceding that tech has become a fucking religion. Then I heard VPs, grown-ass adults with budget authority over actual human beings, describe themselves as “true believers” in AI.
“True believers.” Their actual God damned words. Not “I evaluated the evidence.” Not “here’s where it works and where it fails.” Belief. Faith. In a statistical text generator they could not explain if you held their bonus, wife, and LLM-parented offspring hostage.
Here’s what makes my blood boil about faith in the board room, VP sphere and C-suite: a true believer needs no Real fucking evidence, so no verifiable evidence will ever change their minds unless it hits their bank account. Or over-indexed investments in AI. They mandate AI for problems it can’t solve and impact the lives of the people who could solve those problems if they were given half the empowerment they give their faith-enhanced savior tech. They cargo-cult whatever the flashiest vendors (who’ve been around less time than the Switch 2 has been out, but are now self-professed AI experts) preached at the last overhyped AI conference. And when someone walks in with data that contradicts the gospel, that person gets branded a heretic, “resistant to change”, ostracized and increasingly, much worse. The one real fucking adult in the room gets managed out while the congregation nods along. The only way to survive is to keep singing from the fuckwit hymn book and hope the worship ceremony ends soon.
I’ve spent almost 30 years breaking software, hardware, security, performance, etc. for a living. Everything. Has. Fucking. Failure. Modes. EVERYTHING. My entire discipline exists because every company that ever said “trust me, it works” and wanted to bypass expert validation, real actual disciplined work, got burned to the fucking ground by it. The “dark factory” board room wet dream of AI will be more like the company burning itself to the ground in the pursuit of salvation.
These high level company people aren’t leading. They’re witnessing. Your VP doesn’t understand the technology, he understands the sermon, and now your roadmap is a fucking prosperity gospel: believe harder, sacrifice your best engineers on the altar, and the ROI will surely come.
It won’t. It never does. But it will impact the real lives of real people with real skills while rewarding the charlatans who keep right on fooling the idiots who are fine with being wrong because being wrong is the safe bet when the majority of the idiot US economy is betting on the same tech-as-savior.
When it all goes to shit, the AI tech dudebros will just rebrand the diminished shit as “2.0.” Or their asinine “New Testament.”
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I was thinking about the term "Luddite" today. I've read @brianmerchant's work and I identify with the historical movement, but not the colloquial term. I was reflecting on the difficulty of explaining the difference.
Then I recalled the Orphan-Crushing Machine meme. That one is so simple!
I'm not opposed to technology or AI. I love it. But I am opposed to orphan-crushing. I see a dangerous enthusiasm for orphan-crushing in the tech industry today.
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The UK Gov #GovUK wants to repeat the madness of Ireland in a blind rush to build data centres that will benefit nobody and destroy the planet, just in time for the great #aibubblecrash of 2027. Which of course, will be bailed out by the British Public.
#aiInsanity #Datacentres #DataCentreDestruction #aiHype #Tulips #Microslop #Aibubble #circularfinancing #aishite #openai
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The UK Gov #GovUK wants to repeat the madness of Ireland in a blind rush to build data centres that will benefit nobody and destroy the planet, just in time for the great #aibubblecrash of 2027. Which of course, will be bailed out by the British Public.
#aiInsanity #Datacentres #DataCentreDestruction #aiHype #Tulips #Microslop #Aibubble #circularfinancing #aishite #openai
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That a huge amount of power just to generate useless shite. And who benefits from this shite? About 0.000000001% of the population of Ireland. The rest get a bigger electricity bill and suffer more from CO2 emissions.
Now be a good citizen, fuck off home on your bicycle, get your loft insulated and put solar on your roof. Those data centres need your power!#aislop #aihype #aishite #aibubble #climatechange #aihoax #palantir #microslop
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That a huge amount of power just to generate useless shite. And who benefits from this shite? About 0.000000001% of the population of Ireland. The rest get a bigger electricity bill and suffer more from CO2 emissions.
Now be a good citizen, fuck off home on your bicycle, get your loft insulated and put solar on your roof. Those data centres need your power!#aislop #aihype #aishite #aibubble #climatechange #aihoax #palantir #microslop
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“If we are good AI critics, if we carefully identify the pathological aspects of AI and relentlessly target the financial basis of the Al bubble, we can make sure that all the terrible things billionaires want to do with AI never happen, and we can consign all the terrible things that are currently being done with AI to history's ash heap.”
Cory Doctorow’s: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
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“That's the thing about actual, existing Al: the lucrative present-day use cases, from drone warfare to wage theft, from empiricism-washing, racist policing to ripping off shoppers, are pretty ghastly.”
From Cory Doctorow’s: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI
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Recommended…big time.
Thank you @pluralistic
#AI #Canada #AIHype #AISlop