#aisnakeoil — Public Fediverse posts
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics_that_works
Give it a year or so..
The companies that avoid #AI dependency will come out on top, the companies that are gullible and greedy enough to fall for the #AIhype will go bust.
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AI Snake Oil cuts through the hype—find out what AI really can and can’t do, why some claims are pure fiction, and how real-world harms are already shaping education, hiring, and healthcare. Get the facts on AI’s true impact. #AISnakeOil #AIethics #TechReality
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AI Snake Oil cuts through the hype—discover what AI truly excels at, where it fails, and why critical thinking matters more than ever in a world of bold tech promises. Get the facts behind the fiction. #AISnakeOil #AIEthics
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Are you a web developer? Do you have Unfriendly Thoughts about the way all the other devs are obsessed with AI? Take the State of Web Dev AI 2025 survey: https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-ai/2025
If we don't talk, they won't listen. #webdev #noAI #AIsnakeOil
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Will Oremus: Flawed #AI denies benefits to low-income Americans, report warns
"With the incoming Trump administration reportedly looking to slash food stamps and Medicaid, a new report finds that artificial intelligence and related technologies are playing a growing role in determining who receives those benefits — and in some cases mistakenly denying them.
The 197-page report by TechTonic Justice, a nonprofit launched Tuesday, finds that almost all 92 million low-income Americans already “have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI” or automated decision-making software. That includes people affected by:
•Eligibility and enrollment processes for Medicaid;
•Prior authorization processes used by private insurers;
•Fraud-detection systems used by food stamp programs; and
•Landlords’ use of background-screening algorithms and rent-setting algorithms."#AISnakeOIL Techtonicjustice
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/20/ai-benefit-programs-doge-techtonic-justice/ -
A Report from TechTonic Justice
Inescapable AI: The Ways #AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive"The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school, at government offices, and within families. AI technologies derive from a lineage of automation and algorithms that have been in use for decades with established patterns of harm to low-income communities. As such, now is a critical moment to take stock and correct course before AI of any level of technical sophistication becomes entrenched as a legitimate way to make key decisions about the people society marginalizes."
#AIsnakeoil #techtonicjustice
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Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition Is a Tornado of Bad Ideas | Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/cops-running-dna-manufactured-faces-through-face-recognition-tornado-bad-ideas -
I hope @alex and @emilymbender would review the #AISnakeOil book in their podcast, and maybe propose some gaps that they will be addressing in their may 2025 #AICon book
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Did you say "agentic"? AI agents that matter @sayashk of #AISnakeOil https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/new-paper-ai-agents-that-matter
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Artificial intelligence is niet intelligent en het gevaar komt van de mensen die aan de knoppen zitten #AI #VincentIcke #AIsnakeoil @randomwalker
https://ellentimmer.com/2023/04/09/artificial-intelligence-6/
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It's great to start reading of #HarryFrankfurt's work on #Bullshit.^1
I just learned of it while reading a conversation between #JuliaAngwin and #ArvindNarayanan^2about #AISnakeOil. It keeps making me think of #NeilPostman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and marketing... lack of humility, "irrational exuberance"..
^1 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on-bullshit
^2 https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai -
"We recognize some people may give us the wrong birthday, and we’re developing new systems to address this. As we shared recently, we’re using artificial intelligence to estimate how old people are based on things like “Happy Birthday” posts."
Wow, that's some clever #AISnakeOIL
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"AI Camera Ruins Soccer Game For Fans After Mistaking Referee's Bald Head For Ball"