#marketinghype — Public Fediverse posts

The scale of profits required to meet the expectations of investors in #LLM-based #GenAISlop within to 5-6 year lifespan of current technology rolled out in #Datacenters is astronomically huge. And the #Hyperscalers (the six main companies super heavily invested in #GenAI ) have even less time before every bit of computing kit, power and cooling supply used needs to be tossed out, written off the books, and replaced with new and expensive gear just to remain competitive and keep investors from pullling out —replacing just the chips is not possible given current chip evolutionary trends. The sums discussed here are in the order of **tens of trillions of dollars**. An unimaginable sum just to break even. To put it into perspective, Australia’s annual gross product (GDP) is just $2.1 trillion. That’s the total output of about 28 million people over a whole year. Think about that.

All the while #Economists and #EconomicReporters are arguing whether there is a #FinancialBubble and whether it will burst? Give me a break.

I have seen no factual & compelling reasons to believe that #GenAI adoption by business customers paying for the product have in fact gained any advantage over their non-adopter competitors. The #Hype is real. The #AIPsychosis is real. The #Chips and the *hothouses* are real. The *Brute force* attacks on specific *solvable* problems are real. But the financials simply do not make sense. All adopters and investors in GenAI are guilty of failing in their **due dilligence** obligations and will pay for it when the financial house of cards falls down.

What will it take for #AlboPM and his coterie of weaklings to wake up to this financial #PonziScheme and call a #DatacenterMoratorium ?

This substack post (apologies for linking to a #fascist platform) by Ryan Cummings, Chief of Staff for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Jared Bernstein, former Biden CEA Chair, spell it out by the numbers in this post. A long read, but a shining light of facts in the fog of #MarketingHype.

https://econjared.substack.com/p/ai-companies-are-in-a-race-against

@Ooze
TL:DR But the little I read correctly urges a slow down in both #GenAISlop uptake and #Datacenters. IMO we should call a #Moratorium on building those monstruous *Hot Houses* until appropriate legislation and regulatory frameworks have passed Parliament.

The tenor of your submission hits all the right points to support such a moratorium, let’s hope the *Inquiry* comes to the same conclusion (not that #Ellbow will pay it any attention).

Loved the Bibliography & references. It’s not like there isn’t plenty of evidence that this whole #TechBros #GenAI #MarketingHype is simply a #PonziScheme. That is not to say that #LLM-based #GenAI don’t have some use where *brute force* attack on a problem is both deemed achievable and sustainable in terms of costs and time.

@teadrinker
It’s a #threat to lots of things, our #economy for one (which impact our #costofliving), our #environment (#fossilfuel #energy use) and our #livelyhood (Guzzling pottable #water we can’t spare), plus something that is rarely talked about, increasing #HeatPollution (Thermodynamics) adding to an already warming #planet.

These #Fascist #TechBros are nothing less than a mortal threat to humanity. That is not to say #LLM-based #GenAI technology is a useless tool, but the #MarketingHype surrounding it is promoting the #PonziScheme using the technology evidenced by the #AIPhychosis afflicting our leadership both in the public and private sectors.

#NoPlanetB #Datacenters #HotChips #AiFinancialBubble

Paul Josephson (Professor of History at Colby College, USA) concludes his essay on #SMR (Small Modular Reactor) with a single paragraph after a lengthy review of the history of this technology (surprisingly, perhaps, SMR isn’t a recent thing, they go back to the 1950’s):

“Given all this, the claims made for SMRs do not stand up to serious scrutiny. On the basis of no manufacturing experience and little operating experience, the industry claims that SMRs are more sustainable and more efficient than current NPPs. They remain, in fact, costly, with unique security problems, and with a large physical footprint. Neither military support, nor the interest of big AI, nor government subsidies justify thinking of them being able to hitch a ride on a huge vehicle to power a data centre, let alone join a combat mission.”

Read the essay here, it’s full of factual information (unlike the #MarketingHype of the #NuclearIndustry):

https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/smrs-a-short-history-of-a-nuclear-pipe-dream/

#NuclearEnergy #NuclearReactors #NuclearEnergyHistory #MoneyPits and #PipeDreams

Read this: “What Dennett omitted was that Australia, with a population of 28 million, has just under one datacentre per 100,000 people, compared with 1.5 per 100,000 people in the US, population 342.7 million.” With this sole paragraph, Josh Taylor (The Guardian Technology reporter) is perfunctorily dismissing the rest of his article parroting the #MarketingHype that the pro#Datacenters *brain addled* would be *Rentiers* are making to temper #Australian #communities ‘ concern with the *factual* environmental damage done by those #AIComputingFarms.

IMO, the author lazily resorts to gross population statistics to say it’s worse here than in the US without adddressing any of the statements from the demented financial speculators he glibbly quotes. You simply cannot compare a bad situation against another bad situation to make a point, because it’s all bad, and that’s is the point the author should have addressed. Any detrimental environmental impact is harmful to living things.

Read the rest of the article if you must be convinced but, seriously, I wouldn’t bother is a *puff piece* dressed up as *opposition* just like the latest utterings from the #GenAISlop #TechBros we’ve been hearing.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/26/australia-datacentre-backlash

#AusPol #AIFinancialBubble #EnvironmentalDamage

@earleyedition
The problem with #AlboPM and his political acolytes is his scant knowledge of #AI is all based on #LLM-base #GenAISlop #MarketingHype and the #FinancialBubble it entails. I despair.

#AusPol #UNSpeech

Ah, behold Mercury 2.5, the latest 'revolution' in making things slightly less slow 🚀. It's like Mercury 2, but with an extra ".5" of marketing hype and buzzwords! 🥳 Clearly, the world will never be the same now that we can handle latency-sensitive #workloads... again. 🙄
https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2-5 #Mercury25 #Mercury2 #MarketingHype #LatencySensitive #TechBuzz #HackerNews #ngated

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[No AI was used in writing this toot — I’d rather not write at all otherwise]

The use of #GenAISlop machines to determine whether text was provided by #LLM #TextRegurgitatingMachines is a monster of a cyclical process. Like the integrity of police officers overseen by other police officers in another branch of law enforcement. Lawyer oversighted by a professional lawyer body… and so on. #Credibility and #Transparency are unlikely to prevail in such nepotistic circumstances, corruption is everywhere but a step away.

What are #Authors to do? Build a #TrailOfEvidence and unimpeachable record of #Provenance for every work they wish to publish? How are they to do this? Are there non-AI tools to help? This is a really f*^%#d up world the #TechBros are imposing upon us all with their inane #MarketingHype hitting the mark with many incompetant and gullible executives in charge of the #publishingIndustry. (This is all conjecture on my part based on very little but general observations of what LLM GenAI is doing — or not doing — in every field of endeavour).

“Pangram is not infallible. I’ve used it to run some of my newsletters through it, and they came back as 80% AI when I wrote every word myself. This is one of many reasons why I disagree with Substack’s decision to partner with Pangram. Another reason is that once a tool like Pangram is available to the masses, false accusations start flying around, and careers can be ruined. Whether you admit it or not, there is A LOT of jealousy in the publishing world, so it wouldn’t surprise me if someone who disliked author X decided to use Pangram on their work and made the results public. This is not the publishing world I want to live in.” (Read more: AI Accusations and Book Publishing - Kathleen Schmidt, Aug 01, 2026). A blog post on Substack, sry. https://kathleenschmidt.substack.com )

#Writing #WritingCommunity #Publishing #SlefPublishing #AuthorshipProvenance #Author #Writer #Disclosure #ProofOfAuthorship

PS. I wonder how many *airport* books by some of the most successful authors in the *genre* would pass muster if subjected to #Pangram or similar GenAI tool generated analysis? Not many I’d wager. Further, what’s the bet Pangram is itself code produced by a GenAISlop machine. This AI ponzie scheme is just getting wilder and wilder by the day… BOOOMMM !

🎨✨ Wow, a 12MB "lightweight" binary! Because nothing screams efficiency like replacing your AI framework with something only slightly smaller than the #Titanic 🚢. If only axes were as sharp as this marketing hype—TOML never felt so revolutionary. 🤦‍♂️🔨
https://github.com/jrswab/axe #lightweightbinary #AIefficiency #marketinghype #TOML #HackerNews #ngated

🚨BREAKING: Scientists discover shocking fact that air cleaning gadgets might not be magical infection-fighting wizards after all! 😱 Who would've thought that marketing hype isn't the same as scientific evidence? 🤔 Time to grab your tinfoil hats! 🧙‍♂️✋
https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/study-finds-gaps-in-evidence-for-air-cleaning-technologies-designed-to-prevent-respiratory-infections #airquality #mythbusters #science #news #marketinghype #tinfoilhat #HackerNews #ngated

The anti-aging reality: Separating fact from fiction in skincare

#AgingGracefully #RealisticSkincare #MarketingHype

Fayne Frey is a dermatologist.

https://youtube.com/shorts/cJaqozCbZsg?feature=share

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@katzentratschen

Es ist immer das Gleiche!

Das bringt mich wirklich an den Rand der Verzweiflung.

Wie Unvertrauenswürdiger Mist *immer und immer wieder* einen unverdienten Vertrauensvorschuss gegenüber den #freien Alternativen bekommt! 🤦🤦🤦

Und #Datenscharlatane Millionen von Menschen dazu bringen, gegen ihre eigenen Interessen / die der Community zu handeln.

Und alle Warnungen versagen, und alle Erklärungen warum das Mist ist, verhallen und weniger zählen als der neueste #Marketinghype. 🤦🤦🤦