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De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: [email protected] | Masto: @[email protected]

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"Generative AI's one real innovation is that it's allowed a certain class of scam artist to use the vague idea of "powerful automation" to hype companies to people that don't really know anything." Put Up Or Shut Up

@davekarpf.bsky.social on a16z's "Little Tech" BS: "[Investors aren't] clever enough to invest in companies that turn a profit by bringing useful products to market anymore. They need special treatment from the government for their bad investments to pay off." www.techpolicy.press/the-little-t...

The “Little Tech Agenda” is Just Self-Serving Nonsense | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press The “Little Tech Agenda” has nothing to do with innovation or technology. It’s just a VC wish list, writes Dave Karpf.

Very much not surprising how Silicon Valley now moves to support Trump. Tech's libertarian beliefs and Trump's agenda of destroying any form of active state and government (aside from his own personal will) go together perfetly. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More Tech and Venture Capital Execs Are Coming Out as MAGA Believerswww.rollingstone.com Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and other tech and finance leaders used the attempted Trump assassination to declare support for his 2024 campaign.

What is the most trivial "skill" or "ability" that everyone seems to have that you lack? For me it's mostly drinking water. I drink things with taste or nothing. For some reason the option to drink water basically does not occur to me ever.

This cursed #AI unconference raises more red flags than a dude named Chad. www.aipalace.org

AI Palacewww.aipalace.org A 7-day unconference focused on building new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for public, open-source, and decentralized forms of AI.

"What this means in plain English is that one of the largest financial institutions in the world is seeing what people who are paying attention are seeing with their eyes: Companies are acting like generative AI is going to ch...Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable

If you really wanted to "democratize creativity" you'd argue for every human being to have paid time off to find, follow and develop their creativity, their perspective and their voice.

"AI will not democratize creativity, it will let corporations squeeze creative labor, capitalize on the works that creatives have already made, and send any profits upstream, to Silicon Valley tech companies where power and influ...AI is not "democratizing creativity." It's doing the opposite

I recently met an ex-colleague to just chat and it's weird how a throw-away sentence you didn't really think about while saying it sticks with you because it contains a truth you never made explicit before.

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Interesting conversation between @tante.cc and @parismarx.bsky.social about how Europe can be more innovative, touching on interesting topics along the way.

Can Europe Chart Its Own Path on Tech? w/ tante - Tech Won't Save Uspca.st Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind...

"Content slop has three important characteristics. The first being that, to the user, the viewer, the customer, it feels worthless. [...] The next important feature of slop is that feels forced upon us, whether by a corporation or an algorithm [...] But the last featu...More slop for the void

"New Solutions to the Trolley Car Problem" New Solutions to the Trolley Car Problem!

"Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town" A Bitcoin "mine" produces so much noise that people get massively sick. Noise pollution just adds to the other pollution #Bitcoin creates. It's one of the worst things you can do with computers. time.com/6982015/bitc...

Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Towntime.com A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.

"You might think that venture capital intrinsically involves human feelings — VCs frequently speak of investing in company founders they think have the talent to go unicorn, and not in the specific businesses. But this risks anthropomorphizing VCs, who shoul...Venture capital will eat itself

"The root problem is that neoliberalism has effectively eliminated the left wing of the political spectrum, meaning that the only apparent challenge to the system as it stands comes from the right. In other words, the po...Why this keeps happening: On neoliberalism and the right-wing reaction

A few nice examples how "AI" can only "solve" problems if it has seen the answer before. LLMs can solve any word problem! As long as they can crib the answer

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Krass, wie sehr der Fokus des US_Medienzirkus auf "Biden old" statt "Trump " is a faschist" auch hier schon verfängt.

Vor ein paar Tagen war ich zu Gast im Jakobiner-Club des Literaturforums im Brecht-Haus. Wir sprachen über #KI als Austeritätsmotor und die Aufzeichnung ist jetzt live. youtu.be/nf93Tzw-0fo?...

Jakobiner-Klub: Austeritätsmotor KI. Jürgen Geuter im Gespräch mit Astrid Zimmermannyoutu.be Jakobiner-KlubJürgen Geuter im Gespräch mit Astrid Zimmermann Wie verändert Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Arbeitswelt und welche Jobs fallen ihr zum Opfer? I...

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I’ve been on periphery of “tech critical journalism” for about a decade and its so defeating to see media be so oblivious it. just takes a little AI hype and they’re soft balling the same grifters again. the man sells longevity supplements! like alex jones does! www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

AI scientist Ray Kurzweil: ‘We are going to expand intelligence a millionfold by 2045’www.theguardian.com The Google futurist talks nanobots and avatars, deepfakes and elections – and why he is so optimistic about a future where we merge with computers

"Server-side rendering was not invented with Node. What Node brought to the table was the convenience of writing your shitty div soup in the very same language that was invented in 10 days for the sole purpose of pissing off Java devs everywhere." blog.frankmtaylor.com/2024/06/20/a...

"So the downward pressure on model size is putting upward pressure on training compute. In effect, developers are trading off training cost and inference cost." Models need to shrink to make inference economically viable in the long term (we already see a focus on smaller ...AI scaling myths

The Verge goes hard after Perplexity.AI: "Perplexity is basically a rent-seeking middleman on high-quality sources" [...] "So that’s Perplexity’s real innovation here: shattering the foundations of trust that built the internet." Perplexity’s grand theft AI

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"Roger Ebert once said “The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before.” and the booing is people coming back to realizing this simple fact. You are not creative and then create something, you become creative by working on something, creativity is a byproduct of work." - @tante.cc

The growing backlash against AItante.cc While the crowd at sxsw2024 booing a sizzle reel of people either promising the beauty of the future "AI" will bring or claiming it to be "without alternative" is funny and went viral for all the righ...

Mozilla.ai don't seem to be serious people, their recent publication shows a level of incompetence that's indistinguishable from neglect. Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous

"Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous" Mozilla.ai did a study on generative AI trends and their methodology shows that they should never be allowed near anything AI. Ever. tante.cc/2024/06/26/m...

Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangeroustante.cc Mozilla.ai did a study on generative AI trends and their methodology shows that they should never be allowed near anything AI. Ever.

"What I learned from this experiment is that flooding the internet with an infinite amount of what could pass for journalism is cheap and even easier than I imagined, as long as I didn’t respect the craft, my audience, or myself" I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI

Letzte Warnung: Mittwoch abend im Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus gehts um #KI und Austerität. lfbrecht.de/event/auster...

Austeritätsmotor KI | Literaturforum im Brecht-HausLiteraturforum im Brecht-HausIcon GebärdenspracheIcon Gebärdensprachelfbrecht.de

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Cities, "Not overdrawing the power grid is a matter of personal responsibility, don't use your AC!" Every tech company, "LET'S ADD MORE AI SUCKING UP POWER" Cities, "Great idea! How about you do it here and don't pay taxes?"

I keep seeing journalists and others take things that #OpenAI employees say at face value. Just given the data we have it's safe to assume that everyone working there in any kind of managerial role is a compulsive liar. They are even less credible than the outputs their products generate.

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The number of my academic colleagues who continue to serve as boiling frogs over at Twitter/X does not fill me with confidence about our collective conduct under a second Trump administration.