A team from the University of Zurich manipulated people on a subreddit for months with their AI bots to see "if they could change people's minds". Their bots pretended to be victims of sexual assault, pretended to be black people against the Black lives matter movement etc. massively maipulative shit. And they did not inform anyone. Nobody on that subreddit consented to being experimented on. Their excuse "psychological manipulation of OPs on this sub is justified because the lack of existing field experiments constitutes an unacceptable gap in the body of knowledge". When I say that I don't believe that academia is a huge help in us curbing the negative effects #AI will have, this is what I mean. The thing went through ethics boards and shit. Disgusting. https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_unauthorized_experiment_on_cmv_involving/
"Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs" People would rather buy older processors that aren't that much less powerful but way cheaper. The "AI" benefits obviously aren't worth paying for.
XDA
Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs
It turns out older Raptor Lake systems are flying off the shelves.
"We are the other, and the other is us. If we abandon those in need, we abandon ourselves. We become diminished. You can choose to hate, or you can choose to love—this is the fundamental political choice." (How to reply to Fascists)
Roger Hallam
🗨️ "Why Not?": How to Reply to Fascists
The fundamental human truths that the liberal establishment has long since abandoned, and without which it sinks ever deeper into it own irrelevanc...
Every time I see some person from Huggingface show their prototypes it's the same toxic garbage that OpenAI et. al. are selling. The same patterns of LLM use that will destroy the web and the structures built on it. Why does that company still get all that credit? Just case they host your shit for free?
Spent 3 days at a workshop with basically only academic computer scientists and it is scary how many fundamental democratic rules and concepts are put up for debate constantly. CS won't save us. Not one bit.
The response to the predicted crash of the AI sector often is that "every crash leaves something useful behind" and that this time it will be models. I do not think that is the case. AI models age like milk and the infrastructures left behind won't be ones that I see as helpful for democratic societies.
Smashing Frames
These are not the same
After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a...
It's so painful to contemplate that Google just shoved their half-baked "AI Overviews" (that nobody asked for) into the search page to juice their "So many people are using our AI numbers" to keep stock market psychopaths happy.
Die ersten Teile des @npub1yyz7...a6kf Programms sind live. Ich kann also schon mal Werbung machen: Ich spreche über Cyberlibertarianismus und warum diese antidemokratische Denkart viele liebgewonnene Dogmen der Netzbewegung durchsetzt.
republica
Einfach mal das Erbe ausschlagen - Neue Wege fürs Digitale | re:publica
"We’ve been doing this whole internet thing for a while now, and it’s pretty clear that just about all the metrics are bad. They’ve turned the internet into a game to be won, a system to be gamed, a race to the biggest numbers even when the numbers don’t mean anything. Maybe we’d all be better off without the numbers, but they’re not going anywhere. So all we can do is remember: “views” are not views. Views are lies." (Original title: ‘Views’ are lies)
The Verge
On TikTok, YouTube, X, and everywhere, ‘views’ are lies
You might think a “view” means you watched something. You’d be wrong.
"I felt the slow loss of competence over time when I relied on [AI], and I recommend everyone to be cautious with making AI a key part of their workflow.[...]When you are using AI, you are sacrificing knowledge for speed." (Original title: Why I stopped using AI code editors)
Why I stopped using AI code editors · Luciano Nooijen