"Whatever" is a brilliant essay on "AI" by @npub1fjje...zx93: "But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost."
The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
LinkedIn just sent me a warning and deleted a comment in which I called Elon Musk, who is a Nazi, as Nazi who is racist. And a Nazi.
If you couldn't be there yesterday there is a recording:
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 image Still some time to come over to TU Berlin to talk about "Fascist AI" with us. (Elevator is broken so follow to posted signs tha...
Tonight!
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 video On Thursday 03.07. I'll have the honor of giving a talk with @malteengeler@legal.social on "Fascist AI" in the "Loops" series of...
Using "AI" is no longer optional at Microsoft. Reminds me how when Meta had to force their engineers to use their "Metaverse" product. If your product doesn't even gain traction internally, maybe it's just ... shit? (Original title: ‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work)
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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work
An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells ...
Nicht die Erste Studie mit dem Ergebnis: Auch Kund*innen parsen "KI"-integration als Signal für niedere Qualität (Original title: Marketing: Werbung mit KI im Text schreckt Kunden ab)
Marketing: Werbung mit KI im Text schreckt Kunden ab - Golem.de
Wer mit künstlicher Intelligenz wirbt, verkauft schlechter: Forscher belegen, dass die Erwähnung abschreckt - besonders bei teuren Produkten.
Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas. Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented? Here's the actual impact. "AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence st...
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Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green
Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s
Read through @npub1v0sp...tw6h's "signals" proposal and that's ... really weak. Feels like it's just a bit of window dressing to keep to community busy while AI companies take everything they can find. Like, why is that kind of signalling not part of the licenses? The promise of CC licenses was reuse by others (that is _people_) not machines. My stuff is CC because I want other human beings to potentially use it but if I change the license, it is about excluding AI companies from it. I don't want to "signal" (meaning beg) I want to forbid (meaning adding it to the license). TBH: The whole AI shit and the way that OSI and CC have reacted to it have really shown just how poorly thought out a lot of that core infrastructure of the digital commons is.
"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need." On chatbots as a bad design paradigm (Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)
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"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do h...