The one thing that seems to connect almost everyone in "AI" is this colonialist, dominating thinking:
"I have this tool and it will be and must be used and applied , regardless of what you think. Your ideas are worth less than mine"
The worst thing about Mozilla's AI activities? They are basically just taking existing models and slapping them mindlessly on stuff.
It doesn't even feel like they know what they want to do, it feels very much like just copy and pasting README.md files from GitHub into an editor to see what happens.
Seriously Mozilla.ai: The fuck? The whole project is a bit of a mess but this meme is so tone deaf, such a slap in the face. In a time where people feel corporations abusing all data they can find it is a special kind of brain worm to claim: "Yeah, we also believe that."
It is super weird how little reception David Golumbia's last book "Cyberlibertarianism" has had. I mean I know why, he dropped a bunch of uncomfortable truth bombs there but it's still weird how little that book is talked about. It is probably the most important book about tech in the last decade.
I am a German citizen (so citizen of a member state) and I can confirm that this is a huge waste of money that shows an utter lack of vision and strategy.
Okay so my lecture for the Edinburgh University studies on the Politics of AI is done. We'll investigate the question if AI has built-in politics and if yes, which politics those are.
Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.
Immer dran denken: Einen Feiertag zu streichen ist eine direkte Lohnkürzung.
(Original title: Streichung eines Feiertags könnte Milliarden Euro bringen)
LLM crawlers are aggressively destroying important community infrastructures but sadly there is not an easy fix. Still: Blocking those crawlers should be high on your list of todos
(EDIT: You do not need to link me to nepenthes, etc. I am aware of those as is sourcehut)
(Original title: LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut)
When talking about "AI" there's a lot of chat about "hallucinations" but I think it is a bit misleading. Because it's _all_ hallucinations, some just accidentally true.
