Given the spectacular failure of Open AIs new ChatGPT version (ChatGPT 5) it's easy to ridicule it. Brian Merchant however has a good and sadly sobering point: "If we wake up to millions of addicted and deluded AI chatbot users, students incapable of finishing their homework without help from an app, and automation software that surveils and immiserates workers, each hurriedly installed on the top layer of our society, well, the joke will have been on all of us."
GPT-5 is a joke. Will it matter?
How the fraught release of the most-hyped AI product yet clarifies the stakes.
"Die eigentliche Meldung ist nicht, dass Deutschland seine Waffenexporte stoppt. Die eigentliche Meldung ist, dass diese Exporte überhaupt liefen – und dass fast alle, die es hätten aufschreiben können, es lieber gelassen haben." https://www.patreon.com/posts/die-deutsche-auf-136080302
"Vor zwei Jahren haben Joko und Klaas Nura ausgeladen, weil sie „Free Palestine“ postete. Heute unterschreiben dieselben Gesichter Offene Briefe gegen Waffenexporte und posieren als Gewissen der Nation. Wer früh Haltung zeigt, wird bestraft. Wer spät und kalkuliert unterschreibt, wird gefeiert. [...] Das ist keine Doppelmoral. Das ist Herrschaftstechnik." https://www.patreon.com/posts/wer-darf-fallen-135475384
Autoritäre Wende, Faschisierung: Warum gerade jetzt? Guter Text von Mario Candeias für die @npub1kyzw...upnj (aus März 2025): 📄.pdf
One of the most irritating things about the left activist groups I work in is the illogical mismatch between how Tesla and how so-called "AI" is treated. Tesla is shunned upon, physical resistance against individual cars or factories is welcomed and the ecological and social impact is broadly discussed. "AI" however is seen as a neutral tool, used broadly and joyfully and criticism is shrugged off as technicalities. I really struggle to address that effectively.
Was ist in Köln im Wasser, dass die Richter*innen dort sowohl am VG als auch am OLG so immun gegenüber der etablierten Grundlagen des Europäischen Datenschutzrechts sind? 🤨
It currently looks like FOMO is getting EU-member states into investing into "AI" infrastructure right at the end of the hype bubble which could lead to huge public-private-partnership investments into material infrastructure that are build to generate profit but will disappoint greatly.
"I may not be a contrarian, but I am a hater. I hate the waste, the loss, the destruction, the theft, the damage to our planet and the sheer excitement that some executives and writers have that workers may be replaced by AI — and the bald-faced fucking lie that it’s happening, and that generative AI is capable of doing so."
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