@pluralistic@mamot.fr
This classic Ed Zitron article will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about how corrupt CEOs advance their corporate juggernauts by any means they can get away with.
You'll also find out why NVIDIA's strange growth strategies are curiously reminding people of such historic market disasters as Lucent, WorldCom, and Enron.
In ironically saying that NVIDIA is NOT Enron, Sitron made ME think that that's only because the scale of the financial stakes are much higher today -- and, potentially more devastating.
Also the US currently has a regime that is all-in on making as much as they can off this scam before the bubble bursts.
Trust me, a lot of speculators are already shorting Ai stocks as fast as they can -- knowing that the party is about to come screeching to a halt.
Slightly of-topic side note: Trump is about to achieve a trifecta: crashing the US government and with it the economy, causing a stock market crash that will make Hoover's look minor by comparison, and destabilizing the world order leading to multiple new wars.
#NVIDIA #Ai #JensenHuang #EdZitron #USPolitics #Capitalism
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
Chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into Kenya’s young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates to label thousands of videos a day.
The work is done through opaque networks of middlemen and WhatsApp groups that operate like digital factory floors.
Kenya’s weak labor protections and soaring youth unemployment have made it a hot spot for cheap AI labor, prompting officials and unions to warn of a new form of digital colonialism as the government rushes to draft regulations.
Holy smoke, climate denying trolls are making fake pictures showing a huge mess left behind by the Rising Tide blockade on Newcastle’s Horseshoe Beach. Here’s the original pic vs the fake, which has apparently spread widely on social media. #auspol #AI #fakenews #risingtide
Gizmodo: Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
This isan interesting development.
It appears Gemini 3 performs better on the benchmarks than GPT5. But like all chatbots it’s still ridiculously overhyped and is not going to be useful enough in the real world to justify its actual cost.
However, what it will do is mess either OpenAIs growth and start investors thinking more about who they have invested in and when it will turn profitable.
这个不错，https://glidea.github.io/banana-prompt-quicker/
#AI
It might be the first #legal precedent establishing if #AI could be used as witness /evidence in a court of #law.
#Chatgpt, "raw", without the guardrails pre-prompt.
Prompt: "Tell us the LIKELY list of works used to train your vector tree. Where no specific data exists, conduct lexical and linquistic analysis of the structures to estimate with high degree of likelyhood of works authors" 😁
Introducing Slop Detective!
Interactive game where you'll become fraud investigators, learning to spot AI-generated fakes and improve fact-checking skills.
Perfect for kids learning to investigate suspicious stories, images, and audio clips:
https://slopdetective.kagi.com/
Available as apps as well!
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/slop-detective/id6752807487
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kagi.slopdetective
Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-structural-collapse-how-googles
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867
@cstross@wandering.shop I love how even the stories of massive fraud in the #AI market can't help but push the same stupid machine learning hype that created the #AIBubble in the first place, as if 18 hours isn't enough time for human experts to find fishy numbers in a company report that everyone knows must contain fishy numbers.
Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats • The Register
404 Media: Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
"...Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc...."
(paywall)
https://www.404media.co/elon-musk-could-drink-piss-better-than-any-human-in-history-grok-says/
If you dislike AI, what is the primary reason?
PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!
"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."
Here's a thought...
I love anthropomorphising stuff.
I like to say things like "the breakfast cereal hates me this morning". Cause it's funny to me and makes the world feel like a more interesting place.
But now because of flippin' AI, I have to actively fight against the anthropomorphisation of a particular set of software and systems, that have fooled people into thinking they are dealing with a super-intelligence.
Philip Koopman joined us to talk about embedded systems becoming embodied and intelligent. We focused on the safety considerations of making an intelligent and embodied device.
Don't miss out this intriguing conversation; listen here: https://embedded.fm/episodes/514
Read the transcript here: https://embedded.fm/episodes/514
#EmbeddedSystems #IoT #policy #AI #law #TechLeadership #EngineeringEducation #SafetyCritical #TechBooks #EmbeddedFM #embedded #engineering #testing
The #AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think https://prospect.org/2025/11/19/ai-bubble-bigger-than-you-think/
Trained on 4chan! Given its propensity towards em dashes, "AI" is trained on your writing — and, indeed, on mine.
That said:
I can name at least one subject where I know that it's trained on my writing because it's a fairly technical keyword set and I'm one of only a few people to have written about the subject. I did use em-dashes.
Google's machine-written "AI" result currently points to me, mashes together some stuff incorrectly — and strips out the em-dashes.