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Talking about Nick Clegg apparently turns me into a kind of middle-aged Greta Thunberg: "How dare you?" But I stand by it: his justification for the genAI industry's predatory business model is the bottom of the barrel. #AI #genAI #copyright youtube.com/shorts/dgk4WxM…

Die Werbung in der NZZ nähert sich punkto Ekelfaktor langsam derjenigen auf X an. Da sehnt man sich fast schon nach Luxusuhren, SUVs etc.

Newsletter. Heute dabei: - Warum KI-Unternehmen von Demokratie reden und Oligarchie meinen - Wie Sam Altman unlautere Forschung als Anlass nimmt, um seinen Iris-Scanner und eine Kryptowährung zu pitchen - Wie weiter nach dem Ende des Nachhaltigkeitshypes mailchi.mp/312b885babf3/n…

"Unlike the dawn of the internet where democratized access to information empowered everyday people... the generative AI era has been defined by half-baked software releases and threats of AI replacing human workers" wired.com/story/generati…

"fifty-eight per cent of students at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of 'Bleak House,' by Charles Dickens, that 'they would not be able to read the novel on their own.' And these were English majors." 😱 newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

"'I think it’s fair to make money from [AI-generated songs]...Each song can take hours to make.'" If the time invested in a song were decisive for the artist's compensation, every musician would be a billionaire, including those whose work AI has stolen🤦‍♀️ wired.com/story/from-sen…

"Even when our best relationships are glorious" we still have "plenty of disappointing interaction⁠⁠s... By contrast, no matter how human bots appear, 'they' can provide something that seems downright superhuman: unwavering enthusiasm" Evan Selinger blog.apaonline.org/2025/07/01/the…

"we know enough to treat our immersion in traditional fiction as... a 'consensual hallucination.'" But meaningful consent "to using anthropomorphic AI", which "is designed to collapse the very distance that makes fiction safe", is harder. Evan Selinger blog.apaonline.org/2025/07/01/the…

Dinner for one - summer edition

If you spend hundreds of millions on lobbying and the public still demands AI regulation, there’s only one move left: cue the China scare. Be afraid. Be very afraid. (Just don’t mention that China regulates AI and leads in development) feat. Brian Merchant youtu.be/DUfSl2fZ_E8?si…

Trumpism "thrives on disinformation,... manipulation, and anti-democratic rhetoric. It uses bots, algorithmic amplification, and generative media to intensify a totalitarian dynamic, enabling the mass production" & "dissemination of lies" ieet.substack.com/p/democracy-in… Mark Coeckelbergh

"Musk displays a classic fascist tactic: unifying state and corporate power to consolidate... ideological and political-economic control. Democracy, in turn, becomes not only undermined but... displaced by technocratic control and populist demagoguery" ieet.substack.com/p/democracy-in…

I am supposed to be on the highest level on #Duolingo in French. And this is the type of reading comprehension question I get. No human would ever come up with this. This is #AI stupidity.

"In a disturbing hint of past financial turmoil, mortgage defaults begin to rise, along with foreclosures and credit card delinquencies. But... the underlying cause of this one is not financial, it is physical, and it is not clear how it will ever end" ft.com/content/9e5df3…

Creepiest use of 1st person by a ‘bot to date?

„Der Mensch leidet heute nicht nur an einer Instinktverarmung, sondern auch an einem Traditionsverlust. Nunmehr sagen ihm die Instinkte nicht mehr, was er muß, und die Traditionen nicht mehr, was er soll.— Bald wird er nicht mehr wissen, was er will…“ Viktor Frankl

AI's Energy Drain: Climate Goals at Risk? Let's be clear: Generative AI couldn't have come at a worse time. youtube.com/shorts/p41zWZS… via YouTube

A few people have asked me if a technical fix for AI model sycophancy is on the cards. In fact, a technical fix for sycophancy is trivial. In many cases all it would take is a tweak to the system prompt. The reason companies are struggling to get this right is not technical.

Höre gerade meine Vermieterin Pronto ins Telefon rufen und erinnere mich daran wie ich mit 16 in der Küche einer italienischen Sandwichbar arbeitete und dachte, alle Angestellten seien verschwägert und gehörten zur Familie Pronto. Schliesslich nahmen sie alle so Anrufe entgegen.

Die Katze betet den Grill an. Aber bald wird ihr das kleine Katzenherz gebrochen. Nämlich dann, wenn sie merkt, dass hier nur Gemüse gegrillt wird. 🙀😿