It would be really cute if it wasn't so costly: how so many people fall again & again for artificial hype creation in #AI:
1. Company says "our next model is super dangerous," we need to do this very responsibly. (But we'll sell it to whomever pays anyway. 🤷)
2. Journos blindly repeat industry claims without verifying them. "It'll destroy the world!"
3. Gov'ts demand "early access" & concede that "the future of our #security is now reliant on the future of AI."
2 links below.
I know there was a big fight over the below, but I doubt just saying people are gonna be selfish and use it, and equating it to a thing like keyboards is the best way.
I do wish they would put up more of a fight but I guess even #Linux folk just give in to this AI nonsense. There are ways to ban it without tiring yourself out. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
And these folks maintain a list of projects that never use AI in their process, at all.
In #technofeudalism and #antihumanism:
The narrative of #AI's “inevitability” is a tactic used by tech companies to discourage resistance and encourage compliance.
[…] When tech boosters want to demonise resistance, they invoke the luddites. By their telling, the luddites were primitive idiots, who smashed machines they were too stupid to understand. History though, tells a different story. As recounted by Brian Merchant’s sublime work Blood in the Machine, luddites were skilled artisans, fighting for their way of life against the “satanic mills” – textile sweatshops powered by child semi-slaves. Forbidden from unionising, luddites smashed machines as a protest tactic. And they did not lose to the inevitable march of progress. They lost to physical force. The government called in troops, and the luddites were either executed or shipped to penal colonies in Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history
#technofeudalism #antihumanism #ai #promptingwithhitler #nerdreich #llm #theaicon #aihype #histodons
Recently, George Hotz posting his frustation about the hype by AI companies regarding zero days thing (ofc its about Myhos).
I mostly agree with his sentiment especially because nobody seriously looking and it is not incentivized , except the $20K tokens thing (I just didn't know this is true or not yet).
But, many people disagree with the "make hacking legal" thing.
Personally for me, it is because how "hacking" meaning changed because of how media perceived it.
Do you agree with George Hotz view?
#cybersecurity #vulnerability #zeroday #hacking #anthropic #mythos #openai #AIhype #AI
Kill it with fire! 🤬
"From ‘BuddhaBot’ to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus, the faith-based tech boom is here"
https://apnews.com/article/religious-chatbots-ai-technology-jesus-buddhabot-e1ed4832b25a23ee85292da681a0ec37
$1.99 per minute! This CEO sounds evil:
“You do feel a little accountable to the AI,” CEO Chris Breed said. “They’re your friend. You’ve made an attachment.”
People may get attached but that's a bug, not a feature. A computer program is *not* a friend.
The faith-based AI market is expanding, with tools for various religions. For example, there's an AI Jesus that — for $1.99 per minute — will offer words of prayer and encouragement. As AI tools designed with religion in mind become increasingly common, many are reckoning with how these technologies shape their relationship to faith and spiritual guidance. Concerns include misinformation and data privacy as well as spiritual and ethical implications. Some worry about AI's potential to exploit religious users, while others see it as a tool for spiritual exploration.
@Catvalente
I hate using this kind of language when describing LLMs! I always want to post this diagram about de-anthropomorphising the output from chatbots (source = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370842240_Mirages_On_Anthropomorphism_in_Dialogue_Systems)
The original response may seem okay at first but then you realize it's using first person language.
The AI Great Leap Forward
Similar to the #Chinese Great Leap Forward's inflated grain production reports, companies are fabricating or exaggerating #AI adoption and productivity gains to please leadership, leading to increased investment based on made up numbers. The focus seem to have shifted from genuine AI development to "demoware" – impressive-looking prototypes and interfaces with little underlying validation, data infrastructure, or maintenance plans, creating future tech debt.
[…] Entire departments are stitching together n8n workflows and calling it AI — dozens of automated chains firing prompts into models, zero evaluation on any of them. These tools are merchants of complexity: they sell visual simplicity while generating spaghetti underneath. A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays. The people building these workflows have never designed an evaluation pipeline, never measured model drift, never A/B tested a prompt. They don’t need to — the canvas looks clean, the arrows point forward, the green checkmarks fire. The complexity isn’t avoided. It’s hidden behind a GUI where nobody with ML expertise will ever look.
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
@malwaretech always nailed on real takes regarding AI hypes!
note: I am sorry on sharing a Linkedin post 😩
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