JWZ said about this piece that "It was hard to pick pull quotes from this because every paragraph is perfect." I agree, and I have less space for pull quotes. Just read it; the whole thing is 🔥.
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
Companies who would sue the pants off me if I used their IP, anywhere in the world, want to use my IP for nothing.
Hrmpf, die #Duolingo CEO Pfeife geht mir ja tierisch auf den Senkel, und am liebsten würd ich das kündigen. AI Lover, hirnloser.
ABER K2 hat da mittlerweile einen 816 Tage Streak aufgebaut. Ein Fünftel seines Lebens hält der das nun durch, das kann ich doch nicht einfach so wegwerfen.
AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption. It's giving us weak and ineffective solutions to climate and environmental problems. It's leading us into a death spiral.
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ai-bad-environment-problem-bigger.html
#ai #llm #gemini #chatgpt #claude #aiiscrap #climatecollapse #climatechange #environment #genai
Digital workers in Kenya had to sift through horrific online content to train AI, but say they were underpaid, overworked, and got inadequate mental health support. So they're fighting back.
Average, everyday people have already figured out that AI is crap, to the point where they don't want to buy products that advertise themselves as having it.
How many more years will it take Silicon Valley, investors, and C-suite executives to catch up?
h/t @mcc
Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by WSU researchers.
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