Edi Zitron has an exclusive report on #OpenAI's 2025 finances:

“The financial condition of OpenAI is deeply concerning. $38.53 billion in losses are astronomical, and far higher than most believed it would be. Losses also appear to be mounting year-over-year at a dramatic rate, and I’m not sure how this company finds a way toward any kind of sustainability or profitability.”

https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

#ArtificialStupidity #RotEconomy #AIBubble

“Everyone should be happy, right? A deal is about to be struck!

“Well, not quite. […] a BMW Toronto sales consultant called to revoke the offer, explaining that Quinn wasn’t a real person, but rather an #LLM chatbot that had made the offer in error.

“This of course brings up that perennial philosophical question: so what?

“You can’t have it both ways; a business can’t automate a job that was formerly a person with authority to make deals like this and then decide that no, what this machine says while operating as an agent of the dealership cannot be taken as actual, binding interactions with the dealership, like what the human agents they replaced did. How the hell is a customer supposed to know that? And if the AI will say things that aren’t actually what the dealership intends to do, then what’s the point of the damn AI?”

https://www.theautopian.com/bmw-dealership-honors-terrible-deal-made-by-its-ai-chatbot/

#ArtificialStupidity #AccountabilityLaundering #LLMCantDoTheJob #PayPeopleNotBots

@pluralistic:
“Admitting machines to the "personhood" club is a *tactical* mistake, on par with the mistake we made when we admitted *corporations* to the personhood club. We should absolutely consider expanding personhood to incorporate living things, including animals and ecosystems, but at the same time, we *must* purge these dead, artificial constructs from the club.

“[…] if we thought that some activity was unique to humans, or to living beings, and we manage to get a machine to replicate that activity, we should revise our view of the activity – not our view of the machine.”

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/05/defining-humanity/

#CorporationsAreNotPersons #DeadThingsAreNotPersons #LLMsAreNotAlive #LLMsAreNotPersons #ArtificialStupidity #LLM #HumanRights #CorporateDeathSentence

Mocht je denken dat #Brussel een oude stad is die al voor het jaar 1000 ontstaan is, dan heb je het mis. Want door AI je "nieuws"-artikelen te laten schrijven, blijkt Brussel ineens nog geen 200 jaar oud te zijn en niet gesticht maar geboren...

#artificialstupidity #journalistiekiseenvak

@mathowie:
“Aging barrels takes up a lot of space that can't be used for anything else for years on end. […] the state's department of transportation spent the last few years renting out every square foot of spare warehouse space they had to dozens of distilleries, who were hungry for ever increasing storage needs to house their barrels for aging. Pretty much any building you saw near a freeway off-ramp was likely filled with bourbon barrels.

“But there's a big lag between a market saying it wants more bourbon, and when a distillery can actually sell more bourbon, a gap of at least several years. That requires distilleries to leverage themselves heavily for a payday that might only come far off in the future, if market conditions and trends continue […]

“This post is actually about A.I. Data Centers.”

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/kentuckys-bourbon-problem/

#ArtificialStupidity #RotEconomy #TheyExpectABailout #PrivatisedBenefits #SocialisedCosts

“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

#Capitalism #ArtificialStupidity #LLM #RotEconomy