DNIP Briefing #43: Affenschwanz - Das Netz ist politisch

Die Redaktion präsentiert jeden Dienstag die Geschichten, die sie bewegt, aufgerüttelt oder zum Nachdenken angeregt hat.

Das Netz ist politisch

Wer das Thema schon etwas länger verfolgt, hat entsprechende Warnungen schon von anderen KI-Unternehmen wie zum Beispiel #OpenAI gehört. All diesen Warnungen gemeinsam ist, dass die Warnenden selbst problemlos in der Lage wären, die Entwicklung zu verlangsamen und gemeinsam mit Politik und Zivilgesellschaft nach Wegen zu suchen, die weitere KI-Entwicklung human zu gestalten.

#Hype #CritiHype
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/tech/sam-altman-ai-risk-taker

Sam Altman warns AI could kill us all. But he still wants the world to use it

Sam Altman thinks the technology underpinning his company’s most famous product could bring about the end of human civilization.

CNN

@fsmk_org I am disappointed to see updates/announcements of events that promote the use of LLMs.

I'm curious if the FSMK community has had a discussion on the legal, ethical and environmental impacts of the use of LLMs?

Notwithstanding the #CritiHype marketing onslaught by AI companies, the seemingly imminent takeover of the world by AI and the "get with it, or get left behind" FOMO, LLMs and their large-scale scraping and processing of copyleft content are antithetical to the FOSS movement - if FOSS is about enriching the commons and putting the commons to use to serve the needs of the many, how does entrenching the stranglehold that a few US companies have over many aspects of modern tech, software development and life in general achieve that?

Not to mention there are several pending lawsuits working their way through the US legal system about the flagrant copyright violations due to LLM scraping. What is FSMK's position on the fundamental conflict between copyleft FOSS code and LLMs' ingestion of such code without subsequently open-sourcing their weights/code?

Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/06/applied-counterescatology/

Pluralistic: Criticizing the everything machine (06 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@adipoeserPursch @adfichter @revogt
2️⃣ "Die Allmacht einer Technologie – wie auch einer Gottheit – kann diese sowohl durch ihre grossartigen Werke aber auch über ihre schrecklichen Bedrohungen und Strafen ausleben. Oder, viel profaner, Hype und Criti-Hype sind zwei Kehrseiten derselben Medallie.
[…]
Und praktisch, wenn auf alle Fälle die Münzen klimpern und die Scheine regnen, egal ob die Verheissungen eintreten oder nicht."
#CritiHype
https://dnip.ch/2025/09/30/dnip-briefing-43-affenschwanz/#KI-als-apokalyptische-Religion
DNIP Briefing #43: Affenschwanz - Das Netz ist politisch

Die Redaktion präsentiert jeden Dienstag die Geschichten, die sie bewegt, aufgerüttelt oder zum Nachdenken angeregt hat.

Das Netz ist politisch

I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of PocketOS getting badly burnt for vibing with AI.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

The article has several problems, however:

  • Steganographic & access journalism; credulously repeating the founder's perspective

  • believing that AI can explain itself; it cannot, but it can extrude explanation shaped text

  • critihype; amping up the danger of AI while overstating its actual capabilities

  • almost zero examination of the founder's or his staffs' culpability; accepting the founder's framing of the AI and the cloud provider being to blame

  • mostly ignoring the amateur backup policy — they had no offsite, redundant backup; there's a throwaway comment at the end that effectively gives them a pass

  • author anthropmorphizes the AI and repeats the founder doing the same

  • no security or AI critic consulted to offer an outside perspective or criticism of PocketOS' behavior

#TomsHardware #AI #CritiHype #PocketOS

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

Tom's Hardware

@anthony sounds like #critiHype to me. "AI" can't consistently get basic tasks right.

Sure Signal do some good stuff. But the CEO also pockets 700k $ a year and users are still forced to use phone numbers with the service, a huge privacy hole in the service

@danmcquillan Oh boy...I have long said that all of those fantasies our civilization has about having robots/androids/AI is a creepy, "evolved" expression of the desire for human slaves. But...yeah, I don't think we're anywhere near "conscious AI". Let's call this #critihype

I came across this article that talks about #CritiHype, where you take an over boisterous claim of some techbro, assume everything they say is true, but just spin it in a negative way.
For example "LLM's can do everything humans can"
"This tech will replace 100% of human jobs!"

You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype

Maybe more people are writing about the real and potential problems of technology today than ever before. That is mostly a good thing. The list of books and articles from the last few years that have…

Medium

Critique de film

Alienoid (2022)

Dans un joyeux bordel un Terminator affronte des aliens emprisonnés dans des corps humains... Le tout dans une narration discontinue mâtinée d'une dose de sauce tigre et dragon et d’humour potache et parodique.
C'est foutraque à souhait, les effets spéciaux passent du très correct au carrément cheap entre 2 scènes.
On finit par apprécier ce film complètement décalé : à ne pas prendre au premier degré.

https://kifim.ouest-france.fr/film/alienoid/396016/

#CritiHype #films #seance21h

Alienoid - film - 2022 - Résumé, critiques, casting.

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