I did not expect a 60kw essay would keep my attention:
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology

"Rather, they are families of messy statistical models, trained on large data sets. Training a statistical model for good on-average performance implies trading worse performance in rare situations for better performance in common situations. Such trade-offs have unfortunate implications for the capacity of all such models to handle situations raised by small groups of people, by those less well-represented in the training corpora, or indeed by anything genuinely novel."

Perhaps I'm motivated by my brother in the middle of losing a friend down the chatbot rabbithole.

#LLMsAreBullshit

A long thread in which a proposed remedy for LLM code poisoning is utterly dismantled. Provenance is *central* to GPL, BSD, etc. software licenses.

https://social.coop/@cwebber/116426152872895154

"There is *NO WAY* in current LLM technology, nor I believe from studying how neural networks work, any viable computationally performant LLM, that they can track provenance. The BY clause cannot be upheld."

#FLOSS
#LLMsAreBullshit

It's nice to be reminded that we're not the last to consider ethics. What we do matters, and what we accept as normal also matters.

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai

#LLMsAreBullshit #LLMsAreNotAI

LLMs are not AI,, though they use a couple of methods common in AI. I am surprised at how angry I get thinking about how real AI (genetic/ant/simulated annealing/etc) is probably going to get tarred with the same brush when it comes crashing down.

https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-2026-our-already-rotting-future/
#LLMsAreBullshit

When Sam Altman claims "Someone" will lose a "phenomenal amount of money," I have some ideas (and maybe a small amount of hope) about who that could be.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/sam-altman-calls-ai-a-bubble-while-seeking-500b-valuation-for-openai/

#LLMsAreBullshit

Absolutely pleased with the current state of this as yet incomplete course:
https://thebullshitmachines.com/

e.g.
"But what happens when LLMs flood the internet with phony narratives from people who don’t exist? We can no longer trust anonymous speech to be genuine.

To believe what we read, we require authentication: ways of knowing that the authors we are reading and the people we are talking to are real.

But authentication threatens anonymity. If we want to ensure that the stories we read are coming from real people, we will end up excluding certain stories as they become no longer safe to tell."

#LLMsAreBullshit

I assert that:

Any task that, in the course of normal execution, can benefit from an "AI assistant", can be improved by streamlining it until the assistant is no longer useful.

Don't feel obligated to try to change my mind.

#AI #LLM #LLMsAreBullshit #ArtificialIntelligenceIsnt