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However, unrealized savings are the least of the concerns coming from the government’s wholehearted embrace of AI, including algorithmic-based tools. Deploying these technologies as cost-cutting measures will not only result in worse service for Canadians, but also put lives at risk — as has already happened here and in other countries.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/05/08/Mark-Carney-Thinks-AI-Will-Save-Money/
I know her...
> She is every piece of institutional knowledge your transformation just deleted, walking around in a fifty-five-year-old body. She came up through the apprenticeship you abolished: Ben, 1998, the USB stick. She is the pipeline.
This is *brutal*... "There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember." https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp ETA: This is by @[email protected], who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.
RE: https://mainz.social/@javahippie/116410034142542755
I feel you Tim. At this point it’s not even ridiculous anymore.
"There’s a history in the stock market of troubled companies pivoting to the hot industry of the moment in order to garner interest."
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html
The latest #PivotToAi episode by @davidgerard is just brilliant.
Pivot to AI: 20260413 - AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house
Episode webpage: http://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260413-ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/45fb8198-0759-425c-8e91-d25d321575a7/20260413.mp3?dest-id=5006510
Sam might build a nothingburger so tasty it destroys the Earth - blog post Patreon: Ko-Fi: Buy us useful things: Get an extremely cool Pivot to AI shirt or mug: Send in your story tips: Sources: Statement by the San Francisco Police Department Here is a photo of my family Sam Altman May Control Our Future — Can He Be Trusted? If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All (UK) (US) Roko’s basilisk OpenAI built a text generator so good, it’s considered too dangerous to release SFPD Arrests Suspects involved in Shooting #26-044 Previously on Pivot to AI: OpenAI’s Strawberry will turn you into paperclips any day now Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God video: OpenAI fights the evil scheming AI! — which doesn’t exist yet video: Full Pivot to AI playlist:
The promise and the reality:
The story of the Loughton supercomputer is an insight into the dizzying ambitions for artificial intelligence as an economic powerhouse, in the UK and beyond – but also how those hopes can dissolve into a less exciting reality.
The $17.5bn investment represents a plan, by a UK company, to buy chips made in Taiwan by a US company, put them in a building in Loughton, and rent them to another US tech company.
Asked about how the site would create 750 jobs, Nscale could not say how this figure had been calculated.
Again and again, @davidgerard, Ed Zitron and others have highlighted that many of these loudly trumpeted "commitments" and "contracts" to invest billions are nothing more than hype to inflate the AI balloon. Here's another shabby example. Who's behind it? Former crypto bros, of course.
I wore my new pivot-to-ai t-shirt for the first time today, and then got invited to a work meeting to hear about a plan to have 90%+ of dev work done with Codex, so nice timing at least
> Hopefully, you’re all following along at home and that’s now clear.
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