bsmall2Jan 24
Disciplined Minds further slopped..
> “Scientific publishing has always had its plumbing problems...Even before ChatGPT, journal editors struggled to control the quantity and quality of submitted work.” Peer reviews became one solution to the glut...
Now editors and unpaid researchers who have long acted as guardians of scientific literature are... besieged: “... immediately after large language models went mainstream, manuscripts started pouring into journal inboxes in unprecedented numbers,” Andersen writes
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Peer review has met its match.

The Atlantic
Show threadbsmall2Jan 6
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> ... one shouldn’t overlook the anti-democratic ethos behind AI boosting. Offshoring problem-solving to AI, even if it can be done, means just concentrating power into the hands of a select few who own the AI. That appears to be precisely the point: ...
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bsmall2Jan 6
> The Luddites’ problem was not with technology per se, but how it was applied- the way it was used to create unemployment, impoverish skilled workers, increase production while stagnating wages. One can see the shadow of this in such actions as the 2023 strike by the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild against the Hollywood studios.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/11/the-ai-boom-hype-power-and-the-coming-reckoning/
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The AI Boom: Hype, Power and the Coming Reckoning

It is safe to say that since OpenAI first released ChatGPT in October 2022, AI has been the most widely covered and discussed topic in the U.S. By January

CounterPunch.org
bsmall2Dec 2
> For all the alleged complexity of generative AI, at their core they really are models of language.
> The problem is that according to current neuroscience, human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
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Large language mistake

Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.

The Verge
bsmall2Dec 2
> "Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
https://bsky.app/profile/marygillis.bsky.social/post/3m6liiialfs2m
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Mary Gillis (@marygillis.bsky.social)

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget." https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/tech/ai-holiday-explainer

Bluesky Social
Show threadbsmall2Nov 25

> The high-tech world’s abrupt turn to a rabid anti-science stance is likely the result of the emergence of large language models (also known as “artificial intelligence” or AI) and a consequent new romance with the burning of fossil fuels....That AI has not yet proven able to increase productivity or produce any measurable added value has not stopped the hype around it from driving the biggest securities bubble since the late 1990s.

https://tomdispatch.com/the-hot-tub-of-death/
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Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, And a Civilization Under Threat

In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles

TomDispatch.com
bsmall2Sep 8, 2025

> ...meet each other in that deep way that AI can never replace, because when you read a work of literature you encounter another human being's struggles and successes in describing the world or their heart or a particular time and place in words, and that contact, even through the medium of black ink on white paper, even across continents and centuries, is human and humane.

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-for-the-imagination/
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The War for the Imagination

I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sappho and Black Elk and others long since gone, meet ideas and possibilities, meet each other

Meditations in an Emergency
bsmall2Aug 13, 2025

> “A concrete example of what I mean when I say AI cannot summarize.”

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge

Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…

Iris van Rooij
bsmall2Jul 2, 2025

> “So, it isn’t any kind of ‘cognitive decline’; that assumes it was smart to begin with,” Gill said. “This is the disillusionment after the hype. There is still a long way to go, but nothing will replace a plain old calculator or computer. Dumbness is so underrated.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ai-hallucinations-whats-really-happening_l_68556bd5e4b0278e54ed3d14
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No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That

Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place.

HuffPost UK
Brian SmallJun 15, 2025
> “I can’t believe I even have to talk about these people. That’s how ridiculous it is,” says Timnit Gebru, an electrical engineer and founder and executive director of the ­Distributed AI Research Institute. “They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field. “Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”

> Gebru argues, the conversation ignores what AI like ChatGPT really is: Not a form of intelligence — which, in and of itself, is almost impossible to define — but rather a large language model that simply scrapes the (inherently flawed) internet and predicts the most likely sequence of words. We are made to think that AI is “thinking,” but that’s just marketing, and misleading marketing at that. A machine that doesn’t really think at all can’t teach itself to think better. And it certainly can’t figure out how to alter the habitability of Mars.

> Likewise, though Altman claimed in January that nuclear fusion — potentially an inexhaustible source of energy — was only a few years away, the scientists working to bring it about scoff at that timeline (there’s a joke that it’s been 30 years away for the past 60 years). Crypto continues to have dubious (legal) utility as compared with other forms of currency, but in 2023, it gobbled up as much energy as the entire continent of Australia. In October, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, said the solution to the climate crisis was to use more energy: Since we aren’t going to meet our climate goals anyway, we should pump energy into AI that might one day evolve to solve the problem for us. (“Yeah, that’s a quote that he gave in public without, like, a mask over his face or anything,” says Becker. “And he still walks around, unashamed.”) In his first week in office, Trump invited Altman, Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son to the White House to gleefully announce the building of 20 more AI data centers.

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…

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What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Rolling Stone