Karsten SchmidtTime for another round of critical AI weekend reading:
Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
Aline Blankertz (@alineblankertz)
https://www.structural-integrity.eu/crashing-hard-why-talking-about-bubbles-obscures-the-real-social-cost-of-overinvesting-into-artificial-intelligence/
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
Iris van Rooij (@Iris)
https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
Kashmir Hill (@kashhill)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.FEwL.MLb9ajaocyTx&smid=url-share
Who Prompted All This Shit?
Hito Steyerl (@hito)
https://spikeartmagazine.com/articles/interview-hito-steyerl
Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability
Anaëlle Beignon et al
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-beigon-imposing-ai.pdf
(also several other great papers from this year's workshop on Computing within Limits, full list here: https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/#program)
Crashing hard: why talking about bubbles obscures the real social cost of overinvesting into “Artificial Intelligence”
More and more commentators talk about and warn of an “AI bubble”, and everybody seems to congratulate each other on being such a smart financial analyst. BUT: A bubble pops and you are left with air and maybe a splash of soap somewhere on the floor. A fairly clean affair. This kind of investor speak