Mastodawn

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Robert Booth, The Guardian's "UK technology editor", has allowed the newspaper to be used as an advertising platform for the AGI narrative by publishing an interview that characterizes "training LLMs using slop generated by LLMs" as "a beneficial 'intelligence explosion' – or be the moment humans end up losing control".

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Guilherme Rios Dec 3

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This is the second piece he published, in two days, glorifying the "AI race", with no fact checking and no journalistic integrity.

In a few years I will have forgotten the names of most of the people that were part of the "AI boom". His I won't.

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Guilherme Rios

Well, maybe there's hope after all: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/14/datacentre-boom-is-uk-ai-bubble-about-to-burst

Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?

Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposed

The Guardian