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Bullshit machines for bullshit jobs.

ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide – Pivot to AI
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/11/chatgpt-goes-down-and-fake-jobs-grind-to-a-halt-worldwide/

#AI #BullshitJobs #BullshitMachines

ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide

ChatGPT suffered a worldwide outage from 06:36 UTC Tuesday morning. The servers weren’t totally down, but queries kept returning errors. OpenAI finally got it mostly fixed later in the day. [OpenAI…

Pivot to AI

Norbert Reithinger 2d ago

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1118233/amsterdam-fair-welfare-ai-discriminatory-algorithms-failure/

#ai #ethics

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI

The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?

MIT Technology Review

Norbert Reithinger 2d ago

Baldur Bjarnason 2d ago

Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’”: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/followup-on-trusting-your-own-judgement/

Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI...’”

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Norbert Reithinger 3d ago

tante 3d ago

This essay by @baldur on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.

Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Norbert Reithinger 3d ago

#Nationalstolz (via https://www.literatpro.de/spruch/171016/die-wohlfeilste-art-des-stolzes-hingegen-ist-der-nationalstolz)

Norbert Reithinger 4d ago

Urzl 4d ago

Just watched a presentation at work that explained how instead of form validation and UX rework, we're going to deploy an AI to detect incomplete forms and attempt to guess the answers in new job applications.

I am aghast and yet still powerless. Nobody with any power cares that it's all wrong.

#corporate #LLM #AIMonomania

Norbert Reithinger Jun 6

"The Germans must have a word for this situation; perhaps Trump could ask Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who visited the White House today."

Mhh, I don't know. Any suggestions?

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/elon-musk-fighting-x-truth-trump/683045/

#german #usa2025

Elon Musk Goes Nuclear on Trump

The world’s richest man and the president of the United States are now openly fighting.

The Atlantic

Norbert Reithinger Jun 4

Thomas Fricke (he/him)Jun 4

An all male panel talking about #AI discrimination.

Priceless. #wiconf2025

Norbert Reithinger Jun 4

Drosten stabil:

https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/geisteswissenschaften/2025-06-04/c0547b482767ef2d242a7a4bab1a8897/

#wissenschaft #demokratie

Norbert Reithinger Jun 4

tante Jun 4

With so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding".

Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.

https://tante.cc/2025/05/23/on-vibe-coding/

On "Vibe Coding"

The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double whammy of “agentic AI” and “Vibe Coding”. Now “agentic AI” basically just means that some LLM […]

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