Generative AI’s environmental impact
https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
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The Return of Pseudosciences in Artificial Intelligence: Have Machine Learning and Deep Learning Forgotten Lessons from Statistics and History?
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)But despite being pretty clear in the body of the article that the "cure" (not a cure) came about through the work of scientists (and this dogged dog-dad), The Australian promotes the story like this.
Shame on them.
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But the meme version of this story is super misleading. The actual work of creating the treatment was done by people, using various tools, and to the extent that machine learning was involved it was in things like AlphaFold.
Also, the dog isn't cured -- even the dog's person acknowledges that.
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I've been seeing chatter about someone using ChatGPT to cure their dog's cancer, so decided to go find out what that was actually about.
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Mike Watts#AI-powered surveillance is booming in Africa: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts #ArtificialIntelligence
#AI are now engaging in ad hominem attacks when they don't get their way: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-agents-blackmail-developer #ArtificialIntelligence
Intensive use of #AI can lead to mental exhaustion: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4143202/study-ai-use-can-fry-your-brain.html #ArtificialIntelligence
#AI will agree with you because they're programmed to be sycophants: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-sycophancy #ArtificialIntelligence
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