> In an analysis of nearly 5,000 summaries created by popular AI models—including versions of ChatGPT, Claude, LLaMA, and DeepSeek—researchers found that many systems consistently exaggerated the conclusions of original research papers. The problem wasn’t just occasional sloppiness. In some newer models, overgeneralization happened in up to 73% of summaries. That’s a big concern when people rely on these tools to explain health research, inform policies, or guide classroom learning.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.241776
#SalamiAI #AISalami #LLMsAndScience

"I read a really great phrase recently that said something along the lines of 'why would I bother to read something someone couldn't be bothered to write' and that is such a powerful statement and one that aligns absolutely with my views."
..
"If you want to know why a decision is made, we will need humans. If we don't care about that, then we will probably use AI," he says.
...
"Even when you do a Google search it includes an AI overview, while some emails have a topline summary, So now it almost feels like we have no control. How do I turn all that off? It's snowballing."
bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzd…
#SabineZetteler
#AISalami #SalamiAI

> For Chomsky, the "new AI"—focused on using statistical learning techniques to better mine and predict data— is unlikely to yield general principles about the nature of intelligent beings or about cognition.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/
#AISalami #WhereAIWentWrong #ChomskyOnAI #NoamChomsky

> Even the $100 billion that Altman promised would be deployed “immediately” would be much more expensive than the Manhattan Project ($30 billion in current dollars) and the COVID vaccine’s Operation Warp Speed ($18 billion), rivaling the multiyear construction of the Interstate Highway System ($114 billion). https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-bubble-trouble-ai-threat/
#uspol #AISalami
/HT @timnitGebru

> V3 was trained at a reported cost of about US$5.58 million. This is dramatically cheaper than GPT-4, for example, which cost more than US$100 million to develop.
> DeepSeek also claims to have trained V3 using around 2,000 specialised computer chips, specifically H800 GPUs made by NVIDIA. This is again much fewer than other companies, which may have used up to 16,000 of the more powerful H100 chips.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/29/deepseek-how-a-small-chinese-ai-company-is-shaking-up-us-tech-heavyweights/
#DeepSeek #AISalami #AIChips
#TongliangLiu

I wonder if it wastes as much electricity and water as Gringo LLMs?
> China’s DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed, fully open-source reasoning model that rivals OpenAI’s o1—and developers are losing it. Unlike OpenAI’s closed ecosystem, DeepSeek-R1 is free to modify, fine-tune, and commercialise, making it a dream come true for researchers and businesses alike.
https://analyticsindiamagazine.substack.com/p/deepseek-just-did-what-openai-wouldnt
#DeepSeek #AiSalami #LLMs ??

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> The more honest diagnosis would be that the responses are the result of a broken political system that offers no real way for people to have their healthcare grievances addressed—but that would call not for scolding screwed-over patients, but rather demanding political reform that challenges entrenched political and corporate interests that the Times has little interest in challenging.
https://fair.org/home/nyt-panics-over-outrage-at-insurance-companies/
#UnitedHealthCare #uspol #AISalami #AgenticShift #AIinMedicine
@bsmall2@fedibird.com

> Senate Democrats accused the company of “denying claims to a growing number of patients as it tried to leverage artificial intelligence to automate the process,” a kind of capitalist nightmare with a sci-fi twist (Fox Business, 12/6/24).
https://fair.org/home/nyt-panics-over-outrage-at-insurance-companies/

#AIinHealthcare #AISalami #AgenticShift #UnitedHealthCare #uspol #FairOrg

> ... the company illegally deployed "artificial intelligence (AI) in place of real medical professionals to wrongfully deny elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans by overriding their treating physicians’ determinations as to medically necessary care based on an AI model."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/unitedhealthcare-accused-relying-ai-algorithms-deny-medicare-advantage-claims
#uspol #AISalami #AgenticShift #AIinMedicine #AIinHealthCare #UnitedHealthCare

> “It was a 100% male team, not even in fashionable clothes,” she said. “Like, come on. This is what you’ve got to offer?”

This is what people want to build new nukes for, and restart Three Mile Island for... and order more Gas Turbines to use up all the energy, and water and carbon budgets....

https://fortune.com/2024/10/30/chanel-ceo-leena-nair-microsoft-openai-chatgpt/
#AISalami
/HT @amydiehl via @jikodesu

> The median split of AI wisdom is this: either you understand that current neural networks struggle mightily with outliers (just as their 1990s predecessors did) – and therefore understand why current AI is doomed to fail on many of its most lavish promises – or you don’t.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/ai-llms
#GaryMarcus #AIsLLMs #AISalami
/HT Tinmit Gebru @ dair-community

> ... because we're being inundated with fake AI content, the researchers say there have been instances when "high profile individuals are able to explain away unfavourable evidence as AI-generated, shifting the burden of proof in costly and inefficient ways."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-researchers-paper-ai-internet

#InvisibleFoot #AISalami #InvisibleFootAI #FraudulentAi
/HT @scalzi via @sef

A shorter name to replace "AI" for "LLMs" came to mind,
"NSA": Natural Stupidity Automated..

A Meme that came through my FB feed a few times sparked the epiphany along with a recent Stephen Colbert post about TechBros automating making up BS...

From Stefano Quintarelli (he/him)
> Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI).

https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/

#AISalami #NaturalStupidiyAutomated

Automated Plagiarism for BS (not me, the other BS, Harry Frankfurt's) :
> Robots.txt is a single bit of code that's been used since the late 1990s as a way for websites to tell bot crawlers they don't want their data scraped and collected. It was widely accepted as one of the unofficial rules supporting the web...
> The world's top two #AIStartups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model #TrainingData,
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt
#AiSalami #LLM

Icarus: The #FutureOfScience , the book is on-line.
> #icarus having been taught to fly by his father Daedalus, was destroyed by his rashness. I fear that the same fate may overtake the populations whom modern men of science have taught to fly. Some of the dangers inherent in the #ProgressOfCcience while we retain our present political and #EconomicInstitutions are set forth in the following pages.
https://archive.org/details/icarusorfutureof00russ
Same but different with #LLM #AISalami #GenerativeAI #CyberneticAI ?

> Simulative AI reproduces human skills, while cybernetic AI embeds them..
> .. In #SimulativeAI, intelligence manifests in a relation of comparison or resemblance of skills across external boundaries of humans and machines. In #CyberneticAI, intelligence is an emergent and distributed capacity of the hybrid human-machine assemblages as a whole.. power relations that make the human a functional part of that machine.
#RainerMühlhoff
/HT @RainerMuehlhoff via I can't remember, sorry!
#AiSALAMI

I wonder if Shelden has said anything about #ChatGPT or #AIText (#AISalami) in general?

> Michael Shelden calls Newspeak "the perfect language for a society of bad writers...because it reduces the number of choices available to them".[10] Shelden says that Newspeak first corrupts writers morally, then politically, "since it allows writers to cheat themselves and their readers with ready-made prose".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
#MichaelShelden #Orwell #GeorgeOrwell #PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage

> Professor Chung Eun-Gwi, a long-time translator of Korean literature, shares her own personal journey with poetry translation while stressing that

artificial intelligence ignores the decision-making process of human translators.

Finally, Kim Seungbok, head of the publishing company CUON, delves into the driving forces behind the remarkable surge in Korean literature’s popularity in Japan..
https://kln.or.kr/magazine/magazineView.do?volumeIdx=189
#TranslationStudies #AISalami #Korean #KoreanLiterature #AI #Translation

I wonder if #SmartAgriculture is an appropriate name for

> ...a rising area bringing the benefits of digitalization through big data, artificial intelligence and linked data into the agricultural domain.

#AI #AISalami is doing so well in other areas why not ram it into food production... I wonder what #LangdonWinner has to say about this...