"The AI investment frenzy exhibits classic bubble psychology: fear of missing out (FOMO) overriding rational assessment.
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FOMO hijacks our social comparison mechanisms. We evaluate investments relative to what others are doing, not against absolute measures of value or social good. If your competitor invests in AI, you must too, regardless of whether it creates genuine value or inflates valuations."
#CorneliaCWalther, Ph.D, 2025
Good read. #AIHype
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
#xp https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington
Turns out DuoLingo stock value went down 64% up to today, six months after they announced it was going to be centered around AI. LMAO
Today's mood #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #Fascism #AIHype
There is so much that is truly terrible about this as a piece of journalism, but I am going to set that aside to focus on the latest, utterly mind-bending, move in the project of forcing AI on an unwilling world: it is like a highly infectious virus. i. e. Some sort of natural phenomenon happening to us which we should study from a distance.
No it f**king isn't. It is all a matter of choice by powerful people. It could stop tomorrow if they wanted.
I’m legitimately happy that this place actually cares about artists and artist compensation and otherwise. I cannot express how frustrating the mainstream Internet is. There are so many pro AI people prompt engineering their books, their covers, and it’s ironic because I never see these book prompters promoted on any PR channel so it’s very easy for me never to buy their books but i’m not sure if it’s just me, but these are the most insufferable people on the Internet. I don’t even think the most adamant of LLM hater even comes close to how insufferable these people are. This is why I can’t do online author spaces and it sucks. I know pro LLM art prompters exist here too but they are the minority. I’m just waiting for them to get bored with trying to make money with their prompted SLOP. The sane hostility we have will harm them too. #AI #AIHype
When will there be large protests against AI companies? Huge capital investment in AI is increasing energy use, causing pollution, taking away skilled labor, and causing shortages of chips.
#artificialintelligence #artificialstupidity #aggregatedignorance #ai #aibubble #pollution #aihype #aiwinter #llms #chatgpt #openai #protestagainstai #protests #poorinvestments
Tesla ends 2025 struggling with falling demand, aging models, shrinking margins, and delayed AI ambitions like robotaxis and Optimus. Competition especially from Chinese EV makers is surging, and the end of U.S. tax credits hit sales hard. Energy storage is growing, but not enough to offset weakening automotive cash flow.
#Tesla #EVSlowdown #MarketReality #AIHype #Margins #Competition #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/tesla-stock-rises-on-market-sentiment/
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 67 - You Talked to Workers for This Labor Research... Right?
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/xt56PHSUeqdFYtV4tfJkod
Australia’s national AI plan has just been released. Who exactly will benefit?
#Australia #AI #AustraliaAI #NationalAIPlan #AIEconomy #AIHype #AIInvestment #AIRegulation #TechPolicy #AIBubble #FutureOfWork #DataCenters #AIInnovation #AIRegulation #The14
https://the-14.com/australias-national-ai-plan-has-just-been-released-who-exactly-will-benefit/
"The data centers suck up tens of millions of gallons of water from the aquifer each year to cool their computer equipment, which then gets funneled to the Port’s wastewater system.” The result is that more nitrate-laden wastewater gets pumped onto area farms. But the porous soil saturates quickly and more nitrates make their way into the aquifer".
https://www.theverge.com/news/834151/amazon-data-centers-oregon-cancer-miscarriage
"OpenAI’s data centre partners are on course to amass almost $100bn in borrowing tied to the lossmaking start-up, as the ChatGPT maker benefits from a debt-fuelled spending spree without taking on financial risks itself.
SoftBank, Oracle and CoreWeave have borrowed at least $30bn to invest in the start-up or help build its data centres, according to FT analysis.
Investment group Blue Owl Capital and computing infrastructure companies such as Crusoe also rely on deals its customers have signed with OpenAI to service about $28bn in loans.
A group of banks was in talks to lend another $38bn for Oracle and data centre builder Vantage to fund further sites for OpenAI, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal is expected to be finalised in the coming weeks.
OpenAI executives have said they plan to raise substantial debt to help pay for these contracts, but so far the financial burden has fallen to its counterparties and their lenders.
“That’s been kind of the strategy,” said a senior OpenAI executive. “How does [OpenAI] leverage other people’s balance sheets?”
The scale of the loans that depend on OpenAI will add to scrutiny of the $1.4tn of deals it has signed this year to procure computing power from chipmakers and data centre companies over the next eight years.
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The $100bn of bonds, bank loans and private credit deals tied to OpenAI are equivalent to the net debt directly held by the six largest corporate borrowers in the world — including carmakers Volkswagen and Toyota and telecoms groups AT&T and Comcast — according to a 2024 report by asset manager Janus Henderson."
https://www.ft.com/content/5605d086-289e-4b5f-803b-4c13666976a5
It's scary how #AIHype is taking over academia. This @nature.com@bsky.brid.gy paper found out that LLM suck at tabular tasks (which should not be surprising, unless they memorized the test set). Yet the abstract is still phrased as if they were some kind of breakthrough (WTF?!?). www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Aggregated Information" or even "Aggregated Ignorance". That's what the AI hype is all about.
#artificialintelligence #ai #llm #chatgpt #aislop #aihype #aibubble #artificialstupidity #aggregatedignorance
The other day, @noybeu published a great video explaining whats is wrong with the Digital Omnibus, a bundle of laws the EU commission wants to pass quickly in order to weaken the data protection standards the EU previously established in the GDPR.
My favourite quote is what @maxschrems says around minute 42:
When we talk about the AI discussion I usually kind of allude that originally when we came up with all those principles in the eighties in the Council of Europe, the idea was always that we are going to have this big algorithm that is going to suck up all your data, come to weird conclusions, and therefore we need transparency, rectification – we need all these things. And now, exactly at the time when this is the reality then suddenly the argument is we have to get rid of all these rules that were made for exactly this situation. So all this icks me a bit on all of that.
If you read it you sometimes get the idea that the commission wants to get to the AI promised land. And to get there we need to cut right through the whole GDPR.
Video: https://tilvids.com/w/vkPhGef6r5gvR9jiED2fGW
More: https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles
Next week, NOYB will publish the "GDPR Reform Report" with more details.
I wrote about my friend losing his confidence in his writing ability, thanks to LLMs. Read the story at https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
#AI #AIHype
Anthropic's Opus 4.5 claims benchmark victory while security tests reveal a 22-point gap between controlled scenarios and real-world agent behavior. The Genesis Mission invokes Manhattan Project urgency—but "subject to available appropriations" appears four times. Two announcements, same playbook: declare victory, hedge quietly.
https://www.implicator.ai/opus-claims-victory-genesis-borrows-glory/
Best critique of AI on the internet without buying into the hype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM #AI #AIHype
