#snakeoil

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-25

🐍 So, you want to bring the power of to your , eh? Because what’s better than making your command line feel like it’s running on pure snake oil? 🤖 Just another day in tech where the solution to every problem is to toss at it and pray it sticks. 🙄
github.com/google-gemini/gemin

Valeriy M., PhD, MBA, CQFpredict_addict@sigmoid.social
2025-06-23

Gaussian processes are the SMOTE of Uncertainty Quantification. The ultimate #snakeoil.

#bayesianism

2025-06-20

Do you know what AI stands for?
Auto Cucumber.
#funny #ai #llm #snakeoil #hype

Thomas Fricke (he/him)thomasfricke@23.social
2025-06-19

Margaret Mitchell: artificial general intelligence is ‘just vibes and snake oil’
One of the pioneers of AI ethics explains why human needs should be the central driver in the development of the technology

ft.com/content/7089bff2-25fc-4

#agi #ai #snakeoil

Yes, I agree 👍

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-06-12

Sam Altman insists on painting as the eco-friendly savior of the universe, while conveniently ignoring the fact that training a single model emits enough CO2 to power a small country for a year 🌍🔥. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley continues its grand tradition of selling snake oil with a side of technobabble served by the gallon 🚀🤖.
gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-lies-a

2025-06-09

Par ici, le beau #petrole "décarbonné" canadien. Pas de bousculade, il y en aura pour tout le monde!

#greenwashing #co2 #caPol #snakeOil

ledevoir.com/environnement/888

Brian Slettenbsletten
2025-06-03

This is my surprised face: :/

“AI” apparently stood for “Active Indians”.

binance.com/en/square/post/247

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-05-31

Are NFTs the future of event marketing? I don't think so! Why? Because of serious sustainability and purchase complexity concerns.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

NFTs event marketing: photograph of a snake-oil salesman sitting at the front of a "wild-west" stagecoach covered with advertisements
2025-05-21

Dear Juniper Networks:

How about "No" and "Fuck Off"?

#noAI #AI #LLMs #snakeoil

An email invitation from Juniper Networks for their "AI-Native Now: The Next Era" with locations in July in Manchester and London in the U.K.
Brian Slettenbsletten
2025-05-19

As those who pay attention have been saying for many years now:

nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technol

2025-05-14

#breakingNews: #AI can replicate its input!!! WTF does "spontaneously" mean in the context of a designed, built, paid for artefact based on human data? @theguardian.com @raphaelboyd.bsky.social #AIEthics #SnakeOil www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI can spontaneously develop h...

Vermont Citizen ScientistWIC4SCI@sciencemastodon.com
2025-05-12

If you are feeling blue, this compound will do little more that take away your green. cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/methyle
It DOES have an approved and tested benefit for people with methemoglobinemia. Read about the "blue Fugates" of Kentucky. historyextra.com/period/victor or Nice series of books on one family with this condition and how they made their way in society by Kim Michele Richardson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book and goodreads.com/book/show/588033 #methyleneblue #quackery #healthcare #snakeoil

2025-05-09

@wdormann I've cloned it to Codeberg before it get DCMA'd . Do not use a Microsoft GitHub Platform when you know you could be silenced by Microsoft 🤨

codeberg.org/tomas-jakobs/defe

#Codeberg #Microsoft #WSC #Snakeoil

Screenshot of the Repo on Codeberg
Simon Roy Hughes 🧌SimonRoyHughes@beige.party
2025-05-06

I am likewise refusing to set fire to my house. No joke.

bbc.com/news/articles/c15q5qzd

#ai (pronounced "eye") #SnakeOil #Charlatanism

2025-04-29

@godpod No one is safe who drinks from the #Ai of snake oil salesmen! Deity crushes the total control of inflation nihilists. Yah gods of mice and small men. Farther cult, tic toc MF #SnakeOil #Ouroboros #InformationHegemony #EarthFirst #FBI #TheFederation #EmpiresEnd #Deity

2025-04-16

I see the AI book authors have been busy. “AI Assisted Programming”, "AI Engineering" etc. Which is interesting considering I do not believe there has been a single successful product launched that was built using AI, and many developers and companies are now backing off the idea.
#SnakeOil

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