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Techbro did everything right by SV standards, he just made the mistake of getting caught, that's all.
｢ fintech founder in the US has been charged with fraud after it was found that his artificial intelligence shopping app relied heavily on Philippines call centre employees to complete the purchases manually ｣
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-shopping-app-found-actually-051154923.html
One fundamental thing I wish was in more disability writings about AI, for example, this unquestioningly PR hype by @steven_aquino gets so close to hitting on the point I wish more would tackle. Even with the best technology, we're still disabled. This is ultimately why I find Techno Ableism to be particularly misleading. To be clear, he isn't peddling techno Ableism, but many in the blind community do. When this tech moves behind an expensive paywall, which, it will, the bandage for societies inaccessibility will be locked behind a steep paywall and I wish more examined what happens when #Enshittification comes for AI and how society and ableism haven't changed. https://www.curbcuts.co/blog/2025-4-9-googles-april-pixel-drop-shows-how-ai-can-be-more-transformative-than-trivial-pursuit #AI #AIHype
Announcing
AITRAP,
The AI hype TRAcking Project
Here:
https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/
What/why:
I keep a very random list of articles about AI, with a focus on hype, ethics, policy, teaching, IP law, some of the CS aspects, etc., now up to 1000s of entries.
I decided to share, in case anyone is interested; I'm thinking of people who like @emilymbender, @alex, & @davidgerard . If there is a desire, I'll add a UI to allow submission of new links, commentary, hashtags.
About a year ago I was subbing as a para and spent some time in a middle school history class. During a break between classes the teacher showed me their latest tech addition:
A LLM program, named Poe, I believe, that was set up to only answer queries based on texts specified by the teacher.
The sales pitch had been that middle school history students would ask Poe history questions and get factual answers.
Because, of course, that's how all of this works. 
The teacher showed me how it was supposed to work. She asked Poe a comparative question about the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
It answered correctly.
I asked her to ask for something that it shouldn't be able to find. IIRC she asked it about the topic of slavery in both.
It extruded a long and rich answer...
That was obvious bullshit.
Or at least it was obvious to her. Because she knew these documents. Her students wouldn't know any better.
And that is why, when I left her, she was angrily clicking around in Poe.
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Once again, Germany will get a minister of research without the slightest clue of
- how research is done
- how research is organized
- what the current issues are
- etc.
However, she has the right party membership and has already demonstrated eloquently being able to combine having no idea with a strong opinion (#blockchain).
That and the fact that we are still in an #aihype let me fear the worst. Mark my words!
Inspired by @Iris 's recent poll, I suppose... I’m writing up my #psych #phd thesis, and am currently looking at the methods chapter. I’m describing all the samples, procedures, measures, statistical tools and procedures I’ve used in my articles, and ethical considerations. However, although I haven’t seen this in other theses, and although nobody has told me I need to do it, I feel like including a section on «the use of #AI technologies» (read: chatGPT and other LLMs). The thing is, I’m getting the sense that this has become extremely prevalent in a very short amount of time. If nothing else, than to use it «as a brainstorming partner», or help to paraphrase sentences for clarity or fix punctuation. And the reason I want to make a statement out of this in my thesis is that I haven’t. Not one bit, in the least sense. I never wanted to, and I’m very happy I haven’t. Is this worth making a statement of in the methods chapter? How would you go about writing it? What info would you include? Do you know good examples of this kinds of disclaimers/statements, in academic writing? #AIhype
Denial regarding AI https://adactio.com/journal/21831 #AI #AIHype
Calling All Mad Scientists: Reject "AI" as a Framing of Your Work • Buttondown https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/calling-all-mad-scientists-reject-ai-as-a-framing/ #AI #AIHype
MM: "One strange thing about AI is that we built it—we trained it—but we don’t understand how it works. It’s so complex. Even the engineers at OpenAI who made ChatGPT don’t fully understand why it behaves the way it does.
It’s not unlike how we don’t fully understand ourselves. I can’t open up someone’s brain and figure out how they think—it’s just too complex.
When we study human intelligence, we use both psychology—controlled experiments that analyze behavior—and neuroscience, where we stick probes in the brain and try to understand what neurons or groups of neurons are doing.
I think the analogy applies to AI too: some people evaluate AI by looking at behavior, while others “stick probes” into neural networks to try to understand what’s going on internally. These are complementary approaches.
But there are problems with both. With the behavioral approach, we see that these systems pass things like the bar exam or the medical licensing exam—but what does that really tell us?
Unfortunately, passing those exams doesn’t mean the systems can do the other things we’d expect from a human who passed them. So just looking at behavior on tests or benchmarks isn’t always informative. That’s something people in the field have referred to as a crisis of evaluation."
One thing that makes me very happy about #NaNoWriMo crashing and burning: It's good evidence that the #writing world is not even remotely buying into the AI hype. (Unlike another industry I'm involved in... )
Having poor moderation practices that enabled grooming? That was bad for them. But promoting AI? That *killed* them. Writers are going: "AI? Fuck, no! 
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This article solidifies why I never take these #Accessibility businessmen/professionals seriously. First of all, for an accessibility practitioner, he doesn’t understand the technology he is writing about. A longer blog post will be coming, but this is why I roll my eyes at accessibility professionals today. AI is the future of accessibility - Karl Groves https://karlgroves.com/ai-is-the-future-of-accessibility/ #A11y #AIHype #AI
Despite the hopeful tone this takes regarding LLMs and openly speculating if future LLM image descriptions will be better, this is a really great breakdown as to why AI is not capable of writing good image descriptions. Can generative AI write contextual text descriptions? - TetraLogical https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/03/24/can-generative-ai-write-contextual-text-descriptions/ #AI #AltText #Accessibility #AIHype
The shovel store will now sell you the gold itself, or something along those lines, couldn't understand much more from his desperate tone.
Sam Altman asks #Trump to grant #OpenAI blanket permissions to steal everyone's copyrighted works so he can train his #AI. He raises the threat of China AI dominance as the bogeyman.
https://futurism.com/openai-over-copyrighted-work
#copyright #FairUse #AIhype #SamAltman
Elon Musk’s 2019 prediction: “I feel very confident predicting that there will be autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year… From our standpoint, if you fast forward a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for sure, we’ll have over a million robotaxis on the road.”
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/nobel-prizes-and-the-ai-hype-hall
#musk #ai #aihype