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<p>Beeteedubs, I&#x27;m doing little side-podcast as part of my research on Generative AI in Higher Education: &#x27;Low Key Research Preview&#x27;</p><p><a href="https://soundcloud.com/lowkeyresearchpreview" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="soundcloud.com/lowkeyresearchpreview"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">soundcloud.com/lowkeyresearchp</span><span class="invisible">review</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/universities/" rel="tag">#Universities</a> <a href="/tags/highereducation/" rel="tag">#HigherEducation</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/he/" rel="tag">#HE</a> <a href="/tags/assessment/" rel="tag">#Assessment</a> <a href="/tags/edutooter/" rel="tag">#Edutooter</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> is a more successful penny-farthing; a video essay:<br><a href="https://youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/4TsOD7x6rSQ</a></p><p><a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/aichatbot/" rel="tag">#AIChatbot</a> <a href="/tags/aiethics/" rel="tag">#AIEthics</a> <a href="/tags/aisafety/" rel="tag">#AISafety</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> <a href="/tags/anthropic/" rel="tag">#Anthropic</a> <a href="/tags/scot/" rel="tag">#SCOT</a> <a href="/tags/sociology/" rel="tag">#sociology</a> <a href="/tags/bijker/" rel="tag">#Bijker</a> <a href="/tags/bigtech/" rel="tag">#BigTech</a> <a href="/tags/constructionism/" rel="tag">#Constructionism</a> <a href="/tags/socialconstruct/" rel="tag">#socialconstruct</a> <a href="/tags/videoessay/" rel="tag">#VideoEssay</a></p>

<p>Just wrote a 10k word post on the AI bubble, intended for people outside tech with lots of threads, answering: </p><p>Why bubbles happen.</p><p>Where the risk is w/ the LLM bubble.</p><p>Why LLMs can&#x27;t escape a bubble.</p><p>How LLMs slot into the history of AI.</p><p>And more!</p><p><a href="https://misaligned.markets/what-to-expect-ai-bubble/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="misaligned.markets/what-to-expect-ai-bubble/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">misaligned.markets/what-to-exp</span><span class="invisible">ect-ai-bubble/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/aibubble/" rel="tag">#aibubble</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>

<p>I just consulted 54 trillion &quot;people&quot; who agree that this is idiotic.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/siliconsampling/" rel="tag">#SiliconSampling</a></p>

<p>Part 1 of my recap on Chatbot-indiced psychosis.</p><p><a href="/tags/videoessay/" rel="tag">#VideoEssay</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a><br><a href="https://youtu.be/2SoMkeD6sdw?si=0iYposh6lPaL4AZ3" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtu.be/2SoMkeD6sdw?si=0iYposh6lPaL4AZ3"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/2SoMkeD6sdw?si=0iYpos</span><span class="invisible">h6lPaL4AZ3</span></a></p>

<p>If a news story can be turned into a dystopian short story by merely replacing “AI” with “cocaine,” you don’t have a news story; you have the other thing.</p><p>- Meta quarterly projections revised upward; analysts cite efficiency gains from cocaine<br>- CEO fires engineers who refuse to use cocaine at work<br>- “Cocaine enables one employee to do the work of 50,” managers say<br>- Cocaine companies now comprise 10% of US economy</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a></p>

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<p>The racism behind chatGPT we are not talking about....</p><p>This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread.</p><p>A few weeks ago, I was working on a paper with one of my RAs. I have permission from them to share this story. They had done the research and the draft. I was to come in and make minor edits, clarify the method, add some background literature, and we were to refine the discussion together.</p><p>The draft was incomprehensible. Whole paragraphs were vague, repetitive, and bewildering. It was like listening to a politician. I could not edit it. I had to rewrite nearly every section. We were on a tight deadline, and I was struggling to articulate what was wrong and how the student could fix it, so I sent them on to further sections while I cleaned up ... this.</p><p>As I edited, I had to keep my mind from wandering. I had written with this student before, and this was not normal. I usually did some light edits for phrasing, though sometimes with major restructuring.</p><p>I was worried about my student. They had been going through some complicated domestic issues. They were disabled. They&#x27;d had a prior head injury. They had done excellent on their prelims, which of course I couldn&#x27;t edit for them. What was going on!?</p><p>We were co-writing the day before the deadline. I could tell they were struggling with how much I had to rewrite. I tried to be encouraging and remind them that this was their research project and they had done all of the interviews and analysis. And they were doing great.</p><p>In fact, the qualitative write-up they had done the night before was better, and I was back to just adjusting minor grammar and structure. I complimented their new work and noted it was different from the other parts of the draft that I had struggled to edit.</p><p>Quietly, they asked, &quot;is it okay to use chatGPT to fix sentences to make you sound more white?&quot;</p><p>&quot;... is... is that what you did with the earlier draft?&quot;</p><p>They had, a few sentences at a time, completely ruined their own work, and they couldnt tell, because they believed that the chatGPT output had to be better writing. Because it sounded smarter. It sounded fluent. It seemed fluent. But it was nonsense!</p><p>I nearly cried with relief. I told them I had been so worried. I was going to check in with them when we were done, because I could not figure out what was wrong. I showed them the clear differences between their raw drafting and their &quot;corrected&quot; draft.</p><p>I told them that I believed in them. They do great work. When I asked them why they felt they had to do that, they told me that another faculty member had told the class that they should use it to make their papers better, and that he and his RAs were doing it. </p><p>The student also told me that in therapy, their therapist had been misunderstanding them, blaming them, and denying that these misunderstandings were because of a language barrier. </p><p>They felt that they were so bad at communicating, because of their language, and their culture, and their head injury, that they would never be a good scholar. They thought they had to use chatGPT to make them sound like an American, or they would never get a job.</p><p>They also told me that when they used chatGPT to help them write emails, they got more responses, which helped them with research recruitment. </p><p>I&#x27;ve heard this from other students too. That faculty only respond to their emails when they use chatGPT. The great irony of my viral autistic email thread was always that had I actually used AI to write it, I would have sounded decidedly less robotic.</p><p>ChatGPT is probably pretty good at spitting out the meaningless pleasantries that people associate with respectability. But it&#x27;s terrible at making coherent, complex, academic arguments!</p><p>Last semester, I gave my graduate students an assignment. They were to read some reports on labor exploitation and environmental impact of chatGPT and other language models. Then they were to write a reflection on why they have used chatGPT in the past, and how they might chose to use it in the future. </p><p>I told them I would not be policing their LLM use. But I wanted them to know things about it they were unlikely to know, and I warned them about the ways that using an LLM could cause them to submit inadequate work (incoherent methods and fake references, for example).</p><p>In their reflections, many international students reported that they used chatGPT to help them correct grammar, and to make their writing &quot;more polished&quot;. </p><p>I was sad that so many students seemed to be relying on chatGPT to make them feel more confident in their writing, because I felt that the real problem was faculty attitudes toward multilingual scholars.</p><p>I have worked with a number of graduate international students who are told by other faculty that their writing is &quot;bad&quot;, or are given bad grades for writing that is reflective of English as a second language, but still clearly demonstrates comprehension of the subject matter.</p><p>I believe that written communication is important. However, I also believe in focused feedback. As a professor of design, I am grading people&#x27;s ability to demonstrate that they understand concepts and can apply them in design research and then communicate that process to me.</p><p>I do not require that communication to read like a first language student, when I am perfectly capable of understanding the intent. When I am confused about meaning, I suggest clarifying edits.</p><p>I can speak and write in one language with competence. How dare I punish international students for their bravery? Fixation on normative communication chronically suppresses their grades and their confidence. And, most importantly, it doesn&#x27;t improve their language skills! </p><p>If I were teaching rhetoric and comp it might be different. But not THAT different. I&#x27;m a scholar of neurodivergent and Mad rhetorics. I can&#x27;t in good conscience support Divergent rhetorics while supressing transnational rhetoric!</p><p>Anyway, if you want your students to stop using chatGPT then stop being racist and ableist when you grade.</p><p><a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#chatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/academic/" rel="tag">#academic</a> <a href="/tags/graduatestudents/" rel="tag">#graduateStudents</a> <a href="/tags/internationalstudents/" rel="tag">#internationalStudents</a> <a href="/tags/esl/" rel="tag">#ESL</a></p>

<p>This misguided trend has resulted, in our opinion, in an unfortunate state of affairs: an insistence on building NLP systems using ‘large language models’ (LLM) that require massive computing power in a futile attempt at trying to approximate the infinite object we call natural language by trying to memorize massive amounts of data. In our opinion this pseudo-scientific method is not only a waste of time and resources, but it is corrupting a generation of young scientists by luring them into thinking that language is just data – a path that will only lead to disappointments and, worse yet, to hampering any real progress in natural language understanding (NLU). Instead, we argue that it is time to re-think our approach to NLU work since we are convinced that the ‘big data’ approach to NLU is not only psychologically, cognitively, and even computationally implausible, but, and as we will show here, this blind data-driven approach to NLU is also theoretically and technically flawed.<br></p>From Machine Learning Won&#x27;t Solve Natural Language Understanding, <a href="https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-wont-solve-the-natural-language-understanding-challenge/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thegradient.pub/machine-learning-wont-solve-the-natural-language-understanding-challenge/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thegradient.pub/machine-learni</span><span class="invisible">ng-wont-solve-the-natural-language-understanding-challenge/</span></a><br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/nlp/" rel="tag">#NLP</a> <a href="/tags/nlu/" rel="tag">#NLU</a> <a href="/tags/gpt/" rel="tag">#GPT</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/claude/" rel="tag">#Claude</a> <a href="/tags/gemini/" rel="tag">#Gemini</a> <a href="/tags/llama/" rel="tag">#LLAMA</a><br>

<p>New in The Medium Blog: Our CEO <span class="h-card"><a href="https://me.dm/@coachtony" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>coachtony</span></a></span> shares how our position on <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> has evolved, and asks for your feedback on how <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> can use AI tools to tell human stories.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/blog/we-want-your-feedback-how-can-writers-use-ai-to-tell-human-stories-eb9dee926f2e" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="medium.com/blog/we-want-your-feedback-how-can-writers-use-ai-to-tell-human-stories-eb9dee926f2e"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/blog/we-want-your-f</span><span class="invisible">eedback-how-can-writers-use-ai-to-tell-human-stories-eb9dee926f2e</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/medium/" rel="tag">#Medium</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/aiforhumans/" rel="tag">#AIForHumans</a></p>

<p>Hey everyone 👋</p><p>I’m diving deeper into running AI models locally—because, let’s be real, the cloud is just someone else’s computer, and I’d rather have full control over my setup. Renting server space is cheap and easy, but it doesn’t give me the hands-on freedom I’m craving.</p><p>So, I’m thinking about building my own AI server/workstation! I’ve been eyeing some used ThinkStations (like the P620) or even a server rack, depending on cost and value. But I’d love your advice!</p><p> My Goal:<br>Run larger LLMs locally on a budget-friendly but powerful setup. Since I don’t need gaming features (ray tracing, DLSS, etc.), I’m leaning toward used server GPUs that offer great performance for AI workloads.</p><p> Questions for the Community:<br>1. Does anyone have experience with these GPUs? Which one would you recommend for running larger LLMs locally?<br>2. Are there other budget-friendly server GPUs I might have missed that are great for AI workloads?<br>3. Any tips for building a cost-effective AI workstation? (Cooling, power supply, compatibility, etc.)<br>4. What’s your go-to setup for local AI inference? I’d love to hear about your experiences!</p><p>I’m all about balancing cost and performance, so any insights or recommendations are hugely appreciated. </p><p>Thanks in advance! 🙌</p><p>@selfhosted@a.gup.pe <a href="/tags/aiserver/" rel="tag">#AIServer</a> <a href="/tags/localai/" rel="tag">#LocalAI</a> <a href="/tags/budgetbuild/" rel="tag">#BudgetBuild</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/gpuadvice/" rel="tag">#GPUAdvice</a> <a href="/tags/homelab/" rel="tag">#Homelab</a> <a href="/tags/aihardware/" rel="tag">#AIHardware</a> <a href="/tags/diyai/" rel="tag">#DIYAI</a> <a href="/tags/servergpu/" rel="tag">#ServerGPU</a> <a href="/tags/thinkstation/" rel="tag">#ThinkStation</a> <a href="/tags/usedtech/" rel="tag">#UsedTech</a> <a href="/tags/aicommunity/" rel="tag">#AICommunity</a> <a href="/tags/opensourceai/" rel="tag">#OpenSourceAI</a> <a href="/tags/selfhostedai/" rel="tag">#SelfHostedAI</a> <a href="/tags/techadvice/" rel="tag">#TechAdvice</a> <a href="/tags/aiworkstation/" rel="tag">#AIWorkstation</a> <a href="/tags/localai/" rel="tag">#LocalAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/machinelearning/" rel="tag">#MachineLearning</a> <a href="/tags/airesearch/" rel="tag">#AIResearch</a> <a href="/tags/fediverseai/" rel="tag">#FediverseAI</a> <a href="/tags/linuxai/" rel="tag">#LinuxAI</a> <a href="/tags/aibuild/" rel="tag">#AIBuild</a> <a href="/tags/deeplearning/" rel="tag">#DeepLearning</a> <a href="/tags/opensourceai/" rel="tag">#OpenSourceAI</a> <a href="/tags/serverbuild/" rel="tag">#ServerBuild</a> <a href="/tags/thinkstation/" rel="tag">#ThinkStation</a> <a href="/tags/budgetai/" rel="tag">#BudgetAI</a> <a href="/tags/aiedgecomputing/" rel="tag">#AIEdgeComputing</a> <a href="/tags/questions/" rel="tag">#Questions</a> <a href="/tags/communityquestions/" rel="tag">#CommunityQuestions</a> <a href="/tags/homelab/" rel="tag">#HomeLab</a> <a href="/tags/homeserver/" rel="tag">#HomeServer</a> <a href="/tags/ailab/" rel="tag">#Ailab</a> <a href="/tags/llmlab/" rel="tag">#llmlab</a></p>

<p>These days when I write an email I explicitly add a note at the footer that says something like:</p><p>“This email is made and corrected without the use of LLM’s”</p><p>I just want people to know it’s me and not a bot</p><p>Sad it has come to this </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/ugh/" rel="tag">#ugh</a></p>

<p>I don’t like to do teasers, so Finishing up another lengthy narrative but In the meantime, my other tech and anti LLM long form stuff is at <a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/tags/narrative/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sightlessscribbles.com/posts/tags/narrative/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sightlessscribbles.com/posts/t</span><span class="invisible">ags/narrative/</span></a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/aihype/" rel="tag">#AIHype</a></p>

Re: LB: time to move off Chrome.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#AISlop</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/chrome/" rel="tag">#Chrome</a><br>

<p>It will never stop being weird to me how hard certain anarchists that are not me shill super hard for AI/LLMs, a tool used by the state to, oh fuck it. Go read tons of articles about why this is a very strange hill to die on. Start with this blog to find non AI projects. <a href="https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="noai.starlightnet.work/list.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">noai.starlightnet.work/list.ht</span><span class="invisible">ml</span></a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a></p>

<p>This is the single best explanation (long!) I&#x27;ve read about why LLMs are a con. Great piece from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@baldur" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>baldur</span></a></span>.</p><p><a href="https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm</span><span class="invisible">entalist/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a></p>

If current-generation LLM-based chatbots can drive people to commit crimes or even take their own lives, what do you suppose Neuralink would do to people?<br><br>The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was &quot;everyone will go insane immediately&quot;. I still believe that, but now we&#x27;re beginning to see evidence.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/neuralink/" rel="tag">#Neuralink</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/hci/" rel="tag">#HCI</a> <a href="/tags/brainimplants/" rel="tag">#BrainImplants</a><br>

<p><a href="https://communitymedia.video/w/rqokDpoYckC42rBoVTd1d1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="communitymedia.video/w/rqokDpoYckC42rBoVTd1d1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">communitymedia.video/w/rqokDpo</span><span class="invisible">YckC42rBoVTd1d1</span></a> <a href="/tags/archive/" rel="tag">#archive</a></p><p><a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#climateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/haiku/" rel="tag">#haiku</a> by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kentpitman</span></a></span> </p><p>Depressing actual <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> specific <a href="/tags/nz/" rel="tag">#nz</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> eg (source invidious link as response)</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.linkerror.com/@jns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jns</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/gopher/" rel="tag">#gopher</a> gopher://gopher.linkerror.com<br>- gopher://perma.computer<br>- <a href="/tags/warez/" rel="tag">#warez</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a><br>- <a href="/tags/eternalgameengine/" rel="tag">#EternalGameEngine</a><br>- <a href="/tags/unix_surrealism/" rel="tag">#unix_surrealism</a></p><p><a href="/tags/lisp/" rel="tag">#lisp</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://ieji.de/@vnikolov" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>vnikolov</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/commonlisp/" rel="tag">#commonLisp</a> <a href="/tags/mathematics/" rel="tag">#mathematics</a> <a href="/tags/declares/" rel="tag">#declares</a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://appdot.net/@mdhughes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mdhughes</span></a></span> &amp; <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@dougmerritt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dougmerritt</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ksaj" rel="nofollow">@ksaj</a> <a href="/tags/automata/" rel="tag">#automata</a>, in <a href="https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/115245557313951212" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/115245557313951212"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/11524</span><span class="invisible">5557313951212</span></a></p><p><a href="https://lambda.moo.mud.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>lambda.moo.mud.org/</a></p>

<p>Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.<br><br>And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.<br><br>Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.<br><br>Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public transport. Universities. Roads projects. Mental health services. Welfare payments.<br><br>People literally went homeless or starved, so rich people could get tax cuts.<br><br>Because the wealth would trickle down.<br><br>Eventually the eroding of public goods caused social dislocation.<br><br>So governments further cut those public goods to fund more police and prisons. To continue giving tax cuts to rich people.<br><br>But they said the wealth would trickle down.<br><br>Eventually the climate started changing because of the amount of toxic fossil fuel pollution in the atmosphere.<br><br>So governments chose to keep the tax cuts rather than fund infrastructure to reduce emissions.<br><br>(Many of those billionaires getting tax cuts made their money selling toxic fossil fuels.)<br><br>And as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the bushfires, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, floods, and droughts got worse.<br><br>But they said the wealth would trickle down.<br><br>Eventually people were getting pissed off at the dire state of the world.<br><br>The rich misdirected that anger at immigrants!<br><br>And First Nations!<br><br>And trans people!<br><br>And neurodivergent people!<br><br>Anyone but the billionaires who got the tax cuts.<br><br>So governments chose to keep the tax cuts. (For the rich. Everyone else got new tariff taxes.)<br><br>But they said the wealth would trickle down.<br><br>So did the wealth trickle down?<br><br>Well...<br><br>A group of billionaires saw this kinda cool tech demo.<br><br>It predicted the next pixel of an image, based on the colour patterns of every image on the internet.<br><br>It also predicted the next word in a sentence, based on an analysis of every piece of writing on the internet.<br><br>The rich decided that this clearly showed that a sentient computer was just around the corner.<br><br>The problem was these tech demos needed servers with a lot of GPUs to work.<br><br>So the rich took all the money they got from those tax cuts.<br><br>And they bought GPUs.<br><br>Millions and millions and millions and millions of GPUs.<br><br>All the tax cuts? All the underfunded schools? All the draconian welfare cuts? All the public housing shortages? The delays in funding clean energy.<br><br>In the end, it didn&#x27;t trickle down.<br><br>And instead of all the public goods it could have bought...<br><br>...We&#x27;ll be left with millions and millions and millions of GPUs in a landfill.<br><br><a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/claude/" rel="tag">#Claude</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/socialism/" rel="tag">#socialism</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#business</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/nvidia/" rel="tag">#Nvidia</a></p>

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<p>Dear LLM, please make me a pet site about cats. Make sure to include recipes!</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/slop/" rel="tag">#slop</a> <a href="/tags/aislop/" rel="tag">#aislop</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a></p>

<p>We don&#x27;t even need some &quot;evil AGI&quot; that starts WW3 or disabled energy grids, or whatever other million reason to make life for humans miserable</p><p>We just need to continue down this stupid LLM AI road we are currently on with building ever bigger energy eating farms just to feed the consumtion of creating even more fake videos, news and other content</p><p>And like always just a few are getting rich over the work of the rest</p><p>Pessimist or realist... I don&#x27;t know anymore</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a></p>

<p>&quot;The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking through to the site.&quot;</p><p>Generative AI keeps on ruining everything. </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#genai</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/wikipedia-says</span><span class="invisible">-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/</span></a></p>

<p>I&#x27;m in a <a href="/tags/github/" rel="tag">#github</a> internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mapstodon.space/@leaflet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>leaflet</span></a></span> having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is &quot;plz allow us to disable copilot reviews&quot;, with the most-wanted feature being &quot;plz allow us to block issues/PRs made with copilot&quot;.</p><p>Meanwhile, there&#x27;s a grand total of zero requests for &quot;plz put copilot in more stuff&quot;.</p><p>This should be significative of the attitude of veteran coders towards <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> creep.</p>