llm

LLM proponents have forgotten their intellectual roots in TANSTAAFL.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #TANSTAAFL #NoFreeLunch

I read this with interest…

"Billionaires think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived, because they're the wealthiest people who've ever lived. If they were wrong about anything, then why would they have been so financially successful? […] They believe that everything can be quantified, like a person's IQ, and that money is a good measure of how much someone is worth."

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/youre-not-going-to-mars-and-you-wont-live-forever-exploding-silicon-valleys-ideology/

#tech #technology #BigTech #billionaires #TaxTheRich #capitalism #AI #LLM #LLMs #ML

Compare and contrast

This:

In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrousel", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense they would be "Renewed" or reborn.

(Logans Run)

and this:

In the year of the city 2274, the colony of human beings on Mars live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by generative AI. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Cloud", a public ritual that destroys their bodies, under the pretense their consciousness would be uploaded to a computer and live forever.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Mars #eugenics #LogansRun #ScienceFiction #dystopia

Because I set my Mastodon posts to automatically delete, I channeled my anger into this blog post telling Tech Bros to fuck off. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/a-thermodynamic-failure-of-the-soul/

#AI #NoAI #LLM

Good AI research should tell us something about life, or it should help people. I hate seeing research about automating what people do. It's not a good goal for science or society! I was recently reminded of this by a paper applying LLMs to math.

This domain has many good questions: what do we mean when we say a person "solves math problems"? What are they actually doing? How is this like or not like what an LLM does? How might mathematicians benefit from this?

Instead, we get papers that pit an LLM against a human on a math problems dataset. This is great for claiming "AI has superhuman math abilities now!", but it's debatable whether good answers in a test-taking environment have anything to do with logic, reasoning, or creative problem solving. Instead of exploring to what extent LLMs are "really intelligent" vs. "stochastic parrots" (and perhaps the same question for humans), it reduces everything down to a number, one that hides the deeper problem and seems far more definitive than it is.
#ai #llm

I am about 1/3 the way in and this is absolute FIRE from @WeirdWriter on LLMs and their attendant techbro shitweasels
📢 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

#ai #llm #enshittification #fuckLLMs #claude

When I say "I hate AI", I mean #AI driven #LLM that produce endless streams of slop

I hate AI in it's current form

There are ways that would benefit humanity drastically with improving AI but the goals are wrong

We need to create cures against a LOT of diseases, support people with disabilities, find a better way to combat poverty, solve complicated equations and on and on..

At it's current form it's eating and hogging resources doing things humans want to do

They made me hate it

#lispyGopherClimate #live #technology #podcast hosted by @ramin_hal9001 https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/ai-cannot-live-up-to-the-hype.html this week!

https://communitymedia.video/w/sBNPeWFJ7NuDVCjkAv7fkX

My guess as to the topic from the main show toot which is

https://fe.disroot.org/objects/88f34eba-ccaf-407e-8505-8a2a3bd1613b <- visit

@kentpitman 's poem

Repudiating the #ai #llm hype!

And #environmental damage #climate

#commonLisp #lisp #typeTheory #coalton common lisp static typing DSL https://coalton-lang.github.io/ ,
#ELS 2025 talk by Robert Smith. Robert emailed a note.

#programming

On the limits of LLMs (Large Language models) and LRMs (Large Reasoning Models). The TL;DR: "Our findings reveal fundamental limitations in current models: despite sophisticated self-reflection mechanisms, these models fail to develop generalizable reasoning capabilities beyond certain complexity thresholds." Meaning: accuracy collapse.

Interesting paper from Apple. https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

#AI #LLM #LRM

Did you know? #Fedify provides #documentation optimized for LLMs through the llms.txt standard.

Available endpoints:

• https://fedify.dev/llms.txt — Core documentation overview
• https://fedify.dev/llms-full.txt — Complete documentation dump

Useful for training #AI assistants on #ActivityPub/#fediverse development, building documentation chatbots, or #LLM-powered dev tools.

#fedidev

Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts
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Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-ai-veterans-affairs-canceled-contracts-senators-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOGE #Veterans #VA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Government

AI is bad compression. Every time you run training material through it, you get a lossy summary of that material back, along with some noise.

You quickly run out of *quality* training material and start dog-fooding the output back in. Then you end up with lossy summaries of lossy summaries, and eventually all your pizza sauce recipes are dog food.

#AI #LLM

How's that AI coding going for you? Ah... I see.

Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

"... Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers...."

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/

#ai #cybersecurity #llm

How often do you use #AI #LLM tools like: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek or Grok?

OpenClaw founder Steinberger joins OpenAI, open-source bot becomes foundation

From https://www.reuters.com/business/openclaw-founder-steinberger-joins-openai-open-source-bot-becomes-foundation-2026-02-15/

Everything I've read about OpenClaw suggests it's the NFT of AI. These folks need the fiction that AI is approaching "consciousness", or at least "agency", to continue.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #AgenticAI #VibeCoding #OpenAI #OpenClaw

Unassailable proof that the internet is 99% cat pictures:

My profile pic is AI generated slop from the prompt: "A picture of some random AI slop. Surprise me."

The LLM used is one of those that was trained on screen scrapings of the entire webiverse.

The picture is, of course, by the iron laws of the internet, a cute kitten.

#catsofmastodon #aislop #llm

2-3 years ago there was a lot of concern about LLM “model collapse”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse due to model output in training data.

I don’t hear that any more, is it a solved problem?

Reason I ask is I observe the avalanche of LLM-generated code hitting places like GitHub which one would think is being swallowed by the scrapers, and I wonder if there’s any collapse risk.

Assuming I’m wrong it’d be interesting to hear why that is.

#llm #genAI

…the term hallucinations is subtly misleading. It suggests that the bad behavior is an aberration, a bug, when it’s actually a feature of the probabilistic pattern-matching mechanics of neural networks.
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#ai #llms #llm #hallucinations

On reflection, I think the big mistake is the conflation of #AI with #LLM and #MachineLearning.
There are genuine exciting advances in ML with applications all over the place, in science, (not least in my own research group looking at high resolution regional climate downscaling), health diagnostics, defence etc. But these are not the AIs that journalists are talking about, nor that are really related the LLMs.
They're still good uses of GPUs and will probably produce economic benefits, but probably not the multi- trillion ones the pundits seem to be expecting

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114896256761569397
Ruth_Mottram - My main problem with @edzitron.com 's piece on the #AIbubble is that I agree with so much of it.
I'm now wondering if I've missed something about #LLMs? The numbers and implications for stock markets are terrifyingly huge!

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

Running Deepseek R1 671b fully locally on a $2000 EPYC server. Idle wattage is just 60w while with 260w under load.

This setup runs a 671B model in Q4 quantization at 3-4 TPS, running a Q8 would need something beefier. To run a 671B model in the original Q8 at 6-8 TPS you'd need a dual socket EPYC server motherboard with 768GB of RAM.

The idea that LLMs use an inordinate amount of power to run is very much outdated at this point.

https://digitalspaceport.com/how-to-run-deepseek-r1-671b-fully-locally-on-2000-epyc-rig/

#technology #llm

It suddenly struck me the other day that generative AI used in government and media has a very Memoirs Found in a Bathtub quality about it. One of the premises of Lem's (amazing) novel is that paper disintegrates for unknown reasons, leaving very few hard records of anything. The book is a mock diary of a person who lived through the disorienting chaos that ensued.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #tech #dev #StanislawLem #fiction #SciFi #ScienceFiction #cybernetics

Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.

From “LYING IN POLITICS”: HANNAH ARENDT’S ANTIDOTE TO ANTICIPATORY DESPAIR https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/

I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.

While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.

This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.

Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.

#USPol #HannahArendt #authoritarianism #despair #tech #dev #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM

Excellent article by @wojtekpow

On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity

https://behindtheviewfinder.com/on-ai-in-response-to-a-positive-technologist-identity/

#llm #ai #writing #blog #indentity #creativity #photography #painting #indieweb #personalwebsite #positive

This is a far better response than the one I was going to make about Corey using an LLM. Acting ethically in an imperfect world https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/ #AI #AIHype #LLM

I disagree with this update. Here is the follow up to the article I shared yesterday. Personally I think it’s OK if everybody is feeling a little bit emotional about their hero willingly using a technology that is rooted in a lot of all kinds of systemic oppression. To me, I hate this need for every figure people look up to to be perfect, but I do not expect anybody I actively promote to turn on a dime when it’s convenient for them. Anybody that calls this emotional response purity anything is missing the point. The point is about being frustrated because people appear to stop caring. On Alliances https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/ #AI #LLM