& The Winner of the Academy Award for Best AI Bullshit Hype is ...

Yawn. From the Naples Daily News:

Your lawyer might be filing 'hallucinating' AI information on your case

Generative AI-generated fictions are growing like weeds in court filings throughout the country. The Florida Supreme Court is the latest to address the over-use of this tool in pleadings.

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Generative AI for legal research can produce up to 33% falsehoods, study found

33% falsehoods?!?!? But, it produces these results really, really fast!

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From Gary Marcus, the Academy Award goes to: Antropic!!! Yay!!! BOO!!! Yay!!!

No, Anthropic did not call for a pause on AI development

Not really

So many headlines like these.

So, We Have A Winner! Antropic! This is the 3rd, 4th x they have announced some complete bullshit concerns about GenAI which are just, completely, totally, 100% bullshit hype. Just trying to keep the bubble inflated. Fuck these assholes.

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From Cory Doctorow:

Criticizing the everything machine

It slices, it dices, it even makes paperclips!

"Gish Gallop" is the debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish, who was notorious for this tactic)

I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI.

Flooding the zone with bullshit. That is totally all that the right-wing fascists, including the current executive branch of our government, are trying to do. Just commit outrage after outrage after outrage. Who can keep up?

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From Ben Horne:

The Token Bill Cometh Due: My Official AI Prediction

The AI industry is indeed a massive bubble, and OpenAI, Anthropic and others are going to start unraveling soon. Here's where I think the AI ecosystem & economy will be ~1 year from now.

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Finally, from Gary Marcus again:

Slop, productivity, and why the AI-fueled world is going nowhere mighty fast

Agentic Ai spurred a boom in mobile app releases, but there is no sign of these apps gaining traction.

Similarly, tons of new AI-generated eBooks & songs, also gaining no traction. Look, you want to be a writer, or a songwriter, do the work, write stories, write songs. Don't fucking use GenAI! Incredibly, I'm guessing > 80% of human beings recognize AI slop & reject it. If you want to be a content creator, do the work. hone your skills, fuck AI.

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