Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)

It's so painful to contemplate that Google just shoved their half-baked "AI Overviews" (that nobody asked for) into the search page to juice their "So many people are using our AI numbers" to keep stock market psychopaths happy.

@RangerRick it is a bit of an inverse though: A public benefit corporation says something about its own actions. I am looking for a project that tries to curb certain behaviors in users

Politiker hier auf ner Eröffnung: "KI, wir wissen noch gar nicht, was wir damit machen wollen, aber wir müssen das jetzt machen, sonst ist's zu spät."

Ich weiß kaum, wo ich anfangen soll. Aber ist schon auch irgendwie ne Diagnose.

"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.

Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.

That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.

"AI in the enterprise is failing faster than last year
[...]
in 2025, 46% of the surveyed companies have thrown out their AI proofs-of-concept and 42% have abandoned most of their AI initiatives — complete failure. The abandonment rate in 2024 was 17%."

(Original title: AI in the enterprise is failing over twice as fast in 2025 as it was in 2024)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/01/ai-in-the-enterprise-is-failing-over-twice-as-fast-in-2025-as-it-was-in-2024/

The way "AI" systems are presented as "social companions to fight loneliness" is very similar in how "AI" is supposed to help teaching: Both are founded in a massive misunderstanding of the social dynamics techies try to replace.

You friend isn't just a thing to send you text, they're not a service. Being taught also ins't a mere service, it's a transformative experience that changes you and your teacher.

"Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown"

Even CNN is slowly starting to get it.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/27/tech/apple-ai-artificial-intelligence

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibli stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

"If you're trying to dunk on the practice by linking to articles or examples that showcase the work, inadvertently flooding people's timelines with examples of this ghoulish, stolen work, stop.

Nobody wants to see that shit. Nobody needs to see it."

(Original title: Stop Sharing The Ghibli AI Slop, What Is Wrong With You)

https://aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-ai-art-openai-gpt-sam-altman-is-just-the-biggest-pile-of-shit

I think David got it right
"OpenAI’s financials weren’t any different before or after DeepSeek. They were still completely stupid and unsustainable. But the idea that burning money would protect them wasn’t viable any more.

This means OpenAI has to make more and more announcements so they look to the investors like they’re still cool and interesting. Any old garbage will do, like a literary fiction writer bot or something."
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114236556171702070

@cwebber "The attitudes of slop hucksters resemble incels, a kind destructive bitterness stemming from jealousy" perfect analogy.

Using AI image generators to create Ghibli style images just shows that you neither respect those pieces of art and their creators as well as not understanding their message of the importance of humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0K3lWKRc

I understand that everybody wants a narrative of technologically created "abundance". But you have to realize that without massive social changes even if we only used "green" technologies this amount of consumption would become a problem. It's very hard to turn that narrative into something truly aspirational, most of the time it will just end up being a "magic tech will fix all our issues, I don't want to change a thing and accept the consequences of my behavior lalalalalala I can't hear you".

Seriously Mozilla.ai: The fuck? The whole project is a bit of a mess but this meme is so tone deaf, such a slap in the face. In a time where people feel corporations abusing all data they can find it is a special kind of brain worm to claim: "Yeah, we also believe that."

Immer dran denken: Einen Feiertag zu streichen ist eine direkte Lohnkürzung.

(Original title: Streichung eines Feiertags könnte Milliarden Euro bringen)

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/arbeitsmarkt/streichung-feiertag-bip-milliarden-steigerung-100.html

The Fediverse should totally be more silly. Play around with the format more. Do shit that might not make sense on corporate platforms but that are human and weird and just some fucking fun.
https://icosahedron.website/@halcy/114184973143804131

With Open Source/Free Software as well as Creative Commons we have build pipelines to contribute to the commons (great!) but we never thought about how to defend those commons against appropriation.

That is why Open Source ends up massively benefitting corporations who don't give much back. That is also why Creative Commons has no interest in building more modular licenses that do for example prohibit training "AI" systems.

It's the market-based, liberal idea that if there's a lot of stuff there someone will make some money, someone will fund a startup and that is what everything is about. We've been had.

@cwebber Being a young kid who managed to configure my parents' 286 machine in a way that Commander Keen would run (remove mouse driver and crap, I am very old) was such a feeling of agency, of understanding that I was able to actually actively do things. I still sometimes get it when I can solve my (or a friend's) real-life problem with a few tech tricks.

When talking about "AI" there's a lot of chat about "hallucinations" but I think it is a bit misleading. Because it's _all_ hallucinations, some just accidentally true.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/16/its-all-hallucinations/

I've been using Open Source for decades now but I still can't get over how many people in that space immunize themselves (and their life decisions and bound identity) by denying everyone the right to criticize anything unless they themselves have put in hours upon hours of coding work.

"You can fork it or send a patch."

Yeah. So people who can't code have no right to complain at all, right? What's with people fluent in a programming language that the project doesn't even use? Is their criticism also invalid?

Really confirms what I wrote in https://tante.cc/2025/03/03/who-is-free-software-for/ :
"Because what we are selling isn’t a solution to people’s actual problems but a new identity. And most people already got one of those."