Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org), page 7

@lobingera da ist das als "Quote Posts" aufgeführt. Und direkt davor ist ein Link auf das Ticket (MAS-*) in dem das diskutiert wird

@lobingera https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19889

"It is helpful that the X icon is a literal reminder not to use it. A few months ago I took it off my phone, but then I was traveling for conferences and trying to talk to journalists so I had to add it back. Journalists still love X, because Twitter used to be where important people said things. Nobody is saying anything important there now. "

(Original title: How to Leave Twitter)

https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/how-to-leave-twitter

Es geht Menschen wie Lindner bei "Steuersenkungen " ja auch immer darum, den Handlungsraum für staatliches Handeln zu verkleinern und damit immer mehr Services zu beerdigen oder durch Privatwirtschaft zu ersetzen. Er will euch nichts geben, er will euch Dinge nehmen, die seine Buddies euch dann vielleicht für viel mehr Geld zurückverkaufen https://zirk.us/@istuetzle/112564819454203392

@esther it's a religious cult.

I applaud Apple for their new iPad ad: "We are a huge corporate machine that will crush anything you love in order to make a buck" is refreshingly honest.

"Altman is a guy who has the potential to put whole industries out of work who is saying, with no capital letters, that what he's doing is what the world has always wanted and then acting surprised that anyone has questions. It's truly amazing in a sense."
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/the-sam-altman-playbook?r=1pb4bt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.

It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

@janl it's really so well done that I already hear the clock ticking for its enshittification very loudly.

There's a funny thing you see in many scientific papers - especially #AI papers: The paper will prominently include a link to a GitHub repository with claims of code availability "soon" but when you go there (months after the paper was released) there's either just a placeholder or the paper text.

People use GitHub links to score browny points for "doing open science" but most of it is just not there. Especially with statistical systems when you realize that you don't get the training data, you don't get the code, you don't get model weights what you get are results and a "trust me bro".

"Veteranentag". Ihr habt sie doch nicht mehr alle ey.

On AI music: "LET THEM TAKE THE MELODIES, THE SCALES, THE WAVEFORMS, THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURING OF SOUND AND FEED THEM INTO THEIR ALGORITHMS. THESE THINGS ARE NOT PRECIOUS - WE CAN PLUCK THEM FROM THE AIR BY LITERALLY PLUCKING THE AIR! THESE PRETTY VIBRATIONS ARE THE TINIEST PART OF WHAT MAKES MEANING IN MUSIC."

(Original title: THE MUSIC ABOLITIONIST PROVOCATION)

https://knru.polin.ski/the-music-abolitionist-provocation/

Sony is gonna rent you a bot to play the grindy annoying parts of games to undercut the game makers who want to sell you boosters etc. to skip the grind.

Both really have no respect for either your time or the quality of their product.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112316066410620210

"All this is quite fortunate for Altman. And this is an element of the rise of AI that I don’t see discussed enough: His omnipotent AI is struggling to be born at an extremely convenient moment. There’s a tight labor market, high employment, and companies are very eager to embrace technological tools to either replace human workers or wield as leverage against them. Read through that Times piece, and you hear company after company hungry to slash labor costs with AI — if only they could! That’s the vision corporate America sees cast on the walls, the product of generative AI’s smoke and mirrors: Artificial systems that can save them lots of money by making workers disappear. Once it was the implied presence of the devil that underwrote the delusion that a charlatan could bring back the dead, today, it’s the specter of AGI that animates the idea that AI will finally unleash mass job automation. "

(Original title: AI really is smoke and mirrors)

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-really-is-smoke-and-mirrors

When you start building Kanban boards/ticket systems in Miro et al, your account should automatically deleted. Maybe all your accounts.

"Like the threat behind crypto’s “have fun staying poor” slogan, AI needs the rest of us to believe in its unstoppable ascendancy because that belief is basically all it has. AI products aren’t about whether anyone wants or needs AI products. They’re about how people could want or need those products, eventually, if everyone stays the course and also keeps pumping money into AI companies."

https://aftermath.site/humane-ai-marques-brownlee

Wie bei jedem Kompromiss der Ampel frage ich mich, was die anderen dafür bekommen haben, dass die FDP ihren Willen kriegt. Wissing darf weiter Arbeitsverweigerung betreiben und der Rest nickt das ab.

AI push will lead to more carbon emissions, it's that simple.

(Original title: AI revolution will be boon for natural gas, say fossil fuel bosses
)

https://on.ft.com/3VMZ0Tm

AI push will lead to more carbon emissions, it's that simple.

(Original title: AI revolution will be boon for natural gas, say fossil fuel bosses
)

https://on.ft.com/3VMZ0Tm

Everyone probably already saw this but Amazon shutting down their "#AI" powered stores while admitting that they ran on hundreds of people watching video feeds in India is just *chef's kiss*

https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-abandons-ai-stores