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Somehow Bill Watterson published this Calvin and Hobbes comic strip about generative AI 40 years ago.
#genAI #CalvinAndHobbes

Oh the irony
#microsoft #copilot #genai

In which I (probably foolishly) make a bunch of predictions about the future of #GenAI: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/26/GenAI-Predictions

Oh the irony
#microsoft #copilot #genai

"Anyhow, there will be a crash and a hangover. I think the people telling us that #genAI is the future and we must pay it fealty richly deserve their impending financial wipe-out. But still, I hope the hangover is less terrible than I think it will be."
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Noch besser wäre es, #KI und besonders #GenAI nur dort einzusetzen, wo es wirklich sinnvoll und nötig ist. Schon wegen des irren Ressourcenverbrauchs. Aber vor allem, weil LLM-Output prinzipiell unzuverlässig ist. #aislop<…

Freudian slip in Meske et. al 2025. http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21928 #GenAI #vibecoding #AIResearch

Instagram story from the daughter of Robin Williams: please stop sending me ai videos of my deceased dad
#posiwid #GenAI #itiswhatitis
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/796870860936003584

Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

1/2 In which I cover a couple of the weird/scary aspects of the #genAI bubble and try to get a feel what the post-bubble hangover will feel like. Tl;dr: Not like the dot-com bust. https://www.tbray.org/ong…

After the Bubble

Sigh, I'm reviewing fellowship applications and it's unbelievable how many of them are just "AI" slop that has not even been read by the applicants:
This includes writing their bios – to the point that the "AI" lost the plot somewhere along the way, giving conflicting info about their field of study or the country they live/work in…
#ai #genai #garbage #everythingsucks

Merlin just pointed out that my favourite #nokings sign was obviously (I totally see it now!) a GenAI creation, and this just makes everything worse but I am glad for the realization. 😢 🤦‍♂️
#genAI #beCreative https://sciences.social/@merling/115401547653609193

Teaching students from both fields, linguistics and engineering—separately, no shared courses—I witness two kinds of growing resistance towards the use of #GenAI:
- low quality output needs too much effort to fix manually
- low quality output is not worth the high amounts of energy it costs
Future linguists argue with efficiency, future engineers with resources. Ethics comes muc…

My takeaway: DS faculty have no more idea than anyone else where we are headed in this brave new world of the LLM 🤔
#genai #datascience #academia #academicSky

Last week I was able to test #GenAi video creation - but it seems I'm always cornering around in edge cases 😒
https://www.locked.de/i-break-things-google-veo/

Are you afraid of our new GenAI overlords taking over our jobs soon? According to a new benchmark, The Remote Labor Index by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), there's no need to be. The best current models are able to solve around ~2% of the tasks of the index: #AIResearch #GenAI

The Human Only Public License: #genAI

The Human Only Public License
A copyleft software license that restricts AI usage

#Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle
#GenAI

1/2 I asked Google a question the answer to which was a list of numbers. Of course, it offered me the list of numbers at the top of the results page, uncited. This is a total waste of space because OBVIOUSLY I’m not going to quote AI-generated numbers without tracking down a source.
#genAI

Huh, spam from 1Password offering me “Early access to Comet, the new AI browser from Perplexity”. I’m perplexed all right, about why 1Password, an outfit I mostly like, is doing this. I want a serious relationship with my security-technology providers, not a spammy one that flirts with sketchy totally-unrelated products.
#genAI

50% of #GenAI budgets
go to sales and marketing, but back-office automation often yields better ROI.
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ai_report_2025.pdf

Hey, just a reminder that Thursday 18th there’s the “IPTC Photo Metadata Conference 2025”, a free Zoom event open to all. I’m a speaker (focusing on #C2PA). It looks like it should be interesting for anyone interested in the tangle of issues about media provenance, #genAI, publishing workflow, social media, and…

Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.

Bubble-icious! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/vcs-are-scrambling-for-a-piece-of-ai-darlings-like-anthropic-cursor-cognition

"The Wrong Side of the #genai_slop Divide: High Adoption, Low Transformation"
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ai_report_2025.pdf