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"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."
@… in: …

I think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow

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

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

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<…

Hivemind: I'm investigating a possible case of academic misconduct. Has anyone come across an instance of GenAI supplying a comment to a bibliographical reference that goes something like this: 'This is often cited as the standard publication; adjust page numbers if you use a different version'?
#GenAI #ChatGPT

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

To ChatGPT: By analogy to generative artificial intelligence for images (#GenAI), is there something like generative human intelligence for images (#GenHI)? https://

ChatGPT - GenHI Analogy to GenAI
Shared via ChatGPT

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

Many of us probably hope that we’ll get back to normal when the #genAI bubble bursts, but this isn’t going to happen. In academia, genAI *does* work, in the sense of: for many people it solves a lot of problems, and removes the need for like doing homework, reading, writing, learning, and, yes, thinking. Who cares whether its “ethical” or whatever, everybody’s using it!
My bet is that post-…

Many of us probably hope that we’ll get back to normal when the #genAI bubble bursts, but this isn’t going to happen. In academia, genAI *does* work, in the sense of: for many people it solves a lot of problems, and removes the need for like doing homework, reading, writing, learning, and, yes, thinking. Who cares whether its “ethical” or whatever, everybody’s using it!
My bet is that post-…

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

Without mentioning any consideration of the damages the current #genAI tools are having on our societies and democracies? Sigh.
Also, this does not address the underlying issues of the way that the current #ResearchAssessment and funding is driven by neoliberal values. Something of which these blogposts also reek off..
3/3

The #genAI *economic* bubble will burst sooner or later, as the technology is simply unable to deliver the promised productivity gains (and thus the promised ROI), so the AI companies are massively overvalued.
See, e.g., https://www.

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/

The Human Only Public License: #genAI

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

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

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

I had this little avatar from years ago, originally borrowed from a series of Flash animations called "Ninjai - the little ninja".
It was way to small to be used for an avatar in its current size, so I asked Gemini to upscale it and give it a little more texture.
Mind blown!
#AI #GenAI

I appreciate that @… responded, and the FAQ clarifies some questions, but I don’t see anything changing: #genAI is still presented as something that’s only positive. “Furthering access” is a laudable goal, but we don’t ⒜ know what the issues are, and ⒝ whether automatically …

The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…

The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…

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

Oh the irony
#microsoft #copilot #genai

#Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle
#GenAI

The #genAI *economic* bubble will burst sooner or later, as the technology is simply unable to deliver the promised productivity gains (and thus the promised ROI), so the AI companies are massively overvalued.
See, e.g., https://www.

The #genAI *economic* bubble will burst sooner or later, as the technology is simply unable to deliver the promised productivity gains (and thus the promised ROI), so the AI companies are massively overvalued.
See, e.g., https://www.

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

I appreciate that @… responded, and the FAQ clarifies some questions, but I don’t see anything changing: #genAI is still presented as something that’s only positive. “Furthering access” is a laudable goal, but we don’t ⒜ know what the issues are, and ⒝ whether automatically …

I appreciate that @… responded, and the FAQ clarifies some questions, but I don’t see anything changing: #genAI is still presented as something that’s only positive. “Furthering access” is a laudable goal, but we don’t ⒜ know what the issues are, and ⒝ whether automatically …

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

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

@… Right. Since we already had “scientists” cranking out a hundred papers per year, the uptake of #genAI was inevitable. In some respects it has just accelerated a process that had already been underway.
But it’s nevertheless shocking.

@… Right. Since we already had “scientists” cranking out a hundred papers per year, the uptake of #genAI was inevitable. In some respects it has just accelerated a process that had already been underway.
But it’s nevertheless shocking.

"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