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Me, in my fedi-hole: It seems like the tide is finally shifting and academics are rejecting GenAI.
Academics in my work email: Join the revolution! Produce more papers faster with AI! This is Science!
#genai #science #academia

"Shambaugh gives his time to the open source ecosystem that underpins vast amounts of commercial software. He now has defamatory material indexed under his name. He will spend time managing the fallout. He bears the cost of someone else’s product working exactly as designed.
The agent’s owner bears none of it. OpenClaw bears none of it. The companies whose AI models power OpenClaw bear none of it."

The Machine That Cannot Be Wrong
On AI agents, open source maintainers, and the infrastructure nobody is watching

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

"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: …

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

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

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-…

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/

Qobuz’s policy on AI-generated music.
#music #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

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

Got the latest ollama running with image generation models now.
Used models are x/flux2-klein:latest and x/z-image-turbo
took about 1min 20s to generate these images on a M2 Max CPU with 64GB RAM
#ollama #GenAI

Heads up!
@… is sharing his thoughts on the #AI #LLM #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'm thinking of installing #Tunderbird on my different Linux computers, but I'm worried that it will go the same way as #Firefox with their forcing of #GenAI on users...
Does anyone have any i…

#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 …

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

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 @…

Unusual GenAI application: Snarky answers to shitty emails.
#genAI

I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do
I Hope This Email Finds You Before I Do

#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.

This is some deeply weird and troubling shit. #GenAI
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?

Finally, a valid use may have been found for generative AI.
This site will take an architect's beautiful, utopian image of what their wonderful new building/park/plaza will look like, and the AI will try to imagine what it will actually look like on a cold, damp, miserable winter's day.
#AI #GenAI #architecture
https://antirender.com

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