No, I don’t want this in Pennsylvania, I don’t want it in Memphis and I’ve never even been to Memphis, but the situation sounds terrible.
Tag: ai hype
FDA will apparently be approving fictional drugs based on chatbot auto-complete hallucinated fake science studies.
What could possibly go wrong?
AI stuff is habit forming, but not always popular at work.
And that would seem to indicate they’re not particularly useful or everyone would be completely enticed into using them a lot.
Pennsylvania AI boondoggle summit as full of BS and unwanted garbage as expected.
I listened to Trump at the Republican data center power plant “summit” in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and read about Josh Shapiro’s involvement so you don’t have to. (You can thank me later.)
PA Gov. Shapiro to summit with Trump and Dave McCormick, to push power plants motivated by AI hype fabricated demand and to shut out locals from what happens in our neighborhoods.
These boondoggles to build the data centers for the AI investment bubble seems at its root a reason to keep burning more fossil fuels.
Trying to fact check everything wrong put in and everything right left out by a chatbot probably isn’t all that efficient.
I keep hearing stories about people defending their use of chatbots by claiming they fact check them, but then it turns out they really hadn’t.
Data center PR never mentions the burning gas or burning tires part.
These companies probably welcome investing in pointless and shoddy AI just to justify the mass layoffs so they can boost their stock value.
I used to like the em dash, but I do not want to be mistaken for a chatbot.
I Can Spot AI Writing Instantly — Here’s How You Can Too Evan Edinger Jun 8, 2025 This gets at some of the things I find both annoying and a bit nauseating about synthetic text, that are phrasing techniques so obviously ripped off of very viral influencer writers on Medium, and then amped up.
The uncanny valley of the AI workplace apocalypse.
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch.
Isn’t posing as a therapist against the law already?
If it’s not, it should be illegal for a company to deploy chatbots that pretend to be licensed therapists.
Deregulation of AI is part of an overall ideological agenda to deregulate everything.
Boondoggle The Hot, New Plan to Bribe States Into Deregulating Artificial Intelligence AI infrastructure money in exchange for an AI Wild West. Pat Garofalo Jun 24, 2025 Wielding phony concerns about a “patchwork of state laws,” big tech interests and their allies in the federal government are attempting to eliminate in one swift stroke a host […]
People need to crowd out the pro-industry political consultants.
Dem politicians are listening to political consultants when they should be listening to their constituents, and we need to tip that math in the other direction.
The Abundance agenda is totally gaslit.
The Abundance Agenda really represents a bunch of people who want to hold their world together with the cheeks of their asses.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll serves the interests of private industry profits over that of the American people.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll needs to be investigated. He made public comments that his first interest was using Army procurement to satisfy the needs of vendor profitability
AI hype is driving the mining industry to dig up more uranium in the US.
Even if you think nuclear is a good idea, you have to worry about how this is going to get started new mining that isn’t actually needed, build these data centers instead of housing, and then abandon it abruptly when the AI hype financial bubble pops and they all crash and burn and then of course the taxpayers are on the hook to bail out the rich people again.
AI is not inevitable.
More specifically the tech tycoon preferred implementation of AI is not inevitable.
I don’t need an app for that – especially not one made by chatbot.
Be more fun at parties – put down your phone.
Almost all the AI boosters seem at least a tad delusional to me.
So how do the techno rapture believing moderators of the pro-AI subreddit tell a difference?
Chatbots are addictive like social media, gambling, and video games, but I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
I noticed the addictive aspect of the chatbot 2 years ago, and warned that I suspected it wasn’t a coincidence it seemed to have aspects that reminded me of the game Diablo.
The UK Post Office computer system outrageous injustice story, dramatized.
Mr Bates Vs the Post Office is finally available in the US streaming on PBS Passport and Apple TV, and probably elsewhere.