janhoglund<p>“Foundation models are incredibly effective at stringing together statistically plausible chunks of text in response to prompts. But to claim they are sentient is the modern equivalent of the dog who heard a voice from a gramophone and thought his master was inside.”<br>—Erik Brynjolfsson, Jun 12, 2022, quoted by Gary Marcus, Apr 25, 2025<br><a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/new-adventures-in-ai-hype-our-language" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">garymarcus.substack.com/p/new-</span><span class="invisible">adventures-in-ai-hype-our-language</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/llms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llms</span></a></p>
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#aihype
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Captain Superlative<p>Hey - I actually saw a use for LLMs today that made sense to me.</p><p>---> Making thought clouds.</p><p>Why does it work?</p><p>Thought clouds are forgiving. It's really hard to fuckup a thought cloud.</p><p>You're not going to fail because Word 12's font didn't correspond to its rate of occurrence.</p><p>Even if you leave words out or add in some novel but similar words it's really no big deal. The only way to really fail is to mix up vastly different thought clouds.</p><p>Like, if you mixed up the your death metal lyrics cloud and your Mr. Roger's fan club cloud - that might count as a failure.</p><p>But the other big reason is that thought clouds have no semantic or cognitive content; i.e. they don't actually mean anything.</p><p>And as such, LLMs are a perfect fit.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a></p>
i_dont_like_AI a_programmer<p>From my sister site at i-dont-like-ai.bksy.social, there I reposted this--not that I think in political terms, but, apart from that, what a post! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/noai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cartoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/batman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>batman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/howtomakepoints" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>howtomakepoints</span></a></p>
bunnyhero<p>fully bought into the <a href="https://timeloop.cafe/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
bunnyhero<p>HORRIBLY irresponsible reporting from KQED on so-called "AI therapy". while they do talk about a couple of horror stories and mention the privacy issues, they then call them "edge cases" and never critically examine the claims of the LLM hypesters; i.e. they take at face value that AI is actually doing some kind of therapy.</p><p><a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/12037213/how-safe-is-ai-therapy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kqed.org/news/12037213/how-saf</span><span class="invisible">e-is-ai-therapy</span></a></p><p>/cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emilymbender</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alex</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://timeloop.cafe/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
Robert Kingett<p>Forcing the world into machines <a href="https://tante.cc/2025/04/24/forcing-the-world-into-machines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tante.cc/2025/04/24/forcing-th</span><span class="invisible">e-world-into-machines/</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
Bornach<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@KathyReid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KathyReid</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rpardee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rpardee</span></a></span> <br>But the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIhype</span></a> claimed that reinforcement learning applied to synthetic data would overcome the plateau</p><p><a href="https://www.jonvet.com/blog/llm-synthetic-data" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jonvet.com/blog/llm-synthetic-</span><span class="invisible">data</span></a></p><p>Unfortunately a recent paper argues that RL doesn't unlock new skills -- it just uncovers that which was already in the training data<br><a href="https://youtu.be/GvYCPpMI1mA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/GvYCPpMI1mA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
axleyjc<p>> Another recent quote that is quite relevant is from Sir Demis Hassabis, on agents in general, but applicable to fantasies about vibe coding agents, too, “If your Al model has a 1% error rate and you plan over 5,000 steps, that 1% compounds like compound interest.”</p><p><a href="https://federate.social/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a> <a href="https://federate.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a></p><p><a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/those-claiming-were-mere-months-away" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">garymarcus.substack.com/p/thos</span><span class="invisible">e-claiming-were-mere-months-away</span></a></p>
Erika Varis Doggett<p>I already rant about this in general, but it hits you double when you are yourself taken in for a few moments, *even as a skeptical user*. <br>The LLM gave an answer I was looking for, the given answer was favorable to me so I was inclined to believe it, but luckily questioned the source. The link where the data supposedly came from, a Reddit thread…turned out to not mention the race at all. <br>Then I noticed the math was off. <br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIhype</span></a></p>
Captain Superlative<p>Sometimes I suspect that the people who have some understanding of what LLMs are and yet still honestly believe that LLMs are minds (or almost are) have some neurological condition.</p><p>The ones who insist that LLMs are at least useful seem to have a condition of their own.</p><p>It's a very surreal time.</p><p>1</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_</span><span class="invisible">Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat</span></a></p>
David Haigh<p>"Well, is there any warning on when it makes a mistake?"</p><p>"No, that's the fun part - there is no warning! Have fun integrating it, it goes live with our customers Monday!"</p><p>And scene!</p><p>2/2</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-hallucinate-more/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/open</span><span class="invisible">ais-new-reasoning-ai-models-hallucinate-more/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"One hint that we might just be stuck in a hype cycle is the proliferation of what you might call “second-order slop” or “slopaganda”: a tidal wave of newsletters and X threads expressing awe at every press release and product announcement to hoover up some of that sweet, sweet advertising cash.</p><p>That AI companies are actively patronising and fanning a cottage economy of self-described educators and influencers to bring in new customers suggests the emperor has no clothes (and six fingers).</p><p>There are an awful lot of AI newsletters out there, but the two which kept appearing in my X ads were Superhuman AI run by Zain Kahn, and Rowan Cheung’s The Rundown. Both claim to have more than a million subscribers — an impressive figure, given the FT as of February had 1.6mn subscribers across its newsletters.</p><p>If you actually read the AI newsletters, it becomes harder to see why anyone’s staying signed up. They offer a simulacrum of tech reporting, with deeper insights or scepticism stripped out and replaced with techno-euphoria. Often they resemble the kind of press release summaries ChatGPT could have written."</p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/24218775-57b1-4e9f-ba64-266a3239cf27?accessToken=zwAGMvPAVVcgkc8kIYd1V7FOn9O6ZCZqMjnPJw.MEUCIQDMtSVpX0B3iseXKaqvL8IjUVyohoowQhXAXzk4y5cqTQIgHcaK7yxG6mobaEqrLGe2GcJwB2T2gWNJyuaCBeaJsCU&sharetype=gift&token=9ee5e78e-8e38-4ce4-9f53-05b7dc4fd2ea&__readwiseLocation=" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/24218775-57b1-4</span><span class="invisible">e9f-ba64-266a3239cf27?accessToken=zwAGMvPAVVcgkc8kIYd1V7FOn9O6ZCZqMjnPJw.MEUCIQDMtSVpX0B3iseXKaqvL8IjUVyohoowQhXAXzk4y5cqTQIgHcaK7yxG6mobaEqrLGe2GcJwB2T2gWNJyuaCBeaJsCU&sharetype=gift&token=9ee5e78e-8e38-4ce4-9f53-05b7dc4fd2ea&__readwiseLocation=</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIBubble</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AISlop</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AINewsletters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AINewsletters</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Slopaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slopaganda</span></a></p>
Mike McCaffrey<p>Good news everyone! <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> can now listen in on calls with your therapist and save all your self-doubt and insecurities for posterity!</p><p><a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/therapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>therapy</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://neurodifferent.me/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
Carl Gold, PhD<p>Don't worry software engineers! Your jobs are safe a little while longer - Researchers say <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> can't replace humans because it cannot reliably debug. 🐛 <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a> much? </p><p> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>llm</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/chatgpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/softwareengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwareengineering</span></a></p><p>Sounds like a typical 80-20 situation: The AI completes the 80% of the task items that are actually easy, but can't handle the 20% the items that are actually hard and consume 80% of the effort. </p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/researchers-find-ai-is-pretty-bad-at-debugging-but-theyre-working-on-it/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/res</span><span class="invisible">earchers-find-ai-is-pretty-bad-at-debugging-but-theyre-working-on-it/</span></a></p>
Robert Kingett<p>I Hate Wasting Time on Identifying AI Slop <a href="https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/i-hate-wasting-time-on-identifying-ai-slop/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive</span><span class="invisible">/i-hate-wasting-time-on-identifying-ai-slop/</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
jbz<p>🎈 Techbro did everything right by SV standards, he just made the mistake of getting caught, that's all. </p><p>｢ fintech founder in the US has been charged with fraud after it was found that his artificial intelligence shopping app relied heavily on Philippines call centre employees to complete the purchases manually ｣</p><p><a href="https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-shopping-app-found-actually-051154923.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-s</span><span class="invisible">hopping-app-found-actually-051154923.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aihype</span></a></p>
Robert Kingett<p>One fundamental thing I wish was in more disability writings about AI, for example, this unquestioningly PR hype by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@steven_aquino" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>steven_aquino</span></a></span> gets so close to hitting on the point I wish more would tackle. Even with the best technology, we're still disabled. This is ultimately why I find Techno Ableism to be particularly misleading. To be clear, he isn't peddling techno Ableism, but many in the blind community do. When this tech moves behind an expensive paywall, which, it will, the bandage for societies inaccessibility will be locked behind a steep paywall and I wish more examined what happens when <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> comes for AI and how society and ableism haven't changed. <a href="https://www.curbcuts.co/blog/2025-4-9-googles-april-pixel-drop-shows-how-ai-can-be-more-transformative-than-trivial-pursuit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">curbcuts.co/blog/2025-4-9-goog</span><span class="invisible">les-april-pixel-drop-shows-how-ai-can-be-more-transformative-than-trivial-pursuit</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
Tom Stoneham<p><a href="https://dair-community.social/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIhype</span></a> seems to be winning. Still. Sigh.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114320671411978010" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11432</span><span class="invisible">0671411978010</span></a></p>
Elias Probst<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@bmdv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bmdv</span></a></span> wird dieser Schatz denn auch als <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> zugänglich gemacht, so dass er sinnvolleren Verwendungszwecken als dem <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a> dienen kann?</p>
poritzj<p>Announcing<br>AITRAP,<br>The AI hype TRAcking Project</p><p>Here:<br><a href="https://www.poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">poritz.net/jonathan/aitrap/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>What/why:<br>I keep a very random list of articles about AI, with a focus on hype, ethics, policy, teaching, IP law, some of the CS aspects, etc., now up to 1000s of entries.</p><p>I decided to share, in case anyone is interested; I'm thinking of people who like <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emilymbender</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alex</span></a></span>, & <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davidgerard</span></a></span> . If there is a desire, I'll add a UI to allow submission of new links, commentary, hashtags.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIPolicy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIHype</span></a></p>
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