Roland Meyer
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#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No. Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than …
I mean ... www.wired.com/story/i-work...
AI is emerging as a political issue that could impact future elections. If progressive parties were smart, they'd give a voice to the growing opposition to big tech: «The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans’ negative feelings ab…
What are you talking about? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
- Data centers now account for 6% of total electricity consumption in both the UK and US, a significant upward revision from prior estimates.
- Global data center energy demand rose 15% in two years, with AI identified as the primary driver of that acceleration.
- Hyperscaler AI capital expenditure is running more than 80% above prior-year levels, signaling demand growth has not yet plateaued.
Recent commentary
I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/
Bis zum Beweis des Gegenteils gehe ich ab jetzt davon aus, dass ihr alle AI-generierte Shadowaccounts von Martin Burckhardt seid
There's a certain kind of post-humanist theoretical kitsch that's even worse than humanist kitsch (especially concerning AI)
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