Roland Meyer

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Roland Meyer reposted
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Weird how people react poorly when you tell them your product is going to ruin their livelihood, their future, and the planet.

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • Local permit campaigns have already successfully blocked AI data center construction, creating a replicable model for future opposition.
  • Majority poll opposition to AI's development pace now gives legislators bipartisan political cover to push restrictive regulation.
  • Activist groups and legislators are coordinating across multiple simultaneous fronts, not acting as isolated individual incidents.
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Roland Meyer reposted
@hakonnordhagen.bsky.social

LLMs are «really good at doing an impression of work, much like most managers and c-suite executives, and even if it’s completely incapable of doing something, it’ll absolutely say it can and tell you you’re amazing for suggesting it. And that’s why Business Idiots love it.» @…

Revenge of The Business Idiot wheresyoured.at View on Bluesky →

#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 …

Why Slop Matters arxiv.org
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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…

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What are you talking about? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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.
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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/

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Bis zum Beweis des Gegenteils gehe ich ab jetzt davon aus, dass ihr alle AI-generierte Shadowaccounts von Martin Burckhardt seid

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There's a certain kind of post-humanist theoretical kitsch that's even worse than humanist kitsch (especially concerning AI)

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