I wanna expand on something I wrote a few months ago: One of the features of “AI” is the diffusion of responsibility: “AI” systems are being put in all kinds of processes and when they fuck up (and they always fuck up) it was just the “AI”, or “someone should have checked things”. “AI” companies want to sell...

(Dieser Text ist mein Beitrag zum Sammelband “KI und Demokratie” herausgegeben von Ramona Casasola-Greiner und Korbinian Rüger. Gerade in einer Zeit in der Ministerpräsidenten sich ihre Gastbeiträge und Reden vibe-schreiben lassen oder Bundesminister ihre Reden zum Bundestag oder in Ausschüssen aus irgendeinem...

Am 13.06. durfte ich zum Programm der “Sicherheit ohne Überwachung” Demonstration einen Redebeitrag beisteuern. Diesen möchte ich hier kurz dokumentieren. Ich glaube wirklich, dass es aus linker Perspektive absolut unverzichtbar ist, die zentralen Begriffe “Freiheit” und “Sicherheit” zu übernehmen. Als positiv und...

In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processes answer” direction that “AI Overviews” (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the time) thereby...

(Christian Tieber hat eine deutsche Übersetzung des Textes angefertigt: “KI” als faschistisches Artefakt. Vielen Dank Christian!) (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media...

“AI” exists to disenfranchise labor. That’s what it’s for. Regardless of how good these stochastic systems are or the flaws they have just being able to point at the non-unionized robot whenever the employees ask for raises or anything really is incredibly valuable for business. The existence of “AI” and the...

Anthropic’s Claude models are having a moment. Their newest release supposedly “changes everything” and if you don’t use it every day you just cannot have any opinion on LLMs. Which is the same story we heard about previous OpenAI releases or previous Anthropic releases. Every new (and more expensive) model is...

Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions and individuals to organize and try to shine some light onto important issues. We’ve seen many such things in the AI...