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@librico @malteengeler I think the term AI is rather poisoned now.

Machine Learning as a term isn't.

When most folks think about AI they are thinking ChatGPT.

So focusing on specific parts of machine learning and naming their specific purpose is all we can do.

Call a neural network that, explain the specific models to train them.

Refer to the older Knowledge Based Systems to refer to the curation and rules for these models.

Abandon AI as an overall term. The marketers have it now.

@librico Thank you for pointing that out. What I wanted to stress is that niche use cases like protein folding are frequently used to justify "AI" in a way that has little to do with what "AI" stands for: (commercial, LLMs, extraction , exploitation, domination).

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Kind of shocking whenever I check up on the blog of somebody I used to respect who now earnestly seems to believe AGI is here.

Feels like it’s happening more and more these days.

@eff LLMs are certainly even-handed and equitable doing cognitive and environmental damage, and they'll violate the copyright of anyone regardless of their being rich or poor.

Let's not start looking at access to these vampiric systems as being a human right. They're no more necessary than cigarettes or non-fungible tokens.

All Americans have a First Amendment right to record law enforcement. This includes ICE and CBP. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/eff-guide-recording-law-enforcement #ICE

One rhetorical trick AI vendors & boosters use to steamroll over concerns - like the lack of demonstrable ROI - is to paint the LLM future as "inevitable".

It doesn't matter that the end product is worse, or that productivity gains are elusive.

Go all-in or "get left behind". It is *inevitable*

In reality, what's *inevitable* is that this technology will have to become profitable in the not-too-distant future.

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While I guided them through the drawing, everyone was giggling, and oohing and ahhing.

In a few scant minutes everyone had drawn a cute mushroom house with some bugs and flowers -

I did it. It's a blog post.

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Ready for a legal breakdown of the literary agent model?

Me: Why make all those people angry?
Also me: But this is what I'm thinking about.

Along the way, I’ll offer a personal publishing horror story and advice to writers considering traditional publishing.

So here goes. (Warning: I think the rebel in me is coming out.)

https://terikanefield.com/traditional-publishing-and-the-pitfalls-of-the-literary-agent-model/

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When prices reflect 100%+ of the real costs, bottom lines aren't moving, and teams are delivering worse software later in return for massive spends, I suspect we'll see what's really "inevitable"

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just got a reminder that if i had no scruples i could be very successful

One of the simplest way of dealing with AI in your business-sector, especially from the AI-boosters within your company, is to ask, "Will our insurance companies cover the costs of any errors? If not, then it's not production-ready. Yet!"

That way it's an external organisation that you have to ask, and companies are required to hedge their bets by having insurance.

And it will act as a face-saving way of people within the company to climb down from the AI-boosterism.

"We're always running experiments with new technologies to see if they will be viable for our customers..."

It's the face-saving way of saying that the Emperor is wearing no clothes... :D

#ai

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