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Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-chatbots-dunning-kruger-machines
#AI #Tech #SiliconValley

Reuters: Musk ousts more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters, FT reports. “Elon Musk has triggered a fresh wave of job cuts at his AI firm xAI, with more co-founders pushed out ‌amid his dissatisfaction with the underperformance of the startup’s coding division, the ‌Financial Times reported on Friday.”

The greatest delusion of entire #AI hype must be people believing that venture capitalists want to somehow make world better place. They already have more than enough money and power to do so if that was the goal. If they wanted to end world hunger they could do so right now, if they wanted to provide people with universal basic income they could do so right now, why would anyone believe #AI that great remedy they want to provide us with?
#Tech #SiliconValley

Gizmodo: Elon Musk Wants a Do-Over on Twitter Trial After Jury Pool Couldn’t Hide Its Disdain. “On Saturday, his lawyers filed a motion asking the judge to declare a mistrial, alleging that misconduct by opposing lawyers and even the court itself has made a fair trial impossible for Musk. The request doesn’t ask for the case to be dismissed outright, but instead for the trial to restart […]

Courthouse News Service: Former Twitter lawyer says he received threats of ‘World War III’ over Musk acquisition deal. “The Twitter lawyer who handled Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar acquisition of the social media platform in 2022 told a San Francisco jury Monday an attorney for Musk told him it would be ‘World War III to the end of time’ if Musk was forced to go through with the purchase.”

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder: Meta Deleted Me. I Still Don’t Know Why. And neither will you.. “Was my account hacked by a nefarious actor who posted some offensive and obscene material? I can’t rule it in or out, as I don’t have access to my account to perform a forensic analysis of any logins from suspicious devices or the like. That, and I ‘cannot request another review of this […]

Can't wait for the public meltdown Bluesky's new leader will have on the platform at some point in the next 6 months...

#Bluesky #SocialMedia #SiliconValley

Hold onto your monocles folks, but it looks like Bluesky may be selling out to the Oligarchy.....

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down/

#SocialMedia #TechBros #SiliconValley #Bluesky

„Wir brauchen eine neue #Ideologiekritik des #Technofaschismus" – ein starkes Statement der #Philosophin #AnnaVerenaNosthoff im Interview mit dem #PhilosophieMagazin.

#ElonMusk als autoritärer #Kybernetiker, #KI als überhöhte #Superintelligenz, das #SiliconValley als #Machtmaschinerie: Nosthoff analysiert, was hinter den Tech-#Ideologien steckt – und warum Regulierung allein nicht reicht.

🔗 https://t1p.de/Nosthoff_Ideologiekritik_Technofaschismus

#Kybernetik #Digitalisierung #Philosophie #dgiinfo

Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate: Why tech giants could reap massive tax breaks in Louisiana as data centers break ground. “Meta has broken ground on a $27 billion data center campus in north Louisiana. Amazon is not far behind with plans for a $12 billion data center near Shreveport. And the state and local governments are poised to give potentially billions in tax breaks to the tech giants, […]

Engadget: COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time. “Today the US Senate unanimously passed proposed legislation known as COPPA 2.0. This measure, fully named the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, aims to create new protections for younger users online, such as blocking platforms from collecting their personal data without consent.”

Courthouse News Service: Twitter investors claim Elon Musk ‘cheated’ in $44 billion takeover of social media platform. “Investors, including lead plaintiffs Steve Garrett, Nancy Price, John Garrett and Brian Belgrave, accuse Musk of deliberately making misleading statements about the presence of spam bot accounts on Twitter to drive down the company’s stock, in hopes of backing out of the […]

Santa Fe New Mexican: University of New Mexico professor testifies during Meta trial about harm of social media use. “About 95% of Dr. Kimothi Cain’s patients are children, she testified, and about 90% of them use social media — mostly Instagram — which, in her opinion, has contributed substantially to the number of children being diagnosed with mental health disorders including […]

The Conversation: Banning social media for under‑16s won’t fix the real problem – the business model of these platforms is dangerous for all of us. “I challenge the pro-ban debate because it too often rests on a crude and narrow adult perception of young online experiences. This often overstates media effects on attention and other brain functions. It also crucially underestimates the […]

Courthouse News Service: Virginia temporarily blocked from enforcing social media limit law. “The law, passed on a bipartisan basis in 2025, requires social media platforms to limit users under 16 years old to an hour of screen time per platform per day. The law allows parents to increase or decrease their child’s daily limit as they see fit. NetChoice, a trade association representing online […]

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I was reminded of #SiliconValley (the #HBO show) recently and it struck me how much things have changed and also how prescient it was with respect to #AI.

I only really watched the last season, but the subplot of Gilfoyle's "Son of Anton" AI is kinda crazy in retrospect.

The show ended well before #ChatGPT (2019), so this was very much unrealistic in its time.

Gilfoyle himself is a very "I'm smarter than you and I know it" kind of character, and the way the writers demonstrated that was by having him build his own AI agent to do stuff he couldn't be bothered to do.

This was borderline SciFi at the time and kinda absurd, but it's the way they sold how smart he was. Yet this workflow is increasingly standardized and taken for granted only a few years later. You could write any generic intern at Pied Piper doing the same thing today (albeit less extreme).

Ars Technica: UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough. “A UK regulator today fined Reddit £14.5 million ($19.6 million) for not verifying the ages of users. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) alleged that the failure to check ages resulted in Reddit illegally using children’s personal information.”

Associated Press: Young woman says she was on social media ‘all day long’ as a child in landmark addiction trial. “The now 20-year-old, who has been identified in court documents as KGM, says her early use of social media addicted her to the technology and exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts. Meta and YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case, which TikTok and Snap have […]

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"Exklusiv: #USA beauftragen Diplomaten mit Bekämpfung von Initiativen zur #Datenhoheit

Von Raphael Satter und Alexandra Alper"

"#WASHINGTON, 25. Februar (Reuters) – Die Regierung von Präsident Donald Trump hat US-Diplomaten angewiesen, sich gegen Versuche zur Regulierung des Umgangs von US-Technologieunternehmen mit Daten von Ausländern einzusetzen. In einem Reuters vorliegenden internen diplomatischen Schreiben heißt es, dass solche Bemühungen Dienstleistungen im Bereich der #künstlichenIntelligenz beeinträchtigen könnten.

Experten sagen, dass dieser Schritt ein Zeichen dafür ist, dass die #Trump-Regierung zu einem konfrontativeren Ansatz zurückkehrt, da einige Länder versuchen, die Verarbeitung und Speicherung der #persönlichenDaten ihrer #Bürger durch Unternehmen aus dem #SiliconValley einzuschränken – Initiativen, die oft als „Datenhoheit” oder „Datenlokalisierung” bezeichnet werden."

#Datenschutz #digitaleSouveränität #DIDay #DUTag

#AI #finance #economics #SiliconValley

'Briggs’ colleague, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius, said in an interview with the Atlantic Council that AI investment spending has had “basically zero” contribution to the U.S. GDP growth in 2025.'

https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #SiliconValley #BillGates

'Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote address at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, his philanthropic organisation said hours before the Microsoft co-founder was due to speak.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c309qv9zglno

Soeben das neue Buch von @ANosthoff aus der freundlichen @Buchhandlung_am_Bruehl abgeholt.

700 Seiten geballtes Fachwissen zum Thema #kybernetik in vielen Facetten. Wer gerne hinter die Ideologie der #techbros und des #siliconvalley blicken möchte und an deren Wurzeln interessiert ist, dem sei dieses Buch wärmstens empfohlen. 📚

#literatur #lesen #buch #buchstodon #cybernetics #cybernetic #techfaschismus #techfascism #ideologie

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PBS Newshour: Zuckerberg takes stand in a landmark trial on youth social media addiction. “Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in federal court to defend Instagram against allegations that it was deliberately designed to be addictive to children and teens. It’s the first time he’s testifying about child safety in front of a jury. YouTube is also included in the lawsuit. TikTok and Snapchat chose to […]

Al Jazeera: Spain to probe social media giants over AI-generated child abuse material. “The Spanish government ⁠has ordered prosecutors to investigate social media ⁠platforms X, Meta and TikTok for allegedly spreading AI-generated child sexual abuse material, the prime minister has said.”