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“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 supporting narrative mean that
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Claude magic
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 groundbreaking and almost AGI
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Nothing to Declare
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
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Artisanal care
When we moved into our apartment we hired a contractor to build bespoke cupboards for a few niches that we wanted to use optimally. He built perfectly fitting, nice cupboards that make those areas look nice and clean while allowing us to store all kinds of stuff. And he took great care doing it. Even
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Bei “Breitband” zum Thema “Digitale Souveränität”
Ich war eingeladen zur Breitband Sendung des Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Wir sprachen (unter anderem) über “Digitale Souveränität”. Die ganze Folge kann man hier nachhören: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/jugendschutz-in-social-media-die-plaene-der-plattform-discord-100.html Kurze Zusammenfassung meiner Aussagen: Ich glaube “Digitale Souveränität” ist keine (bzw. nur sekundär) eine Shoppingfrage (“Wo kaufe ich meine Software?”) und viel mehr eine Frage der Fähigkeit einer Organisation, IT Systeme
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On Alliances
This morning (it is evening now in freezing Berlin) I wrote an article about a blog post Cory Doctorow had released the day before. In his post Cory made an argument about LLM usage that I criticized: I think his view on technology being neutral and it being possible to “liberate” any technology by making
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Acting ethically in an imperfect world
Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somewhere but your employer will not accept another mode of transportation, you want to eat vegan but are
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Diffusion of Responsibility
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 machines to solve every issue but give no
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But they did read it
It’s fun to see tech bros naming thins after SciFi books, films or shows: “The Metaverse” was not a utopia but a reaction to a world where the political, economic and ecological systems have collapsed just to give one example among oh so many others. And we often keep making jokes about the tech bros
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The World That Was
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the world. I mean, look at … everything. Massive ongoing wars everywhere, Fascism on the rise, exploding inequality. Shit is fucked up and more fucked up on a global scale than it ever was in my life time (I was born in 1979). And with the media landscape and