So Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel development, put his foot down on the Linux Kernel development mailing list when someone was bringing up criticism of LLMs: “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issueswith that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away. […]
(Für ein Event wurde ich gefragt ein paar Worte zur politischen Dimension von Daten und Infrastrukturen der Digitalität” zu schreiben. Ich veröffentliche es auch hier kurz als kleine Notiz, weil es mein aktuelles Denken ganz gut zusammenfasst.) Die Debatte über Daten und digitale Infrastrukturen bezieht sich oft stark auf das „wer“: Wer designed solche Systeme, […]
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 […]
(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 Sprachmodell ziehen, während sie nicht müde werden konstant anstelle echter…
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 entlang menschlichen Bedürfnissen definierte Konzepte, die sich nicht an Wettbewerb,…
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 processed answer” direction that “AI Overviews” have established (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the time). So they […]
(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 and Diplomacy. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Diverse deutsche NGOs und Unternehmen haben im Dezember den “Digital Independence Day” ausgerufen. Am DI.Day, wie es gerne abgekürzt wird, sollen Menschen nicht nur motiviert werden, die digitalen Aspekte ihrer Existenz von vor allem US-basierten Plattformen und Anbietern hin zu anderen Plattformen (z.B. in der EU) zu verschieben sondern es werden auch konkrete Hinweise und […]
After a lot of turmoil and their most vocal user base protesting about how Mozilla keeps pushing “AI” into the browser in many weird ways they now released the “AI Killswitch” they have been talking about for a while. Which is good. Those features should have been “opt-in” from the start and it’s kinda weird […]
With studies upon studies showing that actual measurable productivity gains through “AI” (which these days basically means chatbots) are really hard to come by and that “workslop” (meaning the extra work created for the rest of the organization by one person using “AI” lowering their work quality) eats up a lot of what might have […]