The Ai thread

[Eric]

Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'

In other words "billionaires", the ones ramming it down the throats of an audience who never asked for it.

Rockstar co-founder compares AI to 'mad cow disease,' and says the execs pushing it aren't 'fully-rounded humans'

Dan Houser probably won't be asking ChatGPT for help with his next game.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[Eric]

Oh no, they lost their conversations with the bots!

ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users

OpenAI's AI-powered ChatGPT is down worldwide with users receiving errors when attempting to access chats, with no reasons currently given.

www.bleepingcomputer.com

 

[dada_dave]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs

Also saying AGI is not right around the corner, hardware value depreciates over time, so spending trillions now is a waste of resources as most of the hardware will be outdated within 5 years.

 

[Eric]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs

Also saying AGI is not right around the corner, hardware value depreciates over time, so spending trillions now is a waste of resources as most of the hardware will be outdated within 5 years.

IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar AI data center buildout is unsustainable — says there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit​

Putting aside my obvious bias against AI you just have to wonder how they expect it to be profitable when most people only ever just use free text chat features. I think it has its uses, especially in the medical field, but for the everyday person there is no real practical applications for it, at least for now.

 

[Nycturne]

Putting aside my obvious bias against AI you just have to wonder how they expect it to be profitable when most people only ever just use free text chat features. I think it has its uses, especially in the medical field, but for the everyday person there is no real practical applications for it, at least for now.

The effort I'm seeing pushed right now is more in the B2B space, trying to entice folks with the lure of lower labor costs. The free usage is crowd-sourced training data for that other usage.

 

[Eric]

The effort I'm seeing pushed right now is more in the B2B space, trying to entice folks with the lure of lower labor costs. The free usage is crowd-sourced training data for that other usage.

Yes, the whole "replace your humans" movement driven by billionaires that results in huge job losses and even worse customer service for their customers. I would seriously applaud this if it worked but every single real world experience I've had with it has been beyond frustrating. Instead of getting your issues resolved you just give up.

 

[Nycturne]

Yes, the whole "replace your humans" movement driven by billionaires that results in huge job losses and even worse customer service for their customers. I would seriously applaud this if it worked but every single real world experience I've had with it has been beyond frustrating. Instead of getting your issues resolved you just give up.

Oh, believe me, I know.

 

[Eric]

Oh, believe me, I know.

I would be willing to bet any company touting "Real human customer service, no AI" would actually attract customers. It's such a large part of any business to risk losing your base over.

 

[Agent47]

I would be willing to bet any company touting "Real human customer service, no AI" would actually attract customers. It's such a large part of any business to risk losing your base over.

Unfortunately, lots of people are cheap. May work with companies though, as those value actual support more than individuals do

 

[dada_dave]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/researchers-uncover-critical-ai-ide-flaws-exposing-developers-to-data-theft-and-rce

Doesn’t sound great … AI development tools integrated into IDEs become attack surfaces. This is very similar to an earlier post I made about the Signal CTO saying that even local AI agents would be by their very functionality massive security vulnerabilities.

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Also for your amusement;

 

[dada_dave]

AI bots like ChatGPT or Google Gemini are changing how humans speak

Large language model bots like ChatGPT or Google Gemini have already changed written communications. It appears that they are now affecting how humans speak, too.

www.notebookcheck.net

AI usage may be affecting word choice in spoken language - basically words AI uses more often are becoming more common in human speech as well. I haven’t read the original paper, but one concern I have is eliminating AI generated data from the data set (eg some of their data is from YouTube and there’s a lot of AI generated voiceover on YouTube especially on shorts).

 

[rdrr]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/world/video/engineai-chinese-ceo-kicked-by-humanoid-robot-t800-digvid

Somewhat related to AI, because the first attempt was thought to be an AI video. So the CEO came up with the great idea to become the victim of the kick.

Here is my first reaction to this story... So the biggest issue was to prove that this video wasn't AI, and not that a robot named the T800 is being trained in combat!?!?

 

[dada_dave]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/07/world/video/engineai-chinese-ceo-kicked-by-humanoid-robot-t800-digvid

Somewhat related to AI, because the first attempt was thought to be an AI video. So the CEO came up with the great idea to become the victim of the kick.

Here is my first reaction to this story... So the biggest issue was to prove that this video wasn't AI, and not that a robot named the T800 is being trained in combat!?!?
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Listening to most tech CEOs expound on their favorite books/media which have any kind of nuance (or not even for some of the more obtuse CEOs) will disabuse one of the notion that the humanities in general or literary analysis in particular is a waste of time in school. Overly focusing on STEM has its drawbacks.

 

[dada_dave]

 

[Eric]

Magazine using AI images of women to tell other women how they should look.