Nailing the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype Bubble
Today I listened to a podcast about "hey hi". I listened to the whole thing with great interest. No, no... it didn't advocate it but blasted it, repeatedly. All this while constantly reminding listeners that it's not even "AI", it's just some misleading buzzword/s that companies pay politicians and media companies to play along with.
That podcast episode isn't released yet (it was a preview) and it's almost 1.5 hours long. It has a guest from stopgenai.com and she has interesting views, including insights on where this hype is ultimately going. The co-host Helen also has some good poetry on the subject. We'll probably mention the episode when it goes live.
There's also this thesis: So-called "hey hi" as they define it now is all about large companies or regimes remotely controlling the processes running on your machine and even your very own behaviour on your machine, which is in effect no longer your machine but some remotely controlled apparatus. They blast Microsoft and mention how "CoPilot" tries to control the users of Microsoft Office (changing their behaviour while spying at them at the same time). This has the recipe or signs of assured disaster all over it. █