The Register MS Now Openly Admits LLM Hype Does Damage, But It's Also Being Paid to Participate in the LLM Hype (With Paid 'Articles' and 'Webcasts' for Paying Advertisers)
Earlier this month: The Register's Editor in Chief (Who Left for Google) Told Me "AI" Was a Bubble, But Now The Register Gets Paid to Participate in Inflating This Bubble
In recent weeks and even some hours ago in our latest Slopwatch we showed that The Register MS is well aware of the harms of LLMs. They basically bang on loads of sites, staging something indistinguishable from DDoS attacks.
So why does this publisher keep promoting LLMs regardless?
Simple.
Money!
The Register MS gets paid to do this. By NVidia, Snyk etc. Even sanctioned companies.
We keep showing that all the vocal boosters of "hey hi" (AI) are in fact being paid to inflate the bubble. The media bribes are "slush funds" compared to what those companies stand to gain.
Society should be very unhappy and extremely worried about this. Instead of media as a guardian what we get is media is an active (and compensated) participant in Ponzi schemes. It calls this one thing "AI" to make it sound more noble than "crypto"; but they're two sides of the same coin and they destroy the only planet we have.
Traffic in Techrights more than doubled yesterday, but this might be attributed/attributable to LLM bots being an out-of-control pest. Traffic ought to be measured in terms like "impact" or "quality", not raw hits. People who run porn sites or add porn to their sites might get more hits, but what does that say about such sites? And what do they contribute to society? I said this to the previous editor of The Register MS (before he left to work for GAFAM), but that point seemed to have flown well above his head. He left The Register MS under the direct control of Microsofters, who stand to benefit from inflating Microsoft's Ponzi scheme riding the slop lies (Microsoft's "value" didn't quadruple since "ChatGPT"; it was faked). █