The "AI" (Slop) Bubble is Already Imploding
Despite Microsoft paying companies like Mozilla to shove slop prompts inside widely-used Web browsers and "infusing" everything in Windows with so-called 'AI' (even invoked 'by accident' - passively - to fake demand or game the usage metrics):
Losing even more money than it envisioned years ago, now using 'browser' gimmicks to stir up hype or create a distraction/smokescreen.
This is also new:
Yesterday we showed how fairly mainstream tech media in Germany was covering this week's talks (at least two in Germany) by Richard Stallman. It repeated what he said in English about LLM-based chatbots being just "bullshit generators".
They are, indeed, pure BS. We wrote so much about this inane hype, celebrated and boosted in Nobel's name (hijacked by commercial interests). Moreover, now we see mass layoffs in GAFAM units that say not only "intelligence" but "superintelligence". Microsoft already does that too.
A reader has just argued that Conde Nast's "Wired does not link to Texas A&M but instead to an unauthoritative page at Microsoft GitHub. This relates to the observation about Stanford."
Yes, indeed, and they probably fail to see those links will be broken in a few years as GitHub is being mothballed inwards [1, 2] due to financial problems. Microsoft is trying to re-classify this thing as "AI" (plagiarism blender) to fake revenue growth; IBM did the same. █