Is anyone familiar with the website I Can Eat Glass? It was apparently created in the 90s by a Harvard student, who was concerned that people learning foreign languages only learn common phrases (e.g. “Where’s the loo?”) which makes them stand out as tourists when they speak. If one were to say a truly uncommon phrase, it stands to reason one would be instantly respected as a native. So he set up a website to collect as many translations of the phrase “I can eat glass, it does not hurt me” as he could.

Surely you are riveted to your screens right now, desperate to learn what this very special brain genius has been up to since then. Ethan Mollick is a professor at a Pennsylvania business school and published “Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI” in 2024. Some say he is substacking about the exponential growth of AI capabilities, but critically this book was apparently read by some german teaching influencer.

He in turn published a self-help book for parents of school kids this year, that got put on display in my local library. And of course it has a chapter on AI, so I had to lend it and hate-read a little. And of course he references Mollick and his Co-Intelligence screed, which he apparently absorbed as a base expectation what the future of AI will look like, and so I got to learn about one very special brain genius from Harvard.

My first association was Alex Jones screaming “I’M TEAM HUMAN” while ranting about environmentalists. So the brand is getting a little crowded it seems.

That seems totally reasonable too.

Idk, given that we can’t really conclusively prove that anything post-2022 is slop-free, don’t you think setting a no-AI policy is still good for setting social expectations? And making people spend effort to conceal AI work is not a bad thing, since one problem with slop-PRs is that they are low-effort.

And I use tons of old projects that haven’t made an anti-AI declaration (and have to use a bunch that are slop-permissive e.g. the kernel), but I still appreciate every one that does.

So I just stumbled into Team Human, because a Youtuber I kind of like (Kraut) published a video for them. They seem to run a campaign targeted at creators, pushing to get videos released on the 10th or 17th. So they must be having a bit of a high point right now. (Idk if cash changed hands.)

Their manifesto tries to amp up societal harms, but the existential risk is snuck in at the end (AI programmed pandemics, etc.) and they want to regulate AI chips like nukes. CAIS (Center for AI Safety) is listed as the sponsor. Seems a little “AI centrist” to me, as in aligned with the less insane billionaires, but still a typical AI safety astroturfing shop. Shame if any of your favorite creators fell for it.

Das man sich gerade auf einem niedrigeren Niveau einpendelt als früher halte ich auch für plausibel. Mit Produktivitätsanstieg hat das aber wenig zu tun.

Da ist nichts spannendes passiert. Professionelle Grafikdesigner werden nicht von Software die funktioniert zu Sloposhop wechseln. Wer eine zuverlässige FOSS Version möchte geht immer noch besser zu Krita oder GIMP.

Etwas Kontext zum Kontext: Als ich noch beruflich mit Leuten zu tun hatte, die ständig allen erklären wollten, dass die Blockchain die Zukunft ist, wurde auch gern das Internet als Vergleich herangezogen.

Eine zuverlässige Quelle zu finden war mir zu viel Aufwand. Ich weiß mittlerweile garnicht ob der ursprüngliche Post was aktuelles war, oder ob nur eine Studie aus 2025 wiedergekäut wurde.

Per Suchmaschine findet man einfach so viel Slop nach dem Schema “Die meisten KI Projekte scheitern… beachte daher diese geheimen Tipps um es besser zu machen!” Darüber ist das Meme.

Ursprünglicher Post in !de_edv@feddit.de wurde gelöscht.

Genauen Link finde ich nicht, referenzierte aber sowas wie das hier: https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/716921/95-prozent-scheitern-warum-kuenstliche-intelligenz-in-unternehmen-zur-falle-wird

Das was du gesagt hast, aber als Maimai.

Bro, what’s this (1+x)(1+x²)(1+x⁴)... ellipsis bullshit? You gotta get in on that big Π action!

CoMaps (Fork von OrganicMaps) kann ich da sehr empfehlen für casual Nutzer. Sehr einfache Oberfläche.

--yes-i-really-know-what-im-doing would also serve. This juvenile bullshit one should grow out of in their 20s at the latest.

though the lobotomized themselves weren’t among the loudest advocates of the procedure afaik

Ah well, that’s them computos for ya 🤷

Okay, what’s up with this title? Is this an 4-years-late announcement of support for Theo Seremitidis, who was unfairly dismissed by an australian company over labor safety disputes? Are there other Theos in need of support right now? Just Theo appreciation day in general?

I am utterly sniped. I have to go buy groceries now.

Also works for cocaine, I’m noticing.

Might be best as a comeback, if someone compares AI to a pharmaceutical breakthrough like antibiotics.

Just had a shower conversation with myself, and for some reason the crystal meth metaphor (methaphor?) is really coming together in my head.

“Have you even tried some frontier meth?”

“Sure, you can also get energy with exercising, eating well, and structure. But we don’t have to live like amish people, now that we can have meth!”

Nationalized Open Weight Models -> State-funded AI dispensory

There’s surely a rich bounty of comparisons left to mine.

The bubble will pop. It’s much too big to be sustainable.

But that won’t fix software industry employment because the Large Language Models don’t really need to work that well for this process. They only need to sort of work.

Get ready for the era of digitally sovereign on-premise open weight perpetual software sweatshops.