What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

übrigens: Die KI-Zusammenfassungen bei jeder Suche verbrauchen enorm viel Energie! Mit ein Grund, warum wir sie nicht anbieten, auch wenn sich KI-Suche auch bei den alternativen Suchmaschinen inzwischen immer mehr durchsetzt. Auch ein Beitrag zum Klimaschutz...

heise.de/news/Googles-Kohlendi

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「いまのAIは、アマゾンのような企業が取り憑かれたようにのめり込む“麻薬のような存在”になっています。従業員を解雇するための口実に使われ、その結果生まれたコスト削減分が、誰も料金を支払わないAI製品向けのデータセンター建設に回されているのです」
https://wired.jp/article/amazon-employees-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/

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It is some kind of poetic tragedy that an industry based around hoovering up any web accessible information with extreme aggression is failing to learn the core lessons of the prior two major AI winters¹ while galloping full tilt towards the third.

Namely, that massively overselling and under-delivering will cause the actual benefits and advances of the tech to be irrelevant. Public sentiment will curdle to angry incredulity at best, blind hatred at worst.

¹: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

If you thought that hiring managers were hostile to having cryptocurrency or NFTs on a resume now, that will be as nothing compared to the hostility towards mentions of LLMs or chatbots once a profound market contraction causes unrelated businesses and likely entire small industries to wither.

Annoying users with shitty slop and annoying admins with scrapers will fade as a match to the sun compared with destroying people's hard-built livelihoods.

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