DK_en 3x07 - LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work
LLMs don't even qualify as autotune. Autotune, at least, still has some connection to work (not necessarily talent).
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Investigating the untold biases behind Big Data, policy-by-algorithm and Artificial Intelligence. Because The Algorithmic is Political
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19 episodesDK_en 3x06 - Legitimate use my ass
You give them fair use, and they stick it up their ass.
DK_en 3x05 - Storytellers
Do not heed Sam Altman and his ilk, it's not tech innovation. It's storytelling.
DK_en 3x04 - Empire
The "Microsoft vs. International Criminal Court" scandal means that all US-owned companies in the EU are foreign agents. Something MUST be d...
DK_en 3x03 - Idol(AI)try
AI is making huge progress: idolatry is now officially a thing again.
DK_en 3x02 - Agentification
Among the many prophecies around AI, there is the creation of "intelligent agents" that will just go around doing intelligent stuff for us....
DK_en 3x01 - Sam Altman Does Not Get ML
When Sam Altman recently tried to explain why AI works, he managed to show he's talking by hearsay, of stuff he hardly grasps.
DK_en 2x06 - Thoughts for the summer break
As an end-of season treat, a bunch of questions that we'll meet again, as good as new, after the break. Good summer from Dataknightmare!
DK_en 2x05 - The Italian Garante and chatGPT
TL; DR: there is no "AI", only bullshit generators, and therein lies the rub. what the Italian Garante really decided (no, it did NOT block...
DK en_2x04 - Bullshit Generators
Generative AI may be all the rage right now, but it's just a marketing name. A more appropriate name? Bullshit generators.
DK_en 2x03 - GDPR 2.0? NoThanks.
"Dear EU, please change the GDPR because it does not suit our business models. XOXO, the US"
DK_En - 2x02 Algojerks Towards the Thousand-Year Reich
Lonmgtermism is a Nazi cult disguised as fashionable scientism for the megarich. Merry Christmas!
DK 2x01 - Are there alternatives to Office365?
DataKnightmare is back. And, following on the german DSK investigation report, has his own opinion on the age-old question: are there altern...
DK 1x06en - Lenin in Silicon Valley
First it was Project Maven, then Google Duplex, and now the Selfish Ledger. Google has become the Church of the Algojerks, and it is now cle...
DK_en 1x05 - Attack of the Algojerks
Do you, like me, have the impression that things are somehow accelerating? As if we were on a car careening downhill with no brakes --and no...
DK_en 1x04 - Twilight Of The Gods
The DataKnightmare has issues with the ongoing deification of disruption stars. Will our future really have the intellectually unencumbered...
DK_en 1x03 - The Mother Of All Datagrabs
You thought the DeepMind/Royal Free NHS case was bad? Well, Italy has promised IBM the sum total of its 60 million citizens' health data for...
DK_en 1x02 - Dumb and Dumber
The Equifax breach, 143 million citizens' worth of credit rating data? Or Facebook having Nazis as a targetable demographics? Or the system...
DK_en 1x01 - You're Looking Gay, Today
Can AI really guess if you are gay? So far, it's a bullshit claim. Nonetheless, some are making it. They claim to be warning us, but with th...