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Mario<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Tutanota</a> those 3% requesting the <a href="https://liberdon.com/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIhype</a> are probably bots from big tech corporations.I am actually sorry I didn't discover Tutanota earlier.

Wes Fryer[PODCAST] Separating AI Hope from AI Hype by <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/EFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EFF</a> “How to Fix the Internet”<a href="https://pca.st/episode/027127a1-f699-4cfd-a501-f42256df3be4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pca.st/episode/027127a1-f699-4cfd-a501-f42256df3be4</a>One of the best podcasts I have heard to date about AI, techno-optimism, the AI hype cycle, and more. Highly recommended!<a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/MediaLit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaLit</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/PodcastRecc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PodcastRecc</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcast</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIhype</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/hype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hype</a> <a href="https://triangletoot.party/tags/TechnoOptimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechnoOptimism</a>

Jan :rust: :ferris:New <a href="https://floss.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> by <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Salesforce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Salesforce</a> about <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> and their tool use via <a href="https://floss.social/tags/MCP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MCP</a> 🚨 MCP-Universe: Benchmarking Large Language Models with Real-World Model Context Protocol Servers:<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14704" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14704</a>Reliability of LLMs using MCP for real-world tasks: - GPT-5 => 43.72% - Grok-4 => 33.33% - Claude-4.0-Sonnet => 29.44%Glad there are no negative percentages, I guess!?😌 So let me get this straight: we are burning the planet for... not even a coinflip!? 🪙 🎲 🎈 💥 <a href="https://floss.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/AgenticAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgenticAI</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Companies are betting on AI—yet nearly all enterprise pilots are stuck at the starting line.The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. The research—based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments—paints a clear divide between success stories and stalled projects. (...) [F]or 95% of companies in the dataset, generative AI implementation is falling short. The core issue? Not the quality of the AI models, but the “learning gap” for both tools and organizations. While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT’s research points to flawed enterprise integration. Generic tools like ChatGPT excel for individuals because of their flexibility, but they stall in enterprise use since they don’t learn from or adapt to workflows..."<a href="https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Mark Harbinger<a href="https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Free_Press</a> Nonsense. A stochastic (random) behavior that happen to resemble intentional behavior or sentience...is still a random behavior. And the studies that many of these instances point to are cooked. Until someone shares their training data, there is no reason to believe any demo. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Doomvertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Doomvertising</a> to maintain the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Some AI researchers say that the overwhelming focus on scaling large language models and transformers — the architecture underpinning the technology which was created by Google in 2016 — has itself had a limiting effect, coming at the expense of other approaches.“We are entering a phase of diminishing return with pure LLMs trained with text,” says Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief scientist, who is considered one of the “godfathers” of modern AI. “But we are definitely not hitting a ceiling with deep-learning-based AI systems trained to understand the real world through video and other modalities.”These so-called world models are trained on elements of the physical world beyond language, and are able to plan, reason and have persistent memory. The new architecture could yet drive forward progress in self-driving cars, robotics or even sophisticated AI assistants.“There are huge areas for improvement . . . but we need new strategies to get [there],” says Joelle Pineau, the former Meta AI research lead now chief AI officer at start-up Cohere. “Simply continuing to add compute and targeting theoretical AGI won’t be enough.”"<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/d01290c9-cc92-4c1f-bd70-ac332cd40f94" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/d01290c9-cc92-4c1f-bd70-ac332cd40f94</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Chatbots</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AGI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Robert J. BergerAn excellent, though long, essay on what's really happening with spending on building out Data Centers for AI and how there is no hope to every pay it back <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter</a>

DAIR InstituteMystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 60 - Vibe Coding: Four Security Nightmares in a Trenchcoat (with Susanna Cox) <a href="https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/m5Hb4QbhZWkssGu4kmWbgT" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/m5Hb4QbhZWkssGu4kmWbgT</a>

Julian Schwarzenbach<a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@nixCraft</a> Remember the late 90's and the dot com boom? Seemingly, every news article was about dot com, lots of hyped acquisitions, investors ploughing large amounts of money into just about anything related to dot com.And then what happened? The dot com crash.The parallels with the current hype about AI, the amount of money being thrown at it etc. means the likelihood of a repeat of the dot com crash is now almost certain.Prove me wrong!<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aihype</a>

Robert KingettSubToot about the idea to brick or trick LLM’s by sabotaging and mangling alt text.

Miguel Afonso Caetano"For all that, GPT-5 is not a terrible model. I played with it for about an hour, and it actually got several of my initial queries right (some initial problems with counting “r’s in blueberries had already been corrected, for example). It only fell apart altogether when I experimented with images.But the reality is that GPT-5 just not that different from anything that came before. And that’s the point. GPT-4 was widely seen as a radical advance over GPT-3; GPT-3 was widely seen as a radical advance over GPT-2. GPT-5 is barely better than last month’s flavor of the month (Grok 4); on some metrics (ARC-AGI-2) it’s actually worse.People had grown to expect miracles, but GPT-5 is just the latest incremental advance. And it felt rushed at that, as one meme showed.The one prediction I got most deeply wrong was in thinking that with so much at stake OpenAI would save the name GPT-5 for something truly remarkable. I honestly didn’t think OpenAI would burn the brand name on something so mid.I was wrong."<a href="https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GPT5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPT5</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default position of AI’s inevitable value, they’ve begun to sour on the idea that it’s going to happen soon.Meanwhile, quirked-up threehundricorn OpenAI has either raised or is about to raise another $8.3 billion in cash, less than two months since it raised $10 billion from SoftBank and a selection of venture capital firms. I hate to be too crude, but where the fuck is this money going? Is OpenAI just incinerating capital? Is it compute? Is it salaries? Is it compute? Is it to build data centers, because SoftBank isn’t actually building anything for Stargate? The Information suggested OpenAI is using the money to build data centers — possibly the only worse investment it can make other than generative AI, and it’s one that it can’t avoid because OpenAI also is somehow running out of compute. And now they're in "early-stage discussions" about an employee share sale that would value the company at $500 billion, a ludicrous number that shows we're leaving the realm of reality. To give you some context, Shopify's market cap is $197 billion, Salesforce's is $248 billion, and Netflix's is $499 billion. Do you really think that OpenAI is worth more than these companies? Do you think they're worth more than AMD at a $264 billion market cap? Do you?"<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Carwil Bjork-JamesThe <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> problem at play is the spreading illusion that all AI and ML techniques contain self-aware fairy dust that makes out as smart colleagues rather than flawed and sometimes problematic tools.

Carwil Bjork-JamesSo, I was in an academic research meeting yesterday where someone speculated that "maybe if the machine learning tool is aware of the bias, it will correct for it."Just one random symptom of how <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a> of machine super-intelligence can act as a distortion of reality.<a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@emilymbender</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The AI bubble is driven by the promise of firing workers and replacing them with automation. Investors and AI companies are tacitly (and sometimes explicitly) betting that bosses who can fire a worker and replace them with a chatbot will pay the chatbot's maker an appreciable slice of that former worker's salary for an AI that takes them off the payroll.The people who find AI fun or useful or surprising are centaurs. They're making automation choices based on their own assessment of their needs and the AIs' capabilities.They are not the customers for AI. AI exists to replace workers, not empower them. Even if AI can make you more productive, there is no business model in increasing your pay and decreasing your hours.AI is about disciplining labor to decrease its share of an AI-using company's profits. AI exists to lower a company's wage-bill, at your expense, with the savings split between the your boss and an AI company. When Getty or the NYT or another media company sues an AI company for copyright infringement, that doesn't mean they are opposed to using AI to replace creative workers – they just want a larger slice of the creative workers' salaries in the form of a copyright license from the AI company that sells them the worker-displacing tool."<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SoftwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareDevelopment</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MassUnemployment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassUnemployment</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBubble" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIBubble</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

Robert KingettIn the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen – Random Thoughts <a href="https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/AIHype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIHype</a>

i_dont_like_AI a_programmerHurrah for South Korea, which, in the interest of kids, just crushed "AI"-books from influencing schools:<<..passed a bill ..stripping artificial intelligence-powered digital textbooks of their legal status ..The amendment narrows the legal definition of textbooks [so as to exclude books made by] intelligent information technology.>><a href="https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10546695" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10546695</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aihype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aihype</a>#neverai

Bornach<a href="https://awful.systems/u/dgerard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dgerard</a> Google <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DeepMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeepMind</a> made absolutely no improvement in the handwriting over the older <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/VEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VEO</a> model on AI Studio.Might make a great test to guard against deep fakes.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIslop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIslop</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIhype</a>

DAIR InstituteMystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 59 - Et Tu, American Federation of Teachers? <a href="https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/rawMsrLdNTVhpC5BNRfDBc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/rawMsrLdNTVhpC5BNRfDBc</a>

Christoph BeckerWe would love to hear from people who take a critically informed, engaged stance, steering the futures of <a href="https://hci.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> away from <a href="https://hci.social/tags/AIhype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIhype</a> or <a href="https://hci.social/tags/AIslop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIslop</a> to genuinely interesting places oriented beyond <a href="https://hci.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLMs</a>. <a href="https://dair-community.social/@DAIR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DAIR</a> <a href="https://dair-community.social/@alex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@alex</a> <a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@emilymbender</a> <a href="https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@timnitGebru</a>

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