The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
Nobody Wants to Pay for Your AI
AI is everywhere today. It writes social posts, suggests email replies, recommends your next binge-watch, and quietly powers tools you use without even noticing.
AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find
AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.
AI Is Slowing Down
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The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
Your Software Is Not Sentient
Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides “what is taking up all my cloud storage?”) is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don’t want it. I’m going to make a handout that explains how to do some of the basic AI-removal or AI-avoidance things. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you like AI and find it useful? That’s fine, this document is probably not for you. Additions/edits welcome. Leave a comment or drop me an email.
Using AI to click around on a website burns 45x as many tokens as just using APIs
For AI agents, seeing is expensive
The AI Industry Is Losing
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AI is doing something weird to Science
In both good and bad ways, and it won't go away.
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months
