Simone Linke
@simonelinke.com
Translator / linguist / writer.
Usually an appreciator of clouds, but giving this blue sky a chance...
Usually an appreciator of clouds, but giving this blue sky a chance...
US lady with a drinking problem is supposed to save mankind and only a dozen other people could help her, but she refuses to even meet with half of them because they don't speak English... what the actual f***?
Are people praising this new Vince Gilligan show hive-mind zombies, too? #pluribus
Are people praising this new Vince Gilligan show hive-mind zombies, too? #pluribus
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
US lady with a drinking problem is supposed to save mankind and only a dozen other people could help her, but she refuses to even meet with half of them because they don't speak English... what the actual f***?
Are people praising this new Vince Gilligan show hive-mind zombies, too? #pluribus
Are people praising this new Vince Gilligan show hive-mind zombies, too? #pluribus
We're ~3 years into this #GenAI circus and I still see many colleagues praise these systems as if their cost-benefit ratio were anything but utterly unacceptable. In case anybody needs a primer, here's a good one (ignore the baiting title for the YT algorithm): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult-Like AI Companies | Aaron Bastani Meets Karen Hao
YouTube video by Novara Media
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We're ~3 years into this #GenAI circus and I still see many colleagues praise these systems as if their cost-benefit ratio were anything but utterly unacceptable. In case anybody needs a primer, here's a good one (ignore the baiting title for the YT algorithm): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
In case you need another reason to dump Google products wherever possible, here you go.
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
September 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In case you need another reason to dump Google products wherever possible, here you go.
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
#fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome
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Reposted by Simone Linke
Fantastic news out of Tucson!
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure - AZ Luminaria
The Tucson city council voted unanimously Wednesday against bringing the massive and water-devouring Project Blue data center — tied to tech giant Amazon — into city limits. After weeks of escalating...
azluminaria.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Fantastic news out of Tucson!
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
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Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
www.404media.co
July 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
FFS! It's not enough to exploit & displace vulnerable people via toxic, resource-hungry tech systems – now these systems even speak for those whose voices we actually need to hear?! And the clowns behind this justify it with FOMO and saying it's just like going on a date?! Wtf?
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
July 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
FFS! It's not enough to exploit & displace vulnerable people via toxic, resource-hungry tech systems – now these systems even speak for those whose voices we actually need to hear?! And the clowns behind this justify it with FOMO and saying it's just like going on a date?! Wtf?
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
#AI #EmpireOfAI #fail
Oops!... They did it again...
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
ChatGPT gave wildly inaccurate translations — to try and make users happy
Three recent incidents are reminders that generative AI tools remain troublesome and unreliable. IT buyer beware.
www.computerworld.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Oops!... They did it again...
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
"GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments."
www.computerworld.com/article/3985...
#GenAI #XL8 #AI
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I love being able to explain academic things like statistics, and the history of computer science, to journalists. In this article, I got to do both. 😍 Meanwhile @emilymbender.bsky.social does a brilliant job at explaining why it doesn’t make sense to have machines as the “translator” for human art.
This is a comprehensive article by Anne Li, with quotes from @emilymbender.bsky.social Asmelash Teka @mmitchell.bsky.social and many more.
themarkup.org/artificial-i...
themarkup.org/artificial-i...
Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing – The Markup
Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced
themarkup.org
April 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I love being able to explain academic things like statistics, and the history of computer science, to journalists. In this article, I got to do both. 😍 Meanwhile @emilymbender.bsky.social does a brilliant job at explaining why it doesn’t make sense to have machines as the “translator” for human art.