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Baldur Bjarnason

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Tagged “AI”

This page contains all of what I’ve published on AI. Much of it is research for my book: The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI.

  1. An interesting analysis of fair use and generative models
    – 778 words
  2. The LLM honeymoon phase is about to end
    – 1536 words
  3. Your use of AI is directly harming the environment I live in
    – 780 words
  4. Blogging in the age of 'AI'
    – 325 words
  5. A note on the EU AI Act
    – 690 words
  6. The other shoe dropping on 'AI' and office work
    – 471 words
  7. The sentiment disconnect on 'AI' between tech and the public
    – 1603 words
  8. AI and Asbestos: the offset and trade-off models for large-scale risks are inherently harmful
    – 900 words
  9. New Web Development. Or, why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev
    – 3385 words
  10. 'Slop': the rhetorical gambit of framing failure as partial success
    – 403 words
  11. The mainstreaming of 'AI' scepticism
    – 2682 words
  12. The lifecycle of a tech bubble
    – 1288 words
  13. The 'AI' chaos
    – 775 words
  14. The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why burnout happens
    – 1858 words
  15. 'I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that LLMs are being used to generate slop'
    – 217 words
  16. React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity
    – 2727 words
  17. Generated images for non-generated text and video
    – 219 words
  18. The unsustainability of the AI Bubble
    – 261 words
  19. Again, my position on LLMs is that you absolutely shouldn't be using them with very, very few exceptions
    – 706 words
  20. 'This shit's so expensive': a note on generative models and software margins
    – 605 words
  21. 'They ban products, don't they?'
    – 360 words
  22. The one about the web developer job market
    – 6286 words
  23. The Intelligence Illusion: stepping into a pile of 'AI'
    – 2486 words
  24. Bad AI Business Models, Lazy AI Criticism, Queer Holiday-themed movies, and a bunch of links
    – 3088 words
  25. Bad Business AI: Channel 1
    – 1334 words
  26. The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines
    – 6137 words
  27. Making or using generative 'AI' is, all else being equal, a dick move
    – 594 words
  28. Fear Of Missing Out is lethal when somebody invents a footgun
    – 818 words
  29. My position on AI (for future reference)
    – 2527 words
  30. You can't debate bullshit (and some links)
    – 974 words
  31. The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
    – 5280 words
  32. What's the game?
    – 1379 words
  33. Language models and software quality and other links
    – 1066 words
  34. Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea
    – 6997 words
  35. 'Generative AI: What You Need To Know' is a free guide to help you spot AI bullshit
    – 484 words
  36. Prompts are unfit for purpose and other links
    – 450 words
  37. Prompts are unsafe, and that means language models are not fit for purpose
    – 1272 words
  38. Writing when tech has broken the web's social contract
    – 1490 words
  39. Praise for my ebooks 'The Intelligence Illusion' and 'Out of the Software Crisis'
    – 1073 words
  40. The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts
    – 4458 words
  41. Google Bard's vulnerabilities and other links
    – 840 words
  42. Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and keyword-stuffing
    – 1336 words
  43. ‘What next?’ he asks with trepidation
    – 712 words
  44. Additions to my book, The Intelligence Illusion
    – 791 words
  45. The poisoning of ChatGPT
    – 1233 words
  46. My writing on AI; the story so far
    – 655 words
  47. The polarisation of AI discourse serves nobody except power
    – 914 words
  48. AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking industry
    – 1769 words
  49. Beware of AI pseudoscience and snake oil
    – 2616 words
  50. Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley
    – 5114 words
  51. Studying the pitfalls and potential of generative code (plus links)
    – 883 words
  52. Why I wrote The Intelligence Illusion—a book on the risks of generative AI (available now)
    – 606 words
  53. Three factors of AI anthropomorphism
    – 1353 words
  54. AI, Algogen, and Anti-Poetry
    – 1013 words
  55. The hard truth about productivity research
    – 1511 words
  56. The AI is an American
    – 579 words
  57. GDPR and American AIs
    – 1349 words
  58. Regulating AI (plus links & notes)
    – 1592 words
  59. How to regulate AI
    – 643 words
  60. AI summaries are almost certainly unreliable
    – 628 words
  61. AI in healthcare
    – 447 words
  62. AI summaries and AI healthcare (links & notes)
    – 1313 words
  63. Keeping up with and assessing AI research (links & notes)
    – 1149 words
  64. Why you should ignore most AI research you hear about on social media
    – 933 words
  65. Waiting for the AI Godot (Links & Notes)
    – 1199 words
  66. When you promise an AI revolution, eventually you will have to deliver
    – 398 words
  67. Book production, AI, Single-Page-Apps, and other links and notes
    – 1506 words
  68. AI is a Hail Mary pass and other links & notes
    – 772 words
  69. Generative AI is the tech industry's Hail Mary pass
    – 1214 words
  70. EU and copyright protections for AI-generated works and other notes
    – 1504 words

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