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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • You might want to read the actual report then.

    You’ll find that the second study was conducted in May/June 2025 and you’ll find the model versions, which were the available free options at the time (page 20)

    Also the sourcing errors found where not based on the question which source was selected (aka a bias in sourcing as you seem to imply) but the report explicitly states this:

    Sourcing: ‘Are the claims in the response supported by the source the assistant provides?’ (page 9)

    “Sourcing was the biggest cause of problems, with 31% of all responses having significant issues with sourcing – this includes information in the response not supported by the cited source, providing no sources at all, or making incorrect or unverifiable sourcing claims.” (page 10)

    GPT 4o and Gemini Flash were not “heavily outdated” at the time when the study was conducted, because these were the provided models in the free version which they used (page 20 and page 62).

    The goal of the study is not to find the best performing model or to compare the performance of different models, but to use the publicly available AI offerings like a normal consumer would be able to. You might get better results by using a paid pro model or a specialized model of some kind but that’s not the point here.


  • The reason the AI Bubble will pop is not mass layoffs and the economic consequences thereof. Those glorified text predictors aka LLMs simply can’t meaningfully replace workers on a larger scale. The AI Bubble will pop because the technology is a hype, an unsustainable fantasy and the enormous amount of money speculatively pumped into the companies involved will vanish and drag the economy down with it.

    AI Boosters and AI Doomers are two sides of the same coin: Both assume that AI technology is about to become insanely powerful. That’s why Altman and his billionaire friends have no problem speculating about mass job loss or the impending end of humanity through AGI. Both sides serve to fuel the hype and this obscures a third possibility: That LLMs are limited in what can be done with them and relying on them to fulfill a promise to actually replace humans might very likely be a dead end. A collective realisation that those lofty promises are just the equivalent of pulling a rabbit out of a hat is what will burst that bubble.









  • With A.I., it’s on me if I’m duped. What’s the use in that?

    That’s the fundamental insight right there.

    If you write an email having your name in the sender address or if you sign something with your name, people expect you to be responsible for the content. Outsourcing the content creation to AI does not lift this responsibility. If the AI makes a mistake or if the tone is off, it’s still on you.




  • It’s an interesting discussion to witness in these posts: convenience vs privacy and control.

    The convenience and integration you get with commercial products like IOS or Android comes at a price. Everything that matters to you on a daily basis bundled together in one convenient package means that all things which define you as a person are conveniently interconnected for corporations to sell out your data for everyone who wants it.

    GPS: your current whereabouts at any moment in time and a complete history of where you have been in the past

    Payment functions: what you are buying and where you have bought it

    Communication (Messengers, Phone): Who you communicate with and what you are talking about

    Photos and Videos: Real life evidence from all the stuff mentioned above.

    Web Browsing: Interests and Needs which will be used against you in a totalitarian surveillance state, at a glance

    If you in 2025 still think this convenience is there to please you as a consumer I have bad news for you.

    Convenience and interconnection of services look nice and useful but at the same time they’re a privacy nightmare that makes Orwell’s 1984 look like a bedtime story for children.

    What this all comes down to: Strictly airgapping the boundaries between the different services is the only way to have a modicum of privacy. Photos do not belong in a cloud controlled by someone you don’t know and should be taken from a separate device. Navigation belongs on a separate device with no internet connection, payment should not be done with a personal identifier at all (if avoidable) etc. Living your life this way might seem terribly inconvenient, but as someone who was alive at a time where all this convenience didn’t exist I can tell you it has its advantages too. You’ll rediscover what really matters.