Author: mfeilner

  • Uberspace, Cloudflare, ReadtheDocs: “Customers don’t want AI scrapers”

    Uberspace, Cloudflare, ReadtheDocs: “Customers don’t want AI scrapers”

    More and more websites report to suffer from AI attacks. To be precise, LLMs are the problem, again. Uberspace, independent free of charge self-hosting is running into trouble with their data and network usage. ReadtheDocs has Terabyte of unwanted data, and Clouflare is offering help. And the source of it all? AI scrapers. Half of…

  • Open Source is sexy: AI Openwashing has arrived

    Open Source is sexy: AI Openwashing has arrived

    If you wondered about all those “open-source” AI solutions on the market, you might be right. Not every “AI” solution is artificial intelligence, not every one of them that claims open-source really is open-source. The topic has become so prominent and wide-spread that even the New York Times made a feature on it: “Openwashing” is…

  • Doggy-Style? Why AI is creating so many Golden Retrievers (A Study by Nature)

    Doggy-Style? Why AI is creating so many Golden Retrievers (A Study by Nature)

    During the last hype of AI (the end of which we are currently witnessing), many AI experts believed that bigger, faster, deeper learning would yield better, more correct and faster results. Turns out that wasn’t what happened: In our reality AI data started flodding the internet with useless “slop“, a process experts soon started called…

  • Goldman Sachs: “You probably won’t ever get the ROI from all that AI investments”

    Goldman Sachs: “You probably won’t ever get the ROI from all that AI investments”

    In a study published already in June 2024 – which is gaining traction among media recently –, the world’s second largest investment bank titled with “Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?“. Goldman-Sachs is highly skeptical whether the huge investments pouring into the cloudy sector of “AI” will ever return a break-even. Tech giants…

  • “Copyright puzzle” – Music Lawsuits vs. AI

    “Copyright puzzle” – Music Lawsuits vs. AI

    “‘This is a great demonstration of the extent to which this technology is not transformative at all,’ Tift Merritt (Photo above from Wikipedia) said. ‘It’s stealing.’”, reports Reuters. Merrit is a country musician who feels AI is copying without permission. And maybe there’s something to it: Even the big music labels are afraid and have…

  • Washington State University claims term “AI” is bad for your sales

    Washington State University claims term “AI” is bad for your sales

    “As per the report, the label AI or Artificial Intelligence might sound cool to some but that may negatively affect sales, especially when the company promotes offerings with these words.” says digitalinformationworld. “Whenever the term AI is used, it displays a lack of emotional trust, and that in turn gives rise to a decline in…

  • konterfAI – An AI tool to poison disrespectful AI’s models and training data (Updated)

    konterfAI – An AI tool to poison disrespectful AI’s models and training data (Updated)

    Some open source people have published code on codeberg that can be used in defense of your web server (or home network). It’s called konterfAI and works anywhere where there’s docker (or ollama itself), even on a raspberry Pi and is amazingly simple. konterfAI is a proof-of-concept for a model-poisoner for LLM (Large Language Models)…

  • AI- startup Anthropic accused of disrespectful scraping

    AI- startup Anthropic accused of disrespectful scraping

    Once more a data-greedy startup in the realm of Artificial intelligence has been accused of “bypassing” anti-scraping rules of websites, causing thousands of dollars (or more) harm. Here’s MSN’s report.