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  • How AI Hijacks Human Connection

    How AI Hijacks Human Connection

    AI doesn’t just train on academic or artistic content. Increasingly, it feeds on blogs, guides, and independent journalism; any content that shows human care, credibility, or craft. Summarized and displayed in search results, this content becomes invisible at the source. Welcome to a world where creators are reduced to training fodder.

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  • The Myth of AI Democratization

    The Myth of AI Democratization

    Some still believe that training large language models (LLMs) on copyrighted content is a form of “democratizing knowledge.” But when you look closely at how these models actually handle the material they ingest, the picture looks a lot less heroic – and a lot more extractive.

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  • Meta’s Silent Swallowing of My Academic Legacy

    Meta’s Silent Swallowing of My Academic Legacy

    My academic legacy? A monograph, a handful of articles—and now a starring role in training Meta’s Llama 3. No royalties. No citations. Just silent swallowing by a machine. A story of vanishing recognition in the age of AI.

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  • Klarna’s AI Whiplash: From Job Cuts to Human Epiphanies

    Klarna’s AI Whiplash: From Job Cuts to Human Epiphanies

    From “AI can do all jobs” to “Humans are invaluable!”: Klarna’s AI journey is a masterclass in hype whiplash. But behind the cringe, the CEO’s rhetoric surfaces real ethical tensions. What happens when honesty about AI and jobs is no longer whispered in executive suites – but shouted?

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  • Was KI-Prognosen (fast immer) übersehen

    Was KI-Prognosen (fast immer) übersehen

    Radiologen, Lehrer, Ärzte – alles ersetzbar? KI-Prognosen sind heute allgegenwärtig – aber oft erschreckend eindimensional. Was sie meist ausklammern: den Sinn, den Menschen in ihre Arbeit bringen. Ein Plädoyer für mehr Menschlichkeit – mit einem Zitat von Viktor Frankl.

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  • Keeping AI Weird (for Safety Reasons)

    Keeping AI Weird (for Safety Reasons)

    AI makes mistakes differently from humans. And that’s a good thing. This post explores why we shouldn’t train machines to fail like humans and why weirdness might be an important safety feature of AI.

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