Nicolas Kayser-Bril

Reporter AlgorithmWatch (npub1rq7…2kth)

website: https://blog.nkb.fr/

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2026-04-02 14:12:30 CEST

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That I can control the damage done by the LLM by turning it off?

2026-04-02 14:10:43 CEST

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😂 we can't even give them the credit of having used an LLM to come up with that nonsense as it's from 2017.

2026-04-02 14:02:23 CEST

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Thanks, but apparently they had country-specific version like so: https://web.archive.org/web/20220929163836/https://www.pwc.de/de/digitale-transformation/business-analytics/kuenstliche-intelligenz-sorgt-fuer-wachstumsschub.html
I was hoping to read the country-specific methodology but now that I think of it they probably just did a rule of three to get it.

2026-04-02 13:38:37 CEST

Now this is funny: The German government claims that AI will increase GDP by 11% by 2030 (start date not provided), based on a PwC study which the consultancy seems to have itself retracted 🤔
German gov't: https://www.digitale-technologien.de/DT/Navigation/DE/Themen/KuenstlicheIntelligenz/KuenstlicheIntelligenz.html
PwC study (404): https://www.pwc.de/de/business-analytics/sizing-the-price-final-juni-2018.pdf

2026-04-02 09:34:54 CEST

I'm trying to reconstruct how the narrative of "AI poses an existential risk, therefore we mustn't regulate it" came to be.
As far as I can tell, there never was a "New York Plaza" moment (where Big Tobacco bosses decided on their homicidal strategy in 1953).
Instead, a bunch of white dudes who watched The Matrix too much began to develop a faith in the early 2010s (Bostrom's book Superintelligence being their credo). Being a faith, it was impervious to evidence.
The question I still have is how this faith crossed the line from those dudes to journalists and politicians so fast and with so little resistance.
Any ideas?
cc @npub1z40…s3fq

2026-03-24 09:52:27 CET

🇵🇱 In Bydgoszcz hospital, parents were surprised to read, at the end of the discharge summary for their daughter, the typical LLM formulation "If you want, I can prepare a more complete interview..."
https://archive.is/7r9EQ
The hospital claims no foul play happened, but it sure looks like someone pasted personal health information in a LLM and copy-pasted the output.

2026-02-26 09:54:06 CET

Not everyone's on board with that European digital sovereignty thing:
🇫🇮 Finland's social security Kela, advised by PwC, bought an AI system from Salesforce to process almost all disbursement decisions (3000€ per year per Finn on average). All of the agency's systems will move to AWS.
Oh, and they'll cut their workforce by 2,400 (out of 8,000) too.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20211538

2026-01-16 10:57:25 CET

Editors of Mastodon, what's the best way to describe the United States' ICE in ten words or less?
I'm going for "ICE, an armed force that answers solely to the Trump's regime top officials"
@npub14na…rwkr went for "Trump's fascistoid hooligans" yesterday, which is good, but I'd like something more descriptive.

2026-01-08 13:13:51 CET

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🇨🇿 Czech journos seem to be looking for more stories of the form "AI slop disrupting services in small towns".
Today: An LLM told residents of Uničov (pop. 11,000) they didn't have to pay for garbage collection (they do).
https://www.idnes.cz/olomouc/zpravy/unicov-odpady-poplatky-ai-umela-inteligence-platby-penize.A260107_135939_olomouc-zpravy_hava
This is probably happening all across Europe, though I don't know how we could assess the extent of the mess. (It's tempting sample, say, 1000 towns in a country, but it'd be impossible to find the people at the receiving end of the problem in each).

2026-01-06 09:39:47 CET

🇨🇿 Today in AI slop: Gemini is advising people to call the emergency line of the municipal police of Česká Lípa when they have a toothache. The police put out a statement saying they're not a dental service.
https://www.facebook.com/mpolicie/posts/pfbid0XC7c57nr6vRX5jjSFrGw565rbd4ygdMrMCJfnzepLoo2cxogvFMLWuVe4CZHuFWFl

2025-11-07 10:35:47 CET

Just saw this graph on LinkedIn. I found it too good to be true so I re-did it entirely.
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/507/725/497/792/025/original/b017eeb250ef0df6.png

2025-10-31 09:23:36 CET

An AI slop farm stole my identity (probably to be featured on Google News).
The Berlin data protection authority told me that identity theft for reputation harvesting was new, but I expect it to grow.
https://algorithmwatch.org/en/an-ai-slop-farm-stole-my-identity/

2025-10-30 09:34:51 CET

Wonderful overview of the AI bubble in Die ZEIT today.
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/462/193/136/781/075/original/4ad3443d0c0c66a7.jpeg

2025-09-23 09:41:46 CEST

It's official: an "if" statement is now AI.
(Found while reading Yle.fi – with machine translation)
https://fediscience.org/system/media_attachments/files/115/252/476/650/449/879/original/bedc7a22de410df9.png