'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey(linkedin.com)
217 points by svieira | 108 comments
An essay by Rich Hickey, originally on LinkedIn and mirrored in a GitHub Gist, arguing that 'AI' is not a tool.
#ai-criticism on Hacker News
10 stories tagged ai-criticism, newest first.
LLMs Aren't Inevitable(deadsimpletech.com)
27 points by rizsyed1 | 32 comments
Blog post by Iris Meredith on deadSimpleTech arguing that AI and LLM adoption is not inevitable, calling the claim a thought-terminating cliché.
Don't Be Fooled by this Summer of AI Hype(technologyreview.com)
20 points by jacquesm | 4 comments
MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender arguing that recent claims about AGI and new AI capabilities fall apart under scrutiny.
Claude Says(ohhfishal.net)
58 points by speckx | 22 comments
Personal blog post criticizing coworkers who relay AI (Claude) answers instead of their own expertise, arguing it signals lack of authority and leads to overengineered software.
ML promises to be profoundly weird(aphyr.com)
564 points by pabs3 | 549 comments
Aphyr's essay "The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess," the opening of a multi-part series reflecting critically on LLMs and machine learning's societal effects.
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying(acko.net)
555 points by LorenDB | 368 comments
Blog post on acko.net by Steven Wittens critiquing large language models as fundamentally producing falsehoods and their effects on software and culture.
Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI(skyview.social)
1337 points by christoph-heiss | 1594 comments
A Skyview viewer page for a Bluesky thread in which Rob Pike posts a strongly worded criticism of generative AI; the post content had not loaded yet.
I don't care how well your "AI" works(fokus.cool)
434 points by todsacerdoti | 562 comments
A personal blog essay by Fiona Fokus arguing against using AI chatbots for everyday tasks regardless of how well they work.
AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power(chrbutler.com)
443 points by delaugust | 338 comments
Christopher Butler's blog essay "What AI is Really For," arguing that AI serves as a front for consolidating resources and power.
Bored of It(paulrobertlloyd.com)
461 points by NotInOurNames | 332 comments
A short personal blog post by Paul Robert Lloyd expressing weariness with the pervasiveness and dehumanising consequences of AI.