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misaligned bits #9: Subprime AI

GPT-5 unsafe and not so clever, subpoenas for everyone, who wants to pay for AI anyway, and poisoning LLMs might require little data.

Oct 22

misaligned bits #9: Subprime AI

Oct 22

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Slop Train Coming

AI was supposed to cure cancer, explain the universe and turn earth into a paradise. Instead, AI generated slop is flooding the web.

Oct 22

Slop Train Coming

Oct 22

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misaligned bits #8: Slop Wave Coming

A tsunami of AI slop is approaching, friend has no friends in New York, science is in real trouble. Also, AI makes people dishonest.

Oct 16

misaligned bits #8: Slop Wave Coming

Oct 16

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misaligned bits #7: Circular Gigantomania

This week: Is the AI investment hype going in circles?

Sep 30

misaligned bits #7: Circular Gigantomania

Sep 30

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Reflections on the Royal Society Generally and on Some Fellow’s Conduct More Specifically

This week The Royal Society in London will again discuss the conduct of one of its fellows: Elon Musk. This time it needs to take a stand.

Sep 28

Reflections on the Royal Society Generally and on Some Fellow’s Conduct More Specifically

Sep 28

Big Data LDN 2025: Where Does All the Data Go?

When autumn is coming to London, so is Big Data LDN, the annual London expo for big data, analytics, and AI. Some observations.

Sep 26

Big Data LDN 2025: Where Does All the Data Go?

Sep 26

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misaligned bits #6: A New Standard in Town

OpenAI’s job platform, copyright wars and Americans see AI as risky.

Sep 23

misaligned bits #6: A New Standard in Town

Sep 23

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Into the Chatbot Abyss

A tragic case highlights that AI Chatbots need to change their priorities when it comes to guardrails.

Sep 23

Into the Chatbot Abyss

Sep 23

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misaligned bits #5: Is the Copyright Dust Settling?

This week with another episode in the generative AI vs copyright saga.

Sep 9

misaligned bits #5: Is the Copyright Dust Settling?

Sep 9

Faraday’s Cave

Photographing objects from a time when modern science was still young

Sep 7

Faraday’s Cave

Sep 7

Wolfgang Hauptfleisch

Wolfgang Hauptfleisch

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Software architect and project manager. Obsessed with complex systems, data, urban architecture and other things. Editor of misaligned.

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