Post #4455702
2026-08-08 19:49 UTC
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
For an industry setting itself up for lucrative government contracts in cyberwarfare, corporate domestic espionage skirmishes, & automated drone warfare, narratives of plausible deniability serve as criti-hype style advertising of their capabilities.
https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/anthropics-mythos-cybersecurity-breakthrough-or-just-criti-hype
https://pluralistic.net/tag/criti-hype/
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-ai-that-hacked-its-way-out-and-the-hype-that-followed-it
Replies (2)
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@Ghouul@social.vivaldi.net 2026-08-08 20:08
@Npars01@mstdn.social @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk You're idea of criti-hype is brilliant, there's no reason to count our chickens so long before they've hatched. What you rightfully call gish gallop, these excess claims about AI, reminds me of the firehose of falsehood. I suspect that part of the AI push from big tech, that is to say Microsoft putting AI apps and such onto our computers automatically, makes AI almost impossible to opt-out of, and of course an LLM is a self-generating gish gallop machine. Yes, it's impossible to speak briefly about the problems with AI, because there are too many of them.
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social 2026-08-09 06:02
@Npars01@mstdn.social @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Exactly this!