Links #166

This time I have a handful of links all about AI, so if you need a break from that right now (and I wouldn’t blame you), might want to skip this one. After this we’ll return to our regular — by which I mean irregular — bundles of non-AI links. Eamon Caddigan on hating AI in 2026. “Some people find chatbots useful and I can’t argue with their opinion, but nobody is doing anything with them that remotely justifies their socialized costs.” Johannes Link and Jakob Schnell on the ethical use of generative AI. “Convenience, speed and entertainment are then weighed against numerous damages and risks to the environment, the state and humanity. In this sense, the ethical use and further expansion of GenAI in its current form is not possible.” L. M. Sacasas on how AI is not a tool. “But AI is not a tool in this sense, it is an environment which envelops the user and works on us from the inside out while we naively think that we remain unchanged by our use so long as we are using it carefully…