DK_en 3x07 - LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work
LLMs don't even qualify as autotune. Autotune, at least, still has some connection to work (not necessarily talent).
Jul 11, 2025•13 min•Season 3Ep. 7
DataKnightmare (English Version)
Investigating the untold biases behind Big Data, policy-by-algorithm and Artificial Intelligence. Because The Algorithmic is Political
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DK_en 3x06 - Legitimate use my ass
You give them fair use, and they stick it up their ass.
Jul 10, 2025•23 min•Season 3Ep. 6
DK_en 3x05 - Storytellers
Do not heed Sam Altman and his ilk, it's not tech innovation. It's storytelling.
Jul 09, 2025•20 min
DK_en 3x04 - Empire
The "Microsoft vs. International Criminal Court" scandal means that all US-owned companies in the EU are foreign agents. Something MUST be done if EU sovereignity as to make any sense.
May 21, 2025•15 min•Season 3Ep. 4
DK_en 3x03 - Idol(AI)try
AI is making huge progress: idolatry is now officially a thing again.
Dec 23, 2024•20 min•Season 3Ep. 3
DK_en 3x02 - Agentification
Among the many prophecies around AI, there is the creation of "intelligent agents" that will just go around doing intelligent stuff for us. It's an old dream, and nowhere nearer today than 30 years ago.
Nov 19, 2024•19 min•Season 3Ep. 2
DK_en 3x01 - Sam Altman Does Not Get ML
When Sam Altman recently tried to explain why AI works, he managed to show he's talking by hearsay, of stuff he hardly grasps.
Oct 09, 2024•22 min•Season 3Ep. 1
DK_en 2x06 - Thoughts for the summer break
As an end-of season treat, a bunch of questions that we'll meet again, as good as new, after the break. Good summer from Dataknightmare!
Jul 27, 2023•22 min•Season 2Ep. 6
DK_en 2x05 - The Italian Garante and chatGPT
TL; DR: there is no "AI", only bullshit generators, and therein lies the rub. what the Italian Garante really decided (no, it did NOT block chatGPT, that was openAI's strong-arming choice), refutation of the most common objections and a few opinions as a bonus.
Apr 03, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 5
DK en_2x04 - Bullshit Generators
Generative AI may be all the rage right now, but it's just a marketing name. A more appropriate name? Bullshit generators.
Mar 06, 2023•21 min•Season 2Ep. 4
DK_en 2x03 - GDPR 2.0? NoThanks.
"Dear EU, please change the GDPR because it does not suit our business models. XOXO, the US"
Jan 29, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 3
DK_En - 2x02 Algojerks Towards the Thousand-Year Reich
Lonmgtermism is a Nazi cult disguised as fashionable scientism for the megarich. Merry Christmas!
Dec 24, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 2
DK 2x01 - Are there alternatives to Office365?
DataKnightmare is back. And, following on the german DSK investigation report, has his own opinion on the age-old question: are there alternatives to Office365?
Dec 02, 2022•21 min•Season 2Ep. 1
DK 1x06en - Lenin in Silicon Valley
First it was Project Maven, then Google Duplex, and now the Selfish Ledger. Google has become the Church of the Algojerks, and it is now clear that Silicon Valley is pursuing a fundamentally Leninist project.
Jun 01, 2018•25 min
DK_en 1x05 - Attack of the Algojerks
Do you, like me, have the impression that things are somehow accelerating? As if we were on a car careening downhill with no brakes --and no driver either? Seems to me, the brazenness with which Silicon Valley is churning out its "solutions" (often to nobody's problems) is fast reaching its slobness. Am I overreacting? Facebook wants our nude pics in advance, to better protect us against revenge porn; the industry (industry!) of workplace surveillance is out of control; and Google preemptively c...
Nov 22, 2017•36 min
DK_en 1x04 - Twilight Of The Gods
The DataKnightmare has issues with the ongoing deification of disruption stars. Will our future really have the intellectually unencumbered face of a Mark Zuckerberg? Are Uber, AirBnB, Google really all that innovation is about? Are these kings of disruption really the gods of our times. No. We are already witnessing their twilight of these gods and of their childish, simplistic worldview. The future is still ours to dream --and build.
Oct 27, 2017•22 min
DK_en 1x03 - The Mother Of All Datagrabs
You thought the DeepMind/Royal Free NHS case was bad? Well, Italy has promised IBM the sum total of its 60 million citizens' health data for Watson health to train on. With no oversight, no guarantees, no financial return, and no defined goals. Welcome to the mother of all datagrabs.
Oct 06, 2017•18 min
DK_en 1x02 - Dumb and Dumber
The Equifax breach, 143 million citizens' worth of credit rating data? Or Facebook having Nazis as a targetable demographics? Or the system an Italian party uses for its internal polls and elections, Rousseau, breachable with a trivial SQL injection? The data industry is a circus where the contest is between the "merely" incompetent and the criminally so. But we're not spectators. We are the prize.
Sep 21, 2017•22 min
DK_en 1x01 - You're Looking Gay, Today
Can AI really guess if you are gay? So far, it's a bullshit claim. Nonetheless, some are making it. They claim to be warning us, but with their bad science and their questionable ethics, they lend credibility to the practices they claim to fear. Welcome to a world where the algorithmic is political
Sep 14, 2017•19 min
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