https://web.archive.org/web/20250603172833/https://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-startup-boom-raises-questions-of-exaggerated-tech-savvy-11565775004

2019 WSJ report on the vaporware Build.ai. Folded 6 yrs later. Meaning investors turned a blind eye for all that time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250603172659/https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/builder-ai-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-insight-partners-to-scale-up-its-software-automation/

March 2022 Techcrunch article already pointing to the vapor aspect of Builder.ai which folded in June 2025. Points back to 2019 reports where the same issue was already raised. Meaning later investors were wilfully blind for 6 yrs.

'AI' softw dev company, is actually a pool of 700 India based coders. Exposed because they couldn't meet payroll....

What was that old news editor adagio again? Never use a question mark in the title bc it signals the answer is 'No'. (If it is demonstrably yes, then the title would be affirmative. Iow a question means you're hedging and nevertheless choose the uncertain sensational for the eyeballs.)

AI hype in material science. Google shows an allergy to being pointed to fundamental issues. Another example of pointing out obvious mistakes or issues is not only not welcomed but actively ignored (vgl examples of AI as search engine, where pointing out the first three of the top ten results were wrong resulted in being shouted at, or the blogpost writing video in which presented 'facts' were 1 wikipedia click away from being shown made-up. False citations etc.) It's not bad per se that AI can be wrong, no tool is infallible, but the problem is n:: the extreme asymmetry between the machine effort needed to make stuff up in heaps, and the human effort needed to wade through all the crap and point that out. Vgl [[Spammy handelings assymmetrie 20201220072726]] [[It is easier to F things up than fix things 20180610073041]] Creating entropy is way easier than reducing it, always. We don't need our tools to create ever more entropy on purpose, if only we can reduce it again. Our tools need to help decrease entropy. Decreasing entropy is the definition of life, increasing it should be anathema. Esp if it is unclear where a tool is increasing entropy.

Iris van Rooij means to counteract edu sector buying into the AI hype