http://dataknightmare.euenTechnologyCopyright 2016-2025 Walter Vanninihttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/bf63af1378c58a189f9f17b7b0e40201.jpghttp://dataknightmare.euFri, 11 Jul 2025 16:02:15 +0000Walter VanniniRuntime Radioruntimeradio@gmail.comDataKnightmare - The Dark Side of Data by Walter Vanninifalseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-3x07-llms-are-the-air-guitar-of-intellectual-work--66929785https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66929785Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:00:08 +0000Walter VanniniLLMs don't even qualify as autotune. Autotune, at least, still has some connection to work (not necessarily talent).793ai,airguitar,llmfalse37fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-3x06-legitimate-use-my-ass--66929784https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66929784Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:40:47 +0000Walter VanniniYou give them fair use, and they stick it up their ass.1355fairuse,llm,scrapingfalse36fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-3x05-storytellers--66910409https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66910409Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:30:27 +0000Walter VanniniDo not heed Sam Altman and his ilk, it's not tech innovation. It's storytelling.1202falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-3x04-empire--66187285https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66187285Wed, 21 May 2025 16:55:48 +0000Walter VanniniThe "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.871icc,khan,microsoft,sovereignity,trumpfalse34fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-3x03-idol-ai-try--63446009https://api.spreaker.com/episode/63446009Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:06:24 +0000Walter VanniniAI is making huge progress: idolatry is now officially a thing again.1229cult,deepmind,idolatry,panasonic,replicasfalse33fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-3x02-agentification--62812516https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62812516Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:15:43 +0000Walter VanniniAmong 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.1150agents,ai,bullshitfalse32fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-3x01-sam-altman-does-not-get-ml--62298159https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62298159Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:09:32 +0000Walter VanniniWhen Sam Altman recently tried to explain why AI works, he managed to show he's talking by hearsay,  of stuff he hardly grasps.1340altman,openaifalse31fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-2x06-thoughts-for-the-summer-break--56244589Good summer from Dataknightmare!]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56244589Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:50:12 +0000Walter VanniniAs 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!Good summer from Dataknightmare!]]>1297ai,progress,workfalse26fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-2x05-the-italian-garante-and-chatgpt--53428452https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53428452Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:50:45 +0000Walter VanniniTL; 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...2259false25fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-2x04-bullshit-generators--53108178https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53108178Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:59:11 +0000Walter VanniniGenerative AI may be all the rage right now, but it's just a marketing name. A more appropriate name? Bullshit generators.1253bullshit,chatgpt,llmsfalse24fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-2x03-gdpr-2-0-nothanks--52570417https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52570417Sun, 29 Jan 2023 06:05:01 +0000Walter Vannini"Dear EU, please change the GDPR because it does not suit our business models. XOXO, the US"1746colonialism,gdpr,usfalse23fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-2x02-algojerks-towards-the-thousand-year-reich--52273512Merry Christmas!
]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52273512Sat, 24 Dec 2022 13:49:26 +0000Walter VanniniLonmgtermism is a Nazi cult disguised as fashionable scientism for the megarich. Merry Christmas!Merry Christmas!
]]>1649cult,effectivealtruism,longtermism,megarich,nazi,scientismfalse22fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-2x01-are-there-alternatives-to-office365--52077847https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52077847Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:44:10 +0000Walter VanniniDataKnightmare is back. And, following on the german DSK investigation report, has his own opinion on the age-old question: are there alternatives to Office365?1270dsk,gdpr,office365,sovereignityfalse21fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-1x06en-lenin-in-silicon-valley--14938057https://api.spreaker.com/episode/14938057Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:00:07 +0000Walter VanniniFirst 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.1516duplex,google,leninism,selfishledger,siliconvalley,surveillancecapitalismfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-1x05-attack-of-the-algojerks--13390828Seems 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 censors us if an algorithm decides one of *our* Google Docs may be violating the law.
How do you call all this? John Naughton on the Guardian very Britishly wrote of a half-educated digital elite.
I call it the attack of the algojerks.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/13390828Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:56:52 +0000Walter VanniniDo 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...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 censors us if an algorithm decides one of *our* Google Docs may be violating the law.
How do you call all this? John Naughton on the Guardian very Britishly wrote of a half-educated digital elite.
I call it the attack of the algojerks.]]>2131algojerks,resistance,socialfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-1x04-twilight-of-the-gods--13140540Will 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.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/13140540Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:00:05 +0000Walter VanniniThe 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...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.]]>1303disruption,innovation,technocultfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-1x03-the-mother-of-all-datagrabs--12972282https://api.spreaker.com/episode/12972282Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:00:04 +0000Walter VanniniYou 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....1101datagrab,ibm,sovereignity,watsonfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-1x02-dumb-and-dumber--12846768The 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.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/12846768Thu, 21 Sep 2017 06:00:05 +0000Walter VanniniThe 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.]]>1318datacows,equifax,facebook,rousseau,securityfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dk-en-1x01-you-re-looking-gay-today--12796728https://api.spreaker.com/episode/12796728Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:26:43 +0000Walter VanniniCan 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....1128ai,bullshit,discrimination,mlfalsefull