Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises.
Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
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Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
· Oct 16
The Secret Lies of AI
I recently listened to an excellent podcast from the team at QAA, investigating a phenomenon that is both at once very new and extremely…
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With Forbes warning the Gen AI bubble bursting will wipe $40 trillion off global markets, I wrote about the foundational lies the industry tells about the usefulness, durability, accuracy and - yes - intelligence of its products
All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
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All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
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After months of trying I have finally found a compelling use case for the Gen AI slop machines your firm is replacing you for and your govt is charging you to train on:
Scamming people.
Worse than useless, actively harmful.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scamming people.
Worse than useless, actively harmful.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Helps Scam Centers Evade Crackdown in Asia, Dupe More Victims
Criminals in Southeast Asia are harnessing inexpensive AI tools to target bigger pools of potential victims at high speed, keeping scam centers humming even as governments try and crack down, senior o...
www.bloomberg.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:17 AM
After months of trying I have finally found a compelling use case for the Gen AI slop machines your firm is replacing you for and your govt is charging you to train on:
Scamming people.
Worse than useless, actively harmful.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Scamming people.
Worse than useless, actively harmful.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I want to remind everyone that Open AI purchased 40% of global RAM capacity last year, and this is just the start of the Finding Out part
Disabling worldwide function for a probability machine that doesn't know or think
Find these people and tar and feather them
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Disabling worldwide function for a probability machine that doesn't know or think
Find these people and tar and feather them
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Memory Chip Squeeze Wreaks Havoc in Markets, With More to Come
The relentless surge in memory chip prices over the past few months has driven a vast divide between winners and losers in the stock market, and investors don’t see any end in sight.
www.bloomberg.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I want to remind everyone that Open AI purchased 40% of global RAM capacity last year, and this is just the start of the Finding Out part
Disabling worldwide function for a probability machine that doesn't know or think
Find these people and tar and feather them
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Disabling worldwide function for a probability machine that doesn't know or think
Find these people and tar and feather them
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
BP, which got blackpilled by Elliot into doubling down on oil and gas, plainly bet on the wrong horse. It's paused its share buybacks off of weaker O+G prices
Womp for shareholders.
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
Womp for shareholders.
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
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www.bp.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:45 AM
BP, which got blackpilled by Elliot into doubling down on oil and gas, plainly bet on the wrong horse. It's paused its share buybacks off of weaker O+G prices
Womp for shareholders.
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
Womp for shareholders.
www.bp.com/en/global/co...
Reposted by Patrick Galey
What if we replaced the term AI, which is admitted to be for marketing and not scientific purposes, with "mimetic machinery"
And when LLMs are asked to sit tests that they haven’t already learned the answers for (such as ARG benchmarks), they perform much worse than a dog. Literally
February 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
What if we replaced the term AI, which is admitted to be for marketing and not scientific purposes, with "mimetic machinery"
And when LLMs are asked to sit tests that they haven’t already learned the answers for (such as ARG benchmarks), they perform much worse than a dog. Literally
February 9, 2026 at 4:57 PM
And when LLMs are asked to sit tests that they haven’t already learned the answers for (such as ARG benchmarks), they perform much worse than a dog. Literally
Oracle, which heretofore has had a quite solid business (albeit a creep in charge) has been bitten by the Gen AI greed bug, and is allaying concerns it is overleveraged with debt by... raising another $25 billion to invest in... checks notes...
Its overleveraged customer www.ft.com/content/8a9d...
Its overleveraged customer www.ft.com/content/8a9d...
Oracle raises $25bn in bond offering despite concerns over rising debt
Company’s huge bet on AI has prompted investor concerns about sustainability of its spending
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Oracle, which heretofore has had a quite solid business (albeit a creep in charge) has been bitten by the Gen AI greed bug, and is allaying concerns it is overleveraged with debt by... raising another $25 billion to invest in... checks notes...
Its overleveraged customer www.ft.com/content/8a9d...
Its overleveraged customer www.ft.com/content/8a9d...
This really is monumental waste. Raising cash to torch it on machines that accelerate climate breakdown while making users aggressively stupider and call it R+D.
Boycott Gen AI and its bonfire of debt burns out fast
www.ft.com/content/d503...
Boycott Gen AI and its bonfire of debt burns out fast
www.ft.com/content/d503...
Big Tech groups race to fund unprecedented $660bn AI spending spree
Executives face choice between cutting returns to shareholders, raiding reserves or tapping the markets
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 PM
This really is monumental waste. Raising cash to torch it on machines that accelerate climate breakdown while making users aggressively stupider and call it R+D.
Boycott Gen AI and its bonfire of debt burns out fast
www.ft.com/content/d503...
Boycott Gen AI and its bonfire of debt burns out fast
www.ft.com/content/d503...
And the tech CEOs boosting Gen AI, specifically aiming it at other CEOs desparate to automate and therefore delete human capital and call it cost saving, don't appreciate this, because they have never interacted with the world of work as a regular human individual
This question got me thinking. Everything that is 'here to stay' is only here as long as there are people to maintain it. The internet is here to stay until people stop fixing breakdowns in code and dying servers. Running water is here to stay until the pipes burst and nobody fixes them.
Any history of technology people know if there are other technologies that were touted as "here to stay" in the manner of generative AI that...didn't stay?
February 9, 2026 at 10:42 AM
And the tech CEOs boosting Gen AI, specifically aiming it at other CEOs desparate to automate and therefore delete human capital and call it cost saving, don't appreciate this, because they have never interacted with the world of work as a regular human individual
As I predicted back in Jan, Venezuelan oil isn't going to be A Thing for a very long time. Certainly not until he's in the cold ground
Only Trump and his buffoons could hold up a train carrying gold and come away with shit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Only Trump and his buffoons could hold up a train carrying gold and come away with shit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Venezuela Oil Won’t Top Others in Region for Years, Rystad Says
Argentina, Guyana and Brazil remain poised to drive oil production growth in South America for years to come despite the US push for investment in Venezuela, Rystad Energy says.
www.bloomberg.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 AM
As I predicted back in Jan, Venezuelan oil isn't going to be A Thing for a very long time. Certainly not until he's in the cold ground
Only Trump and his buffoons could hold up a train carrying gold and come away with shit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Only Trump and his buffoons could hold up a train carrying gold and come away with shit. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
When the monsters win, and they will win at this rate, it will not be because they are smarter or stronger than us.
It will be because apparatuses of democratic enforcement obeyed in advance
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It will be because apparatuses of democratic enforcement obeyed in advance
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:23 AM
When the monsters win, and they will win at this rate, it will not be because they are smarter or stronger than us.
It will be because apparatuses of democratic enforcement obeyed in advance
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It will be because apparatuses of democratic enforcement obeyed in advance
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The Venn Diagram of climate “skeptics” and predatory men is a circle, change my mind
drilled.media/news/lomborg...
drilled.media/news/lomborg...
What Happened the day Bjorn Lomborg Met Jeffrey Epstein
The Danish political scientist and climate crisis denier sought a meeting with Epstein in the hope of securing funding.
drilled.media
February 6, 2026 at 6:57 PM
The Venn Diagram of climate “skeptics” and predatory men is a circle, change my mind
drilled.media/news/lomborg...
drilled.media/news/lomborg...
Perhaps the dumbest thing about this entire bonfire of cash and carbon is that if they had done nothing that would have been all they needed to do.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Perhaps the dumbest thing about this entire bonfire of cash and carbon is that if they had done nothing that would have been all they needed to do.
So, worth pointing out that Google, Microsoft et al haven't actually "lost $900 bn" in a day. Because that money never actually existed.
It's the private debt they are torching to power their Rube Goldberg machines and call it tech. That's investor cash. That matters www.ft.com/content/0e7f...
It's the private debt they are torching to power their Rube Goldberg machines and call it tech. That's investor cash. That matters www.ft.com/content/0e7f...
Big Tech’s ‘breathtaking’ $660bn spending spree reignites AI bubble fears
Stocks tumble despite strong earnings reports from most Silicon Valley heavyweights
www.ft.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM
So, worth pointing out that Google, Microsoft et al haven't actually "lost $900 bn" in a day. Because that money never actually existed.
It's the private debt they are torching to power their Rube Goldberg machines and call it tech. That's investor cash. That matters www.ft.com/content/0e7f...
It's the private debt they are torching to power their Rube Goldberg machines and call it tech. That's investor cash. That matters www.ft.com/content/0e7f...
I GUARANTEE you you aren't sufficiently outraged over the Epstein files.
Not only do they contaim some of the most degraded abuse imaginable, they also tie directly to our taxes.
Mandelson's firm secured the £240 mn deal with Peeping Tom Palantir. Arch creeps, our money www.ft.com/content/b3cc...
Not only do they contaim some of the most degraded abuse imaginable, they also tie directly to our taxes.
Mandelson's firm secured the £240 mn deal with Peeping Tom Palantir. Arch creeps, our money www.ft.com/content/b3cc...
Chief of lobbying firm founded by Mandelson to quit after Epstein backlash
Benjamin Wegg-Prosser set to resign as Global Counsel chief executive
www.ft.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:26 AM
I GUARANTEE you you aren't sufficiently outraged over the Epstein files.
Not only do they contaim some of the most degraded abuse imaginable, they also tie directly to our taxes.
Mandelson's firm secured the £240 mn deal with Peeping Tom Palantir. Arch creeps, our money www.ft.com/content/b3cc...
Not only do they contaim some of the most degraded abuse imaginable, they also tie directly to our taxes.
Mandelson's firm secured the £240 mn deal with Peeping Tom Palantir. Arch creeps, our money www.ft.com/content/b3cc...
February 6, 2026 at 10:34 AM
They are all one giant, corrupt, power-abusing cabal, aren’t they? Even the supposedly reasonable ones
And Reform is the High Table of this insider trading, foreign asset style corruption
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And Reform is the High Table of this insider trading, foreign asset style corruption
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney ‘paid firm to investigate journalists’
Labour Together allegedly hired company to look at Sunday Times and Guardian reporters after article about donations
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
They are all one giant, corrupt, power-abusing cabal, aren’t they? Even the supposedly reasonable ones
And Reform is the High Table of this insider trading, foreign asset style corruption
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And Reform is the High Table of this insider trading, foreign asset style corruption
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Given this is a thing that is made up, it will crash just as the AI-distorted S+P will crash. It might already be happening
BITCOIN EXTENDS FALL, BRIEFLY DROPS BELOW $64,000, LAST DOWN 11.5% AT $64,328
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Given this is a thing that is made up, it will crash just as the AI-distorted S+P will crash. It might already be happening
AI doesn’t make business more productive (a key base case use premise)
Pass it on
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Pass it on
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February 5, 2026 at 9:19 AM
AI doesn’t make business more productive (a key base case use premise)
Pass it on
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Pass it on
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Anyone seeking to Russiagate the Epstein files is running interference and needs to be called out as to why
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl...
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl...
Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel
The release of more Jeffrey Epstein files reveals further connections between the late, convicted sex criminal and the state of Israel.
mondoweiss.net
February 4, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Anyone seeking to Russiagate the Epstein files is running interference and needs to be called out as to why
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl...
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl...
It’s official, the Keyser Soze of Gen AI snake oilers has… no other ideas
That’s all: Hyperscaled LLMs that can’t think or use less power or water and have no meaningful use case but, by gosh, they will do it quickly
If you invest in this, you’re an idiot.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
That’s all: Hyperscaled LLMs that can’t think or use less power or water and have no meaningful use case but, by gosh, they will do it quickly
If you invest in this, you’re an idiot.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT push triggers senior staff exits
Resources at $500bn company are being redirected from long-term research towards improving the flagship chatbot
giftarticle.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:07 AM
It’s official, the Keyser Soze of Gen AI snake oilers has… no other ideas
That’s all: Hyperscaled LLMs that can’t think or use less power or water and have no meaningful use case but, by gosh, they will do it quickly
If you invest in this, you’re an idiot.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
That’s all: Hyperscaled LLMs that can’t think or use less power or water and have no meaningful use case but, by gosh, they will do it quickly
If you invest in this, you’re an idiot.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
This is not M&A, this is circular investing.
If any regulator had the merest of backbones this stuff would be cut out like the boys club nonsense it is
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
If any regulator had the merest of backbones this stuff would be cut out like the boys club nonsense it is
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation
Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private company
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:39 AM
This is not M&A, this is circular investing.
If any regulator had the merest of backbones this stuff would be cut out like the boys club nonsense it is
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
If any regulator had the merest of backbones this stuff would be cut out like the boys club nonsense it is
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Reposted by Patrick Galey
I've only read up to the paywall but this is an incredibly weakly-argued piece where the authors claim LLMs are intelligent based on their own redefinition of what intelligence is. Not one psychologist or cognitive scientist between them.
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next
go.nature.com/4kxrivL
go.nature.com/4kxrivL
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
go.nature.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I've only read up to the paywall but this is an incredibly weakly-argued piece where the authors claim LLMs are intelligent based on their own redefinition of what intelligence is. Not one psychologist or cognitive scientist between them.
On the one hand, no shit.
On the other, international law is only fit for purpose if our leaders choose to enforce it. And for years, our leaders watched genocides in Gaza, Sudan and DRC with indifference
Alternative title: leaders failing history test
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
On the other, international law is only fit for purpose if our leaders choose to enforce it. And for years, our leaders watched genocides in Gaza, Sudan and DRC with indifference
Alternative title: leaders failing history test
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds
Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have been killed as war crimes rage out of control
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:59 AM
On the one hand, no shit.
On the other, international law is only fit for purpose if our leaders choose to enforce it. And for years, our leaders watched genocides in Gaza, Sudan and DRC with indifference
Alternative title: leaders failing history test
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
On the other, international law is only fit for purpose if our leaders choose to enforce it. And for years, our leaders watched genocides in Gaza, Sudan and DRC with indifference
Alternative title: leaders failing history test
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
Reposted by Patrick Galey
Seems like pretty big news that the biggest Republican donor in 2024 — who helped elect Trump & Vance — repeatedly made plans to visit Epstein's island.
Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces — or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.
Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces — or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.
Elon Musk Asked Jeffrey Epstein to Invite Him to the ‘Wildest Party’ on His Island
The Tesla and Twitter boss lied about his relationship with the pedophile financier, according to new emails released by the Department of Justice.
zeteo.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Seems like pretty big news that the biggest Republican donor in 2024 — who helped elect Trump & Vance — repeatedly made plans to visit Epstein's island.
Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces — or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.
Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces — or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.
This is amazing.
Musk is so creepy and cringe that the entire Epstein paedophile operation preferred to shut down rather than allowing him to attend for a single weekend
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Musk is so creepy and cringe that the entire Epstein paedophile operation preferred to shut down rather than allowing him to attend for a single weekend
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
February 1, 2026 at 10:38 AM
This is amazing.
Musk is so creepy and cringe that the entire Epstein paedophile operation preferred to shut down rather than allowing him to attend for a single weekend
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Musk is so creepy and cringe that the entire Epstein paedophile operation preferred to shut down rather than allowing him to attend for a single weekend
www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...