iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 9h

How is nobody at OpenAI going to jail? This is baffling. I’m baffled.

073

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 13h

Why do Spotify playlists for instrumental hip hop feature so much voice? You had one job!

001

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 14/09/2026

It kinda feels like the AI moment we’re living in is just all-around larping. As if everything turns into Linkedin, all around us.

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/09/2026

btw, why would anyone quote Telekom CEO Tim Höttges? It's not long ago that he was on stage raving about the idea that Germany should get its own DOGE after Musk's example. (Why does he still have his job?)

010

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/09/2026

I'm just going to leave this here for no reason at all.

"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people." - Joseph Weizenbaum (1976)

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 09/09/2026

Oh, and their AI chief reportedly noted that he sees less of a risk of agents going rogue and more of a risk of agents accidentally leaking personal data or deleting emails. So, it seems Meta's playbook is still unchanged: "Fuck it, ship it!"

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 09/09/2026

I'm generally not a big believer in AI agents, but there's no company in the world I would trust less with an AI agent than Meta. Guess what they're building 🙄 . about.fb.com/news/2026/09...

about.fb.com

Introducing Muse: The World’s First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone

Muse is a secure, private personal AI agent that proactively helps people meet their goals and suggests ideas.

110

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/08/2026

Can you still run the old AI models somewhere? I imagine someone somewhere must churning out Primitive AI Slop aesthetics?

010

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 19/07/2026

I frequently get pinged by recruiters; most of the time it's spammy and doesn't fit my profile or interests. But getting emails from what appear to be AI recruiter chatbots just seems disrespectful enough to just blacklist the company that hires those bot firms. Respect my time, folks!

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/07/2026

Also, Germany’s list of “industries of the future” that should be prioritized and well-funded includes automotive, & pharma. Surely that’s not just because they’re already the biggest industries here? 🤔

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/07/2026

In an effort to reduce bureaucracy, the German government plans to make calling in sick illegal and instead requires a trip to the doc from day one. You can’t make this stuff up

111

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/07/2026

Now that we have a precedence for unlimited, debt-based investments, how about we use it *_and finally invest in climate_* now that the last 100B earmarked for climate largely trickled away into all kind of barely related nonsense. Isn’t there a political opportunity right now?

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 24/06/2026

Look, what can I say. It’s hot outside, so silly quips is all I have today

010

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 24/06/2026

Been getting into friction-maxxing. The other day I shared a file… by *email*

120

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 24/06/2026

The other day I rawdogged the whole 90 sec wait in the grocery store cash register line

020

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 17/06/2026

So... turns out Mistral is really bad at detecting propaganda and other information campaigns. That's such a bummer :/

Screenshot of an article summarizing a study that found that open source AI model Mistral is worse than other models at detecting propaganda and other malicious information campaigns

011

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 08/06/2026

What, like… just a standalone device that Does A Job To Be Done? *gasp*

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 13/05/2026

Honest question: Do you feel the internet is getting... 1) more strange 2) more boring 3) something else (please explain)

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 06/03/2026

Remember when big tech companies were considered too powerful to control? I guess these last few years they very forcefully made the point that they are, in fact, very willing to submit to pressure. I'm not 100% sure what to make of that.

020

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 04/03/2026

I just saw a website without an adblocker for the first time in a long time. MY GOD WHAT IS THIS

030

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 03/03/2026

So either he's uninformed and pundits about things he doesn't understand (which is bad) or he knows it and straight up lies (which is bad). Why does he get such a big platform all the time again?

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 03/03/2026

Many if not all of these wicked societal problems are there not because they're hard to solve but because there different and opposing interest at play. It's a question of governance and collective decision-making, not of scale.

100

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 03/03/2026

Like, and I know this is an example so simple it sounds silly, but the whole idea that if AI massively boosted GDP that it would help fight poverty, that's total nonsense. There's no lack of money, it's just structurally unevenly distributed.

110

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 03/03/2026

Whenever I hear Sam Altman talk about potential benefits of AI (esp. GAI) I'm struck by how little he seems to understand the problem spaces he talks about, and how little journalists call him out on it.

110

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/03/2026

"A certain danger lurks there." Indeed.

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/03/2026

cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/57...

cse.buffalo.edu

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/03/2026

Joseph Weizenbaum meant ELIZA to be a warning, not an inspiration. Looking at you, gen AI chatbots!

200

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/03/2026

"friction-maxxing" when I first heard the term it struck me as a neologism, something really fresh; the BBC have caught on pretty quickly, though

a screenshot of the text of a BBC article about friction-maxxing

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 18/02/2026

Has Deutsche Post been losing a lot of mail these last few months? Is that a thing?

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 17/02/2026

I keep coming back to this (it's a couple of years old by now), it's kinda stuck in my head bruces.medium.com/preliminary-...

010

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 17/02/2026

Sadly, this seems about right to me. We've all been burned by deceptive industry tactics. Being a gargantuan industry that has a lot to lose is a dangerous mix. Sigh. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

theguardian.com

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 19/01/2026

Resilience > efficiency. Any day.

050

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 05/12/2025

There is a special circle in hell reserved for the smart-asses who came up with the circular customer support systems where a bad error message leads to an call to action that leads back to a system that just tells you the same wrong error message. They 100% work for one of the big 4 consultancies.

120

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 04/12/2025

Let me just say: People who can type fast and/or well with a bandaid on their finger are true heroes.

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 02/12/2025

The longer I work in this space, the more I think that the whole framing of this recent generation of technologies as "smart" or "artificially intelligent" was an astounding success for the companies making them. So much of this should much more aptly be labeled "reactive" tech, if anything.

010

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 12/11/2025

one hundred percent. amen!

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/11/2025

Every time someone presses SKIP AD on a Youtube video, the advertiser knows *for sure* they just annoyed the hell out of a potential customer. If I was in their shoes, I'd wonder why I pay for those ads in the first place.

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 10/11/2025

Has anyone, like EVER, intentionally subscribed to a newsletter in that pop-up sign-up window that pops up on every website these days? To me it feels like I'm being punished as a user, having to click first on the cookie banner(s) and then close all the extra sign-ups sheets.

120

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 05/10/2025

So OpenAI builds an AI browser and adds... a clock widget? Is this the 90s?

100

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 25/09/2025

Anyone got an idea for how to get "SwiftoDo for todo.txt", the iOS app, on a phone in Europe when the app isn't listed in Europe? I'd prefer not to get into any region-spoofing shenanigans because they tend to mess with other subscriptions, settings, etc...?

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 25/09/2025

Haha now you're going all fancy on me!

010

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 25/08/2025

I guess what I’m asking is: is Google Maps genAI now?

010

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 25/08/2025

Can anyone explain why Google Maps data quality has gone down so much? Or is that a Germany/Berlin specific thing?

100

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 14/08/2025

Coming to believe that a sizeable chunk of society is held together by people doing favors to their deceased friends’ families and spouses.

000

Peter Bihr @peterbihr.com · 12/08/2025

Haha no but that would also track

000