AI Sucks, Actually
...That's it. That's the thesis.
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I don't seek these out; they land at my feet, like worms dropped by birds. That said, feel free to let me know about links I've missed.
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- Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'
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- Business Insider
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These changes are meant to address what Microsoft sees as lagging internal adoption of its Copilot AI services, according to another two people with knowledge of the plans. The company wants to increase usage broadly, but also wants the employees building these products have a better understanding of the tools.
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Sounds like things are going swell. Very swell, even.
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- People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
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- Futurism
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"There's incentive on these tools for users to maintain engagement," Moore continued. "It gives the companies more data; it makes it harder for the users to move products; they're paying subscription fees... the companies want people to stay there."
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- AI-Generated Psych-Rock Band The Velvet Sundown Rack Up Hundreds Of Thousands Of Spotify Streams
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- Stereogram
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This is the future Timbaland wants?
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Gross.
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- At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
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- The New York Times
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To bury the fiber optic cables connecting the buildings and to install other underground infrastructure, Amazon had to pump water out of the wet ground. One permit application showed that the company requested permission to pump 2.2 million gallons an hour, for 730 days. State officials are now investigating if the process, known as dewatering, is the reason some neighbors are reporting dry wells.
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- Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green
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- The Guardian
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The company reported a 27% increase in year-on-year electricity consumption as it struggles to decarbonise as quickly as its energy needs increase.
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There’s also a bit that’s like “oh but AI using electricity will lead to solutions for AI using electricity” and I think maybe the solution to AI using electricity is maybe for us to not use AI? Sorry that’s just me thinking though, I haven’t checked that idea on Gemini or whatever.
Or wait maybe we can set up a wind farm in front of all the hand-waving going on here? I don’t know.
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- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Becomes Chairman of AI Military Start-up Following €600 Million Investment
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- Mixmag
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Following his earlier investment, artists including Darren Sangita and b l u e s c r e e n called for a boycott of Spotify, the latter telling Resident Advisor: “There's nothing ethical about it, no matter how you spin it. As an artist I cannot morally agree with inadequate payments of royalties to those whose entire livelihood is the reason for Daniel Ek's success.”
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- OpenAI awarded $200 million US defense contract
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- The Verge
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The new one-year DoD contract is antithetical to earlier versions of OpenAI’s terms of service that banned its technology from being used for “military and warfare” — a prohibition removed by the company last year.
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- The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering
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- Lit Hub
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The doctrine of fair use was crafted in an era of ink and printing presses. It was designed to allow limited, socially beneficial reuses of copyrighted material: parody, commentary, teaching. It protected the ability to quote, to remix, to criticize—all human acts with a clearly observable “transformative” purpose. It was never built to handle models that devour gigabytes of creative work, crunch it into statistical patterns, and use that substrate to generate eerily familiar prose.
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- Apple sued by shareholders who allege it overstated AI progress
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- NBC News
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Shareholders led by Eric Tucker said that at its June 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple led them to believe AI would be a key driver of iPhone 16 devices, when it launched Apple Intelligence to make Siri more powerful and user-friendly. But they said the Cupertino, California-based company lacked a functional prototype of AI-based Siri features and could not reasonably believe the features would ever be ready for iPhone 16s.
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Fake products, fake money, and this all helps anybody how, exactly?
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- AI is ruining houseplant communities online
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- The Verge
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AI-generated content — both photos of fake plants and care misinformation — disrupt community engagement, which is what many collectors are seeking when joining these forums.
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I miss the pre-AI internet so much.
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- Khan Academy CEO predicts AI in the classroom will be like 5 'amazing graduate students' assisting teachers
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- Business Insider
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As AI continues to advance, social skills will become more important than ever, he said — and so will the teachers that help impart them.
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I think this is the point in the article where my brain literally began to short-circuit under the weight of the crossed streams of grift and delusion.
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- Scale AI exposed sensitive data about clients like Meta and xAI in public Google Docs, BI finds
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- Business Insider
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Scale AI routinely uses public Google Docs to track work for high-profile customers like Google, Meta, and xAI, leaving multiple AI training documents labeled "confidential" accessible to anyone with the link, Business Insider found.
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Tell me again how you can trust AI companies with your data?
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- Gemini AI Will Soon Access Calls and Messages on Your Android Even If You Turn It Off
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- Extreme Tech
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Google's current privacy documentation says that when Gemini Apps Activity is off, data may still be kept for up to 72 hours for quality and security reasons. If the setting is on, data is stored for up to 18 months and may be reviewed by humans, with personal identifiers removed, as reported by Android Authority. The company warns users not to share confidential information with Gemini, as some conversations may be reviewed for up to three years.
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- People are becoming more relaxed about AI news. They have no idea.
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- Mumbrella
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The LLM in this case is just doing its job: predicting “what comes next” in a well-formed sentence. It is not a thinking machine. It is a consensus machine. That makes it wonderful at grammar and composing flowing sentences that feel right. In the context of news journalism, being a consensus machine is dangerous.
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- AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
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- 404 Media
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While the impact of AI bots on open collections has been reported anecdotally, the survey is the first attempt at measuring the problem, which in the worst cases can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans because the servers they’re hosted on are being swamped by bots scraping the internet for AI training data.
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- The AI Industry Is Ready to Get Rich off Trump’s Defense Department
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- The New Republic
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But to fully deliver the Trump administration’s vision for national security, everyone would need to be flexible, and the merchants of death at the AI+ Expo came prepared to compete.
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Stick around for the Ender’s Game reveal.
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- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
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- Arxiv
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While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.
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I’ll admit I have not reviewed the entire paper, so if it turns out that they buried the lede, and the conclusion is that LLMs making us think less is totally cool, man, I’ll certainly come back and remove this as evidence of the fact that AI sucks, actually.
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- Pivot to AI: Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
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- Japanese Breakfast Criticized for Generative AI Google Ad
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- Exclaim
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The comments section in a person of influence's post on any given social media platform can become an inhospitable environment for the most innocuous of reasons these days, so it's not surprising that a beloved indie musician seemingly embracing AI — a hot-button issue for its ethical, moral and environmental implications, to name a few — provokes ire.
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Hey Gemini how famous do I have to be before I can stop having to read the room?
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- Henry Blodget Invents, Hires, Sexually Harasses, Blogs About Nonexistent AI Subordinate
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- Defector
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Former Business Insider CEO and co-founder Henry Blodget, these days the sole proprietor and staffer of the blog/media company Regenerator, published a curious blog on his website on Monday. In it he details the events of an afternoon he spent on his laptop in a Brooklyn coffee shop prompting the ChatGPT program to generate and impersonate four members of an "AI team" he would employ at Regenerator, which the company's sole human employee had decided would now be a "native-AI newsroom," and then interacting with the four personas the chatbot adopted in response to his prompts.
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Never forget.
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- Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed
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- Business Insider
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Mark Zuckerberg has said he thinks AI is super important.
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Well I think AI sucks, actually. Who are you gonna believe?
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- Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
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- 404 Media
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A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
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When everyone tells you something sucks, don’t remain interested in it. (Unless it’s like, a bad movie.) (A bad movie made by humans, I mean.)
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- ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide
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- Pivot to AI
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...you could hear the screams of the vibe coders, the marketers, and the LinkedIn posters around the world.
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- Disney And NBCUniversal Sue AI Company Midjourney For Copyright Infringement
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- Deadline
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The lawsuit states, “By helping itself to Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works, and then distributing images (and soon videos) that blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters—without investing a penny in their creation—Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or another technology does not make it any less infringing.”
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- Meta is reportedly making a $15 billion bet on AGI
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- The Verge
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AGI is the concept of AI that equals or surpasses human cognitive abilities, and it’s something that nearly every AI industry leader is currently racing to achieve before their competitors.
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Hey, for $15,000,000,000, I could probably find these guys an Atari 2600 on eBay, if they want to give me the money, instead.
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- ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977
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- Futurism
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In a post on LinkedIn, Citrix software engineer Robert Caruso explained how the OpenAI chatbot "got absolutely wrecked" by an Atari 2600 running Atari Chess, a game for the system released in 1979, when Jimmy Carter was still president.
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Hahahahahahahahaha deep breath hahahahahahahahaha oh gosh
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- GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government
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- 404 Media
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Government employees we spoke to at the time said the internal reaction to Shedd’s plan was “pretty unanimously negative,” and pointed out numerous ways this could go wrong, which included everything from AI unintentionally introducing security issues or bugs into code or suggesting that critical contracts be killed.
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- People are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
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- Rolling Stone
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Sem was confused when it appeared that the named AI character was continuing to manifest in project files where he had instructed ChatGPT to ignore memories and prior conversations.
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- Anthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence use
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- The Verge
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Claude Gov models are specifically designed to uniquely handle government needs, like threat assessment and intelligence analysis, per Anthropic’s blog post. And although the company said they “underwent the same rigorous safety testing as all of our Claude models,” the models have certain specifications for national security work. For example, they “refuse less when engaging with classified information” that’s fed into them, something consumer-facing Claude is trained to flag and avoid.
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Can’t see this going wrong.
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- DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
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- ProPublica
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ProPublica obtained the code and the contracts it flagged from a source and shared them with a half dozen AI and procurement experts. All said the script was flawed. Many criticized the concept of using AI to guide budgetary cuts at the VA, with one calling it “deeply problematic.”
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- Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think
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- Pivot to AI
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“Large Reasoning Models” don’t do logic. Worse yet, “frontier LRMs face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities.” If the problem’s too hard … they just give up!
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- Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class
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- NBC4i.com
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With AI quickly becoming mainstream, some professors, like Associate Professor of Philosophy Steven Brown, who specializes in ethics, have already begun integrating AI into their courses.
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O-H! F-U!
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- Diabolus Ex Machina
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- Everything Is A Wave
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What ultimately transpired is the closest thing to a personal episode of Black Mirror I hope to experience in this lifetime.
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- Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
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- Semafor
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Business Insider announced this week that it wants staff to better incorporate AI into its journalism. But less than a year ago, the company had to quietly apologize to some staff for accidentally recommending that they read books that did not appear to exist but instead may have been generated by AI.
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This is like a whole thing I guess? Fake books on book lists? Cool. AI sucks, actually.
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- OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
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- Citation Needed
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OpenAI is not just hosting but prominently featuring chatbots that suggest dangerous medical interventions as crucial to men’s sexual and romantic success. They parrot extreme ideology around gender dynamics, sex, and dating; promote pseudoscientific beliefs; and potentially drive vulnerable or young users toward extremist communities.
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And of course, of course, OpenAI is like “yeah it’s cool.”
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- Google claims users find ads in AI search 'helpful'
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- BleepingComputer
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Google won't share the numbers or methodology of its "internal data," but it wants you to believe that ads are helpful, especially in AI search results.
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The most wrong I’ve ever been was when early on in my time on the web I thought “There’s no way the only way people are ever going to make money off this stuff is by advertisements” and hoo boy was I wrong, it’s all ads, all the way down, all the way down to ad town, isn’t it?
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- AI Cheating Is So Out of Hand In America’s Schools That the Blue Books Are Coming Back
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- Gizmodo
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Now, however, as AI tears through America’s elite educational system, lobotomizing tomorrow’s young leaders as it goes, could it be that blue books have been refashioned from a villain of the pre-AI age to a hero for our algorithmically-poisoned times? More and more, it seems like they’re the dark knight that America’s illiterate masses needs. The Journal notes that Roaring Spring Paper Products, the family-owned paper company that produces a majority of the blue books that are sold on college campuses, admits that the new AI era has ironically been good for its business.
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LOL I take it all back AI rules now. (Just kidding—AI sucks, actually.)
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- AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
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- Ars Technica
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With Veo 3's ability to generate convincing video with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, we're not witnessing the birth of media deception—we're seeing its mass democratization. What once cost millions of dollars in Hollywood special effects can now be created for pocket change.
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In context, the above quote is supposed to help us feel better about this stuff? But, like, it doesn’t? Help me, at least? In an era where misinformation already spreads like wildfire the democratization of a misinformation wildfire machine strangely doesn’t appeal to me? I mean? No thank you?
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- ChatGPT and the proliferation of obsolete and broken solutions to problems we hadn’t had for over half a decade before its launch
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- Frontend Masters Blog
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In any case, the ChatGPT code is what we call “struţocămilă” in Romanian – an impossible animal that’s half ostrich, half camel.
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- ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
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- 404 Media
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“What is incredibly frustrating is that Flock in particular in Illinois marketed themselves to a bunch of communities in the suburbs and in Central Illinois as a device that would be critical to combatting an uptick in crime, violent crime, gun violence. But this is really a national system of data once you start collecting this, whether it’s Bloomington or Springfield or Danville, you start looping together those networks,” Edwin Yohnka, director of communications and public policy for ACLU Illinois, told 404 Media. “So it is incredibly troubling to see this list of places from around the country who are performing these searches of Illinois cameras.”
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- Looks like The Chicago Sun-Times used AI to write a reading list—and wound up with slop.
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- Literary Hub
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There are a lot of hard-working writers out there who would be thrilled to recommend fifteen actual books for summer reading, and even more hard-working readers who don’t deserve to be cheated like this.
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Fun fact: this is actually the story that finally inspired me to get this site rolling, because I was like, jeez, I need to do something with the nervous hatred energy these kinds of stories bring out in me? I need to track this stuff? I need to remember? And then of course I forgot in the rush of getting things rolling here. Ah well so it goes.
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- Judge slams lawyers for ‘bogus AI-generated research’
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- The Verge
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“I read their brief, was persuaded (or at least intrigued) by the authorities that they cited, and looked up the decisions to learn more about them – only to find that they didn’t exist,” Judge Wilner writes. “That’s scary. It almost led to the scarier outcome (from my perspective) of including those bogus materials in a judicial order.”
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“No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.” - Franz Kafka, The Trial
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- Why was Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok preoccupied with South Africa’s racial politics?
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- The Associated Press
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Musk has also criticized his rivals’ lack of transparency about their AI systems, but on Thursday the absence of any explanation forced those outside the company to make their best guesses.
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- Hallucinating.
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- Ethan Marcotte
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...when we use a term put forward by the people subsidizing and selling these so-called tools — people who would very much like us to believe that these machines can distinguish true from false — we’re participating in a different kind of hallucination.
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Subsidizing and selling.
Louder, for the folks in the back: subsidizing! and! selling!
Once more, with feeling: SUBSIDIZING! AND! SELLING!
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- Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’
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- Fortune
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The main driver of adoption, it seems, is corporate FOMO, with nearly two-thirds of CEOs agreeing that “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study.
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Whoa. You don’t say. Wow. Huh.
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- AI revolt: New ChatGPT model refuses to shut down when instructed
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- The Independent
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“… Since OpenAI doesn’t detail their training process, we can only guess about how o3’s training setup might be different.”
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- 55% of businesses admit wrong decisions in making employees redundant when bringing AI into the workforce
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- Orgvue
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Annual research released today by Orgvue, the organizational design and planning software platform, reveals that 39% of business leaders made employees redundant as a result of deploying AI. Of those, 55% admit they made wrong decisions about those redundancies
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- At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
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- The New York Times
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As A.I. spreads through the labor force, many white-collar workers have expressed concern that it would lead to mass unemployment. But while joblessness has ticked up and widespread layoffs might eventually come, the more immediate downside for software engineers appears to be a change in the quality of their work. Some say it is becoming more routine, less thoughtful and, crucially, much faster paced.
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- Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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- The Verge
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“I think the creative community wants to go a step further,” Clegg said according to The Times. “Quite a lot of voices say, ‘You can only train on my content, [if you] first ask’. And I have to say that strikes me as somewhat implausible because these systems train on vast amounts of data.”
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And?
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- This AI-generated Fortnite video is a bleak glimpse at our future
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- Polygon
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Yet the internet is already slipping away from serving the needs of real human beings.
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Let the AI watch the AI play the AI game while I go, uh, do what, exactly?
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- Global Voices Policy on AI
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- Global Voices
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LLMs use existing data — for example, the digital texts they have been trained on — to calculate likely responses. The results they produce are therefore biased towards the most popular and abundant data available online. This, in the long term, has the effect of pushing the internet towards homogeneity, and minimizing and erasing outliers, including the less-heard voices that we as an organization are committed to amplifying.
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- Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
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- HuffPost
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Anthropic co-founder and chief scientist Jared Kaplan told Time magazine that internal testing showed that Claude Opus 4 was able to teach people how to produce biological weapons.
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- Studio Ghibli-style AI images are melting OpenAI's GPUs confirms Sam Altman
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- TweakTown
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These thousands, possibly millions of new images emerging on social media platforms all require GPU processing power to create, and according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, "our GPUs are melting," and the demand has now resulted in OpenAI having to "temporarily introduce some rate limits while we work on making it more efficient. hopefully won't be long!"
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- Mark Zuckerberg’s Banal AI Vision
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- Intelligencer
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It’s worth backing up and trying to see the world — or at least Meta’s products — as Zuckerberg might
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Oh, as a money machine for making more money? As a system of control and surveillance intended to allow continued consolidation of power over entire populaces? Sure.
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- ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?
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- Teen Vogue
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McMillan Cottom categorizes artificial intelligence as “mid” tech — hardly the technological revolution worth the amount of waste and environmental damage it’s meting out: “[Most] of us are using [AI] for far more mundane purposes. AI spits out meal plans with the right amount of macros, tells us when our calendars are overscheduled, and helps write emails that no one wants. That’s a mid revolution of mid tasks.”
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Huge environmental impact, little to no actual benefit to people. Got it.
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- Inside Anthropic’s First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage
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- Wired
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“We're all going to have to contend with the idea that everything you do is eventually going to be done by AI systems,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in a press briefing. “This will happen.”
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So AI will admit it sucks, actually, for me? Cool.
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- AI Slop PR's are burning me and my team out hard, anyone else experiencing this?
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AI hallucinating external services, then mocking out the hallucinated external services. Forcing me to go look up other repos/service maps and validate that yes this api endpoint actually exists.
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I mean, why are we actively trying to destroy everything, really?
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- Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will still exist ‘because you still need childcare’
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- Fortune
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With a community of 116 million users a month, Duolingo has amassed loads of data about how people learn, accumulating tricks to keep learners engaged over the long term and even know how well a student will score on a test before they take it.
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I’m sorry about your streak but you should probably delete your Duolingo account. Time to let the owl die.
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- Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
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- Ars Technica
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While Ellison attempted to paint his prediction of universal public surveillance in a positive light, his remarks raise significant questions about privacy, civil liberties, and the potential for abuse in a world of ubiquitous AI monitoring.
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- Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study
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- The Register
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Of course, such a vast database system could also be the precursor to pervasive surveillance – an idea Ellison last year said he feels is desirable and would like Oracle to help facilitate.
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- The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
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- The New York Times
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But, oh, how the tables have turned. Now students are complaining on sites like Rate My Professors about their instructors’ overreliance on A.I. and scrutinizing course materials for words ChatGPT tends to overuse, like “crucial” and “delve.” In addition to calling out hypocrisy, they make a financial argument: They are paying, often quite a lot, to be taught by humans, not an algorithm that they, too, could consult for free.
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- Mozilla is shutting down Pocket
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- The Verge
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”This shift allows us to shape the next era of the internet — with tools like vertical tabs, smart search and more AI-powered features on the way,” Mozilla says. “We’ll continue to build a browser that works harder for you: more personal, more powerful and still proudly independent.”
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Yes, just what the people are asking for: just, more AI-powered features! Yes! YES!
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- Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
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- The Guardian
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The prominent literary translator Frank Wynne, known for his work translating French and Spanish books into English, said: “No one pretends to use AI for translation, audiobooks, or even writing books because they are better; the only excuse is that they are cheaper. Which is only true if you ignore the vast processing power even the simplest AI request requires.”
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- AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query
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- Pivot to AI
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But the bottom line is: each individual query you make to ChatGPT really does pump out more carbon.
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Kuo says while the design and specifications may change before the device enters mass production, it's expected to "have cameras and microphones for environmental detection, with no display functionality."
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So, all inputs, no outputs, then. Cool. Cool cool cool.
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From time to time I find links that don't quite fit into the sources list, above, and I'll share those here. These might include essays I'd like to read but haven't quite made it through yet, but seem valuable enough to include in the discourse.
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- This is the paper I gave to historians about “AI” last week.
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- David Hitchcock
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- Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
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- Lit Hub
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- Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
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- Generative AI and the Business Borg aesthetic
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- Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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- AI-first - We're just 6 months away from AGI ;-)
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- revontulet.dev
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- Economics & labor rights in AI skepticism
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- I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
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- Deciphering Glyph
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- Generative.
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- Ethan Marcotte
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