Lana Sinapayen

Japan. miscellaneous ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/ Research @ Sony CSL, Associate Prof. National Institute for Basic Biology. talking dog insta @iikocookie

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Lana Sinapayen reposted
@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social

A colleague just told me about this website. It tracks big tech’s AI expenditures vs profits. Wow. Let’s just say there’s a big reason(s) they’re all crazily pushing, advertising/proselytizing, hiring influencers, flooding the zone with the narrative™, etc etc

Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
  • Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
  • The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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@noxon.bsky.social

techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/d...

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • DuckDuckGo US installs peaked 30.5% WoW on May 25, with iOS hitting 69.9%, directly following Google I/O 2026.
  • A 2026 DuckDuckGo poll found 93% of over 110,000 respondents actively rejecting AI search features outright.
  • Visits to DuckDuckGo's dedicated AI-free search version rose 27.7% WoW peak during the same post-I/O window.
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@ketanjoshi.co

"The boss had “clearly developed some sort of mental disorder,” she said. “Spending the whole day talking to ChatGPT and making decisions about the future of your company and the people who work there based on what it ‘tells’ you seems insane." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire futurism.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • A lawyer quit a legal tech startup after her boss mandated AI consultation before every meeting and made structural decisions solely from ChatGPT.
  • Workers described an obligatory multi-hundred-page document called 'the Bible' that employees were required to feed into ChatGPT for guidance.
  • A SaaS sales strategist warned AI 'will spit out whatever you want it to spit out,' letting managers dress confirmation bias as analysis.
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Lana Sinapayen reposted
@bonabooks.bsky.social

Silence is the wrong response. That’s why today we are publishing ‘The Machines Are Coming For Your Masthead”, a report on our experiences, small press publishing in the age of AI. Read the blog. Download the report. Share your thoughts - we want to hear them. (20/20 - fin)

Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books bona-books.com View on Bluesky →

Recent commentary

Oh no. I opened a YouTube video and the comments section opened on a bunch of "Comments summarized by AI", so that every "comment" is a regurgitate of an actual comment. I hate it here. Don't @ me if you're a llm user. You're part of this mess, no matter what you're using it for.

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It's funny to me that the hypothetical "an AI could destroy the entire world to make into paperclips!" was considered a serious and terrifying argument, but 3 men actually destroying the entire world to churn out text in an "AI" chatbot is considered so great all our governments are clapping

View on Bluesky · ♥ 13 ↻ 3 ↩ 1 · 45d ago

I had this idea of running a neural network in Java, because if writing code with your own 2 hands is becoming as quaint as doing pottery, why would I continue torturing myself with python, a language I hate, 'in case other people want to reuse my code'?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 1 ↩ 2 · 24d ago

spamming a small research community with AI-generated papers is not going to win you medals

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Any experiments with what happens when you make the [delta weights] at t+1 be an output of a deep neural net?

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