Roland Meyer

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

Seeding the “maybe our model is exhibiting self-awareness?” narrative to obliterate the “OpenAI is a negligent and potentially criminal actor” narrative is a reputation management move exclusive to this industry. Not a stunt, but a desperate need to control the narrative.

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@klingebeil.bsky.social

Pretty hard to argue that critics and AI labs are simply “talking past each other” when one side is clearly insane. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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@atzenpapst.bsky.social

wenn ihr mal einen schlechten tag habt, geht einfach auf diese fantastische seite hier und holt euch ne portion gute laune: isaiprofitable.com

Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
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  • 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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@judithbeyer.bsky.social

"the Holy Spirit challenges us .. regarding our relationship with technology & the ongoing digital revolution. Scientific discoveries are talents entrusted to humanity..Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate & protect our common home; but it can also divide www.vat…

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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@lukashermsmeier.bsky.social

"Proposals related to data centers were explicitly on the ballot in more than 40 races across 13 states. People voted against data centers in 38 of them and counting."

American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers 404media.co
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  • Anti-data-center positions won 38 of more than 40 ballot measures across 13 states in the 2026 US midterms.
  • Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who took over $9 million from data-center-linked donors, lost reelection by more than 700,000 votes.
  • Six cities voted to ban new data centers outright and twelve imposed megawatt consumption caps.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Weird how people react poorly when you tell them your product is going to ruin their livelihood, their future, and the planet.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

New initiative from @karenhao.bsky.social airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
AI Weekly's analysis →
  • Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
  • The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
  • Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot.»

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

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This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

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Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past

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Since 1996, the business models of Silicon Valley are largely based on legally protected unaccountability, enforced world-wide through US dominance. Generative AI is both a product and an escalation of this model: It's unaccountability as a service

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You may remember that Elon launched a «Grok Imagine Odyssey Contest», searching for AI slop versions of Homer's epic, and the winner is as hilariously bad as expected: cyclops with three eyes, soldiers in Roman armor as if from «Ben Hur», kitschy stock aesthetics, and what's wrong with that bow?

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I do not hate AI, at least not in principle. But I do hate that we got computers answering every question before we got Star Trek communism

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Bis zum Beweis des Gegenteils gehe ich ab jetzt davon aus, dass ihr alle AI-generierte Shadowaccounts von Martin Burckhardt seid

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It's becoming harder and harder to visually tell apart the official trailer for a $250 million Hollywood superhero blockbuster from some AI #slop a guy prompted together in an afternoon. For the art of cinema, that might actually be good news

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There's a certain kind of post-humanist theoretical kitsch that's even worse than humanist kitsch (especially concerning AI)

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What I love about this platform is when a half-baked hot take of mine brings people to seriously debate which century to blame for generative AI – with great and profound arguments, no less

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