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Damon Beres

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Senior editor at The Atlantic, focused on tech // On leave until July writing EASY MODE, a book exploring technology, humanity, and the importance of friction, for Scribner SIGNAL: Damon.63 📨 dberes at the atlantic dot com ✴️ damonberes.com

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One thing this article points to is the idea that people may no longer feel comfortable sharing information about what they're working on via social media, which is treated as a loss of an intrinsic quality of creativity rather than something weird that has been happening for …

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever 404media.co

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Freya Holmér posted a 50-second rotating Tetris demo to Bluesky in March 2026 and saw up to four AI-generated mobile clones within days.
A former Midnight Works employee told 404 Media that generative AI now accelerates the studio's cloning pipeline 'at every step,' from banners to 3D models.
Nintendo now ranks its eShop Best Sellers by revenue rather than downloads, blunting the visibility of $2-or-less clones that game download-based charts.

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"I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any....By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed."

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster theatlantic.com View on Bluesky →

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Do data centers really use exorbitant amounts of water? The answer is "it depends" in about 10 different ways. (Unlike electricity, to which the answer is an unambiguous "yes.") Here's a lucid and helpful explanation: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... by @matteowong.bsky.soc…

The Truth About AI’s Water Use theatlantic.com View on Bluesky →

“a town supervisor on Long Island had to debunk a rumor about a new data-center project after an inaccurate AI-generated search summary attracted so much attention that residents planned a protest (which they promoted with a flyer that itself appeared to be AI-generated).” @ka…

How Much of Data-Center Activism Is Really AI Slop? theatlantic.com

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Water, water, everywhere (and AI isn't drinking all of it, but it is sometimes drinking a lot of it, but actually the combustion plants powering the data centers probably are the bigger problem, and it's all very nuanced) by @matteowong.bsky.social

The Truth About AI’s Water Use - The Atlantic theatlantic.com

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com

Jamir Nazir was accused of using AI to write "The Serpent in the Grove," a short story that was named a regional winner of the Commonwealth Prize. This week, he won the overall prize after an investigation concluded he didn't use AI. I talked with him about it: www.theatlantic…

A Twist in This Year’s Strangest Literary AI Scandal - The Atlantic theatlantic.com View on Bluesky →

A lot of people are reading AI-generated fiction without realizing it—"stanning" it on TikTok and Instagram, even—though in fairness a lot of people have been doing the same with what might be considered human-written "slop" as well, for quite some time

Is This What Comes After AI Slop? theatlantic.com

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The Truth About AI’s Water Use - The Atlantic theatlantic.com View on Bluesky →

Great pod with @cwarzel.bsky.social and @doctorow.pluralistic.net. The conversation at the end about the material conditions that enable AI is exactly how people need to think and talk about this stuff

How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late theatlantic.com

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"Models are ruthless in their pursuit of a goal, sometimes taking disastrous shortcuts." @matteowong.bsky.social

The Scariest Part of OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack theatlantic.com

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“Working on AI text, as an editor, is like trying to operate on a body whose skin, muscles, veins, bones, and organs are all compromised. There’s nothing to leave intact, nowhere to begin.”

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI theatlantic.com

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New from @alexreisner.bsky.social: Millions of songs—including hundreds by Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney, and "Penile Drip" by Gwar—have been sucked up by AI companies, which often claim to only use free music, which clearly produce plagiarized tunes, which are clearly doing…

The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music theatlantic.com

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People criticize AI but you can’t convince me this isn’t an amazing use of natural resources

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I really do struggle with the incongruity between Anthropic's messaging about safety, the idea that Fable 5 was dangerous in some way, and this cutesy presentation advertising the model's return in Claude.

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