this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.
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this may alarm you folks in the BLUE SKY BUBBLE, but I deeply trust the same giant companies that cozied up to fascism to responsibly repackage my work, hijack the ad revenue I might have otherwise received, and present archival knowledge in a way that consistently serves the …
most tech outlets spent the week burying the lede that this was a completely avoidable error (or intentional marketing decision) by a human being, and not a malevolent self aware cyber consciousness that slipped its leash
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The author who published a book about truth and AI that was embarrassingly revealed to have included AI-hallucinated quotes told @wired.com that he'd rather quit writing than quit using AI.
I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection apparatus
these gentlemen are very very unwell and need to be excised from the body politic like a testicular cancer
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- At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV is 'working for the Chinese Communists' by calling for international AI regulation.
- Leo's May encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' declared that artificial intelligence 'must be disarmed' and pressed for stronger international oversight.
- Thiel spoke on a nonrecorded panel with political scientist Francis Fukuyama; the audience reportedly received the characterization with laughter.
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sure would be something if Larry Ellison's last few years involved him losing his shirt on AI as the state antitrust lawsuit dismantles his nepobaby son's debt-riddled dreams of media domination
reuters notes they weren't even paying attention to what their own software was doing in real time
I'm sure these 200 economists are all clearly calling out how autocratic corruption is dismantling regulatory autonomy, undermining any effort to protect labor or consumers before it even begins, right?
as a longtime telecom beat reporter I spent years tracking how telecom monopolies dominated markets then nickeled and dimed users with predatory usage surcharges so it's wild to see a market that isn't even established or profitable yet jump right to the fee enshittification
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Public opinion of the AI industry is already sinking. A parade of seemingly untrustworthy executives makes it look worse. Ultimately, Musk v. Altman was a battle about control—and even though claims were dismissed, some of the trial takeaways were damning. www.theverge.com/ai-…
journalism is just repeating the things various high-level executives say without context, correction, or cues that the speaker might not be a competent or reliable narrator
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The Atlantic quotes a dodgy corporate "think tank" (I routinely see them make bogus claims on broadband) that insists that people should love having an AI data center in their backyard, because the low latency means innovators will flock to the neighborhood, which is an outright lie
AI adoption is going great at our home insurance company Liberty Mutual
hey good news I have been told by literally two dozen major reputable news outlets in the last month alone that the trump administration is working closely with industry to implement sensible safety and regulatory guardrails for AI
hah, lost some of my paid newsletter subscribers when I wrote about how AI isn't sentient
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