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“Anyone who can afford to leave is hoping to be laid off and receive the 16 weeks minimum of severance and 18 months of paid health care that come with it, several people say. As the Instagram employee put it, ‘Everyone is just like, do it now, jesus fucking christ.’”

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com

“Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience … More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling the…

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co

anthropic is so good and oh so ethical … just ignore how it keeps working with the military and intelligence services

ft.com

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says politico.eu

“AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact.” — @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI jacobin.com

oh yes, i definitely want to fly on a plane or drive in a car that was designed with the help of the bullshit machine

Mistral Signs Airbus, BMW as It Brings AI to Manufacturing bloomberg.com

“All of France’s central government agencies have to come up with plans to move away from US tech—across office software, antivirus, AI, databases, and more—by this fall. On April 23, French officials also announced the country will move its health data platform away from Micr…

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech | WIRED wired.com

doesn’t he know he’s not supposed to admit ai spending isn’t paying off? jensen huang is not going to be happy

Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’ | The Verge theverge.com

”Meta, Spotify, and Google don’t just host AI-generated imagery, ads, and music; they’re also responsible for making the tools that create it. … Allowing users to filter it out regardless would go against all the effort … to profit from AI: They want you to embrace the slop fa…

Let us filter AI slop, you cowards theverge.com

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further de…

Google is its own worst enemy disconnect.blog

every country is going to lead on ai. every country is going to have the biggest data centres. every country is going to build small modular reactors to power them. every country is gearing up to compete on quantum computing. i’m so tired of all this bullshit.

I love having a prime minister who completely buys into the tech industry’s framing of AI, such that he’s throwing billions of dollars at AI companies and pushing more Canadians into relying on their shitty products. To him, the core issue is “engagement and adoption,” regardless of the drawbacks.

listening to a bunch of old journalists/commentators talk about ai as though they’re very knowledgeable but all they’re doing is repeating industry talking points back and forth to one another, showing they really don’t have a clue

first the pope comes out as an ai-critical luddite, now he’s literally quoting gandalf in the anti-ai encyclical? these popes are almost making catholicism look cool

now that google is being sacrificed to the ai demons, is it time for the encyclopedia to make a comeback? 👀

i’m getting so fed up with seeing ai-generated signs in small businesses

ok i guess it’s time for me to watch the carney ai press conference and get very angry

ai boosters: ai is inevitable, it cannot be stopped, you just need to accept it us gov: hey, anthropic, we’re falling for your PR, you need to rein in mythos and fable anthropic: *turns off mythos and fable*

forgive me for bringing a Thread to bsky but this is what i think any time i see ai-generated lord of the rings stuff

taylor lorenz has added telling her readers it’s ok to use ai alongside her defense of substack and fearmongering about efforts to combat screen and social media addiction. but yeah she’s totally all about holding the industry accountable.