So, OpenAI says their model solved an important math problem, and, uh, it may be plagiarism? cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... Wish we could get actual, serious reporting on this stuff, instead of re-printed press releases
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Linguist, Cognitive Scientist, Occasional AI Researcher, Immigrant in NYC, Co-Author w/ Ingeborg Glimmer of 'Why We Fear AI' - out now: https://bookshop.org/a/114797/9781945335174
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Google working hard to force everyone to switch from traditional search engines to retrieval-augmented LLMs. Weird business model to transform the market from a thing where you were leagues above the rest to one where you're a second rate player at best. Don't really see this …
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- Starting early 2027, Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom and Google Search will all be off by default for school-managed K-12 student accounts until admins opt in.
- Districts that block Google's AI tools entirely will also lose student access to Search, with students shown a message that the service is unavailable.
- Schools that opt in choose between a consumer-style Search with AI Overviews and AI chat or a Guided Learning mode powered by Gemini.
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Stupid AI usage almost started WW3 Cool. Boy, am I glad that we're totally talking about the right kind of existential risk, like escalating interimperial rivalries, or climate change, and not this "AI will go rogue" stuff... right? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Obviously, it's the business school. Can I return to my theme of "AI bullshit reveals that everything was bullshit all along"?
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
Always good to see markets make an irrational system even more irrational by using AI
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We got a bunch of internal Amazon memes in which employees mock Amazon's own AI, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI tools effectively. More here: www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
So, it looks likely that the results on transcription enzymes that Anthropic claimed as their own, were likely also achieved by training on user data
Please tell me again how you using all our data, books, etc to train your models is fine, but someone else using the output of your models to train theirs is a heinous crime
A bit late to the party, but great essay from @maxread.info I think the production of these subjectivities and the production of AI faux subjects really are two sides of the same coin (tho what exactly the coin is, we haven't quite figured out, likely not even seen yet)
Why Bernie Sanders is wrong - and nationalizing AI is a bad idea "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."
At least we live in the time line where we can ask fascinating questions like "What of your marketing AI suggests making fun of massacres?" I guess
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One great thing about AI is that you can now be in a one-person cult and still not be the leader
The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...
The German state of Bavaria is trying to ban AI bans in academia. Can't make this shit up
re: AI extinction (from Why We Fear AI) It turns out that looking first at an earlier transition is strikingly illuminating about many properties of the current historic moment. That transition, with its then-brand-spanking-new technology created a surprisingly similar media flurry.
Half the AI discourses begin with an unstated "tradeoffs aren't real, anything conceivable is also possible", and that silly fallacy is the core of the AI doomer movements.
The problem with Ed Zitron is that he could be automated by AI. The problem with AI is that it's best at automating Ed Zitrons. ... nah, just kidding, the problem with Ed Zitron is that he's selling people on the idea that a market correction will solve the AI problems by making it go away.
I've just been told that apparently Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI, starts with an anecdote about him listening to me talk about Why We Fear AI on This Machine Kills 😂 Someone write a double review of the two books please!
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"[LLMs] are no more gods than are markets or bureaucracies" @himself.bsky.social at #COLM2026 Precisely the parallelisms that our 'Why We Fear AI' takes as its starting points, too
"[Artificial Intelligence] lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks" -Karl Marx
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