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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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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...

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Obviously, it's the business school. Can I return to my theme of "AI bullshit reveals that everything was bullshit all along"?

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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

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Always good to see markets make an irrational system even more irrational by using AI

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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

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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

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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."

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI jacobin.com

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

How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea theguardian.com

The centrist consultant advice is always "ideally, you want to stand for nothing and alienate everyone"

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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.

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!

What's your favorite critical writing on AI and education?

"[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

Watching the latest John Oliver on health insurance, and it's pretty funny that the same argument of "it's not designed it's evolved/grown" that the AI peddlers love making... ... is also the defense for the nightmares of the healthcare system