In their dreams, it does. www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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Irony murdered: A book about truth and AI apparently includes quotes made up by AI. The author says he'll investigate. Whom? Himself? (Disclosure: I deflected requests to blurb it.) Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
"Some website operators are crying fowl." Some. Like, f'rinstance The New York Times? Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
- Cloudflare data shows AI-training crawlers hit 52% of crawler requests by June 2026, up from 22% in spring 2025.
- Google still supplies roughly 88% of referral traffic, but is answering more queries in-place via AI Overviews and AI Mode.
- Human traffic to the most heavily crawled categories, including software, IT, retail and finance, has fallen as much as 40% in under a year.
Disappointing that the Guardian would turn to #TESCREAList (Google it) William MacAskill to write this speculative BS about AI and consciousness. Could AI be conscious? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Cal Newport -- @author-calnewport.bsky.social -- is so right. Gift link. Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
Bullshit. Tech companies are searching for signs that chatbots are conscious www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
- Anthropic, Google, and Meta have hired computer scientists, neuroscientists, and philosophers over the past year to study whether AI models have forms of emotion.
- Anthropic hired Kyle Fish in September 2024 as its first dedicated AI welfare researcher and stood up a Model Welfare team.
- Neuroscientists and brain experts remain broadly skeptical that today's AI models are, or could soon be, conscious.
It's Godzilla v Mothra as AI billionaires throw their weight around in our democracy. Gift link. ‘This Is a War’: How Powerful A.I. Super PACs Are Dueling Over the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...
Lovely essay equates Waiting for Godot with AGI. "The persistence of waiting, therefore, reflects a distribution of roles whose coherence depends on anticipation rather than on settled judgment" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
JFC, Rosenbaum refuses to take responsibility and he's still promoting the book on his socials without coming clean. His book is supposed to be about truth. AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The problem, I've been shouting, is not the technology but humans: It is impossible to predict--thus forbid--every malign use to which a general machine can be subjected. Guardrails are fools' comfort. Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/…
OMG: The racist pappification of culture with Musk's AI. Follow the link to his post to watch the video. Hilarious. Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Recent commentary
Mastodon's AI-aided addition of alt-text is wonderful (everyone should have it). Bonus: How it reads The Times' gothic logo.
The anonymous slander campaign against NJ7 candidate Rebecca Bennett gets more disgusting by the day. This just arrived in our mail. No, this doesn't require AI to make a photographic lie. It requires only the dark soul of a chickenshit liar.
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