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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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well wired.com
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Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN cnn.com
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system. arstechnica.com
Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people | The Verge theverge.com
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Microsoft's president says Gen Z's AI backlash should be a wake-up call for Big Tech businessinsider.com
University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading | The Verge theverge.com
Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses theverge.com
Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the company's AI spend: 'That link is not there yet' | Fortune fortune.com
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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 …
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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.
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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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-…
but only part of the backlash is the jobs or even the software high school graduates entering the workforce see that the country is too corrupt to function they watched you all lie for a decade before either fully embracing historically corrupt fascism or being too pathetic to…
tfw when you briefly step out of your bubble and realize the public rage against AI is white fucking hot and inextricably woven into soaring disgust at the authoritarian-coddling extraction class and you'll never be able to separate the two regardless of what your software can…
the meta perv glasses now come with Comcast-esque usage surcharges 😂
it's so adorable watching them sheepishly start to admit there's a disconnect between the huge outpouring of AI money and actual impact and profitability
so is this:
this is going to be a weird and pointless hybrid of those pointless AI badges designed by men who want to fuck their phones and it's all vaporware IPO-fluffing gibberish
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- SpaceX showed investors and stakeholders an early prototype of a handset-like AI device, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
- The prototype is reported to be slimmer than an iPhone, running a proprietary OS and using a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset with xAI integration.
- SpaceX cautioned investors the project is still early-stage, the design could change, and it is unclear whether the device will ever ship.
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