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
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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
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Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses theverge.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.
I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection apparatus
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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I'm sure these 200 economists are all clearly calling out how autocratic corruption is dismantling regulatory autonomy, undermining any effort to protect labor or consumers before it even begins, right?
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- More than 200 researchers and economists, including 15 Nobel laureates, signed a statement urging urgent policy action on AI-driven job displacement.
- Signatories include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar.
- Organizer Anton Korinek said prior transitions gave societies decades to adapt while AI may give only a few years.
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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…
good rule of thumb is to replace "AI" with "software" in the headline you're reading and see if it lands differently
the meta perv glasses now come with Comcast-esque usage surcharges 😂
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The Atlantic quotes a dodgy corporate "think tank" (I routinely see them make bogus claims on broadband) that insists that people should love having an AI data center in their backyard, because the low latency means innovators will flock to the neighborhood, which is an outright lie
AI adoption is going great at our home insurance company Liberty Mutual
hey good news I have been told by literally two dozen major reputable news outlets in the last month alone that the trump administration is working closely with industry to implement sensible safety and regulatory guardrails for AI
hah, lost some of my paid newsletter subscribers when I wrote about how AI isn't sentient
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