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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people | The Verge theverge.com
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading | The Verge 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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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-…
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…
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
picture perfect example of "view from nowhere" or "he said, she said" journalism where "is corruption and extreme wealth disparity bad for America" framed as a perfectly symmetrical debate between equally reasonable sides
this whole company reeks of sad desperation
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Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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- Amazon's KiroRank leaderboard was shut after employees ran token-heavy junk tasks to inflate usage scores, directly raising the company's compute costs.
- SVP Dave Treadwell set an 80% weekly AI-usage target that was gamed rather than met through genuine productive engineering work.
- Meta's 'Claudenomics' leaderboard covering 85,000 employees reportedly faces the same tokenmaxxing dynamics that killed KiroRank.
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is it because the company's owner is a white supremacist fascist sociopath whose press-enabled engineer cosplay routinely kills people?
CEOS said a thing! Then another thing!
on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not
In the recording Amazon provides of its new AI podcast slop, a fake female software voice informs the listener that "there's no gatekeeping anymore. If you make something real people are going to find it, and the algorithm is working for artists in a way it wasn't five years a…
I really want to believe that this era of mass produced AI engagement slop ushers forth a renaissance for authentic expertise, but I've seen what you people buy at the grocery store
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hah, lost some of my paid newsletter subscribers when I wrote about how AI isn't sentient