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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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
Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the company's AI spend: 'That link is not there yet' | Fortune fortune.com
AI CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft set aside their rivalry to warn Congress AI is making it too easy to design and create bioweapons | Fortune fortune.com
Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch wired.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.
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…
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
the only solution will be to pass terrible legislation written by their lawyers legalizing all of their worst behaviors while boxing out smaller and foreign competitors and criminalizing open source sorry I don't make the rules
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POV: you're me. Your $940 round trip with Norse airlines was cancelled. After 14 days, you can't get a refund. The refund request page doesn't work. You need human help. Norse directs you to a chatbot. There's no phone #, and a gigantic fraud warning on the website 🧵1/3 www.wi…
so is this:
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
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- California unions secured 1.5 million signatures for a November ballot measure imposing a 5% wealth tax tied to AI job displacement.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly urged tech billionaires to proactively support AI taxation before voters impose a harsher version.
- Governor Newsom's 'pitchforks are here' framing signals AI wealth backlash is now a priority issue in both the 2026 and 2028 election cycles.
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