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Access restricted by nationality, not geographic location, is a fun sub-plot in here for ppl interested in the growing number of ways digital stuff is being put behind differently shaped identity verification gates www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...
Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“Our goal has always been to help people create original new music.” —Suno But that goal is impossible. AI models are wholly dependent on their training data, incapable of generating something “original.” A novel remix of the past perhaps, but always literally derivative. @jas…
“For now, roughly half of the university system’s ChatGPT licenses have been activated, suggesting that at the very least C.S.U. paid for tens of thousands of logins that have gone entirely unused.” This is the scandal in plain sight. Why is CSU paying for a product that is free?
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw, including the children they were teaching, then use it to develop AI models. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404me…
In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial: www.404media.co/judge-learns...
Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.
OpenAI has said publicly that it recognizes that longer chat sessions introduce more risk to the users’ mental health. Even though these conversational AI companions can be unpredictable, chatbot makers have a choice in how they design their products. www.404media.co/new-study…
Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.
South Africa recently became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake research citations generated by AI https://restofworld.org/2026/government-ai-hallucinations-south-africa-deloitte/?utm_campaign=row…
my favourite example of this (not mentioned in this piece but a plausible implication of it) are the AI Can Replace Middle Management cultists www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...
"When a society is unmoved by decades of advocacy from disabled communities but springs into action when a tech company needs the same accommodation, it reveals whose claims on shared resources are treated as legitimate and whose are treated as optional." www.techpolicy.press/…
World Cup is over. Back to AI and cyanotype.
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