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"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠
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"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performa…
AI-generated, fabricated citations are a huge problem in research. A recent study by Columbia University researchers examined 2.5 million biomedical papers across three years, and found that one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 contained fabricated refe…
"AI" is not the future: "Worldwide, three-quarters of people could face drought impacts by 2050 all while datacenters use 9.3tn liters of water in the coming decade, enough to meet the drinking water needs of the planet’s human population for over year" www.theguardian.com/us-…
these gentlemen are very very unwell and need to be excised from the body politic like a testicular cancer
NEW: DOGE used AI for housing policy. The government won't say how. read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest:
New coverage from 404 Media Sam Cole highlights CDT's latest research on the manipulative "dark patterns" appearing in AI chatbots.
Behind the World Cup's real-time data and automated offside calls is a vast network of manual laborers who turn every pass and tackle into structured analytics to fuel the sports betting industry https://restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup-ai-data-workers/?utm_campaign=row-social
the public meetings around data centers are getting .... heated?
In Brussels last week I brought up strong opposition to data centers as a consideration when thinking about the uptake of AI; no one had thought much about it. Maybe, we further discussed, because regulation meant that not many are being built near EU communities. www.nytimes.…
the thing is i don’t hate people who use ai or bitcoin etc lol what..why would anyone make a list like this i just can’t be convinced that these things (ai etc) have redeemable qualities
has anyone compared gen ai to hypnotism specifically? i was thinking how some folks can and some can’t be hypothesized. and while the mechanism of hypnosis is real, the tap dancing and alien speak that comes from being under is made up
Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres “But the data centre boom is zeroing in on one province: Alberta. The prairie province accounts for 93 per cent of all planned data centre capacity in Canada, in large part because of its cheap natural gas-powered electricity.”
social media psychosis to ai psychosis pipeline
Center = Mél Hogan / The Data Fix. Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.
