Paris Marx

“Anyone who can afford to leave is hoping to be laid off and receive the 16 weeks minimum of severance and 18 months of paid health care that come with it, several people say. As the Instagram employee put it, ‘Everyone is just like, do it now, jesus fucking christ.’”

Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale | WIRED wired.com

“Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience … More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling the…

Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains 404media.co

anthropic is so good and oh so ethical … just ignore how it keeps working with the military and intelligence services

ft.com

oh yes, i definitely want to fly on a plane or drive in a car that was designed with the help of the bullshit machine

Mistral Signs Airbus, BMW as It Brings AI to Manufacturing bloomberg.com

“All of France’s central government agencies have to come up with plans to move away from US tech—across office software, antivirus, AI, databases, and more—by this fall. On April 23, French officials also announced the country will move its health data platform away from Micr…

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech | WIRED wired.com

doesn’t he know he’s not supposed to admit ai spending isn’t paying off? jensen huang is not going to be happy

Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’ | The Verge theverge.com

”Meta, Spotify, and Google don’t just host AI-generated imagery, ads, and music; they’re also responsible for making the tools that create it. … Allowing users to filter it out regardless would go against all the effort … to profit from AI: They want you to embrace the slop fa…

Let us filter AI slop, you cowards theverge.com

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further de…

Google is its own worst enemy disconnect.blog

The European Commission wants households to cut back on their energy use so countries can better supply the hyperscale data centers powering generative AI.

EU wants households to cut peak time energy use as demand from industry and AI soars politico.eu

businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION …

cbc.ca

they’d better give me the option to turn all this shit off. unreliable information is being built into the guts of every tech product that was once pretty useful and dependable, with little concern for the societal effects of all that bullshit.

bloomberg.com

Mark Carney’s AI strategy suggests Canadians’ concerns about AI will evaporate if they become more “literate” about the technology. In trying to boost industry, Carney ignores many of the biggest concerns about generative AI and data centres. If anyone needs to become more AI …

On AI Safety Concerns, Mark Carney Is Out of Step with Canadians | The Tyee thetyee.ca

every country is going to lead on ai. every country is going to have the biggest data centres. every country is going to build small modular reactors to power them. every country is gearing up to compete on quantum computing. i’m so tired of all this bullshit.

I love having a prime minister who completely buys into the tech industry’s framing of AI, such that he’s throwing billions of dollars at AI companies and pushing more Canadians into relying on their shitty products. To him, the core issue is “engagement and adoption,” regardless of the drawbacks.

listening to a bunch of old journalists/commentators talk about ai as though they’re very knowledgeable but all they’re doing is repeating industry talking points back and forth to one another, showing they really don’t have a clue

first the pope comes out as an ai-critical luddite, now he’s literally quoting gandalf in the anti-ai encyclical? these popes are almost making catholicism look cool

now that google is being sacrificed to the ai demons, is it time for the encyclopedia to make a comeback? 👀

ok i guess it’s time for me to watch the carney ai press conference and get very angry

ai boosters: ai is inevitable, it cannot be stopped, you just need to accept it us gov: hey, anthropic, we’re falling for your PR, you need to rein in mythos and fable anthropic: *turns off mythos and fable*

thrilled to see my iphone 15 doesn’t support the new apple ai features 🎉

my inbox is filled with ai-generated scams trying to get me to pay to have my books featured in fake book clubs it’s annoying, but i got a good laugh at this one claiming to be dua lipa

ai overviews wrong again. the fifth season is airing now; the sixth and final season is expected in 2027