"The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you - The biggest public offering ever is financial nihilism’s final form." The SpaceX IPO and the way it's being shoved into all indices to force ETFs etc zu buy SpaceX stock is criminal. People will lose their savings.
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tante
De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
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The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you theverge.com
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International amnesty.org
AI Economics for Dummies mcsweeneys.net
Seth Rogen: If You Use AI to Write Scripts 'You Shouldn’t Be a Writer' hollywoodreporter.com
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Would You Just Look At This Shit karlbode.com
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arstechnica.com
Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches arstechnica.com
The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin flyingpenguin.com
tante.cc
anthonymoser.github.io
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A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.
Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI": "Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see somethi…
@amnesty.org very based: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition…
McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
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“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”
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I wrote about a particularly embarrassing few weeks for AI hype, and how big tech is desperate to get ahead of an economic collapse they'll be directly responsible for (in more ways than one)
"US law enforcement warns of 'anti-tech extremism' as AI hatred grows" So I am critical of a lot of tech and of capitalism which makes me an extremist in the US now. Cool and very normal. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/u...
"The Leiden Declaration, […] warns that recent AI developments are threatening “characteristic values” of mathematical research, “often in ways that disproportionately affect students and early-career mathematicians, and...Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as ind…
www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that...
Just one perspective: "AI is a fascist artifact" tante.cc/2026/04/21/a...
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And I go back to @anthonymoser.com yet again You want permission anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
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Recent commentary
"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_. Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost?
Exports control on Anthropic's current model just shows what a dumb kind of suckers the US government is these days. They fell for Anthropic's false advertising and the ban just makes Anthropic's model look more capable than it is.
Just read that Estland is planning to give "AI"-Agents E-IDs comparable to the IDs people get. The fact that "AI" as a narrative is used to undermine human rights and dignity in order to allow even more creep of non-democratic technology into our lives is really undeniable these days.
Just occurred to me: When you _SEARCH_ you want to _FIND_ _AN EXISTING THING_. Like the idea of adding "generative" into that literally makes no sense.
So now I read the Bregman "We need to embrace AI" piece and seriously? That's the best that capitalist centrism can provide? This is obviously heavily edited by "AI": The whole non-sequitur structure, the lack of actual arguments. Pathetic.
We sometimes fall into the trap of distinguishing art from "AI" slop based on the effort and work the artist put in. But of course that's not fully it: You can spend a lot of time iterating with an LLM and it's probably still not art.
(I know it's not the intention but seeing someone post something cool here about anything and then seeing the "AI hater" Tag just makes me happy. Like every person with an interesting perspective of fascinating hobby carries that tag.)
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