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Character.ai update. I have heard from my therapist that one of the people they treat has gone to the hospital after learning the app is being shut down. For Self harm. 😭 I don’t know who the person is, but my therapist knows I do HCI/AI policy so they thought it was worth tel…
wow these Gen AI companies are really leaning into their new scam that AI is alive "In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious" www.nytimes.com/2026/…
A shipment of rare books was tracked by 404media... it ended up at an Amazon AI training facility, where they scan and destroy books. At worst, we are losing invaluable works. Regardless, they are stealing decades of knowledge without attribution. This needs to stop.
During a meeting this week open to all employees at Instagram, Meta chief product officer Chris Cox addressed the “difficult” and “brutal” environment created by the “insanity of this company” in the past few months www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/…
"Two of the lawyers were barred from appearing before the court for two years; all lawyers received a fine of between $1,000 and $3,500" Glad to see some consequences! These lawyers should go sue whatever AI tool they used. www.404media.co/judge-learns...
Google has reached its final form: removing the web altogether from web search. techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...
We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Here we go again. If you fire a bullet at a practice dummy and the bullet hits a person instead, the bullet was not “acting on its own.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’ "He has a rebellion on his hands." This is what I am seeing across the tech sector. People fed up with poor leadership decisions, fed up with the sheer lack of thought or basic respect to the work and the people doing it. www.404media.co…
NEW from me: Grok has continued to host sexualized and demeaning images of celebrities, a review of public posts from Grok Imagine has found. As well as this, people have been creating full nudity (against Grok’s terms) and sex scenes with the Musk-owned AI
Microsoft shut down a bunch of its own code repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from Claude Code or Gemini. Really wild: www.404media.co/microsoft-ha...
I'm trying out Duck Duck Go this week. I've been looking up best practices for SQL and Python lately. With Google, I'd eventually give up and see what the AI overview was referencing. Duck Duck Go has been pointing me to useful and relevant resources..which is what a search engine should do.
A new donut shop is opening by us. I was curious and went to look at their menu and was presented with a chatbot! Is everyone losing their mind?
I really don't understand why clean tech people are into Gen AI
Got added to a "Wrong about VR, AI, Crypto, SmartGlasses, GLP1, NFTs, or Bitcoin" moderation list Happy to be categorized that way lol 😂
My husband works for a healthcare org and we were talking about AI. The org's stance on AI is that you can use it as a tool but you have to verify the output. If anything goes wrong, then your license is on the line. My husband was irritated that tech people have no licensing and standards.
As I started working on switching from Software Engineering to Data Engineering, I had my doubts. Lately, I'm feeling better about my decision. Most of the Data Engineers I learn from don't push Gen AI. Instead they caution and emphasize on learning the fundamentals. They seem to be more realistic.
A study of 22K Data Engineering job posts show that only 7% ask for AI skills. Glad to hear it!
My 8yo's school had an open house today. We met her new teacher. I asked about computer usage in the classroom. She said "All computer usage will be purposeful. Btw we will not be using AI. AI has no place in 3rd grade." I was happy to hear that!
Reviewing code written completely with AI for a civic tech project. How did I get here!? 🥲
Heard a new term at the RightsxTech panel today: "tech solutionism". It is where people think that all social issues can be solved with tech. Something a lot of AI and tech founders need to keep in mind.
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