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Multiple readings These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla Building & implementation · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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New Culture, work & education Signal 4h ago
⚡ 4 h early

These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla

7 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · e.w. niedermeyer
“this is interesting as a curiosity, but like... making a system that can kinda self-drive in a not particularly safe or useful way was already an extremely solved problem www.404media.co/these-tech-w...” evidence ↗
7 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Emily M. Bender 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler e.w. niedermeyer Baldur Bjarnason
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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 10d ago
⚡ 5 h early
AI agents ruining internet essay

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Joseph Cox
“Stop getting your AI agent to email us. It's not impressive, it's lame as fuck, and you look like an idiot doing it. Our inboxes are full of this crap. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...” evidence ↗
7 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Will Oremus 404 Media Joseph Cox Jason Koebler Sam Cole Eileen Clancy 🧿 Jason Moore

“Stop getting your AI agent to email us. It's not impressive, it's lame as fuck, and you look like an idiot doing it. Our inboxes are full of this crap. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”

““AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. www.404media.co/theres-a-100...”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Jason Koebler: AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are an…
Will Oremus: AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are an…
Jason Koebler: Here is how Mark Zuckerberg talks about AI agents vs what they are actually doing: It doesn't take that many people's annoying little "assistants" to pollute the internet, harass people, suck up di…
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Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
⚡ 5 h early

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

3 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“"One’s like a happy or upbeat sad song if that makes any sense, and one’s a sad, sad song. I think one’s in a minor key, one’s in a major key, but I’m not a music professional."” evidence ↗
2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
404 Media Jason Koebler
3 experts discussed this · 7 posts
Jason Koebler: it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compellin…
Jason Koebler: this is an excerpt of a 10 minute video in which multiple songs were played
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫: The faces here are incredible
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