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Established AI business Analysis 7d ago
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Is AI profitable analysis essay

Is AI Profitable Yet?

10 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

10 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered

“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

“* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/”

Developing Policy & governance Analysis 1d ago
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socialist case against AI nationalization

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

9 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

9 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered

“"AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact." A nice corrective in Jacobin by @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n...”

“jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n... “AI is a machine that takes good jobs and makes them precarious. It’s a machine for turning stable employment into gig work””

4 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Eugene Vinitsky: I think it's reasonable to ask of a research program that purports to automate away all jobs that it provide a positive vision of the future more confident than "hey, maybe we'll "cure" cancer alon…
Eugene Vinitsky: I've been talking about this a lot lately and it just feels like the moral cases in the field are significantly less developed than they should be and it's eating at me a bit
Juan Diego Rodriguez: This eats at me all the time. I don’t know what to do about it
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Established AI field signal Resource 14d ago
⚡ 489 h early
AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

15 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

15 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“New initiative from @karenhao.bsky.social airesistlist.org”

“On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world. http:// airesistlist.org”

Established Compute & infrastructure Development 4d ago
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AI used to make anti-data center slop

AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“We are in the making AI slop against AI data centers hellscape grift now. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”

“People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Roland Meyer: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: People now hate data centers so much that they're falling for anti-data center AI #slop on Facebook. Can't even say if that's good news or bad news, probably both? www.404media.co/ai-grifters-...
Olivia Guest: This is relevant I think olivia.science/entryism/
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New Models & releases Development 13h ago
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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“NEW: OpenAI said it built a “highly isolated” environment to test a model that then went rogue and autonomously hacked Hugging Face. According to cybersecurity experts, the company made a human mistake—one expert called "a massive control failure"— that led…”

Established Models & releases Analysis 8d ago
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Generative AI engineering disaster essay

Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“"AI...making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models...are so resource-hungry that tech companies...purchasing 70% of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage." The opposite of what we expect from new technologie…”

“This was written in personal capacity and only speaking on my behalf. Article: www.theatlantic.com/technology/...”

Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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AI avatars digital blackface marketing

AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

““Nearly all aspects of the accounts appear to be AI-generated — from the “person” in the video to automated responses to comments, which in some cases attempt to mimic African American vernacular — and experts warn scams like this are growing every day.””

Established AI field signal Analysis 7d ago
Bulwark slop doctrine marwick essay

The Slop Doctrine - by alice e. marwick - The Bulwark

4 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered

“The right loves AI slop. Why? I investigate in @thebulwark.com today: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...”

“«AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagement.» #Slopaganda www.thebulwark.com/p/the-slop-d...”

2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Roland Meyer: «AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagem…
Roland Meyer: Great article, thanks to @alicetiara.bsky.social @thebulwark.com for citing my work
Ben Williamson: «AI slop lets the right simultaneously annoy anti-AI liberals, animate divisive stereotypes, and boost tech companies embracing anti-democratic principles, all while increasing social media engagem…
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Established AI research Research 19d ago
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latent diffusion neural economy paper

The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

3 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“This pre-print lays out a method for analyzing these systems (here, the latent diffusion model) by looking at its individual structural components to understand “the question” each part of the process was meant to “answer” and how that influences the output…”

Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
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Palantir NHS critique analysis

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

4 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Palantir sells a myth: «For all Thiel and Karp’s boasts of omniscience, AI-fuelled warfare and civilisational conflict, Palantir is fundamentally a software business … What its leadership has grasped is that in an age of revanchist nationalism, there is an …”

Established AI field signal Development 6d ago
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Trump airport AI-generated logo controversy

The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Be AI Slop

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“«… maybe his new airport logo is kind of a perfect use case for AI. The displaying of the US Great Seal is highly restricted, so it’s unlikely that an airport in Florida would be authorized to flaunt it as a logo … But with AI, you can quickly spit out a ch…”

Established Policy & governance Analysis 8d ago
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Bernie Sanders AOC AI regulation comparison essay

Bernie and AOC Are Taking On AI. Only One of Them Is Doing It Right.

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered

“Bernie and AOC are pushing a much-needed federal data center moratorium. But their AI policies couldn’t be more different. Bernie’s AI policy responds to exaggerated industry narratives, while AOC is taking on the harms we’re seeing from their products. We …”

Developing Policy & governance Development 2d ago
White House anti-woke AI federal government order

Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“The «Asian Vikings» even made into one of Trump's executive orders: «…one major AI model changed the race or sex of historical figures — including the Pope, the Founding Fathers, and Vikings — when prompted for images because it was trained to prioritize DE…”

Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago

Soldiers ai disinformation

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered

“«One account on Facebook posted numerous videos of a young woman dressed in Army combat camouflage … [The] account [belongs] to a coordinated campaign … that also posted pro-Iran videos and … videos of Israeli soldiers. The accounts seemed to be operated by…”