“ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.”
“this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhetorical cliches or structural tendencies, they'll work the p…”
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Ali Alkhatib: this is interesting but i'm reluctant to get very attached to these analytical methods. a lot of computing researchers live for puzzles; if you tell them LLM outputs are identifiable by certain rhe…
Ali Alkhatib: this is sort of a fundamental problem with pangram IMHO. if you restrict yourself from thinking critically about the author(s) as such and only look at syntax, you paint yourself very narrowly into…
Hypervisible : Even if it’s “good” by some metric, I don’t want to read it because it has no perspective or viewpoint.
“Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But I think the real story here is not *that* students use AI, i…”
Casey Fiesler: Been thinking a lot about the students in this class (presumably, but not certainly) using AI on a take-home midterm and then bombing the in-class final. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... But …
Casey Fiesler: This data is absolutely wild. The mean midterm score was 96, and the mean final score was 48. The *mode* midterm score was 100. The professor says that he intentionally made the midterm harder, and…
Casey Fiesler: Brown University also just released a report on gen AI based in part on a survey of students. provost.brown.edu/sites/defaul... 88% of undergrads indicated concerns about the impact of gen AI use o…
“I think what's sort of funny about this stuff is how everyone writes about software & dopamine & AI writes "I have discovered a thing" when it is extremely recycling so like this piece I saw going around: pydantic.dev/articles/the... (lol @ "That loss is re…”
“Hey look at this * Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw... * The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired pydantic.dev/articles/the... * HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs arstechnica.com/gadget…”
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Cat Hicks: I just think Dopamine Nation isn't a good basis for a theory of all complex behavior at scale
Cat Hicks: What a coincidence that a massively viral book pushing a single puritanical message about "rewards" perfectly coincided with everybody online explaining that the answer to everything is a "dopamine…
“"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it." AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making”
“What an indignity to have your farm or house seized via eminent domain, to see it razed and replaced by a weed-choked empty field, a lonely foundation slab, or an abandoned empty building that could only ever be repurposed for laser-tag or an ICE concentrat…”
“AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our civilization and our descendants will be digging it out for generations: pluralistic.net/2026/04/08/p... 36/”
“Cory Doctorow makes this case in this essay: pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/p...”
“For these bosses, AI is the chance to wire the toy steering wheel they play with all day directly into the corporate drive-train. With enough AI slaves, the boss can run the company all on their own: pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/p... 28/”
“Rather than legally requiring platforms to spy on kids (to exclude them from being targeted by platforms' algorithms), we could prohibit platforms from spying on *anyone*, including kids, meaning kids couldn't be identified (much less targeted) by algorithm…”
“As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every …”
“Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by Ed Elson of Prof G Markets to talk about the broken state of the stock market, the collapse of regulation, SpaceX’s post-IPO horror show, and how our culture conflates wealth with intelligence. youtu.be/XkDEU…”
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Ed Zitron: Had @author-calnewport.bsky.social on Better Offline to talk about AI companies “doom-trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of those leading…
“An app is a webpage wrapped in the right kind of IP law to make it a felony to change how it works, which is why companies are infinitely horny to get you to use their apps, not their websites: pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/t... 19/”
“* Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... * A laid-off journalist started his own news site. Facebook AI decided he was fake eu.indystar.com/story/news/l... * Washington Still Ignores Airline Monopolies economicpop…”
“Whether it's Leona Helmsley's claim that "only the little people pay taxes," or Elon Musk's habit of calling people who disagree with him "NPCs," the whole ideological project of billionaireism is shot through with a kind of solipsism: pluralistic.net/2026/…”
“Austerity is fascism's best recruiter: pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/a... When the AI bubble bursts, defective chatbots that replaced skilled workers will disappear, leaving us scrambling to get that work done after the workers who understood it have retrained…”
“Bosses *hate* the fact that they can't turn their plans into action without first having a series of ego-shattering confrontations with workers who actually know how to do things, who insist that those plans are illegal, stupid, impossible or will kill peop…”
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