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New AI business Development 19h ago
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"Slop Grenades": Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He's Wrought

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“"An April survey of 1,150 office workers found that 40 percent had encountered a phenomenon known as “workslop,” or AI-generated content that looks professional on the surface but lacks any actual substance." futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“Everyone is getting the world they wanted futurism.com/artificial-i...”

Established AI field signal Resource 5d ago
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AI resist list published

The AI Resist List

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Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

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Building & implementation

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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“AI resist list just launched! AIresistlist.org”

Established AI field signal Signal 5d ago
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Globally, More People Expect AI to Cause Job Loss Than Growth

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“A new Pew Research survey across 37 countries found that on balance, people expect AI will lead to job loss in next 20 years & people are more likely to say AI will increase rather than decrease the gap between the rich and the poor... www.pewresearch.org/g…”

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Apple reasoning model limitations paper

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

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“@platypii @kortizart @NateSilver538 @GaryMarcus Or, you can read peer reviewed papers, but maybe, like Nate Silver, you depend on "thousands of less wrong posts" for your "evidence" 😂 That could also be why press releases are more convincing than scientific…”

Established AI field signal Signal 6d ago

NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax

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““NVIDIA'S AI Climate hoax” https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/nvidias-ai-climate-hoax-report/ > With that in mind, we produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025’s use of NVIDIA’S AI products is on par with the state-owne…”

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5 experts · 85 posts · 6d ago
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Shriram Krishnamurthi: I'm amazed by *just how bad* Gemini can be. A Google product, operating inside a Google doc, can't create a Google doc element…and lies that it has. Also struggles to convert a very basic LaTeX fil…
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Amusingly, Gmail itself can create Google calendar entries based on the content of many messages!
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3 experts · 10 posts · 2d ago
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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: As I was saying about Microsoft having their own in-house AI cultists. The specifically weird and salacious people at the frontier labs are far from the only new religious movement driving AI leade…
René Walter: Misleading headline though, he specifically warns about "AI systems capable of setting their own objectives, earning money and owning assets" which would "essentially seeding a new silicon species".
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