The Who's Who of AI

“How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/t…”

“Starts with asking Claude if it’s a “moral patient” and goes downhill from there.”

“Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.”

“I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection …”

“In "Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility," @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I explain how the rush for LLMs in social science is destabilizing scientific reliability www.nature.com/art…”

“After they decided not to continue their Flock contract, emails that 404 Media obtained show how this town in Wisconsin struggled to get their Flock cameras physically removed. www.404media.co/flock-object...”

“"For the time being, if you or someone on your crew has availability to secure black plastic bags (or something else) over the cameras, that would be great." www.404media.co/flock-object...”

“New: Hugging Face has a widespread problem with nonconsensual deepfakes, including multiple AI models that undress or create sexual images. Researchers even created their own tool on the platform and tracked 1,000 prompts over a week. 73% of the prompts the…”

““The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT had assured Scott Winters that the early warning signs of his health crisis were “not something dangerous,” and had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice, instead telling him to trust that ‘God did not design your body t…”

“The spiraling shape will make you go insane. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...”

“www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...”

““In the near future, surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private.” - from a great op-ed by Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...”

“For ideas on how to do that, see: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin”

“Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.”

“NEW: HUD appears to be making up FOIA exemptions. @telliotter.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doge-d...”

““The World Cup will put football’s data and AI on the largest stage there is,” says @grohmannrafael.bsky.social. “The football we watch runs on [data] work as much as on the players. None of it would exist without the workforce behind it.” restofworld.org/2…”

““The growth of wearable technology such as smart vests, as well as the betting industry and prediction platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, is also fueling the demand for data workers.””

““Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school | Reuters” https://www.reuters.com/technology/norway-imposes-near-ban-ai-elementary-school-2026-06-19/ >”

“I used to think ”spending on AI infrastructure could be the fuse that ignites the bomb that is the massive global debt bubble“ was paranoid fantasy, on the grounds that Big Tech was paying for it all out of cash on hand, but no, pretty clear that’s where we…”

“Don’t read this, but if you do, substitute “imaginary little buddy” for every instance of the word “superintelligence” and it will make more sense .”

“Another day, another tech ceo needs to share his prediction about the future with us which is actually a really bad PR for their products. It's written so badly but with the confidence of a tech ceo douche, as usual. But let me just share 2 ridiculous parag…”