The Who's Who of AI

“ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me.…”

““ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons | Nieman Journalism Lab” https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/”

“For reasons mysterious to me, Will Stancil is continuing his crash out about language used to describe LLMs, moving on from raning about "stochastic parrots" to picking up on this piece that @nannainie.bsky.social and I published earlier this summer: button…”

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

“A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. www.404media.co/her-ai-gener...”

“We spoke to the family that made the AI avatar of a killed man. They said the point of the video was to sway the judge. “Isn’t that what you want human connection to be?” The convicted man in the case is now being resentenced because of the use of the AI vi…”

“More details on Nic Cage’s falling out with Amazon below.”

“The real AI hazard isn't just misalignment, argue Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene. It's Babel: teaching ourselves to treat "speech as output, judgment as computation and persons as data." The idol diminishes us before it ever comes alive.”

“I was quoted in this piece, so I thought I'd share the bits that weren't included: What I see here is language models doing what language models do: reading and writing. Wikis are prime targets for agents, which are foremost writing machines.”