“Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...”
“I'm sure these 200 economists are all clearly calling out how autocratic corruption is dismantling regulatory autonomy, undermining any effort to protect labor or consumers before it even begins, right?”
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Rachel Coldicutt: Hang on, there's another "AI is terrible" letter? And this one is signed by Jack Clark and a bunch of other Anthropic/OpenAI folk. I hate to say this lads, but I have news for you... www.nytimes.co…
Rachel Coldicutt: Yet again, I have cause to tap the sign hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wz35dvpo...
Hagen Blix: Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to he…
“these gentlemen are very very unwell and need to be excised from the body politic like a testicular cancer”
“"Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel delivered a series of provocative warnings & predictions re: the future of artificial intelligence and the West on Tuesday, accusing Pope Leo XIV of inadvertently serving as a “Chinese communist agent” by calling for A…”
“oh my goodness we somehow lost control of our own software in a country with no functioning regulators, time for some protectionist legislation our lawyers ghost write locking consumers into enshittified walled gardens”
“we are quickly approaching the pinnacle of AI bullshit mountain”
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Karl Bode: the final reckoning between AI hype and reality is upon us. buckle up.
Karl Bode: I'm fascinated by this dual reality of people happily vibe coding and then the reality of most AI implementation at scale which has just been a profound anti-labor mess and environmental catastroph…
Karl Bode: I'm curious what on device overseas cheap alternatives do to the mess, and tech industry bottom lines
“just like they did when they stole TikTok, they're going to use xenophobia and a fake concern for national security to undermine on-device open source AI alternatives to protect the biggest companies' expensive walled garden AI empires”
“More details of the various Congressional investigations and potential approaches including federal procurement bans being considered are below.”
“"Emarketer’s data finds that standalone chatbots like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot app, Google AI Mode, and Amazon Alexa for Shopping (formerly Rufus) in U.S, will generate less than $1 billion in ad revenue this year, and just $5.41 billion by 2030" Lol www.…”
“U.S. AI policy for the foreseeable future is going to be an open sewer of bizarre, incoherent, xenophobic protectionism, and our trash press is going to normalize it as serious adult policymaking the entire way”
“this article is ostensibly about AI investment driving a merger boom but the author doesn't think it's relevant to mention historic corruption has hollowed out our antitrust regulators (despite Republicans campaigning on being big fans of antitrust) or that…”
“apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...”
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Christopher Mims: There is a civil war happening in tech over Chinese / free to use / open weights AI? At least on X. I realize no one else cares, but this is my World Cup. tl;dr a former Trump official joined OpenA…
Christopher Mims: apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...
Christopher Mims: "let them fight" always gets my antennae twitching
“anyway, if you weren't aware, claiming all domestic opposition to techno fascism is a Chinese plot to harm AI innovation is a whole thing they're doing now”
“we pinky swear we will delete the data we hoovered up in a country too corrupt to pass or enforce privacy laws whose regulators have been disemboweled 😇🥸”
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Karl Bode: we pinky swear we will delete the data we hoovered up in a country too corrupt to pass or enforce privacy laws whose regulators have been disemboweled 😇🥸
Karl Bode: the normalized presumption is there are still agencies left that would press musk corp over any of this
Karl Bode: those same lawyers know they just convinced the courts to make regulatory accountability illegal
“again, just like when they stole TikTok, they're going to make a big fake protectionist stink about national security and privacy in order to box out smaller, open source and foreign competitors and lock you into big tech's walled gardens”
“musings inspired by this piece excellent piece by @karlbode.com karlbode.com/ai-artifice-...”
“I really want to believe that this era of mass produced AI engagement slop ushers forth a renaissance for authentic expertise, but I've seen what you people buy at the grocery store”
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Ronen Tamari: the term "artificial intelligence" is actually way more on the nose than its creators could have imagined
Ronen Tamari: musings inspired by this piece excellent piece by @karlbode.com karlbode.com/ai-artifice-...
Karl Bode: 👍I was obsessed with this country's love of artifice even before AI came to town. Now it's just off the rails
“Yeah I find that curious as well Spoiler for when they start to blame all of their immoral choices on the not-actually-sentient whims of their own software”
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The one thing you would think LLMs would be particularly good at (if for no other reason than the direct financial incentives of their creators), finding products and services that match a set of c…
Karl Bode: I keep coming back to this. Like very basic and obvious applications at scale just don't function.
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