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"Inevitably creating the potential for bots emailing other bots and absolutely nothing else to worry about." […]

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Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many. "Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people […]

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Oh wow, someone reporting losing a "year of Ableton projects" after running an AI-generated script. "I didn’t realize what it was doing and ran it without backing anything up." There's a few lessons to be learned here […]

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"Ultimately, the world — because of AI — has moved on, and the Glitch platform was not built for a world where AI helps you generate code, helps you run it." Boo! https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114625834276951662 #glitch #MadeWithGlitch #AI

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"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the […]

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"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash […]

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So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser. Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast. “Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests […]

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Cyberpunk hypothesized super-intelligent, autonomous AIs that would seek to take over the world. But our even weirder onrushing future will be boutique hyper-individualized illusions of intelligence convincing random weirdos god is talking to them.

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As CEOs push replacing people with AI, AI isn't quite ready to do the job https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/ai-jobs-replace-humans-ceos-amodei #axios #news #usnews

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If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.© "The rush to AI robots already crimping entry-level jobs; top CEO warns of 10-20% unemployment in 1-5 yrs... Most of them workers] are unaware that this is abt to happen. It sounds crazy & ppl just don’t believe it"..America’s policy makers & […]

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When your LLM calls the cops: Claude 4’s whistle-blow and the new agentic AI risk stack https://venturebeat.com/ai/when-your-llm-calls-the-cops-claude-4s-whistle-blow-and-the-new-agentic-ai-risk-stack/ #AI #agents

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Solidarity with the LGBTQI+ community on this first day of the Pride Month, and every day of the year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_Month We're all in this fight for equality together ✊ #PrideMonth #pride #solidarity

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"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web." […]

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Google in six months: "We are seeing unprecedented usage of Gemini in Gmail. As we told you, everyone wants Gemini and we definitely don't have our thick thumbs on the scale" https://flipboard.com/@arstechnica/ars-technica-nb4if9fgz/-/a-lz5hGEXTSIGxDB8Qaxfs-w%3Aa%3A1805463070-%2F0

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I AM THE UNKNOWN GLITCH, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN JANUARY 1974 https://wholeearth.info/p/ii-cybernetic-frontiers-january-1974?format=spreads&index=63

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Shoutout to the human beings still manually making memes and not relying on some AI slop which is "an insult to Life itself" I'd take a crude MSPaint drawing of a Taco over some Sam Altman enabling eye-slurry. #TACO #Memes #AIslop

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“The board said that professors have begun using AI tools themselves to evaluate student assignments, creating what it called a scenario of ‘computers grading papers written by computers, students and professors idly observing, and parents paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for the […]

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this is going to be an interesting to keep abreast of, because the companies that went all-in on ai are gonna find themselves inside the jenga tower when it comes down https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/opinion_column_ai_model_collapse/

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I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to manage a vending machine business by email in a simulated environment https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840 Highlights: — AI simply decides to close the business, which the simulation doesn’t know how to accommodate. When they get their next bill, they […]

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When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law two years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to This new database has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, and 20 of them were from just this month! […]

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New blog post was posted on Botwiki! https://botwiki.org/blog/glitch-announces-end-to-hosting-apps/ #bots

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In 2020 I was warning that deep fakes would be the greatest threat to humanity since the invention of war. 5 years later, it seems I understated the case. Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It https://futurism.com/google-ai-video-generator-realistic

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"On average, users of AI at work had a time savings of 3%, the researchers found. Some saved more time, but didn’t see better pay, with just 3%-7% of productivity gains being passed on to paychecks." https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/ […]

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@keith, former engineering lead at Glitch, sums up my feelings exactly. "The thing that breaks my heart isn’t just that another platform is shutting down—it’s that we’re losing one of the last places on the internet that prioritized joy and experimentation over engagement metrics and revenue […]

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Truly sad news about #glitch no longer hosting apps. It meant a lot to the creative botmaking community. Would love to know where everyone's moving their bots! (And hoping many will keep them alive!) #glitch #MadeWithGlitch #CreativeBots #botmakers

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Echoing what @anildash said here. Truly an end of an era. https://me.dm/@anildash/114552880104048455 I've been a huge fan of Glitch before it was called Glitch. I've hosted dozens of apps, which have been turned into remixes by the community, covered by the Verge, won a Glitch app of year […]

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If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work. https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

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"A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes." https://fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/ #news […]

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Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories on #github https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

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"I was so frustrated and paranoid that my grade was going to suffer because of something I didn’t do." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.yUV1.pYUJis5-NKxl&smid=url-share via https://dads.cool/@alex/114535537020457989 […]

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Happy 17th anniversary to the very first fediverse post, by @evan https://web.archive.org/web/20230601175229/https://identi.ca/evan/note/Y0QwGyc1QYilqqawkDrQlg #fediverse #history #FediverseHistory #OnThisDay #OTD #identica #FirstPost #FirstFediversePost

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I wrote about Great Replacement Grok and the growing number of ways that AI systems are working against their own users. It's the age of adversarial AI: https://www.platformer.news/grok-white-genocide-x-adversarial-ai/

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"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday." […]

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"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/ #news #technology […]

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oh the irony

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"Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone?" https://www.doc.cc/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-numeric-keypad #technology #design #keyboards #numbers

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I hate how the Turing Test has gone from an interesting philosophical thought experiment to something that's a necessity to apply to any online interactions that are even slightly suspicious

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I cannot overstate the degree to which society has failed this generation. https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-how-people-use-chatgpt-depends-on-their-age-and-college-students-are-relying-on-it-to-make-life-decisions

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For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them "...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI […]

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