Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025
GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop
Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
DEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI!
Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!
Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic
How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data
Even Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
Musk ("xAI") now claims grok was hacked
Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent
Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates
Musk’s xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis air with smog
Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025
Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honest
Theranos: First Blood Part II
Study: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work
Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job
Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the grave
