Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025
Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AI
LA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic review
"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers
Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week
Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic
What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025
OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model
PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT
Discord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out of
AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them
Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025
AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to
Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it
Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines
Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one
Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin
Musk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvania
AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline
