Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025
El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals
How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
AI image gets a US copyright — or some of a copyright
Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
The UK’s ‘turbocharged’ AI initiative — bringing data center noise to a village near you
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism
Thomson Reuters wins AI training copyright case — what this does and doesn’t mean
AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news
Elon Musk’s DOGE turns to AI to accelerate its destructive incompetence
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025
Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass
Andrew Molitor on "AI safety". "people are gonna hook these dumb things up to stuff they should not, and people will get killed. Hopefully the same people, but probably other people."
DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs
OpenAI does a Super Bowl ad, Google’s ad uses bad stats from Gemini
tired: Roko's Basilisk. wired: Total Fucking Asshole Server 2006
How to remove Copilot AI from your Office 365 subscription: hit ‘cancel’
Do be evil: Google now OK with AI for weapons and surveillance — for ‘freedom, equality, and human rights’
