Sabine Hossenfelder: Google's quantum announcement is the usual puffery
The Prophet
Itch․io taken down by bogus AI-sourced phishing claim from Funko Pop, BrandShield
"Defining AI"
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th December 2024
in which Edward Ongweso, Jr. beats Casey Newton repeatedly around the head with a clue bat
Survey: UK financial services add more AI, mostly machine learning
A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
Study claims that "AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably." WaPo, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and others picked it up. Here's my response.
OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro — maybe there’s a market!
Patrick Soon-Shiong adding AI ‘bias meter’ to the LA Times to convince readers it’s not biased
UK local papers go weird as Reach pivots to AI from journalism
Godot Isn't Making it - (What if AI has already peaked?)
Enterprise has no idea what to do with generative AI. This means it’s early days, and not that AI is a bubble
AI-generated travel influencers — marketers love them! Real travelers, not so much
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th December 2024
Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI
Data centers drain Ireland’s power grid, add their own fossil fuel-powered generators
Synthetic nostalgia: Punk band Dead Boys plans album with AI Stiv Bators, current vocalist quits in disgust
Artists are given access to OpenAI Sora. Release access publicly to everyone as a protest.
