Brian Penny 🍿
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Today in AI News: —Pope Leo XIV has strong thoughts on Big Tech and AI —Graduates at universities across the U.S. are booing commencement speeches on AI —Cybersecurity jobs are up in the age of AI open.substack.com/pub/creatorf...
The Pope’s AI Encyclical, Graduates Booing AI,
Pope Leo XIV echoed May popular statements about Big Tech and artificial intelligence in his first encyclical letter since assuming office last May, titled “Magnifica Humanitas.”
open.substack.com
The year is 2026. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is still booking concerts then postponing/cancelling them…
Question for AI bros: If AI is making your art, how are you processing your childhood traumas and what do you do with your time when you’re high on drugs?
An AI can write about what everyone is saying online. A human expert can write about what everyone isn’t saying online.
Computer components are more expensive, and AI investments from VCs are skyrocketing. The only thing going down is employee morale.
Memory Loss, AI Overtime, and the AI Bubble
DRAM is getting more expensive due to supply shortages.
open.substack.com
Musk suing Altman, AI Datacenters for good, and Big Tech’s mixed earning call results
Musk v Altman, AI Datacenters, and Mixed Results
Elon Musk versus Sam Altman
open.substack.com
Why do Google employees care if their company gives the Pentagon the same half-assed summaries we all see in their search results?
Google Signs Classified AI Deal With Pentagon Amid Employee Opposition
Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google’s AI models on classified work, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The agreement allows the P...
theinformation.com
I’ve never made it more than a minute into an AI-narrated video without it being painfully obvious it is an AI-narrated video. The voiceover is always so terribly garbage that it’s impossible to pay attention
I went into Circle K yesterday right as a man grabbed some food and ran out without paying. It reminded me of AI development. Sure, it’s easier to eat when you aren’t paying for food, and you always have the option of stealing. But most people prefer to earn their way through life the right way.
Thanks to the power of AI, you can do anything imaginable, like pretend you’re a woman. It’s a world-ending game-changing technology because we never before had the capability to create such mind-blowing videos as “woman running on treadmill” or “guy eating ramen” RIP Hollywood 😹🙄
Shitterstock claims to not accept AI images from contributors, but a search for “haunted house” is an easy way to find some because why are there so many jack o lanterns and why are they all so poorly made?
Some random spent a couple months attempting to scare me with death threats but it only made me laugh. Two months later, and I’m predictably alive while that guy is predictably a do-nothing little bitch who we both knew was never going to get off his lazy ass to do anything 🤷
I spent the past month selling 10-year-old used tech and gadgets. It’s interesting to me how their value holds in a world where marketing makes everything old sound obsolete with every new innovation. Overall, there’s still a lot of interest in old tech.
Meta’s AI agents will now download a bunch of porn and login to social media to act like a jerk prior to completing tasks just like it’s human employees
Report: Meta will train AI agents by tracking employees' mouse, keyboard use
Move highlights the difficulty of finding high-quality interactive training data.
arstechnica.com
1995: magnets destroy your computer or television set 2025: magnets charge your smartphone
This is a funny little setting Meta implemented on Facebook (on by default), especially the second sentence. It is compounded so not immediately intuitive that it’s saying you don’t always get an AI title if it’s turned on, and that group settings override your personal settings if it’s turned off.
Every time someone introduces something with “can you believe I did this using AI?” the answer is always yes.
Shutterstock just introduced a new AI video generator, and these were the best videos they had to showcase it…
“Somebody’s car alarm is going off. I better do something to help.” —literally nobody ever
One would think attorneys would be smart enough to not use AI to write their briefs due to all the documented cases of others getting sanctioned for the misinformation they produce. One would be wrong…
2 attorneys charged, 3rd faces discipline by State Bar of California for misusing artificial intelligence
The State Bar of California is charging two attorneys with submitting false and inaccurate court filings produced using generative artificial intelligence without proper review. …
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Gas prices are up. Rent prices are up. Food prices are up. The only prices going down are the offers on Facebook Marketplace when you try to sell anything
Big tech isn’t happy about people protesting or speaking out against their data centers
Man speaking against data center arrested at Imperial County board meeting as tensions flare nationwide
Ismael Arvizu, 26, said he was charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, resisting arrest and threatening a public official.
latimes.com
One of these images is the iconic photo of Muhammad Ali standing over a defeated Sonny Liston taken by Neil Leifer in May 1965. It is one of the most iconic sports photographs in history. The other 2 are Midjourney v8 outputs for the prompt “photo of boxer, knocked out, opponent standing over him.”
