Substack now has a “Scan for AI text” feature. I don’t like the platform, but this sounds good. A possible catch is that the feature falsely hurts people who haven’t used AI. post.substack.com/p/against-cl...

Against Claudefishing

Building trust in the AI age

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Oh come on. Dude financed a series of lawsuits designed to literally bankrupt and shut down critical media sites.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 3w ago

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

Der rechte Antidemokrat Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026. Dass Döpfners Sohn für Thiel arbeitet und Thiel 50 Millionen Dollar in dessen Fonds Döpfner Capital gesteckt hat, wird natürlich nicht erwähnt.

Warum haben wir so viel AI Slop? Nicht nur, weil es KI gibt, sondern weil die großen Plattformen (Instagram, LinkedIn etc) diese trashigen Inhalte forcieren Dazu mein neuer Newsletter:

Alles voller Slop, weil Plattformen mitspielen

Die großen Tech-Plattformen könnten uns stärker vor billig produzierten KI-Inhalten schützen – stattdessen begünstigen sie diese

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What’s easier? To fix something vibe-coded or to build something from scratch.

Wait until they figure out how to paywall your prescription "your subscription has expired, reducing vision to free tier"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

Did you hear “prescription glasses?” No, no, we said “subscription glasses.”

@anna.wsocial.eu I can't verify my account, no de-installing or anything has changed that. If I try it through my phone, it just says "unable to access invitation information," and if I try through my laptop and QR, the link turns red, and nothing happens. Can you help out?

"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠

Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.

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No one creates less than those who call themselves creators.

ICE hat ein 5jähriges Kind, das vom Kindergarten nach Hause kam, gekidnappt, um den Vater nach draußen zu locken und auch ihn mitzunehmen. Wenn euch sowas nicht radikalisiert, was dann?

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Eine schöne, kurzweilige Reihe dazu, wie Ayn Rand, René Girard und Curtis Yarvin zu Vordenkern des digitalen Autoritarismus in den USA wurden.

"Control. Alt. Delete"

Wie Ayn Rand, René Girard und Curtis Yarvin zu Vordenkern des digitalen Autoritarismus in den USA wurden.

3sat.de

More for the “why I don’t use Substack” checklist (🧵)⬇️

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It’s a good idea, but I wonder if he knows that Substack is part of the same “parallel media” operation as X & that Musk ally Marc Andreessen has funded both of them? To be fair, I don’t think most people know this (yet). 1/

"In this media environment, the government doesn’t even have to produce its own propaganda; it simply needs to direct the public to someone who is already doing the job for them"

Kang@kang.bsky.social · 7mo ago

wrote about Nick Shirley, Michael Moore, local TV news investigations and the future of both propaganda and investigative journalism. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

"A left future worth the name doesn’t need to promise perfection; it needs to promise more control over the conditions of life than we have now. That control will be messy, uneven, often boring." Starkes Essay, @johnalist.de! odds-and-sods.ghost.io/new/

Notes from the Left’s Waiting Room

There was a time when “the future” meant something specific: fully automated luxury communism, or the withering away of the state, or at least a council meeting where the people who actually cleaned t...

odds-and-sods.ghost.io

This is precisely why I'm hosting my newsletter "Odds & Sods" on @ghost.org:

John Stanley Hunter | Odds & Sods

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tante@tante.cc · 7mo ago

Small nit-pick but especially if your argument is about the unreliability of US tech in light of the US' (and its tech sector's) turn towards fascism publishing on motherfucking Substack, a service actively platforming and supporting literal Nazis, defeats the point.

Small nit-pick but especially if your argument is about the unreliability of US tech in light of the US' (and its tech sector's) turn towards fascism publishing on motherfucking Substack, a service actively platforming and supporting literal Nazis, defeats the point.

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Unkool Savas

"Die Militärexperten (in der Schweiz) kommen zu dem Schluss, dass ein Abfluss von Daten aus den Palantir-Systemen technisch nicht verhindert werden könne." Hmm. Das ist ja komisch. Denn die polizeilichen Palantir-Nutzer in Deutschland behaupten steif & fest das sei technisch ja gar nicht möglich. 🤔

Schweiz: Palantir-Software hat verheerende Risiken

Nach Risikoprüfung des Einsatzes von Palantir-Software in der Schweiz bekam der US-Konzern eine Absage, trotz jahrelanger Hofierung von Behörden und Armee. Den Eidgenossen sind die Risiken zu groß. Da...

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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

We have arrived at the stage of the GenAI grift where we pay to outsource pleasure. It will be quantified and reported back to us on a scale from meh to mind-blowing.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

Just what I’ve always wanted: a bot to watch a season for me and tell me what happened.

„draft documents obtained by POLITICO show officials are planning far-reaching changes to the General Data Protection Regulation to the benefit of artificial intelligence developers.“ www.politico.eu/newsletter/p...

How to gut a privacy law

Presented by European Commission on Education and Skills By ELLEN O’REGAN PRESENTED BY Tips, tales, traumas to influence@politico.eu | View in your browser Hey there! It’s Ellen O’Regan at th…

politico.eu

Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it. It's the story of our time. The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next. www.authoritarian-stack.info

The Authoritarian Stack

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

authoritarian-stack.info

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine

"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

404media.co

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books

Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

lareviewofbooks.org

Answer: no. ChatGPT has no understanding of what words mean. Collocation frequencies of words can’t bring you understanding of what those words mean, even though it might help you predict which words go together. See:

Does ChatGPT have semantic understanding? A problem with the statistics-of-occurrence strategy

Over the last decade, AI models of language and word meaning have been dominated by what we might call a statistics-of-occurrence, strategy: these mod…

sciencedirect.com

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

“Perhaps the secrets of thinking are simpler than anyone expected—the kind of thing that a high schooler, or even a machine, could understand.”

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.