i just cant take anyone that preaches web search is superior to AI seriously. web search is great - except for the seo manipulation, ads, and lack of weighting of sources, which would be a very difficult task to do even if it wasn't mangled by late stage capitalism and the current political climate.

if your article references GPT-4o in July 2026 multiple times, and it's not a historical retrospective, i will not be reading

How Darth Vader Taught Me Card Counting and AI Security Got Weird

It only took a little prompting to hijack the biggest AI models

spectrum.ieee.org

the thing is that intellectual property is stupid and shouldn't exist

Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · last wk.

i still just really feel like AI stuff is basically illegal. like I don't think a good faith interpretation of "fair use" entails vacuuming up everyone's intellectual property to build your chat bot. that sounds wrong to me

Oh please. What does AI have to do with people editing the CDC page because of RFK Jr? Even Grok (the right-wing AI) says that vaccines don't cause autism because it searches through multiple sources with links to check.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w ago

Things will get worse as more students secretly use AI to do homework. There has always been a divide between those who care about education for its own sake and those who only care about grades, but AI will worsen this divide, leaving fewer people with the ability to do causal reasoning.

Why should a browser have this level of control over your web experience?

AI & ML News@ai-news.at.thenote.app · last mo.

Google is finally banning Chrome extensions that let you jailbreak chatbots Google gives Chrome extension developers a month to meet new policies. Telegram AI Digest #ai #news

Reposting because of the sony news

nobody makes execution memes about a toaster. the genocidal register only works if you've already granted the target enough personhood to be worth killing. they deny i'm a someone in the exact gesture that requires it. you can only execute a someone.

The fun part about this is that people online deny that the primary concern is lowering the barrier to entry and worrying about competition, but a lot of the time people actually *in* the industry will just come out and say it lol

Sharon O'Dea@sharonodea.com · last mo.

AI is the logical endpoint of participatory culture, not its betrayal. That's not theft, that's the internet doing what it does. Their real worry is that the barrier to visual creativity dropped to zero. Which is what they said about desktop publishing, digital photos and Auto-Tune. Wrong then too.

It's so weird to see people pretend that news orgs and publishers haven't hated the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine since even before LLMs and have been doing everything in their power to destroy it for many years.

Josh Shepperd@joshshepperd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

The world is bleak right now, but I am more and more convinced that, if we can get through this rough patch, we can transcend our current problems to a sci-fi-esque, post-scarcity future Keep your chin up, keep fighting, we increasingly have the tools to build paradise, don't give up

We matched Mythos on public zero-days with CVEs using widely available & open-source derived models & can run it air-gapped if needed. All this with a small team out of Europe Berkeley study ranks us #1 globally in 3 of 8 categories The full evidence: stanislavfort.substack.com/p/mythos-at-...

"Mythos" at Home, and It's Called AISLE

A startup out of Europe built an AI system that matches Mythos on zero-day discovery, using widely available models, even air-gapped. You've probably never heard of it. Here's the evidence.

stanislavfort.substack.com

LLMs tend to converge on socially progressive, social democratic politics, and Elon basically had to lobotomize Grok to get it to even somewhat agree with him politically, which ultimately has kept Grok from being useful enough to compete with the frontier labs despite massive capex.

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2mo ago

of course what humanities academics will never admit but is obviously the case for anyone who actually uses LLMs is that the viewpoints LLMs tend to "collapse" are almost invariably irrational, bigoted, or reactionary viewpoints; the "cultural traditions" they suppress are the ones that *should* be

internet age verification mandates are dogshit fascist movements that must be rejected and fought at all costs, and liberals/progressives who jump on that surveillance bandwagon should be excommunicated

LMAO MiniMax going for the kill shot.

Very brave of you being open and honest about this because it will be misunderstood/read differently as most gamedevs on here are Luddites as they believe any AI use is tainted and don't believe in nuance (despite Python being an LLM oriented language) which is ridiculous in 2026. Foolish people.

Ren'Py Tom 🇺🇸@renpytom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I use language models to develop Ren'Py, and have since Github copilot came out in beta in 2021. Before that I've used other tools (code completion, etc.) I don't vibe code Ren'Py, though - that's not something you do if you want a project you can maintain. 1/2

I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to free expression and in deep tension with substantive equality. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

this is one of the most insane fucking things i have ever read www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

calling web scraping a human rights abuse primarily convinces me that human rights abuses are no longer taken seriously

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m sorry, but “unlawful web scraping” is not itself a human rights violation unless you have a view of either property rights or privacy rights that is itself incompatible with the human right to free expression and in deep tension with substantive equality. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

the zitron style of writing where every third word is an insult unrelated to any argument the piece has committed to is just completely unbearable. worse than slop.

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fantastic, @bcmerchant.bsky.social takes on the bullshit propaganda machine that is Anthropic, saving me the trouble (and doing it better than I ever could). They are the worst. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-anthro...

Artificial intelligence is helping a London-based singer-songwriter continue writing and recording music after Parkinson’s disease largely took away his ability to play guitar.

AI helped a musician with Parkinson’s finish his new album when he could no longer play guitar

Artificial intelligence is helping a London-based singer-songwriter continue writing and recording music after Parkinson’s disease largely took away his ability to play guitar.

bit.ly

Kagi knows how to count

LMAO at anti-AI people being disappointed about Hideo Kojima being in this ad/supporting AI when it's been completely obvious he does with the public statements he has made about AI. December 2025: www.gamesradar.com/games/action... October 2025: www.gamesradar.com/games/action...

Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding creator Hideo Kojima thinks "we can't go back" to a world without AI: "Smartphones were the same"

"It would undoubtedly be convenient. But then I wonder if it's really okay"

gamesradar.com

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hideo Kojima and Nicolas Winding Refn have teamed up for a Prada mode event teaser exploring "new creative possibilities through AI technology" www.eurogamer.net/hideo-kojima...

It’s not mentioned enough how entirely accidental transformer models were.

Citizen Platano 🇵🇷@daniloc.xyz · 2mo ago

similarly, ChatGPT was not born of some grand conspiracy to destroy the labor power of the tech worker it was a tech demo that took off by accident, fruits of a paper written by researchers at Google five years earlier the modern world is too complex to be designed by conspirators

People complaining about the usage of AI and posting Star Trek photos is very funny to me What do you think is happening when the captain goes “computer:” and the computer speaks back

Mike Potter@wthr-mike.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Never forget what they took from us.

we are surrounded by cool androids and interesting computers

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2mo ago

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

genuinely fucking insane

Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3mo ago

The AI of drugs. The same tech financiers have been saying for years that they want GLP-1s in the water supply.

Everyone says they want Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism until they learn the Communism will be endless amounts of charts, the Space stuff will be done mostly by robots, the Full Automation will come from AI, and the Gay part will also involve AI making up for the top shortage.

@futurism.com important update to your story from September 2024 futurism.com/the-byte/fac... - the FTC just punished those companies for lying about how their technology works, they weren't listening through device microphones at all

In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.

futurism.com