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Google takes AI propaganda to the movies

Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture

Firing people for AI: not going so well

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025

AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request

AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query

Google: “after billions of dollars spent, we found a brilliant and innovative way to monetize AI! You’ll never guess what it is!!!”

ChatGPT guessed this guys Dad's name.

You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data

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eating our own dogshit

GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

DEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic

How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data

Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!

Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates