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With AI, of course

Now, you might object: Anysphere wouldn’t be abusing just their customers’ data. Their customers’ customers’ data may have non-disclosure agreements with teeth. Then there’s personal data covered by the GDPR and so on.

If we're lucky, this will spook customers into running for the hills and hasten its demise. Whatever magical performance benefits Cursor's promising isn't gonna be worth getting blamed for a data breach.

The report claims its about ethical AI use, but all I see is evidence that AI is inherently unethical, and an argument for banning AI from education forever.

OpenAI’s choices don’t make any long term sense if AGI isn’t coming. The obvious explanation is that at this point he simply plans to grift and hype (while staying technically within the bounds of legality) to buy few years of personal enrichment.

Another possibility is that Altman's bought into his own hype, and genuinely believes OpenAI will achieve AGI before the money runs out. Considering the tech press has been uncritically hyping up AI in general, and Sammy Boy himself has publicly fawned over "metafiction" "written" by an in-house text extruder, its a possibility I'm not gonna discount.

New premium column from Ed Zitron, digging into OpenAI and Oracle's deal.

Richard Stallman successfully kamikazes his reputation for good after multiple close attempts over the years

He still maintains a solid reputation with FOSS freaks, fascists and pedophiles to this day. Given the Venn diagram of these three groups is a circle, this isn't particularly shocking.

Literally what I and many others have been warning about. Using LLMs in your work is effectively giving US authorities central control over the bigotry and biases of your writing

Baldur Bjarnason, talking about Trump's plan to turn LLMs into propaganda machines

Remember when I told you that using these LLMs was like giving US tech a bigotry dial for all your writing?

Baldur, once again, on Facebook obeying in advance with Llama 4

(On a brighter note, that's a pretty clever Touhou nod in the thumbnail)

Being compared to whackjobs with a worse grip on reality than him definitely helped.

Somehow, Palpatine returned Scott came off as a voice of reason

Okay, "unethical" was a colossal understatement for Scott's actions, the guy should be blacklisted from practicing and have his license revoked

I'm not in the profession either, but that sounds horrendously unethical.

In more low-key news, French voice actor Françoise Cadol has accused Aspyr Media of making an AI replica of her voice for the latest Tomb Raider remaster (the French one specifically, though its probably not the only one with AI slop voices).

Examples of the AI-generated voicelines have popped up on social media.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind cost 1 million to make in 1984. (No idea what that would be adjusted for inflation).

I checked a few random inflation calculators, and it comes out to roughly $3.1 million.

The video's also all over Twitter, thanks to nonexistent moderation.

Wright thinks the podcasts are great:

I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites. Because there’s a lot of really good stuff out there.

Evergreen reminder that AI boosters are literally incapable of telling good work from bad work

OpenAI's trying to make an AI-generated animated film, and claiming their Magical Slop Extruders^tm can do in nine months what allegedly would take three years, with only a $30 mil budget and the writers of Paddington in Peru for assistance.

Allegedly, they're also planning to show it off at the Cannes Film Festival, of all places. By my guess, this was Sam Altman's decision - he's already fawned over AI-extruded garbage before, its clear he has zero taste in art whatsoever.

For posterity's sake, here's the Tweet source.

Nah, call it the PvP Tag.

These things look dorky as fuck, wearing them is a moral failing, and people (rightfully) treat it as grounds to shit on you, might as well lean into the "shithead nerd who ruined everything" vibe with some gratuitous gaming terminology, too.

maybe sunk cost fallacy is an unstated/un(der?)accounted part in his True Believer thing?

Probably. Beyond throwing a shitload of cash into the LLM money pit, Willison's completely wrapped his public image up in being an AI booster, having spent years advocating for AI and "learning" how to use it.

If he admits he's wrong about LLMs, he has to admit the money and time he spent on AI was all for nothing.

Found two separate AI-related links for today.

First, AI slop corpo Apiiro put out a study stating the obvious (that AI is a cybersecurity nightmare), and tried selling its slop agents as the solution. Apiiro was using their own slop-bots to do the study, too, so I'm taking all this with a major grain of salt.

Second, I came across an AI-themed Darwin Awards spinoff cataloguing various comical fuck-ups caused through the slop-bots.