Propagations 
AI Imagery and the Promise of Art(0)
Yet let’s be quick, before the billionaire brunchlords burn everything to ashes.
A Grain of Hope After the Economic AIpocalypse
We can build amazing tools with generative AI, but first the Spire Must Fall.
AI-Assisted Coding: Hype Advertising vs. Actual Productivity Research
More numbers needed, but those that exist don’t look good.
Retraction Watch: Two-Thirds of Citations in Sample from Springer Nature ML Introduction Made Up
With LLM/AI, it’s con artists all the way down.
Our Bright AI Future: Investment Collapse, Meet Model Collapse!
Maybe we can find uncontaminated training data on other planets.
Ed Zitron: “Generative AI Is a Financial, Ecological, and Social Time Bomb”
Welcome to the Triple Whammy of the 21st Century.
The Most Outlandishly Expensive Snake Oil Ever Peddled
Promises so outlandish they work on humans like Laforge and Data’s virus on Borg.
Call Off the Asteroid, We Found an In-House Solution
Brought to you by the Department of What Could Go Wrong.
François Chollet on the Prospects of Developing General Artificial Intelligence
Chollet cuts through all that LLM AGI nonsense in ways that can still leave you excited.
Guillermo del Toro on Generative AI and the Value of Art
“How far would you go for a semi-compelling screensaver?”
Shorter Eric Schmidt: “The road to success is to work everyone to death, fuck everyone else over, and let your lawyers piss on their graves.”
These techbro billionaires really are the French aristocracy of our time.
OpenAI’s Five Stages of Nonsense
The first cracks appear, and the light that falls through is a mountain of money on fire.
LLM Support for “Clarity” in Creative and Scholarly Writing
A brief look at “AI enhanced” spell and grammar checkers that promise to “clarify” your text.
AI/LLM/GPT Roundup, February: Some Technical Points of Interest
On scaling, interpolation, and fractal boundaries.
Study: “Kool-Aid Drinkers Found to Match Top 1% of Human Thinkers on Standard Cognition Test”
Top-notch science reporting from the bottom of the barrel.