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AI Imagery and the Promise of Art

Yet let’s be quick, before the billionaire brunchlords burn everything to ashes.

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Matthew Inman on AI Art

So much of it can be mapped onto fiction and non-fiction writing.

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A Grain of Hope After the Economic AIpocalypse

We can build amazing tools with generative AI, but first the Spire Must Fall.

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Vibe Physics

Besides everything else, LLM chat boxes are also amazing at multiplying crackpots.

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AI-Assisted Coding: Hype Advertising vs. Actual Productivity Research

More numbers needed, but those that exist don’t look good.

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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.

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Nikhil Suresh on AI Coding Assistant Tools

Everything’s fine.

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Our Bright AI Future: Investment Collapse, Meet Model Collapse!

Maybe we can find uncontaminated training data on other planets.

Turning Points

Cognitive Offloading: LLMs in the Classroom

Banning LLMs and their griftslop entourage in education isn’t a solution.

Writing Room

“ChatGPT User Delighted to Combine Sloth with Theft”

“Actual writing takes time away from surfing for deepfake porn,” explains Wolverton.

Writing Room

“I Use ChatGPT for Ideas and Inspiration” Is the New “I Read the Playboy for the Articles”

Banking on garbage and stolen goods, what could go wrong?

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Ed Zitron: “Generative AI Is a Financial, Ecological, and Social Time Bomb”

Welcome to the Triple Whammy of the 21st Century.

Propagations

The Most Outlandishly Expensive Snake Oil Ever Peddled

Promises so outlandish they work on humans like Laforge and Data’s virus on Borg.

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Call Off the Asteroid, We Found an In-House Solution

Brought to you by the Department of What Could Go Wrong.

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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.

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Guillermo del Toro on Generative AI and the Value of Art

“How far would you go for a semi-compelling screensaver?”

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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.

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The Innovation That Wasn’t: “Burst Damage”

Boiling lakes and burning $$$ doesn’t equal innovation.

Propagations

OpenAI’s Five Stages of Nonsense

The first cracks appear, and the light that falls through is a mountain of money on fire.

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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.