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Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia

Science journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer review

Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview

Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’

Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AI

LA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic review

"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers

Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025

What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025

Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic

OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model

PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT

Discord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out of

AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them

Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025

AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to

Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it

Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines