Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025
Even Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates
Musk ("xAI") now claims grok was hacked
Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
Musk’s xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis air with smog
Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honest
Theranos: First Blood Part II
Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout
Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job
Study: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work
Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the grave
AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care
A report by IBM explains part of the hype around GenAI:
OpenAI tries a new scheme to go for-profit — but Elon Musk isn’t convinced
OpenAI scuttles for-profit transformation
UK backtracks on AI ‘opt out’ scheme for creative works
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025
Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop
