HarperCollins offers $2,500 to feed a book to AI, some authors still not keen
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th November 2024
Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated Christmas ad is as bad as you’d expect
Substack readers may be paying for AI-generated newsletters, Medium full of slop too
I Attended Google's Creator Conversation Event, And It Turned Into A Funeral
AI and venture capital are going nuclear
Ed Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutes
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further
ProQuest is quietly trying to license academic books to feed an AI
Where's Your Ed At - Lost In The Future
UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot
How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th November 2024
Raw Story, Alternet copyright suit against OpenAI dismissed for failure to show harm
Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.
Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again.
Google Search is getting worse and worse
Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price
What the Trump win means for AI: surprisingly little
UK government chatbot goes into beta — with only a few bizarre hallucinations
