Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive
Whoops! AI tenant-screening tool SafeRent pays $2.28 million settlement for being massively racist
hey remember the LAUSD school district's AI bot Ed, that crashed and burned earlier this year? anyway the CEO of the vendor has just been charged with fraud
On “Safe” C++: An Odyssey of Sneers
Pumping the AI bubble: a data center funding craze with ‘novel types of debt structures’
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.