Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025
Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin
Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one
Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation
Musk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvania
AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline
How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals
Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism
AI image gets a US copyright — or some of a copyright
Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
The UK’s ‘turbocharged’ AI initiative — bringing data center noise to a village near you
Thomson Reuters wins AI training copyright case — what this does and doesn’t mean
AI chatbots are still hopelessly terrible at summarizing news
Elon Musk’s DOGE turns to AI to accelerate its destructive incompetence
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025
Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass
Andrew Molitor on "AI safety". "people are gonna hook these dumb things up to stuff they should not, and people will get killed. Hopefully the same people, but probably other people."
DeepSeek roundup: banned by governments, no guard rails, lied about its training costs
