- 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
- "If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off
- Riley S. Faelan: LLMs represent a gross misunderstanding of information
- ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI | The Guardian
- Propellant. — Ethan Marcotte
- Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
- No one wants to read your AI slop
- How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
- Agents of Chaos
- Agents of Chaos paper raises agentic AI questions | Constellation Research
- Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
- Raphael Albert: "What exactly do they teach at business schools th…" - Mastodon
- Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
- Adactio: Journal—Magic
- Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was "meant for greatness"—then came psychosis - Ars Technica
- Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation
- Why do I not use “AI” at OSNews? – OSnews
- How AI could eat itself: Using LLMs to distill rivals • The Register
- IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption | Fortune
- Gabriele Svelto: "Don’t be fooled by arguments focusing solely on direct power consumption of these models”
- Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI
- OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity | WIRED
- AMOS infostealer targets macOS through a popular AI app
- Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails
- Anthropic AI safety researcher quits, says the ‘world is in peril’ - National | Globalnews.ca
- Stop generating, start thinking - localghost
- There is no IQ for AI — AI Alignment Forum
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
- Microsoft boffins show LLM safety can be trained away • The Register
- Whoops: ‘AI’ Toy Company Leaks Chat Logs, Personal Data Of 50,000 Toddlers | Techdirt
- Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge • The Register
- AI Copilot Code Quality: 2025 Data Suggests 4x Growth in Code Clones - GitClear
- Silicon Valley’s Favorite New AI Agent Has Serious Security Flaws
- India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI | The Guardian
- Jenniferplusplus@Hachyderm.io: ""AI" is not actually a technology"
- OpenClaw (a.k.a. Moltbot) is Everywhere All at Once, and a Disaster Waiting to Happen – Communications of the ACM
- The AI Dirty List
- US gas power projects tripled in 2025 on AI demand • The Register
- Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
- Ramsey Nasser: "The tactile experience of vibe coding sucks”
- Misleading text in the physical world can hijack AI-enabled robots | University of California
- This Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble | Where’s Your Ed At?
- Google’s AI Detection Flip-Flops on Doctored White House Photo
- White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty | Techdirt
- AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy | WIRED
- Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health" - Ars Technica
- IMF warns global economic resilience at risk if AI falters
- Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data
- Reality Is Breaking The "AI Revolution"
- ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself - Ars Technica
- X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t | The Verge
- When the tech leopard eats your face | Go Make Things
- Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws - Ars Technica
- 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare
- US voters hate AI — and politicians are noticing - YouTube
- Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent” - Ars Technica
- ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues - Ars Technica
- Code for Cats – or how your LLM is a cosplayer – Random Thoughts
- A.I. Images of Maduro Spread Rapidly, Despite Safeguards - The New York Times
- Recruiting Google Gemini’s Email Summarizer as a Phishing Aid | by Mike Sheward | Jan, 2026 | Medium
- Pluralistic: A world without people (05 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
- Rachel Maddow Deepfaked on YouTube with Millions of Views of Slop Videos | Jared White
- Down with the Gatekeepers! Who…are Artists, Apparently • Buttondown
- That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro's Kidnapping? It's AI Slop
- AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations | WIRED
- Elon Musk's Grok AI alters images of women to digitally remove their clothes
- Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future
- More than 20% of YouTube's feed is now "AI slop," report finds | TechSpot
- We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. | MIT Technology Review
- The defense against slop and brainrot - by Paul Jun
- WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world – Pivot to AI
- AI-powered software is helping misinformation spread online after disasters : NPR
- The Enshittifinancial Crisis
- The Case Against Generative AI
- Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now
- Data Center Growth Draining Global Water Supplies
- Against AI - by Foz Meadows - rocks thrown at the void
- Hendrik Weimer: "Corporate fraudsters love AI b…" - FediScience.org
- The Grand AI Disconnect - TPM – Talking Points Memo
- Scammers in China Are Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds | WIRED
- Defamation By Generative AI Is More Than A Glitch | misaligned
- AI faces closing time at the cash buffet • The Register
- Carolyn: "We are in a time in which actual artists are bein…" - Mastodon
- Post by @robpike.io — Bluesky
- OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year
- The “A” in “AI” Stands For Amnesia - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Human-in-the-loop isn’t enough: New attack turns AI safeguards into exploits | CSO Online
- davidcel.is
- Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
- Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs | MIT Technology Review
- LLMs’ impact on science: Booming publications, stagnating quality - Ars Technica
- School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn’t an error. - Ars Technica
- The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams | WIRED
- Psychologists are increasingly using – and worrying about – AI tools, poll finds : Shots - Health News : NPR
- Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
- LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen | Tom's Hardware
- Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
- I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
- AI kids' toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests
- AI treats us all as public figures
- A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
- AI slop ad backfires for McDonald's - Los Angeles Times
- ‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
- Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
- AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
- LLMs are a failure. A new AI winter is coming.
- Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon | WIRED
- The slop layer - by Brian Merchant - Blood in the Machine
- AI Tools Are 'Deskilling' Workers, Philosophy Professor Says - Business Insider
- ‘Avatar’ director James Cameron says generative AI is ‘horrifying’ | TechCrunch
- Software Failures and IT Management's Repeated Mistakes - IEEE Spectrum
- Baldur Bjarnason: "“AI sceptics” who work on policy and education co…" - Toot Café
- Artificial intelligence ushers in a golden age of hacking, experts say
- ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder | Dating | The Guardian
- The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
- Superintelligence Isn’t Enough - by Francis Fukuyama
- OpenAI Can’t Fix Sora’s Copyright Infringement Problem Because It Was Built With Stolen Content
- Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
- Here's the Halifax Examiner's AI policy - Halifax Examiner
- I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
- Aaron: "Boy if that’s not a tale of two headlines #AI #Ar…" - The Gamers' Tavern
- I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. | HuffPost HuffPost Personal
- Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊): "The acceleration of agentic coding and the plumme…" - Indieweb.Social
- Tech giants pour billions into Anthropic as circular AI investments roll on - Ars Technica
- Radgryd: "And a happy FUCK OFF to AI fro…" - Mastodon Games
- Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
- Whisper Leak: A novel side-channel attack on remote language models | Microsoft Security Blog
- jonny (good kind): "So if I'm reading this right: …" - neurospace.live
- EchoGram tokens like ‘=coffee’ flip AI guardrail verdicts • The Register
- Spiral-Obsessed AI ‘Cult’ Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
- AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds Wildly Inappropriate Things
- Louisiana middle schooler expelled after striking male classmate who allegedly shared AI-generated nude photos of her
- AI Relationships Are on the Rise. A Divorce Boom Could Be Next | WIRED
- FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs - The New Stack
- Asking ChatGPT About Affairs or Abortion? Be Careful, Marketers Are Peeking at Your Prompts | PCMag
- You won’t believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI - Ars Technica
- The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff | WIRED
- AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions – Pivot to AI
- ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
- OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws – Computerworld
- This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says | CBC News
- Google warns of new AI-powered malware families deployed in the wild
- The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
- AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers - DeSmog
- LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes - Ars Technica
- Here’s How the AI Crash Happens - The Atlantic
- Jennifer Hamilton, MD PhD: "My work #EMR at now has integrated #AI that summa…" - Med-Mastodon
- All the Climate Risks of Big Tech AI (as told by a climate person)
- AI at work is anti-labor by design | Henry From Online
- ‘ChatGPT Tainted Memories’ Exploit Enables Command Injection in Atlas Browser – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
- Silicon Valley's AI agents can't schedule meetings but promise to replace workers by 2027 | Nearly Right
- People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help | WIRED
- How AI slows me down - Rhys Wynne
- Generative AI is a societal disaster
- Teachers get an F on AI-generated lesson plans - Ars Technica
- Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question - CITP Blog
- It's Giving Enron - by Dave Karpf
- The AI Mandate | Go Make Things
- IMF says AI investment bubble could burst, comparable to dot-com bubble | International Monetary Fund News | Al Jazeera
- The AI slop drops right from the top, as Trump posts vulgar deepfake of opponents - Ars Technica
- Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: | Communications Workers of America
- Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
- The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns | TechSpot
- ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce
- Against the protection of stocking frames. — Ethan Marcotte
- AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None by Luciano Floridi :: SSRN
- How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart | Google | The Guardian
- I Am An AI Hater | moser’s frame shop
- A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
- MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
- How To Argue With An AI Booster
- One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave • The Register
- A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. - The New York Times
- U.S. Wants AI Propaganda to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments”
- "Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
- Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of 'almost right' AI code | VentureBeat
- Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty • The Register
- Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research
- The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity | hey.paris
- Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home | WIRED
- Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water — experts say that’s misleading – Telegraph
- AI Browsers Vulnerable to Prompt Injection - xcancel
- Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems -The Trail of Bits Blog
- Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People
- Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says - Ars Technica
- AI website builder Lovable increasingly abused for malicious activity
- Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study - The Lancet Gastroenterology
- @jacobtlevy.bsky.social on Bluesky
- MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing | Fortune
- AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event - The Atlantic
- MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
- A flirty Meta AI bot invited a retiree to meet. He never made it home.
- AI Is A Money Trap
- TextQuests: How Well Do Large Language Models Perform in Text-Based Video Games? - UNDERCODE NEWS
- Texas AI Data centers water consumption: Texas AI centers guzzle 463 million gallons, now residents are asked to cut back on showers - The Economic Times
- Claude Code: Data Exfiltration with DNS · Embrace The Red
- Machine Bullshit
- Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens
- I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid - Thomasorus
- GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
- ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy - Ars Technica
- Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
- AI-Fueled Spiritual Delusions Are Destroying Human Relationships
- [2506.08872] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
- ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development
- AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds - Ars Technica
- The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
- An OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Having a ChatGPT-Induced Mental Health Crisis
- ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
- The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
- What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?
- nixCraft 🐧: "LLM is replacing therapists, advisors, lawyers, a…" - Mastodon
- OpenAI's New AI Agent Takes One Hour to Order Food and Recommends Visiting a Baseball Stadium in the Middle of the Ocean
- Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them)
- For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data | TechCrunch
- Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies
- How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion - Ars Technica
- McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’ | WIRED
- Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged – Pivot to AI
- 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
- The AI Industry Is Radicalizing - The Atlantic
- AI tech used to impersonate Rubio in messages to foreign and U.S. officials | PBS News
- Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew – Pivot to AI
- AI makes water shortages harder to predict, says UK Environment Agency - Global Government Forum
- The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger | WIRED
- AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study • The Register
- The Subprime AI Crisis
- The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad
- Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” - Ars Technica
- xAI gets an air permit to power its supercomputer, but pollution fears remain - Ars Technica
- AI is ruining houseplant communities online | The Verge
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
- Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says
- To avoid admitting ignorance, Meta AI says man’s number is a company helpline - Ars Technica
- AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
- They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. - The New York Times
- Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement | Reuters
- Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI...’”
- Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
- Large Language Muddle • Jason Santa Maria
- We're offloading mental tasks to AI. It could be making us stupid | Salon.com
- A knockout blow for LLMs? - by Gary Marcus - Marcus on AI
- Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’
- Daniel V.: "Since I've left my last job, I've been thinking a…" - Infosec Exchange
- It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material
- Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! – Pivot to AI
- Can Directories Rise Again? - The History of the Web
- AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto
- The AI jobs crisis is here, now - by Brian Merchant
- Duolingo users are furious over AI lessons | Polygon
- GenAI is Our Polyester
- Looking elsewhere - Robb Owen
- Economics
- Eniko Fox: "Honestly I think there's a disconnect between LLM…" - Gamedev Mastodon
- The Copilot Delusion
- Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch
- Teachers Are Not OK
- Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used | Frank Elavsky
- U.S. public wants business to move slower on AI: Axios Harris 100 poll
- For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker | TechCrunch
- The promise that wasn’t kept
- Pro-AI Subreddit Bans Uptick of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions
- Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility | Tom's Hardware
- Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI | PNAS
- Study: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work – Pivot to AI
- AI has a heat problem - two cooling experts told me what that really means | TechRadar
- AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests - Ars Technica
- Toolmen | A Working Library
- AI model collapse is not what we paid for • The Register
- GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
- Adactio: Journal—Tools
- AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is per query – Pivot to AI
- abadidea: "I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to ma…" - Infosec Exchange
- Tom: "As part of my job, I have to evaluate AI tools. P…" - Hachyderm.io
- Molly White: "welcome to the future, now your error-prone softw…" - Hachyderm.io
- Stop Building AI Tools Backwards | Hazel Weakly
- MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper - WSJ
- AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts Wrong
- Sycophancy as a Service
- ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs? | Teen Vogue
- Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre Delusions
- The AI Slop Presidency
- AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays — and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad – The 74
- The AIs are trying too hard to be your friend
- Why gzip Just Beat a Large Language Model | Hendrik Erz