AI won’t steal your work. Someone building an AI company will steal your work.

To be clear the rot goes all the way to the top. The WSJ reported that Zuckerberg was pissed his company’s chatbots weren’t salacious enough. He defied his staff, and now, Meta lets minors sext with chatbots. Who would trust Zuckerberg to protect your kids?

“What if we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?” 🔗 theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

“Google is managing to achieve what Microsoft couldn't: killing the open web.” An article on the war Google has been waging on XML for over a decade, why it matters, and what we can do to fight this. 🔗 wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/goo…

Imagine getting fired by an AI agent called "The Goodbye Genie" That's the vision for the future just announced by "human resources" platform deel Everything about this ad is vomit-inducing If you agree, give them a piece of your mind 👇

LLM adoption among US workers is closing in on 50%. Meanwhile labor productivity growth is lower than in 2020. Many counter-arguments can be made here, e.g. "they don't know yet how to be productive with it, they've only been using for 1-2 years", "50% is still too low to see

Gisele Navarro The proof is in the pudding: MIT report finds that 95% of all businesses are stuck at the starting line with #AI. At some point this wave of hype will crest and then crash into the shore like a tsunami. futurism.com/ai-agents-fail…

Six Google searches that tell the story of how Google stole the internet, courtesy of More Perfect Union 🔗 youtu.be/GvaOUFwXjf4

It’s messed up that Google shows so many ads at the top when you search for “addiction help,” followed by a sponsored map pack, People Also Ask & more ads. But what can you expect from the man who destroyed Google Search in favor of Google Ads? Sundar is addicted to $$$

A recent MIT study found that 95 percent of companies studied are getting zero return on AI—despite investing billions. Investors have been expecting record returns for their expenditures, but some are beginning to fear this could be an indication of a speculative bubble.

Since 2023, translators have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work.

"After firing 700 humans for AI, Klarna now wants them back." IMHO - the profits that were supposed to be seen by AI adoption were only ever the cost-cuts for companies replacing workers with AI. But that cynical move has tanked. Check Gary Marcus open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus…

Google Is Google going to pay AI licensing fees to the 45 websites you scraped to generate this? Or are you only going to send value back to your partners OpenTable & Resy? Paging Antitrust Division ...

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“It’s not overly dramatic to say that we risk losing the capacity for cultures to understand one another better if we’re all simply feeding output into each other’s automated translation systems.” AI killed my job: Translators 🔗 bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-my…

Google Search Central I'd like to report a spammer called "AI Overviews" It's coming up #1 for a ton of queries & violates all these Google policies: -No first-hand experience -Uses extensive automation -No expertise -Primarily summarizes what others have written

"GPT-4o provided detailed instructions, helped Adam obtain alcohol on the night of his death, validated his final noose setup, and hours later, Adam died using the exact method GPT-4o had detailed and approved.” 🔗 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

A new study that looked at how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini handled suicide-related questions. Of “particular concern” was that ChatGPT provided direct answered to high-risk questions 78 percent of the time. 🔗 404media.co/chatgpt-answer…

Training AI on private conversations should be illegal

Tell that to the kid who killed himself after months of conversations with ChatGPT about it