ChatGPT’s paying subscribers complained about seeing promotional messages in the app. Maybe the suggestions just looked like ads. Read more from @Techcrunch:
The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking.
When the largest public university system licenses an AI chatbot from a corporation that blacklists journalists, exploits data workers , amasses geopolitical and energy power at an unprecedented scale, and positions itself as an unelected steward of human destiny, it betrays its mission
je hais l' #AI
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking.
When the largest public university system licenses an AI chatbot from a corporation that blacklists journalists, exploits data workers , amasses geopolitical and energy power at an unprecedented scale, and positions itself as an unelected steward of human destiny, it betrays its mission
je hais l' #AI
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.
The Guardian: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
(via @cdarwin )
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers?
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Inside: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/
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By this analysis, organizations/corporations that buy into the #AI sales pitch and replace their workforce seem likely to collapse due to incompetence. Those that maintain their human expertise would thrive because of decreased competition. This, of course, assumes that civilization doesn't completely fall apart. The massive economic power of the big monopolies coupled with incompetence is really scary. Kind of similar to the Trump administration.
I need to think more about it
Just reading these stats on #AI data centers and I think it's clear that robots are not taking our jobs, they're busy taking our water and our electricity first.
Researchers Uncover 30+ Flaws in AI Coding Tools Enabling Data Theft and RCE Attacks
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/researchers-uncover-30-flaws-in-ai.html
So not surprised.
Researchers Uncover 30+ Flaws in AI Coding Tools Enabling Data Theft and RCE Attacks
https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/researchers-uncover-30-flaws-in-ai.html
So not surprised.
A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.
AI Prompting is almost never a One Shot and you're done. #AI #Prompting
The Guardian: Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
(via @cdarwin )
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers?
I feel like the general populace might not realize the importance of this idea that @pluralistic shares:
what Dan Davies calles an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.
this human (sometimes only nominally) in the loop is central to law as a whole not being broken
it's also of utmost importance for weapons of war, where AI actually is having life and death impact right now, with non-hypotheticals like "how do we make sure the system doesn't kill innocents without repercussions"
because if there's no repercussions the system will end up externalizing on the way to maximizing other metrics