The Who Cares Era: ‘…where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.’
Artificial Intelligence
2026-02-07: An experiment suggests that using AI 'impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities' when it comes to mastering programming tasks
2026-02-07: AI companies are happily releasing products that they openly don't know how to test of the safety of
2026-01-31
2026-01-30: Well, the inevitable shark-jumping exercise happened, and now there exists a social network …
2026-01-23: 📚 Finished reading Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.
2025-12-27
Large Language Muddle: A litany of some of the darker sides of AI.
2025-10-28: OpenAI estimate that a million people a week show suicidal intent when using ChatGPT
2025-10-26
The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?
2025-10-25
ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.
AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”
2025-09-10
The Job Market Is Hell: Masses of people using AI being filtered with AI when applying to rather fewer jobs whose descriptions have been written by AI.
2025-09-06
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.
2025-08-29: This is an idea I’ve not seen before on the kind of site that suggests you write a letter …
2025-08-17: The UK government wants to use 'advanced AI' to catch pre-crime
2025-08-10
Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot: This of course actually was a Black Mirror episode.
Question: who is marking your GCSE? Answer: an AI examiner: A lot of this makes me nervous.
2025-06-28: 📚 Finished listening to The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman.
2025-06-22: Meta are apparently offering AI experts $100 million to come work for them
2025-06-20: WhatsApp deploys advertising and accidentally leaks someone's personal information via its AI assistant
2025-04-23
2025-04-15
OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 without a safety report: Self-regulation doesn’t work shocker.
2025-04-05
Has the Trump administration used AI to calculate tariffs?: Well, probably , but either way their claims as to other countries' tariffs on the US are absolutely ridiculous.
2025-04-02
We have to talk about AI “art”: It’s a difficult moment in time for moderators of communities which have strong feelings about AI.
2025-03-29
2025-03-15: AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead. Uh-oh, either …