Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns: Funnily enough its employees were not fans of ‘a tool that tracked staff keystrokes, mouse clicks and content displayed on computer screens in order to collect data for training its AI models’.
Artificial Intelligence
2026-06-25
AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption: Seems a decent use of AI if accurate - the doc was all about Stoic philosophy.
2026-06-17
France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider: A wise move that needs to happen elsewhere too.
2026-06-13: The Trump administration forces Anthropic to stop foreign nationals accessing its latest AI models
2026-06-06: On the grimmer side of Wikipedia entries I see there’s now an official page for ‘Deaths …
2026-05-30: Pure nerd in-joke perfection from @KyleTrainEmoji: PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! …
2026-05-28: The pope has (very lengthy) thoughts on AI. I can’t pretend to have read it all yet, but the …
2026-05-02: When my OneDrive sync started seemingly permanently destroying some of my files I was surprised to …
2026-04-09: Anthropic develops an AI model that is extremely good at finding and exploiting previously unknown security bugs in software
2026-04-08
AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars: ‘When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriating’.
2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon
2026-03-27
Four Steps to Hell: ‘…if you’re seeking the most influential aesthetic vision on the 21st century, this is it. It’s simple to describe–but it’s ugly as sin.’
2026-03-20
Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute Reverberates in European Capitals: ‘It puts a very stark light on technological dependency and the need for some form of sovereignty, autonomy and control in Europe’.
2026-03-14
What do coders do after AI?: Somewhat depends on whether you like coding as a craft in itself or endure it as a means to an end.
2026-03-10: Noted 6 decades ago: '...extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people'
2026-03-08: One reason LLMs hallucinate is because we incentivise them to give any answer over saying they don't know
2026-02-21: Companies are trying to force their employees to use generative AI
2026-02-20
2026-02-17
The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’
2026-02-10
Stop generating, start thinking: Arguments against letting Claude Code et al just blindly do your whole job for you.
2026-02-08: A non-exhaustive list of cases where it is alleged that generative AI may have played some part in humans committing fatal violence to themselves or others
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 don't know how to test the safety of
2026-01-31
The Who Cares Era: ‘…where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.’
2026-01-30: Well, the inevitable shark-jumping exercise happened, and now there exists a social network …