Bad tech

2024-05-13: Publishers are receiving a deluge of AI-generated dross

2024-04-20: The source of the 'AI experts think there's a 10% chance that AI will destroy humanity' statistic

2024-04-14: The 'mother of all breaches' saw billions of confidential data records leaked earlier this year

2024-04-06: The definition of Botshit

2024-03-30: Immediate low-key stress response whenever I see a message like this from a product owned by Meta. …

2024-03-10: The Torment Nexus meme

2024-03-07: The day Replika lobotomised everyone's AI girlfriend

2024-02-25: The layers of the Internet

2024-02-24: In data breach news, Wyze, a maker of internet-enabled smart security cameras to put in your home, …

2024-02-18: Air Canada instructed to honour a refund that their chatbot inadvertently promised

2024-01-30: Cory Doctorow reminds us that AI doesn’t actually have to be better than us at our jobs in …

2024-01-29: 143 companies want to know that I visited the Teen Vogue website

2024-01-20: Computerphile takes us through some of the technical issues found with the Post Office Horizon …

2024-01-18: NewsGuard identifies 634 entire websites full of generative-AI-created content farm nonsense

2024-01-15: Amazon appears to be selling OpenAI apologies disguised as chairs

2024-01-15: Mis- and dis-information are the biggest immediate threats to the world according to the WEF

2024-01-13: 📺 Watched Mr Bates vs The Post Office.

2023-12-29: Unsurprisingly, ChatGPT and its ilk are finding their way into providing direct customer service for …

2023-12-08: Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator I don’t …

2023-12-05: The last of the big tech giants recently released its version of a large language model generative …

2023-11-26: In 2019 OpenAI was too scared to open GPT-2 to the world

2023-11-20: Facebook permanently disabled my account, no right of appeal

2023-11-13: Arcade claw machines are even more scammy than I thought

2023-11-12: The deleterious effects of bad business models, incentives and AI on music streaming services

2023-10-21: 🎙️ Listening to The Ezra Klein Show podcast episode “Why A.I.