Only the Metrics Care: ‘The user isn’t the customer. And they’re not the product either. The real product is behavioral optimization–metrics on a dashboard’

The Who Cares Era: ‘…where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.’

Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns: ‘Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised’

How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’

When Online Content Disappears: On link-rot - ‘A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible’

Okay, so age verification is pretty painless. It’s still not a good thing. At all.: ‘It doesn’t work. It’s intrusive. It creates new vulnerabilities.’

Why RSS matters: RSS has always seemed like one of the increasingly few unconditionally good aspects of the internet to me.

Large Language Muddle: A litany of some of the darker sides of AI.

Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’

King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.

The Majority AI View: Perhaps there’s a silent majority who think that we should just treat it as a “normal technology”?

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.”

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.

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.