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I think I have discovered Arday's most outlandish claim: that he is not used to talking about himself
Inspiration and Courage : Jason Arday in Conversation with Rajani NaidooYouTube video by University of Bath Race Equality Taskforceyoutu.be"The technology they are creating is financial engineering"
Nvidia’s $350bn OpenAI loan is scaring everyone | Ed ZitronYouTube video by The Tech Reportyoutu.beHow Trump silenced the Voice of America #GI5052 #GI7100 #broadcasting
How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of AmericaThe Voice of America was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its journalists being paid to stay home, it’s delivering a very different message.www.newyorker.comNot wanting to be left out. “Oooh, look! Our bullshit machine is powerful and capable too”
Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack 3 organisationsIt comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.www.bbc.co.ukI especiallly love how It suggests moving a chunk of West Africa to what looks like Namibia, rather than labelling the country. Good work Claude or ChatGPT or whatever bullshit machine spat out this map. The presenter could have done it properly in 5-10 mins www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Finally people seem to be waking up to the fact that adding more data centres to bullshit machines will not produce a step change in generative AI or conjure up whatever arseclown Zuckerberg means by 'superintelligence'. They will simply further fuck up the planet and possibly crash the economy
Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AIStock tumbles nearly 8% after weaker-than-expected results, despite CEO’s blitz to tout positive effects of AIwww.theguardian.comSometime soon, Altman will need to be sectioned
Al Jazeera EnglishThe 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.
I don’t remember him ever singing to us at London Met
Stephen BushStunned by this @siennarodgers.bsky.social scoop:
Oh god, I had completely forgotten the days of typing programmes into my computer - a ZX Spectrum - from a magazine. We seemed to have so much time on our hands
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)Above all, my interlocutors insist that my LLM-powered, local, open source chatbot spellchecker will make me a worse writer. It's a very strange insistence. My first word processor was a program listing published in a magazine I bought at a corner store and laboriously typed into my Apple ][+. 21/
“It’s simple: set up, punchline. Or …”
Trump Bombs at White House Correspondents' Dinner & Jon Stewart Offers Comedy Tips | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Showyoutu.beObviously, schools, colleges and universities need to do better at teaching students how to avoid risks associated with the use of LLMs
Lizzie DeardenChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat
Your daily reminder that if you morons stopped using planet-destroying bullshit machines, peddled by fantasists and fascists, to “help” you “think” and “write” (just as we managed only four fucking years ago), we could end this shit right now
HobbesSquished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
I’m guessing they weren’t allowed to take their sidearms within five miles of poor little paranoid Mr P
Anton GerashchenkoLOL