Only reason it’s not more widely known is because the industry is so bad for writing jobs right now, even seniors won’t risk burning bridges. Like even I took a moment to consider whether this might bite me down the line.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

I think I was prepared to hate A.I. by already hating leafblowers, which are also extremely wasteful and can't do anything we didn't already know how to do.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

ihmiset hokee että näin persut taas silmiään venyttämällä harhauttaa kaikki leikkauksista, miten ovelaa oletteko miettineet että ehkä ne on vaan niin helvetin tyhmiä ja rasisteja

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Dear money guy, We are not running out of good ideas. Y'all are too scared to fund good ideas so you just remake old ideas (which is what ai will do incidentally). Plus you wouldn't know a good idea if it kicked you in the head.

Dear everyone offended or enraged by the racist gestures of the Finnish MPs, just please remember one thing before passing a final judgment on Finland: This is not an isolated incident. We really do have a thoroughly racist government, enjoying fairly wide support among the right-leaning folks.

I think a large number of people have *never* been able to distinguish good writing from bad. Terrible writing from great writing? Yes. But when the difference is more subtle, most people don't see it. And that "not quite bad enough" area is where AI lives.

The bystander was himself shot by a second gunman while disarming the first. His name is Ahmed al Ahmed and he’s a hero. Unbelievable bravery. thenightly.com.au/australia/ns...

When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.

Those fuckers will hound small creators who dare make fan art of their characters and then pull this bullshit:

If I had to ask the Louvre's permission it would 'kill' my high-end jewelry business!

rats off to ya, mouse shop.sendusyourmoney.com/products/dis...

i stand by this statement every year

When you email issues to Obsidian Entertainment (the video game company) their AI support hallucinates and tells you to email Obsidian (the note-taking company) instead. If the reward function is to reduce the number of touches in a support ticket, this is one way to do it.

No, I don't.

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.

The server voted to play as Finnish Hatsune Miku so obviously there's a drinking system now. I don't make the rules

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

THIS IS THE BBC, SEND SOMEONE OUT TO THE FUCKING BRIDGE

Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Ron Gilbert can't even get funding?!? RON GILBERT!?!

Brand new research on incels, courtesy of @emilialounela.bsky.social! The interview study explores how current and former incels discursively construct inceldom and negotiate their relationship to it. Fascinating stuff!

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Elon Musk’s charitable foundation grew larger than ever in 2024. But, for the fourth year in a row, the huge charity failed to give away the minimum amount required by law — and the donations it did make went largely to charities closely tied to Musk himself, who is the world's richest man.

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If you'd like some good news on AI, the last few weeks have seen execs across multiple industries strive to hide AI usage labeling on their products because, as many of us have said FOR YEARS, the audience that *doesn't* want AI is substantial and we will reject your product whole hog for using it.

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

It's BONGJOONHOIAN, not BUTLERIAN. TIL! www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainmen...

For the Venn diagram overlap of Tom Stoppard fans & Indiana Jones fans, here is a very detailed breakdown of Stoppard's *extensive* (and uncredited) script revisions to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (source: mffilm.wixsite.com/lastcrusade ). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

AI creates an illusion of work, not work proper. It's not for writers, it's for people who want to 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯. It's not for creators, it's for people who want a portfolio or a container full of "content." It is opposite to human expression; it is simulacra. A plastic hamburger on a tray.

OpenAI is sending out emails this morning to confirm that a ton of user data has been exposed owing to a breach in a third-party web analytics tool called Mixpanel

Typing “I have a soul” in Word and printing it out and getting scared

Random NPCs being little weirdos is where I fucking LIVE, man. Some of the most fun parts of the job. Having some shitty AI fart it out is like taking photos of the foods you like, putting them in a blender and then eating the resulting paste. And then wondering why people think you’re an idiot.

Hearing the phrase "non-important game dialogue" and its derivatives makes me want to chew through sheet metal.

Found this absolute graph crime, where the dot that is lowest apparently has 48 % fail rate!? #graphcrime #dataviz #ai