Victor Tangermann
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Senior editor at Futurism.com
we're truly in the age of AI-powered dehumanization, by
@joeonhere.bsky.social
futurism.com/job-applicat...
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Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They're Trying to Peddle "Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer"
A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.
https://futurism.com/job-application-mock-interviews-alex
5 days ago
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jon mothman
13 days ago
imo this is what the internet was made for
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A.R. Moxon
23 days ago
they say we all float down here, and we float very strongly, and a lot of people are saying we float at levels that have never been seen before
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Charlie Warzel
about 1 month ago
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AIâs enduring impacts is to make people feel like theyâre losing it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0Yxw_pOVM_AK6Q1K5aHOCSs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Coach Finstock
about 1 month ago
add a skeleton here at some point
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A massive overcorrection, horrifying malicious compliance, or just an incredibly dumb bug?
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Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer
It's been just over a month since Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI's Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as "MechaHitler" and targeting people wi...
https://futurism.com/grok-clouds-antisemitism
about 1 month ago
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so nick caved. come on, it was RIGHT there
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Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New âTupeloâ Video Starring an AI Elvis
On the Bad Seeds classicâs 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is âa grotesque mockery of what it is to be humanâ
https://pitchfork.com/news/nick-cave-ai-new-tupelo-video-elvis-watch/
about 2 months ago
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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor
2 months ago
wow this is pretty damning if Trump really did write it
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elon will live to be 120 years old and be president like at least 17 times
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"He Just Went CRAZY": Trump Threatens to Terminate Elon Musk's Government Contracts
President Donald Trump threatened to terminate billionaire Elon Musk's "Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," escalating their feud.
https://futurism.com/trump-calls-terminating-elon-musk-government-contracts
4 months ago
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we all knew for a very long time this was gonna happen. still kinda wild to watch the chaos unfurl
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Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Shreds Elon Musk
Billionaire Elon Musk's bromance with president Donald Trump has officially exploded into an ugly, spite-fuelled, mud-slinging grudge match.
https://futurism.com/trump-shreds-musk
4 months ago
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jon mothman
4 months ago
proactively imagining all the ways this is going to be a disaster
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The Washington Post Is Secretly Planning to Start Publishing Articles Created Using AI
The Washington Post has quietly been building an AI tool that takes much of the work out of writing as it attempts to recoup readership.
https://futurism.com/washington-post-ai-articles
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Allison Morrow
4 months ago
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good itâs going to ruin the global economy, youâd be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...
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The âwhite-collar bloodbathâ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good itâs going to ruin the global economy, youâd be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
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losing attitude control during Flight 9 could be a sign of yet another major setback for SpaceX
4 months ago
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look, i don't care what somebody gets off to, but this level of laziness and blatant attempts to rip off a well-established author just will not stand
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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style
A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.
https://futurism.com/fantasy-novel-ai-prompt-copy-style
4 months ago
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the writer got caught red-handed and definitely went far beyond using AI "for background." just embarrassing really. new by
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
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Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a âSummer Readsâ Guide Full of AI Slop
The Chicago Sun-Times, owned by Chicago Public Media, published an AI-generated reading list featuring mostly AI-fabricated books.
https://futurism.com/chicago-newspaper-ai-slop
4 months ago
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has anybody seen rfk jr lately
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...
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Decapitated Dolphin in North Carolina Prompts $20,000 Reward Offer From U.S.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/north-carolina-dolphin-reward.html
4 months ago
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
4 months ago
truly, truly amazing things happening on x, the everything app
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utterly bizarre
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Elon Muskâs Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About âWhite Genocideâ in Completely Unrelated Tweets
Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-grok-ai-white-genocide
4 months ago
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Foster Kamer
4 months ago
Team
@futurism.com
gets RESULTS! After
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
was the first to report on Soundcloud's sketchy TOS change forcing users to condone AI, they've now reversed course, and changed their policies:
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
Tldr, journalism still matters.
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SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artistsâ Music Following Furious Backlash
SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.
https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-policy-changed
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Seriously, what part of "explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence" did SoundCloud not understand? new by
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
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SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artistsâ Music Following Furious Backlash
SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.
https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-policy-changed
4 months ago
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
4 months ago
NEW: The newspaper giant Gannett is mass-publishing automated lottery content in local papers across the country. In some states, the AI articles pointedly direct readers toward a gambling site with which Gannett has a financial relationship.
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Foster Kamer
5 months ago
Absolutely insane story developing in real time right now: SoundCloud updated its TOS to allow AI to train on EVERYTHING ANYONE UPLOADS, and its users are just finding out now.
futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
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SoundCloud Quietly Forced Artists to Let AI Feast on Their Music
SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI training.
https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-terms-of-service
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add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
5 months ago
NEW: No one under 18 should be using *any* social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others.
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Jason Koebler
5 months ago
I for real canât stop thinking about âThe unnamed insider also claimed that Perry âregrets sharing the daisy with the world.ââ She showed us a daisy and we got mad at her and now her light is out SMH
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sales are down because winter
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Elon Musk Realizes He's Dragging Tesla Into Ruin
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's plundering of the federal government has been incredibly bad for business, something that's dawning on him.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-realizes-tesla
5 months ago
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re: the Blodget saga, we published this three years ago now
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Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them
A grisly trend has emerged: users who create AI partners, act abusive toward them, and post the toxic interactions online.
https://futurism.com/chatbot-abuse
5 months ago
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the man is seriously unwell
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In Leaked Text, Elon Musk Harangued Woman to Have as Many of His Babies as Possible
Alarming new details about Elon Musk's attempts to buy the silence of the mother of yet another of his secret children are coming to light.
https://futurism.com/leaked-text-elon-musk-woman-many-babies
5 months ago
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there's a special place in internet hell for publications that link random words to completely useless and totally off-topic tag pages
5 months ago
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Futurism
6 months ago
Face, meet palm.
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ok, seriosuly, what the hell happened here?
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You'll Die Inside When You Hear How Trump's Education Secretary Pronounces "AI"
During an education summit, Trump's secretary of education Linda McMahon repeatedly pronounced "AI" as "A1."
https://futurism.com/trump-education-secretary-ai
6 months ago
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so incoming NASA administrator Jared Isaacman wants to get to the Moon so that we can then figure out what to do there??
6 months ago
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this aged well
6 months ago
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personally still undecided on this, but the fact that we're even considering it...
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Trump Tariffs Show Signs of Being Written by AI
There seem to be signs that president Donald Trump's befuddling tariff measures were cooked up by an AI chatbot.
https://futurism.com/trump-tariffs-signs-ai
6 months ago
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is the bromance over? did Elon get bored?
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Trump Reportedly Looking to End Elon Musk's Role in the Government
According to Politico, Trump has informed his inner circle that Elon Musk will soon hang up his coat as his number one hatchet man.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-musk-government
6 months ago
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Joshua Erlich
6 months ago
hard to believe an elon musk product fell apart and exploded at the finish line
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well, so much for my 'CoreWeave's stock is floundering' blog draft
6 months ago
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I knew X was screwed. but this screwed?
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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NASA is breaking eggs by.. uh smashing them on the ground and stamping on them
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NASA Disgusted by Elon Musk's Disrespect
Under Trump and his number one henchman Elon Musk' orders, swathes of NASA are being laid to waste â and staffers are fuming.
https://futurism.com/nasa-disgusted-elon-musk-layoffs
6 months ago
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spirited away any goodwill
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While You're Churning Out Studio Ghibli Selfies With OpenAI, Remember That Hayao Miyazaki Called AI Art "Disgusting" and an "Insult to Life Itself"
The internet has been flooded with pictures modified by OpenAI to evoke the style of animation legend Hayao Miyazaki's work at Studio Ghibli.
https://futurism.com/studio-ghibli-openai-mizayazaki-ai-art-disgusting
6 months ago
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pretty wild that it apparently takes a totalitarian state to force some common sense into Tesla's misleading marketing
futurism.com/tesla-change...
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Tesla Forced to Change Name of "Full Self-Driving" in China, Since Its Cars Can't Fully Drive Themselves
Tesla is being forced to change the name of its so-called "Full Self-Driving" driver assistance feature in China.
https://futurism.com/tesla-change-name-full-self-driving-china
6 months ago
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Christian Schneider
6 months ago
New phone, Houthis
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Someone Else Tested Whether a Tesla Will Really Crash Into a Wall Painted Like a Road
YouTuber Kyle Paul confirmed that a Model Y with a previous generation HW3 computer will still plow through a wall painted like the road.
https://futurism.com/someone-else-tested-tesla-crash-wall-painted-road
6 months ago
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difficult to tell if this is an actual major roadblock or if tesla is ramming headfirst into a Wile E. Coyote wall of government bureaucracy
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Tesla Suddenly Suspends Full Self-Driving Trial in China
Tesla is pausing its free, limited-time trial of its mull Self-Driving driver software in China, a potentially significant setback.
https://futurism.com/tesla-suspends-full-self-driving-china
6 months ago
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
6 months ago
NEW: Months before Google was accused in a lawsuit of facilitating the suicide of a teen user of the Google-tied chatbot startup CharacterAI, researchers at Google DeepMind warned in a paper that chatbots could target minors and manipulate vulnerable users into suicide.
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6 months ago
From my colleague
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-- the Wu-Tang Clan's new music video is very much AI-generated, and a lot of fans are less than thrilled:
futurism.com/wu-tang-clan...
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Wu-Tang Clan's New Music Video Is Extremely AI-Generated
Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothin' to eff with â unless, of course, you're an AI-loving director creating the visuals for their new single.
https://futurism.com/wu-tang-clan-video-ai
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Futurism
7 months ago
Does anyone have any ideas?
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let me say it loud and clear: absolutely nobody wants this (and if you do, iâd love to talk to you)
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Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific
From the very first frames, you can tell there's something's off about Netflix's AI-powered remastering of "A Different World."
https://futurism.com/netflix-ai-upscaling-old-shows-horrific
7 months ago
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his defense? the poors are trying to "extract money" from him
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That Guy Who Used His Son as a Blood Bag Says We're About to Get New Info About His Use of Prostitutes and Drugs
Immortality-obsessed tech mogul Bryan Johnson is trying to get ahead of what he's claiming to be a "hit piece" by the New York Times.
https://futurism.com/guy-son-blood-bag-prostitutes-drugs
7 months ago
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Elon Musk Calls for Destroying the Space Station as Soon as Possible
To SpaceX CEO and unelected White House advisor Elon Musk, the planned deorbiting of the International Space Station can't come soon enough.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-calls-destroying-space-station-soon
7 months ago
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