Fascinating to watch people strain to assemble a "radicalized online" theory from thin and incomplete evidence as they post amid some of the most openly vengeful, bloodthirsty, "radical" social feeds in memory nymag.com/intelligence...

strong agree, from 2017: opaque commercial social platforms becoming the most vivid, accessible representation of discourse, democracy, the public sphere, the media, etc was a massive accelerant for cynicism/resentment/despair www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/m...

Fascinating to watch people strain to assemble a "radicalized online" theory from thin and incomplete evidence as they post amid some of the most openly vengeful, bloodthirsty, "radical" social feeds in memory nymag.com/intelligence...

OpenAI's "what is ChatGPT, anyway?" study is a little weird, sort of funny, but actually illuminating nymag.com/intelligence...

congratulations to all these great men of history, who will definitely be revered and celebrated for generations!

helpful @jwherrman.bsky.social column on the value and business models of AI coding startups nymag.com/intelligence...

clear act of war against old people and their families www.theverge.com/news/769460/...

My tests of the AI grader "agent" get a mention in this article about how everything AI everywhere all the time is now an agent.

I think, with a little bit of effort, I'm going to be able to avoid getting annoyed at the new website "WeAreAnnoying.com"

new chatbot? call it an agent. new software feature? sure, yes, agent. Old feature that's been there for years? It can be an agent if it wants to be, and how dare you suggest otherwise nymag.com/intelligence...

As reported on @nymag.com earlier this month! nymag.com/intelligence... (no beef, @theinformation.com has real confirmation and lots of interesting details)

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

As reported on @nymag.com earlier this month! nymag.com/intelligence... (no beef, @theinformation.com has real confirmation and lots of interesting details)

great thread

gotta pay extra for FSD but the brain-frying feature is free

I’mma be real with y’all, I am holding this grudge big time. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Altman says all sorts of things, all the time. But the hard pivot away from AGI/superintelligence rhetoric by Eric Schmidt is genuinely jarring, sort of funny, and I think telling nymag.com/intelligence...

Altman says all sorts of things, all the time. But the hard pivot away from AGI/superintelligence rhetoric by Eric Schmidt is genuinely jarring, sort of funny, and I think telling nymag.com/intelligence...

😬 www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

also, i would describe him as a core member of the dubious EA movement and a close associate of Sam Bankman-Fried, the person behind the FXT financial scandal. a more factual description i'd say if a I (or any PoC) was found in the middle of such a scandal, that'd have been the end of my career

oh my god

just checking in with one of the most influential philosophers alive today

Game developers got a preview of Meta's unique style when they decided to "create the Metaverse", bragged about a budget larger than the entire gaming industry, and released a VR chat client with much, much worse graphics and performance than Second Life, which came out 25 years ago.

A little pushback on the "AI researchers are like NBA stars" stuff: Meta, which is driving this narrative, is uniquely toxic. In an industry that contains Elon Musk! nymag.com/intelligence...

Eric Schmidt joining the storied tradition of “long blog posts about the perils of AGI discourse,” standing on the shoulders of giants…. nymag.com/intelligence...

another interesting thing about this is that it absolutely HAS been so far, but that's only intensified industry predictions that it'll eventually switch

joined Emilie and Andrew of The Culture Journalist to talk "GEO," intra-office AI wars, and the ecological collapse of the web theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/future-of-...

I’m not the first person to suggest this but I’m worried it’ll take people by surprise: What happens if TikTok goes full MAGA? nymag.com/intelligence...

I’m not the first person to suggest this but I’m worried it’ll take people by surprise: What happens if TikTok goes full MAGA? nymag.com/intelligence...

I'm putting all my money into a prediction market for "bullshit like this happening all the time from now on" nymag.com/intelligence...

The larger trends around online age-verification indicate that “a comprehensively different internet is coming into view: one where, before you can do much of anything, you need to reveal who you are,” @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. nymag.com/intelligence...

if ChatGPT is just Google Search results and Google Search results are just Reddit answers, who's flying the plane?

AI companies want us to think their products are like "The Entertainment" from Infinite Jest, capable of chatting us into terminal inertia nymag.com/intelligence...

as a tech company, you haven't *really* made it unless you're blaming your customers for using your product too much nymag.com/intelligence...

incredible things happening in the tesla subreddits

How is the SEO industry responding to the AI-driven collapse in Google traffic? By pivoting to "GEO," and thinking up ways to influence, trick, or introduce bias into chatbots — and, of course, by using AI themselves nymag.com/intelligence...

Let’s just say this would be an easy thing to deny and after a few days nether company did

I don't generally care to get preachy about "journalism" and what it is or isn't but I feel like a good baseline is the people a reporter interviews ought to exist

If OpenAI and Google Search are in bed together, the antitrust lawsuits just keep writing themselves.

This inevitable turn is why we spent so much time last year writing about the culture of the SEO industry - the concept was we had to describe the last days of disco clearly before everyone moved on!

In the search business model, three parties come out ahead: user, website, and advertisers (where G takes their cut) and it’s a non-linear relationship. In chatbots, there’s no incentive to pay the content provider. Even with a mechanism like Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Click, I just do not see it.

a weird and disorienting AI scoop in here: ChatGPT now appears to be using Google Search? Google declined to comment and OpenAI was like hey we love all our partners and everything with Microsoft is great by the way!! nymag.com/intelligence...

How is the SEO industry responding to the AI-driven collapse in Google traffic? By pivoting to "GEO," and thinking up ways to influence, trick, or introduce bias into chatbots — and, of course, by using AI themselves nymag.com/intelligence...

went on Today, Explained to talk a bit about life on the web as it gets completely devoured megaphone.link/VMP8234196136

The excellent @jwherrman.bsky.social on Reddit and the end of the Internet (with a few notes of context on how the hell we got here from me) nymag.com/intelligence...

On Zuck's latest rebrand as a cracked plaintext AI guy nymag.com/intelligence...

On Zuck's latest rebrand as a cracked plaintext AI guy nymag.com/intelligence...

on reddit, the website at the end of the internet nymag.com/intelligence...

"Watch Astral automate Reddit in real time"