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Tonight's #soundclash was an ABSOLUTE BELTER. Wall to wall rock classics. Grab the podcast tomorrow or catch the repeat on the weekend. Whatever you do, do not miss this episode. (It's the best one we've done since the infamous "dinosaur erotica" episode)

31 days to go. Return to Neverbury with me this Halloween for magicians, dodgy lawyers, creeping horrors, changelings, folk music purists, portals to hell, idle gods, ghosts, militant amateur cycling clubs, and a serious problem with something called “Big Chicken”.

Introducing the GenAI quick-step: 1. Create slop machine 2. Do nothing to discourage slop 3. Add your own slop into feeds (see Vibes) 4. Add in adverts (see OpenAI adding adverts and new feeds) 5. Charge a subscription to clean the feed of all the junk you created 6. Profit?

This certainly explains a lot... #AI #lies

For anyone confused... #read

This feels a lot like when a disruptive kid is given a toy to play with whilst the adults get on with the work... share.google/i2jWm4GfVR67...

IP Theft = Theft.

The struggle is real. #restingwitchface

Last of these. Honest. If you're a #doctorwho fan in the #peterborough area and you didn't go to the Adventures in Time and Space exhibit at the Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, then you have until November 2nd to get down there or invent time travel for yourself.

Ah, I'd love to be better than this, but I'm not. Look! It's me! And a book I wrote! In a shop! (And I didn't have to bribe them or sneak it in myself)

Called it. Nothing more toxic than "The Touch of Zuck".

Shout to my guy, Ham the Astrochimp.

At last... the mystery has been solved.

Can we stop now?

Trouble in paradise?

Zuckerberg Vs Eminem? I know who I've got my money on. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/cul...

We are facing a future where Google kills the open web as we know it. Why wouldn't content creators hide their content behind paywall and registrations to protect their IP for avaricious AI companies trawling every last byte of data they can?

Microsoft Copilot is an absolute buffoon. When I'm writing an email, in it's desperation to inject itself into my workflow, it keeps suggesting that I sign my emails "Best wishes, Christmas". Christmas. As I live and breath.

Reason 635 why you should not give an AI/LLM access to your data or systems. venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic...

AI firm includes AI hallucination in own legal filing. Physician... heal thyself. www.theverge.com/news/668315/...

And that's game. 5584 words in 1/2 a day. #dailywords #amwriting That'll do 🐖

4198 words in and lunch has arrived courtesy of Mrs. L, my muse. (And maker of the best lunches in this or any other universe)

Today is the day I'm due to send in my next Havoc Files story for the good folks at Candy Jae. So, in best Chris fashion, I got up this morning to edit, decided everything I've done is wrong, and have started again. 7K words in one day? Absolutely fine. What can go wrong?

If you own Meta smart glasses, it's probably time to put them in the bin. Unless, you know, you want all your pictures and conversations swallowed up by Meta's AI leviathan... techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/i...

Another dark pattern operation involving LLMs/generative AI. Users are rightly upset that they have been manipulated. (I can't help but be slightly suspicious that Reddit's licensing arrangement with OpenAI colours their legal view a little here, though) www.engadget.com/ai/researche...

AI is not coming for your job. Actually, it's probably coming to make your job a whole lot worse. futurism.com/professors-c...

Wow. One jailbreak to rule them all. hiddenlayer.com/innovation-h...

Reading that the UK government are working on a "murder prediction" algorithm means I dust off this very simple flowchart. New rule: Every government department to have an independently appointed science-fiction author on staff. Read this if you dare: tinyurl.com/yv8n8f2b

Back on the horse. Finally "Return to Neverbury" is almost done. 1,140 words, not bad for two hours. #dailywords #amwriting

Bravo Cloudflare. Bravo.

My birthday is coming up, so I returned the the tree that I used to make my passage into the human realm from my home dimension. Good times.

We need to stop using the term "hallucination" as if these errors are somehow mysterious and beyond comprehension. It's a grift. A con. A scam. And it's dangerous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If your search engine being wrong more than sixty percent of the time is a future you're excited about, you have bigger problems than your search engine being wrong more than sixty percent of the time. futurism.com/study-ai-sea...

Say no more. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Nvidia must be thanking their lucky stars that the US government will now need a whole load of power guzzling GPUs for crypto, seeing as the bottom is just about ready to fall out of the AI scaling game...

The one thing we seemed to have mastered here is an incredibly efficient way to pour money down the drain. search.app/byGVNmUEG2Rx...

This is how the world ends. Not with a bang...

Once, and with feeling... if you need a $200 a month Open AI subscription and "Operator" to book your holidays for you, then you have bigger problems than booking holidays.

Big day. Big breakfast.

Today's recommended reading: AI and "The Tinkerbell Effect". futurism.com/ai-tinkerbel... As I spend my morning reading through UK government's troubling "50 point AI plan", I truly wonder how much longer we can all keep clapping.

Merry Slopmas! www.404media.co/email/d77d05...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Jailbreak. futurism.com/the-byte/eas...

The old "white text on a white background" trick raises its head yet again, proving that you can't beat the classics and that AI is very, very dumb. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I wrote 7K words today. Don't ever tell yourself you don't have time to write. #writingcommunity

It. Doesn't. Work.

Disagree with me if you want. Disagree with Kate Bush though, and we are no longer friends. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hey ChatGPT, can you generate an image of irony?