Today in AI News: —Pope Leo XIV has strong thoughts on Big Tech and AI —Graduates at universities across the U.S. are booing commencement speeches on AI —Cybersecurity jobs are up in the age of AI open.substack.com/pub/creatorf...

The year is 2026. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is still booking concerts then postponing/cancelling them…

Question for AI bros: If AI is making your art, how are you processing your childhood traumas and what do you do with your time when you’re high on drugs?

The new American Dream is to leave

An AI can write about what everyone is saying online. A human expert can write about what everyone isn’t saying online.

I could really use that gas savings bonus right now…

Computer components are more expensive, and AI investments from VCs are skyrocketing. The only thing going down is employee morale.

Musk suing Altman, AI Datacenters for good, and Big Tech’s mixed earning call results

Why do Google employees care if their company gives the Pentagon the same half-assed summaries we all see in their search results?

Nobody ever called your work AI because it was good.

Holy hell, that’s embarrassing 😹

I’ve never made it more than a minute into an AI-narrated video without it being painfully obvious it is an AI-narrated video. The voiceover is always so terribly garbage that it’s impossible to pay attention

I went into Circle K yesterday right as a man grabbed some food and ran out without paying. It reminded me of AI development. Sure, it’s easier to eat when you aren’t paying for food, and you always have the option of stealing. But most people prefer to earn their way through life the right way.

Thanks to the power of AI, you can do anything imaginable, like pretend you’re a woman. It’s a world-ending game-changing technology because we never before had the capability to create such mind-blowing videos as “woman running on treadmill” or “guy eating ramen” RIP Hollywood 😹🙄

Shitterstock claims to not accept AI images from contributors, but a search for “haunted house” is an easy way to find some because why are there so many jack o lanterns and why are they all so poorly made?

Some random spent a couple months attempting to scare me with death threats but it only made me laugh. Two months later, and I’m predictably alive while that guy is predictably a do-nothing little bitch who we both knew was never going to get off his lazy ass to do anything 🤷

I spent the past month selling 10-year-old used tech and gadgets. It’s interesting to me how their value holds in a world where marketing makes everything old sound obsolete with every new innovation. Overall, there’s still a lot of interest in old tech.

Meta’s AI agents will now download a bunch of porn and login to social media to act like a jerk prior to completing tasks just like it’s human employees

CNN is on the pathway from bad to worse…

1995: magnets destroy your computer or television set 2025: magnets charge your smartphone

This is a funny little setting Meta implemented on Facebook (on by default), especially the second sentence. It is compounded so not immediately intuitive that it’s saying you don’t always get an AI title if it’s turned on, and that group settings override your personal settings if it’s turned off.

Every time someone introduces something with “can you believe I did this using AI?” the answer is always yes.

Shutterstock just introduced a new AI video generator, and these were the best videos they had to showcase it…

“Somebody’s car alarm is going off. I better do something to help.” —literally nobody ever

One would think attorneys would be smart enough to not use AI to write their briefs due to all the documented cases of others getting sanctioned for the misinformation they produce. One would be wrong…

Gas prices are up. Rent prices are up. Food prices are up. The only prices going down are the offers on Facebook Marketplace when you try to sell anything

Big tech isn’t happy about people protesting or speaking out against their data centers

One of these images is the iconic photo of Muhammad Ali standing over a defeated Sonny Liston taken by Neil Leifer in May 1965. It is one of the most iconic sports photographs in history. The other 2 are Midjourney v8 outputs for the prompt “photo of boxer, knocked out, opponent standing over him.”

AI chatbots are giving awful advice because they’re programmed to be too agreeable. Prompt jockeys lament that people simply need to learn to prompt better, but that ignores the fundamental flaws in these models.

Nobody cares about your AI-generated anything except you…

Perhaps the funniest part of the AI hype cycle was seeing AI bros declare the death of all creative industries despite none of them so much as landing a punch

My toxic trait is subscribing to newsletters and sending them to my junk folder

It’s hilarious that everyone flocked to Bluesky to avoid Big Tech only to have the company predictively pivot towards being more like Big Tech

“I don’t like progressives. You people spend too much time online.” —my locksmith, after telling me he’s Israeli and assuming I’m progressive because I’m a pothead. We then had a fascinating talk about everything from Muslims in Israel to how Americans don’t travel enough and think he’s Mexican 😹🤷

Moderation isn’t about good moderators being super empathic , technological geniuses Though good moderation has them It’s about being willing to commit to safety and good conduct for participants WHO ALSO COMMIT And holding that damn line with CARE regardless

"Section 230 is not one of the Ten Commandments,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) said. www.theverge.com/policy/89710...

I’m not even interested in working online anymore. These shitbirds online with their imaginary stories about me helped me retire with more money than I ever made working. Next month when my lease is up, I’m going golfing and hiking in nature, and the state is paying a woman to be my day date

I’m invincible, and it makes all the low-class do-nothing losers so angry that their crying and exaggerating not only didn’t hurt me but caused the state to step in and help make me even stronger Offer still stands if any lazy loser ever grows balls and gets off their couch instead of crying online

In February, I tried to kill myself, and March has been the best month of my life. I now have a state-funded peer support lady who has been visiting in person to help me navigate the system. When online morons keep calling the police, she is the one who verifies for the judge that I’m doing good

Life gets funny when a bunch of fake af influencers online are crying like the little punk bitches they are about me being some type of demon since they’re all afraid of me while IRL women are all excited about the ways I changed their lives this year. Social media losers are so unserious 😹😹🤷

I’m in the middle of functionally retiring and am struggling to even care about what’s happening in the world anymore. Made a couple really good friends who changed my life and have me on a much better path moving forward. If all goes well this year, I never have to work again.

I’m not actually mad to see AI used to aggravate lawyers and courts

This IG screenshot is triggering for terminally online Threads users. It shows my account still active, and my IRL friend who got harassed by the mean girl cliques over the holidays because she posted a pic of her mixed race daughter’s braids. Over a million Threads losers harassed her for days.

Reminiscing with my friend about the time Olive Garden paid me to date a woman. Basically the training class was just me and a woman being paid to taste everything on the menu and follow people around. So we dated for a month on their dime and then another five on our own. I sucked at the job tho.

OpenAI really needs you to know that while their software will soon be able to create nonconsensual explicit material, they are not technically capable of creating AI sex acts due to the complexity of the Kama sutra

As if VC firms weren’t bad enough, OpenAI is trying to convince them to force their products on the companies they control.

Encyclopedia Britannica is the latest company to sue OpenAI over training on its copyrighted materials

Weed is ridiculously cheap with a medical card stacked on top of a veterans discount 🤗