More people are turning to AI to explore their BDSM fantasies, but some in the community feel it’s a cop-out. www.wired.com/story/whos-y...

Cool cool. And we want to take humans out of the kill chain. 🤦‍♂️

The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

Good morning from under a giant pile of snow! I wrote about agentic AI and a bot that wrote a hit piece about a engineer after he rejected its code. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Seit Monaten werden Arbeitsspeicher und Grafikkarten teurer bei gleicher, wenn nicht sogar sinkender Leistung. Grund dafür ist der hohe Bedarf an KI-Datenzentren wie jene von OpenAI

Radical pope strikes again!

WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: "People would love to have a clanker as their boss."

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

AI is already a death sentence for the environment.

“He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language.”

is there a technology that "the left" is excited about? www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more: www.404media.co/students-are...

Diabetes and obesity meds are a rapidly increasing health care expense for employers. Some are looking for alternatives to help workers go off pricey GLP-1s or avoid them altogether. Enter the AI digital twin. www.wired.com/story/ai-dig...

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing

Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI." Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI. AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

This study is over 6 months old but it still resonates. AI tools can feel more productive but devs tend to ignore the time spent prompting, waiting for results and refining. Claude Code took 10 minutes to summarize my unread chats and email today. It would have been faster by hand.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

don’t kill the messenger!

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

EVA AI created a pop-up romantic date night at a Manhattan wine bar to help making AI-human relationships a “new normal.” www.wired.com/story/inside...

And this which was a recent paper at a conference in London.

Very worrisome, especially given the extreme far-right goals and history of Clearview founders: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The most important question about AI isn't determining whether the machine thinks — it's whether interacting with it displaces the conditions under which we think, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...

Film as a work of art is a strange monster - so many things have to come together at just the right moment. And in order to become timeless, it requires not only absolute dedication and faith, but also total freedom, in addition to innate talent. Rarely does all of this come together in cinema.

"More than 200" AI slop novels collectively selling "around 50,000 copies" proves that not one of them was actually good enough to create any organic interest. The entire business model is scamming people looking for something fun to read, thereby polluting the same waters where real books are sold.

Nobody should use Amazon anymore. Nobody. Drop it. His big shop of horrors, Bezos is just deeply contemptuous of humanity.

In dem Moment, in denen wir aufhören stumpf zu konsumieren, wissen die Geld- und Machteliten, dass ihr Kampf gegen soziale Gerechtigkeit vorbei ist. Viel Geld bedeutet viel Verantwortung für das Wohlergehen aller. Dieses Bewusstsein ist verloren gegangen, gekommen ist obszöne Lust an Ausbeutung.

For real, check this out youtu.be/sfDtfz7vXkY?...

United, Not Divided. Unidos, no divididos. #BadBunnyBowl

Database of decisions/penalties in legal cases where "AI" was found to be used by either a litigator or a judge; does not count *All* cases of "AI" used in court filings, just those where it was a) found & b) officially remarked upon or penalized. Incredibly useful collection & arrangement of data:

Meta has dropped $65 million into two super PACs to boost pro-AI state candidates in California. Big Tech is working overtime to ensure they get a bailout if — or when — the AI bubble bursts. We can’t let them get away with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA

‘Deepfakes spreading and more AI companions’: seven takeaways from the latest artificial intelligence safety report

It is worth asking every single brand, NGO, government agency, elected Democrat, and journalist why they insist on using that platform. Demand they justify being on a platform literally designed to promote sexual abuse.

I regret to inform everyone that the smartest money people out there are, overwhelmingly, dumb as a rock www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots

Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns

Wenn es um persönliche Themen geht, kann künstliche Intelligenz ähnliche Vertrautheit erzeugen wie andere Menschen, zeigt eine Studie. Manchmal war die Verbindung der Teilnehmer zur KI sogar enger.