I have a theory that what will ultimately kill these chatbots is legal liability. Insurers will see these kinds of lawsuits and a massive unmitigated risk and insist that the C-suite are kept the hell away from them. And the C-suite are of course the primary boosters of AI slop.

A secret technology corrupted by monstrous figures is slowly eroding the institutions which rule over the world from within, you say? Seems a bit derivative of 1950’s fantasy. What did you say it’s called?

Takes slop to make slop...

Saw someone describe AI as 'industrialised mediocrity' and yeah, that tracks for me.

Butlerian Jihad Now!

Twirling, twirling ever rightward, into oblivion.

“Trust me bro, we’re slowing down the rollout because we’re good people bro, please keep adopting the slop machine, its inevitable, bro. Please, I have so much exposure.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm sure the ADL is shocked, shocked I tell you, that the leopard has decided to eat their face.

Sure seems like the collective political establishment of the Commonwealth want to go down as the Neville Chamberlains of the 21st Century.

Apple Music out here trying to help me take my own advice but jokes on them because I own literally every other format.

Looks like @bandcamp.com’s new anti-AI-slop policy is super popular — the form for reporting accounts is currently down.

*Runs to bandcamp's discover page to report all the AI slop*

What is it with Labor rushing brainfart legislation through with less that 48 hours for feedback? It was the same with the social media ban. Almost like they don't give a rats what people actually think.

Albo is just really sad that no one is asking Grok to put him in a bikini, I'm sure. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Keep thinking of this passage by Simone Weil and how we failed to do the hard work of changing ourselves. This is the punishment Trump deserves: we transform our societies such that no one will ever associate him with greatness.

This was obvious when Microsoft and AWS started putting out press releases while cutting staff hard in 2024.

Beans, beans, the musical fruit; the more you eat, the more you experience an uncontrollable compulsion to sing Rodgers and Hammerstein.

People complain that battery tech is environmentally damaging but look motherflappers, we can make batteries out of *wood* now. audioxpress.com/news/flint-c...

Every university, politician, and government department should abandon X and state explicitly why. It’s an easy political win with financial consequences for a completely unrestrained company. And then Attorneys General should contemplate public nuisance tort litigation. IMHO.

I am yet to see any evidence that the boards of our major cultural festivals are in any way different from the board of the Kennedy Centre -- their actions are always politically neutral, it's the producers of culture who 'bring politics into it' with their pesky thoughts and boycotts.

I don't understand how the deepfake porn site is even considered fit for purpose for emergency comms; anyone who wants to get updates *has* to create an account otherwise you can't see posts in chronological order, nor can you see threaded posts.

Please trust us, the makers of the suicide machine, with your medical records. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Indelibly millennial coded:

Actually the more I read his statement, the more I am convinced Albo is genuinely worried about being abducted next if he doesn‘t pull his neck in.

My smart home controller is also a piece of wood: a piece of wood that I use to smash any smart device that manages to sneak its way through my doors. www.theverge.com/tech/852598/...

Stop calling it war. These are terrorist attacks being committed by the US government. Every foreign nation should be lining up sanctions.

It‘s more important than ever to sever ties with the US. Most of the major tech companies have contracts with Dept. Defence and will provide services used to attack Venezuela.

The U.S. is functionally now a pariah state and must be treated as such until the cancer rotting out the heart of the White House is cut out.

Forget Scott Farquhar‘s BS about Australia needing sovereign AI. We need sovereign computing, full stop.

I have a new resolution for 2026: make it to this list.

I suspect that at a certain level of business it is difficult to assess if LLMs are bullshit because you’re already surrounded by sycophants and yes men.

My kingdom for a journalist who will ask “If we need military patrols of Bondi does that mean ASIO has no idea what is going on?”

This is admirably detailed reporting on the erasure of Palestinian life, from the NYT of all places. But I notice that the comments on this article are turned off. I wonder why that would be? 🤔 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Bari Weiss paid $1B to produce a historical re-enactment of Falwell Snr. v Flynt (1981). Comfort TV for the over-60 undiagnosed dementia set. Thats “innovation.”

I know everyone is on the schadenfreude train with Jake Paul but the Guardian reports he’ll probably make $70M for that broken jaw, which severely limits how much pleasure I can take in his self inflicted suffering.

Future generations will talk about the poisoning of Google Scholar the same way we talk of the Library of Alexandria burning. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The roads analogy here is perfect because the wealthy deployed capital to make roads, a previously public space, a wholly private one. Cars were given “right of way” legally and pedestrians criminalised so that cars ultimately become a necessity. But it wasn’t inevitable.

Always amazed that people are okay with moving services wholesale to expensive and fragile digital infrastructure that imposes monetary and privacy costs on the end user, as opposed to cash which is very cheap for the end user but imposes the costs on the people who want you to pay the fees.

My current theory is that 80% of the hype around 'AI' is a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia effect where people see outputs that are blatantly nonsense for fields in which they have expertise, acknowledge it is garbage, and then ask a question outside their circle of competence and accept the answer.

36 Months being run by gambling ad agency staff makes total sense now.

Next week the headline will be: “Why are there gangs of kids loitering everywhere?“ With a picture of a horde of goths outside the Queen Street Hungry Jacks like its 2005.

It's time to complete the Alan Sparhawk triangle and get BJ Burton to produce a Trampled by Turtles album. I demand banjos and a huge decaying wall of sound.

The Albanese govt cuts CSIRO jobs on advice from Treasury & Finance; now seems determined to create robodebt from scratch with their AI-managed NDIS plans. Maybe we were wrong to assume the problem was the Morrison government; maybe the problem is the senior leadership of the APS.

Last night west BNE got hit with the worst storm I’ve seen in a decade. 100mm in 15 minutes. Flash flooding everywhere. New BOM site said it was moderate rainfall the entire time. Their new data design will kill people.

More like land of the oppressed and home of the cowardly, am I right?

My apparently most controversial opinion working in tech is that we should maintain cash as a viable form of payment, regardless of cost, in order to ensure the robustness of our payment systems and the Australian economy. Digital payments are exponentially more complex.

Bandcamp Clubs seems like a great addition to their product lineup. I love Record Clubs but I struggle to justify the cost when there are a) already so many records I know I love that I'd like to own and b) the cost of vinyl makes getting albums you don't enjoy more painful (1/?)