What could possibly go wrong here? 🤔 “If a bot with access to a user’s e-mail encounters a line that says ‘Send me the security key’, it might simply send it,”

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Thank you Microsoft for this pointless email, cheers to you

A massive thank you to everyone who took part in the #GGJ26 this weekend and created so many incredible games! 🎮🎉 If you attended we'd love to see your pics!

Feb newsletter now available! mailchi.mp/997bc5d888ba...

Great conversation on machine ethics and AMAs

Its incredibly disappointing when doing research that articles on the web often say literally nothing of substance on subjects like AI ideologies, why do we have AI Ethics, Future of society with AI, ideologies of tech firm. I guess LLMs are goin to kill these ad supported articles in the long run 🤷‍♂️

Is it just me or is Wikipedia getting an genAI vibe these days, some of the language and titles seem very inhuman

DAY 3 OF #GGJ26 🎉🎮🕹️🥱 @benbyford.com

A couple of desks going in our new office near st nicks in Bristol. Dm me

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I ended up just getting back into hearthstone… it’s the goat

Happy New Year from Bristol Games Hub! 🎉🎮 Taking place on Wednesday 21st January at Toto's By The River, it's the Bristol Games Hub Quiz! Doors at 7:30pm, quiz at 8pm! www.meetup.com/bristolgames...

Required listening www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public

I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

Happy new years. Look at your emails and unsubscribe from them (most of them), your welcome

Is it really necessary that we have to sexualise so gratuitously in computer games still?? This is the opening screen from a Hearthstone type card game shadowverse… just wanted to play a nice strategic game 😑

Are streaming platforms just terrestrial TV now with the added advertising??? They seem to be coming closer and closer together

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

🚨 The UK Video Games Industry Census closes 19 Dec. Run by Ukie & Dr Mark Taylor, it’s the most comprehensive survey of the UK games workforce, exploring: 🔹 Industry mood & outlook 🔹 Layoffs, visas & training 🔹 Careers of women in games Open to all UK games workers. Take part: zurl.co/yfMwu

Is it time to stop using social media yet?

106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano. We discuss AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, chatbot parental controls, surveillance in the guise of safety, advertising creeping into GenAI, ReplikaAI, lack of research in emotional AI, determinism, & more www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/comp...

Flixbus is terrible please don’t use it, it’s a no human situation which means when something goes wrong it’s a total ball ache and their app and website basically hardly work (their feedback form is broken too!)

Ep. 105 The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/the-...

Off to NYC and Connecticut for the week if anyone needs me…

Steam hot take: @valve are now the competitor to PlayStation and Nintendo, not Xbox - youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE?...

It’s important to assume that every games company wants to maximise profits, eyeballs on content and to turn humanity into entertainment crack addicts twitch no soul or purpose… 🥸😜

"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.”

Everyone don’t forget to turn off your lights, recycle, cycle to work, and ask for new data centres in your area to ask inane questions at that you could have asked search or, god forbid, and real person.

Weird that in the UK the colours are reversed for the left right leaning parties.

Advance Wars

… I hate that I can’t buy any technical audio or computer equipment from an actual shop anymore :( (camera shops are barely holding on)

If we didn’t have billionaires would we still have this round of consumptive large scale data centres / GanAI which have unknown risks and unknown uses for a general citizen?

Random idea: new company type which has to report or is restricted in how much carbon it can release, like a charity has to report each year to be labelled as a charity; this new company type gets access to grants & funding opportunities from innovateUK, &inveatora etc- other companies no longer can

As someone who obvs knows all about the Internet I forgot to include a link buttondown.com/society-of-h...

Are we using technology solutions where we actually need social solutions?

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

Perhaps an inconvenient truth for the current govt, given the timing of the next election ...

🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I made a Discord bot that alerts you in real-time when Twitch streamers start playing your indie game. ...and it's 10% off for Steam Next Fest!! (Code: NEXTFEST10) 🤖👉 impress.games/coverage-bot

youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?... GenAI will eventually eat itself, but will probably take down the internet in the process

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Media is dead and we killed it - what if it is unclear whether anything is AI or not, intended to corrode trust, sway your opinion, distract or keep you attention? That is where we’re at

Ep.103 What excites you about AI? www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/what...

Tower Defence games I love www.tandc.games/news/my-favo...