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

T-shirt for ya: rawpaw.ink/products/inf...

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...

I wonder what we’ll do with all these be AI data centres when we don’t need them anymore 🤔

"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later ‭conversations." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Our new report on how we can shape the AI that gets developed and how it came be used, covered here www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Great outlook from Demis. Not seen many interesting things on ethics from deepmind, but they seem to have their heart and tech in a good place (I love genetics algorithms!) youtu.be/-HzgcbRXUK8?...

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Ha amazing! Hadn’t seen it since it’s been out. The great peeps at Sassy Chaps made it. I helped for a couple of months with some UI programming and animation :) . AI can only take our jobs if we want to live in a completely different economy… check out the podcast ;)

Episode 102 now live! Adir Ben-Yehuda & I chat about–AI automation for web development, Human Machine Interfaces, allowing an LLM to optimism itself, job displacement, vibe coding, Grok's MechaHitler, the ethics and guard rails of LLMs and more… www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/auto...

When this is over these people will reflect on what it means to be a human and be in the world… maybe even have families and look at the sky sometime in awe

Does have a little bit of the book burning vibe to it… (trying but failing not to invoke WWII propaganda machine)…

this is a shocking result - fake hope from LLMs on climate solutions archive.is/8sYNv

Ep.101 out! special live panel at AI Ethics, Risks & Safety Conference 2025. We chat: what is AI, predictions for 5 years, incoming wave of fraud, AI education, copyright, uncertainty of regulation, sovereign AI capabilities, impact on creative industries www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/ai-e...

I said the 2025 would be the year of AI agents in my Jan episode of @machine-ethics.net however I would like to state that it is the year of AI induced disinformation, helped by progress in video models and AI agents

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Is AI alignment just Machine Ethics but from a technical point of view?

Played a lot of cool games at UKGE week ago (as well as play testing my new card game to some lovely people): re recommend checking out this simple Ono style game www.kickstarter.com/projects/dri... which is just ending on kickstarter

MCP for LLM agents: hot take, feels like we're doing it wrong www.youtube.com/watch?v=eur8... here their look at apis & data, feels like traditional app dev to me! here we have lots of looping around till we get a result, feels like a waste of literal energy when we already know how to do this...

Sugar coating Ilm blackmail is irresponsible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You hate 2°C it

Please anyone working in AI / ML listen to this episode, consider who you're working for and what you're doing, and then do something about it. Thank you!