Our latest interview on Stop Gen AI's blog is with a computer scientist who has a reputation for not jumping on Silicon Valley bandwagons. Thank you, @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com! Anti Gen AI Heroes: Nicholas Weaver would rather tell the truth than be a grifter stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-... Share!

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

bluesky won’t let you upload GIFs that have no animation my eyes are rolling so hard I can see my brain

the use case we found for ourselves has expired, other use cases have emerged and this is the nature of fluid software products of no purpose in particular

Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported. www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

GEMA wins against OpenAI on copying song lyrics yo ho ho, rum, etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPTY... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251112-gem... -podcast time: 4 min 47 sec

Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.

Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.

I feel like the "it's good for building prototypes" vibe coding excuse ignores the way that building a prototype also helps build a strategy for how to code the real thing. As in, a prototype isn't just to validate the idea, it helps validate the best course of production.

sam altman's ux design has always been innocence

I will talk at your product design conference

A friend works in recycling logistics and was asking CTO of another popular recycling app company how they do their vision ML for IDing high-quality recycled clothing, and it's literally just a wrapper over ChatGPT that works only slightly better than random chance

It was great to chat with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. Her work is an important part of the fight to save academia from being destroyed by Gen AI... a very real threat. van Rooij shared academic citatons too! Share, share! stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...

Generative AI is the apotheosis of this process. It's praised for doing better than a human on certain tasks, but those tasks were *made for computer logic* in the first place. The new world will try to convince you that this computer logic is more valuable than your human thought. Defy it.

Over these past decades, software has coached us into thinking like a computer. Not necessarily on purpose, but because the software wasn't designed to be usable by thinking like a human. This side effect was a net positive for libertarians, who leapt from anti-human software to an anti-human world

posts on medium are in the linkedin waiting room

Two dominant narratives of tech: dystopian and utopian. Both are technodeterministic. When we refer to them, we live in someone else's imagination. (Paraphrasing @ruha9.bsky.social.)

the best way to create a corpus of shit is to make it easier to save stuff for later

Today in luxury surveillance.

You can’t put something out with a “here, see what you can do with this” and then say “it’s not for that”

The problem with anticipating a “use case” after you’ve made the thing is that you don’t really get to say which use cases are valid or not. You made the thing before you knew what it was for, that’s why “design” has become limited to manipulating interactions

It’s the fake thing: Coca-Cola tries another AI TV ad for Christmas the best ad Pepsi never paid for www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0GU... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251104-its... - podcast time: 5 min 01 sec

You can’t put something out with a “here, see what you can do with this” and then say “it’s not for that”

Any high profile person or business that thinks they erroneously caught a block from me but wants to know what I think, I’m available for consulting. Email me for fees.

The wet fart noise you hear is the AI bubble deflating. CEOs are pivoting from "AI will make us more productive, somehow" to "culture will make us more productive, somehow" The bottleneck has ALWAYS been bad strategy at the top. But instead, Amazon is trying to solve it by hollowing out the middle.

"Person waiting for a friend to finish tying their shoes" x.com/dailyportalz...

what the “misuse” framing does is shift the onus on individual users when shit goes wrong leaving AI developers and vendors off the hook 2/

like this from the Vibecamp Manifesto *could* be interpreted as not a sequence of Nazi dog whistles until we know it's actually talking about Yarvin and his fans manifesto.quest/my-manifesto...

It's personal yet common among human beings who make things. There are all manner of things that aren't software or 'content' that get made. The people who make things well do so as a result of pride and personal investment and a sense of ownership of their work.

Hey Tokyo, moon.

Gen AI datacenters are draining lakes, burning down forests, giving people cancer, releasing carbon that causes climate disaster. The deadly, worst ever hurricane in Jamaica yesterday is an example. If you use Gen AI, you contribute to the destruction. @davidgerard.co.uk youtu.be/XREXd8V7Fck?...

AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you! and you thought living near a bitcoin miner was bad www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREX... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251030-ai-... - podcast time: 4 min 16 sec

it's difficult to articulate how the drive to "just make stuff" as a career has been suffocated by AI impositions

I hope the remote control maid company gets hacked and they use them to stab every person who buys one, right in the dickhole.

when I opened this website I said "what the fuck is going on" out loud

something has been nagging at me about this thing and I just realized it's that it looks like it was designed to be punched in the face

This store looks like a spoof microsite for the next #A24 horror, as directed by Ari Aster

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If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

wrote this almost a year ago

At some point folks will look back at this stuff like leaded gasoline is viewed now.

products don't enshittify, unprofitable use cases do

very good video which adds a layer of implication to general purposeness - when a product isn't for anything specific, the concepts of "faster" or "better" exist differently in each person's head depending what they use the product for www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Plo...

i have received word that CNN is now considering a hit piece on me. thankfully none of them know how to use any search engine that isn't ChatGPT

Frictionless brain activity

we must never forget that the best thing about coding manually is how much it distracts you from the inanity of the product you're contributing to

I hope this starts a trend. @davidgerard.co.uk youtu.be/Q8bHlG_NvLU?...

Australia sues Microsoft for forcing Copilot AI onto Office 365 customers Call and demand a refund and reversion to Classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8bH... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251028-aus... - podcast time: 7 min 08 sec

this is why I think it's good practice to put out writing or videos or whatever that is repeating stuff you've said before in a different way. Sometimes I find a tone that hits with people and I've spoken about the same thing so many times before and had crickets

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