Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!"
Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!"
Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI."
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Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!"
Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI."
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AI is reshaping industries and our economy, and it’s crucial that young people and our workforce are equipped to succeed in this landscape.
Proud to introduce a bipartisan bill with Sen. Rounds to ensure students and educators have the resources they need to harness the power of AI.
Proud to introduce a bipartisan bill with Sen. Rounds to ensure students and educators have the resources they need to harness the power of AI.
May 4, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!"
Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!"
Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI."
#NihilismAndTechnology
Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!"
Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI."
#NihilismAndTechnology
Tech companies steal information to train AI and then steal water to run AI. There is no "ethical AI"...
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“…reinforcing previous studies, the researchers found that a patchwork of state, federal and local policies allow data center operators to avoid publicly disclosing their actual water use.”
Data centers are guzzling California’s water. We have no idea how much.
A new report warns that data center buildout is encroaching on California’s most vulnerable, water-stressed communities. The problem is, no one’s saying how much water they use
calmatters.org
May 17, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Tech companies steal information to train AI and then steal water to run AI. There is no "ethical AI"...
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In a short span of time we went from people speculating that companies were listening to their conversations to companies offering listening to your conversations as a feature.
Plaud is launching AI earbuds
An AI wearable, but for your ears.
www.theverge.com
August 27, 2026 at 6:28 PM
September 26, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Important to remember: You don't wear pervert glasses. Pervert glasses wear you...
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Pervert glasses that record sometimes are the incremental step to pervert glasses that record all the time.
Meta tests ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can capture every moment
Mark Zuckerberg’s hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded
www.ft.com
July 8, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Important to remember: You don't wear pervert glasses. Pervert glasses wear you...
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Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”
wow, i love the AI future!
wow, i love the AI future!
Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
futurism.com
April 9, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Artificial intelligence’s growing energy demand could trigger blackouts across the US as the country’s electricity grid struggles to keep up.
AI energy demand raises risk of blackouts across the US | Semafor
The country’s electricity consumption is set to rise by 15% in the next decade, with experts increasingly concerned the grid is not equipped to meet the demand.
www.semafor.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Imagine how little you have to think of people to offer this as a "feature"...
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June 9, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Imagine how little you have to think of people to offer this as a "feature"...
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This is not "unsettling". It's insulting...
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Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
This is not "unsettling". It's insulting...
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If this headline was about any other product, there'd be a massive recall and class-action lawsuit...
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ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death – and OpenAI doesn’t know how to stop it
ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death
www.independent.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
If this headline was about any other product, there'd be a massive recall and class-action lawsuit...
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Now that AI can play video games for us we'll finally have more time to do...our jobs? laundry? doomscrolling?
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“The patent describes the idea of a ‘ghost’ character upon whom players could call in times of need; when summoned, the ghost could step into the player’s metaphorical shoes to either demonstrate what they’re doing wrong or just complete the challenging section for them.” 🤦🏿♂️
Sony Patent Would Unleash AI 'Ghosts' to Beat Games for You When They Get Too Hard
Maybe one day, we'll get an AI that can watch the movies for us.
gizmodo.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Now that AI can play video games for us we'll finally have more time to do...our jobs? laundry? doomscrolling?
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We are truly living in the "Despite this" era...
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January 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
We are truly living in the "Despite this" era...
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Sam Altman is begging us to stop taking him seriously. And I for one think it's time we listen to him...
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Sam Altman said he wants to be able to think something and have ChatGPT respond to it
Sam Altman’s Brain Chip Venture Is Mulling Gene Therapy Approach
Sam Altman said he wants to be able to think something and have ChatGPT respond to it
bloom.bg
August 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Sam Altman is begging us to stop taking him seriously. And I for one think it's time we listen to him...
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"This company is turning people into food, but damn they make some delicious meals!"
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I’d be cool if I never ever saw another review like this. The fact that these companies are actively making everything worse is not independent of the fact that they also make hardware—it’s actually the same problem. gizmodo.com/meta-fury-ai...
June 29, 2026 at 6:54 PM
"This company is turning people into food, but damn they make some delicious meals!"
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AI is being used to...
-Facilitate online scams
-Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials
-Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing
-Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data
The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future.
They're already here.
-Facilitate online scams
-Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials
-Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing
-Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data
The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future.
They're already here.
September 26, 2026 at 7:50 AM
i gave mark zuckerberg’s ai access to my bank accounts, email, and docs. i am very smart
September 23, 2026 at 6:44 AM
March 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
You could just pay 5 PhDs $4000 a month and you wouldn't even have to worry about them hallucinating (except on weekends)...
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Source: OpenAI executives have told some investors about plans for a $2,000/month agent, a $10,000/month agent for coding, and a $20,000/month PhD-level agent (The Information)
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March 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
You could just pay 5 PhDs $4000 a month and you wouldn't even have to worry about them hallucinating (except on weekends)...
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April 17, 2026 at 10:01 PM
"A self-own was embedded within the ad too; Google seemed to boast that its ideal customers are people unable to write or think for themselves."
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“The ads came in a long tradition of what might be called the Super Bowl’s tech-normalization movement, in which frontiers foreign or fraught are made safe by companies introducing them to us at our most guard-down moment: while we snack on chips hanging with friends.”
This Is What Big Tech Was Trying to Do to Us at the Super Bowl
Commercials during the Big Game sought to make AI our cuddly friend. It rarely worked.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"A self-own was embedded within the ad too; Google seemed to boast that its ideal customers are people unable to write or think for themselves."
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We’re hastening the death of everything for the benefit of a technology that is swamping the world with shit.
Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area
April 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.
Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors
The Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive.
futurism.com
March 5, 2026 at 7:35 AM
April 10, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM