How strange it is to read about AI “democratizing” the creation process even as we’re watching democracy die in realtime.

Katherine Argent Its gotten to the point where I just don't believe anything a company claims regarding AI. Saw a commercial for meta's glasses and none of their claims will work like they show.

A classic Google move is to make the avoidance of something difficult and then claim that when people use the thing it’s proof they like it — when actually it’s just proof we’re all in a hurry. Don’t believe me? Then ask yourself why they disabled the ability to avoid AI

Katherine Argent I use Google a lot for work. I HAVE to skip the AI summary because of the incorrect information printed there. It's a complete waste of time, at best. At worst it's contributing to a potentially dangerous situation in the real world.

You have to use your own best judgment when accepting AI Overviews, too, and most of the time when people do it’s a matter of confirmation bias — “Does the AIO agree with what I already think? Then it’s right.” The problem is, AIOs are often horrifically wrong and the search

Sign #1130283 that AI is largely just hype: the inventor of “vibe coding” hand codes because agents can’t do it.

People flock to try the newest thing. It’s our nature. Pointing out the number of downloads an app has doesn’t prove anything — except, perhaps, that you don’t understand people. The metric that matters is ongoing use and Sora is falling flat in that regard. It’s almost like

Katherine Argent Next step: company managers and leaders realizing they were sold snake oil when they purchased AI tools that are meant to resolve no real issues and it was just a solution looking for a problem all along.

The OpenAI scam in one timeline: 2015: Launch as nonprofit promising “AGI for all humanity” → get donations & top talent taking pay cuts “for the mission” 2019: Create for-profit arm, sell to Microsoft for $13B, stop open sourcing anything 2023: Realize models hitting

My home is near one of the gathering places for a No Kings Day protest. Parking is scarce here even on the best of days, so people are hiking into the site from over a mile away. They’re coming in pairs and small groups. Some brave souls are even arriving on their own. The

The America-hating antifa hordes singing the Star Spangled Banner in Boise, ID 🙌 🇺🇸 💪 Home of the Brave George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 Joe Walsh #nokings #NoKingsDayOct18th

According to my Twitter feed, seven million terrorists gathered yesterday in anti-American demonstrations and yet there weren’t mass incidents of violence, no one built hangman scaffolding, nobody toppled statues, climbed walls, or smeared buildings with feces. It’s almost like

Every search engine and social media platform should provide easily accessible ways for users to decline AI assistants, answers, and images like DuckDuckGo does. That’s the difference between providing AI as a useful tool and forcing people to adopt it so you can train on their

Things like this are destroying our ability to think and reason. Without the effort of looking up information ourselves, we’re deprived of evaluating its credibility and testing it against our own knowledge — or what we find in other sources — to see how it fits in with what we

This is why the output of any LLM — Grok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. — can’t be trusted or and shouldn’t be cited as truth. Ultimately, the results you see are the ones the billionaire behind the machine wants you to see. Elon’s just saying it out loud.

Here's OpenAI's plan to take over the entire web: 1. Replace Search with Chat - Attacking Google and the open web they steal content from. 2. Replace human create videos with Sora - Attacking YouTube, TikTok, IG Reels, and Rumbl 3. Replace adult human content with AI

Excited to use OpenAI’s browser? You should read this first.

I love an idealistic protest as much as the next person, but let’s face it: only *some* publishers would join, and meanwhile the grifters would scale publication rate. Either way, Google wouldn’t care: they have all the data that’s ever been published, and they gather more

Just like it did to ours.

A periodic reminder that everyone should read this marvelous 2002 essay. “When people’s imaginative energy is replaced by the drop-down menu ‘creativity’ of big tech platforms, on a mass scale, we’re facing a particularly dire form of immiseration.”