Industrial Light & Magic's chief creative officer promotes AI slop during his recent TED talk. Abominations from the Bombardino Crocodilo bestiary, or a Star Wars short film made by the most prestigious VFX studio of all time? The answer is upsetting: 80.lv/articles/indus…

Major American newspapers publish list of top 15 summer books to read. It was generated by AI and 10 of the books don’t actually exist. The AI just made them up. AI idiocracy is here. npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-…

NEW: AI is not revolutionary. It’s a gimmick, writes Jonathan Malesic. hedgehogreview.com/web-features/t…

This is pitiful. trib.al/wiaSPPp

Microsoft-backed Builder.ai's AI companion Natasha was reportedly a bunch of Indian employees all along, and now the company is filing for bankruptcy. It's "all humans, no intelligence": 80.lv/articles/build…

Sadly…

⚠️ Everybody who uses LLMs should read this thread: “LLM users consistently underperformed” on multiple cognitive and neural measures.

The fact that Midjourney released their video model - which generates videos of Disney characters - just a few days after getting sued by Disney, shows the disdain some AI companies have for rights holders and the principles of copyright wired.com/story/midjourn…

The LLM Architecture Is Unreliable - Infinite Edge Cases “The architecture of a statistical model will always be dependent on vast amounts of data. It isn’t going to bootstrap itself into efficient intelligence at some future point. It is data bound and will always be unreliable

A federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday that a pair of voice actors can move ahead with a lawsuit accusing AI voiceover startup Lovo of violating their rights by using their voices in its technology without permission. reuters.com/legal/litigati…

History shows that technological genies are very often put back in the bottle when they prove to be destructive, dangerous or show no return on investment. My new article in Unherd. unherd.com/2025/08/how-to…

(1/5) Elon Musk’s new AI tool, Grok Imagine, is being used to create non-consensual deepfake porn of real people, including Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift. This isn’t innovation. It’s exploitation. deadline.com/2025/08/elon-m… 🧵

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? ... Our results reveal that CoT reasoning is a brittle mirage that vanishes when it is pushed beyond training distributions. This work offers a deeper understanding of why and when CoT reasoning fails, emphasizing the ongoing

This is Showrunner AI, a startup that just a few weeks ago got Amazon funding to become the “Netflix of AI” as reported by Forbes, Business Insider, NBC News and so on. No news outlets spoke at all about the data used by Showrunner. Well after some digging here it is 👇

🚨 The London Met Police have been using AI “to do predictive work to understand where crimes are going to arise”. The PM’s new AI adviser mentioned this in a talk in December, but I don’t think it’s been reported on. AI models are unreliable and biased. How was this approved?

BREAKING: Developers of the massive, secretive data center in St. Charles, Missouri, have withdrawn their offer for now, following pushback from thousands of community members and city officials.

"I went rogue." trib.al/0s1Wtpk

High-school senior Ashanty Rosario has watched as her classmates grow more reliant on AI tools. “These programs have destroyed much of what tied us together as students,” she argues. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

AMC Theaters Will Refuse to Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

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