Below are posts associated with the “wired.com” source.
🔗 linkblog: I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend—Its Answers Were All Wrong
Interesting article here. I don’t read WIRED (or The Verge, or…) for the product reviews, but it’s not hard to see how generative AI can create issues for them in that way.
🔗 linkblog: Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
Oh, okay, maybe not shame so much as butt-covering.
🔗 linkblog: Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
It takes a lot to get me on Anthropic’s side in any disagreement, but Pete Hegseth is a lot, so I guess this tracks.
🔗 linkblog: Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof
Important, helpful read.
🔗 linkblog: After Minneapolis, Tech CEOs Are Struggling to Stay Silent
CEOs’ silence is indication of a moral vacuum.
🔗 linkblog: Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous
Look, I’m open to the argument that there are legitimate, good uses of generative AI, but I think anyone making that argument needs to address stuff like this.
🔗 linkblog: The Campaign to Destroy Renee Good
Depressing read, but makes me glad I’m renewing my WIRED subscription.
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees
Grok continues to disgust.
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
Pair this with Emanuel Maiberg’s article I linked to earlier, and there’s a lot to think about.
I sometimes wonder if base Grok is less wild than integrated-with-Twitter Grok, but this is at least one way in which that’s not true.
🔗 linkblog: Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Bookmarking all these articles on Grok for rage fuel.
🔗 linkblog: Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database
Are we willing to pay this price in order to have some neat image generation tools? (I’m not.)
🔗 linkblog: AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
This sucks—and even more so because the Reddit company is willing to play nice with AI to get their pretty penny.
🔗 linkblog: The GOP Civil War Over Nick Fuentes Has Just Begun
Nick Fuentes is bad news, and I’m glad some in the GOP are recognizing that.
🔗 linkblog: The AWS Outage Was a Nightmare for College Students
Universities are too platform dependent, and even those platforms are too dependent on the next layer of the stack. What a mess.
🔗 linkblog: The Blurred Truths of Sora
Not sure if I agree with everything here, but it’s important reflection.
🔗 linkblog: He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Well, this is terrifying.
🔗 linkblog: The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
I’m completely serious when I say that Peter Thiel makes me want to get a seminary degree, because if we’re going to have theology about AI, I want it to be better than his.
🔗 linkblog: The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’
There are many worse things happening in our country right now, but also: this is petty and embarrassing.
🔗 linkblog: The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears
Super interesting, but I prefer my numbers station content to be the fun kind of spooky.
🔗 linkblog: The Fairphone (Gen. 6) Is the Antidote to Yearly Phone Upgrades
Been thinking for years that I should own a Fairphone one day.
🔗 linkblog: The Trump Administration Is Using Memes to Turn Mass Deportation Into One Big Joke
Bookmarking this so I can point to it if anyone asks why I’ve shifted my research from ed tech to right-wing Mormonism.
🔗 linkblog: Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground
Personally, I’m not sure why anyone needs to be this rich.