Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025
Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic
What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025
OpenAI releases GPT-4.5 with ridiculous prices for a mediocre model
PhD student expelled for using AI sues university, files pro-se suit using ChatGPT
Discord adds AI image transform bot — that you can’t disable or opt out of
AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025
Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases
AI ‘hacks’ system to cheat at chess! — because the researchers told it how to
Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it
Yahoo! Mail shows email users fake AI-mangled subject lines
Businesses still don’t know what an ‘AI agent’ is and they don’t really want one
Humane AI finally shuts down, HP pays $116m for the pieces — not including the Ai Pin
Musk accretes Gebbia, wants to run an AirBnB out of 1600 Pennsylvania
AI chatbots test as having cognitive decline
Guardian does OpenAI deal, New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23 February 2025
El Salvador finds the use case for AI: handouts to the government’s pals
How AI slop generators started talking about ‘vegetative electron microscopy’
