Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th March 2025
Credulous coverage of AI slop on Wikipedia
Science journal Nature promotes using chatbots for academic peer review
Oops, all AI! Google replaces search with the AI Overview
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, DOGE, and the coming superhuman ‘woke’ AI
LA Times ‘bias meter’ goes live, pushes AI slop without journalistic review
"Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers
Google: We’ll reach Artificial General Intelligence if you slackers just show face in the office 60 hours a week
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9 March 2025
What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025
Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic
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
Microsoft plays down AI bubble, cancels data center leases
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2 March 2025
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
