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ChatGPT guessed this guys Dad's name.

You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data

UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead

eating our own dogshit

GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

DEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI!

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic

How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data

Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!

Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates

Musk ("xAI") now claims grok was hacked

Even Elon Musk can’t make Grok claim a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent

Musk’s xAI gas turbines: no emission controls, filling Memphis air with smog

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?

Lloyd’s offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025

Soundcloud claims the right to train AI on all your songs — but swears it hasn’t yet, honest