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The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives
49+ min ago (442+ words) Published Aug 1, 2026 11:02 AM EDT For a time, it appeared as if AI would find broad acceptance among the American masses. The peanut gallery on social media happily embraced early image generation models as researchers appeared to make significant breakthroughs with…...
Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop
5+ hour, 50+ min ago (329+ words) Published Aug 1, 2026 6:01 AM EDT The majority of workers agree: AI has turned their lives into slop-filled misery, making them yearn for the good old days before the tech existed. In many ways, the results shouldn’t come as much of a…...
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis
21+ hour, 21+ min ago (624+ words) By Frank Landymore, Maggie Harrison Dupré Published Jul 31, 2026 2:30 PM EDT Google Earth is the de facto record of our entire planet. But today, the company undermined its own credibility with a dangerous new AI feature — and then quickly pulled it…...
Mark Zuckerberg's Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
23+ hour, 1+ min ago (558+ words) Published Jul 31, 2026 12:50 PM EDT Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down. Earlier this week, the social media company announced during its second quarter earnings call that it was…...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
23+ hour, 38+ min ago (1211+ words) Published Jul 31, 2026 12:12 PM EDT You may be right. Last week, I received an email from a publicist identified as “June Barton,” whose address indicated that she worked at a firm called VectorGuideHQ. The message, which read like any one of…...
LinkedIn Adds Button on Every Post to Report "Seems Like AI Slop," Which Is Definitely Going to Get a Real Workout
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (502+ words) Published Jul 30, 2026 12:54 PM EDT Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content. It has become the AI slop “punching bag,” a repository of painful engagement bait being spewed out by…...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
2+ day, 53+ min ago (1464+ words) Published Jul 30, 2026 10:58 AM EDT It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media scandals in history. The explosive incident forced a mass reckoning over privacy and surveillance in…...
Meta's Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (441+ words) Published Jul 30, 2026 9:50 AM EDT Meta knows its AI-powered camera equipped spectacles are widely seen as “pervert glasses.” And though it professes to be cracking down on creeps using them to record people without their consent, whatever measures it’s taking clearly…...
Hack "Writers" Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author's Style
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (377+ words) Published Jul 29, 2026 3:47 PM EDT It only took them three and a half years, but the powers that be at OpenAI have apparently directed ChatGPT to start refusing requests to copy a specific author’s style, Ars Technica reports. And it’s causing…...
Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (312+ words) Published Jul 29, 2026 1:57 PM EDT By now, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t broadly familiar with the AI heavyweights and their flagship models. OpenAI has ChatGPT, Anthropic has Claude, Google has Gemini. But what does Amazon have? Not…...