Drew Breunig

💯 theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

This probably the wrong person to let your video generator run wild with, and perhaps the likeness best equipped to take legal action. www.theguardian.com/film/2015/ma...

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Do it!

@bransonreese.bsky.social A friend of mine is a high school teacher and he recently sent me this text: "Just got shamed by a student for saying 'the Deftones' instead of 'Deftones'. I will never recover."

i don’t name them because I always forget if the K or R is backwards and don’t want to embarrass myself.

(It’s the Я)

Generalissimo Hospital once sold me some fake car insurance paperwork.

Mark your calendars!
In this #podcast, @jed.co and @dbreunig.bsky.social will use Drew's blog post – "Why LLM advancements have slowed: The low-hanging fruit has been eaten – as a starting point for their conversation. Read the post here:
www.dbreunig.com/2024/12/05/w...

Swan Boy Goes to the Release for the 33 1/3 for 24 Hour Revenge Therapy Visit the post for more.

this question and answer is wild considering this was like strip 5: swanboy.com/comic/swan-b...

It's always been a "power object" that people imbue with whatever signal they want. Best to avoid.

🆕 #CNG2025 session video
The live webinar has ended, but the conversation continues! In this talk, @dbreunig.bsky.social explains why our definitions of location are fragmented and how we can standardize "place" like we did time
▶️ youtu.be/stiYfBB0KC8

AI Companies School Like Fish Markets for new AI use cases turn from blue oceans to red oceans in under 18 months. Start-ups need to go niche or have one helluva plan.

When a new use case arrives (chat, deep research, browsers), AI companies school like fish towards it. Blue oceans turn red in a year or so.

What can we learn from this pattern?

www.dbreunig.com/2025/09/13/t...

This is too funny: what3words pivots to AI: what3words.com/products/pro

I like that angle.

Will you be sharing the slides or talk anywhere? This challenge (explain LMs to lay people in a constructive way) is a bit of a white whale of mine and I’d love to see someone else’s take.

I am *very* curious how/if the notoriously designed-by-engineers Atlassian will accommodate The Browser Company's design culture.

Surprise?

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

GOAT. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Chatbots Aren’t Built for Ads How do you add advertising to a tool used to make decisions?

Chatbots may be incompatible with ads as we know them. What options are there? www.dbreunig.com/2025/09/02/c...

Thinking About AI Jobs on Labor Day A labor day themed issue, featuring several posts about how AI changes work and workers.

My monthly newsletter, wrapping up August's writing, just went out. Unintentionally, this is very much a Labor Day issue, with a few articles about AI's impact on work and workers: buttondown.com/dbreunig/arc...

KPop Demon Hunters’ success is a strong argument against the other two headlines.

A Comedy Writer on How AI Changes Her Field Kenneth Cukier and Eleanor Warnock recently launched a newsletter about AI’s affect on writing and writers, Chief Word Officer. Their recent issue is an interview with comedy writer Madeleine Bretting...

And thankfully, that song has less than 200k views in 3 weeks. Currently it's novel because it's AI, not because it's good. And that'll fade soon. I wrote about it a bit here: www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/25/a...

My hope is that this is similar to the "curation" buzz that occurred in the early 2010s, at the height of BoingBoing and Brain Pickings, where there was a bit of a push to treat bloggers who found stuff like artists. Thankfully, that never caught on.

I dislike this and hope it will pass. Every time someone waxes about AI creating content, I ask if they know how many songs were released on Spotify this week? Or bandcamp? How many comics were published just to Comixology? How many streaming episodes launched?

The problem is discovery.

11th!

An emergent trend I _hate_ is attributing a project to "China" in headlines and posts when talking about something a person or team built. It's maddening.

China did not ship a new LLM. China did not ship a new kind of GPU.

Re-upping this post from January, for reasons... www.dbreunig.com/2025/01/01/c...

It is a tragedy of the commons situation.

To build these things well, you need funds. To get funds, you have to compete with the worst boosters.

There are bright spots (the team at Allen AI), but it's so cut-throat.

It's disappointing to think they're actually in the middle, with the bottom pulled down by Grok.