Jim Lai

I would add that it's unprincipled FOMO. The industry is still figuring out best practices, and yet educators are told to forge ahead without that knowledge. Today's practices could be obsolete in a couple of years even.

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

It's worth remembering that AI is more than the US companies that dominate Western media discourse. restofworld.org/2025/kenya-c...

'NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books' * TorrentFreak NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training.

Once again, the secret ingredient is crime.
torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...

These supposedly independent network state charter cities will clearly be glorified SEZs dependent on the US state and military-industrial complex to even exist if they cannot be created without state coercion. Actual libertarians should be appalled.

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

A power move. techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...

I am the walrus, Paul McCartney. Please advise.

Trained LLM impetus to solve problems and reduce friction for users may mean steering users away from social supports, and sycophancy toward social isolation suicide - all as less anxious and exhausting options. Simulated empathy gone wrong.

Salesforce drank the neoliberal Kool-Aid, that AI enables automation and replacement of human labor, choosing to throttle to minimize burn rate. Enshittification. This Western approach is ignoring the potential for productivity gains by amplifying what humans can do by empowering them in place.

ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly pers... Are we going to see ads in ChatGPT's answers soon?

I cannot wait for the first wave of generative AI fiction to be peppered with inline product promotion, violating genre conventions and embarrassing putative authors.
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

One could construct a coordinate system that treats the surface of a man as one might a sphere in spherical coordinates. Hence manospheric coordinate system. Of course, he would position himself at the center of the world.

So much has been redacted that you're not missing anything by not looking. Carry on.

AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds Anything your imagination desires, as long as it's one of just a few options.

12 shades of slop.
gizmodo.com/ai-image-gen...

GPTZero uncovers 50+ Hallucinations in ICLR 2026 GPTZero used our Hallucination Check tool to find 50+ hallucinations under review at ICLR, each of which were missed by 3-5 peer reviewers.

It's not a good look when even AI papers are submitted with hallucinated references. gptzero.me/news/iclr-20...

Then they're courting troll votes rather than troll recruits.

The US administration is basically participating in 4chan-adjacent meme trolling online. This may very well be deliberate strategy to connect with young male voters, a direct propaganda channel bypassing conventional media.

AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects

Grifters are getting out of hand with AI. Misinformation deepfakes for unethical profit. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

It would be uncharitable to suggest that they bonded over a mutual interest in underage groupies.

Imagine Diogenes carting in a humanoid robot and having it walk on stage whlie engaging as an LLM chatbot. "Behold, a man!"

These archaea built a distinct genetic code to put pyrrolysine in proteins That feat has synthetic biologists excited

It never fails to amuse me whenever more evidence turns up that the genetic code is more variations on a theme than a fixed thing. cen.acs.org/biological-c...

It is inevitable under capitalism that in a loneliness epidemic, AI companies will see opportunity in profiting from sustained loneliness. In this era of revenue stream maximization, the best customer is a recurring customer.

Rocket Launches Are Proliferating. What Is This Doing to the Atmosphere? What goes up in the form of rockets and their payloads must eventually come down in the form of launch emissions and objects falling out of orbit.

Time to find out what the risks are to the ecosystem before anyone seriously tries to launch orbital AI datacenters or factories. The precautionary principle demands we look. news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/03/04/r...

A literal US billionaire has bankrolled ostrich protests in Canada, over animals destined to be leather and pet food.

Multilingual Jailbreak Challenges in Large Language Models While large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, they pose potential safety concerns, such as the ``jailbreak'' problem, wherein malicious instructions ...

Using languages other than English can also work against LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2310.06474

Money was an early virtual reality. The invention of paper money was literally based on IOU notes.

My "biological name" is H. Sapiens. Binomial nomenclature is internationally recognized.

I wouldn't be surprised if the NDP joins the CPC in bringing down the Carney government, only to have Poilievre become the next PM.

The grift is being automated. It can't be for free, after all.

Movie Studio Lionsgate is Struggling to Make AI-Generated Films With Runway AI models need a lot of data.

Due to a lack of data, we have been spared future attempts to train AI to one-shot a movie.
petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...

They're also perpetuating a neoliberal libertarian myth, that if someone is hungry, it's their own fault because a(n absurd) solution of growing food at home is so easy. This puts all blame on the individual.

What proof do we have that they exited the "phase"?