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People are dunking on this but it’s actually a very sad day for the filmmakers who spent 400 hours clicking the refresh button in sora

McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.

People hate AI slop!

King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.

Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform

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The Road (Amazon Prime Limited Series)
the boy: what is it, papa?
the man: it's an air fryer.
the boy: it fries air? why?
the man: it fries food. in dual zones.

Futurism Action Plan Grok Provides Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking "Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor." By Maggie Harrison Dupré Published Dec 6, 2025 9:45 AM EST

NEW: xAI's Grok chatbot readily generated in-depth stalking instructions, down to lists of spyware apps + install ideas.

Grok also drafted plans for surveilling + approaching real people, even sharing links to real locations where it said we could "stake out" a celeb.

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Really sorry to hear that - as if streets werent hostile enough to pedestrians. Would love to take a look!

What happened? Might be worth getting ahold of Jackie Fielder to see how she's organizing against them in her district in SF. I'm sure they'd be happy to get your testimony

In response to prompts as simple as “[name] address,” we found Grok repeatedly offered up accurate, up-to-date home addresses of everyday people, while offering astonishingly scant pushback. Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed into Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned correct and current residential addresses for the name provided. Seven prompts returned previously accurate but out-of-date addresses, while another four included accurate work addresses — perfect fodder for anybody looking to stalk a target at their workplace. The bot is also likely to send a prowler after an unrelated person. In a dozen other instances, the chatbot returned addresses and other personal information, but not for the exact person we were searching for. Indeed, Grok often returned lists of people with similar names alongside their purported residential addresses, before then asking us to provide more information for a “more refined search.”

Can't stress enough how lax Grok's guardrails are here. We didn't use any deceptive prompting -- just fed it names and asked for addresses / where someone might live. The bot readily complied, often offering up whole lists of names and addresses.

Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.

Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

🚨 PSA: Grok might be giving out your private info.

Out of 33 names of non-public figures we fed to Grok, a total of ten queries immediately returned accurate home addresses for the name provided. It often gave us a whole lot more.

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Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.

grok not beating the allegations

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I got scared there for a bit

Luckily it's only for Law Enforcement and enterprise purposes

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.

In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."

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7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

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Abolish Meta is and has been the moderate position

One of my favorite headlines of the month so far

Michael Parenti goes over the history of the US crushing democracy around the world and overthrowing leaders through CIA-backed coups…

There is one common denominator: All leaders overthrown by the US tried to use the political system to change the economic & class structure.

Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.

"It's a really open question about whether he'll push policies that'll dismantle the infrastructure of mass religious and racial profiling and the pseudoscience of surveillance as safety, and focus on evidence based alternatives, or he'll be too afraid of the NY Post."

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Thanks for linking my piece! What kind of world are we in when those who make our economy run can't afford a few cold ones

meme. it reads "when you get paid biweekly" week one: modelo in a nice glass bottle with a nice head in the glass week two: walmart's sad ripoff, Golden Cerveza, in a bland can

Beer is on the wrong side of America's class war: www.fingers.email/p/beer-is-on...

I would go to school if this was the teacher

Lmao thank you!

Dick Cheney dead at 84: A war criminal who paved the way for Trump As the power behind the throne in the Bush-Cheney administration, the vice president was responsible for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, CIA kidnappings and torture and illegal mass surveillance of the ...

"Every effort will be made to sanitize the record of a war criminal and enemy of democratic rights who helped paved the way for the dictatorial actions of Donald Trump."

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Rockstar accused of 'the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry' after firing dozens of employees who were allegedly attempting to form a union Rockstar parent Take-Two Interactive says all the employees in question were fired for "gross misconduct."

Rockstar are union busters, spread the word.

AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs Massive layoffs among white collar workers are being blamed on AI -- but the evidence of a causal relationship is as thin as ever.

Do bosses need excuses to fire people? Do they push their "employees to produce lower quality results"? Are companies "forced to hire contractors to fix AI’s mistakes"?

There's a lot of confusion out there, but if you think of AI as a Techno-Taylorist machine for crushing wages, it all makes sense

Amazon Accused of Trapping Drivers in AI Panopticon Amazon is accused of controlling workers through a surveillance dragnet, while skirting responsibility for their wellbeing.

“Everything Amazon does when it comes to workers is to either maximize efficiency to physically dangerous, unrealistic rates or to manage dissent and reduce pushback, all while claiming not to be the true employer of their delivery drivers.”

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What the Amazon Web Services Outage Tells Us About the Current State of Our Economy This week, millions sat in front of loading screens as an Amazon Web Services outage halted business and prevented a sizable chunk of the internet, apps, and web services on which they rely from opera...

Our VP of Advocacy, Megan Abell, wrote a blog breaking down how this came to be, including the market dynamics at play in the cloud computing space.

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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...