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Victor Tangermann

@vtanger.bsky.social

Senior editor at Futurism.com

413 Followers  |  163 Following  |  135 Posts  |  Joined: 27.05.2023  |  1.9942

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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.

Actually somewhat terrifying -- Grok is providing random people's home and work addresses to would-be stalkers

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04.12.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 15
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Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy's Home Address It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.

Probably not great for the Hitler-admiring chatbot to also provide home addresses futurism.com/future-socie...

02.12.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

an excellent piece by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social, as captivating as it is depressing. a sad reality check on the current state of journalism
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24.11.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pretty notable they opened their livestream by "addressing the rumors" that the object may be an alien spacecraft. clearly a pretty pervasive (and largely refuted) hypothesis that nasa couldn't/didn't publicly comment on while the shutdown dragged on

19.11.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NASA Releases Long-Delayed Image of 3I/ATLAS NASA finally released an early "peek" at the observations of its spacecraft of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS during a livestream today.

glad to see NASA getting caught up in public re/ 3I/ATLAS -- they just released a bunch of observations its spacecraft made of 3I/ATLAS during the shutdown
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19.11.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly ChthonicΒ Horrors An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.

β€œCloseups show human faces distorted beyond recognition, sprouting extra appendages. The bodies of what appear to be dogs horrifically merge with human figures. Happy holidays indeed.”

19.11.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 25
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"

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13.11.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1409    πŸ” 560    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 138
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

06.11.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 43475    πŸ” 12497    πŸ’¬ 4668    πŸ“Œ 2913
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Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns β€” and counting.

Look out!

09.10.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 17
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RFK Jr. Sneezes Loudly While Trump Is Speaking As Donald Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office to announce a Pfizer deal, his health secretary sneezed loudly.

beyond parody

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02.10.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

it's pretty egregious that spotify's platform allows this stuff to fall through the cracks. this is how the vast majority of people listen to music these days!

26.09.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ironically, Spotify announced new policies to combat what it called AI "slop" outright literally yesterday

26.09.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bon Iver Side Project's Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.

had an interesting run-in on my Spotify Release Radar this morning, wondering why Volcano Choir had released an incredibly cheap-sounding single 12 years into their hiatus
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26.09.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They're Trying to Peddle "Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer" A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.

we're truly in the age of AI-powered dehumanization, by @joeonhere.bsky.social futurism.com/job-applicat...

17.09.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
no man's sky spaceship that looks like Microsoft Clippy

no man's sky spaceship that looks like Microsoft Clippy

no man's sky spaceship that looks like Goku from Dragon Ball

no man's sky spaceship that looks like Goku from Dragon Ball

no man's sky spaceship that looks like the Eye of Sauron

no man's sky spaceship that looks like the Eye of Sauron

no man's sky spaceship that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine

no man's sky spaceship that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine

imo this is what the internet was made for

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09.09.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

they say we all float down here, and we float very strongly, and a lot of people are saying we float at levels that have never been seen before

30.08.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 545    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

18.08.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4444    πŸ” 1431    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 306

bubblification

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Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer It's been just over a month since Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI's Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as "MechaHitler" and targeting people wi...

A massive overcorrection, horrifying malicious compliance, or just an incredibly dumb bug?
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11.08.2025 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New β€œTupelo” Video Starring an AI Elvis On the Bad Seeds classic’s 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is β€œa grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”

so nick caved. come on, it was RIGHT there
pitchfork.com/news/nick-ca...

29.07.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Epstein with the cool s sign

Epstein with the cool s sign

wow
this is pretty damning if Trump really did write it

18.07.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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"He Just Went CRAZY": Trump Threatens to Terminate Elon Musk's Government Contracts President Donald Trump threatened to terminate billionaire Elon Musk's "Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," escalating their feud.

elon will live to be 120 years old and be president like at least 17 times
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05.06.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Shreds Elon Musk Billionaire Elon Musk's bromance with president Donald Trump has officially exploded into an ugly, spite-fuelled, mud-slinging grudge match.

we all knew for a very long time this was gonna happen. still kinda wild to watch the chaos unfurl
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05.06.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Washington Post Is Secretly Planning to Start Publishing Articles Created Using AI The Washington Post has quietly been building an AI tool that takes much of the work out of writing as it attempts to recoup readership.

proactively imagining all the ways this is going to be a disaster

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04.06.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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The β€˜white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality...

www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

30.05.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 639    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 33

losing attitude control during Flight 9 could be a sign of yet another major setback for SpaceX

28.05.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

also TIL what reverse harem is

23.05.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.

look, i don't care what somebody gets off to, but this level of laziness and blatant attempts to rip off a well-established author just will not stand
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23.05.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a β€œSummer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop The Chicago Sun-Times, owned by Chicago Public Media, published an AI-generated reading list featuring mostly AI-fabricated books.

the writer got caught red-handed and definitely went far beyond using AI "for background." just embarrassing really.
new by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
futurism.com/chicago-news...

20.05.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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