Victor Tangermann

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 — and counting.

Look out!

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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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!

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

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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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...

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 the Eye of Sauron

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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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

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

bubblification

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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Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New “Tupelo” 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 “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”

so nick caved. come on, it was RIGHT there
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Epstein with the cool s sign

wow
this is pretty damning if Trump really did write it

"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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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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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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The ‘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...

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

also TIL what reverse harem is

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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Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer 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
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damn that was fast

Decapitated Dolphin in North Carolina Prompts $20,000 Reward Offer From U.S.

has anybody seen rfk jr lately
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Futurism Like a Broken Grok May 14, 4:22 PM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets "Sorry for the mix-up, the video is indeed about a pig, not white genocide."

truly, truly amazing things happening on x, the everything app futurism.com/elon-musk-gr...

Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.

utterly bizarre
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SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artists’ Music Following Furious Backlash SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.

Team @futurism.com gets RESULTS! After @mharrisondupre.bsky.social was the first to report on Soundcloud's sketchy TOS change forcing users to condone AI, they've now reversed course, and changed their policies: futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
Tldr, journalism still matters.

SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artists’ Music Following Furious Backlash SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.

Seriously, what part of "explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence" did SoundCloud not understand?
new by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social
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Futurism Powerball May 12, 10:05 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Gannet Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country "This results page was generated automatically..." Artificial Intelligence/ Ai/ Ai Journalism/ Ai Generated Content

NEW: The newspaper giant Gannett is mass-publishing automated lottery content in local papers across the country.

In some states, the AI articles pointedly direct readers toward a gambling site with which Gannett has a financial relationship.

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SoundCloud Quietly Forced Artists to Let AI Feast on Their Music SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI training.

Absolutely insane story developing in real time right now: SoundCloud updated its TOS to allow AI to train on EVERYTHING ANYONE UPLOADS, and its users are just finding out now.

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