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Newspaper Makes Brain-Melting Error in AI-Generated Graphic The Economic Times picked the word "Kafkaesque" as its "Word of the Day" -- but spelled it "Kafkaesliue" in an AI-generated graphic.

it's definitely not simple to find a suitable illustration for the word 'Kafkaesque' (ask me how i know lol), but this definitely ain't it.
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22.01.2026 14:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis John Jacquez successfully managed a mental illness for years, he says. Then ChatGPT reinforced delusions, spiraling him into "AI psychosis."

The complaint “argues that GPT-4o is a ‘defective’ and ‘inherently dangerous’ product, and that OpenAI failed to warn users of foreseeable risks to their emotional and psychological health.”

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Trump's HHS Trashes Top African Health Organization as "Fake" and "Powerless" The HHS is disparaging its colleagues at the Africa CDC in coarse terms, that are striking even by the standards of the Trump administration.

NEW: We're publishing an astonishing outburst the Dep of Health and Human Services left in our inbox.

In an unsolicited email about our coverage of a horrific vaccine experiment, the HHS insisted the Africa CDC was an unreliable source for information, calling it "fake" and "powerless."

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Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."

the kids are all right

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17.01.2026 04:04 — 👍 96 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 4

truly these people do not have their shit together

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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.

i strongly encourage anybody to support the (real) band on their Bandcamp
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08.12.2025 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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 — 👍 90 🔁 50 💬 3 📌 15

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 — 👍 40 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0

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 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 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 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Town's Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.

“Closeups 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 — 👍 173 🔁 48 💬 12 📌 24

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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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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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 — and counting.

Look out!

09.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 118 🔁 49 💬 5 📌 17

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 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 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 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

26.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

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 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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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09.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 38 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 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 — 👍 544 🔁 46 💬 5 📌 0

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

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bubblification

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