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It only takes 250 malicious documents to backdoor any size AI model www.tiktok.com/@aeyespybywi...

Noteworthy. GPTs carry a worldview, values and assumptions about what’s “normal,” “rational,” or “moral.” No surprises - https://lnkd.in/exJVmNvD ... I'll be interested to see what further results… | Simon Wardley | 36 comments Noteworthy. GPTs carry a worldview, values and assumptions about what’s “normal,” “rational,” or “moral.” No surprises - https://lnkd.in/exJVmNvD ... I'll be interested to see what further...

LLMs are a non kinetic form of warfare. By controlling the language, medium and tools then they influence how you reason about any space. www.linkedin.com/posts/simonw...

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region | Adrian Cockcroft | 84 comments In my opinion the root cause of the recent AWS outage is their architectural decision to have everything depend on the same instance of DynamoDB, including operation of DynamoDB itself. This is a circular...

AI has this same inception type of circular logic and dependency of instance running on itself www.linkedin.com/posts/adrian...

UX must alleviate the cognitive burden of time Next-generation AI-UX design must deliver human handoff harmony, with seamless transitions between machine execution and user cognition that recognize people’s limited mental processing budgets…

Instead of having a conversation with the computer, we’re moving toward something more akin to the way corporate managers deal with staff: maybe a weekly one-on-one meeting instead of talking to the underlings every minute of the day. jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/think-time...

Living with Ghost Machines Generative AI as hauntological determinism

What comes back out looks like language, but it’s simply the statistical ghost of every similar sentence in the training data. The AI doesn’t understand what it’s saying because it’s not ‘saying’ anything. It’s channeling. cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/living-wit...

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to…

Anthropic has spent more than 100% of its estimated revenue (based on reporting in the last year) on Amazon Web Services, spending $2.66 billion on compute on an estimated $2.55 billion in revenue www.wheresyoured.at/costs/

Fear and Loathing in San Francisco Unpacking Peter Thiel’s very American eschatology

Markets that are relatively monopolized are far more profitable than markets with many producers who compete on mostly even terrain. cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/fear-and-l...

AI trying to train on its own slop is like you trying to build on your own thoughts having no external output from the world www.tiktok.com/@akravitzmus...

How Does the End Begin? | No Mercy / No Malice The top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 account for 40% of the index’s market cap. Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, AI-related stocks have registered 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth,…

If the Mag 10 justify their valuations by delivering $1 trillion in cost-cutting... Assuming an average white-collar wage of $100,000 per year, that’s 10 million jobs lost and a 6% increase in unemployment. www.profgalloway.com/how-does-the...

Taylor Swift, Sora, and Slop vs. Substance "Taste" Is the Last Scarce Resource

So what should we expect with AI slop? The rise of a counterculture, of course. www.digitalnative.tech/p/taylor-swi...

AI is sold to us like its the future, but it's a regurgitation of our collective past, remarketed as the future www.tiktok.com/@independent...

The AI Trust Problem: Why the Consumer vs. Enterprise Split Puts Your Business at Risk — AI Mindset OpenAI's new content policies create a deep split between consumer and enterprise AI, raising serious trust and liability issues for businesses. Learn how to protect your company with clear policies…

You have six weeks before OpenAI's changes roll out. Use them. www.ai-mindset.ai/ai-mindset-n...

Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It's Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPT ChatGPT: Now with more psychosis-inducing features for adults.

Despite admitting earlier this year that safeguards can “degrade” over the course of longer conversations, Altman claimed, “We have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues.” gizmodo.com/sam-altman-l...

Let the Model Write the Prompt Notes from a talk I delivered at the 2025 Data + AI Summit, detailing the problem with prompts in your code and how DSPy can make everything better.

Let the model write the prompt www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/10/l...

OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias. India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people.

An MIT Technology Review investigation finds that caste bias is rampant in OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

GenAI: Why Democratization Doesn't Mean Equality for Masses & Masters — AI Mindset Explore the 'democratization paradox' of GenAI. Discover how AI amplifies the gap between novices and experts, and why building judgment, not just tool proficiency, is your ultimate moat in an…

Democratization doesn't mean equality. Gen AI is creating two tiers: the masses and the masters. The masses get templates and the masters get multipliers. www.ai-mindset.ai/ai-mindset-n...

Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy (short paper) The wording of natural language prompts has been shown to influence the performance of large language models (LLMs), yet the role of politeness and tone remains underexplored. In this study, we…

Is being rude just more effective? Or is it because rude is direct signal and polite is noise?https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950

Using LLMs to predict actual purchase intent without talking to actual customers: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08338

Treating people like old hardware that cannot be upgraded and into a false dichotomy of labor or obsolete www.tiktok.com/@loganinthef...

The AI Behavior Gap: Why 73% of Use is Personal, Not Work — AI Mindset New data reveals a stark divide: 73% of AI use is personal. Learn why enterprise AI adoption lags and how to fix the behavioral barriers - not technology - holding your team back.

Individuals are using AI as a thinking partner but businesses are using AI as an automation engine. "Treat AI as a practice that elevates craft" www.ai-mindset.ai/ai-mindset-n...

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

"The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely" www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

Employees of AI companies checking over large language model (LLM) outputs are from countries such as Nigeria and Kenya, where “delve” is used at higher rates than in American or British English www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that…

The insidious effect of workslop is that it shifts the burden of the work downstream, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work. In other words, it transfers the effort from creator to receiver. hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500…

No of course there isn't enough capital for all of this. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds A new study in Nature reveals that people who use AI tend to be more dishonest compared to when they don't use AI for tasks.

People are far more likely to lie and cheat when they use AI for tasks, according to an eyebrow-raising new study in the journal Nature. futurism.com/ai-study-une...

The Bullshit Jobs Apocalypse How billionaire AI is eating the future

Silicon Valley is in the midst of pulling off one of the more elegant cons in tech history: convincing the world that building truly intelligent machines requires the destruction of human intelligence and relationships at an industrial scale. - cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/the-bullsh...

My design principles: choice, freedom, behavior, nuance, creativity, inclusivity, movement, superpowers, conflict, proof | Ha Phan posted on the topic | LinkedIn Some of my principles: 1. The Paradox of Choice. Too many options create cognitive load and complexity. 2. Don’t give users a rope to hang themselves. Freedom with guardrails. 3. Encourage good behavior...

"Transformative work requires conflict. We find truth through friction." -
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Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT…

Thinking Machines published published that AI randomness mostly comes from how GPU kernels get stitched and scheduled during inference, and that tighter control here can deliver deterministic inference. - thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...

TikTok - Make Your Day

The AI world is Dune. A mythology was created around the coming of the Messiah, hand-crafted to control people and make sure Paul Atreides would ultimately have power. And Paul starts to believe the myth himself. This is the world of AI. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Esow8a/

Let the Model Write the Prompt Notes from a talk I delivered at the 2025 Data + AI Summit, detailing the problem with prompts in your code and how DSPy can make everything better.

“There will be better strategies, optimizations, and models tomorrow. Don’t be dependent on any one.” - www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/10/l...