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Pharmaceutical, Data Science, & IT Consultant

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01.01.2026 10:42 👍 0 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0
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Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes! Edward Saatchi runs Fable Studio, which started in 2018 doing virtual reality. A couple of pivots later, Fable has an exciting new project called Showrunner that lets you make your own TV show epis…

"But with Showrunner, you can make something shaped a bit like satire with middling chatbot sentences read out by a flat computer voice!"
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01.08.2025 20:56 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i. Cosmos posted an articl…

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30.07.2025 22:20 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft Remember that much-loved Microsoft AI feature Copilot Recall that keeps screenshots of everything happening on your Windows PC? Now there’s Microsoft Copilot Vision for Windows 11, which takes what…

"...violating privacy hard enough they don’t even dare offer it in Europe."
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29.07.2025 19:26 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen Microsoft Copilot has an avatar now! It’s a viscous pearly blob of liquid. That wobbles. And has facial expressions. I had to euphemise furiously on the YouTube version of this post — but for the b…

What more is there to say?
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28.07.2025 22:11 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI model hype. Again. We talked about dubious claims of replacing fashion models with AI image generator output  back in April, when H&M made a series of actually impossible claims about AI models that they got prin…

"Seraphinne Vallora are so successful in the AI fashion business that they'll sell you all the cool prompts you need to undercut them."
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28.07.2025 06:01 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss Tech recruiters Howdy surveyed 1,047 full-time professionals who say they use AI. 30% of survey subjects said they were managers. [Howdy] 75% of subjects were expected to use AI at work. 22% felt p…

"People feel they would be putting their job at risk if they pushed back on AI directives."
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28.07.2025 05:58 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off. This is false. Pew …

"Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off.
This is false."
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28.07.2025 05:56 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened UPDATE: reply from Lemkin appended at end, he says it really did happen this way Jason Lemkin of AI startup SaaStr posted a Twitter thread on Thursday 17 July, claiming he had vibe-coded an app usi…

"This story reads like a tale for social media with no verifiable details..."
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28.07.2025 05:53 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns I asked a couple of months ago: if AI code was such an obviously superior engineering method, why didn’t we see AI code everywhere in open source? Since then, there have been a few performative AI …

"[C]opyright. Open source licenses rest on copyright. It’s copyrighted, and you have a specific license to use it."
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28.07.2025 05:51 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Google Veo fails week 4: the final faildown When you’ve read this post, go watch the worked examples on YouTube. [YouTube] Our intrepid friend Aron Peterson, a.k.a. Shokunin Studio, is a media production guy. He follows the AI image generato…

"It can’t follow a script, it can’t follow direction, it can’t give consistent characters, the training data keeps leaking through, the sound effects are inept."
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28.07.2025 05:47 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Help fund Pivot to AI’s work — send a few dollars to keep the stories and videos coming It’s that time again when I ask you to send money to Pivot to AI. Help keep the stories coming daily! Here is how to send money: The Patreon is here. Sign up for $5 a month today! Less th…

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28.07.2025 05:42 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-5 7 predictions that might sound familiar

"Virtually every word...was deliberately taken from an earlier essay that I posted on Christmas Day 2022..."
From @garymarcus.bsky.social

28.07.2025 05:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI Neurosymbolic AI is quietly winning. Here’s what that means – and why it took so long

"The core notion has always been that the two main strands of AI—neural networks and symbolic manipulation—complement each other, with different strengths and weaknesses."
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13.07.2025 17:56 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2
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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…

"[B]ut they just need to learn Cursor properly.” Which is another way of saying “it can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.”
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11.07.2025 15:08 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods Our research shows that even the latest "reasoning" models are vulnerable

"GenAI powered chatbots’ lack of reasoning can directly contribute to the nefarious effects of LLM grooming: the mass-production and duplication of false narratives online with the intent of manipulating LLM outputs."
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11.07.2025 14:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think Coding has been the strongest use case. But a new study from METR just dropped.

“[C]urrent AI tools actually slowed down task completion time by 19%.”
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11.07.2025 09:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’? When some huge and stupid public chatbot disaster hits the news, the AI pumpers will Kramer into the mentions to say stuff like “you have to admit, AI is here to stay.” Well, no, I don’t. Not unles…

"The AI bubble will last at least two, maybe three more years, because the venture capitalists really need it to. When, not if, the VCs and their money pipeline go home and the chatbot prices multiply by ten or more, the market for generative AI will collapse."
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10.07.2025 13:51 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
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Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged Anysphere is the startup that produces Cursor, your sort-of dependable vibe coding buddy. You tell Cursor what you’d like and it spits out a complete function! This leads to some spectacular vibe c…

"I compared chatbots to gambling and cocaine before, and Cursor fans are the most abject gutter krokodil addicts."
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09.07.2025 21:22 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew You’ve heard of vibe coding, with, I’m sure, not a little horror. Spin the gacha and make a website! And then you have unfortunate experiences. There are people who get quietly called in to f…

"So if you get called in to fix a vibe-slopchurned disaster, charge as much as you can. Then charge more than that."
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09.07.2025 21:18 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Google AI Overviews: Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU The Independent Publishers Alliance, a group of small UK publishers, has filed a UK competition complaint and an EU antitrust complaint over Google’s AI Overviews in search results. [Press Gazette;…

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09.07.2025 21:16 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions SWE-Bench Verified by OpenAI tests how well a model can solve real bugs in real Python code from GitHub. These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on th…

"These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on the actual text of the bug and on the fix for the bug."
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09.07.2025 21:14 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Are LLMs starting to become sentient? A compassionate but skeptical letter that Douglas Hofstadter wrote to one of his readers

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09.07.2025 21:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scott Alexander’s Misleading Victory Lap Whatever happened to steelmanning?

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09.07.2025 21:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Venture capital is lending money against video cards Last year, Wall Street finance firms started making loans, using video cards as collateral  — that famously long-term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months. Investment bank…

"... video cards ... that famously long-term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months."
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07.07.2025 14:37 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Botshit Gone Wild The downsides of generative AI are growing like wildfire

"... [defines] botshit as the human use of untruthful LLM-generated content ..."
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06.07.2025 09:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance When you’ve read this post, go watch the worked examples on YouTube. [YouTube] Our good friend Aron Peterson, a.k.a. Shokunin Studio, is a media production professional. He experiments with AI imag…

"A lot of AI fans are still telling Aron it can’t be that stupid, he must be prompting it wrong. But they still haven’t posted a prompt that will work reliably for other people."
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06.07.2025 08:57 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures have released what purports to be a survey: “2025: The State of Consumer AI”. That is, chatbots. [Menlo Ventures] The subtitle is: “AI’s Consumer Tipping Po…

"... the “97%” free users are not in fact likely to start paying out their own pockets."
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06.07.2025 08:53 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t Microsoft is firing 9,000 workers across the company — 4% of all employees. Before this, they laid off over 6,000 in May and another 300 in June. [CNBC] It’s not that Microsoft is doing badly. In Q…

"Microsoft isn’t replacing these guys with AI. It’s firing them so it can throw even more money at AI. Microsoft plans to spend $80 billion on AI infrastructure in the next year."
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04.07.2025 09:39 👍 62 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 6
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$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot “Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced” by Govindakumar Madhavan was published in April by Springer Nature. It’s $169 as an ebook, or $219 as a hardback. [Springer, archive] Retractio…

"Retraction Watch heard from a reader who was cited in the book — but his cited papers didn’t ... exist. A lot of citations in the book don’t exist."
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02.07.2025 14:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0