Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025)

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Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again): The business model for AI is the same as the business model for Big Data – bilking credulous advertisers.
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Pluralistic: AI and the fatfinger economy (02 May 2025)

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AI and the fatfinger economy: Every slip of the finger is money in the bank.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

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The enshittification of tech jobs: Our last line of defense has fallen.
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Pluralistic: Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined (01 Apr 2025)

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Anyone who trusts an AI therapist needs their head examined: Same goes for trusting an AI with your trade secrets.
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Pluralistic: Why I don't like AI art (25 Mar 2025)

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Why I don't like AI art: I think I've figured it out.
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Pluralistic: Twinkump Linkdump (22 Mar 2025)

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Twinkump Linkdump: Loose ends for the weekend.
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Pluralistic: AI can't do your job (18 Mar 2025)

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AI can't do your job: But an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job.
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Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025)

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Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading: "The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely."
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Pluralistic: We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification (22 Feb 2025)

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We bullied HP into a minor act of disenshittification: Score one for the ink-stained wretches.
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Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025)

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Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces: The Gilded Age has entered the chat.
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