THIS WEEK: OpenAI admits one of its agents “accidentally” attacked Hugging Face; AI ruins Belgium’s F1 race; Anthropic needs to pay up for all those books they pirated training Claude; Google ends a quarter with negative free cash flow–a first!–and you’ll never guess why; China’s Moonshot AI makes US companies freak out over open sourceContinue reading “The Week In Slop, Week of 20 July 2026”
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The Week In Slop, Week of 12 July 2026
This week: Meta uses AI to make pregnant employees redundant; Elon’s data center gasses Black communities in Tennessee; OpenAI and Jony Ive think their upcoming portable smart speaker will kill the iPhone; and the creator of Jar Jar Binks declares that AI is the future of film making, so deal with it. To me, myContinue reading “The Week In Slop, Week of 12 July 2026”
The Week In Slop, Week of 5 July 2026
This week: Meta lets you deepfake anybody, then pulls the plug; Microsoft thinks Claude and ChatGPT are a bit pricey; OpenAI’s GPT-Live is here to listen; Anthropic signs 20 year crypto data center lease; and Meta’s deepfake detector can’t detect MetaAI’s own watermarked deepfakes. Slop me! Tilly Norwood, AI ‘actor’ denounced by actors union, toContinue reading “The Week In Slop, Week of 5 July 2026”
Episode 1: The Beginning
Creepy Microsoft Bing Chatbot Urges Tech Columnist To Leave His Wife(HuffPost UK 17 February 2023)“The AI chatbot ‘Sydney’ declared it loved New York Times journalist Kevin Roose and that it wanted to be human.” It was after reading this article that I first thought “Ok, this AI thing is probably something I should start keepingContinue reading “Episode 1: The Beginning”