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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th July 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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LLMs are the Air Guitar of intellectual work (podcast)

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this podcast guy talks like sephiroth but the title is perfect and the content is largely correct

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The idea guy will become the most important role in the coming aeon of AI

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Alternatively:

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‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?

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did Jeff Bezos' API Mandate alienate the world into abandoning take your daughter to work day?

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how could daughters look their engineer-dads in the eyes, no matter the country they're in, the same before? this was our BeforeTimes (ignoring Bill Gates' antitrust). everyone knows this was a chokehold, and you did not all celebrate the "or you're fired" bit, nor did you only see it as "mere play". "americans" are not the only ones to blame. the paternalism ain't paternalizing. discuss.

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Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged

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Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew

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Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU over Google’s AI Overviews

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Venture capital is lending money against video cards

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The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public

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Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)

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"Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out"

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God help us. These workers are employed by a subcontractor, Covalen.

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Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

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The rise of Whatever

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Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t

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How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions

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$219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot

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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Google Veo 3 fails, week 2: fail harder — Shokunin Studio spins the gacha

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don't just read the text - watch the video, it's the point of the exercise. And I worked all weekend on it. Thank you.

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"

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Rolling the ladder up behind us - Xe Iaso on the LLM bubble

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Pitchbook: AI venture capital resorts to mergers

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"Regulations are NOT the solution to low-quality food. Bitcoin is."

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Coding in a material world | deadSimpleTech

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Another response to Ptacek.

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Meta beats Kadrey, AI training was fair use — what this means

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Verizon’s new AI chatbot — customer disservice

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Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! — but not on pirated books

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Google's nihilists destroying open web and its own business chasing AI

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Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued

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Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups

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AI solves every river crossing puzzle, we can go home now [content warning: botshit]

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I think this summarizes in one conversation what is so fucking irritating about this thing: I am supposed to believe that it wrote that code.

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We test Google Veo: impressive demo, unusable results

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this took me all day, but it's a banger if i do say so myself - watch the video first

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AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market

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Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

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Salesforce: AI agents don’t work — but we’re charging 6% more for AI anyway

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Toward A Theory Of Kevin Roose | Defector

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Google's Gemini 2.5 pro is out of beta.

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I love to show that kind of shit to AI boosters. (In case you're wondering, the numbers were chosen randomly and the answer is incorrect).

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OpenAI needs its $40 billion funding deal — so it’s threatening Microsoft!

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Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid

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~~Creator of roblox~~ Early Engineer at roblox, and roblox game maker thinks he should be able to run the world since he worked at roblox.

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A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.

Its real somehow: https://xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/1886563357249212846#m

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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EchoLeak — send an email, extract secret info from Microsoft Office 365 Copilot AI

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Chatgpt, tell me if I'm attracted to this woman in a video game or not, quickly!

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Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed

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Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

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“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”

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Meta buys into Scale AI in the quest for fresh data

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Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney

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ChatGPT goes down — and fake jobs grind to a halt worldwide

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Meta announces money pit; Alexrandr tapped to lead

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https://archive.is/GWz0e

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Doctors against data abuse — BMA and RCGP protest NHS AI data handover

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Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2025! Don’t expect much — it still doesn’t work

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Apple: ‘Reasoning’ AIs fail hard if they actually have to think

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"Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"

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"Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google"

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UK — High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else

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Manifest 2025 Update: Still A Tech Bro Eugenics Conference

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Builder․ai even more fake: creative accounting, no AI, no money

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The AI Song - Katie Goodman

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Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro!

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OpenAI engineers are flocking to its rival Anthropic. “They let us huff our own farts,” says one

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Lionsgate: "The AI movies are coming, we swear, they're just stuck in Canada"

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Burns said the driving force behind the Runway deal was to allow filmmakers to “make movies and television shows we’d otherwise never make. We can’t make it for $100 million, but we’d make it for $50 million because of AI… We’re banging around the art of the possible. Let’s try some stuff, see what sticks.”

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Washington Post goes AI to clean up amateur right-wing op-eds

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Deep in Mordor where the shadows lie: Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google

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Memoirs of the almost a year I lasted at Google. The name of that year? 2008. Yeah. Topics include: Third World, precariat, tech elitism, queerness, surveillance, capitalism.

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Let’s put more AI slop into advertising!

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Fighting the AI scraper bots at Pivot to AI and RationalWiki

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Business Insider layoffs as traffic drops — but publisher Axel Springer says AI will fix it!

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ChatGPT o3 found a Linux Kernel vulnerability. "The future" has an 8% success rate, and a 28% chance of false positives.

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This blog post has been reported on and distorted by a lot of tech news sites using it to wax delusional about AI's future role in vulnerability detection.

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Microsoft and AI: spending billions to make millions

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1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy

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The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot

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Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate it

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Google takes AI propaganda to the movies

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Telstra embraces AI — with Accenture

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Firing people for AI: not going so well

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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AI resorts to robot blackmail! — because Anthropic asked for a story of robot blackmail

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AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request

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AI power and water use is through the roof, and 80–90% is each query

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Google: “after billions of dollars spent, we found a brilliant and innovative way to monetize AI! You’ll never guess what it is!!!”

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Take that, Saltman! Bet you never thought it was possible!

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ChatGPT guessed this guys Dad's name.

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TranscriptA news.ycombinator.com screenshot. It has two comments. The first reads: "I told ChatGPT my mom's name the day my account got persistent memory, last april. I also told it to figure out my dad's name. Once a month or so I would ask it my mom and dad's name. By november it had figured out my dad's name. https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1859637611595214888" It has a reply saying "Unfortunately I feel like the fact that your dad's name is the same as yours somewhat diminishes that accomplishment.".

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You can’t feed generative AI on ‘bad’ data then filter it for only ‘good’ data

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UK AI unicorn Builder.ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead

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eating our own dogshit

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GitHub wants to spam open source projects with AI slop

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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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DEFRA and Natural England creates unusably wrong peat map — with AI!

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

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Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic

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How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data

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Does AI make researchers more productive? What? Why would it? Apparently you can just say that and almost get published!

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This is a nice post, but it has such an annoying sentence right in the intro:

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Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates

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