Brian Penny 🍿
@brianpenny.bsky.social
"AI didn't invent racism. It just gave it infinite scale and a technical alibi."
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
"AI didn't invent racism. It just gave it infinite scale and a technical alibi."
“Each song on the original digital version of Is This What We Want? had a one-word title, which, when listed in full, spelled out ‘The British Government Must Not Legalize Music Theft to Benefit AI Companies.’”
Paul McCartney Protests AI with Silent Track
Paul McCartney's new silent song takes aim at AI.
www.rollingstone.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“Each song on the original digital version of Is This What We Want? had a one-word title, which, when listed in full, spelled out ‘The British Government Must Not Legalize Music Theft to Benefit AI Companies.’”
AI bros are the new flat earthers. No matter how much science piles up to prove them consistently wrong, they continue to have their minds blown by silly trinkets and trickery.
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
AI bros are the new flat earthers. No matter how much science piles up to prove them consistently wrong, they continue to have their minds blown by silly trinkets and trickery.
Who needs food when you can have AI slop?
Let them eat Grok!
Let them eat Grok!
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Who needs food when you can have AI slop?
Let them eat Grok!
Let them eat Grok!
Glad we cleared that up…
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Glad we cleared that up…
Joseph Gordon Levitt explains how a provision to ban states from regulating AI was snuck into the National Defense Authorization Act for the upcoming fiscal year.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Joseph Gordon Levitt explains how a provision to ban states from regulating AI was snuck into the National Defense Authorization Act for the upcoming fiscal year.
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
Amazon is using AI to Frankenstein its Prime Video library into Video Recaps that clip the most pertinent plot points with voice narration, dialogue clips, and music.
Prime Video launches AI-powered Video Recaps to help viewers catch up between seasons
Video Recaps, a first-of-its-kind application of generative AI, provides Prime Video customers with compelling, comprehensive season recaps to bring viewers up to speed on their favorite stories.
www.aboutamazon.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Amazon is using AI to Frankenstein its Prime Video library into Video Recaps that clip the most pertinent plot points with voice narration, dialogue clips, and music.
A European workers’ rights group sent Uber a legal demand to stop its dynamic pricing model, alleging it breaches GDPR.
Uber hit with legal demands to halt use of AI-driven pay systems
Proposed legal case understood to allege that app has breached data protection law varying driver pay rates
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A European workers’ rights group sent Uber a legal demand to stop its dynamic pricing model, alleging it breaches GDPR.
OpenAI previously banned a toymaker from its API after its ChatGPT-powered teddy bears said inappropriate things to children about sex, drugs, and violence.
But Amazon is still selling them anyway.
But Amazon is still selling them anyway.
Amazon Still Selling Multiple OpenAI-Powered Teddy Bears, Even After They Were Pulled Off the Market
OpenAI pulled access to a GPT-4o powered toy caught giving inappropriate responses, but it apparently still thinks these ones are okay.
futurism.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
OpenAI previously banned a toymaker from its API after its ChatGPT-powered teddy bears said inappropriate things to children about sex, drugs, and violence.
But Amazon is still selling them anyway.
But Amazon is still selling them anyway.
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Tech journalists get tons of these emails. As usual, @kashhill.bsky.social wrote about it elegantly: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tech journalists get tons of these emails. As usual, @kashhill.bsky.social wrote about it elegantly: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
Previous studies on LLM efficiency always hd flawed methodology comparing AI to using nothing. Now we have a real comparison to online search.
Online search outperforms LLMs in every conceivable metric.
Online search outperforms LLMs in every conceivable metric.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Previous studies on LLM efficiency always hd flawed methodology comparing AI to using nothing. Now we have a real comparison to online search.
Online search outperforms LLMs in every conceivable metric.
Online search outperforms LLMs in every conceivable metric.
Larry Summers looks like Hide the pain Harold…
…Hide the pedo Larrold
…Hide the pedo Larrold
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Larry Summers looks like Hide the pain Harold…
…Hide the pedo Larrold
…Hide the pedo Larrold
“Ohio is also one of five states that did not include AI or computer-edited images in its child sexual abuse material and pornography statutes as of August, according to child-advocacy organization Enough Abuse.”
Deepfakes, hacked courts and cloned voices: Inside Ohio's new AI crime wave
Incidents include a February cyberattack that shut down Cleveland Municipal Courts.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“Ohio is also one of five states that did not include AI or computer-edited images in its child sexual abuse material and pornography statutes as of August, according to child-advocacy organization Enough Abuse.”
“before the death threats and the accusations of mental illness, before the group splintered, and splintered again — the members of r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, an eclectic sub-Reddit bound by a fierce attachment to large language models, enjoyed the elusive sensation of true love.”
‘Mine Is Really Alive.’
In online communities, people who say their AI lovers are “real” are seen as crossing a line. Are they actually so crazy?
www.thecut.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
“before the death threats and the accusations of mental illness, before the group splintered, and splintered again — the members of r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, an eclectic sub-Reddit bound by a fierce attachment to large language models, enjoyed the elusive sensation of true love.”
Adobe bought Semrush for $2 billion
Exclusive | Adobe Nears $1.9 Billion Deal for Software Provider Semrush
Semrush helps businesses from Amazon to TikTok with search-engine optimization and marketing.
www.wsj.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Adobe bought Semrush for $2 billion
TikTok is using C2PA metadata to let users filter out AI content
TikTok now lets you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see | TechCrunch
With the new AI-generated content control, users who want to see less of this sort of content can dial things down, while those who enjoy it can choose to see more of it.
techcrunch.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
TikTok is using C2PA metadata to let users filter out AI content
So many people fell for this fake Drake account across IG and Threads that it’s now part of the Google knowledge graph for his album 😹😹
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
So many people fell for this fake Drake account across IG and Threads that it’s now part of the Google knowledge graph for his album 😹😹
Dude—you are literally the Director of Data Science at Google. You should be telling me why this happened not asking me.
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Dude—you are literally the Director of Data Science at Google. You should be telling me why this happened not asking me.
A $3 trillion corporation trying to be your “thought partner” sounds like a bad sci-fi plot
Google unveils Gemini's next generation, aiming to turn its search engine into a 'thought partner'
Google is unleashing Gemini’s next generation of artificial intelligence in its dominant search engine and other popular online services in the high-stakes battle to create technology that people can ...
apnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A $3 trillion corporation trying to be your “thought partner” sounds like a bad sci-fi plot
AI democratized everything so humble $200 billionaire white guys finally have a shot at creating $10 billion companies out of thin air to chase pipe dreams.
Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
AI democratized everything so humble $200 billionaire white guys finally have a shot at creating $10 billion companies out of thin air to chase pipe dreams.
Is there a website I can check to see if downdetector is down for anyone else?
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Is there a website I can check to see if downdetector is down for anyone else?
“Your image should belong to you. Anyone who uses it to their own ends without your permission should be in violation of law. No legislation will stop every fake. We can, however, enforce a baseline of accountability that prevents our society from tipping into chaos.”
Your Face and Voice Should Belong to You, Not AI
When anyone can forge reality, society can’t self-govern. Borrowing Denmark’s approach could help the U.S. restore accountability around deepfakes
www.scientificamerican.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Your image should belong to you. Anyone who uses it to their own ends without your permission should be in violation of law. No legislation will stop every fake. We can, however, enforce a baseline of accountability that prevents our society from tipping into chaos.”
For those who prefer video, here’s tonight’s story about the AI undress apps hosted on the Nevada Department of Transportation website
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 AM
For those who prefer video, here’s tonight’s story about the AI undress apps hosted on the Nevada Department of Transportation website
Got more info on what’s happening with the deepfake undress apps that are still live and indexed in Google (you can find by searching “deepfake nude Nevada DOT”
www.8newsnow.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Got more info on what’s happening with the deepfake undress apps that are still live and indexed in Google (you can find by searching “deepfake nude Nevada DOT”
Read a whole article just to understand why the cat’s teeth are human, and I still don’t 🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Read a whole article just to understand why the cat’s teeth are human, and I still don’t 🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...