Mhaan
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I will never understand the appeal of software that "adaptively shapes itself." Software is a tool. Humans are tool users. It's the one thing that we're uniquely good at. If the tool changes every time you use it, you can't learn to use it better, which makes it a bad tool.
unfortunately, this paragraph of the manifesto is not correct in any way whatsoever.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I will never understand the appeal of software that "adaptively shapes itself." Software is a tool. Humans are tool users. It's the one thing that we're uniquely good at. If the tool changes every time you use it, you can't learn to use it better, which makes it a bad tool.
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unfortunately, this paragraph of the manifesto is not correct in any way whatsoever.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
unfortunately, this paragraph of the manifesto is not correct in any way whatsoever.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
no existing thing sold as "AI" does this at all. the marketers lie that it does, and then it doesn't.
anyone signing this manifesto, ask them for the software that does this.
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The post-LLM era may be characterized by companies willfully walking away from AI, realizing many customers find it offensive, expensive and unreliable. What will remain will be a paired-down version of chatbots we use today, if any of them still exist.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The post-LLM era may be characterized by companies willfully walking away from AI, realizing many customers find it offensive, expensive and unreliable. What will remain will be a paired-down version of chatbots we use today, if any of them still exist.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-...
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"AI Guardrails" has the same connotation to me as "Clean Coal".
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM
"AI Guardrails" has the same connotation to me as "Clean Coal".
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
They're not really a thing. They're just the wishful thinking and spin of an industry that's been caught being inherently, unavoidably harmful on a fundamental level.
The Plagiarism Machine must be destroyed.
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Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I break down how economically irrelevant AI is, and how no bailout is coming to save the Large Language Model era.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 12/04/2025 · Bonus · 10m
podcasts.apple.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Here’s this week’s Better Offline monologue. I break down how economically irrelevant AI is, and how no bailout is coming to save the Large Language Model era.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Linktr.ee/betteroffline
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"AI dubs" are dead!
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
BANANA FISH no longer has an English dub on Amazon
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
"AI dubs" are dead!
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
We can indeed stop these companies when they try to replace people with stolen slop.
The solution is bullying corporations, which is half y'all's hobby anyway so this should be easy.
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Rockstar co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto writer Dan Houser has likened AI to mad cow disease, and claimed that humanity is being pulled in a direction “by a certain group of people who maybe aren't fully rounded humans.” https://bit.ly/4pDEfoN
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Rockstar co-founder and former Grand Theft Auto writer Dan Houser has likened AI to mad cow disease, and claimed that humanity is being pulled in a direction “by a certain group of people who maybe aren't fully rounded humans.” https://bit.ly/4pDEfoN
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I’m gonna be in LA to cover the game awards and surrounding events for @aftermath.site! if you’d like to send any invites, feel free to DM or email me
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’m gonna be in LA to cover the game awards and surrounding events for @aftermath.site! if you’d like to send any invites, feel free to DM or email me
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Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
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Seeing so many people in here arguing about whether artists are “petite bourgeoisie” as defined in an economy that doesn’t exist anymore. You can’t slap a 150 year old term onto a class of people (artists and craftsman) who bear NO resemblance to the pre Industrial Revolution economy.
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.
We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Seeing so many people in here arguing about whether artists are “petite bourgeoisie” as defined in an economy that doesn’t exist anymore. You can’t slap a 150 year old term onto a class of people (artists and craftsman) who bear NO resemblance to the pre Industrial Revolution economy.
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Remember that every newsletter involves me learning about something new about something I kind of knew about, and this has now turned into “NVIDIA Isn’t Enron - So What Is It?” - my first big free newsletter since September, a guide to whatever the hell is going on with this god damn company
![Anyway, Lucent really fucked up big time. In 1998 it signed a $2 billion “equipment and finance agreement” with telecommunications company Winstar, which promised to bring in “$100 million in new business over the next five years” and build a giant wireless broadband network, along with expanding Winstar’s optical networking. In December 1999, WIRED would say that Winstar’s “small white dish antennas…[heralded] a new era and new mind-set in telecommunications,” and included this awesome quote about Lucent from CEO and founder Will Rouhana:
On one level we are a customer and they are a supplier. On another level they are a financier and we are a borrower. On yet another level they are providing services around the world to accelerate our development. They also want to use our service, and have guaranteed $100 million in business.
Fuck yeah!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreifk5hhjtxq4xziq5drtistjsduo4eebqteau4oj2qyhardr3bbcsa@jpeg)
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Remember that every newsletter involves me learning about something new about something I kind of knew about, and this has now turned into “NVIDIA Isn’t Enron - So What Is It?” - my first big free newsletter since September, a guide to whatever the hell is going on with this god damn company
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what we need is full criminalization and eradication of all LLMs
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 AM
what we need is full criminalization and eradication of all LLMs
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investor salivating at the chance to interfere with investigative reporting? i’ve learned enough covering musk et al to take threat-tweets not like jokes, take them seriously.
December 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
investor salivating at the chance to interfere with investigative reporting? i’ve learned enough covering musk et al to take threat-tweets not like jokes, take them seriously.
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OpenAI killed a teenager by encouraging him to commit suicide and blamed it on the teenager.
If you use ChatGPT then you support this company
If you use ChatGPT then you support this company
November 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
OpenAI killed a teenager by encouraging him to commit suicide and blamed it on the teenager.
If you use ChatGPT then you support this company
If you use ChatGPT then you support this company
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Well, I didn’t expect this to blow up, and I certainly didn’t mean for it to piggy back off of the original post, but I am at least going to plug my LA history Instagram account from which that AI has been pulling its content:
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Well, I didn’t expect this to blow up, and I certainly didn’t mean for it to piggy back off of the original post, but I am at least going to plug my LA history Instagram account from which that AI has been pulling its content:
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
www.instagram.com/forgottenmad...
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If I open an article and the splash banner is AI slop, I close the tab. If you don't have the bare minimum of discernment to not do that, what else do you consider "good enough" to publish?
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
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Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosures
Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epi... - podcast
time: 6 min 58 sec
Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epi... - podcast
time: 6 min 58 sec
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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I made a machine steal the work of a real human being. It's almost as if the stolen work it regurgitated seems like it was written by a real human being. Instead of giving that credit to the breathing person it was stolen from... perhaps the theft machine is actually alive??
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I made a machine steal the work of a real human being. It's almost as if the stolen work it regurgitated seems like it was written by a real human being. Instead of giving that credit to the breathing person it was stolen from... perhaps the theft machine is actually alive??
Saw a bit of talk about slop suckers begging on their knees for Steam to drop AI disclosure.
Clearly that's assinine, if it was not effective, they'd not be whining about it.
What should happen, is for Steam to ban all games using any content generated with "ai".
Much safer for any consumer.
Clearly that's assinine, if it was not effective, they'd not be whining about it.
What should happen, is for Steam to ban all games using any content generated with "ai".
Much safer for any consumer.
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Saw a bit of talk about slop suckers begging on their knees for Steam to drop AI disclosure.
Clearly that's assinine, if it was not effective, they'd not be whining about it.
What should happen, is for Steam to ban all games using any content generated with "ai".
Much safer for any consumer.
Clearly that's assinine, if it was not effective, they'd not be whining about it.
What should happen, is for Steam to ban all games using any content generated with "ai".
Much safer for any consumer.
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They see their little project is failing, they know genAI has a bad rep and people are less likely to buy something if they see it's made with AI, so they're getting desperate and now they want to fool the consumers 🤷♀️
November 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
They see their little project is failing, they know genAI has a bad rep and people are less likely to buy something if they see it's made with AI, so they're getting desperate and now they want to fool the consumers 🤷♀️
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won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.
#art
#art