My favorite local deli had a very obviously AI-illustrated sign today advertising their breakfast special. It looked like utter garbage, they’d have been better off using only plain text. I don’t know how people can create a horrible AI slop piece of trash and think “Yeah, this looks fine” and make it the face of their business. How do they not see it?
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we consistently found that lower AI literacy predicts greater receptivity to AI.
https://hbr.org/2025/07/why-understanding-ai-doesnt-necessarily-lead-people-to-embrace-it
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Maybe they’re wearing AI goggles or something.
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The last section of this video discusses an AI project by Lupe Fiasco…
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This is fascinating: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I7Qbvo3I95
Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
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With that pedigree you should name it asshole.
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Abusive Asshole.
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An unnamed AI bot from xAI tweeted by Elon Musk (left) and a photo of Musk at a party posted to Twitter on June 18, 2012 (right).
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Microsoft has somehow managed to have another Cortana moment. Despite its AI assistant, Copilot, being built into Windows machines and compatible with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem that millions of people are stuck with, it simply cannot get people to love the in-house option. According to a new report, ChatGPT has managed to rack up about 10 times the downloads that Microsoft’s Copilot has received.
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Wild idea: if you are doing stuff with the MS suite you can already do that stuff and irritating tools you didn’t ask for (fuck off Clippy!) are just interruptions. ChatGPT is for people who cant do the things and want to role play it.
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Ed Zitron is joined in studio by actor, writer and producer Brian Koppelman, Engadget Managing Editor Cherlynn Low and comedian Mike Drucker to talk about the current state of the tech industry, what AI can actually do, and what the tech industry looks like in the next year.
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King games were always cited as the utter sleaziest dark patten arseholes back in the day.
Obviously a good corporate fit for Microsoft.
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