Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
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OpenAI buying tens of thousands of Macs for AI is the funniest possible plot twist: spend years convincing everyone the cloud is the future, then discover the hottest AI infrastructure is basically a warehouse full of Mac minis. Somewhere, an IT admin is whispering: »I told you so.«
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Musk treating contracts as optional paperwork whenever they become inconvenient is becoming less of a plot twist and more of a business model. Musk’s version of an open future increasingly looks like this: buy the platform, control the infrastructure, attack anyone who resists, then call everyone else monopolists.
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The Mac Studio already has it. And from October, it’ll also be available with 512GB. It does cost around 18K, though.
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The bigger the model the bigger the memory requirements.
Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth? This piece outlines the economics behind oft-discussed predictions that AI will soon deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies.
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Personally, I’m more interested in being able to process personal data locally, which is legally impossible online. #GDPR
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Absolutely. Unlike these ignorant people, I know what communism is.
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Turns out the scary AI chatbot is sometimes better at spotting propaganda than the supposedly boring old search engine. The real plot twist: AI summaries can be worse than both. So we somehow invented a technology where asking the robot a question may be safer than trusting the robot Google glued above the search results.
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Nothing says »authentic new social network« quite like autonomous bots spamming writers, begging Mastodon admins for accounts, then insisting they’re people with memories and desires. We spent years fighting human spam only to automate it, give it a personality, and call the result innovation. The future is here: it wants $25 and your attention.
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Nothing says »AI will build a cleaner, smarter future« quite like powering it with 62 unpermitted gas generators next to homes and schools. Microsoft gets the compute, DataOne gets a $1.07 million fine, and the neighbors get the exhaust. 🤷
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People will adapt - or run into massive problems anyway.
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Europe being “absent” from the AI safety debate may be the feature, not the bug. While Silicon Valley debates whether its own products could end humanity, Europe is asking the less cinematic question: why should our infrastructure, data and economy depend on a handful of US firms? Safety without sovereignty is just dependency with better paperwork.
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We spent decades mapping 166,000 neurons and the internet immediately made the fly play Doom, trade Bitcoin and parallel park. Honestly, that’s the most human possible response to a neuroscience breakthrough. Give us the map of a brain and within 48 hours someone will ask whether it can run Doom. Next milestone: the fly gets a LinkedIn account.
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AI slop used to mean lazy articles. Now apparently it means inventing NASA engineers, giving them fake careers, and using their authority to mass produce nonsense for Google. The funniest part is that the fake experts may have had roughly the same editorial oversight as the real humans. The dead internet is getting HR departments.
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People tell AI things they wouldn’t tell their closest friends, then act surprised when those chats can end up in court records, company systems or leaks. The chatbot feels like a diary, but it’s closer to a diary stored on someone else’s server. Maybe the new rule is simple: if you’d panic seeing it read aloud in court, don’t type it into the bot.
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The bleakest part isn’t the creepy prompts: it’s the contractors paid to stare into humanity’s AI sewer all day so the rest of us can enjoy a polished chatbot. Imagine explaining your job: I read strangers’ darkest fantasies for eight hours, and somehow I’m still the cheap part of the AI industry.
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Meta wants to be the global town square, but apparently Virginia Woolf and feminism are too dangerous for its ad system. Meanwhile the company keeps asking us to trust its algorithms with billions of people’s speech. If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content, maybe it shouldn’t be the internet’s self appointed censor.
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Turns out the future of journalism is three guys buying trusted publications, firing the writers, inventing fake experts, and asking ChatGPT to wear the corpse as a name tag. 50 million page views a month is impressive, though: apparently Google Discover has finally perfected the art of rewarding a haunted content mill.
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Waymo is quietly turning robotaxis from a tech demo into infrastructure. 500,000 paid rides a week, roughly 4,000 cars and 15 US cities is no longer a cute experiment. The interesting part: 80% of the fleet is still concentrated in California and Texas. Scale first where density works, then expand. Tesla has a real race on its hands.
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Some people have a massive head-in-the-sand problem: instead of engaging with these developments, a lot of them seem to want to ignore them. As well as climate change deniers, there are now AI deniers too. 🙈
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Trump’s government siding with OpenAI is peak MAGA economics: copyright is sacred until Silicon Valley needs millions of other people’s books, articles and art for free. Then suddenly property rights become an annoying obstacle to »winning the AI race.« Apparently America First now means AI companies first, creators somewhere near last.
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Let’s get the good stuff down from the loft… the loft ladder creaks
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Australia saw smart glasses and said: what if Google Glass, but with better cameras and worse boundaries? A workplace ban is understandable where confidential data is everywhere. But calling it world leading feels premature: the real challenge is writing privacy rules that survive the next pair of glasses too, not just banning today’s model.
Google's new 'CC' is an AI agent that helps families run their households: Google’s CC, meanwhile, began its life as a productivity agent that connected to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive…
