scott alexander: in my livejournal post i invented the whispering earring as a cautionary tale
— QC (@QiaochuYuan) April 11, 2026
tech company: at long last, we have created the whispering earring from the classic livejournal post, "don't create the whispering earring"https://t.co/yYv9hhMjAO https://t.co/bUHU3CoTwr pic.twitter.com/uUpkcValB6
Allbirds stock tumbles after nearly 600% rally as the shoemaker rebrands as an AI company
— Yahoo Finance (@yahoofinance.com) April 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Authors are slamming Reese Witherspoon for telling followers 'it's time to learn A.I.'
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes.com) April 17, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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— Aaron Bossig (@aaronbossig.bsky.social) April 16, 2026 at 3:35 PM
"Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data."
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) April 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news mill that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation and hallucinating fake quotes. It also can't stop referring to real people as "John Doe" and "Jane Doe."https://t.co/EQOAJGRGf9 pic.twitter.com/JAiYEVFUo5
— Maggie Harrison Dupré (@mags_h11) April 17, 2026
("a planning lawyer, decided to investigate the letters pro bono, because while acting for the nightclub during the licence suspension his suspicions were aroused by the [fact that the letters seems obviouskky generated by an LLM]")Very weird case today at Westminster Mags- police believe a neighbour of Heaven nightclub used AI to create false statements from local residents who didn’t exist, to oppose the club’s reopening https://t.co/BFn5NQYTKH
— Helena Horton (@horton_official) April 16, 2026
The Mississippi Free Press got inundated with a raft of AI-generated opinion pieces—which we pay writers for—from people who don't exist pretending to be Mississippians. One of those columns made it to publication before we caught the scam. Kevin Edwards, editor for our Voices section, explains:
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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We found more than a half-dozen instances in which Dan Abrams' Mediaite appeared to invent stories out of thin air, fabricate quotes, or misattribute reporting to the wrong person or outlet. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/mediaite-c...
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) April 14, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great
— Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly) April 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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People are using Google Reviews to prompt inject the Claude-run retail store into stocking their favorite products https://t.co/K4hUYuVblu pic.twitter.com/ixDxsgQ9GK
— Justine Moore (@venturetwins) April 14, 2026
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
— Accented Cinema (@accentedcinema.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Resounding victory for wordcels. Good job encoding all your shape rotations in tokenizeable natural language, dummies. Your puny mathematics exist as a low-dimension subspace inside the machine that generates infinite reddit posts
— jason grinblat (@jfg.land) April 15, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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(Didn't see another source for the trophy design)Here’s something truly unexpected: actress GONG Li will head the jury of the “World AI Film Festival” and has personally designed the trophy pic.twitter.com/RvOoN54Bl9
— Frank Yan (@FrankYan2) April 15, 2026
The entire cardSo … Topps definitely used AI to make these designs didn’t they? https://t.co/mWkxT3kaF3
— Satchel Price (@SatchelPrice) April 14, 2026
NEW: Public First, pro-safety AI Anthropic-backed group, is going in “big” to support @Scott_Wiener in his race to replace Pelosi, per source. Wiener is in tough 3-way contest and the big AI PACs had stayed away from the race. LTF hast gotten involved yet
— Diego Areas Munhoz (@Dareasmunhoz) April 15, 2026
Txt subs got first!
I saw no giraffe merchScott Wiener, a 6'7" tall California state senator running to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the House, is out with a new ad called "The Giraffe" and, well, I just think you need to watch it for yourself... pic.twitter.com/jrlgoZpDIS
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) April 14, 2026
Haven’t been to a Starbucks in 5+ years, and guys, this isn’t inspiring me to return. Also, if this (and the shoe company pivoting to AI) doesn’t scream “bubble,” I don’t know what does.
— Joe Adalian (@tvmojoe.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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