Sunday, May 31, 2026

ATL says they used AI to figure out the identity of the philandering judge (AI roundup)















new @cdt.org study out this morning looks at how chatbots deploy manipulative "dark patterns" to get people to offer up more than they bargained for: www.404media.co/new-study-re...

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— Sam Cole (@samleecole.bsky.social) May 29, 2026 at 6:53 AM

anthropomorphism and sycophancy are unique, new problems. but the old dark pattern tricks still apply; these popups when you try to leave, for example, are truly ridiculous

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— Sam Cole (@samleecole.bsky.social) May 29, 2026 at 6:56 AM












































































don't really think this is true at all! prognozpogodi, jon mud, the shape store, thereiruinedit, kirkification/agartha, lucamaxiim, ai generated seinfeld, even the balenciaga videos... lots of strange and creative "outsider" ai stuff happening on tiktok and IG reels

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— Max Read (@maxread.info) May 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM








let me guess, it's going to be a cloud computing thing because them making you pay rent to use the computer is the logical outcome of those assholes making it impossible to get a new PC

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— Voxy (@voxy.space) May 30, 2026 at 1:21 AM








"When they send one of yours a quote from The Hobbit, you send one of theirs a quote from The Silmarillion. That's the Chicago way!"

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— Joe Flynn (@chinajoeflynn.bsky.social) May 26, 2026 at 4:46 PM
















Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

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— Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada.com) May 28, 2026 at 4:57 PM

Hahaaaaa it’s still there!

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— JenBeee (@jenbeee.bsky.social) May 28, 2026 at 5:29 PM