When the Waymo thinks you look like a child (AI roundup)

@clarahyee I thought they were calling to tell me to stop singing out loud… 😭 @Waymo #waymo #storytime #asianproblems ♬ original sound - Clara

AI used to fake evidence that ended Korean actor's career, say police https://t.co/5njT6XHnHm

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 22, 2026

The NTSB is aware that advances in image recognition and computational methods have enabled individuals to reconstruct approximations of cockpit voice recorder audio from sound spectrum imagery released as part of NTSB investigations, including the ongoing investigation of the…

— NTSB Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) May 21, 2026

The NTSB has taken down its docket system completely, presumably to purge it of spectrograms of cockpit voice recorder audio. Given a spectrogram image you can do a passable job of recreating the actual audio clip, and the NTSB never releases CVR audio.

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— John Wiseman (@lemonodor.bsky.social) May 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM

this is hilarious https://t.co/TxlKufOPl7 pic.twitter.com/JBw8kx4tWD

— Sai Kambampati (@heysaik) May 22, 2026

tenbluelinks.org

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— Rusty Foster (@rusty.todayintabs.com) May 22, 2026 at 1:24 PM

(Can't vouch for this)

In case you didn’t see. The SOTA models don’t screw up this way https://t.co/yOiU0sghIE

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) May 21, 2026

A pair who helped launch the agentic-AI craze worry that their creations are pumping out bad—even dangerous—code, writes Christopher Mims. “Eventually it will catch up to us,” says one.

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— The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) May 22, 2026 at 6:27 AM

("Two engineers who built the core of the massively popular OpenClaw AI agent...[the engineer and his partner in making Pi... aren’t saying AI is never useful. Both use it to handle drudge work in their own projects. And they believe in it enough to have crafted an AI coding tool now used by millions.")

Exclusive: Starbucks terminated an AI program workers used for automating certain inventory counts this week, nine months after deploying it across its North American ‌stores https://t.co/ow9LJtZjht

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 22, 2026

Pizza Hut’s AI rollout has caused franchisee to lose $100 million, lawsuit claims https://t.co/3tZ85TrrWW pic.twitter.com/yylBwa87m1

— The Independent (@Independent) May 18, 2026

NEWS: POLITICO agreed to shut down 2 AI tools that were in violation of our collective bargaining agreement https://t.co/LBpaLNKRhc

— penguild (@penguild) May 22, 2026

("a tool that produced branded policy reports for POLITICO Pro subscribers without any editorial review, despite generating glaring factual errors. It also will not revive the “Live Summaries” AI feature, which generated error-riddled unedited coverage of major political events")

A federal judge in Alabama has suspended a lawyer from practicing in his court for six months after finding the attorney submitted a brief with false quotations and impeded a probe into whether an AI program was used to draft the filing. https://t.co/vSozwLfChx

— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) May 22, 2026

Berkeley law has introduced a new, much stricter AI policyhttps://t.co/wlNs2cUrKz pic.twitter.com/IFT6fLnU6U

— Chris Hoofnagle (@hoofnagle) May 21, 2026

This interview is an great case study of psychological pitfalls that arise from misunderstanding how LLMs work + believing yourself smart enough that you can simply overcome any cognitive peril through will and insight. Also of the fact that people are lazy and laying themselves open to exposure!

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— Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 (@halfrobot.com) May 22, 2026 at 9:23 AM

This from @TuhinChakr is brilliant. That prize winning story from Granta? Turns out it's just a bunch of random whole phrases taken directly from existing text on the internet. Tool allows you to trace those n-grams directly to their source, which is mostly random fanfiction.… pic.twitter.com/ZNzO2BSzNw

— Alex Imas (@alexolegimas) May 22, 2026

I think there is a pretty good short story in the Granta AI story "The Serpent in the Grove," I just don't think it's "The Serpent in the Grove" www.patreon.com/posts/what-i...

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— Max Read (@maxread.info) May 22, 2026 at 8:52 AM

(The Hugo's are just as absurd--the same tiny number of authors are churning out the "best" year after year.)

Omfg https://t.co/y0JgDlWY6r pic.twitter.com/PsDFk4CGlj

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) May 14, 2026

fragment of journal entry found in abandoned bunker level of video game https://t.co/qiOzpsXqNp

— brian (@brianonhere) May 22, 2026

(Assuming this is fiction)

This is happening across the board, and is the reason we all need to have a chat with our ‘not-technically-literate-and-also-constantly-seeking-validation-and-or-more-respect’ family members about personal wormtongues

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— Mike Bithell (@mikebithell.bsky.social) May 2, 2026 at 2:13 PM

(I didn't read whatever the original post was)

An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE" as a word and ends up going insane!🤣 pic.twitter.com/wV7ZpXdCdh

— "Guru Larry" Bundy Jr (@LarryBundyJr) May 23, 2026

(Triggered about 18 seconds in)