Sunday, June 21, 2026

Terrific short featuring the TMNT battling an AI ranking out bootleg toys (ai roundup)







New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) June 15, 2026 at 7:26 AM








NEW: Google's AI Overviews are treating entities from the SCP Foundation — the famously fake fan-fiction universe — as if they're real. The AI feature often contextualizes SCP entities as actual discoveries while describing made-up SCP records as "official" documents. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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— Maggie Harrison Dupré (@mharrisondupre.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 8:10 AM








states love to bring big business into their state so they can get the tax revenue and then give those companies all the tax revenue for free

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— jesse, 37 (@killgoldfish.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 10:46 AM
















gotta start making t-shirts with qrcodes that open up good ol early 2000s shock jpgs

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— nico (@nicodelort.bsky.social) June 17, 2026 at 8:57 AM








Adobe quietly injects AI content into user’s files, hikes prices Adobe Creative Cloud quietly injects AI generated alt text into users' files, sparking outrage.

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— Comicsbeat (@comicsbeat.bsky.social) June 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM








(Maybe it's crashed again by the time this posts)







Incredible that Meta's plan to bolster employee morale includes creating an AI career coach ☠️

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— Kate Knibbs (@knibbs.bsky.social) June 15, 2026 at 2:48 PM








Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.

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— Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) June 15, 2026 at 11:56 AM








1666: Amsterdam, made by a team including 'over a dozen talented and experienced artists', used AI images all through its reveal: aftermath.site/1666-amsterdam...

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— Aftermath (@aftermath.site) June 15, 2026 at 3:02 PM
(I actually had some free time and tried the demo for this, and found it excrutiatingly boring)







A few more examples. It seems quite a lot of the headlines attached to my byline have been rewritten.

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— Ed Smith (@edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social) June 15, 2026 at 8:41 AM








Final one-shot prompt I did before the Fable interruption: "build me a cool simulation thing that lets me demo the various forms of FTL travel from both famous works of fiction and scientific speculation. it should be graphically compelling & interesting." superluminal-ftl.netlify.app

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— Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social) June 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM








USS Nimitz off the coast of Florida, heading north to Norfolk Used binary thresholding in the VV channel to make a mask and separate the ship from the background in the VH channel (which typically has all the detail). Think it turned out well.

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— Flattop Fiesta (@flattopfiesta.bsky.social) June 14, 2026 at 9:31 PM