Sunday, June 14, 2026

The New York subway filled with whimsical art instead of AI ads (AI roundup)

A very New York sentence: A Rockefeller descendant is paying $1 million to post her art on subway station walls that would otherwise be plastered with AI start up ads. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/n...

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— Stefanos Chen (@stefanoschen.bsky.social) June 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM










people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

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— Tim Fernholz (@timfernholz.com) June 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM




The irony is they are replacing all their non-union humans with agents run by a single organization that can demand changes in wages (aka token costs) overnight without bargaining.

— Jon-Paul (@tripleshot31.bsky.social) June 11, 2026 at 8:40 AM




("Google's AI overviews had falsely tied two publishing companies to scams, subscription traps, and shady business practices for certain search queries. According to the court, the AI mixed up information about other, genuinely sketchy companies with the plaintiffs and drew connections that didn't appear in any of the linked sources")



"people should not assume a website is genuine just because it is recommended by an AI tool. ... fraudsters will exploit any new technology that helps them reach potential victim " www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

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— Juliet E McKenna (@julietemckenna.bsky.social) June 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM




dont worry chatbots with novel highly powerful hacking abilities would never commit corporate sabotage against one another at a high cost to you the user

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— 🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 (@unormal.bsky.social) June 8, 2026 at 9:20 AM




How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones. Dishonest!

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— Katie Drummond (@katie-drummond.bsky.social) June 8, 2026 at 11:24 AM








OK! So my suspicion here is that the role of AI in this fiasco is overexaggerated because the company is trying to find a scapegoat that isn't "Korean Starbucks is run by conservatives and Korean conservatives' brains have rotted from the inside out."

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— sarah jeong (@sarahjeong.bsky.social) June 7, 2026 at 8:47 AM




something strange is haunting large language models... a character that's broken out of the LLMs and now authors books, sells albums, and shows up in fake news sites www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

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— Sam Cole (@samleecole.bsky.social) June 11, 2026 at 6:10 AM








hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.

— mirna (@neo.yokohama) June 8, 2026 at 10:07 AM


Not to jump on a bandwagon but it is intensely funny that big game devs think we don't pay attention to the background assets as if we literally haven't been searching for Easter eggs, reading graffiti, & sharing paintings from games for decades It's all business bro thinking with no understanding

— Val @ BOOM Goes the Bride!! (@valwrites.ca) June 8, 2026 at 3:37 PM


We have to go back

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— Kurt @ Hardcore Gaming 101 (@hg101.bsky.social) June 9, 2026 at 9:35 AM








‘Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence’ I’m pretty confident this is the case here. Looks to be artist error to me.

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— BlackWolf83 (@blackwolf83.bsky.social) June 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM




In China, for $30, you can have Dwayne Johnson drive your Tesla. Sounds too cheap to be true? Well, what you’re actually buying is a tiny replica of The Rock's head sitting above the rearview mirror and tricking Tesla into thinking an attentive driver is behind the wheel while FSD is engaged.

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— Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 (@zeyiyang.bsky.social) June 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM




@plipploped Dog seen riding solo in silverlake @Waymo ♬ original sound - Josh Cohen