Sunday, September 6, 2026

Waymos "don’t get a soul until an hour before a shift starts" (AI roundup)

("When I started, we were being trained by multiple people for different things. And every single trainer did nothing but talk shit about how the company has just decreased their pay like $8 an hour.")













All FWIW







This part is baffling, why would an LLM-core system NOT write texts and then another one use them as prompts?

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— maybe: leif weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social) September 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM
("Is it a coincidence that the form of the story that emerged from a Rationalist-associated nonprofit's analysis of the Hugging Face hack involved a number of gullible, voluble interlocutors justifying themselves into a cult-like utilitarian belief system on a message board?")







(The article says the guy has an actor playing himself in youtube videos, too)















("Economists and consumer advocates disagree over ... and whether personalized pricing might often deliver lower costs")







New on @indicator.media: Simple text searches for repeat offenders could have caught ads for AI nudifiers on Meta and prevented them from being served to millions of Meta users this year.

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— Alexios Mantzarlis (@mantzarlis.com) September 3, 2026 at 7:31 AM
















@courtneymilan.com I just pulled this from a post over on Facebook, felt like it might be info worth sharing...

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— Trent Kallust (@badger597.bsky.social) September 4, 2026 at 8:53 AM

My post from earlier today about the craziness around Anthropic claim notices, updated with both of the notices writers are receiving, and a list of literary agents who are trying to claim a share of payouts writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...

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— Victoria Strauss (@victoriastrauss.com) September 4, 2026 at 5:29 PM
























the next couple years of every developer having to be like yeah we use ai all the time it speeds up our process like crazy it's fully integrated into our pipeline; also none of it is in the game which is all fully human game are going to be really funny

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— headfallsoff (@headfallsoff.com) September 2, 2026 at 9:22 AM
"everything that will be in the final version will definitely 100 percent be human made."















-IMPORTANT- Gumroad has recently updated their website with the intention of phasing out the ability to manually edit your storefront and allowing you to only edit your storefront via AI agents. I will be dropping gumroad support entirely in the near future. More to come as I sort things out.

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— Rowan || Aurora || ECLIPSA (@ruadhain.bsky.social) August 26, 2026 at 12:57 PM








Im fairly sure the commands they’re inputting into Grok to make these are subject to FOIA disclosure. It would be a fascinating piece, someone should write it!

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— James Stout (@jamesstout.bsky.social) September 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM








(15oz mug. I wasn't able to interpret their hallucinated image captchas, thwarting my efforts to subscribe to their newsletter)















@milaniab777 I got posted on yikyak too #asu #waymo ♬ Silent Hill - Horror music - Gabriel Andrade Produções








if it can't tell a person is obstructing the automatic door, I sure as hell wouldn't trust my life to its driving

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— e.w. niedermeyer (@niedermeyer.online) September 4, 2026 at 11:57 PM