Sunday, October 4, 2026

I assume this cyberpunk chef is training a cooking AI (This week in AI)







Turns out you can just build your own personal surveillance network and deploy it wherever you like (gift link)

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— Eryk Salvaggio (@eryk.bsky.social) October 1, 2026 at 6:37 AM
(In Utah, too. "Flock spokesperson...said the company applies for permits “where required, but permitting requirements vary by jurisdiction and are not necessary in every location.”")

1/ Another AI-generated video falsely depicting Russian 'control' north of Lyman has been publicised by disgusted Russian warbloggers. It's part of a "plague" of AI "neurocontrol" that prominent warblogger Rybar condemns as "inept, half-baked information warfare". ⬇️

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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 10:19 AM








I don’t think my company would let us have a slutcon

— ceej (@ceej.online) September 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM


NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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— jon christian (@jonchristian.net) September 28, 2026 at 6:19 AM


the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) September 28, 2026 at 6:40 AM




"We need every racist we can in the war against the Machine God" is at least kinda cosplaying someone from the Dune cinematic universe.

— Brandon Downey (@bdowney.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 2:53 PM
























(*Not only had I not asked it to do that sort of thing, I never gave it permission to read my messages. In fact, I remember explicitly choosing not to let it have access to my messages")





Excellent @truth.bsky.social investigation into Meta Muse’s ability to dox people, including people in at-risk communities hntrbrk.com/breaking-new...

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— Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 6:28 AM
("Many of the accounts belonged to private individuals with no discernible public persona")

It’s going to be pretty fucked up when this baby yeti starts telling people to kill themselves.

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— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman.bsky.social) September 28, 2026 at 6:14 PM








@cbcnews Ngô Anh Tân is the CEO of a company filling Facebook feeds around the world with AI-generated fake news and clickbait. CBC's visual investigations unit and Radio-Canada's Decrypteurs tracked him down in Vietnam. Here's how. #Investigation #Vietnam #Facebook #Explainer #CBCNews ♬ original sound - CBC News
"Meta did not respond to CBC/Radio-Canada’s request for comment."







Amazon is ramping up its program to give delivery drivers smart glasses. The device captures still images constantly from the moment the driver leaves his van and walks to your door, potentially thousands per shift. You can’t opt out www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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— Dave Lee (@davelee.me) September 30, 2026 at 4:45 AM












Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.

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— Ryan Broderick (@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social) September 30, 2026 at 9:58 AM








! www.reuters.com/business/med...

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— Kate Knibbs (@knibbs.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 2:26 PM












































(A write-up of the order. Didn't read the new filing, but if the tweet is accurate, sounds like the lawyer's defense is that they're just grossly incompetent)







Police in Singapore have charged a man who is accused of posting an AI-generated image of a saltwater crocodile in a popular reservoir The fake image caused public concern, authorities allege, and the national water agency suspended its work for two days

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— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 8:50 AM








They posted two photos but wrote, "the first photo is NOT AI"?







Full Self Hauling: Volvo moves 3 million tonnes of Earth, autonomously

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— Electrek (@electrek.co) September 28, 2026 at 5:32 AM








hate to say it but i'm kind of into the dudes who are driving a car with chatgpt www.404media.co/these-tech-w...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Driving Bench























whatever you say man

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— Pregame Empire (@pregameempire.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 9:03 PM
("This partnership creates new opportunities around cybersecurity awareness, career exploration, and storytelling")















The Washpost Opinion section is mostly useless these days, outside of a couple of columnists from the old regime, and the absolute gangbuster AI summaries of reader comments.

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) September 27, 2026 at 6:49 PM








Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

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— Laura Bassett (@lebassett.bsky.social) September 30, 2026 at 8:39 AM
(From 2023, "The amount Sinema has paid Gabbard's sister over the years raises questions about ethics")







I talked to the librarian at a tiny upstate NY library where the flyer for drop-in event where she'll help you remove the AI features of your phone has gone viral www.businessinsider.com/library-bye-...

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— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos.bsky.social) September 28, 2026 at 11:56 AM
















Wait, was the footage of the fight actually real (not quite interested enough to fact check this, either)?







Incredible Salesforce ad here. Ricciardo, a man known for doubtful major career decisions, welcomes us to the Agentic Enterprise and then says, “I have no idea what that means.“ youtu.be/o6vJ5LLv4q8?...

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— Rob Zacny (@robzacny.bsky.social) September 29, 2026 at 5:06 PM