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AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds
ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.
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Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.
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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it.
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Tidal Says It Won’t Pay Royalties for AI-Generated Music
Spotify competitor Tidal built a reputation by collaborating with musicians and focusing on audio quality. How will it handle the era of AI-generated slop?
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Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting
We spoke to Darren Blanchard, the man arrested while speaking out against data centers at a community meeting. He's sharing the bodycam footage of his arrest for the first time with 404 Media.
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'We Will Fight to Our Very Last Breath:' Township Leaders Vow to Fight Nuclear AI Data Center
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and a proposed nuclear weapons AI data center in Michigan have earned the ire of community leaders.
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If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
Disclosure Day
Disclosure Day's Delusion Is That People Would Think Alien Videos Are Not AI
The only plausible response to videos of aliens on television, at this point, would be cries of “that’s AI,” “fake,” and propaganda flowing in all directions.
Data centers
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability
The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.
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AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI
There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.
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An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation
No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them.