AI
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AI
Airbnb Hosts Don't Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI
An entire industry of companies offers Airbnb hosts AI to speak to guests on their behalf. 404 Media poked around the industry after one AI tool offered a guest a recipe for French toast.
Hacking
Hacker Compromises a16z-Backed Phone Farm, Tries to Post Memes Calling a16z the ‘Antichrist’
Doublespeed uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated influencers. A hacker managed to get into a backend system of the company.
AI
Maine Is Close to Passing a Moratorium on New Datacenters
The proposed legislation would be the first of its kind passed in the country, but there are similar bills popping up everywhere this year.
Right to Repair
Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law
Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.
AI
‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
Groups that challenge books have begun using Gemini, ChatGPT, xAI, and other AI tools to try to get books banned.
AI
'You Can't Defeat the Robots!': Baseball's AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
MLB's ABS system somehow feels extremely human. It's not human vs robot, it's human vs human as judged by a robot.
News
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
“White House videos—AI or otherwise—are like group-chat in-jokes aimed at keeping cohesion.”
News
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
News
A Top Google Search Result for Claude Plugins Was Planted by Hackers
Hackers paid to make a malicious link the top Google Search result.
AI
This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
News
Tiny Township Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter
The attorney for the township of Ypsilanti, Michigan, said the construction of the data center puts “a big bulls eye target on this entire township."
AI
AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet
Widely cited AI labor research ignores the most important thing AI is doing: Killing the human internet.