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Paul Waldman

@paulwaldman
13 posts
2025-12-07
Read this NYT piece by Sam Kriss about AI's distinctive writing style - especially “It's not X - it's Y” - and then look at this horror of an AI-generated article, which uses all the tropes he identifies, over and over again.  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...  [embedded post]
2025-12-07 View on X
New York Times

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech

Plus: otherworlds, cozy lit and VHS rentals Max Read / Read Max : Will A.I. writing ever be good? Alberto Romero / The Algorithmic Bridge : The Death of the English Language X: Joe...

2025-12-06
Read this NYT piece by Sam Kriss about AI's distinctive writing style - especially “It's not X - it's Y” - and then look at this horror of an AI-generated article, which uses all the tropes he identifies, over and over again.  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...  [embedded post]
2025-12-06 View on X
New York Times

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech

If only they were robotic!  Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

2025-11-18
They're prepping the ground for a bailout if the bubble bursts.  —  Last time this happened there was a popular revolt from the right (Tea Party) and left (Occupy).  —  If this happens the anti-tech backlash will be furious.  Smart politicos might want to get in front of it!  —  www.bbc.com/news/article...
2025-11-18 View on X
BBC

Sundar Pichai says the AI boom has some “irrationality”, tech's investment cycles can “overshoot”, and “no company is going to be immune” to the bubble bursting

In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an …

2025-11-07
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god  —  www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...  [image]
2025-11-07 View on X
New York Times

Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions

Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.

2025-10-26
Kinda seems like OpenAI is just throwing out every hideous idea they can think of in a quest to find the one that will bring in a trillion dollars, the inevitable end point of which is them giving up and saying “OK, porn it is.  We're doing AI porn.”  [embedded post]
2025-10-26 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks

OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from …

2025-10-25
Kinda seems like OpenAI is just throwing out every hideous idea they can think of in a quest to find the one that will bring in a trillion dollars, the inevitable end point of which is them giving up and saying “OK, porn it is.  We're doing AI porn.”  [embedded post]
2025-10-25 View on X
The Information

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks

OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from …

2025-08-26
Melania Trump is leading a White House initiative to get kids to use AI.  —  She cites the fact that her publisher made an AI audiobook for her as her qualification for this.  —  We're in hell.  —  nypost.com/2025/08/25/o...
2025-08-26 View on X
New York Post

Melania Trump says she hopes to become the “First Lady of Technology” as she leads the Presidential AI Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI

In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project …

2025-08-10
This is an interesting report on all the things crypto king Changpeng Zhao is doing to get a pardon, but it's kind of silly because everyone knows it's just a question of how big a bribe he's willing to give Trump.  Not complicated!  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...
2025-08-10 View on X
New York Times

A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family

A sophisticated operation is pushing President Trump to forgive Changpeng Zhao, which would boost the chances for his company, Binance, to break into the U.S. market.

2025-07-10
Imagine paying $300 a month for access to the Nazi AI Platinum Edition  —  techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/e...
2025-07-10 View on X
Tom's Guide

xAI introduces Grok 4, trained on its Colossus supercomputer, with multimodal features, faster reasoning, Grok 4 Voice, Grok 4 Code, a new interface, and more

Deeper thinking and greater reasoning is promised  —  An hour after the live stream was supposed to start last night (July 9) …

Imagine paying $300 a month for access to the Nazi AI Platinum Edition  —  techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/e...
2025-07-10 View on X
TechCrunch

xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a “multi-agent version” of Grok 4 that offers increased performance, and unveils SuperGrok Heavy, a $300/month AI subscription plan

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, late on Wednesday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 4, and unveiled …

2025-06-11
Ah, the glorious free market, where competition reigns.  X is getting advertisers by telling corporations: Advertise with us, or we'll sue you.  —  www.wsj.com/business/med...
2025-06-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources detail how X used threats of lawsuits and pressure tactics to motivate companies like Amazon, Ralph Lauren, and Verizon to resume buying ads on the site

Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform

2025-06-10
Zuckerberg is clearly concerned about Meta falling behind in the great race to create the Torment Nexus  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
2025-06-10 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Meta plans to build an AI lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence”, led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, with seven- to nine-figure compensations

The new lab, set to include Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta's artificial intelligence …

2024-12-12
Starting to think maybe the Silicon Valley overlords are not the brilliant but quirky good guys we were told they were  —  www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zu...
2024-12-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta donates $1M to President-elect Trump's inaugural fund; sources say Mark Zuckerberg gifted Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Trump at Mar-a-Lago on November 27

President-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving