Moltbook was peak AI theater; as the hype dies down, Moltbook looks less like a window onto the future and more like a mirror held up to society's AI obsessions
For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots.
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...
Sam Altman says OpenAI will bring back GPT-4o to ChatGPT and raising reasoning model rate limits for free and Plus users, as usage of reasoning models increases
The move is a stunning reversal, proving that even the most powerful AI company can't ignore a mutiny from its loyal user base.
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ ...
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use
“We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie." — One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake...
Writers and publishers criticize Spines, which raised a $16M seed round and charges authors $1,200 to $5,000 to use AI to edit and distribute their books
These aren't people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related. These are opportunists and extractive capitalists. [embedded post] @canongate.co.uk : Then these...
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots
https://www.theverge.com/... [image] @mxbck@front-end.social : Wow that's fucking bleak. A social network where you're the only human so you can “be the main character” — Consi...
Hands-on with Bard Extensions, which lets the chatbot use Gmail, Docs, and Drive data: the feature hallucinated emails, made unbookable travel plans, and more
Hands-on with #Bard Extensions from #Google, which lets the chatbot use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive: the feature made up emails, made wrong travel plans, and more. … Shriram K...
After a digital artist opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set, the community made a model copying his style, raising questions around open-source models
More popular than Picasso and Leonardo Da Vinci among AI artists, Greg Rutkowski opted out of the Stable Diffusion training set.
A look at review-bombing campaigns on Goodreads that can derail a book's publication long before its release, frustrating both new and established authors
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BuzzFeed debuts Botatouille, a free chatbot that suggests recipes from its food brand Tasty, and plans to offer AI-personalized services to sell subscriptions
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content
From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet. LinkedIn: Theo Priestley . Mastodon: @...
Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes
On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess — Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.
Elon Musk claims Substack links were never blocked and Substack tried to “download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone”
Elon Musk broke his silence about the Twitter CEO's conflict with the online publishing site Substack and one of its biggest writers Matt Taibbi on Saturday.
Matt Taibbi plans to use Substack Notes instead of Twitter after learning Twitter is blocking Substack links because the company is upset about Substack Notes
On staying at Substack, and leaving Twitter, I guess — Earlier this afternoon, I learned Substack links were being blocked on Twitter.
Documents: Twitter closely monitors and boosts ~35 accounts, including AOC, President Biden, Ben Shapiro, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, @catturd2, and MrBeast
Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and ... LeBron? — Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under …
Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter's For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15
Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform's For You page starting on April 15th …