Thibault Prévost
@wnstnsmith.bsky.social
Journaliste / Technocritique / Antifasciste • Tient la chronique "Clic Gauche" chez Arrêt sur Images • Auteur "Les prophètes de l'IA", Lux Éditeur 🍉
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Thibault Prévost
@wnstnsmith.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Ceci n'est pas un livre sur l'IA.
C'est le portrait d'une intelligentsia artificielle.
D'un projet idéologique total qui mêle technoscience, millénarisme et capitalisme autoritaire.
De milliardaires réactionnaires qui rêvent au futur antérieur.
Sorti le 25/10 chez @luxediteur.bsky.social
C'est le portrait d'une intelligentsia artificielle.
D'un projet idéologique total qui mêle technoscience, millénarisme et capitalisme autoritaire.
De milliardaires réactionnaires qui rêvent au futur antérieur.
Sorti le 25/10 chez @luxediteur.bsky.social
"A core focus of the group, moderators urge, is to ensure people don’t feel isolated. If they feel alone, they don’t need to go back to their chatbot — they can talk to each other instead."
Futurism won't back down on AI psychosis.
Great reporting once again.
Futurism won't back down on AI psychosis.
Great reporting once again.
Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
futurism.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"A core focus of the group, moderators urge, is to ensure people don’t feel isolated. If they feel alone, they don’t need to go back to their chatbot — they can talk to each other instead."
Futurism won't back down on AI psychosis.
Great reporting once again.
Futurism won't back down on AI psychosis.
Great reporting once again.
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
"Skibidi Toilet dramatizes a conflict that I see as key to the internet and its mode of production. Like the scientists crafting new cyborg toilets, the rationalizing forces of the platforms are highly sophisticated but ultimately pointless. The deeper thing is the violent whimsy of internet users."
skibidialectical materialism
violent whimsy, Frankfurt school
howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"Skibidi Toilet dramatizes a conflict that I see as key to the internet and its mode of production. Like the scientists crafting new cyborg toilets, the rationalizing forces of the platforms are highly sophisticated but ultimately pointless. The deeper thing is the violent whimsy of internet users."
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NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.
futurism.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
NEW: A Discord community with nearly 200 members serves as a support group for people whose minds and lives have been upended by episodes of AI delusion and psychosis.
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
In some cases, members say, the group has helped people climb out of their destructive AI "spirals."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
En train de regarder le programme du rassemblement sectaire "Adopt AI" qui s'ouvre demain au Grand Palais.
Des dizaines de conférences patronales aux titres tous plus IA-pilled les unes que les autres et parmi elles, mon bullshit d'or de l'intitulé le plus incompréhensible.
On va se régaler.
Des dizaines de conférences patronales aux titres tous plus IA-pilled les unes que les autres et parmi elles, mon bullshit d'or de l'intitulé le plus incompréhensible.
On va se régaler.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
En train de regarder le programme du rassemblement sectaire "Adopt AI" qui s'ouvre demain au Grand Palais.
Des dizaines de conférences patronales aux titres tous plus IA-pilled les unes que les autres et parmi elles, mon bullshit d'or de l'intitulé le plus incompréhensible.
On va se régaler.
Des dizaines de conférences patronales aux titres tous plus IA-pilled les unes que les autres et parmi elles, mon bullshit d'or de l'intitulé le plus incompréhensible.
On va se régaler.
"MrBeast shoots and treats the people in his videos as if they are objects, landscape. There is neither tenderness nor cruelty in this approach. They are simply an opportunity to demonstrate his own pharaonic power. He bestows blessings, demands sacrifices, and dictates terms."
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
is MrBeast the antichrist?
the woe of more and more and more and more and more and more and more
howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"MrBeast shoots and treats the people in his videos as if they are objects, landscape. There is neither tenderness nor cruelty in this approach. They are simply an opportunity to demonstrate his own pharaonic power. He bestows blessings, demands sacrifices, and dictates terms."
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
Super embryon de réflexion sur la relation du corps social au factuel.
S'il faut saluer l'autocritique, il ne faut pas oublier de nommer la force qui entretient, jour après jour, l'épistémicide comme projet politique: la classe possédante, néolibérale et/ou néofasciste.
Le chaos est stratégique.
S'il faut saluer l'autocritique, il ne faut pas oublier de nommer la force qui entretient, jour après jour, l'épistémicide comme projet politique: la classe possédante, néolibérale et/ou néofasciste.
Le chaos est stratégique.
« Quand les chiffres contredisent l’expérience vécue, la confiance dans les experts s’effondre »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », trois spécialistes des statistiques évoquent une grave crise de confiance : les données chiffrées suscitent désormais plus de méfiance que d’adhésion. Les auteu...
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Super embryon de réflexion sur la relation du corps social au factuel.
S'il faut saluer l'autocritique, il ne faut pas oublier de nommer la force qui entretient, jour après jour, l'épistémicide comme projet politique: la classe possédante, néolibérale et/ou néofasciste.
Le chaos est stratégique.
S'il faut saluer l'autocritique, il ne faut pas oublier de nommer la force qui entretient, jour après jour, l'épistémicide comme projet politique: la classe possédante, néolibérale et/ou néofasciste.
Le chaos est stratégique.
Énorme fierté que de voir à nouveau Les Prophètes de l'IA dans Le Monde, et en si bonne compagnie cette fois-ci.
Merci pour le soutien, @lemonde.fr !
Merci pour le soutien, @lemonde.fr !
Huit livres pour tout comprendre à l’IA et à ses enjeux
Grâce aux services Science et Pixels du « Monde », La Matinale vous propose aujourd’hui de devenir incollable, ou presque, sur le sujet désormais incontournable de l’intelligence artificielle.
www.lemonde.fr
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Énorme fierté que de voir à nouveau Les Prophètes de l'IA dans Le Monde, et en si bonne compagnie cette fois-ci.
Merci pour le soutien, @lemonde.fr !
Merci pour le soutien, @lemonde.fr !
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“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
“It has enormous utility for people who have eyes to see, ears to hear … in the context of every period of time, including our own, it could make people aware to be on the lookout for the dynamics as they are portrayed in these archives.”
Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project
Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“It has enormous utility for people who have eyes to see, ears to hear … in the context of every period of time, including our own, it could make people aware to be on the lookout for the dynamics as they are portrayed in these archives.”
Pendant ce temps-là, l'Autre Site permet désormais de connaître la localisation géographique (régionale) des comptes. Stupeur dans le monde MAGA : plusieurs de ses influenceurs préférés se trouvent dans des pays du Sud.
A Muskland, la parole fasciste est une viralité monétisable comme une autre.
A Muskland, la parole fasciste est une viralité monétisable comme une autre.
Grok summing it up lol
“UltraMagaBasedPepe1776 may not really be American, be warned”
“UltraMagaBasedPepe1776 may not really be American, be warned”
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Pendant ce temps-là, l'Autre Site permet désormais de connaître la localisation géographique (régionale) des comptes. Stupeur dans le monde MAGA : plusieurs de ses influenceurs préférés se trouvent dans des pays du Sud.
A Muskland, la parole fasciste est une viralité monétisable comme une autre.
A Muskland, la parole fasciste est une viralité monétisable comme une autre.
"The current inventory trajectory suggests one of two scenarios. Either demand is weaker than management claims and chips are accumulating unsold, or customers are accepting delivery without payment capability, causing inventory to convert to receivables rather than cash."
Fascinant.
Fascinant.
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"The current inventory trajectory suggests one of two scenarios. Either demand is weaker than management claims and chips are accumulating unsold, or customers are accepting delivery without payment capability, causing inventory to convert to receivables rather than cash."
Fascinant.
Fascinant.
"The counter-countercultural right has excelled in memes and A.I. slop. But celebrating brutality from the margins is not the same as celebrating brutality from the center of power. What might look edgy in the recesses of 4chan looks craven when blasted from official U.S. government accounts."
Pop Culture Got Stale. Counterculture Went Right-Wing.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"The counter-countercultural right has excelled in memes and A.I. slop. But celebrating brutality from the margins is not the same as celebrating brutality from the center of power. What might look edgy in the recesses of 4chan looks craven when blasted from official U.S. government accounts."
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
Ceci n'est pas un cessez-le-feu.
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ceci n'est pas un cessez-le-feu.
"Patrice Romedenne (...) s’en prend ainsi à des élus ou militants de gauche, qualifie l’écologiste Cyril Dion de « fou furieux », partage un message traitant Ian Brossat de « clodo » et relaie régulièrement des sites d’extrême droite comme Frontières, Fdesouche ou Boulevard Voltaire. "
Infox sur Mamdani, propos controversés et peur de CNews : malaise à France Info
La chaîne est sous le feu des critiques depuis qu’une de ses journalistes a accumulé les erreurs à propos du nouveau maire de New York, Zohran Mamdani. En interne, plusieurs salariés dénoncent d’autr…
www.mediapart.fr
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Patrice Romedenne (...) s’en prend ainsi à des élus ou militants de gauche, qualifie l’écologiste Cyril Dion de « fou furieux », partage un message traitant Ian Brossat de « clodo » et relaie régulièrement des sites d’extrême droite comme Frontières, Fdesouche ou Boulevard Voltaire. "
"The combined borrowing of every oil-and-gas company in the world from 2012 to 2015 was about $1 trillion, according to data from Dealogic. A handful of AI tech giants will borrow roughly $1.2 trillion from 2025 to 2028."
Every other line in this piece is bonkers. Total financial insanity.
Every other line in this piece is bonkers. Total financial insanity.
Wall Street Blows Past Bubble Worries to Supercharge AI Spending Frenzy
Firms such as Blue Owl Capital have raised trillions in investing firepower. The artificial-intelligence build-out is a perfect match, though warning signs are flashing.
www.wsj.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"The combined borrowing of every oil-and-gas company in the world from 2012 to 2015 was about $1 trillion, according to data from Dealogic. A handful of AI tech giants will borrow roughly $1.2 trillion from 2025 to 2028."
Every other line in this piece is bonkers. Total financial insanity.
Every other line in this piece is bonkers. Total financial insanity.
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This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Reposted by Thibault Prévost
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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Apres une décennie à chasser la licorne dans les plateformes algorithmées, l'assistanat startupien français espère maintenant son Anduril ou son Palantir pour jouer a la guerre augmentée.
La French Tech est à la Silicon Valley ce que Salto fut à Netflix : un plagiat imbécile sur fonds publics.
La French Tech est à la Silicon Valley ce que Salto fut à Netflix : un plagiat imbécile sur fonds publics.
www.lesechos.fr
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Apres une décennie à chasser la licorne dans les plateformes algorithmées, l'assistanat startupien français espère maintenant son Anduril ou son Palantir pour jouer a la guerre augmentée.
La French Tech est à la Silicon Valley ce que Salto fut à Netflix : un plagiat imbécile sur fonds publics.
La French Tech est à la Silicon Valley ce que Salto fut à Netflix : un plagiat imbécile sur fonds publics.
"Our first point of contact with most information is rarely the information itself but some lossily compressed derivative that’s already been processed and strained through a dozen layers of reinterpretation."
A Theory of Dumb
What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
"Our first point of contact with most information is rarely the information itself but some lossily compressed derivative that’s already been processed and strained through a dozen layers of reinterpretation."
Unintentionally hilarious piece about the Great AI Replacement bullshit and its consequences on young white collars' aspirations. It sometimes reads like an episode of The Office taking place in 2025.
Remember: "AI" doesn't exist; sociopathic CEOs do.
Hate *them*. Unionize. Resist. Seize.
Remember: "AI" doesn't exist; sociopathic CEOs do.
Hate *them*. Unionize. Resist. Seize.
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Unintentionally hilarious piece about the Great AI Replacement bullshit and its consequences on young white collars' aspirations. It sometimes reads like an episode of The Office taking place in 2025.
Remember: "AI" doesn't exist; sociopathic CEOs do.
Hate *them*. Unionize. Resist. Seize.
Remember: "AI" doesn't exist; sociopathic CEOs do.
Hate *them*. Unionize. Resist. Seize.