We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

"The use of [AI] to 'reanimate' the dead (...) is quickly gaining traction. Over the past few years, we’ve been studying the moral implications of AI at the Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and we find these AI reanimations to be morally problematic."

"Persistent memory means ChatGPT is storing more personal data than ever before, including potentially sensitive details about users’ lives, work, and relationships. There are also concerns about how this data might be used for targeted advertising, profiling, or even surveillance."

"As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge — maybe more so than anything else, that pattern of negating statements typified by 'it's not X, it's Y.'"

"Despite widespread hype, so-called 'AI agents' — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it."

"A new study (...) has 'touched a nerve' (...) with its argument that chatbots like ChatGPT should not replace therapists because of their dangerous tendencies to express stigma, encourage delusions and respond inappropriately in critical moments."

"Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs) say they're being overwhelmed by AI bots – web crawling scripts that visit websites and download data to be used for training AI models – according to a report issued on Tuesday by the GLAM-E Lab, which studies issues affecting GLAMs."

"Evidence of AI chatbots' deleterious effects on our mental health has been steadily mounting, with countless friends and family members watching their loved ones become obsessed with ChatGPT and spiral into wild delusions, sometimes with tragic consequences."

"Researchers (...) found that (...) ChatGPT users (...) 'consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.' Over the course of several months, ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study."

"Their concern is that AI models are being trained with synthetic data created by AI models. Subsequent generations of AI models may therefore become less and less reliable, a state known as AI model collapse."

"ChatGPT’s sycophancy, hallucinations, and authoritative-sounding responses are going to get people killed. [The New York Times reports] of several people who found themselves lost in delusions that were facilitated, if not originated, through conversations with the popular chatbot."

"The 110-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a U.S. district court in Los Angeles, includes detailed appendices illustrating the plaintiffs' claims with visual examples and alleges that Midjourney stole 'countless' copyrighted works to train its AI engine in the creation of AI-generated images."

"AI isn't living up to its hype even now, and attempts to push it further aren't going well. We know this, because the actual results from AI in our daily lives, such as search, have things it can't do that aren't getting better, perhaps the opposite."

Games Workshop hits the panic button, temporarily shuts down Warhammer site after scalpers descend upon it with 'abominable intelligence' and bots
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The Tech Industry Said It Was "Impossible" to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion
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Amazon Programmers Say What Happened After Turn to AI Was Dark
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"One engineer said that his team was reduced to roughly half the size it was last year — but it was still expected to produce the same amount of code by using AI."

Anthropic shows the limits of AI as it scraps blog experiment
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"Early in June 2025, Anthropic quickly launched an initiative intended to demonstrate its models' writing abilities, only to abruptly cease it one week later."

A knockout blow for LLMs?
garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout...

"If you can’t use a billion dollar AI system to solve a problem that (...) first semester AI students solve routinely, the chances that models like Claude or o3 are going to reach AGI seem truly remote."