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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 14h

youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?... This looks like AI slop but isn't, explaining why AI disinformation is shitting in the pot to make AI sourced info less accurate and credible.

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 17h

As we enter the frenzied holiday season (sorry, too soon), Adobe study shows huge uptake of LLMs in guiding to a perfect gift. And surprisingly, it's driven by desktop users
business.adobe.com/resources/ho...

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 22h

"Deloitte has a human intelligence problem." A rather costly shortcut. How's your AI transformation programme going? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

www.theguardian.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 1d

Disclosing you use AI in your work erodes trust. But disclose you must. So lead with how AI supports your expert endeavours www.nobodycaresaboutethics.com/blog/ai-disc...

www.nobodycaresaboutethics.com

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 1d

Some handwringing and some opportuities for limitless storytelling (though a worrying lack of railguards - "we'll bring in an AI ethics person after launch" from a storytelling app) - how kids, parents and corporate are using AI to entertain children. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 1d

openai.com/devday Lots of good tings at the OpenAI DevDay - Codex = a self-contained coding and testing tool, AgentKit = no-code agent builder and a SDK to integrate apps inside ChatGPT. Here's hoping this smoother running integration will help those building next-gen apps.

OpenAI DevDay 2025

Explore all the announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2025, including apps in ChatGPT, AgentKit, Sora 2, and more. Access blogs, docs, and resources to help you build with the latest tools.

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 2d

hbr.org/2025/10/what...

This study shows that if an algorithm determines your rate it could find in your favour. It priced up freelance rates and removed gender pay gap. But bias around age and geography persist, with 30-somethings getting the biggest pay boost.

What Happens When AI Sets Wages

Generative AI is no longer just automating text; with AI-based wage-setting, it’s shaping paychecks, livelihoods, and access to opportunity. Left unchecked, these systems risk reinforcing, or even wid...

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 2d

AI is unsurprisingly popping up in corporate filings for S&P 500 big biz. The problem: most can't explain what it's doing, or how it's benefiting the business. Looks like a prime case of FOMO. futurism.com/future-socie...

Big Businesses Have a Major Problem With AI

An analysis from the Financial Times makes a damning case of mindless AI band-wagoning among the US's top companies.

futurism.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 2d

If you thought your company's corporate branded mug or hoodie was in bad taste. Who would want to dress as Palantir? www.wired.com/story/palant...

Palantir Wants to Be a Lifestyle Brand

Defense tech giant Palantir is selling T-shirts and tote bags as part of a bid to encourage fans to publicly endorse it.

www.wired.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 2d

Accenture's digital transformation includes "exiting" folks who can't be reskilled. Unclear what that means. They can't be *replaced* with AI? www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/a...

Accenture plans on 'exiting' staff who can't be reskilled on AI amid restructuring strategy

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said as advanced AI becomes core to the company's strategy, employees are expected to "retrain and retool" at scale.

www.cnbc.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 3d

To get AI adoption right, first go slow to go fast. It pays to WAIT (Working on AI Transformation) 🔁 New article on Rethinking the Hype Cycle rethinkhypecycle.substack.com/p/working-on...

To get AI adoption right, first go slow to go fast

Forget "AI-first" bluster, doing AI right need patience and planning

rethinkhypecycle.substack.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 4d

This autonomous mini vehicle Dot isn't just cute, it's on road in Phoenix testing delivery orders. Like supermarket weighting machine, it can detect missing items. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/d...

DoorDash launches delivery robot in latest push into autonomous technology

DoorDash announced an autonomous robot known as Dot that can navigate busy streets to deliver food to customers.

www.cnbc.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 4d

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-footpri...
A deep dive on latest research on AI energy use. Search isn't as energy intensive now as previously thought, making up a fraction of daily energy and similar to search. Though data centres is a different environmental problem to consider

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT or Gemini? [August 2025 update]

A new study from Google suggests its Gemini LLM uses around 0.24 Wh per text query. That's the same energy as using a microwave for one second.

www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 4d

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Quantum tech is wild and for use cases it serves way bigger and better than AI. These researchers got the machine extended to run from milliseconds to hours, potentially next to run nonstop to solve hard compute challenges

Harvard Researchers Develop First Ever Continuously Operating Quantum Computer | News | The Harvard Crimson

A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, achieving a major breakthrough in a field that could revolutionize everyth...

www.thecrimson.com

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Lisa Riemers @lisariemers.bsky.social · 7d

I can't take all the credit this is written with @matissenelis.com #a11y #ai

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

www.business-reporter.co.uk/management/d... AI tools can aid accessibility. Or reinforce existing bias. @lisariemers.bsky.social explains how to do it right. 👍

Does AI help or hinder accessible communications?

Accessibility isn't about compliance or checking boxes. It's about recognising that the most effective communication is communication that works for everyone

www.business-reporter.co.uk

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 4d

Macron on the money. Big tech social aren't bothered about the success or failure of democracy

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 4d

www.unsubscribehell.com?utm_source=s... 162 secs took me to exit unsubscribe hell. Weave out of those dark patterns

Unsubscribe Hell

www.unsubscribehell.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 4d

You're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" Cory Doctorow warns 😲 pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 5d

substack.com/@rethinkhype...
Cory Doctorow on enshitiffication of big tech and apathy of the oligarchs 🔥

Susi O'Neill (@rethinkhypecycle)

Oh my Cory Doctorow on fire or rather pissing on the flames of big tech “AI is filling our society with technological debt, with something like the asbestos or the Grenfell cladding of the future”

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 6d

“I see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush”. Actors disagree with the amorphrosiation of new AI "actress". One response: "f-- off." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Creator of "AI Actress" Responds to Near-Universal Backlash

The "AI Actress" called Tilly Norwood was slammed by actors across the industry after its creator claimed it was being "signed" by agents.

futurism.com

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

Like a student guesses the hard question in an exam, AI systems will 'guess' (or hallucinate) if it doesn't know the answer. According to OpenAI's research, it's built into the system. And ain't disappearing anytime soon. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

Atropy kicks-in quick if you lean too heavily on AI. For creatives, this could be disastrous. They're outsourcing the 20% original thinking instead of the 80% production grunt. Work becomes more homogeneous to point of obsolescence. @zoescaman.bsky.social zoescaman.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Erosion

On the fine line between AI augmentation and cognitive atrophy

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

More people are using AI and reporting it makes them more productive. But 96% of biz don't see benefits from AI as it's not helping with collaboration. The 4% that do we can learn from: they give people more autonomy and treat AI as an integrated team member. www.atlassian.com/blog/ai-coll...

Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

www.business-reporter.co.uk/management/d... AI tools can aid accessibility. Or reinforce existing bias. @lisariemers.bsky.social explains how to do it right. 👍

Does AI help or hinder accessible communications?

Accessibility isn't about compliance or checking boxes. It's about recognising that the most effective communication is communication that works for everyone

www.business-reporter.co.uk

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Susi O'Neill @susioneill.bsky.social · 7d

🐒 😔

🎃🎃🎃Mark Yarm🎃🎃🎃 @markyarm.bsky.social · 7d

A great woman. RIP.

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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