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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 6d

beyond parody

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RFK Jr. Sneezes Loudly While Trump Is Speaking

As Donald Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office to announce a Pfizer deal, his health secretary sneezed loudly.

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 12d

it's pretty egregious that spotify's platform allows this stuff to fall through the cracks. this is how the vast majority of people listen to music these days!

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 12d

ironically, Spotify announced new policies to combat what it called AI "slop" outright literally yesterday

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 12d

had an interesting run-in on my Spotify Release Radar this morning, wondering why Volcano Choir had released an incredibly cheap-sounding single 12 years into their hiatus
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Bon Iver Side Project's Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 21d

we're truly in the age of AI-powered dehumanization, by @joeonhere.bsky.social futurism.com/job-applicat...

Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They're Trying to Peddle "Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer"

A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 29d

imo this is what the internet was made for

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no man's sky spaceship that looks like Microsoft Clippy

no man's sky spaceship that looks like Goku from Dragon Ball

no man's sky spaceship that looks like the Eye of Sauron

no man's sky spaceship that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Aug 30

they say we all float down here, and we float very strongly, and a lot of people are saying we float at levels that have never been seen before

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · Aug 19

bubblification

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · Aug 11

A massive overcorrection, horrifying malicious compliance, or just an incredibly dumb bug?
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Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer

It's been just over a month since Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI's Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as "MechaHitler" and targeting people wi...

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · Jul 29

so nick caved. come on, it was RIGHT there
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Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New “Tupelo” Video Starring an AI Elvis

On the Bad Seeds classic’s 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”

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Godspeed You! Bluesky Emperor @andrewpaul.bsky.social · Jul 18

wow
this is pretty damning if Trump really did write it

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · Jun 5

elon will live to be 120 years old and be president like at least 17 times
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"He Just Went CRAZY": Trump Threatens to Terminate Elon Musk's Government Contracts

President Donald Trump threatened to terminate billionaire Elon Musk's "Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," escalating their feud.

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · Jun 5

we all knew for a very long time this was gonna happen. still kinda wild to watch the chaos unfurl
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Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Shreds Elon Musk

Billionaire Elon Musk's bromance with president Donald Trump has officially exploded into an ugly, spite-fuelled, mud-slinging grudge match.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · Jun 4

proactively imagining all the ways this is going to be a disaster

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The Washington Post Is Secretly Planning to Start Publishing Articles Created Using AI

The Washington Post has quietly been building an AI tool that takes much of the work out of writing as it attempts to recoup readership.

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Allison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · May 30

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality...

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The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business

If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · May 28

losing attitude control during Flight 9 could be a sign of yet another major setback for SpaceX

Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · May 23

also TIL what reverse harem is

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · May 23

look, i don't care what somebody gets off to, but this level of laziness and blatant attempts to rip off a well-established author just will not stand
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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style

A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.

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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · May 20

the writer got caught red-handed and definitely went far beyond using AI "for background." just embarrassing really.
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