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🎣 The "AI impersonation" scam is tricking creators everywhere. Here's how to spot it before it steals your identity 👇

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🎣 The “AI Impersonation” Scam That’s Fooling Creators

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November 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash

Should we not rely on one service to support everything?

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October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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"Contemporary AI is research misconduct."

#aifraud

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Oct 4

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

October 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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"copyright growing pains"

extraordinary new frontiers of euphemism for THEFT

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 23d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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October 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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Send your feedback to Atlassian Jira

#aifraud

screenshot of Jira modal, "Help us improve Definitions"

"Describe the issue: 'I do not want any 'ai' features anywhere in Jira.'

October 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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Every post about 'ai' coding 'assistants' is like 'yeah it's a huge time waster but this one time it worked,'

This is definitely gambling adjacent, and also maybe 'lizard corner' effect

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Post on linkedin:

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AI products and agents make mistakes all the time, so patterns exist to architect around that.

The screenshot is codex struggling to get something right for me. It writes bad code, sees the error, writes more bad code, sees the error again... eventually gets it right.

But that's the key - it does get it right!

(And yes, burns a lot of tokens doing it, we'll talk about this.)

So here's the point about architecture:

- Give the LLM a tight feedback loop -> it can self-heal.

This is why LLMs are pretty good coding agents. If they can see an error, they just keep trying plausible solutions until they get past it. Not quite 10 million monkeys with typewriters, but maybe 10 highly-trained monkeys with text editors.

But this is also why LLMs (still) aren't great coding agents. Not every change has such a tight feedback loop as this - lots require a user to click through and test, or something to be deployed to production infra, or a human to look at the UI and see if it's still broken.

These are the cases where using an LLM gets really frustrating. The 10 highly-trained monkeys are ready to write the next iteration of code but they have to wait to get the feedback.
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So there's a general lesson here for AI products.

Your AI product is going to be more successful if you can have a tight feedback loop.

- In coding agents it's the compiler/test output.
- With ChatGPT it's the little thumbs up/thumbs down buttons - but no-one presses them - or the AB response test you sometimes get.
- With Google search it's whether you click a link, go to more pages of results, rather than just getting what you need from the AI summary.
- etc etc etc

Build that feedback loop into the core product, it's really hard to tack on later.

But tokens.

The constant retries are going to hurt your token budget.

So one of the interesting skills in AI product management is balancing correctness/retries with tokens/cost.

It's a slider, like everything in product management. There's no right answer here - it depends on the stage of your product:

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- If you're trying to nail PMF then eat the tokens.

- If you're post-PMF and you're trying to make it profitable, you need to actively move the slider.

This is also why you see AI products that work well for a while then stop working so well. They've moved the slider!

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October 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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#aifraud

Text banner:
AI SUCKS AND YOU
SHOULD NOT USE IT.
Credit for the quote: LAUREN WOOLSEY

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October 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM Everybody can reply

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ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@

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Every financial bubble has moments where, looking back, one thinks: How did any sentient person miss the signs? Today's omens abound. Thinking Machines, an Al startup helmed by former Open Al executive Mira Murati, just raised the largest seed round in history: $2 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation. The company has not released a product and has refused to tell investors what they're even trying to build. "It was the most absurd pitch meeting," one investor who met with Murati said. "She was like, 'So we're doing an Al company with the best AI people, but we can't answer any questions." Meanwhile, a recent analysis of stock market trends found that none of the typical rules for sensible investing can explain what's going on with stock prices right now. Whereas equity prices have historically followed earnings fundamentals, today's market is driven overwhelmingly by momentum, as retail investors pile into meme stocks and Al companies because they think everybody else is piling into meme stocks and Al companies.

October 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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'ai' art is Not art.

just as 'ai' is not Intelligent.

but it is destroying human art and artists and workers.
#aifraud

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · Oct 2

Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.

October 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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It's good to see Ed adding to his exhaustive analysis of the doomed, nonsensical, Ponzi financials with a frank discussion of how the 'ai' junk products are all worse than useless and actually harmful in any application.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Sep 29

This piece presents my most comprehensive case, tearing down the terrible unit economics of LLMs, explaining in detail how bad coding LLMs really are and why they’ll never replace software engineers, how dangerous NVIDIA‘s circular finances are, and show how little revenue there is in AI.

September 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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whatever evil is afoot, know Tony Blair is hovering around banking cheques from it

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Pivot to AI @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy · Sep 22

The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!

The Tony Blair Institute is the brains trust for Keir Starmer’s Labour government in the UK. The TBI is the driving force behind the UK government plan to go full AI — it has a pile of tech donors, who just happen to be the companies the government’s giving all the AI contracts to. And […]

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September 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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OH
"cool cool, wasted two hours this morning because someone insisted my changes to a cloudformation template broke their application.
when actually it was their changes to the code, which chatgpt wrote.
cool cool cool.
thanks."

Everyone's lives are diminished by gen 'ai' bullshit. #aifraud

September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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"That Sam Altman (Scam Altman!), CEO of OpenAI, would be a space locust is the least surprising of all plot twists of all time. He is the locust that is currently consuming our planet."

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"Sam Altman tells lies for money."

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Dyson Spheres for Space Locusts

I’ve always thought Dyson spheres were the most absurd idea. What “civilization” would be so rapacious as to *enclose an entire star* to meet their “energy needs”. That’s not a sign of “advanced in…

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September 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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No shit. Everything got worse. #aifraud

Pivot to AI @pivot-to-ai.com.web.brid.gy · Sep 15

UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI

The UK Department for Business and Trade ran a trial of Microsoft Copilot for Office 365 from October 2024 to March 2025. The Department finally released its findings last month. [DBT, PDF] The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”. The bot didn’t do so well on […]

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September 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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Choosing to use LLMs is choosing to abandon any aspiration to be an engineer. You're not even "junior" after that point, just a mark.

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#aifraud #replit #claude #sonnet

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Sep 16

Replit, a vibe coding startup, pushed a new product called "agent 3" that appears to be completely broken other than in its ability to burn tons of money

Fear of Agent 3
Question / Discussion
Join
Hi all, I would like to share my experience so far.
Ever since Agent 3 was released, l've been stuck in a nightmare with my app.
I've already spent around $300 and lost an entire weekend completely isolated, trying to fix issues that Agent 3 keeps making worse. My app is live, with about 250 users, and right now it's broken. Users are complaining, and I feel powerless.
Every time I run Agent 3, it feels like pulling the lever of a slot machine. Sometimes it runs for an hour and produces nothing. Sometimes it introduces new bugs. Most of the time, it doesn't solve the problem. I've ended up spending money just to watch things break even further.
I'm mentally exhausted. I wasted a whole weekend like this, and I can't see a way forward. With Agent 2 l had something that worked, but now everything seems fragile and unreliable.
If there were even one way to get out of this at a reasonable cost, I would take it immediately. But everything is tied up on Replit like database, server, user base etc.. I wouldn't even know where to move, and I can't deliver the same experience elsewhere.
Right now, I feel destroyed and broken.
Please, if anyone has advice or a solution, I'd be deeply grateful.
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Linotype Pilgrim

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"venture capital fundamentally has nowhere else to go. They have to keep spending real dollars so they can write down ever-bigger numbers of imaginary dollars. So they’ll keep putting money into AI until they literally can’t."

#aifraud
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Vibe coding is getting rancid even for venture capital

PitchBook brings us: “The dangerous vibes powering VCs’ favorite startup category.” Vibe coding is a security disaster. [PitchBook] The story itself is vapid. But the article existing is remarkable…

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September 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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It's a shit logo anyway

#aifraud

September 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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And pure bullshit like THIS, right here, is how any intelligent person knows the Ponzi is all definitely going to unravel:

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Article at The Economist: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/09/07/what-if-the-ai-stockmarket-blows-up?giftId=ab1077c3-e68d-4bbc-9f5a-af4d532d0231&utm_campaign=gifted_article

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Since the release of ChatGPT in 2022, the value of America’s stockmarket has risen by $21trn. Just ten firms—including Amazon, Broadcom, Meta and Nvidia—account for 55% of the rise. All are riding high on enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, and they are not the only ones. In the first half of the year an IT investment boom accounted for all America’s GDP growth; in the year to date a third of the West’s venture-capital dollars have gone to AI firms.

The market is so hot because many believe AI will transform the economy. Investors at Sequoia Capital, a VC firm, recently argued it will be “as big if not bigger than the Industrial Revolution”. In a podcast last year, Gavin Baker of Atreides Management, an asset manager, argued that AI luminaries are not just after the “tens of trillions or hundreds of trillions of value” the tech could add to their firms—they are “in a race to create a Digital God”. That belief would justify any amount of spending.

Will AI really become godlike? Perhaps, but a recent report by UBS, a bank, finds that revenue generation to date “has been disappointing”. By our reckoning, the total revenue from the tech accruing to the West’s leading AI firms is currently $50bn a year. Although such revenues are growing fast, they are still less than 2% of the $2.9trn investment in new data centres globally that Morgan Stanley, another bank, forecasts between 2025 and 2028—a figure which excludes energy costs. Meanwhile, the extent to which revenues will translate into profits is murky. A recent study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concludes that 95% of organisations are getting “zero return” from investments in generative AI.

No wonder more and more people are asking whether investment in AI has beco…

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Linotype Pilgrim

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For fuck's sake what is this shit?

let me save you the "research": It's not "conscious". It does not "think". It is some arithmetic run on oceans of stolen data.

that's all.

it's a computer program spitting out plausible looking bullshit that fools uncritical rubes, like WIRED magazine.
#aifraud

WIRED @wired.com · Sep 4

Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond. www.wired.com/story/model-...

Should AI Get Legal Rights?

Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

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September 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM Everybody can reply

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this is fucking ridiculous and you should be embarrassed reporting it

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · Sep 5

Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes

Since the rise of generative artificial intelligence in 2022, the technology has mostly been plugged into parts of the production pipeline as far as its deployment in Hollywood. Think visual effects, dubbing and storyboarding. As it stands, it’s mostly thought of as a tool to streamline certain processes and cut costs.

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September 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM Everybody can reply

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PPC Land

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ICYMI: Network of AI-generated fake news sites uncovered in advertising fraud scheme: Investigation reveals over 200 fraudulent websites using AI to generate content and deceive advertisers through fake news domains. #FakeNews #AIFraud #AdvertisingFraud #DigitalMarketing #MediaManipulation

Network of AI-generated fake news sites uncovered in advertising fraud scheme

Investigation reveals over 200 fraudulent websites using AI to generate content and deceive advertisers through fake news domains.

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January 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM Everybody can reply

Matern Law Group, PC

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California lawmakers target AI-fueled fraud in new House bill.

The AI Fraud Deterrence Act from Reps. Lieu and Kiley would impose stiffer penalties on individuals who use AI to commit fraud.

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#AI #AIFraud #ConsumerFraud #AIFraudDeterranceAct #ConsumerRights

California lawmakers target AI-fueled fraud in new House bill

The AI Fraud Deterrence Act from Reps. Lieu and Kiley would impose stiffer penalties on individuals who use AI to commit fraud.

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December 10, 2024 at 11:38 PM Everybody can reply

Linotype Pilgrim

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"90% error rate"—sounds bad

#aifraud

www.newsweek.com/hospitals-ar...

Hospitals are reporting more insurance denials. Is AI behind them?

Health insurers use AI to deny certain claims and maximize their profits, a Senate report suggests. Hospitals around the country are struggling to fight back.

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December 4, 2024 at 10:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Linotype Pilgrim

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Just spitballing but I'm not sure it's a good product when its PEAK attainable level is "doesn't do anything that's claimed but sure costs a fortune failing"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Dec 3

Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model.

The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
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Godot Isn't Making it

Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...

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December 4, 2024 at 4:24 PM Everybody can reply

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Spam that can kill you: www.404media.co/google-serve... #google #aifraud

Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have 'Devastating Consequences'

AI-generated images of mushrooms that look nothing like the real species could spread misleading and dangerous information.

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