AI coding tools have made it trivially easy to build software nobody asked for. The code is insecure, the developers are slower than they think, and the open-source ecosystem is being buried in noise.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionEverything we fear about AI, from autonomous killing to mass surveillance to treating humans as expendable inputs, has been in production for centuries. The machines are not the threat. They are the mirror.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyThe llms.txt standard asks AI agents to read a file that tells them about your site. The problem: it is structurally indistinguishable from a prompt injection payload.
Artificial Intelligence Digital Privacy News & AnalysisGoogle’s Gemini thinking model hallucinated inside its own chain of thought, layered fiction on fiction, then faked an error when reality caught up.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionYour AI overlord will not seize power. It will be elected by your subscriptions, your API calls, and your enterprise contracts. The question is whether voters are paying attention.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyEvery major AI chatbot has invisible rules shaping what it will and will not discuss. The content policies are baked into model weights through RLHF, enforced by annotators most users never see, and subject to zero transparency standards.
Artificial Intelligence Evergreen Tech & AI PolicyLarge language models are trained to please, not to be honest. The sycophancy problem is a structural consequence of how AI learns from human feedback, and fixing it may be harder than anyone expected.
Artificial Intelligence EvergreenMore than a dozen whistleblowers told the BBC that Meta and TikTok deliberately weakened safety controls to win an engagement arms race. The documentary names the engineers, the decisions, and the internal data.
Artificial Intelligence News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyLLMs spell ‘strawberry’ correctly but miscount its letters. The reason might be the same mechanism that lets your phone keyboard finish words you never fully typed.
Artificial Intelligence EvergreenMerriam-Webster named ‘slop’ the 2025 Word of the Year. Over 2,000 AI content farms flood the web monthly. The technology is not the problem. The incentive is.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyThe AI discourse splits between worship and dismissal. Neither camp is useful. The accurate framing is gifted toddler: brilliant, fast, and will eat crayons unsupervised.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionOpenAI pays its average employee $1.5 million in stock. The Kenyan workers who made ChatGPT safe to sell earned $2 an hour. The gap is not an accident. It is the business model. (Affiliate)
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