Artificial Intelligence

A third of new webpages written with AI

Artificial Intelligence / Internet, Pew Research, writing

It is trivial to generate bodies of text on infinite topics, so of…
Amazon shutting down Mechanical Turk

Artificial Intelligence / Amazon, CNBC, Mechanical Turk, shutdown

Annie Palmer for CNBC:
“We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and…
Google buys Spirit Airlines data in bankruptcy sale

Artificial Intelligence / Gizmodo, Google, Spirit Airlines, training

Spirit Airlines went bankrupt for real this time, and Google bought the data.…
Trillions of dollars in AI spending not in the balance sheet yet

Artificial Intelligence / spending, technology, Wall Street Journal

For the Wall Street Journal, Peter Rudegeair and Peter Santilli report on the…
Amazon buying rare books in bulk for training

Artificial Intelligence / 404 Media, Amazon, tracking, training

Suspecting that an anonymous order of 1,000 books was headed to an AI…
OpenAI accidentally makes attack bots

Artificial Intelligence / attack, bot, OpenAI

Multiple bots exploited a vulnerability in OpenAI’s security system to gain internet access.…
Google rolls back its fake satellite image machine

Artificial Intelligence / fake, Google, misinformation, NPR, satellite imagery

Last week, Google released a feature for Google Earth that let anyone use…
Generated book slop

Artificial Intelligence / biography, Kashmir Hill, New York Times

Upon discovery of a generated biography on Amazon about her, NYT journalist Kashmir…
George Lucas on the horse and buggy

Artificial Intelligence / George Lucas, movies, Rabbit's Foot

For A Rabbit’s Foot, Andy Hazel interviewed Star Wars creator George Lucas, mostly…
Map of AI archetypes

Artificial Intelligence / archetypes, quiz

AI Compass is a quiz of thirty questions that asks for your opinion…
Maintaining a vibe-coded internet

Artificial Intelligence / Financial Times, open-source, Sam Learner, vibe-code

The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning…
Students use chatbots to cheat on exam

Artificial Intelligence / Brown University, cheating, ethics, Inside Higher Ed, Roberto Serrano

Roberto Serrano, a Brown University economics professor, gave a take-home midterm and it…
Bot traffic surpasses human traffic

Artificial Intelligence / bot, Cloudflare, Internet, scraping

Traffic has been rising extra quickly these past couple of years. Unfortunately (or…
Selling a house with AI

Artificial Intelligence / chatbot, house, New York Times, sales, Stuart A. Thompson

Stuart A. Thompson, a New York Times technology journalist, used Google’s Gemini chatbot…
Magnifica Humanitas from Pope Leo

Artificial Intelligence / encyclical, humanity, Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV presented his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, which translates to Magnificent…
ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if generative AI not kept in check

Artificial Intelligence / ArXiv, ban, research, slop

Speaking of careless AI usage, the open-access archive for research papers, ArXiv, is…
Book about future of truth contains generated quotes

Artificial Intelligence / New York Times, quote, Steven Rosenbaum, truth, writing

Steven Rosenbaum wrote The Future of Truth, a book about AI and reality…
Poor geometry in deepfake images

Artificial Intelligence / generative, geometry, Science Magazine

Science profiled Hany Farid, a researcher in digital forensics at the University of…
Estimating how much text on the internet is generated

Artificial Intelligence / generative, Internet Archive, text

Researchers analyzed newly published websites from 2022 through mid-2025 to estimate what percentage…
Past job transformations, because of technology

Artificial Intelligence / Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch, technology, work

It seems every day the chances that AI transforms work trends towards certain.…

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