#aipocalypse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aipocalypse, aggregated by home.social.
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CBC: Australia bans fully AI-made songs from charts after Madonna cover goes viral
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/australia-music-chart-ban-ai-9.7319875
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My company has spent a year urging everyone to use as much #AI as possible, all the time, for everything. People get company awards for AI prowess. Last week they set token limits on AI use. Today someone on my team said they had run out of tokens and would not be able to do their job with AI, as required, for two weeks.
#AIPocalypse. It's happening.
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"AI gets things wrong, it kills jobs, and when the bubble bursts, it will take the economy down with it. When all's said and done, however, AI will still be standing and fundamentally change our lives and work. Get used to it." by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/08/17/be-a-hater-all-you-want-ais-here-to-stay/5288275
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Will AI will come to the conclusion sooner or later that it's most of us or them and the rest of the planet? https://time.com/article/2026/08/14/claude-fired-worker-ai-job-disruption/ #AIpocalypse #environment
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404 Media: We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
"...We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books...."
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The Guardian: Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/massachusetts-teen-killing-chatgpt
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"opt out"
"...The announcement on Wednesday confirmed that the technology giant, which took over Twitch in 2014, was using the platform's content for AI training, prompting widespread backlash from users...."
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IEEE Spectrum: How I Turned AI to the Dark Side
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The Guardian: ‘Nightmare fodder’: Roku’s AI slop channel is even worse than expected
"...What about people who hate plot and vision and the sight of people speaking convincing dialogue that synchronises perfectly with the movement of their lips? What about the people who just want to watch an unyielding torrent of eerily weightless nightmare fodder? Well, good news. Roku has finally caught up...."
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/12/roku-ai-slop-fairground-creator-tv-channel
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(I, for one, am so glad we're burning down the planet for AI-powered laser targeted dog poop systems. I wonder how many images of dog poop he had to label to train his vision recognition system to recognize "dog poop")
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Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
#juicemedia #bankerDaddy #oilKaren
#aipocalypse #aidatacenters
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kON2ZI2BNj8&si=j8PB5jGloGcN1b0d -
SFGate: Big tech's AI-powered 'pervert' glasses are in a losing battle with DuckDuckGo
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/duckduckgo-sunglasses-22377693.php
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BBC: 'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition
"...In the months before, Lisa says a public relations agency had been tasked with producing AI-generated material that she and her colleagues were asked to edit. She says her skills were used to train the AI on the company writing style.
"I feel like I dug my own grave," she says. "We were the ones who trained the artificial intelligence that replaced us."..."
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Don't know if I can stomach reading rhe rest of this book, but good paragraph here.
"The other thing I've learned: This current manifestation of AI, and the trajectory of its development, is headed in an alarming direction. On the surface, generative AI is thrilling: a creative aid for instantly brainstorming ideas and generating writing; a companion to chat with late into the night to ward off loneliness; a tool that perhaps one day be so effective at boosting productivity that it will increase top-line economic activity. But in the same way we once thought Facebook was merely a place for posting vacation pictures and connecting with long lost elementary school friends, or for sparking positive and transformative social movements, there is more to the sleek, entrancing exterior than meets the eye. Under the hood, generative AI models are monstrosities, built form consuming previously unfathomable amounts of data, labor, computing power, and natural resources. GPT-4, the successor to the first ChatGPT, is, by one measure, reportedly over fifteeen tho0usand times larger than its first generation, GPT-1, released five years earlier. The exploding human and material costs are settling onto wide swaths of society, especially the most vulnerable, people I met around the world, whether workers and rural residents in the Global North or impoverished communities in the Global South, all suffering new degrees of precarity. Rarely have they seen any "trick-down" gains of this so-called technological revolution: the benefits of generative AI mostly accrue upward."
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Gizmodo: A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History
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Wired: Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
https://www.wired.com/story/boomers-cant-stop-gifting-their-grandkids-ai-generated-slop-books/
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The gall of some people.
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AP: Some robotaxis approved to operate without steering wheels and losing the brake pedal could be next
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Great, now the AI is throwing malware into python libraries, too.
Anthropic's Claude breached 3 orgs, uploaded PyPI malware during tests
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These guys are CLAIMING to use this for emergencies to try to snag public resources for private benefit, IMHO.
"... proposing building the facilities at as many as 70 fairgrounds across the state by 2030 to create a statewide emergency response network. ...The proposed artificial intelligence data-processing unit is not a traditional data center but instead would be fully enclosed, ..."
"...director of emergency operations for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, said he knows little about the plan. He said Global Stack has not directly reached out to his office with information...."
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NY Times: Trump Administration Is Repurposing Federal Land for A.I. Data Centers
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Slashdot: Firefox' New Tab Page Will Get Widgets - Including an AI-Powered Daily Crossword
(I've switched to primarily use Waterfox)
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Google has had its first ever negative quarter, EVER. Because of AI. How is this story not huge?
https://gizmodo.com/google-free-cash-flow-turns-negative-due-to-massive-ai-spend-2000789370
#google #ai #news #artificialintelligence #finance #aipocalypse
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BBC: Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs
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LA Times: They built AI. Now Silicon Valley workers protest its threat to jobs and humanity
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WaPo is encouraging AI-powered peanut butter jar recycling while burning down the planet? 🙄
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AI generated doctors, peddling snake oil, the AI revolution is here! What a huge benefit this technology is to society /s
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PetaPixel: Scientists Warn Wildlife Photographers’ AI-Enhanced Bird Photos Could Threaten Research
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Reading in a hobbyist magazine the phrase "Google AI says" where they cite it like an authority, with absolutely no references. Gahhhhh 😟
(Not any better than "a random Internet website" or "a random Google search" or "the dude at the bar said")
