A podcast episode reveals that police are using Flock surveillance technology to track people, not just vehicles, with searches like 'male with tattoos.' The episode also covers a company selling book…
Companies are scrambling to reduce AI spending as providers shift to per-token pricing, with some using tools to make LLMs communicate like cavemen. Meanwhile, entirely fake AI-generated flowers are f…
A new paper argues that if large language models are considered sentient, then by the same metrics the classic video game Age of Empires II should also be considered sentient. The discussion was featu…
Google employees are circulating internal memes mocking the quality of their own company's AI products, according to a new report. The story also reveals that Microsoft explicitly aims to "make people…
A podcast episode where Sam criticizes commencement speakers, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, for praising AI. It also mentions Jason’s offer to buy images of feces for AI training, and a su…
In this podcast episode, critical informatics scholar Britt Paris discusses her new book, *Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up*, which examines the physical infrastructur…