Michael (Mikhail) Bennett is AI generated
A video of an America's Got Talent performance is making the rounds. It portrays an aging rocker singing a ballad about his impending demise and the lack of attention he…
RAM prices on overdrive
I wrote about the impacts of AI development a while back. One of the factors I mentioned was technology waste which touches on the concept of AI being a massively…
AI: some words about feelings
Bhagpuss published a post a few weeks back about AI and how we feel about it. Not about the hard crunchy aspects of AI, but about feelings and attitudes towards…
Large AI firms ask for regulation
Late last week Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the AI industry to be regulated for reasons of safety. It is a long read and I will…
AI Waste
I have Opinions™ about artificial intelligence. I'm not wholly against it, but I do feel that the current over-enthusiastic investment and circular dealing in the industry is a toxic aberration.…
Organoid Intelligence
I read an excellent article on Wired the other day on the topic of organoids and thought I'd share a bit about it here. Even the basic concepts of this…
AI and blogging
Blaugust 2026 has added some rules regarding use of artificial intelligence for content included in the festival. Magi over at Indiecator had an excellent overview of his thinking on the…
Welcome to the State of Ninneso!
I read several articles today talking about the much improved ChatGPT 5 model. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has claimed that it is now like having a whole team of…
Who is ‘Ubergeek’ Kelly Adams?
The first week of Blaugust is over, but I'm still feeling like I'm just starting this event up. So I'll fall back on the writing prompts for the first week…
AI may soon be worthless…
I read an article today over on The Register about how AI may be entering its ‘model collapse’ phase. The basic idea is that more and more of the content that AI ingests to produce its models is, in fact, AI generated. This means that, at its best, AI’s responses will decrease in quality. This sounds very bad, and very predictable.
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