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https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/oh-no-not-a-black-helen Evernote Link

Evernote Link because FT paywall: MP sues Elon Musk’s xAI in UK test case over fake sexual images

https://www.wired.com/story/the-painful-truth-about-long-covid Evernote Link Intriguing and disturbing article about fierce debates on how to treat "long Covid". My completely inexpert take is that since "long Covid" refers a syndrome comprising a wide variety of symptoms, either singly or...

Sadiq Khan sparks row with Met after blocking £50m AI deal with Palantir Met Palantir row goes to heart of how public services should use AI

ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds Something to watch out for in the US midterms, I suspect.

https://writesbright.substack.com/p/the-next-cambridge-analytica-scandal

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/10/anthropic-says-evil-portrayals-of-ai-were-responsible-for-claudes-blackmail-attempts In this respect, I fear AI is closer to humans than we might want to imagine, since what most of us think we know about most things is derived not from actual experience but...

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/should-the-enhanced-games-exist Evernote Link because paywall Long and thoughtful discussion of the issues involved. It's more complex than you might think.

The Guardian Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’

BBC News - Banksy confirms he's behind statue in central London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9wlnwl85o

Wired: This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men Evernote Link because paywall A med student in India was looking for a way to make money online. He hit on selling AI-generated bikini photos of attractive (and imaginary) young women, and asked Gemini for advice on...

‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-greater-than-campaign-claims

I think this merits a thread of its own -- initially it was supposed to be an interim authority to administer Gaza, but it seems to have metastasized, at least in Trump's imagination, into something much more wide-ranging, an attempt to set up a Trumpian rival to the UN with the Nacho Nero as...

I think the island deserves its own thread Donald Trump says he may put a tariff on ‘countries that don’t go along with Greenland’ Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/putting-chatgpt-on-the-couch#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc-bkt-a_11fc262d-ed92-4f5f-b0fa-857bfc905a8c_closr_fallback_roberta-similarity1 Evernote Link

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder -- lengthy Guardian piece on the subject. While my interactions with ChatGPT are all about coding, recipes or stuff I can't be bothered to Google, I must say I find its habit of...

We set out to craft the perfect phishing scam. Major AI chatbots were happy to help. All the other AIs they tested were similarly prepared, sometimes immediately and sometimes after mild persuasion, to create similarly persuasive phishing emails.

Interesting piece by author and university professor Brian Klaas https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of-the-student-essayand Evernote Link He argues, far better than could I, what I've long thought -- the reason university students are asked to write essays isn't (or shouldn't be) simply...

A provocative (and free to read, I think -- please tell me if it's not) piece by sci fi and urban fantasy author J. A. Cipriano on AI and creators https://jacipriano.substack.com/p/the-mutual-contempt-machine