Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Generated Comments(simonwillison.net)

27 points by pavel_lishin 1 year ago | 10 comments

Where are Mr. Beast's early sponsors now?(preethamrn.com)

36 points by xmprt 1 year ago | 54 comments

Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness"(simonwillison.net)

196 points by nabla9 10 months ago | 115 comments

Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole(ossa-ma.github.io)

509 points by ossa-ma 10 months ago | 159 comments

Blog post arguing Nvidia's $20B deal for Groq's assets and hiring of CEO Jonathan Ross exploits an antitrust loophole to avoid merger scrutiny.

Teacher AI Use Is Already Out of Control and It's Not Ok(simonwillison.net)

145 points by jruohonen 1 year ago | 111 comments

How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)(simonwillison.net)

1996 points by babelfish 2 years ago | 1291 comments

Simon Willison blog post quoting and commenting on a leaked MrBeast production company onboarding PDF about making YouTube videos and team culture.

Claude for Excel(claude.com)

653 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 445 comments

Anthropic's product page announcing a pilot of Claude for Excel, an AI assistant integrated into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Uber charges more if you have credits in your account(viewfromthewing.com)

346 points by cwwc 2 years ago | 174 comments

View from the Wing article reporting that Uber may quote higher fares to riders who have credits in their accounts.

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word(enklypesalt.com)

352 points by Canopy9560 2 months ago | 271 comments

Blog post, part 3 of a series, describing how prompt-injection payloads in documents can self-propagate as AI worms through Microsoft Copilot for Word.

Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable(matthewball.co)

399 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 471 comments

Matthew Ball essay analyzing Roblox's scale as the world's biggest game and why the company remains unprofitable.

I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it(switowski.com)

1399 points by switowski 2 years ago | 395 comments

A blog post by Sebastian Witowski recounting how his 2020 side project earned over $15,000 but became a maintenance burden he grew to hate.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.