AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time(gabrielweinberg.com)

492 points by mustaphah 1 year ago | 175 comments

Blog post by DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg arguing that AI-powered surveillance should be banned before it becomes entrenched.

San Franciscans are having sex in robotaxis(sfstandard.com)

43 points by jitl 3 years ago | 39 comments

AI Will Never Be Ethical or Safe(meiert.com)

39 points by caisah 6 months ago | 10 comments

Of course AI is extractive, everything is lately(coryd.dev)

61 points by cdme 2 years ago | 46 comments

The Berkeley Software Distribution(abortretry.fail)

174 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 54 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)(rickmanelius.com)

973 points by mooreds 2 months ago | 588 comments

A Substack newsletter post by Rick Manelius about the "AI;DR" acronym as a way to ignore walls of AI-generated text, crediting a tweet by @seclilc.

Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism(lux-magazine.com)

351 points by eustoria 11 months ago | 242 comments

Lux Magazine essay by Kate Wagner arguing internet surveillance has killed eroticism and that privacy is needed to reclaim it.

Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online(ellsberg.substack.com)

598 points by macawfish 1 year ago | 793 comments

A Substack essay by Michael Ellsberg arguing a Supreme Court ruling effectively ends free speech protections for sexual writing online, and asking whether his literary site is now illegal.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse(theregister.com)

45 points by beardyw 12 days ago | 32 comments

The Register article criticizing Anthropic for promoting a hypothetical AI threat that the author says stokes fears of an AI apocalypse.