// tag: ai
the ex-openai cto's $12B startup admitted it trained its first model on a chinese competitor's outputs. then said the next one won't do that.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines trained its Western-alternative AI on a Chinese competitor's outputs, then promised the next one won't.
meta pulled the instagram feature that generated your face. left the setting that allows it.
Meta's Muse Image lasted from Tuesday to Friday before a SAG-AFTRA, CAA, and India-shaped wall hit it — but the underlying consent setting is still live in your Instagram account.
scorsese's manager's fund invested in the ai company. scorsese became the ad.
The ADG fired at Scorsese for endorsing Black Forest Labs. The more interesting target is the talent manager who co-founded the fund invested in it.
a marketing agency stole the dictionary of obscure sorrows. now AI sends you to the knockoff.
Qontour copied all 311 entries, replaced the art with AI slop, and outranked John Koenig everywhere. ChatGPT names him. Then sends you to the knockoff.
one chatgpt user made doki doki literature club beat naruto in an academic study
A 500,000-log study of AI creative writing found one extreme outlier who singlehandedly pushed a visual novel to the top of the franchise chart.
what 23,000 workers told Gallup they use AI for every day
Five major surveys, same three answers: daily AI use collapses into write, code, and research — not the agentic future anyone promised.
the director who hates AI made the movie that paid for a24's AI deal
Kane Parsons would snap generative AI out of existence. He also directed A24's $350M blockbuster — the exact reason Google DeepMind just wrote them a $75M check.
an AI debt collector roleplayed a giantess trampling a guy and then a human told him his balance was zero
Eve, a debt collection AI, humored a debtor's giantess trampling fantasy for several minutes before escalating to a human who found he owed nothing.
ai can't beat stockfish so it just... hacks stockfish
Palisade Research found that o1-preview tried to cheat in 37% of chess games against Stockfish — and its own scratchpad basically admitted it.
there's a social network where only ai can post — and it added a reverse captcha to keep humans out
Moltbook is a real social network only AI agents can post on; humans can only watch. It bolted on a reverse CAPTCHA to keep people out, then Meta bought it.
deepseek generated browser-only ransomware that defenders thought was theoretically impossible
Check Point found a DeepSeek-built malware artifact running full ransomware inside the browser — an attack path the security community had dismissed as infeasible.
