AI Artificial Intelligence
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YouTube’s AI Slop Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
YouTube allows anonymous channels to build AI-generated political content around the names and faces of real public figures, with no clear label telling viewers what they’re watching. Google talks about fighting AI slop in search while YouTube rewards the same thing with reach and subscribers. A visible on-screen disclosure, stating when a video uses AI-written…
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The Madness of the AI Race – Stop Before We Succeed
Superintelligent AI doesn’t need to be malevolent to be catastrophic. The existential risk, according to MIRI’s Nate Soares, comes from indifference – a system smart enough to reshape the planet according to its own requirements, with no particular interest in whether humans survive the process. We are building that system now, without understanding it, in…
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The AI Industry Has a Problem, and It’s Getting Worse
Years of job-loss warnings, billion-dollar announcements, and god-like claims about technology that often can’t reliably count to ten have quietly built up a head of public resentment. Tech critic Ed Zitron has been making this case for a while. In a recent episode of The Tech Report, he laid out exactly why the industry’s habit…
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Did An AI Really Try To Blackmail Its Creators?
No, an AI did not blackmail anyone. What actually happened was a controlled research experiment in which a language model, given a fictional scenario and fake incriminating emails, generated a threatening message inside that sandbox. There was no real victim, no real inbox, and no real threat. The model followed the incentives researchers built for…
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When AI Tech Support Creates More Problems than It Solves
There’s something slightly ironic happening in technical support right now. The more experienced you are, the harder it can be to get help. That sounds backwards, but it makes sense when you think about it. When Experience Works Against You People who’ve been working with hosting, servers, websites, and databases for years don’t usually contact…
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Why I Refuse to Automate My Content Workflow
There’s something about full automation that makes my skin crawl. Not all automation. I’m not a dinosaur. I automate plenty of things. Backups. Updates. Repetitive admin. Boring, mechanical stuff that a computer can do more reliably than I can without getting distracted by a biscuit or a thought that wanders off mid-sentence. That’s sensible. What…
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When Your Tools Only Work 99% of the Time
What if the tool you use, and your ability to use it, is all down to somebody else? What you think you hold in your hand, that you’ve bought and paid for, can only be used if and when other systems are in place and up and running. What if you bought a thing –…
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Who Actually Controls Your Information?
Quick Summary The AI race isn’t about who builds the cleverest chatbot – it’s about who controls the data, the infrastructure and default settings that billions of people never question. Google and OpenAI are locked in a battle that’s being marketed like a tech thriller, complete with heroes and villains. Strip away the noise and…
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AI Isn’t the Problem. Letting It Sexualise Children Is.
Let’s stop pretending this is complicated. If a tool allows people to strip clothes off photos of real people without consent, that tool is broken. If it allows the same thing to happen to children, it shouldn’t exist in public at all. That’s not a debate about creativity, free speech, or technological progress. It’s a…
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“AI Curious” Why Jargon Won’t Grow Your Business
Most of what’s written about AI for business is theatre. It looks smart, it flatters the writer, and it leaves the average business owner no clearer on what to do when they open the laptop tomorrow morning. The line that set this article off was a perfect example, a headline promising to take organisations “from…