Like the bottle opener on a Galil, or the “Flower Field” version of Minesweeper, it can also help distinguish your story in small, but interesting ways, and help it stick in a reader’s mind. (Had to try this trick for myself :P)

It was floated last year, and its happened today - Curl is euthanising its bug bounty program, and AI is nigh-certainly why.

Simon Willison defends stealing a Python library using lying machines, answering “questions” he previously “asked” in an attempt to downplay his actions.

Found a solid sneer on the 'net today: https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/on-floss-and-training-llms/

A small list of literary promptfondlers came to my attention - should complement the awful.systems slopware list nicely.

(source on Mastodon)

In a frankly hilarious turn of events, an award-winning isekai novel had its planned book publication and manga adaptation shitcanned after it was discovered to be AI slop.

The offending isekai is still up on AlphaPolis (where it originally won said award) as of this writing. Given its isekai and AI slop, expect some primo garbage.

Anyway, I can recommend skipping this episode and only bothering with the technical or more business oriented ones, which are often pretty good.

AI puffery is easy for anyone to see through. If they’re regularly mistaking for something of actual substance, their technical/business sense is likely worthless, too.

Found someone showing some well-founded concern over the state of programming, and decided to share it before heading off to bed:

alt text:

Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI?

I’ve had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few minutes you should realise just don’t work.

They also rarely can explain why they make these changes or what the code actually does.

I feel like I’m absolutely going insane, and it also makes me not able to trust anyones answers or analysis’ because I /know/ there is a high chance they should asked AI and wrote it off as their own.

I think the effect AI has had on our industry’s knowledge is really significant, and it’s honestly very scary.

The OpenAI Psychosis Suicide Machine now has a medical spinoff, which automates HIPAA violations so OpenAI can commit medical malpractice more efficiently

I’d personally just overthrow the US government and make it a British colony once more /j

so now there’s even less accountability than before

How can you get less than zero accountability?

I’m so sorry to hear that.

SFGATE columnist Drew Magary has decreed “The time has come to declare war on AI”, and put out a pretty solid sneer in the process. Bonus points for openly sneering billionaire propaganda service Ground News, too.

[THIS IS WHAT PALANTIR-BROS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]:

Also found a bonus in the replies:

You must sign in to view this post.

My lack of a Bluesky account spares me again. Thankfully, I have Skyview.social to ensure my eyes are scarred anyway (seriously, do we have to fight another world war over if Nazis are bad or not, it shouldn’t take the blood of tens of millions to make that clear)

Also found a nice summary of our current moment in the replies:

(alt: “I am old enough to remember when we all agreed Nazis were bad”)

Another ChatGPT fatality’s just hit the news - California teen Sam Nelson has died of a drug overdose, after two years of trusting the chatbot for drug advice.

Found something rare today: an actual sneer from Mike Masnick, made in response to Reuters confusing lying machines with human beings:

Big brain: this ai stuff isn’t going away, maybe I should invest in defense contractors that’ll outfit the US’s invasion of Taiwan…

Considering Recent Events™, anyone outfitting America’s gonna be making plenty off a war in Venezuela before the year ends.

A journalist attempts to ask the question “Why Do Americans Hate A.I.?”, and shows their inability to tell actually useful tech from lying machines:

Bonus points for gaslighting the public on billionaires’ behalf:

Got a sneer which caught my attention: Guest Gist: 2026, Our Already Rotting Future