Rogue AI Companies

Last month we heard about a Wellington second-hand bookstore’s mysterious orders (via languagehat). Turns out that shipments of rare books are ending up at an Amazon AI training facility. AI and the reshuffling of labour. Companies are paying educated workers to train the AI that could replace them. A coder who’s done using AI. The workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer’s AI mandates. After work, we’ll have each other (via Mefi). Reshaping universities to suit the untested AI economy is wrong. Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI. The only reason students and academics ever need not to write with AI. Saving academics from themselves. My so-called Alpha School. The AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion. AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making. Director Danny Boyle has “chosen to blow up his professional and personal integrity by using AI”. LLMs are metaphor machines (from jilltxt). A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly…