💌 Newsletter #018 - Muse-ings, Many Data Breaches, and... 4

✨ In This Edition ✨ 📟 Short-Form Content: Muse-ings, AdFection, way too many leaks, and... 4 🌞 Good News!: More publishers are filing AI lawsuits; a Mayor on Mastodon; and excluding AI "authors" from ebook searches. 🐘 Toots and Memes and Such: Data literacy & every fxcking website, slop edition. 📯 The Post-Script: The Curious Engineer & Why is Everyone in Tech so Sad? Cropped, edited, and glitched image. Original images by Bernd Dittrich and Makarios Tang on Unsplash. 📟 Short-Form ContentChatbots ("AI") AI use at companies has doubled since 2023 - and yet, 95% of organizations see no measurable return. So basically, if you are a company that is seeing a return - you're a statistical anomaly. As a society, putting all our eggs into this particular basket seems... disingenuous? Relatedly, AI company Anthropic announced a >$80 Bn (yes, billion) net loss. Keep this in your back pocket for next time someone tries to tell you these are some of the most successful companies we've ever seen.…