Martin McMillan, PhD
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Pharmaceutical, Data Science, & IT Consultant
"But with Showrunner, you can make something shaped a bit like satire with middling chatbot sentences read out by a flat computer voice!"
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Edward Saatchi: pay to make your own bad AI South Park episodes!
Edward Saatchi runs Fable Studio, which started in 2018 doing virtual reality. A couple of pivots later, Fable has an exciting new project called Showrunner that lets you make your own TV show epis…
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August 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"But with Showrunner, you can make something shaped a bit like satire with middling chatbot sentences read out by a flat computer voice!"
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CSIRO posts AI-fake climate article with made-up quotes
Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i. Cosmos posted an articl…
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July 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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"...violating privacy hard enough they don’t even dare offer it in Europe."
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Copilot Vision AI sends your data to Microsoft
Remember that much-loved Microsoft AI feature Copilot Recall that keeps screenshots of everything happening on your Windows PC? Now there’s Microsoft Copilot Vision for Windows 11, which takes what…
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July 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"...violating privacy hard enough they don’t even dare offer it in Europe."
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Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen
Microsoft Copilot has an avatar now! It’s a viscous pearly blob of liquid. That wobbles. And has facial expressions. I had to euphemise furiously on the YouTube version of this post — but for the b…
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July 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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"Seraphinne Vallora are so successful in the AI fashion business that they'll sell you all the cool prompts you need to undercut them."
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Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI model hype. Again.
We talked about dubious claims of replacing fashion models with AI image generator output back in April, when H&M made a series of actually impossible claims about AI models that they got prin…
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July 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"Seraphinne Vallora are so successful in the AI fashion business that they'll sell you all the cool prompts you need to undercut them."
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"People feel they would be putting their job at risk if they pushed back on AI directives."
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16% of employees pretend to use AI at work to please their boss
Tech recruiters Howdy surveyed 1,047 full-time professionals who say they use AI. 30% of survey subjects said they were managers. [Howdy] 75% of subjects were expected to use AI at work. 22% felt p…
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July 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
"People feel they would be putting their job at risk if they pushed back on AI directives."
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"Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off.
This is false."
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This is false."
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Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews
Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off. This is false. Pew …
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July 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
"Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off.
This is false."
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This is false."
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"This story reads like a tale for social media with no verifiable details..."
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Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened
UPDATE: reply from Lemkin appended at end, he says it really did happen this way Jason Lemkin of AI startup SaaStr posted a Twitter thread on Thursday 17 July, claiming he had vibe-coded an app usi…
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July 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"This story reads like a tale for social media with no verifiable details..."
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"[C]opyright. Open source licenses rest on copyright. It’s copyrighted, and you have a specific license to use it."
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Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns
I asked a couple of months ago: if AI code was such an obviously superior engineering method, why didn’t we see AI code everywhere in open source? Since then, there have been a few performative AI …
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July 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
"[C]opyright. Open source licenses rest on copyright. It’s copyrighted, and you have a specific license to use it."
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"It can’t follow a script, it can’t follow direction, it can’t give consistent characters, the training data keeps leaking through, the sound effects are inept."
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Google Veo fails week 4: the final faildown
When you’ve read this post, go watch the worked examples on YouTube. [YouTube] Our intrepid friend Aron Peterson, a.k.a. Shokunin Studio, is a media production guy. He follows the AI image generato…
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July 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"It can’t follow a script, it can’t follow direction, it can’t give consistent characters, the training data keeps leaking through, the sound effects are inept."
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It’s that time again when I ask you to send money to Pivot to AI. Help keep the stories coming daily! Here is how to send money: The Patreon is here. Sign up for $5 a month today! Less th…
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"Virtually every word...was deliberately taken from an earlier essay that I posted on Christmas Day 2022..."
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-5
7 predictions that might sound familiar
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July 28, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"Virtually every word...was deliberately taken from an earlier essay that I posted on Christmas Day 2022..."
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"The core notion has always been that the two main strands of AI—neural networks and symbolic manipulation—complement each other, with different strengths and weaknesses."
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How o3 and Grok 4 Accidentally Vindicated Neurosymbolic AI
Neurosymbolic AI is quietly winning. Here’s what that means – and why it took so long
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July 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"The core notion has always been that the two main strands of AI—neural networks and symbolic manipulation—complement each other, with different strengths and weaknesses."
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"[B]ut they just need to learn Cursor properly.” Which is another way of saying “it can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.”
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AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
Model Evaluation and Threat Research is an AI research charity that looks into the threat of AI agents! That sounds a bit AI doomsday cult, and they take funding from the AI doomsday cult organisat…
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July 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"[B]ut they just need to learn Cursor properly.” Which is another way of saying “it can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong.”
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"GenAI powered chatbots’ lack of reasoning can directly contribute to the nefarious effects of LLM grooming: the mass-production and duplication of false narratives online with the intent of manipulating LLM outputs."
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Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
Our research shows that even the latest "reasoning" models are vulnerable
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July 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"GenAI powered chatbots’ lack of reasoning can directly contribute to the nefarious effects of LLM grooming: the mass-production and duplication of false narratives online with the intent of manipulating LLM outputs."
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“[C]urrent AI tools actually slowed down task completion time by 19%.”
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BREAKING NEWS: AI coding may not be helping as much as you think
Coding has been the strongest use case. But a new study from METR just dropped.
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July 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“[C]urrent AI tools actually slowed down task completion time by 19%.”
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"The AI bubble will last at least two, maybe three more years, because the venture capitalists really need it to. When, not if, the VCs and their money pipeline go home and the chatbot prices multiply by ten or more, the market for generative AI will collapse."
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‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?
When some huge and stupid public chatbot disaster hits the news, the AI pumpers will Kramer into the mentions to say stuff like “you have to admit, AI is here to stay.” Well, no, I don’t. Not unles…
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July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"The AI bubble will last at least two, maybe three more years, because the venture capitalists really need it to. When, not if, the VCs and their money pipeline go home and the chatbot prices multiply by ten or more, the market for generative AI will collapse."
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"I compared chatbots to gambling and cocaine before, and Cursor fans are the most abject gutter krokodil addicts."
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Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged
Anysphere is the startup that produces Cursor, your sort-of dependable vibe coding buddy. You tell Cursor what you’d like and it spits out a complete function! This leads to some spectacular vibe c…
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July 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"I compared chatbots to gambling and cocaine before, and Cursor fans are the most abject gutter krokodil addicts."
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"So if you get called in to fix a vibe-slopchurned disaster, charge as much as you can. Then charge more than that."
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Calling in the AI vibe-writing cleanup crew
You’ve heard of vibe coding, with, I’m sure, not a little horror. Spin the gacha and make a website! And then you have unfortunate experiences. There are people who get quietly called in to f…
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July 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"So if you get called in to fix a vibe-slopchurned disaster, charge as much as you can. Then charge more than that."
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Google AI Overviews: Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU
The Independent Publishers Alliance, a group of small UK publishers, has filed a UK competition complaint and an EU antitrust complaint over Google’s AI Overviews in search results. [Press Gazette;…
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July 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on the actual text of the bug and on the fix for the bug."
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How to pass an AI coding benchmark: train on the questions
SWE-Bench Verified by OpenAI tests how well a model can solve real bugs in real Python code from GitHub. These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on th…
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July 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"These bugs are all public information — so the AI models have almost certainly trained on the actual text of the bug and on the fix for the bug."
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"... video cards ... that famously long-term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months."
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Venture capital is lending money against video cards
Last year, Wall Street finance firms started making loans, using video cards as collateral — that famously long-term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months. Investment bank…
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July 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"... video cards ... that famously long-term asset class that solidly maintains its value over, ooh, months."
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"... [defines] botshit as the human use of untruthful LLM-generated content ..."
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Botshit Gone Wild
The downsides of generative AI are growing like wildfire
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July 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"... [defines] botshit as the human use of untruthful LLM-generated content ..."
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