Jordan Guiao
@jordanguiao.bsky.social
I write, think and talk about tech. Silicon Valley evacuee from Sydney. Pushing for tech with a small t.
Grab my book here: https://publishing.monash.edu/product/disconnect/
Grab my book here: https://publishing.monash.edu/product/disconnect/
As someone who builds and manages websites professionally, this is just absurd.
How can a website cost $96 MILLION?! 🤯
Yes the BOM website is complex, but this seems like is a waste of taxpayers dollars that we need see some accountability for so it doesn’t happen again.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Yes the BOM website is complex, but this seems like is a waste of taxpayers dollars that we need see some accountability for so it doesn’t happen again.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Total bill for BoM’s new website came in at $96 million
In his first interview, new Bureau of Meteorology chief Stuart Minchin has revealed the eye-watering true cost of its lambasted new website.
www.smh.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
As someone who builds and manages websites professionally, this is just absurd.
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Not a “gamble,” but rather instagram working as intended.
Mark Zuckerberg’s hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram as millions watch Hitler speeches and Holocaust denial clips | Fortune
The hottest far-right influencer right now isn’t Nick Fuentes—it’s Hitler. And his videos are appearing next to JPMorgan and U.S. Army ads
fortune.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Not a “gamble,” but rather instagram working as intended.
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Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.
buff.ly
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI
Fewer things make me love Australia more than us not letting Nazis into the country to spread their hate - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Candace Owens: Australia’s high court backs government decision to deny visa to US rightwinger
Court supports home affairs minister’s 2024 decision to reject visa application for planned speaking tour on character grounds
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Fewer things make me love Australia more than us not letting Nazis into the country to spread their hate - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
This is absolutely wild, where do I even start....
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
October 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
This is absolutely wild, where do I even start....
When did it become a thing that LinkedIn self-promotion became a part of corporate life? Shouldn't we be busy, doing y'know....actual work?
September 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
When did it become a thing that LinkedIn self-promotion became a part of corporate life? Shouldn't we be busy, doing y'know....actual work?
New Standford/Harvard study reinforcing findings in our report that AI hinders, not helps productivity: hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
New Standford/Harvard study reinforcing findings in our report that AI hinders, not helps productivity: hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
On the plus side it really does seem as though we won’t see a Coalition government for a while…
Liberal senator warns Ley of potential frontbench ‘exodus’ over party’s net zero policy
Liberal senator warns Ley of potential frontbench ‘exodus’ over party’s net zero policy
Jonno Duniam’s comments spell further headaches for Sussan Ley, who pledged to review Liberals’ commitment to net zero after winning the leadership
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A senior Liberal has warned of a mass exodus from the frontbench if the party pursues a policy of net zero by 2050 at “any costs”.
A day after net zero-opponent Andrew Hastie said he would quit the shadow ministry if the party re-adopted the climate target, colleague Jonno Duniam suggested others could follow suit if caveats weren’t attached to the commitment. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
On the plus side it really does seem as though we won’t see a Coalition government for a while…
Fantastic work by Crikey and these global journalists.
How does big tech assert its political dominance? A new investigation reveals tech giants are behind almost 3,000 lobbying actions, 801 bills and more than 315 lawsuits worldwide.
Big tech's tactics: Mapping thousands of lobbying actions, bills and lawsuits across the world
www.crikey.com.au
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Fantastic work by Crikey and these global journalists.
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How does big tech assert its political dominance? A new investigation reveals tech giants are behind almost 3,000 lobbying actions, 801 bills and more than 315 lawsuits worldwide.
Big tech's tactics: Mapping thousands of lobbying actions, bills and lawsuits across the world
www.crikey.com.au
September 10, 2025 at 6:01 AM
How does big tech assert its political dominance? A new investigation reveals tech giants are behind almost 3,000 lobbying actions, 801 bills and more than 315 lawsuits worldwide.
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"In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books."
Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books."
I sometimes suffer from imposter syndrome, so when it happens I will just watch this video of Melania talking about AI and robotics when she clearly has nfi what she's talking about.
Melania Trump is hosting a White House AI event right now where she is talking about "first generation humanoids"
September 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I sometimes suffer from imposter syndrome, so when it happens I will just watch this video of Melania talking about AI and robotics when she clearly has nfi what she's talking about.
Incredibly gratifying to be in a packed lecture hall listening to @karenhao.bsky.social and others talk A.I. accountability, regulatory capture and pushing back against the tech broligarchy. Thanks to UNSW for hosting
September 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Incredibly gratifying to be in a packed lecture hall listening to @karenhao.bsky.social and others talk A.I. accountability, regulatory capture and pushing back against the tech broligarchy. Thanks to UNSW for hosting
It’s completely possible to build sovereign A.I. models that respect copyright, data owners and that are publicly owned. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Switzerland releases an open-weight AI model
The model’s training data, model weights, and source code are open to the public.
www.theverge.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s completely possible to build sovereign A.I. models that respect copyright, data owners and that are publicly owned. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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"Thinking that AI will immediately be a net benefit shows a blinkered view which only buys into Big Tech’s preferred fictions."
Jordan Guiao writes in his latest op-ed:
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...
Jordan Guiao writes in his latest op-ed:
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...
September 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"Thinking that AI will immediately be a net benefit shows a blinkered view which only buys into Big Tech’s preferred fictions."
Jordan Guiao writes in his latest op-ed:
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...
Jordan Guiao writes in his latest op-ed:
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...
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Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa
Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa
You have time that other countries have squandered. You can be leaders in building the information infrastructure humanity needs
I became a journalist because information is power, and right now we are living through an information armaggedon. Facts are under assault. Truth is being murdered. The casualty? Trust … making it impossible to govern. Only dictatorships thrive when there’s no trust.
And here are the three sentences I’ve said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Big tech is a weapon of mass destruction to democracy. Here are three ways Australia can fight back | Maria Ressa
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“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’”
“And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
“And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
Instagram’s chatbot helped teen accounts plan suicide — and parents can’t disable it
An investigation into the Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook found that it helped teen accounts plan suicide and self harm, promoted eating disorders and drug use, and regularly claimed...
www.washingtonpost.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’”
“And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
“And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
This new study backs up my own research, that many A.I. trials are failing or producing no benefits - futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...
AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds
Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.
futurism.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This new study backs up my own research, that many A.I. trials are failing or producing no benefits - futurism.com/ai-agents-fa...
If her book is anything to go by, she’s basically teaching people how to make AI slop
"In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project: leading the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field."
Exclusive | First lady Melania Trump will head effort to teach next generation about AI
First lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field.
nypost.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If her book is anything to go by, she’s basically teaching people how to make AI slop
"Artificial intelligence is being sold as a cure for Australia’s sluggish productivity growth, but a new report from think tank Per Capita argues the case is built more on hope than hard evidence." Coverage of our new report here - www.innovationaus.com/ai-productiv...
AI productivity dividend more hype than reality: report
Artificial intelligence is being sold as a cure for Australia’s sluggish productivity growth, but a new report from think tank Per Capita argues the case is built more on hope than hard evidence. The ...
www.innovationaus.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
"Artificial intelligence is being sold as a cure for Australia’s sluggish productivity growth, but a new report from think tank Per Capita argues the case is built more on hope than hard evidence." Coverage of our new report here - www.innovationaus.com/ai-productiv...
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With AI on the agenda as part of the government's Economic Reform Roundtable, the Centre of the Public Square looks closely at claims that AI will produce productivity benefits.
Read our new report:
percapita.org.au/our_work/che...
Read our new report:
percapita.org.au/our_work/che...
Checking for MistAIkes, the hidden negative externalities in the AI productivity debate - Per Capita
This report challenges popular notions of AI productivity benefits, and looks at detailed, evidence-based, real-world studies which paints a more complex and realistic pitcure.
percapita.org.au
August 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
With AI on the agenda as part of the government's Economic Reform Roundtable, the Centre of the Public Square looks closely at claims that AI will produce productivity benefits.
Read our new report:
percapita.org.au/our_work/che...
Read our new report:
percapita.org.au/our_work/che...
I've been bothered by claims of the productivity benefits of AI that don't produce evidence to back those claims. I looked deeper into this topic and found compelling counter-evidence from many studies and workplace research: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...
Don't believe the hype. AI won't fix your workplace's problems
It might even be a trap for workers.
www.canberratimes.com.au
August 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I've been bothered by claims of the productivity benefits of AI that don't produce evidence to back those claims. I looked deeper into this topic and found compelling counter-evidence from many studies and workplace research: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/904827...
Men would rather build world-ending oedipal complex AI than go to therapy.
August 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Men would rather build world-ending oedipal complex AI than go to therapy.
Can we stop paying attention to Twitter/X and reporting comments on there as news? That era is done.
August 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Can we stop paying attention to Twitter/X and reporting comments on there as news? That era is done.
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"A vision of an adversarial, America-first agenda [for AI], a transactional and short-sighted approach which ignores potential risks and creates colossal negative externalities."
Jordan Guiao, writes in InnovationAus.
Read it here:
www.innovationaus.com/us-ai-plan-i...
Jordan Guiao, writes in InnovationAus.
Read it here:
www.innovationaus.com/us-ai-plan-i...
US AI Plan is another form of Trumpism we should reject
In a speech that should surprise no one, US President Trump recently unveiled his vision for AI that sees the US dominating global initiatives, does away with regulation, safety and copyright, and all...
www.innovationaus.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"A vision of an adversarial, America-first agenda [for AI], a transactional and short-sighted approach which ignores potential risks and creates colossal negative externalities."
Jordan Guiao, writes in InnovationAus.
Read it here:
www.innovationaus.com/us-ai-plan-i...
Jordan Guiao, writes in InnovationAus.
Read it here:
www.innovationaus.com/us-ai-plan-i...