Tests Find AI Toys Parroting Chinese Communist Party Values
Assange Files Criminal Complaint Against Nobel Foundation Over “Instrument Of War” Peace Prize
Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop'
"The regurgitation has a way of infecting damn near everything.
And damn near everyone"
More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food, and other basic needs
Social Media's Relentless Shopping Machine Has Created an Army of Debt-Laden Buyers
Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be
American Influencers Can't Stop Praising Chinese EVs They Can't Buy
Most discourse on AI is low-quality. Most discourse on consciousness is super-abysmal-double-low quality. Multiply these - or maybe raise one to the exponent of the other, or something - and you get the quality of discourse on AI consciousness. It’s not great
Dance Magazine veröffentlichte am 17. November 2025 eine Untersuchung aufkommender KI-gestützter Motion-Capture-Technologien, während die Tanzgemeinschaft mit Werkzeugen ringt, die versprechen, das Feld zu demokratisieren, während sie gleichzeitig Bedenken hinsichtlich Arbeitsplatzsicherheit und künstlerischem Eigentum aufwerfen
KI-Programmiertools verlangsamen Entwickler laut Studie um 19%
Musks "Grokipedia" zitiert Tausende unzuverlässiger Quellen
At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors
The company even went so far as to partner with music library services and production companies under a program called Perfect Fit Content, or PFC. This saw the creation of fake or "ghost" artists that flooded Spotify with songs that were specifically designed to be pleasant and ignorable. It's music as content, not art. [...] Artists, especially new ones trying to break through, actually started changing how they composed to play better in the algorithmically driven streaming era. Songs got shorter, albums got longer, and intros went away. The hook got pushed to the front of the song to try to grab listeners' attention immediately, and things like guitar solos all but disappeared from pop music. The palette of sounds artists pulled from got smaller, arrangements became more simplified, pop music flattened
Neom -- Saudi Arabia's hugely expensive, architecturally bizarre urban development project -- is floundering and close to collapse
I have contributed to the Support over 20 years, before the beginning of support.mozilla.org.
Today, November 4, we decided to end our SUMO Japanese community