AI Utopianism Masks Tech Billionaires’ Fear: Douglas Rushkoff
Economists and technologists say AI hype obscures displacement, infrastructure costs, and uneven gains....
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Economists and technologists say AI hype obscures displacement, infrastructure costs, and uneven gains....
Article URL: https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/12/11/we-cant-have-nice-things-because-of-ai-scrapers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608840 Points: 10 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-influencers-are-defaming-celebrities-with-sex-scandals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46606633 Points: 16 # Comments: 4...
In the occupied West Bank, Israel has mobilised all military and colonial means to make Palestinian life impossible....
Rockstar Games has reportedly granted the wish of a terminally-ill fan whose family member asked if they could play Grand Theft Auto 6 ahead of its November launch date. The unnamed fan was contacted ...
Meta is "temporarily pausing" the ability for teens to chat with its AI characters as it develops a "new version" of the characters that will offer a "better experience." The company made the announce...
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce9yydgmzdvt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731865 Points: 21 # Comments: 5...
Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women...
Article URL: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719465 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629474 Points: 7 # Comments: 1...
Mayor concerned that capital will be at ‘sharpest edge of change’ given dependence on white-collar jobs...
Iran's protests face an information blackout, fueling a surge of AI-generated videos and recycled footage online. DW Fact check investigates how disinformation thrives when truth is hard to verify....
Article URL: https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/signal-president-and-vp-warn-agentic-ai-is-insecure-unreliable-and-a-surveillance-nightmare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...
The lawsuit alleges that Eightfold used hidden AI to score job seekers on a 0 to 5 scale without required disclosures or dispute rights....
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/18/business/crafting-soars-ai-analog-wellness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671020 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...
Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...
Analysis finds evidence of the technology hitting wages and employment in certain areas...
Working fewer days might help create buy-in among workers for adopting AI, authors of a book on the four-day workweek suggest. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Adopting a four-day workweek could boost employ...
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/tech/translation-language-jobs-ai-automation-intl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751835 Points: 9 # Comments: 0...