ai.
Elon’s xAI sues to stop Minnesota law banning nudification technology, yes, legitimately.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, recently filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Minnesota, and the legal complaint reads like a chilling manifesto on the absolute limits of corporate arrogance.
Read the full thing →The weaponised image: how the deepfake epidemic turned on the staffroom
For the past year, the conversation dominating the educational and tech-safety headlines has often been about the way AI-generated pornography fractures the lives of high school students.
aiThe domesticated human: are we becoming AI's pets?
AI keeps getting sold to us as a handy little tool, nothing to worry about. Sophie makes the case that we are actually behaving more like well trained pets than the ones in charge. The comparison gets uncomfortably specific.
aiThe inbred algorithm and how the web is poisoning its own intelligence
AI is now feeding on its own content, and that is a much bigger problem than it sounds. Sophie breaks down model collapse, the feedback loop where new AI systems get dumber by training on old AI slop. If your work is still genuinely human made, this is the best news you have had all year.
most read in this topic.
Elon’s xAI sues to stop Minnesota law banning nudification technology, yes, legitimately.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, recently filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Minnesota, and the legal complaint reads like a chilling manifesto on the absolute limits of corporate arrogance.
The weaponised image: how the deepfake epidemic turned on the staffroom
For the past year, the conversation dominating the educational and tech-safety headlines has often been about the way AI-generated pornography fractures the lives of high school students.
The domesticated human: are we becoming AI's pets?
AI keeps getting sold to us as a handy little tool, nothing to worry about. Sophie makes the case that we are actually behaving more like well trained pets than the ones in charge. The comparison gets uncomfortably specific.
The inbred algorithm and how the web is poisoning its own intelligence
AI is now feeding on its own content, and that is a much bigger problem than it sounds. Sophie breaks down model collapse, the feedback loop where new AI systems get dumber by training on old AI slop. If your work is still genuinely human made, this is the best news you have had all year.
How tech retreats mask the physical cost of automation
While these high-earning creators are performing an analogue fantasy for an audience of scrolling normies, the actual, physical server infrastructure required to power OpenAI’s large language models is operating as a massive ecological bulldozer.
How tech retreats mask the physical cost of automation
OpenAI flew a group of lifestyle creators to a rustic retreat and sold automation as a way back to nature. The reels looked calm and green. But the data centres behind those tools are draining water and power, and the people who pay for it are never the ones in the linen overalls.
The carbon prompt: how to use AI without speedrunning our extinction
Millions of gallons of pristine water are pumped into server racks every single day. All just to keep the hardware from melting while it processes our creative requests. Like what in the actual world are we doing here?
Why a world of 'dangerous' AI is already here
Anthropic pulled its most powerful models offline and the world called it a safety win. Sophie says the train left the station a long time ago. Centralised gatekeeping doesn't stop AI proliferation. It just means the next wave gets built without any guardrails at all.
get the weekly in your inbox.
27,000 founders, agency people, and the occasional cmo. one yap a week, never on a tuesday.
subscribe to yap ↗