How to make human punk
Rewildpunk: The Counterculture AI Actually Needs
Punk took music back from the labels. Here’s how we take intelligence back from Silicon Valley.
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Technopolitics
It's one thing to be anti-AI in the sense of believing that AI-generated slop, disinformation and deepfakes are bad; that AI companies that hope to con your boss into firing you and replacing you with AI that can't do your job are bad; that betting the economy on AI is bad; that betting the human-habitable planet Earth on AI is bad; that running roughshod over local environmental rules and seizing …Read More
i am going to solve the cyberpunk discourse forever, part 2: the punks.
“Cyberpunk 2077,” they said, “isn’t really Punk. It’s a Corporate Product, made out of Corporate Greed. It completely Misses The Point of…
Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”
But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.
afra wang on Twitter / X
a great @NewYorker essay by Becca Rothfeld on the humanistic reasons behind the anti-AI movement: AI is arriving too early in young people’s lives, and they fear it will prevent them from growing into fully fledged humans—in a sense, an existential threat.… pic.twitter.com/LgqL4TgJEJ— afra wang (@afrazhaowang) October 9, 2026
Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
“I think it should stand for ‘artificial idiot,’” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”
For years, they warned AI could kill all humans. Now people are listening.
A doomsaying community once on the periphery of the tech industry has gained influence, as AI “agents” perform amazing and alarming feats.
The politics and possibilities of ‘AI could kill us all’
AI will not exterminate the human race. But what big tech really *is* doing is bad enough that the notion may help fuel the movement against it.
Alt-Pop Trickster 1010Benja Is Not Scared to Admit He’s Using Generative AI
“If you have it broken down as organic versus AI, the AI is gonna win our world. The good guy doesn’t win this one.”
Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review
This issue of NEJM AI features the first two articles published through our accelerated human+AI review process. In this editorial, we describe the invitation-only “Fast Track” process used to revi...
Humanism without (All) Humans
Microsoft Humanism puts corporate muscle behind an overweening class of bad AI philosophies
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
*Normally a techno-revolution has an eager avant-garde, but the people closest to AI are the ones most fretful about it *It's been going on so long that now they're into Durkheim anomie and suicidal ideation *"Learn to code" and have a nervous breakdown youtu.be/oAn38UNeRqw?si=Vivlx_GVZgVn2D…
There's a word for what we're feeling
youtu.beAI* and music
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Human-powered AI*
Data labeling, user data being sent to human contractors for processing (e.g. humans making phone calls for Meta’s Muse), etc. * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
SlopTracker — Exposing AI-Generated Artists on Spotify
Soulless: List of AI Artists Hiding on Spotify
Spotify's AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop
The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music
JASRAC、「AI作曲・人間作詞」の曲は管理します――「人間の創作的寄与の有無」で線引き
Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Exclusive: The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
An AI job boom? Here’s what the tedious, temporary work in data labelling is actually like
