Remember when I wrote disparaging articles about AI hallucinations and how Perplexity was doing a better job than ChatGPT or Gemini? Forget all that. It’s ancient history. Those were written at the dawn of time, way back in (dismissive tone) 2025, and now it’s 2026, baby, and things have changed. Here are some notes for all of you who…
AI is being used to generate explicit images of real people, celebrities, and minors. Nudity! Bikinis! Sex, sex, so much sex! The use of technology to create pornography is, of course, intolerable and must be stopped. For weeks, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been undressing women and minors. California’s Attorney General launched an investigation into the “shocking, disgusting,…
Details matter. Here’s a detail about AI that matters: there’s a difference between hallucinations and misinformation. Seems subtle, I know, but the distinction might help you understand important things as our world becomes all AI, all the time. Here’s an example of what happens when the distinction is not understood. In February 2023, Google was scrambling to respond…
Everything is getting worse. Cory Doctorow gave it a name three years ago: enshittification. Now he has written the best business book of the year, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It. It will help you understand many things, oh so many things, about how and why the massive platforms are breaking…