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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 9h

Can we all help out Alex here and dive bomb the AI slop plagiarism with 1 star reviews?

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 13h

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10h

It's giving

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 10h

(I actually have an idea for a new short story about AI, called 'This is not a city', which I might actually find the time to write soon... maybe it's a pre-emptive award!!)

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 10h

Not sure if it will be for my self-published short stories about AI on my website, or my very well hidden under a pseudonym fanfics... Excited to find out though!

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 10h

I wrote this back in 2018, and I really needed to give a long explanation to set the scene for the article, which I don't feel the need to do now. How things change... From onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 10h

I swear: on present showing, if an actual asteroid is detected on course to wipe out the UK in fifteen years, our governing apparat will spend the entire time blathering on about immigration, then proudly unveil a largely nominal affordable housing scheme at the projected impact site.

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 11h

This is custard cream erasure! But perhaps an interesting role anyway ;D

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 11h

You know you've been over capacity lately when a day with a funding proposal deadline, two hours of teaching, and a one-hour presentation feels like a day off...

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Sleepy Tired Status

ALT: Sleepy Tired Status

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 12h

I'm looking forward to presenting some of my recent research on AI NRMs at @aiandfaith.bsky.social at 6pm (Zurich time) :D

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very, very rich people rarely have good taste. It's a thing.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/10/2026

walks around with a big coat and no underwear

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is no AI literacy - only how to stop worrying and love the tech.

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The number of people I encounter who 1. don't know how old the endeavour is 2. don't know that there are specific models of intelligence baked into the field from that origin...

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The latter :) I know some of the commentators, so will follow up, thanks

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Do you have examples you could share? I am starting some work on AI psychosis 'diagnosis' as a discursive object, specifically with regard to spiritual beliefs.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rather than play the "what he said/what he meant" game with Trump's comments about LA and San Diego being nuked, let's reckon with the fact that the president is so cognitively impaired and incoherent that we have to discuss comments he made about LA and San Diego being nuked.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/10/2026

On the podcast: @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social join @adamshatz.bsky.social to discuss what fascism looks like in the age of AI, and why we have reached a point where tech billionaires declare they are ‘unapologetically on Team Humanity’. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Fascism in a time of AI

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 6 October · 54min

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was such a fan I took part in a 'Mastermind' quiz at a conference where it was my specialist subject (inc. the books ofc). Five mins after THAT finale episode, I just erased it... HoD is okay, but somehow I kind of don't even connect it to GoT, white haired dragonriders an'all.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026

there’s one true answer but it’s the correct one five minutes after game of thrones - the last true monoculture show - ended, we all collectively agreed not to talk about it again, and house of the dragon/knight of the seven kingdoms haven’t recaptured a fraction of that cultural presence

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

“So, in the editing of The Future of Truth, 15 months of human editing slammed headlong into the increasingly charming AI. It felt it knew better, and it “fixed” some quotes that it felt it could improve.” Sir!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026

“But here’s what I didn’t count on. This was a book about Truth, and the old standards of proofreading and fact-checking didn’t hold up to AI’s fast-moving ability to replace facts with believable fictions.“ Sir.

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Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is so stupid

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Prof. Dr Beth Singler @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Speaking these words to my ancestors to befuddle them for the lulz when they try and haunt me :D

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This gets said constantly, but it worth reiterating: Games Workshop being bigger than fishing is important to shout about because you wouldn't know it from government talking points, which are rarely about anything creative or artistic. Growth won't involve fish or steel, it will involve goblins.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“if”

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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Hey, have we tried kings?" - The world's greatest geniuses

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 05/10/2026

This is the Cult of AI - specifically the longtermist variant - at work: “getting to AGI” is deemed so self-evidently important that no sacrifice is too great. The future will be better, so tomorrow doesn’t matter.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 05/10/2026

been thinking about this a lot lately -- AI seems like a tech that inherently creates economic "doom loops" that extract value from original creative work while destroying the financial incentives to produce more of it ruining culture while making itself worse futurism.com/artificial-i...

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AI Is Creating "Doom Loops" All Over the Economy

The AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they really spent a thousand years letting everyone in the world know about black vs white smoke and what they mean in what might be the longest running elections to elect new leader in one place we've ever had only for this clown to be like WHERE IS YOUR ELECTION

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