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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 08/09/2026

Latest @enoughaboutai.com quarterly with @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social is out and covering the investigation of the #HuggingFace attack, AI safety culture (or lack of it), data centre politics, open letters, predictions, and hideous AI posters...

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 20/08/2025

On this quarter's @enoughaboutai.com episode, @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social and I are talking about the #AI bubble, and the consequences for jobs whether it pops or not. As well as ChatGPT5, bad graphs, third devices, and whatever a "non-woke" chatbot might be.

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 26/06/2025

Interesting that @anthropic.com Claude’s current model still has this weird behaviour of catching itself midway through saying something ridiculous. I found a small egg in my window box and asked for likely sources. It said snails(!?) and also that rats lay eggs, before realising they don’t. #GenAI

Text from a response to a prompt asking about the likely source of a single egg in a Dublin window box. Anthropic Claude said “Snails/Slugs: Large garden snails and slugs lay clusters of small, round, white eggs in soil. Individual eggs can be 3-5mm in diameter and are often found partially buried in damp soil or under moss - exactly like your window box environment. Dublin has plenty of these, especially in gardens.
Rats: Brown rats (very common in Dublin) lay eggs… wait, no - rats give birth to live young, not eggs.”

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 15/05/2025

Interesting to see the huge push for Israel #Eurovsion votes via advertising today. Several people remarked the same to me this afternoon, and I'm getting pre-rolls on Youtube, on completely unrelated videos.

A YouTube pre-roll ad for the Israeli Eurovision song, asking for votes in the second semi-final

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 02/05/2025

"And how are you at the moment?"

A simple line graph, entitled "Remaining mental health vs. time grading assignment", which compares a line for "previous years" that slowly deteriorates with a line for "GenAI era" that plummets through the graph in a plunge of despair, landing in the "THIS IS FINE" meme.
CC-BY Dónal Mulligan. Image includes altered version of meme image originally from KC Green (Gunshow/648)

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 02/04/2025

I can't find the current (much worse) one that I saw at the weekend, but even the previous one was pretty ropey too... vagabondtoursofireland.com/images-adven...

The Dublin DART map, which has since been updated

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 11/03/2025

Get with the times, grandad. Everything's been computer for ages now. Jessica knew it 30 years ago.

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in an episode of Murder She Wrote from 1993, where she's in Virtual Reality

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 25/02/2025

New (and slightly updated format) podcast episode with @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social to provide some headline items & discussion of the key themes/topics this quarter in #AI. Find it on Apple, Spotify, etc., @enoughaboutai.com Also, we answered your questions - thanks for those & send on any others :)

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 18/01/2025

Found this under the old attic insulation we removed earlier, so we know the day it went in - and get to remember that peace processes do sometimes succeed even in seemingly impossible circumstances. More of that, please.

A torn piece of newspaper from the Irish Times on 11 July 1996, with an article about the Northern Ireland Peace Process.

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 18/01/2025

Remember that properly protecting yourself while upgrading your attic #insulation is also a good opportunity to terrify your neighbours if they catch a glimpse.

Two men who definitely definitely know what they are doing, dressed in full protective gear to remove fibreglass insulation in at attic, and replace it with better stuff.

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 15/01/2025

Our safeguards will be strict, our guidelines clear, our police AI overseen… Can’t wait to hear how - especially with the elsewhere promised best data protection in Europe.

A section from the leaked 2025 Irish Programme for Government, discussing the intention to introduce Facial Recognition Technology.

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 26/11/2024

New episode of @enoughaboutai.com this week where @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social and I talk about #AI and various potential dooms - and where we draw the basilisk stare of a future AI monster upon all who dare to listen. Enjoy! (Find it where you get your podcasts, or on the website)

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 20/11/2024

Latest #EnoughAboutAI podcast is about the calls for regulation of AI tools and the attempts already underway, like the @ec.europa.eu EU AI Act. @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social takes the lead in detailing AI's potential for accelerating the misinformation crisis in social media. Find it in your feed.

Enough About AI Episode 5 - Misinformation & Regulation

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 18/11/2024

I'm chairing a DCU School of Communications public seminar this Thursday (6pm, @dculibrary.bsky.social on St Pat's Campus), on how we tackle #GenAI #Regulation and the lessons from prior attempts to regulate tech platforms. Panel: @johnnyryan.bsky.social, @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social, Eileen Cullotty

DCU School of Communications Autumn Series of Public Seminars
21 November: Tech Platform Regulation - lessons for AI on combatting misinformation?
6-8pm St Patrick's Campus library

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Dónal Mulligan @donalmulligan.com · 12/11/2024

New episode of the #EnoughAboutAI podcast is about training and testing AI models - @ciaranoconnor.bsky.social and I chat about the data. Also a grotesque use of human centipedes as an analogy, but that's top scientific communication for you... podcast.enoughaboutai.com

Cover art for Episode 4 of the Enough About AI podcast, which is about data and training for AI models

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