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Tristan Gray

@eidyngray.scot
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🏳️‍🌈 author and activist in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books (he/they) 💜💗💙 tgraywrites.carrd.co

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 12h
This was a long time coming. I hope someone scoops up the game workers left unemployed by this collapse, and I hope the deluded narcissist Leslie Benzies never gets given a dime of investment again. theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/09/vide...
theedinburghreporter.co.uk
Video game company Build a Rocket Boy in administration
The company which former Rockstar North director, Leslie Benzies, established in 2018, is now in administration.
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Jessica the Bestica 🏳️‍🌈Thought Bubble TM Hall A5 ☕Trying My Best @anireal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎉🌱🍄 Poison Ivy cover 50 🍄🌱🎉 A new era~ We made it y'all ♥️ Thank you so much for the support and sharing stories of how art has connected with and inspired you~ 🌱
Character Poison Ivy holding a needle filled with green liquid in front of her face.
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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Absolutely fuck off. variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
variety.com
BBC Boss Says He Watched a ‘Pretty Good’ AI-Generated Episode of ‘Doctor Who’: ‘Everyone’s a Creator, Not All the Creativity Is Bad’
BBC boss Matt Brittin says he watched an episode of 'Doctor Who' entirely generated by AI which he deemed 'pretty good.'
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Screaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
picard in the darmok episode with speech bubble
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 29/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvn...
youtube.com
Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on AI’s Threat to Humanity - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 28/09/2026
Obsession is the best Silent Hill movie
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 28/09/2026
Well Slipknot can get absolutely fucked. Platform a rapist? Go to hell, and not the fun kind.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Forcing everyone who thinks Hard Magic Systems™ are important to watch Irregular at Magic High School so they understand my hatred for the idea
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Veleda_k @veleda-k.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES YIKES
Inverting Feminism

SlutCon's vision
paints women into a corner in having an ethos that is an inversion of
feminism. In Aella's own words:

Most women don't know what they want
and if they do they are pretty bad at and so their sexual advice tends to be ineffective at best and actively
communicating it, damaging at worst.

Heavy focus on safety and deference are there for good reasons
and they need to be
respected, but often are
deeply unsexy, no matter how much people insist otherwise.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Let’s also remember that this is the same group of organizers in the Silicon Valley AI scene who are also involved with throwing “consensual non-consent” events - IE, simulated rape. Which whistleblowers like Sonia Joseph have cited as creating a “coercive climate” for female AI researchers.
Sonia Joseph
@soniajoseph_
To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc)
sex parties-
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/Al circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAl employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.
It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims. However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF Al scene are more broadly relevant to the Al industry.
I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite Al researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female Al researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.
There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for Al safety.
Women are like canaries in the coal mine. They are often the first to realize that something has gone horribly wrong, and to smell the cultural carbon monoxide in the air. For many women, Silicon Valley can be like Westworld, where violenceI have seen people repeatedly get shut down for pointing out these problems.
Once, when trying to point out these problems, I had three OpenAl and Anthropic researchers debate whether I was mentally ill on a Google document.
thave no
history of mental illness; and this incident stuck with me as an example of blindspots/groupthink.
I am not writing this on the behalf of any interest group. Historically, much of OpenAl-adjacent shenanigans has been blamed on groups with weaker PR teams, like Effective Altruism and rationalists. I actually feel bad for the latter two groups for taking so many undeserved hits. There are good and bad apples in every faction. There are so many brilliant, kind, amazing people at OpenAl, and there are so many brilliant, kind, and amazing people in Anthropic/EA/Google/[insert whatever group]. I'm agnostic. My one loyalty is to the respect and dignity of human life.
I'm not under an NDA. I never worked for OpenAl. I just observed the surrounding Al culture through the community house scene in SF, as a fly-on-the-wall, hearing insider information and backroom deals, befriending dozens of women and allies and well-meaning parties, and watching many them get burned. It's likely these problems are not really on OpenAl but symptomatic of a much deeper rot in the Valley. I wish I could say more, but probably shouldn't.
I will not pretend that my time among these circles didn't do damage. I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends. I would like to devote my brain completely and totally to Al research finding the first principles of visual circuits, and collecting maximally activating images of CLIP SAEs to send to my collaborators for publication.
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 27/09/2026
This culture might actually be worse than 00's tech and gaming bro culture
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026
Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?) theacademysf.com
Thrilled to announce our latest incubation: Horowitz Andreessen Academy.

Horowitz Andreessen Academy will be a two-year residential program in San Francisco for 16 to 22 year olds.

My biggest regret from my college experience is how divorced it was from the real world (both practically but also intellectually)

HAA is the opposite. Students will learn from real-world practitioners and intellectuals; including founders (Sam Altman, Brian Armstrong, Jensen Huang), investors (Elad Gil, Daniel Gross), and professors (Agnes Callard, Tyler Cowen), among hundreds of others. The Academy is the educational experience I wish I had.

In 1984, the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published a paper about how the average student who received one-on-one tutoring focused on mastery techniques performed better than 98% of the control group. For generations, this was viewed as unrealistic to implement even if it produced the best outcomes.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
The Effective Altruism movement, which is an offshoot of the Rationalist movement and remains very linked to them - and is hugely popular amongst many Silicon Valley AI executives - has a sexual harassment problem, per this 2023 article.
time.com
Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say
Seven women connected to effective altruism tell TIME they experienced harassment and worse within the community
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 27/09/2026
Because what we see on social media is driven by survivorship bias - we lose track of what "doing well" actually means on book sales.
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.”
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
lmao i know this is all just doing discourse, but I have hired... at least hundreds of people? And I could not tell you a good goddamn about what any of them ate or drank during any of those interviews. except maybe for the ones where I made cookies. Who gives a shit about any of this?
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 26/09/2026
Taylor Swift used to be an early 20s up-and-coming star singing from the relatable experience of a teenager. Now she's a billionaire culture titan using songs to settle petty personal beefs with somehow more insecurity from her place of unassailable power and success than famously whiny Drake.
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
nypost.com
Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 25/09/2026
Occasionally having flashbacks to Cyberpunk 2077 and feeling sad again. Damn that show was so good.
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 25/09/2026
Instagram is now absolutely flooded by AI slop ads. Every fifth reel. It's relentless
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FalconWizard @falconwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ed Sheeran having his show at Robert Kraft’s stadium canceled due to weather is not just funny, but cosmically hilarious.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I AM THE NEW GOD. Nothing like Darkseid has ever come among you; nothing will again. I will take you to a hell without exit or end. And there I will murder your souls! And make you crawl and beg! And die! Die! DIE FOR DARKSEID!
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This AI discourse is amazing. "We've created this very dangerous thing, based largely on the mass theft of labour, that we should stop developing" - okay, so that means that you should be treated like social and economic vandals, not revered as sages on podcasts.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Category is Books just had its window smashed in AGAIN. Fuck every person on the fence. Fuck every Just Asking Questions. Fuck every Labour MP, MSP, councillor and member.
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 25/09/2026
OpenAI needs to die
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 24/09/2026
Despite what tech CEOs are saying when they need an investment injection, we’ve found that genAI is creating MORE work, not reducing it. We’re seeing deskilling, downskilling, invasive monitoring, decreased job security, degraded wellbeing and an almost total lack of consultation with workers.
go.utaw.tech
AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 | Tech Workers Inquiry
How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.
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United Tech & Allied Workers @utaw.tech · 24/09/2026
Everyone’s talking about AI, but no one’s actually asking workers how it’s affecting us. So we’ve done it ourselves. Today we are launching the AI Workers’ Inquiry, a new study led by workers themselves, into the way AI is changing work. Read it at go.utaw.tech/ai
go.utaw.tech
AI Workers' Inquiry 2026 | Tech Workers Inquiry
How AI is changing work in the tech sector, from the workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. A Tech Workers' Inquiry from UTAW.
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💉🔪🩸kelly 'arekay' yeo🩸💉🔪 @kellyarekayyeo.com · 24/09/2026
it’s a black hole and simultaneously i simply would not have the things dearest to me without it today and my life would be completely different. both things can indeed be true
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Those absolute head bangers have convinced themselves that Churchill, King Charles, Henry V and Brunel aren’t proper English. Robert the Bruce isn’t Scottish. They are modern phrenologists. They spend the weekend working out what George Best was.
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 24/09/2026
If you still think these hacks are accidents - I have a bridge to sell you
Openai hack of huggingfaceNvidia buys huggingfaceOpenai call for Australia to relax training lawsOpenai hack Australian government
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 24/09/2026
Oh yeah, all these attacks are definitely just accidents and not PR opportunities and/or threats. This is in no way linked to Australia taking a strong line on copyright and training data, obviously not. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first
Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 23/09/2026
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 23/09/2026
Happy bi visibility day. I am bi. That is all, go about your business.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tired: Manmade child annihilating zipline beyond physics comprehension Wired: Grok maims a man on a halfpipe then gets him fired, patent advice sought
From r/legal advice:

I used AI to invent a new skateboard trick that coworker tried & he got hurt. Can he sue me?

My coworker & I were using Grok to generate new types of skateboard tricks that have never been done and I used Grok AI to discover a new trick called a “Pipe It,” which is kind of like skating down a halfpipe but using the AI to calculate the physics and angles, we can go a lot steeper when dropping in. We watch a lot of skate videos on our phone during breaks, so we decided to do a type of skate video with new tricks. 

Grok made up this skateboard trick & I told it to be very careful and use science/physics to make sure that it was as cool as possible but also realistic. Basically, a Pipe It is taking a long 2x4 and placing it up against a wall (like 7 ft tall) and sliding down the wood board using the skateboard with the wheels on either side of the 2x4, kind of like grinding Tony Hawk video game style, but straight down. Grok said it would be possible to pop off the board at the last minute to land & that this would have been a brand new trick. 

Anyways, my coworker tried it in the parking lot during our lunch break at work but immediately fell face first into the floor and busted his nose. He had already gotten written up before, so he couldn’t leave in the middle of the day to change, so when we tried to go back in with blood everywhere our boss got mad and told him to go home  maybe he could get called back in for another shift). He hasn’t gotten called back so I think he’s fired.

Now my coworker is saying that the Pipe-It is my fault & he’s going to sue me. Can he do that? even if he can, it’s not my fault because I told Grok to be as safe as possible and to make sure that the Pipe-It was realistic. Basically, he did the trick wrong and is mad that he couldn't do it and that he lost his job. Can I get in trouble? Also, sorry if I can't combine questions, but can I patent the Pipe It so Grok or he can't steal it now that we're fighting?
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 22/09/2026
Microsoft may somehow take the title as the most destructive company to gaming in the history of the industry. A decade spent buying it up, now years dedicated to eradicating everything they bought.
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Xbox - "Continuing Our Reset" - 'First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer.' More: news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 22/09/2026
When OpenAI and Anthropic hit the hard end of the era of free cash to burn there's a *lot* of software engineers (and "software engineers") who'll face a real reckoning of how they don't actually understand any of their software
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 20/09/2026
I like Ed Sheeran's music fine, even if he is personally a coward who'll throw his friends under the bus for a pay day. But, let's be honest, he's at best an uncultured man's Hozier, and Hozier both understands the responsibility of his platform and the innate politics of art.
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 20/09/2026
Melissa Barrera, after being fired from the Scream franchise for sharing support for Palestine in 2023, says it’s “beautiful” to see the support Macklemore has received after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour for his pro-Palestine speeches.
bit.ly
Melissa Barrera Says It’s “Beautiful” to See Macklemore Receive Support After Ed Sheeran Tour Firing: “I Didn’t Get That When It Happened to Me”
Melissa Barrera, after being fired from the Scream franchise for sharing support for Palestine in 2023, says it’s “beautiful” to see the support Macklemore has received after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour for his pro-Palestine speeches.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 20/09/2026
When someone is crashing out on social media the best thing you can do if you don't know them is to not engage with it, the best thing you can do if you know them is talk them into logging off and talking privately. Nothing good comes from posting your way through it.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 19/09/2026
Flock is an excellent living example of how tech companies can and should be punished by deliberately tying their products to the advancement of fascism. They can be brought down, and we should learn from Flock's downfall how to do it. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
wired.com
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 19/09/2026
ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” - “no one intended for the content they created to be used in this fashion, nor are they compensated for its use.” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
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