Reposted by Matt RosoffGarthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Look up “regulatory capture.” Follow for more cartoons! 610449
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026'"AI" – chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers – is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It's a Python loop and a chatbot.' pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...pluralistic.netPluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 040
Reposted by Matt RosoffThe Register @theregister.com · 15/09/2026Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in foldstheregister.comApple iPhone Duo makes developers think in foldsCupertino's $2,000 foldable gives devs more screen, and more UI state to manage 031
Reposted by Matt RosoffGarthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Great discussion and overview of this push for AI regulation, why the big companies want that, and how it could actually increase the risk of the US falling behind in the AI race. Also a measured talk on how much of a risk AI really is to human existence 032
Reposted by Matt RosoffGarthtoons by Garth German @garthtoons.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Great discussion, thanks for sharing. 011
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you want to understand what all this killer AI talk is really about, @lot49.com @tobiasmann.bsky.social and @bvig.bsky.social had a helpful discussion on this week’s Kettle - listen here 131
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Now that our horses are off to the races, it’s vital to bolt the barn door. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...theregister.comBig AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created 020
Reposted by Matt RosoffDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fielding questions re: this article w/bizarre factual errors. First, there's no "Montecito County" in CA. Second, 2 fires are actually in *Monterey,* & 3rd in *Mendocino*. Third, 60k ac have *not* burned in either fictional Montecito nor real Mendocino.🤨latimes.comThree Montecito County fires near Big Sur have burned nearly 60,000 acresIn Mendocino County, the total area burned by three fires grew to nearly 60,000 acres on Saturday. 72845232
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I have to wonder if any of these people had children and paid any attention to their brain development in the first five years. Maybe their nannies could teach them something about the actual miracle of human intelligence. 050
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The problem came when we allowed these companies to call probabilistic computer programs based on massive amounts of training data “AI,” which allowed everybody to project their favorite sci-fi movie or book onto them. 282
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I feel like critical thinking has completely disappeared from the press and the tech industry. Is this like some Covid brain fog thing? 050
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Fast food company: this one new menu item we helped popularize keeps poisoning people and we have no idea why. Better ban all similar menu items from all competitors until we can figure it out. 030
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Plane company: This new kind of plane we’re pioneering keeps blowing up and we have no idea why. Solution: ban all competition and stall all development in the field until we can figure out why. 050
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Car company: this totally new type of car we’re pioneering keeps blowing up and we have no idea why. The solution is to give us complete control over this nascent industry until we can figure it out. 040
Reposted by Matt Rosoffmonkeyrotica @monkeyrotica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Translation: Give us another hundred buhzillion dollars or we will release Ultron.static.klipy.comUltron: Everyone Creates The Thing They DreadALT: Ultron: Everyone Creates The Thing They Dread 2311
Reposted by Matt RosoffFeral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Yes, it is, but much more so in people's heads than in the computers. 01131
Reposted by Matt RosoffCamerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s really bizarre how much of these guys’ priors are dependent on science fiction they themselves invented within the last 15 years. They’re extremely comfortable with massive leaps in reasoning because they assume they’re talking about the behavior of a god 642714
Reposted by Matt RosoffDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Given current prices, if AI ships me a kickass video card and new SSDs for free, I'll consider letting in nerd Nosferatu 566216
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Most of the people commenting on AI now have next to no idea how AI works. 040
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026How it started: I think I’ll just wander down to the basement and see if I still have an international adapter… 90 minutes later: 030
Reposted by Matt RosoffMatt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 11/09/2026Has this just been market manipulation all along? 1371
Reposted by Matt Rosoffgchance60.bsky.social @gchance60.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sounds like an Enron level audit is in order. 1793
Reposted by Matt RosoffEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026NVIDIA has sold about $535bn of gpus and associated gear (mostly GPUs) in the data center segment since the beginning of fy2023 (February 2022). If Microsoft only has 2gw or so, I think it’s unlikely anyone else is even close. Where are the GPUs? 1760459
Reposted by Matt RosoffEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/09/2026Holy shit. Bloomberg just verified one of my biggest scoops - that Microsoft only has 2gw of operational capacity. I had it at 1.993GW in prep for the story that @aishadown.bsky.social and I did for the guardian. Vindication! www.theguardian.com/technology/2... 251938362
Reposted by Matt RosoffKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026It takes 0.0001 seconds to realise the AI-bros are lying about "extinction risk" as a marketing trick, given how none of them seem bothered about the deadly fossil fuels they've become obsessed with using to power their data centres. 512453
Reposted by Matt RosoffBertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 11/09/2026A friend called 9/11 the Pearl Harbor of our age. In this day and age, especially, let’s remember the bravery, the kindness and the grace so many showed that day. We saw the best in us, in the face of the worst of humanity. 0287
Reposted by Matt RosoffTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Remember how the flights were forced to land in Canada and how wonderful the Canadian people treated us? I do. The fucking lunatic in the White House does not. 830344
Reposted by Matt RosoffSunny @flynndreno.bsky.social · 10/09/2026These guys want to pretend they’re working on the Atomic bomb so badly. 031
Reposted by Matt RosoffTeeg Dougland @arobertbitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026They must really be having trouble getting that IPO ready. I notice no S-1 yet. Quick! Start freaking out about Skynet! 122
Reposted by Matt Rosoffemergentempire.bsky.social @emergentempire.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Look, if you knew what me and my fellow Gaters knew about what the Nibiruians have planned once Hale-Bopp passes you wouldn't think it's so funny! 161
Reposted by Matt Rosoffbabsbeaty @babsbeaty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I swear all these people have a super villain fetish. Delusions of grandeur + narrow world view + self-hatred = I’m going down and taking you all with me. It’s inevitable. 0111
Reposted by Matt RosoffFi 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @hansmoletran.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Roko's basilisk is stupid for any number of reasons, but one of my favourite is the idea that there would be any continuity of consciousness between me and a digital recreation of me in the machine's torture simulator 1181
Reposted by Matt RosoffJoshiRibombee @joshihive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026he's scared, but he believes that it will happen no matter what, and that if he tries to prevent it fruitlessly, the AI will take revenge on him when it gets sentience this is Roko's Basilisk and it is very stupid 2212
Reposted by Matt RosoffLostmyshape @lostmyshape.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AI Guy: I’m just scared I’m going to eat this handful of anthrax Me: Oh, well why don’t you just put it down? AG: I mean, I don’t WANT to eat it M: No, I get that. So just put it down and then maybe you won’t eat it AG: I’m so scared 0754
Reposted by Matt Rosoffnibbish @nibbish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If they really believed any of this, they'd be, like, a million times more specific. HOW is ai is going to kill us all. Is it nukes? Is it poison? Is it some weird 25th century nanomachine nonsense? What is the mechanism? 516114
Reposted by Matt Rosoffnibbish @nibbish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026WHY is ai going to kill us all? Is it to make more paperclips more efficiently? Is it the old "kill them all to save the world" nonsense? Something more esoteric? Does it have a plan for how all the servers that house all of its data are going to be upkept once it deletes us? 2974
Reposted by Matt Rosoffnibbish @nibbish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That they (and, tbh, all the people that are simply buying this at face value) aren't elaborating on either of these questions at all, and are simply responding to questions with "hurr, durr, try reading a BOOK sometime." leads me to believe that this is all bluster. 6825
Reposted by Matt RosoffToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved. 1221552201
Reposted by Matt RosoffMGoCoder @mgocoder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The #1 reason we got Trump is that the media gives Republicans a pass on everything. 021
Reposted by Matt RosoffPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026So maddening that Trump gets about 1/10 as much criticism from reporters for saying "This is the greatest economy in history" as Biden got for saying "I know times are tough, but it's getting better" which was supposedly such a terribly insensitive affront to Americans' lived experience 1037373
Reposted by Matt RosoffMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms 13680230
Reposted by Matt RosoffEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026“It’s not hyperbole that we could cure cancer” actually yes it is. That’s exactly what it is 2163466
Reposted by Matt RosoffDandy G🍌 @dangyd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026He can’t identify what he’s concerned about because then it becomes a solvable problem. He’s angling for an impossible problem he can spend a few years “solving” for whomever pays best. The only insider info he’s revealing here is he doesn’t think equity will hold its value by the time it vests. 1303
Reposted by Matt RosoffEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026Aaaaand there you have it folks archive.md/2026.09.10-0... 2048085
Reposted by Matt RosoffEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/09/2026This Jacob Coxon thing is weird. He worked at Anthropic for six weeks and OpenAI for nearly three years. He’s doing a whole media tour without any real statements about what it is he’s scared of other than vague references to recursive self improvement, a theoretical ai that teaches itself. 471406264
Reposted by Matt RosoffEmmanuel Valle @vallecito.bsky.social · 10/09/2026How did the entire tech and journalism world turn into idiotic sociopaths 6743
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Somebody on the Search Answers team at Google has a juvenile sense of humor: type in four hyphens and check out what the AI returns. (Found by a @theregister.com reader.) 000
Reposted by Matt RosoffTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026gm and Happy Uncle Larry Day to those who celebrate -- one year ago today Larry Ellison was briefly worth >$400 Bil and was the richest person on the planet $ORCL is -50% since (you hate to see it) 3455
Matt Rosoff @mattrosoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m in this dumb motel next to the Taco Bell without a hope in hell, I can’t believe that I’m still around. 020
Reposted by Matt RosoffKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this 26824901
