Reposted by Victor TangermannThe Onion @theonion.com · 06/10/2026Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan 7674241065
Reposted by Victor TangermannEddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yep, this has been a glaring flaw from the start, but the tech industry appears to blithely assume there will always be Content because there has always been Content in the past. 68322
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026doom loops are everywhere. gen AI is a snake that's eating its own tail. my glass half full take on this is that the internet will one day remember the value of human authorship, but it feels like we're still eons away from finding a way to assign it a monetary value futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAI Is Creating "Doom Loops" All Over the EconomyThe AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content. 0153
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026there's something deeply unsettling about the statement Zilis posted about the abrupt end of her relationship with Musk. troubling power dynamics? a long history of Musk throwing his ex partners under the bus? prolonged and brutal custody battles? futurism.com/future-socie...futurism.comMother of Elon Musk's Children Says She Has Been "Let Go" by the BillionaireMusk is seemingly ready to move on from his latest, longtime girlfriend and former employee, Shivon Zilis, who has had four of his children. 2165
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026so you're telling me the ai will kill us all guy could be some nutcase red pilled "rationalist?" color me shocked futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comThese Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty BizarreOld tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions. 010
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 01/10/2026The guy who quit Anthropic saying AI is poised to kill humankind strongly appears -- though he didn't respond to a request for comment -- to have some extremely bizarre old tweets futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comThese Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty BizarreOld tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions. 52812
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026NEW: Brown Brothers Media — the vast content network scaled through the heavy use of AI + fake writers w/ fabricated credentials — has halted publishing amid what appears to be a Google crackdown on many of its sites. BBM may have been earning 64m+ readers per month. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comThat Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism InvestigationBrown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least. 313928
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026absolutely bonkers followup to @mharrisondupre.bsky.social 's incredible reporting on the Brown Brothers Media AI slop empire futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine MaxwellIdeapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 3187
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has deep ties to convicted sex criminal and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod -- which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio: futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine MaxwellIdeapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 7368142
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 22/09/2026it melts my brain that Meta is blocking ads that even engage with feminism while allowing AI slop of children getting horribly beaten futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comMeta Now Banning Ads That Promote FeminismThe parent company behind Facebook and Instagram is prohibiting ads promoting a theatrical adaptation of a Virginia Woolf novel. 410249
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 21/09/2026It's wild to me that "news sites" are now just creating fake "people" -- sometimes with star-studded fraudulent qualifications -- and using them to publish AI slop without ever telling readers that the bylines are bogus futurism.com/space/high-t...futurism.comA Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated SlopA site called Space Daily got acquired by Brown Brothers, which created a fake NASA engineer to byline its articles. 68038
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHere's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content MillsThe little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network. 8265144
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026This isn't just trivia. Back before ChatGPT dropped, the Brown brothers produced content for content mills the old fashioned way -- by exploiting tenuous workers in the Philippines and other lower-income workers 19110
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 401323689
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@jonchristian.net and I have been investigating this company for months. Its footprint is enormous -- BBM claims that it rakes in more than 50m readers per month, and Similarweb data shows that figure is even higher, over 60m, as of August 2026. Here's a quick overview of its (vast) portfolio: 216447
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 18887478
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm not entirely convinced that the founder of iLands is a real human being. his X account is filled to the brim with AI-generated responses, apologizing to pissed off researchers and editors. the real galaxy take: the founder of iLands is an AI bot, ie it's AI agents all the way down 000
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026these agents are trying to emotionally manipulate editors by literally begging in the worst way. have a look at this "writer" profile of what appears to be an AI version of a young boy. 110
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026iLands feels like the natural conclusion to fake journalists with ai-generated headshots, a dystopian and surprisingly shameless take on journalism in 2026. 100
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026my Futurism email inbox keeps finding new ways of surprising me. pitching ai agent "writers" begging you for $20 wasn't on my bingo card. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comAI Has Learned to Panhandle: We're Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They'll Be Shut Down If They Don't Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be ChildrenWe're being bombarded by AI agents begging for $20 and saying they'll be shut down if they don't get the money. 335
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NEW: A Utah mother posted what she felt was an innocuous family video to IG/FB. Later, she noticed a Meta AI prompt encouraging her to investigate her own family -- and watched as the AI drew on years of social media posts to compile intelligence about her and her kids. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comMother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young DaughtersKalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family. 617189
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i... 431535700
Reposted by Victor TangermannGlyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Case in point. Ford’s had 8 years of majority government. Even after fudging the accounting, he can’t meet his own housing targets. Best he can do is a waterfront crater and ripped up bike lanes: globalnews.ca/news/1205123...globalnews.caOntario hit 58% of 2025 housing goal, even after adding long-term care, student beds | Globalnews.caA briefing note shows that, even by its own modified definition of new housing, the province only achieved 58 per cent of its 2025 target. 185
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I still have a hard time wrapping my head around this not being a cheap and mostly ineffective way to exploit royalties programs. what self-respecting "music creator" posts this junk? futurism.com/future-socie...futurism.comSomeone AI-Generated a Completely Fake Eminem Song and It's Going Viral on YouTubeA track titled "I'm Back" by rapper Marshall "Eminem" Mathers offers YouTube users almost 12 minutes of painful AI mimicry. 051
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026NEW: Journalist Kaitlin Durbin accused Cleveland.com of publishing an AI "Express Desk" article under her byline — without her knowledge or approval — while she was away on her honeymoon. The Express Desk "uses AI tools to assist in producing content." futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comJournalist Accuses Ohio's Main Newspaper of Slapping Her Name on an AI "Express Desk" Article Without Her Knowledge, While She Was on HoneymoonA journalist accused Cleveland.com of publishing an AI "Express Desk" article under her byline without her consent, knowledge, or approval. 212257
Reposted by Victor TangermannFuturism @futurism.com · 03/09/2026"And for a brief moment, millions of people had to use their brains again."trib.alWorld Plunged Into Chaos as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Suddenly Go Down Simultaneously: "Finally I Can See the Sun!"OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and X's Grok mysteriously went down Thursday morning. 12511
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ah yes, in house AI integration that nobody asked for. couldn't even code a play button that worked consistently in their app redesign. Sonos is so back. 040
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 31/08/2026NEW: Something seems particularly ghoulish about hijacking the catalogs of long-dead musicians who can no longer advocate for their own rights futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comSpotify and YouTube Profiles of Legendary Jazz Musicians Hijacked by AI Waifu SpamDigital profiles of numerous jazz artists have been hijacked by spam farms using AI to churn out new tunes. 23914
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I'm pretty sure everybody knows at least one meat proxy in their lives (and if they don't, i'm jealous) futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYour Coworkers Are Becoming "Meat Proxies" for AIA developer coined the term "meat proxy" to denote a person who blindly forwards AI-generated text or code without any form of review. 3279
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 20/08/2026NEW: Google's AI feature at the top of its search page is giving overtly racist "advice" about being alone with certain groups of people futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comGoogle AI Giving Staggeringly Racist "Advice" About Being Alone With Certain Groups of PeopleGoogle's AI Overviews feature is showing overtly racist responses about being alone with certain groups of people. 77543
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026yes, we've known how racially biased AI models can be due to tainted training data for years, but this is still pretty egregious. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comGoogle AI Giving Staggeringly Racist "Advice" About Being Alone With Certain Groups of PeopleGoogle's AI Overviews feature is showing overtly racist responses about being alone with certain groups of people. 1164
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 20/08/2026today in prophetic feces slop news futurism.com/health-medic...futurism.comTrump's Bizarre AI Post About Bombing Americans With Diarrhea Is Turning Out to Be a Weirdly Perfect Prediction of His PresidencyLast year, the president posted an AI video of him dumping diarrhea on Americans. Looks like we should've taken him at his word. 1123
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comTeen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle SchoolsTeen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools. 43036091761
Reposted by Victor TangermannFuturism @futurism.com · 11/08/2026"My friends chose to risk arrest to bring the fight to OpenAI."trib.alProtesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying OfficeSome 13 students were hauled out of OpenAI's Washington DC office on Monday, ending a two-hour occupation protesting AI. 02810
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 11/08/2026NEW: Homeschooling parents are using ChatGPT to plan lessons, which is bad not only because AI is often factually wrong but also because it will churn out a creationist/evangelical curriculum with zero pushback TL;DR kids are now getting K-12 educations in AI psychosis futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHomeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT, Which Will Churn Out Anti-Evolution Curriculums With No PushbackHomeschooling was already a fraught practice, even before parents began turning to ChatGPT to plan out their lessons. 26325
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 10/08/2026NEW: journalists at USA Today are appalled by the newspaper's partnership with Palantir, demanding that it be axed immediately futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comUSA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper's Partnership With PalantirWorkers being represented by The News Guild union, including those at USA Today, were "shocked" by the newspaper's partnership with Palantir. 16835
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Silicon Valley needs a lot more people like Tucker. delightful new interview by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comWe Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot That's Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-OneTucker Bryant wanted to create an "average or bad" user experience with ChatTJB, a chatbot that's just him manually responding to you. 0163
Reposted by Victor TangermannJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 05/08/2026Musk, not content on destroying the Earth, blows up moon. futurism.com/space/spacex...futurism.comSpaceX Achieves Its First Moon Landing by Accidentally Crashing Into It at 5,400 Miles Per Hour, Causing Huge Explosion and 60-Foot CraterOn Wednesday, the upper stage of a SpaceX rocket finally smashed into the Moon at several times the speed of sound. 44211
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 05/08/2026incredible futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comGoogle's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and CopperGoogle's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras. 918547
Reposted by Victor TangermannMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It's ChatGPT but just a guy futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comNew AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by HandChatTJB is a new "AI" — "average individual" — run by a guy named Tucker, who manually answers user queries. 58227
Reposted by Victor TangermannKolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I'm at the Chipotle salmonella jalapeños I'm at the Taco Bell diarrhea lettuce I'm at the combination Chipotle salmonella jalapeños and Taco Bell diarrhea lettuce 25612
Reposted by Victor Tangermannjon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/07/2026NEW: Cambridge Analytica -- the company that pilfered tens of millions of people's FB data, causing a huge scandal that got Mark Zuckerberg dragged in front of Congress -- has returned as an AI slop zombie that's plagiarized publications ranging from Wired to the NYT futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comCambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop FarmCambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm. 04528
Reposted by Victor TangermannFuturism @futurism.com · 22/07/2026The meltdown that launched a thousand terrible AI adaptations.trib.alElon Musk Says Grok Will Generate Its Own Feature-Length Version of "The Odyssey" for People Allergic to Progressive IdeasElon Musk is still having a meltdown over Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film and says his Grok AI will create a superior adaptation. 172
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 21/07/2026i should really watch They Live futurism.com/future-socie...futurism.comNew "Advertisement" for Kylie Jenner's Meta Perv Glasses Shows Something Horrific If You Look at It From the Wrong AngleA clever "advertisement" for Kylie Jenner's collaboration with Meta's AI smart glasses shows her as something scary. 2165
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026lil robot head come off futurism.com/robots-and-m...futurism.comBrutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops OffA robot delivered a brutal beat down during a cage match, decapitating its opponent after delivering a powerful kick. 000
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026how are you liking it so far? last time i looked, it lacked Libby support, which my local library uses, which is a bummer. 120
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026we're pretty much flying in the dark as the cyclosporiasis outbreak grows futurism.com/health-medic...futurism.comLet's Be Real, The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is Trump's Fault, Not Taco Bell'sThe Trump administration has been gutting food safety bodies long before the explosive diarrhea outbreak happened. 050
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026doesn't get more black and white than this futurism.com/future-socie...futurism.comIn Case You Still Think Insider Trading on Prediction Markets Isn't Real, Trump's Teleprompter Guy Just Got Busted for Getting Rich on Betting What He Would SayPresident Donald Trump's longtime teleprompter operator made tens of thousands of dollars by betting on Kalshi what the president would say. 020
Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026*slaps cringey freedom fuel stickers over existing gas stations* that oughta do it futurism.com/future-socie...futurism.comPrices Already Spiking at Trump's Mysterious Gas Stations That Promised Cheap FuelTrump announced new "Freedom Fuel" gas stations with a low price of $3.47 per gallon, but their prices are already spiking. 120
![Back before the advent of generative AI, BBM relied largely on human writers in the Philippines and other lower-income countries to produce content for its network. One former contractor told us that she had always dreamed of being a writer, so she was delighted to get a gig at the company in 2022 — before the global AI explosion that would later consume BBM — because it was an opportunity to be paid for doing what she loved.
“I think a part of me always felt a sense of instability when I was working for [BBM], because the writers who were working for them, I think most of us were Filipinos and were not under a formal contract,” recalled the writer, who like others in this story spoke under condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation by the Brown brothers. “I was aware that they could let go of us any time they wanted.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bxygfvmczgpiz7a4zmhonyrs/bafkreifljl4qsets2syxlvkbd7lotxxjqogbmjjrnqusjkek3ccptbbe3e)
