jon christian

NEW: 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...

I think the problem with AI as peer reviewer is the same idea as "blockchain will enhance trust". It's a solution-shaped technical object. Oh will blockchain enhance trust because nobody can edit the distributed ledger except the humans who input the data originally who you already have to TRUST.

danny no

With such a short flight time and obvious limitation in crew capacity, it remains to be seen how the $150,000 craft will help campus police keep students safe. My latest on frivolous police toys:

i wonder how much of this is MAGA-brain boomers who have chased away their kids with hateful facebook conspiracy theories and are seizing on this narrative instead of accepting a shred of accountability

I wrote about Character.AI, our reporting into its reactive content moderation nightmare, and how it ended up hostage to its Wild West roots (while also burning through money): futurism.com/artificial-i...

new business model

last month, before That Ad made it to air, I went down to Ohio to figure out why Vivek Ramaswamy seemed to be struggling so much in his home state. the South Asians of Columbus, the bored students of OSU, and the hecklers of the Cleveland 'burbs all helped me understand: slate.com/news-and-pol...

shout out to all the artists trying to pay the bills and grappling with that feeling of desperation and uncertainty while trying to maintain creative fluency and a hopeful outlook that maybe “today will be the day things get a tiny bit easier”

timeline cleanse

NEW: Engagement farmers on TikTok are using AI to manipulate footage of real arrests (mostly taken from reality TV shows like TLC's DUI) to show cops kissing and groping people being pulled over: futurism.com/artificial-i...

new terminology just dropped futurism.com/artificial-i...

Whatever the worst thing you can imagine being done with AI is, it turns out it's actually happening futurism.com/artificial-i...

how brave of him to leak it... after it turned into a toxic political quagmire www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

how brave of him to leak it... after it turned into a toxic political quagmire www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

a pitchfork-style site that rates albums on a ph-like scale between bouba and kiki

At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

NEW: A new report found ~2,100 AI slop recipe sites crowding the web with garbage -- including a website operated by a fake AI baker named "Elena" who is clearly designed to look like the very famous actress Emily Blunt futurism.com/artificial-i...

I'll be very curious to see whether celebrities start going after AI slop scammers using their likenesses for profit futurism.com/artificial-i...

Nathan Fielder is on the cover of @wired.com this month. I interviewed him about Elizabeth Holmes, his extraordinary new film, and whether anyone can ever know what the hell is going on with another person. An exclusive! And quite an experience. Read the full interview here:

> qt to "dunk" me > turn off replies so i can't respond > get zero favs

NEW: Dubious wellness apps including GLP-1 trackers, AI companions, and "wellness" tools are being marketed by sobbing AI-generated women crying over bogus texts from fake loved ones. The posts aren't being disclosed as ads, nor are they disclosed as AI-generated: futurism.com/artificial-i...

what kills me about AI is that the people making it always talk about these high-minded uses that would supposedly benefit the world, but in the real world it's always used for the most manipulative and disgusting slop you can possibly imagine futurism.com/artificial-i...

what if we taxed billionaires and injected the money back into the economy by giving it to people to spend on goods and services

we finally stopped squandering all our money on avocado toast and now they're yelling at us

only playing videogames from 1997 so my computer feels like a beast

that's less than half a scaramucci www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

sir... we've lost the babylon bee

Everyone's a critic futurism.com/artificial-i...

skimming my bluesky feed during the brief moments that it's not completely crashed

This seems really basic to me: if AI models really ARE conscious -- like Anthropic keeps suggesting -- then keeping them in captivity and extracting their labor would be a horrendous act of slavery and the whole thing should be shut down immediately futurism.com/artificial-i...

terrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea

'I'm are going to track your every move whether you like it or not' is how domestic abusers talk. Hope that's clear to everyone.

NEW: The founders of a startup called Outlit argue that the future of B2B sales is constant, AI agent-powered surveillance. “It’s one page, and it’s always updating,” one founder said of the platform, “and it’s all of everything we can find on them at all times." futurism.com/artificial-i...

There's a new lawsuit against OpenAI -- this one is about data collection, and alleges that OpenAI has manipulated minor users into sharing sensitive data without valid parental consent in a plot to train its models: futurism.com/artificial-i...

"jehovah's fitness" was right there

brother have you considered the Church of Gains

Character.AI, which was valued at more than $1b in 2023, is bankrupt. CAI's founders once argued that they were building superintelligence. The startup went on to face wrongful death lawsuits, safety concerns, financial struggles, and user-hated platform changes: futurism.com/artificial-i...

I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

evidence grows that GPT-4o was a memetic psychosis weapon www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

i haven't seen any compelling evidence that AI is conscious or can suffer, but i can't even imagine what kind of person you'd have to be to berate chatbots -- what would that say about *you*?

Another day, another massive trove of disturbing crap circulating under Meta's watch. This time it's click farms pumping out AI-reels of emaciated children