As NixCraft wrote when sharing this: the irony is that it’s from Perplexity. The rest of you can do this, we won’t. We might be one of those little corners of the web still making human-written content. Life skill in 2025: to spot what is real and what is slop. A bit like […]
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My dad made quite a few predictions, not because he was psychic (in fact, while he was never vocally against it, like Confucius he wasn’t a fan of it), but because he was a keen observer of people, natural phenomena, and the rise and fall of institutions. Off the top of my head: when Rob […]
Creative Commons/CC0/Pxhere Anyone else do this? You’re searching for something online and you go to a page where there’s an introduction, then a ‘Contents’ box dividing up the answer into sections. You immediately leave that page because it’s likely to be “AI”-written or the answer you want is buried within, and it’s quicker to […]
The old The new The old The new The Autocade logo has changed, and we’ll be letting you in on why in due course. It hasn’t been done just because of æsthetics, though after 17½ years it was probably time for an update. Meanwhile, on the “AI” scraping front, which […]
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Originally published in Lucire A year ago, we lost our good friend Helen Baxter. This loss was most deeply felt by no one more than her husband and partner of 25 years, Chelfyn. In the past year, he has come across a way to honour her memory. Head to the YouTube channel Zoechelfyn, […]
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When I posted about Autocade Year of Cars 2025 on Vivaldi Social, a chap in Germany, who clearly disliked cars, had a go at me. I pointed out that there were probably more EVs covered in the book than petrol- and diesel-powered cars, but the cynical chap wasn’t having any of it. There should be […]
Shufei had a great idea in conversation on Mastodon: Eventually soon the disinformation will be so thick that vetting for truth on the internet will become practically impossible. Industrialized libel by LLM will front data protection rackets: pay a fee to get your name clear from lies of varying severity. I don’t see a way […]
US writer Chris Armitage has a piece on Medium, with two titles depending on where you look: ‘We live in a fascist nation. What now?’ and ‘I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate after fascists were elected was 0%’. The key takeaway: ‘Once fascists win power democratically, they have […]
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Semrush’s Keyword Magic Tool continues to wreak damage a year after Semrush users chose to write disinformation about me based on what the program said were trending keywords. Semrush later admitted, when I confronted them publicly on Reddit, that its system makes predictions as well, so we now know that what it claims to be […]
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It should be no surprise that “AI” started off being far more ethical, but it has since been corrupted. We know Google fired those who warned about its dangers. Here’s one more perspective via Mastodon, from Fabio Manganiello. (There was no embed code, so this is a copy and paste.) My background is in #AI […]
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