After a century of putting genetics on a pedestal, the geneticists have some surprising news for us: The vast majority of chronic disease isn’t caused by our genes. “The Human Genome Project was a $3 billion investment, and what did we find out?” says Thomas Hartung, a toxicologist at Johns Hopkins. “Five percent of all…

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next Source: The Authoritarian Stack

The issue is that the mural, which is prominently displayed above the Côte Brasserie restaurant on Kingston upon Thames’ Riverside Walk, a popular stretch lined with local businesses, appears to have been hastily generated by an AI, resulting in horridly disfigured people, animals — and even a snowman. Source: Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated…

human-created content is getting almost entirely drowned out by AI-generated content because of the sheer amount of it. On top of the quantity of AI slop, because AI-generated content can be easily tailored to whatever is performing on a platform at any given moment, there is a near total collapse of the information ecosystem and…

Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. On social media, which is increasingly clogged with low-quality AI-generated posts, this content is often referred to as “AI slop.” In the context of work, we refer to this phenomenon as “workslop.” We define workslop…

Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprisingresult in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return. The outcomes are so starklydivided across both buyers (enterprises, mid-market, SMBs) and builders (startups, vendors,consultancies) that we call it the GenAI Divide. Just 5% of integrated AI pilots are extractingmillions in value, while…

  The plan to replace government workers with AI, the general erosion of truth on social media, the rise of AI slop that “feels” true because it reinforces a particular political narrative but is not true, the fact that teachers feel like they are forced to allow their students to use AI. Justin, from librarypunk,…

It’s not just that pillars of democracy are threatened in Texas, and they are: liberties are being stolen, institutions kneecapped, everywhere norms of decency are eroding like the Hill Country soil. It’s that reality itself is under siege. The bedrock tools we use to know the world are being undermined and discredited. In their place,…

arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science review articles and position papers. Why? A tide of AI slop has flooded the computer science category with low-effort papers that are “little more than annotated bibliographies, with no substantial discussion…

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