Google AI Mode shows the same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search [Data Study] | Productrisehttps://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products
wow how surprising ...
Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know somethinghttps://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/19/using-ai-makes-people-less-likely-to-admit-they-dont-know-something/5274567
""For humans, the capacity to say, 'I don't know,' is very important because it represents the recognition of the limits of our own knowledge," said Valerio Capraro, associate professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca"
"The title of their paper reveals their findings: "AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say 'I don’t know', even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized.""
We should all be Luddites | Brookingshttps://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
"Journalists must help people and policymakers understand technology. This means avoiding AI industry jargon that lets those in power control the narrative and avoid scrutiny."
"The Luddites understood that mechanization wasn’t just an economic shift; it was a political one."
"When human inquiry and creativity are offloaded to anthropomorphic AI bots, there is a risk of devaluing critical thinking while promoting cognitive offloading. If we turn the intellectual development of the next generation over to opaque, probabilistic engines trained on a slurry of scraped content, with little transparency and even less accountability, we are not enhancing education; we are commodifying it, corporatizing it, and replacing pedagogy with productivity."
How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/
AI Psychosis is scary, and this excellent investigation from the 404 team shows it really well ...
Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smartshttps://disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb-sell-em-smarts/
I am looking forward to when the bubble pops, even if I am using AI and feel bad about it
Meet the Sad Wives of AI - WIREDhttps://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline ❧ Open Path by Chad Whitacrehttps://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/
via https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/30/retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/#atom-everything
And to read further on his POV: https://openpath.quest/2026/spitting-out-the-agentic-kool-aid/ and the video version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCC76jmmzkc
And what a conclusion from the end of the video :
"If a hundred years from now there are two societies, one of the people who have taken the bargain, who have gone the cyborg route, and another of the people who Haven't taken the bargain, and gone the cyborg route, somebody today multiple people today, are ... laying the groundwork for that future on both sides. I don't not want to be someone who helps lay the groundwork for ... the remnant. I'm going to call it the remnant, a remnant of humanity that doesn't take the bargain."
We mourn our craft | Read the Tea Leaveshttps://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
Another blogpost on the impact of LLMs
Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendencyhttps://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/being-a-luddite-is-cool-and-all-but-have-you-seen-the-hilarious-tapestries-these-new-looms-are-making
"Am I worried about losing my job? Sure. It seems almost assured that eventually, my skilled craftsmanship and decades of experience will be replaced by a huge machine that churns out low-quality versions of what I used to painstakingly produce. Undoubtedly, this machine-slop will be cheaper to make, leading to the death of my craft and the loss of my knowledge, all so we can reflexively consume greater quantities of mass-produced garbage and keep the working class poor. I get why the Luddites are pissed, I really do."
Oh Hello Ana - Overthinking: AI wasn't the first to break my hearthttps://ohhelloana.blog/overthinking-ai/
"But even in those communities there's always the crafters: the people who care and will have you and teach you and support you.
That’s how I’ve been surviving since 2015. By trying to mingle and be where the crafters are. If given the choice wouldn’t you rather watch an Oscar nominated film instead of a fast-produced straight to streaming film? Wouldn’t you take a carefully ethically crafted wool jumper instead of a She-in polyester one?"
L’IAg n’est pas une fatalité : vous n’êtes pas seul·e - Vincent Joussehttps://vincent.jousse.org/blog/fr/tech/l-ia-n-est-pas-une-fatalite/
L'humain est oublié dans cette course à l'IAg et n'est pas une fatalité. J'utilise l'IAg donc je ne suis loin d'être parfait sur ce sujet
« Il est désormais interdit d’ouvrir ses fenêtres » : Reworld hallucine (encore) une infox - Nexthttps://next.ink/231686/il-est-desormais-interdit-douvrir-ses-fenetres-reworld-hallucine-encore-une-infox/
A l'aide ... Personnellement j'ai ajouté une liste de plus à uBlock Origin https://github.com/F1oron/reworld-media-block-list/blob/main/ublock.txt
AI uBlock Origin Blacklisthttps://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist
Just added this to my uBlock Origin configuration
Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Powerhttps://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power
I wish Palantir was still just something from Tolkien's universe and not some technofacist company
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inboxhttps://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/
it's reassuring ...
https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklisthttps://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. Forgot who shared this but I just added it to my uBlock Origin
Deezer démonétise 85 % des écoutes de morceaux générés par IAhttps://next.ink/222826/deezer-demonetise-85-des-ecoutes-de-morceaux-generes-par-ia-et-monetise-leur-detection/
Un jour je finirai par passer à Deezer, car j'avais content de mon expérience, et ce genre d'article me conforte. Pour l'instant, je suis encore chez Spotify avec tous ses aspects négatifs ...
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warnshttps://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/
Poor Microslop CEO