AI Hell in a Handbasket, 2025.04.14

It's been 4 months since we've cleared the backlog of Fresh AI Hell and the bullshit is coming in almost too fast to keep up with. But between a page full of awkward unicorns and a seeming slowdown in data center demand, Alex and Emily have more good news than usual to accompany this round of catharsis.

AI Hell:

LLM processing like human language processing (not)

Jack Clark predicting AGI

Sebastian Bubeck says predictions in "sparks" paper have already come true

WIRED puff piece on the Amodeis

Foundation agents & leaning in to the computational metaphor (Fig 1, p14)

Chaser: Trying to recreate the GPT unicorn

The WSJ has an AI bot for all your tax questions

ChatGPT libel

AOL.com uses autogenerated captions about attempted murder

AI coding tools fix bugs by adding bugs

"We teach AGI to think, so you don't have to"

• (from: Turing.com)

MAGA/DOGE paints teachers as glorified babysitters in push for AI

Chaser: How we are NOT using AI in the classroom

AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash — but regulators keep using them

DOGE is pushing AI tool created as "sandbox" for federal testing

"Psychological profiling" based on social media

The tariffs and ChatGPT

"I was not informed that Microsoft would sell my work to the Israeli military and government"

• Microsoft fires engineers who protested Israeli military use of its tools

Pulling back on data centers, Microsoft edition

Abandoned data centers, China edition

Bill Gates: 2 day workweek coming thanks to AI...replacing doctors and teachers??

Chaser: Tesla glue fail schadenfreude

Chaser: Let's talk about the genie trope

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