People hungry for purpose who lack an internal anchor will latch onto whichever group gives them belonging and a story that makes them feel important. Tribalism fills a void.
CULTURE
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Human drivers feel unsafe after using autonomous Waymo vehicles
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Been taking Waymos all week. Now in a Lyft. Sitting in the back of a human-driven car is both terrifying and nauseating. There’s no way we’re gonna be allowed to do this much longer.
→ View original post on X — @scobleizer, 2026-04-11 15:22 UTC
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Corporate Hypocrisy: Empty Ethical Pledges in Big Tech
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disingenuous declarations of pieties the company doesn’t actually live up to is the corporate brand.
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AI-Generated Photography Coffee Table Book Showcases Award-Winning Portraits
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> A close up, top down view of an open photography coffee table book. Beautiful full page portrait photos, one photo per page. A hand turns the pages gradually, we see many pages each with a full spread and a compelling award winning photo.
— fofr (@fofrAI) 11 avril 2026
(Seedance 2) pic.twitter.com/lvCi5luzbo> A close up, top down view of an open photography coffee table book. Beautiful full page portrait photos, one photo per page. A hand turns the pages gradually, we see many pages each with a full spread and a compelling award winning photo. (Seedance 2)
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Practitioners Express Caution About LLM Hype and Limited Utility
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👇 “I still maintain that LLMs are really dumb and of limited use. it’s my opinion as a practitioner and professional that the hype being peddled by the AI corporations and self promoters (from X grifters right up to academia) are ill-founded at best and and downright dangerous at worst. i am yet to see any significant support for LLMs from practitioners with responsibility. the deeper they go the stronger their caution gets.” fj (@fjzeit) i’ve been using it in-depth for 2.5 years. i discovered the same approach that Karpathy calls “LLM Wiki” over 18 months ago (as have many others). i’ve built a hardware simulator, two operating systems, an embedded systems harness, an ai coding harness, a coding IDE, two games, and a programming language. i still maintain that LLMs are really dumb and of limited use. it’s my opinion as a practitioner and professional that the hype being peddled by the AI corporations and self promoters (from X grifters right up to academia) are ill-founded at best and and downright dangerous at worst. i am yet to see any significant support for LLMs from practitioners with responsibility. the deeper they go the stronger their caution gets. i look forward to the day when the considered opinions of practitioners gets as much airtime as those with a vested interest in the technology. — https://nitter.net/fjzeit/status/2042814019405513141#m
→ View original post on X — @garymarcus, 2026-04-11 14:52 UTC
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Boycott ChatGPT to Remove Altman from OpenAI Leadership
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postscript: Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) Violence is not the answer. Boycott is the answer. This one’s easy. There is ample evidence that Altman is a dishonest person with inordinate power that we should not trust. But the way forward to is get the board to remove him, not to throw bombs at his house. Humanity must take the high road. The way to take the high road is to stop using his products, in protest of his implied openness to mass surveillance, his mass IP theft, and his company’s opposition to liability for their actions. When people stop using ChatGPT, Altman will have to go; it’s simple as that. Quite possibly the COO or CFO will step in, and we (and OpenAI itself) will all be better off. — https://nitter.net/GaryMarcus/status/2042973781304709251#m
→ View original post on X — @garymarcus, 2026-04-11 14:43 UTC
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Boycott ChatGPT, not violence against Sam Altman
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Violence is not the answer. Boycott is the answer. This one’s easy. There is ample evidence that Altman is a dishonest person with inordinate power that we should not trust. But the way forward to is get the board to remove him, not to throw bombs at his house. Humanity must take the high road. The way to take the high road is to stop using his products, in protest of his implied openness to mass surveillance, his mass IP theft, and his company’s opposition to liability for their actions. When people stop using ChatGPT, Altman will have to go; it’s simple as that. Quite possibly the COO or CFO will step in, and we (and OpenAI itself) will all be better off. Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) The guy who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail through Sam Altman’s window seems to have been an adherent to pause/stop AI. I am entirely unsurprised and have been warning about this for a long time now. I am fine with people advocating for their preferred policies—if that includes a “pause” on AI development, so be it, even if I disagree strongly. But the obvious reality is that the rhetoric of this community—which to be *extremely clear*, is a very small and non-representative subset of the AI safety community—is closer to ecoterrorism than it is to a more typical activist policy effort. Every time I have written about existential risk in recent months, I have been called a mass murderer. People with ⏹️ and ⏸️ in their handles confidently tell me that I am murdering my own baby boy and every other child on the planet. Another prominent one of these people has called me a traitor to America. I only use my own examples because I know them; this rhetoric is representative of how this fringe of the AI safety world communicates with everyone. The rhetoric of the pause/stop crowd is out of control and it has gotten worse with time. This rhetoric always had the potential to cause violence and now this seems to be no longer hypothetical. — https://nitter.net/deanwball/status/2042782724440612952#m
→ View original post on X — @garymarcus, 2026-04-11 14:31 UTC
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AI writing monotony shifts focus from logic to style
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A lot of our education on writing well focuses on logic, clarity, and argument. AI will force us to think more about style. The boredom that comes from everything on the internet reading Claude-y now, no matter how good the substance is, should make us appreciate variety more.
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American Mind Cannot Comprehend This Cultural Concept
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American mind cannot comprehend this. https://t.co/1Uqjxq9jxf
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 11 avril 2026American mind cannot comprehend this.