As an American citizen, the last thing I want is government using AI for mass surveillance of Americans.
→ View original post on X — @mer__edith, 2026-02-24 20:17 UTC
ETHICS
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Critique of AI-generated ad copy targeting
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You prompt Claude with "write ad copy for my target audience." Based on what? Recycled marketing blogs. Vibes. Zero real humans consulted. And "synthetic personas" are worse. You're paying for AI to pretend to be your customers. Studies show they miss emotion, intuition, and
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AI had soul two years ago but was in infancy
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AI had soul already 2 years ago, but it was infancy
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Viral AI Pessimistic Articles, Fundamental Error, DoorDash Advantages
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2-24-2026 ($) •Another Viral AI Doomer Article •The Fundamental Error •DoorDash's AI Advantages https://stratechery.com/2026/another-viral-ai-doomer-article-the-fundamental-error-doordashs-ai-advantages/ [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @benthompson, 2026-02-24 11:15 UTC
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AI mimics devs but lacks real expertise
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When you say "act as a senior developer" the model doesn't think like one. It writes like one. Big difference. It pattern-matches to how developers sound in training data. Not how they actually solve problems. You get confident-sounding output. Not expert-level thinking.
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Historical Technology Resistance: Candles to AI
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En 1880, les fabricants de chandelles voulaient interdire les ampoules électriques
— Docteur Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre) 24 février 2026
En 1922, la presse américaine a tenté de bloquer la Radio
En 2026, les acteurs veulent interdire l’IA
C’est touchant de naïveté https://t.co/gibrLdPDgOEn 1880, les fabricants de chandelles voulaient interdire les ampoules électriques En 1922, la presse américaine a tenté de bloquer la Radio En 2026, les acteurs veulent interdire l’IA C’est touchant de naïveté
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Enforcing Human Impersonation Laws to Prevent AI Misuse
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In the short term, harm done by impersonating humans is unlikely to be catastrophic, though perhaps large. The reason to enforce that law for real, and with international pursuit of transgressors, would be to increase our collective ability to say "No" to an AI misuse.
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Proactive AI regulation before catastrophic harm occurs
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You don't want to wait until there's an artificial pandemic tearing through civilian populations, in order to figure out how to ban AI uses and assess your ability to hunt down violators. You want to start early, and before the thing you ban is fatal.
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Anthropic accuses rivals of AI data theft
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BREAKING: Anthropic just caught DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax running industrial-scale theft on Claude. 24,000 fake accounts. 16 million exchanges. Systematic capability extraction to train their own models. This isn't distillation. This is espionage with an API key.