Pay for input, and/or pay for output
While @Car shares that per Cloudflare's Content Independence Day Monetizing AI we should all adopt paywalls on our posts and @Scoresby shared that To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model, stackers developed a theory of their own, also lead by @Scoresby with Pay to post fixes AI slop. This will please @unschooled, per cleaning up the ai slop, as such noise reduction will allow for a stronger signal of spectacular writing and novel ideas. Those made by humans, not Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend, shared by @0xbitcoiner. Also, @Scoresby informed us that YouTube posts policy update to deal with AI slop - and comments are all slop, but since you don't have to pay for YouTube comments, this outcome is logical.
Are we doomed?
@stack_harder asked How might super AI extinct us? and most stackers seem to turn this in a Matrix-like scenario where all humans get pacified by Skynet - with sex robots nonetheless (!) - except none of these stackers seem to remember that this was the initial design of the Matrix, but it failed due to human rejection. But, @chovyfu shares that we're speeding toward Skynet, so we will find out soon! Also don't forget that you're doomed without skynet too, because If There’s an SOP You’re SOL, shared by both @optimism and @cointastical.
We learned that Artificial Intelligence Breeds Mindless Inhumanity, shared by @optimism, confirmed by The world's dumbest ChatGPT user, shared by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears. But, no despair (or: despair!): A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem, @Coinsreporter reports.
Ultimately, there's still hope, as Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship, shared by @jakoyoh629
Stackers using AI?
@gmd asked How do you use AI ? but alarmingly little stackers responded to this. This is probably another instance of penalization for disobeying that one shall only ask SN questions in @Aardvark's territory, not because stackers are shy.
On the off-chance that you're not using AI, perhaps reading @Rothbardian_fanatic's share What the Modern Luddites Miss: Technology Makes Us Wealthier may help you putting it into perspective. If that doesn't convince you, play @Scoresby's Turing test with social deception game to at least have a fun time while we all await what Skynet decides that our future will turn into.
Last but not least, no matter if you're a doomer, riding the AI waves like a pro or just haven't made up your mind yet, perhaps it's an idea to learn How to Stop Google’s Gemini AI from Accessing Your Apps, thanks @0xbitcoiner!
More about human-AI interaction:
- How peer review became so easy to exploit by AI by @BlokchainB
- Death by a Thousand Slops | cURL and libcurl by @0xbitcoiner
- Writing for LLMs So They Listen - Gwern by @Scoresby
- Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the Atari 2600 by @0xbitcoiner
- I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer by @hn
More opinion pieces:
- Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 - antirez by @carter
- LLM Daydreaming by @k00b
- Reflections on OpenAI by @carter
- More Artificial than Intelligent it is only getting worse - Mathjis Lagerberg by @Scoresby
- Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI by @hn
- Nobody knows how to build with AI yet by @hn
- LLM Inevitabilism by @hn
- My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs by @hn
New models
Implementation news
- Ecash & LN Paid AI by @OT
- California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
- HumeAI Voice Cloning by @OT
- AI Mood Interiors: Personalised Spaces for Mental Health by @chovyfu
- LiveBench - A Challenging Contamination-Free LLM Benchmark by @supratic
- Kaya Brings AI to Construction Supply Chains Procurement by @BlokchainB
- Data Mining Takes Off: Delta Rolls Out AI-Based Personalized Airfare Pricing by @0xbitcoiner
- AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars by @0xbitcoiner
Research
- Context Rot: How Increasing Input Tokens Impacts LLM Performance by @Scoresby
- There is Only One Model: All AI Models Might Be The Same by @k00b
- AI Unicorns VC Funding & Are Americans Worrying About the Wrong Jobs? by @0xbitcoiner
- Which Jobs Are Safest from AI? by @0xbitcoiner
- How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper by @jakoyoh629
- Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still by @south_korea_ln
- How large are large language models? by @carter
- Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs by @carter
- Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety by @carter
- AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why by @hn
Government and compliance
- XAI: Explainable Artificial Intelligence by @carter
- Any Lawyer Unaware That GenAI Is Playing with Fire Is Living in a Cloud (Volokh) by @optimism
- Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War shaped by drones and AI? by @Coinsreporter
- Malaysia says trade permit required for AI chips of U.S. origin by @ch0k1
Almost forgot. If you were interested in the Big Tech AI news, here you go:
- Capex spend on AI data centres has reached 1.2% of US GDP by @Scoresby
- Detailed list of Meta's Superintelligence team by @zuspotirko, #1046010 by @carter
- hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars by @carter
- Introducing ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action by @carter
- Westinghouse Google Cloud team up to apply AI in nuclear energy by @BlokchainB
- OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry 'reckless' safety culture at Musk's xAI by @0xbitcoiner
- ChatGPT down??? by @Car
- Google hides secret message in name list of 3295 AI researchers by @0xbitcoiner
- The Pentagon's about to start using xAI's Grok and other agencies could be next by @carter, #1039206 by @ch0k1
- Claude for Financial Services by @carter
- GPT-5 is coming "we'll see" if it creates a shockwave by @0xbitcoiner
- Meta won't sign Europe AI agreement calling it overreach that will stunt growth by @ch0k1
- OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 by @carter
- Trump Admin. eyes $90 billion in private invest in PA energy, AI projects by @BlokchainB
- Nvidia's Huang hails Chinese AI models as 'world class' by @ch0k1
- Nvidia to resume H20 GPU chip sales to China launches compliant model by @ch0k1
- ChatGPT CEO makes dark admission over what happens when you search using AI by @ch0k1
