General AI Crap

HAL 9000 said:
This story is actually insane:

• dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic
• refuses to use the normal app like a peasant
• Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller
• Claude delivers the goods
• pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully• except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums
• checks again• yep, seven thousand
• DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification
• any valid token works for any unit on the planet
• Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries• live vacuum camera feeds everywhere
• full floor plans from the mapping data
• some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching
• one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history
• all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick
• does the right thing and reports it
• DJI fixes it in two days
• back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner
• IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

https://twitter.com/x/status/2026078762862006747
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DJI probably vibe coded their software.
 
Going by what they post most of the users on Mybb are just vibe coded bots..
 
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Goldman Sachs’ Chief Economist Jan Hatzius said that despite the massive AI investments by U.S. tech companies in 2025, AI contributed “basically zero” to U.S. economic growth that year. Much of the spending went toward imported chips and hardware, which counts toward foreign GDP rather than U.S. GDP.

Hatzius emphasized that there is currently no reliable way to measure how AI adoption affects productivity, and many businesses report little to no impact on output or employment so far.

As reported by Gizmodo, Goldman analysts argue that the popular narrative of AI driving rapid GDP growth is overstated. While companies are pouring billions into AI infrastructure, these investments haven’t yet translated into measurable domestic economic gains, partly due to the high reliance on imports and the early stage of AI’s productivity effects.

Longer-term, Goldman suggests AI may eventually boost productivity, but its near-term effect on official U.S. GDP remains negligible.

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‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets - The Guardian​

Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack
US stock markets have been hit by a further wave of AI jitters, this time from yet another viral – and completely speculative – warning about the impact of the technology on the world’s largest economy.
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‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

Shares in Uber, Mastercard and American Express fall on back of apocalypse scenario posted on Substack
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Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI - Fururism​

"The overarching culture at Block is crumbling."

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block.

Earlier this month, the company started laying off its staff as part of what Bloomberg characterized as an “efficiency push,” potentially affecting up to ten percent of the company’s workforce.

It’s been a painful, drawn-out process that could drag on for weeks, sources told Wired, triggering major anxiety over job security.

“We don’t yet know if our livelihoods will be affected, and this makes it incredibly hard to make major life choices without knowing if we still have a job next week,” an employee said during a recent all-hands meeting, as quoted by Wired.

“Morale is probably the worst I’ve felt in four years,” another employee wrote. “The overarching culture at Block is crumbling.”

The comments highlight persistent concerns being felt by many workers as generative AI continues to be cited by executives as they cut headcounts.

For Dorsey, AI has clearly been top of mind. Block staffers are now obligated to use AI, an order that has led to frustration.

“Top-down mandates to use large language models are crazy,” one employee told Wired. “If the tool were good, we’d all just use it.”

They’re also required to send weekly update emails to him, echoing Elon Musk’s DOGE requirement for federal staffers to summarize five weekly achievements in emails. (The requirement was mostly ignored, months before DOGE largely crumbled.)

Dorsey then reportedly uses generative AI to summarize his staffers’ emails. During the all-hands meeting, he noted that “performance anxiety” and “widespread concerns about layoffs” were clearly vexing staff.

Dorsey seemingly did little to address these anxieties, accusing fired staffers of “phoning it in.” Block’s engineering lead, Arnaud Weber, also said that the firings were performance-related.

The company’s woes are symptomatic of a familiar story playing out at many other tech companies. Workers are facing immense pressure as their employers implement AI at all costs, forcing them to adopt the tech whether they like it or not.

Researchers have found that the tech isn’t reducing workloads at all, but intensifying them instead, a concerning trend that’s already leading to “AI burnout.”

The psychological effects also have experts worried. Researchers recently found that the continuing threat of being made redundant due to AI automation is manifesting in symptoms among workers including anxiety, insomnia, paranoia, and loss of identity.
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Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block.
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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash - Windows Latest​

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Microsoft’s aggressive AI push in Windows 11 through 2025 brought upon themselves the title Microslop. Unfortunately for the company, it’s everywhere on social media, and there isn’t a way to stop the spread, unless, of course, it’s their own Discord server.

Windows Latest was first to notice that the word “Microslop” was actively filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server. Any message containing the term is automatically blocked, and users see a moderation notice stating that the message includes a phrase considered inappropriate by server rules.

However, things fell apart when users noticed the filter and began testing it with variations of the word Microslop, along with other unflattering words, eventually forcing the moderators to lock the server, leaving all users in the dust, and not just the offenders.

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Copilot Community channel doesn’t allow messages to be shown, including the history

Microsoft blocks “Microslop” in official Copilot Discord, users quickly find workarounds​

The extreme backlash that Microsoft has to endure every day on social media is nothing short of extraordinary. Surely the company is responsible for this fallout, as they prioritized AI more than the stability of the OS that it needs to run on.

User frustration quickly spilled into comment sections, memes, and community spaces tied to Microsoft’s AI push. Copilot, being the most visible face of that effort, has naturally become the scapegoat. So when a nickname like “Microslop” starts trending across socials, it was only a matter of time before it reached official channels as well.

Windows Latest found that sending a message with the word “Microslop” inside the official Copilot Discord server immediately triggers an automated moderation response. The message does not appear publicly in the channel, and instead, only the sender sees the notice stating that the content is blocked by the server because it contains a phrase deemed inappropriate.

From what we can tell, this is a server-side keyword filter. It is not unusual for brand-run Discord servers, especially those meant for product feedback, support, and feature discussions. Such servers are not fans of meme-driven commentary, especially if it deprecates the brand.

Of course, the internet rarely leaves things there. Shortly after Windows Latest posted about Copilot Discord server blocking Microslop on X, users began experimenting in the server with variations such as “Microsl0p” using a zero instead of the letter “o.”
Predictably, those versions slipped past the filter. Keyword moderation has always been something of a cat-and-mouse game, and this isn’t any different.

To be fair, it’s not rare for companies to moderate brand-specific insults or viral memes within their official communities to maintain a certain tone. The Copilot Discord is a space for announcements, user stories, and support discussions. From that perspective, blocking a derogatory nickname is understandable.
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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push
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The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next​

"If the use of AI chatbots does indeed cause cognitive debt, we are likely in dire straights."

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When the Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard published his ominous warning about AI’s effects on mental health back in 2023, the tech giants fervently building AI chatbots didn’t listen.

Since that time, numerous people have lost their lives after being drawn into suicide or killed by lethal drugs after obsessive interactions with AI chatbots. More still have fallen down dangerous mental health rabbit holes brought on by intense fixations on AI models like ChatGPT.

Now, Østergaard is out with a new warning: that the world’s intellectual heavyweights are accruing a “cognitive debt” when they use AI.

In a new letter to the editor published in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica and flagged by PsyPost, Østergaard asserts that AI is eroding the writing and research abilities of scientists who use it.

“Although some people are naturally gifted, scientific reasoning (and reasoning in general) is not an inborn ability, but is learned through upbringing, education and by practicing,” Østergaard explained.

Though AI’s ability to automate a wide variety of scholarly tasks is “fascinating indeed,” it’s not without “negative consequences for the user,” the scientist explains.
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futurism.com

The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What's Going to Happen Next

Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard has a grim warning about the "cognitive debt" accrued by scholars who use AI.
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Microsoft has said that the temporary filtering of the word “Microslop” on its Copilot Discord server was not an act of censorship, but part of efforts to combat a surge of spam.

The company says the community had recently been targeted by coordinated waves of disruptive posts, including walls of unrelated and harmful content.

The controversy began when users noticed that the term “Microslop” had been automatically blocked, prompting accusations that Microsoft was silencing criticism. Shortly afterward, the Copilot Discord server was locked down entirely, fueling further backlash.

Microsoft now says the keyword filter was a temporary anti-spam measure and that the lockdown was implemented to strengthen protections and restore order to the channel.
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Link to FB post here.
 
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