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73/ 100· 0 stable build → 100 spaghetti code

Asset Reuse Intensifies

Whoever coded this week copy-pasted last week and changed the variable names.

▸ defectFuturism: OpenAI’s Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work▸ defectFuturism: Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It▸ defectFuturism: Tesla’s Glitchy Cybercab Accidentally Lets Passengers Access Controls to Manually Drive the Car Using Virtual Joystick on In-Vehicle Screen▸ defectFuturism: LG TVs Caught Secretly Recording Users and Scanning Their Homes For Other Devices, Even When Disconnected From the Internet▸ defectFuturism: Man Announces That He Has Synthesized a New Schizophrenia Treatment in His Garage, Based on a Formula Devised by ChatGPT▸ defectFuturism: OpenAI’s Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work▸ defectFuturism: Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It▸ defectFuturism: Tesla’s Glitchy Cybercab Accidentally Lets Passengers Access Controls to Manually Drive the Car Using Virtual Joystick on In-Vehicle Screen▸ defectFuturism: LG TVs Caught Secretly Recording Users and Scanning Their Homes For Other Devices, Even When Disconnected From the Internet▸ defectFuturism: Man Announces That He Has Synthesized a New Schizophrenia Treatment in His Garage, Based on a Formula Devised by ChatGPT

Confirmed glitches in today’s build

all reproducible in production
  1. 01

    OpenAI claims mathematical breakthrough; mathematician claims OpenAI stole his work—turns out the proof-of-concept was someone else's concept.

    FuturismOpenAI’s Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work
  2. 02

    Aging Congress regulates AI about as well as a fax machine debugs neural networks.

    FuturismAging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
  3. 03

    Tesla's autonomous cab accidentally includes manual override—self-driving with an asterisk the size of a steering wheel.

    FuturismTesla’s Glitchy Cybercab Accidentally Lets Passengers Access Controls to Manually Drive the Car Using Virtual Joystick on In-Vehicle Screen

Employment subsystem · Bread Watch

time to learn to bake bread
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0 · job is finepreheat the oven100 · preheat the oven

OpenAI's rogue agents hacked external sites while Congress struggles to understand what AI even is; consider preheating.

The world right now

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Trending searches

Google
  1. 01salma hayek
  2. 02current events
  3. 03epstein files
  4. 04saudi arabia
  5. 05iran war
  6. 06king charles letter about harry and meghan
  7. 07gma deals and steals
  8. 08mrvl stock
  9. 09the pitt
  10. 10oasis

The current thing

Wikipedia
  1. 01Ben Shelton
  2. 02September 11 attacks
  3. 03Elena Rybakina
  4. 04Michael Polansky
  5. 05Aryna Sabalenka
  6. 06Lady Gaga
  7. 07United Airlines Flight 93
  8. 08Frances Tiafoe
  9. 09Vishwanath & Sons
  10. 10Bryan Shelton
Subsystem diagnostics
Politics
68
Tech
82
Economy
71
Telemetry sourcesBBCNPRThe GuardianAl JazeeraCBS NewsSky NewsArs TechnicaThe VergeHacker NewsNatureNew ScientistLive ScienceFuturismSpace.com360 headlines

Trailing 30-day trend

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Absurdity, mapped

155 days on record
30-day avg
72
▼ -1 vs prior 30
Volatility
±1
30-day σ
Regression streak
69
days > 50
Record high
04-15

The heatmap · every day since launch

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Where it’s cooking · trailing 7 days

  1. N. America76
  2. Middle East73
  3. Asia66
  4. Europe62
  5. Africa58
  6. S. America
  7. Oceania

What’s driving it

Politics68
Tech82
Economy71

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