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noted internet blowhard John Gruber complains that the stochastic parrot output is now less stochastic, because EU

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

hard to tell if he's madder that EU is trying to enforce a minimum of accountability for slop usage, or Anthropic for bowing the knee to Brussel mandarins

oh well there's always Grok

pretty sure David is on some very cursed mailing lists

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If the Markets Reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US Should Nationalize Them

user has previously decried bans against genAI assisted writing by stating that every neuro-atypical person writes like that so it would discrimination to ban

https://lobste.rs/c/nadrad

Comments are utterly mired in jargon

Humanity should count as actual AGI, but it remains slow.

It's a weird middle ground, where it is fooming but pretty slowly. (I mean, as a human, I would think that, i.e. I would experience time on a scale that's somewhat faster than humanity's foom.)

I don't think the term "FOOM" as ever been explicitely defined, it's just verbal tic/shorthand for "intelligence explosion". How can something explode slowly???

also nice save defining "AGI == humanity" => goal reached

glad to hear there's still a career as a rent-a-cop once software eats my job

wait so this is a separate "AI hacked and escaped" than the ones already hyped by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta???

"monument to the first 500" or something, really fun concept

I kinda like the Revelation Space universe, but I am literally stuck at 85% on book 4 or 5

Good luck with your novel!

nominative determinism strikes again

it gets better. Godier (the guy who misled Gruber) admits to using genAI to create a website that just to happened to almost exactly duplicate an existing website:

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

no mention of the submission of an astrology app to the App store and getting rejected

Noted Apple blowhard John Gruber makes a mistake, is naturally a performative dick about apologizing for it

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week

(nothing to do with AI or crypto, I just think Gruber is a dick. And the subject of the story - an app developer who apparently felt so secure in his indie rep he could do some light fraud for clicks - is a recognizable figure)