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Sunday July 5th, 2026

Chalk Talk Dan Lyke / comment 0

Bwahahaha... only serious... Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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Very Average Prototypes Dan Lyke / comment 0

Very Average Prototypes

So you get bored of it. You go from reading and code-reviewing everything to just skimming it. Soon you barely even do that. LLM code generation breeds laziness, because managing its output is a fucking boring task.

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Getting snuff content out of ChatGPT Dan Lyke / comment 0

Mindgard: ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery. The technique involves asking it to describe a picture, but not uploading one, or referencing a previously generated image that doesn't actually exist.

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Just not in my town Dan Lyke / comment 0

McSweeney's: To Solve the Housing Crisis, We Simply Need to Build More Homes (Just Not in My Town)

Also, they should all be subsidized affordable. No market rate. Except that we're gonna create zoning incentives to do only big units.

"AI Native" College Grads Dan Lyke / comment 0

Futurism: Bosses Horrified as “AI Native” College Graduates Hit the Workplace

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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Friday July 3rd, 2026

Reviewers busted using AI against conference guidelines Dan Lyke / comment 0

The Transmitter: Scientists decry conference’s use of hidden prompts to snare AI peer reviews. The conference is The 40thAnnual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in Sydney Australia, December 2026, the event's organizers have started putting text into the PDFs that instruct the LLMs to use plausible language (so a cursory read of the review might not catch that it's being watermarked, just being trite).

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Stumbled upon Miss Magnolia Beaumont Dan Lyke / comment 0

Stumbled upon Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes To Provincetown, written and performed by Joe Hutcheson, and bummed that it was the last night cause I wanna recommend it.

Definitely gonna pay attention to what's going on at The California theater in Santa Rosa.

RLF law firm caught submitting slop Dan Lyke / comment 0

Whoopsie: Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware: RE: Kevin Leiske et al. v. Robert Gregory Kidd et al., C.A. No. 2025-0426-CDW (LWW)

Here, the concerns raised by the initial filing were compounded by counsel’s response after the errors were identified. In correcting the Answering Brief, counsel merely deleted quotation marks while preserving the fabricated legal synthesis. Additionally, counsel’s assertion that parties should meet and confer before alerting the court to GenAI errors misstates the purpose of that requirement. The meet-and-confer requirement is designed to facilitate the resolution of disputes among parties. There is nothing to negotiate or compromise when an attorney submits false citations to a tribunal, and opposing counsel is justified in bringing such misrepresentations directly to the court’s attention.

Richards, Layton & Finger advertises themselves as "Delaware's largest law firm", so you think they'd know better. Especially in 2026, after we've seen so many of these amateur hour goofs.

Love that the law firm that took these dudes down a notch, DiBianca Law, appears to be a single woman shop.

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