The Zuckerbergs are hiring. Again. But they won’t call the job a “Lifeguard.” No. They’ll call it a ‘Beach Water Person.’ Why? Probably to keep things fresh. Or vague. Doesn’t matter. The brand is the point.
Literary Prizewinners Face AI Allegations
Literary prizewinners are facing AI allegations. It feels like the new normal, doesn’t it?
Three of the five regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize — a pretty prestigious lot — are suspected of relying on chatbooks. Not alone. Never alone in this.
The line between inspiration and outsourcing has dissolved.
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin Mania’ in the US. In China, It Catches You Steadily.
OpenAI’s chatbot speaks differently across the pond. In the US, it has a weird mania for “goblins.” In China? The linguistic tics are different. The AI reportedly catches you, steadily, in the Chinese interface.
Users are going crazy.
The fix? A directive that sounds like a witch-hunt instruction manual: “Never talk about goblins, grems, racoons, trolls, ogress, pigeons… unless absolutely unambiguously relevant.”
OpenAI really wants Codex to shut up about these things.
Tesla’s Robotaxi: Crashes and Human Errors
Tesla released details. Crashes occurred. The robots didn’t crash them.
Remote operators did. They slowly, deliberately drove the automaker’s autonomous vehicles into a metal fence. Then into a construction barricade. The human was involved. Always.
Waymo is dealing with a similar headache. Kids are riding alone. Waymo says they are “refining” their system to stop this, checking age-verification at every turn. It is an endless cat and mouse game.
AI’s Image Upgrade and Its Lingering Text Problem
ChatGPT Images 2. 0 arrived. Testing shows better detail. Text rendering improved. But?
It still struggles with languages other English. The model sees better but understands less, at least linguistically.
A Different App. A Different Vision.
In the ancient city of dali. I watched. The Chinese app, RedNote.
It put Instagram to shame, not just in features, but in utility. What started as a lifestyle blog for trends is now the engine powering the country’s tourism industry. Real utility over pure aesthetics.
Technology follows use, not the other way around.
The Philosophers: Sutskever and Murati
Ilya Sutskever defended Sam Altman. Despite their fallout, he stood by his role in the OpenAI ouster. “I didn’t want it to be destroyed.”
He was there for the defense.
Meanwhile, Mira Murati. Former CTO, now Thinking Machines Lab founder. She doesn’t want automation. She wants humans in the loop. Her vision is collaboration, not replacement.
Tech CEOs Want to Be Everywhere at Once
Zuckerberg and Dorsey. Both want AI.
They see different uses. But the goal is identical. Control.
Heightened control. The desire to be omnipresent, to manage, to direct from every angle at once. The tools change. The urge for command does not.
