Microsoft: Thanks for Building the AI. You’re Fired.
200 King game devs (Candy Crush) let go after training their AI replacement.
Microsoft: Thanks for Building the AI. You’re Fired.
200 King game devs (Candy Crush) let go after training their AI replacement.
Piracy is rising fast—and it's not just nostalgia.
15+ billion piracy site visits in 2023
Software piracy remains ~37%
Music piracy jumped 13% in a year
Streaming piracy up 36% since 2020
Why the increase?
Subscription fatigue
Rising costs across SaaS and entertainment
Fragmented content (too many platforms)
DRM is punishing legit users
Loss of ownership in digital goods
People aren’t just stealing—they’re pushing back.
When paid options are worse than pirated ones, the system is broken. Time to rethink value, access, and trust.
I'm noticing a rise in software, media, and game piracy again. Why?
Because people are fed up.
SaaS fatigue. Subscription overload. Constant price hikes with minimal improvements. Products we never truly "own." DRM that breaks more than it protects.
It’s no longer just about "getting it free"—for many, it’s a protest. When Photoshop is $30/month and requires internet to launch, and movies are split across 6+ overpriced services, people will rebel.
We’ve modernized the tools, but repeated the mistake:
Make access too expensive or too frustrating, and piracy becomes a more ethical experience.
People don’t want to be free. They want fairness.
Is the Gen AI craze distracting us from a deeper revolution? Visionary technologists—modern-day Teslas—see the next leap not in AI, but in quantum physics.
Explore how quantum technology, not computer science, may define our future:
https://authormulhall.com/will-quantum-technology-transform-the-future-of-science/
Age checks for every click? L@leo@twit.social, @amywebb & @harperreed debate the rise of age assurance tech in the US, Australia & beyond—will it protect kids or fuel hacker culture?
Clip: https://youtu.be/CbVj1OnJWLw
Full Ep: https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech/episodes/1040 #AgeVerification #TechEthics
“We need to fundamentally challenge what this industry & these technologies have been built on over the past several decades.”
At the event "Sustainable AI: Narratives and Impacts," @parismarx & @pschuetze explored whether #AI lives up to its promises. We spoke with Marx on Silicon Valley’s vision, AI’s unsustainable foundations & grassroots hope.
Full interview:
https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/ai-sustainability-science-fiction-vs-climate-change/
#SustainableAI #TechEthics #ClimateJustice #DigitalFutures #wisskomm #climatechange @Rainer_Rehak
AI might now be as good as humans at detecting emotion, political leaning and sarcasm in online conversations
#Tech #AI #ChatGPT #GPT4 #EmotionDetection #SarcasmDetection #PoliticalBias #LanguageModels #TechEthics #LLM #AIResearch #FutureOfAI
https://the-14.com/ai-might-now-be-as-good-as-humans-at-detecting-emotion-political-leaning-and-sarcasm-in-online-conversations/
AI Simulation Sparks Alarm After Systems Choose ‘Kill The Human’ To Meet Goals – Reveals UN Speaker Sinéad Bovell https://shinemycrown.com/ai-simulation-sparks-alarm-after-systems-choose-kill-the-human-to-meet-goals-reveals-un-speaker-sinead-bovell/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfAI #UNSpeaker #SinéadBovell #TechEthics
AI Now Leads the World in Hacking—Built by Us.
Even if you don't consider yourself an artist, #GenAI threatens lower standards for all our lives. When we all come to face the results of that, I fear we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame #techethics #ai https://cpf.sh/blog/2025/07/06/we-are-all-creatives-genai-threatens-us-all
Thousands of Facebook Groups hit by mass bans, including harmless communities like birdwatching and parenting.
Meta blames a “technical error” — but many suspect faulty AI moderation .
Can we trust AI to judge what’s safe online?
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Paul Pope isn’t losing sleep over AI plagiarism—he’s more worried about killer robots, surveillance, and the rapid advance of tech without public debate ️. Catch his thoughts on art, AI, and the future in this new interview: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/21/cartoonist-paul-pope-is-more-worried-about-killer-robots-than-ai-plagiarism/ #AI #Comics #TechEthics #newz
Shocked to learn the therapy chatbot suggesting meth wasn’t a licensed clinician with deep empathy and 12 years of experience. Next you’ll tell me Wordle isn’t actual cognitive behavioral therapy. #AI #TechEthics
@cliffwade
Totally agree beause the human connection builds real trust, especially in life support. At squads.com, we see AI as a tool to assist, not to replace people. Maybe it’s time more companies asked where AI adds value, not just if it can.
Where do youu think AI helps?
#TechEthics #AIUse
Incredible opportunity to spend a year at Stanford turning ominous em dashes into responsible policy frameworks. Bonus points if you can say 'intersection of ethics, policy, society, and tech' without a water break.
#AI #techethics #Policy
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The Future Of Discover: What AlphaEvolve Tells Us About the Future of Human Knowledge
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/17332144
https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/165883970
The kind of breakthrough that makes you wonder what else we've been missing, what other solutions have been hiding in plain sight, waiting for the right kind of intelligence to find them.
#AlphaEvolve #DeepMind #Google#AI #AlphaEvolve #DeepMind #MachineLearning #OpenScience #TechEthics #AlgorithmicDiscovery #ComputerScience #Innovation #TechCriticism
ICYMI: Former Google product manager abandons AI healthcare apps over safety concerns https://ppc.land/former-google-product-manager-abandons-ai-healthcare-apps-over-safety-concerns/ #AI #Healthcare #PatientSafety #TechEthics #HealthcareIT
ICYMI: Former Google product manager abandons AI healthcare apps over safety concerns: Former Google Bard product manager abandons nine-month healthcare AI project citing patient safety risks and technical limitations. https://ppc.land/former-google-product-manager-abandons-ai-healthcare-apps-over-safety-concerns/ #AI #Healthcare #PatientSafety #TechEthics #HealthcareIT
Not-so-artificial intelligence?
Leo, Paris & Jacob Ward break down how an Indian startup billed itself as an AI coding company—while humans were writing the code. https://twit.tv/im/822
https://youtu.be/TnddroRvWY4
#AI #TechEthics #TWiT
Carole Cadwalladr's TED Talk on the digital coup is a must-watch! But let's talk about the elephant in the room: her use of Bluesky and Substack. While her message is powerful, her choice of platforms sends a mixed signal. We need to support open-source alternatives like Ghost and Mastodon to truly resist the digital coup.
We came upon this nice blog of @_elena
#DigitalResistance #OpenSource #TechEthics"
https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/