Interesting Links for 28-06-2026

[andrewducker]

1. Quora and mass AI poisoning: An organized crime AI spam ring

(tags:crime ai spam )

2. The AI apocalypse is making life harder for smaller websites

(tags:web OhForFucksSake )

3. AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice. Users became more convinced they were right and less empathetic

(tags:ai advice doom )

4. Amazing acoustics

(tags:singing sound video )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

I have been meaning to ask you your views on AI. I would bet my pension that the article on the Tavistock a few days ago is written by AI, but for some reason I couldn’t get my comment on this to upload. Is it the kind of thing that bothers you?

[andrewducker]

I am more bothered by whether something is accurate.

But in general I find the effect of getting AI to rewrite everything so that it sounds like everything else annoying. But not so annoying that if it contains useful information that's been checked by someone that I would just write it off.

[mountainkiss]

That’s probably mostly how I feel, though I’d add that I require more convincing I’d the accuracy of the content as soon as I realise that something is AI-written. (To be clear, I use AI a lot, just not to do my own writing.)

[andrewducker]

Oh yes. After all if a person wrote it then they have at least seen the facts and figures in it, whereas with an AI written piece they might not have.

Edit: Generally, if people have a series of bullet points they want to turn into an essay, but lack the time/energy/inclination for expanding them themselves then I'd rather they just shared the bullet points.

[mountainkiss]

Inter alia easier to read!

[bens_dad]

Firefox offered* to summarise links for me, so we have reached the point of getting a computer to turn facts into essays and another to turn that back into "facts".
I wonder how much overlap there would be in the "before" and "after".

Edit / Settings / AI controls / On-device AI / Key points in link previews

* At least a) they let you turn off, and b) the summary is done on your own machine.

[bens_dad]

1. The page was not found!
The LJ search engine can find the article, but LJ wont give it to me, and it is not on archive.org.

Searching for AI poisoning found this from January:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/01/11/ai-insiders-seek-to-poison-the-data-that-feeds-them/4349990
which is subversive but not a crime ring.

[andrewducker]

Interesting, that link works for me, even when logged out and in a different browser.