Archive - Machine Society

Why Mexican cartels are fighting in Ukraine

Because Ukraine is the world’s laboratory and classroom for the future of armed drone conflict. They volunteer to learn.

Jul 31 •

Friends don’t let friends make friends with AI

Virtual girlfriends and AI friends represent a toxic trend that Elon Musk is happy to exploit.

Jul 18 •

Inside OpenAI’s and Perplexity’s shady schemes

You pay for AI, but you’re still the product. Here's what they're not telling you.

Jul 16 •

How ‘human’ dehumanizes humans

When writers write about AI, they’re likely to refer to people as “human,” instinctively disambiguating between biological and digital “people.”

Jul 6 •

June 2025

Why nobody uses the “L” word anymore

People talked a lot about "lifelogging" when it was impossible. Once it became possible, everybody stopped using the word.

Jun 14 •

When AI is a big lie

AI is the hottest selling point of any product now. That's why so many companies are faking it.

Jun 5 •

May 2025

Why the Jony Ive, OpenAI gadget sounds like a loser

Cryptic leaks don't tell us what the OpenAI hardware will be, only what it will not be. And what it will not be is precisely what it should be.

May 22 •

April 2025

Three bad reasons to be polite to AI

Smart people give dumb reasons why people should say "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT.

Apr 25 •

New TikTok tech lets you become anyone

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, just accelerated our descent into a world where everything, and everyone, is fake.

Apr 6 •

March 2025

Where's a 'Red Scare' when you need one?

Russian propagandists turned one-third of relevant AI chatbot answers into Russian disinformation. Where's the panic?

Mar 7 •

Who needs people when AI is so "human"?

In the past couple of weeks, a host of new products and features has emerged that try to make AI your friend.

Mar 2 •

February 2025

Apple is lying. Robots don't feel emotions.

Who will tell us the truth about robots when even researchers who know robots better than anyone flat-out lie?

Feb 13 •

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