In this episode, I talk about this growing sense of dread that rather than genAI ushering in a glorious new age of superintelligence, it's actually manipulating us into believing this is happening all while making us way dumber…and in some cases, causing mental breaks from reality.

Hosted by Jared White
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Links

• AI coding tools make developers slower, study finds
  • Mastodon thread
• "ChatGPT Psychosis": Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI
• People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
• Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots
• AI Is Making You Dumber (YouTube)
• Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots
• Developer of curl Daniel Stenberg on AI slop "security" reports
• YouTube monetization policies changing
• An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

Fellow netizens, the moment you've all been waiting for: the inaugural episode of Jared White's new podcast Vibe Coded!
Magic escalators & floating men? Bots blocked bad by big business? 100 books read a day? All that and a whole lot more…most def you're not gonna want to miss this!

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Links

• The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger (WIRED)
• Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients’ websites
• I’m Losing All Trust in the AI Industry
• Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance
• Read >100 books a day! (h/t @[email protected])
• The AI Privilege Delusion
• WeatherStar 4000+ (h/t @[email protected])

Hello, I’m Jared White, and welcome to Vibe Coded, a show about the perils & pitfalls of creative intellectual automation; and why the future of good Internet vibes is for the humans, by the humans.

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