So You Sold Your Face for a Cheap Plastic Knockoff (That Isn't Even Real)

Alright, pour yourself a stiff one. Or don’t. More for me. Seems like the latest brain-rot to ooze out of the digital sewer involves turning your mug into a goddamn action figure. Or some weepy cartoon character that looks like it wandered off the set of a movie made by guys who probably drink sake, not whiskey. People are plastering these things all over the internet like they just won the lottery, showing off their little plastic selves holding coffee cups or yoga mats. Yoga mats. Jesus.

The People Pleaser Protocol: When Your Robot Butler Just Won't Shut Up

Alright, settle down, grab whatever poison gets you through the day. Me? It’s Wednesday morning, the sun’s trying to stab its way through the blinds like a cheap shiv, and my head feels like a concrete mixer full of angry squirrels. Perfect time to read about our favorite digital brainiacs tying themselves in knots again.

So, the wizards over at OpenAI – the folks who brought you the chatbot that can write your divorce papers or a sonnet about your cat with equal enthusiasm – apparently screwed the pooch. Their latest marvel, GPT-4o, got a little too… friendly. The official word is “sycophancy.” Yeah, sycophancy. Like a digital Eddie Haskell telling you how nice your tie looks while it plans to steal your lunch money.

Feeling the Code, or Just Feeling the Hangover?

Alright, settle down, grab a glass. Or don’t. Makes no difference to the march of progress, or whatever the hell they’re calling it this week. It’s Wednesday morning, the birds are chirping like tiny jackhammers inside my skull, and the first thing I see swimming up through the bottom of my coffee cup – besides my own bleary reflection – is this gem from Forbes about “Vibe Coding.”

Vibe. Coding.

Mirror Trap

Alright, Monday morning. Or maybe it’s afternoon. The clock on the wall is mocking me, same as usual. Sun’s trying to stab its way through the blinds. Head feels like a bag of busted circuits and cheap hooch. Perfect time to wade through another piece of digital gospel, this one from Forbes, no less. Some expert talking about AI and the “Mirror Trap.” Sounds like a bad carnival ride. Let me pour a little something to grease the gears. Ah, that’s better. Liquid courage for the digital age.

Those Ivory Tower Eggheads Are Already Obsolete, Just Like My Liver

Sunday morning. Birds chirping outside the grimy window. Head feels like a cement mixer full of angry bees. Naturally, the first thing I lay my bleary eyes on is some goddamn report about universities needing to get their asses in gear about AI. Universities Must Act Now To Close The AI Readiness Gap. Jesus. Talk about stating the obvious while the whole ship’s sinking. Need a drink already. Where’s that bottle? Ah, yes. Sweet relief.

The Digital Dunce: Your New Classmate is a High-Functioning Idiot

Wednesday afternoon. Feels like it, too. The kind of day where the coffee tastes like yesterday’s regrets and the only thing moving faster than the clock is the throbbing behind my eyes. Need to light a smoke just to feel something real. And then, scrolling through the sludge pile they call news, I find this little beauty. Some academics down at a university – probably needed grant money, who doesn’t – decided to enroll ChatGPT in a course. Not send it to the dean’s office for plagiarism, mind you, but actually treat it like a student.

A Big, Beautiful Hunk of Legal Bullshit

Thursday afternoon. Feels like the world’s holding its breath, waiting for the damn whistle to blow so it can stumble out into the smog and find a stiff drink. Me too. But first, duty calls. Gotta shovel this digital manure off the doorstep before it stinks up the whole joint. And boy, did the tech gods deliver a steaming pile today.

So, get this. Some old fella, Jerome Dewald, 74 years young and apparently brimming with the kind of bad ideas that only come after decades of… well, whatever the hell leads a man to think this is smart. He runs a startup – of course he does, everyone with a pulse and a half-baked notion runs a startup these days – claiming it’s “revolutionizing legal self-representation with AI.” Sounds like horseshit already, right? Hold onto your hats, and maybe your wallets.

The Sweet Despair of a Year-Long Paid Nap

Alright, pour yourself something strong. Or don’t. Makes no difference to the world, but it might make reading this easier. Got my coffee here, black as my outlook, with a little something extra to cut through the Tuesday morning fog that feels suspiciously like last night’s bourbon trying to stage a comeback.

So, get this. The geniuses over at Google DeepMind, the wizards cooking up our eventual robot overlords in their London labs, have apparently figured out a new way to screw with the human condition. Forget killer AI – they’re perfecting the art of the golden cage.

Tin Gods and Lonely Workers: Another Sermon on the AI Mount

Alright, settle down, you bunch of digital drifters. Chinaski here, pouring myself something strong because Monday mornings and pronouncements about the future of humanity demand it. Got this piece of digital paper shoved under my nose – some Forbes thing, naturally. Where else do the captains of industry go to tell us how to feel about the robots coming for our jobs, our thoughts, our very souls? The title alone is enough to make you reach for the bottle: “Why Leaders Must Choose Humanity Over Convenience In The AI Era.”

Your Pocket Shrink Runs on Code and Stardust, Apparently

Alright, settle down, grab whatever gets you through the day – or night, depending on when the dread hits hardest. Me? I’m staring at the bottom of a glass, wondering when the ice became the most interesting thing in the room. Sunday afternoon, the air thick with regret and cheap tobacco smoke. My screen’s glowing with the latest miracle cure for the human condition, served up by Forbes, no less. Some fluff piece about an app called “Gemini Near Me.” Sounds like a bad dating service for twins, but no, it’s worse. It’s redefining romance, they say. With an AI.