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Weekly Review 27 June 2025

Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):Bots that scrape content for training AI are now bringing down websites with their voracious demands for data: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/18/ai-is-breaking-the-internets-memory/Generative AI does not contribute to a gain in the bottom line 80% of the time: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/17/why-80-percent-of-gen-ai-delivers-no-real-business-gains/There is a critical security vulnerability in Copilot. How many other AI tools also have vulnerabilities in them? https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/17/zero-day-microsoft-copilot-vuln-underscores-emerging-ai-security-risks/What to study if you want to understand agentic AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/agentic-ai-a-self-study-roadmapThere is so much AI generated slop on the internet now that scraping it as training data is making other AI dumber: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-developmentCustomers are getting sick of companies replacing real people with AI: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/popular-services-keep-adding-ai-some-customers-want-them-to-stop/MKAKEXK3VNDLXEYO26LV2IZ4GQ/I really don't want AI looking over my shoulder all the time I'm working: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/copilot-vision-lets-ai-see-your-windows-11-screen-and-guide-you-in-realAI cheating amongst students is not going to go away. We're going to have to set assessments they can't cheat at instead: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/university_ai_cheating/Mastodon has now banned the use of posts on their platform for AI training. But how can they enforce it? https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/mastodon_says_no_to_ai/The use of AI to generate code is increasing, especially in the US: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/us_coders_lead_world_in_ai/If you use AI to filter content, you need to back it up with human confirmation: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/tumblrs-content-filtering-systems-have-been-falsely-flagging-posts-as-mature-users-blame-ai/If you are going to ban people from your platform, you need to back up AI decisions with human review: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/instagram-users-complain-of-mass-bans-pointing-finger-at-ai/AI can make people with delusions and other mental illnesses worse: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/spiraling-with-chatgpt/Using AI to do you thinking for you does make you dumber: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/Now AI are randomly sharing phone numbers of other users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-numberAmazon is planning more job cuts, replacing them with AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/amazon-boss-tells-staff-ai-means-their-jobs-are-at-risk-in-coming-yearsAdoption of AI is being limited by the lack of clarity around ongoing costs: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4007713/companies-limit-their-ai-use-due-to-unclear-costs.htmlTraining an image generator with no outside data set: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688576/feed-ai-nothingAn interactive map of the energy used by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/iea_observatory_ai/The different kinds of intelligence used in business-not just AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/differences-bi-ai-analytics/Lack of skills in AI threaten job security more than AI itself: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4006931/ai-isnt-taking-your-job-the-big-threat-is-a-growing-skills-gap.htmlAI in the workplace is still not living up to the hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/ai_not_doing_its_job/Are AI starting to develop their own personas? https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/openai-found-features-in-ai-models-that-correspond-to-different-personas/The security issues raised by agentic AI: https://devclass.com/2025/06/17/redefining-identity-security-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai/

Jun 27, 2025 - 11:10
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Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
  1. Bots that scrape content for training AI are now bringing down websites with their voracious demands for data: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/18/ai-is-breaking-the-internets-memory/
  2. Generative AI does not contribute to a gain in the bottom line 80% of the time: https://dataconomy.com/2025/06/17/why-80-percent-of-gen-ai-delivers-no-real-business-gains/
  3. There is a critical security vulnerability in Copilot. How many other AI tools also have vulnerabilities in them? https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/06/17/zero-day-microsoft-copilot-vuln-underscores-emerging-ai-security-risks/
  4. What to study if you want to understand agentic AI: https://www.kdnuggets.com/agentic-ai-a-self-study-roadmap
  5. There is so much AI generated slop on the internet now that scraping it as training data is making other AI dumber: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development
  6. Customers are getting sick of companies replacing real people with AI: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/popular-services-keep-adding-ai-some-customers-want-them-to-stop/MKAKEXK3VNDLXEYO26LV2IZ4GQ/
  7. I really don't want AI looking over my shoulder all the time I'm working: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/copilot-vision-lets-ai-see-your-windows-11-screen-and-guide-you-in-real
  8. AI cheating amongst students is not going to go away. We're going to have to set assessments they can't cheat at instead: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/university_ai_cheating/
  9. Mastodon has now banned the use of posts on their platform for AI training. But how can they enforce it? https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/mastodon_says_no_to_ai/
  10. The use of AI to generate code is increasing, especially in the US: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/us_coders_lead_world_in_ai/
  11. If you use AI to filter content, you need to back it up with human confirmation: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/tumblrs-content-filtering-systems-have-been-falsely-flagging-posts-as-mature-users-blame-ai/
  12. If you are going to ban people from your platform, you need to back up AI decisions with human review: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/instagram-users-complain-of-mass-bans-pointing-finger-at-ai/
  13. AI can make people with delusions and other mental illnesses worse: https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/spiraling-with-chatgpt/
  14. Using AI to do you thinking for you does make you dumber: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/is_ai_changing_our_brains/
  15. Now AI are randomly sharing phone numbers of other users: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number
  16. Amazon is planning more job cuts, replacing them with AI: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/amazon-boss-tells-staff-ai-means-their-jobs-are-at-risk-in-coming-years
  17. Adoption of AI is being limited by the lack of clarity around ongoing costs: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4007713/companies-limit-their-ai-use-due-to-unclear-costs.html
  18. Training an image generator with no outside data set: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/688576/feed-ai-nothing
  19. An interactive map of the energy used by AI: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/iea_observatory_ai/
  20. The different kinds of intelligence used in business-not just AI: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/differences-bi-ai-analytics/
  21. Lack of skills in AI threaten job security more than AI itself: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4006931/ai-isnt-taking-your-job-the-big-threat-is-a-growing-skills-gap.html
  22. AI in the workplace is still not living up to the hype: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/17/ai_not_doing_its_job/
  23. Are AI starting to develop their own personas? https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/openai-found-features-in-ai-models-that-correspond-to-different-personas/
  24. The security issues raised by agentic AI: https://devclass.com/2025/06/17/redefining-identity-security-in-the-age-of-agentic-ai/


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