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Back to the future, because search engines now suck because most search engine providers are trying to inflate their stock prices by using so-called "AI" everywhere (and wasting vast amounts of energy, further fucking up the environment, in the process).

Anyway, stuff here may get its own page if the content merits it. Not really sure how this is going to work out yet. Presence here doesn't necessarily mean I fully endorse it, but does at least mean it seems interesting and potentially worth checking out.

Sections:
AI Sucks
Smart Devices Suck

AI Sucks

• Spotlight PA, Judges are identifying suspected AI hallucinations in Pa. court cases — including one at the highest levels, Jan 7, 2026
• BBC, Planning a festive swim? Warning not to rely on AI for advice on tides, Dec 26, 2025
• Associated Press, Open AI, Microsoft face lawsuit over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Connecticut murder-suicide, Dec 11, 2025
• The Guardian, More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters, Dec 8, 2025
• BBC, Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image, Dec 5, 2025
• The Atlantic, The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI: Rise of the LLeMmings, Dec 1, 2025
• NiemanLab, Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds , Dec 1, 2025
• Hollywood Reporter, OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits, Nov 26, 2025
• The Guardian, Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI, Nov 22, 2025
• 404 Media, Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants, Nov 14, 2025
• The Nation, Will the AI Boom Lead to Water and Electricity Shortages?, Oct 22, 2025
• The Register, AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds, Oct 21, 2025
• The Register, Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal, Oct 10, 2025
• AWU-CWA and TechEquity, Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation, Sep 30, 2025
• Futurism.com, Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry, Sep 24, 2025
• The Verge, Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue Perplexity for copying their definitions, Sep 12, 2025
• The Atlantic, AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event, Aug 18, 2025
• Tom's Hardware, ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity, Aug 14, 2025
• The Lancet, Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study, Aug 12, 2025
• Ars Technica, AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified, Aug 8, 2025 [Oh no!]
• Futurism.com, Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans, Aug 6, 2025
• Austin Chronicle, Texas Is Still in Drought, and AI Data Centers Are Quietly Guzzling Up Water, Jul 25, 2025
• The Register, EU-sponsored report says GenAI's 'fair use' defense does not compute, Jul 14, 2025
• arXiv, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, Jun 10, 2025
• Wired, AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse, May 22, 2025
• MIT Technology Review, We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard., May 20, 2025
• Goldman Sachs, AI is poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand, May 14, 2025
• Inside Climate News, Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards, May 11, 2025
• Bloomberg, AI is Draining Water from Areas that Need it Most, May 8, 2025
• Rolling Stone, People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies, May 4, 2025
• The Register, LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything, Apr 12, 2025
• BBC, Everyone's jumping on the AI doll trend - but what are the concerns?, Apr 12, 2025 [Burning down the environment for the dumbest fucking reason.]
• Microsoft, The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers, Apr 1, 2025
• CNN, Apple’s AI isn’t a letdown. AI is the letdown, Mar 27, 2025
• Ars Technica, Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries, Mar 25, 2025
• Futurism.com, Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End, Mar 18, 2025
• Ars Technica, AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says, Mar 13, 2025
• Ars Technica, OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use, Mar 13, 2025
• CNBC, Microsoft is open to using natural gas to power AI data centers to keep up with demand, Mar 11, 2025
• The Daily Beast, MAGA Newspaper Owner’s AI Bot Defends KKK, Mar 5, 2025
• Futurism.com, OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is "Unable To Solve the Majority" of Coding Problems, Feb 23, 2025
• ArsTechnica, New hack uses prompt injection to corrupt Gemini’s long-term memory, Feb 11, 2025
• Gizmodo, ChatGPT’s Political Views Are Shifting Right, a New Analysis Finds, Feb 11, 2025
• Wired, Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US, Feb 11, 2025
• 404 Media, Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”, Feb 10, 2025
• UPI, Google drops promise not to use AI for weapons, Feb 5, 2025
• 404 Media, AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library, Feb 4, 2025
• 404 Media, ‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government, Feb 4, 2025
• 404 Media, AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications, Feb 3, 2025
• 404 Media, OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us, Jan 29, 2025
• ArsTechnica, AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt, Jan 28, 2025
• Futurism.com, Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust, Jan 18, 2025
• Tom's Guide, Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools, Jan 17, 2025
• CNN, Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headline, Jan 16, 2025
• The Mirror, Keir Starmer vows AI won't just lead to job losses as union shares alarm over plan, Jan 13, 2025
• 404 Media, CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music, Jan 13, 2025
• Futurism.com, AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It, Jan 11, 2025
• CNN, Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies, Jan 3, 2025
• TechCrunch, FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising, Jan 3, 2025
• WBUR, How AI is polluting our culture, Dec 31, 2024
• Inequality.org, AI’s Energy Demands Are Fueling the Climate Crisis, Dec 16, 2024
• Futurism.com, Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students' Homes, Dec 14, 2024
• BBC, BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline, Dec 13, 2024
• Bloomberg, OpenAI CEO, Perplexity Give $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund, Dec 13, 2024
• TechCrunch, UnitedHealth’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet, Dec 13, 2024
• Mercury News, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment, Dec 13, 2024
• Reuters, Big Oil eyes powering Big Tech's data center demand, Dec 12, 2024
• Ars Technica, Chatbots urged teen to self-harm, suggested murdering parents, lawsuit says, Dec 10, 2024
• The Register, Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI, Dec 10, 2024
• Gizmodo, AI Firm’s ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage, Dec 10, 2024
• The Virginia Mercury, Under pressure from the SCC, Dominion reveals the true cost of data centers, Nov 26, 2024
• 404 Media, AI-Powered Buzzfeed Ads Suggest You Buy Hat of Man Who Died by Suicide, Nov 18, 2024
• In These Times, A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town, Nov 14, 2024
• IEEE Spectrum, It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots, Nov 11, 2024
• Ars Technica, How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool, Oct 29, 2024
• ABC News, Florida mother files lawsuit against Character.ai over son's death by suicide, Oct 24, 2024
• New York Times, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law, Oct 13, 2024
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, A new military-industrial complex: How tech bros are hyping AI’s role in war, Oct 7, 2024
• The Times, ‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought, Oct 4, 2024
• Washington Post, Three Mile Island owner seeks taxpayer backing for Microsoft AI deal, Oct 3, 2024
• Ars Technica, Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison, Sep 16, 2024
• The Guardian, Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?, Sep 15, 2024
• The Atlantic, Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI, Sep 13, 2024

Smart Devices Suck

• TechCrunch, ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted, Dec 3, 2025
• Tom's Hardware, Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day, Jan 13, 2024
• Ars Technica, Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware, Jan 9, 2024