The AIpocalypse is here for web sites as search referrals plunge

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/22/ai_search_starves_publishers/

The Guardian: Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/amazon-boss-tells-staff-ai-means-their-jobs-are-at-risk-in-coming-years

Perhaps when the Internet is overrun by AI content to the point that it is unusable, humanity will be forced to exist again primarily in the tangible world, in smaller communities, where truth can be verified with our senses once more. Books will be on paper. Art will be drawn or painted. Movies will be replaced by live theater. As we revert to an analog world, the digital world will churn on, populated by ghostly algorithms until the servers run down.

I can't decide if this thought is optimistic or apocalyptic.

Generative AI runs on gambling addiction — just one more prompt, bro! h/t @briankrebs

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

The Guardian: Amazon ‘testing humanoid robots to deliver packages

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/amazon-testing-humanoid-robots-to-deliver-packages

Slashdot: Business Insider Recommended Nonexistent Books To Staff As It Leans Into AI

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/1537210/business-insider-recommended-nonexistent-books-to-staff-as-it-leans-into-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

ArsTechnica: Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books

"The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a 'summer reads' feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?"

ABC News: Gen Z pivots to blue-collar work as AI impacts job market

"... college, student debt and a labor market impacted by artificial intelligence..."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/gen-pivots-blue-collar-work-ai-impacts-job-121985149?

Uh oh

The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

"Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The software maker quietly announced the change earlier this week, noting that Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11th and that “any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup.”

... Wired reports that some big customers of Bing’s APIs will retain access to the service after the August 11th cutoff. DuckDuckGo uses Bing to power its search engine, and it has confirmed that it will still have access. Other smaller developers won’t be so lucky, though."

https://www.theverge.com/news/667517/microsoft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement

Paywall, but you get the idea.

WSJ: Everyone's Replaceable: The New Ways Bosses Talk About Workers

Step it up, stop complaining--and make way for AI. CEOs are no longer lauding employees as talent.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/corporate-bosses-workers-culture-changing-cbd19c2c

RE last retoot: anyone who tries to extoll the virtues of AI - "well, ACKSHUALLEE, it's good at X" - get an automatic block from me. I have no time to listen to that bullshit.

AI is NOT your friend. Quit fellating the tool of your oppression.

#AI
#AIPocalypse

For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them

"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/12/for-silicon-valley-ai-isnt-just-about-replacing-some-jobs-its-about-replacing-all-of-them

NBC will use Jim Fagan’s AI-generated voice for NBA coverage

The AI-generated voice of Fagan, who died in 2017, will appear across select NBA promos, openers, and title sequences.

https://www.theverge.com/news/661911/nbc-nba-jim-fagan-ai-generated-voice-narration

«There’s been something of an epidemic of malicious bots on the internet these days. You may have seen a post recently titled “Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face“, or “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies“. Those are all happening to us, too. Surprise.»

TCRF has been getting DDoSed – Xkeeper's blog - https://blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized/tcrf-has-been-getting-ddosed/

CNBC: Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things' https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/bill-gates-within-10-years-ai-will-replace-many-doctors-and-teachers-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things/3706507/

Ich will wieder in eine Welt, wo es verpöhnt war, AI Bilder für politische Memes und auf Nachrichtenseiten zu verwenden.

#AiPocalypse