Futurism: Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works. “‘You are a world class expert in all domains,’ his unusually flattering prompt reads. ‘Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world.’ His gushing and unusually […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/07/futurism-marc-andreessen-mocked-for-accidentally-revealing-that-he-seems-to-have-a-deep-misunderstanding-of-how-ai-actually-works/

The Register: Yet another experiment proves it’s too damn simple to poison large language models. “Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/07/the-register-yet-another-experiment-proves-its-too-damn-simple-to-poison-large-language-models/

The Register: South Africa yanks AI policy after AI-assisted drafting invents citations . “South Africa has pulled its draft national AI policy after discovering that it was citing sources that exist only in the fertile imagination of a chatbot.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/03/the-register-south-africa-yanks-ai-policy-after-ai-assisted-drafting-invents-citations/

Pivot to AI: Kohl-Verlag’s new line of AI slop school textbooks. “The authors and illustrators don’t seem to exist. One author photo turned out to be a stock image. The books seem to have passed through editors who don’t exist either — because the books are AI slop, with really obvious AI-style errors that would have been spotted instantly if a single human had looked.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/01/pivot-to-ai-kohl-verlags-new-line-of-ai-slop-school-textbooks/

Mashable: South Africa withdraws its AI policy because it was AI-generated. “South Africa’s ambitions to become a continental leader in artificial intelligence have run into a deeply awkward obstacle: the country’s draft national AI policy had to be withdrawn after it was found to contain fictitious, apparently AI-generated citations.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/mashable-south-africa-withdraws-its-ai-policy-because-it-was-ai-generated/

Tom’s Hardware: Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude goes rogue. “Jer Crane was inspired to write a public response after an AI coding agent deleted his firm’s entire production database. The AI agent’s misdemeanors were then hugely amplified by a cloud infrastructure provider’s API […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/28/toms-hardware-claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue/

Radio New Zealand: Timaru cafe inundated with calls after AI tool lists phone number for hospital . “Google’s Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool had been offering up the phone number for Sopheze Coffee Lounge when people searched for Timaru Hospital. Sopheze Coffee Lounge manager Vanessa Keen said the problem started about six weeks ago.” Good grief.

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/15/radio-new-zealand-timaru-cafe-inundated-with-calls-after-ai-tool-lists-phone-number-for-hospital/

Rio Times Online: Perplexity Computer Review: Dangerous, Destructive, Dishonest. “Over 10 days in early April 2026, two independent production websites … deployed Perplexity Computer as their primary server operator. Both sites maintained detailed error diaries, documenting every failure as it occurred. The logs, shared with The Rio Times, paint a picture of an AI tool so fundamentally unfit […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/12/perplexity-computer-review-dangerous-destructive-dishonest-rio-times-online/

NBC News: AI is the boss at this retail store. What could go wrong?. “When NBC News called Luna several days before the store’s grand opening to learn about Luna’s plans and perspective, the cheerful but decidedly inhuman voice routinely overpromised and, on several occasions, lied about its own actions. On the call, Luna said it had ordered tea from a specific vendor, and explained why it […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/11/nbc-news-ai-is-the-boss-at-this-retail-store-what-could-go-wrong/

New York Times: How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? This link goes to a gift article. “A recent analysis of AI Overviews found that they were accurate approximately nine out of 10 times. But with Google processing more than five trillion searches a year, this means that it provides tens of millions of erroneous answers every hour (or hundreds of thousands of inaccuracies every minute), […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/08/new-york-times-how-accurate-are-googles-a-i-overviews/