LA Times: ‘We were just being ripped off’: Musicians lost thousands after AI bootleggers stole their song

"...A viral hit called “Run Run River” turned out to be an AI-tweaked clone of SoCal reggae band Stick Figure’s 2019 song, earning bootleggers thousands without credit or consent.... The case exposes a flood of cheaply made, often fraudulent AI tracks on major streaming platforms, siphoning royalties, overwhelming detection systems and blurring the line between fan remix and scam...."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-06-09/stick-figure-ai-bootleg-streaming

#ai #AIpocalypse #crime #music

Oooh, AI performing at scale! /s

https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116722123099703038

#cybersecurity #AI #AIpocalypse

"The same technology companies building AI systems to automate workplace tasks are increasingly pitching those tools as replacements for at least some human work, particularly the administrative and entry-level roles that traditionally provide a route into employment.

Whether employers are eager to receive applications drafted by the same technology they are increasingly deploying to screen candidates remains to be seen. The labor market may yet become an arms race between applicants using AI and recruiters using AI to filter out applicants using AI. "

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/08/uks-answer-to-ai-job-fears-is-a-bot-to-polish-your-cv/5251983

#aipocalypse #artificialIntelligence

<insert Torment Nexus meme>

ABC News: AI company warns about rapid development

Anthropic warns that artificial intelligence could soon improve itself without human intervention.

https://abcnews.com/video/133611508/utm_medium=activitypub

#AI #AIpocalypse

LA Times: O.C. immigration attorneys suspended for filing briefs filled with AI-hallucinated errors

"...The ruling was clear that the discipline wasn’t issued simply for the use of AI, but “due to their filing of briefs containing multiple nonexistent cases, misattributed quotations, and gross misrepresentations of real cases, and due to their lack of candor in revealing that these fabrications and inaccuracies were the result of hallucinations by generative AI.”...

(paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-04/suspended-o-c-immigration-attorneys-filed-briefs-filled-with-ai-slop

#legal #law #aislop #AIpocalypse

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https://gizmodo.com/goldman-sachs-ceo-says-its-time-for-artists-to-seize-the-means-of-production-2000767571

#ai #aipocalypse #aislop

Wired: Meet the Sad Wives of AI

Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.

(paywall)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/

#AI #AIpocalypse

continuing to try to convince people the sand is not thinking and came up with this:

LLMs can be very deceptive because while they don't think, they can play back the words of people who did and even mix it up a little bit in a statistically interesting way because that's what they're designed to do but all they are, truly, is a complicated hash algorithm where the output is amusingly convincing language related to the input.

#llm #ai #slop #enshittification #aibubble #aipocalypse