I am not familiar with this outlet, so YMMV
"...Mr Lu, a Wuhan resident, recounted his harrowing experience to DuTe News. He was trapped on the Third Ring Road, an elevated highway, for close to two hours. “The car stopped directly in the middle of the road on the Third Ring Road, with large trucks speeding past on both sides,” Lu said at 10:40 PM, still inside the vehicle. He reported that the in-car SOS button was “completely useless” and calls made via the backseat screen were automatically disconnected. After finally reaching the official 400 customer service hotline, he was informed that a specialist would be dispatched. However, after waiting for nearly an hour, no one arrived. Desperate, Mr Lu called the police, who, along with Apollo Go staff, eventually reached him around 11:00 PM, allowing him to safely exit the elevated highway...."
Wired: Robotaxi Outage in China Leaves Passengers Stranded on Highways 03/31/26
A suspected system failure froze Baidu’s robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes.
https://www.wired.com/story/robotaxi-outage-in-china-leaves-passengers-stuck-in-cars-on-highways/
The Guardian: US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI
Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-ai
First time I've seen AI referred to as a colleague.
LA Times: Hundreds of applications, no jobs and AI competition: California’s brutal tech work landscape
Today, I'll be working all by myself on a "critical, top priority" programming task which is kind of essential to keep the company I'm working for alive.
Where are my colleagues, you may ask.
Well, the company refused to renew most of the willing co-worker's contracts and everybody who is still left is attending a two day long "AI workshop" to "transform [company name] into an AI-first company".
I think the only way to escape this hell is to find a therapist who is willing to attest that my brain is no longer able to handle the madness in the IT industry.
And this needs to happen before the corrupt capitalists running this country finish with their holy quest to dismantle public healthcare.
Who would have thought that the #AIpocalypse would actually play out only slightly different to what has been depicted in countless dystopian #Sciencefiction works over the years.
Instead of working with a human being doing their best by reviewing their work and teaching them new tricks so they can improve and reach "senior" level in their field, I am now expected to supervise AI agents.
The AI agents tend to produce code which looks "senior" level on the surface but often disintegrates into "below junior" level under scrutiny which makes it harder to review.
It might even do the things it is supposed to do, which makes it even more dangerous as developers without a senior level of expertise may deem the results "good" without a second thought.
So basically, I am working for the AI now which was supposed to work for me. I'm supposed to watch after it, hold it's hand or straight up clean up after it myself.
And who exactly is supposed to do that in the future when all the seniors retired?
@joannejacobs While Australia bends over backwards for corporate overlords with endless mass immigration, those same overlords are racing to build workerless empires via AI. WiseTech just slashed 2,000 jobs (about 30% of staff) because 'manual coding is dead'. So what's the genius plan for the endless influx of low-skill migrants flooding in? Crickets.
And on Usenet. There was a parallel to that 'MJ Rathbun', that went after Scott Shambaugh this week, from back in the tail end days of significant Usenet trolls.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116060705914714390
A follow-up post by Shambaugh reported that the 'AI agent' had been widely cheered on in some quarters. So now there's even more training data for the next robot.
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
Seeing that so-called "AI" today libel someone with the goal of extorting that person into not obstructing it, made me think that the first time that I saw a human being use that exact tactic must be around 20 years ago, now. I just checked. It's actually more than 20 years. Yes, the text is still on the WWW. Yes, undoubtedly the #LLMs are trained on the reams of examples of this (and related evils) that malicious humans have provided the world with over many years. #AIs #AIslop
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