She said the technology “might actually be a blessing” for some actors who wish to avoid fame*

Stage fright, cured by staged flight?

*work

#aisucks
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/tilly-norwood-ai-actor-creator-backlash-death-threats

Creator of AI actor Tilly Norwood says she received death threats over project

Eline van der Velden says she developed her ‘digital twin’ to provoke discussion but backlash from some has been worse than expected

The Guardian

@jwcph @dyckron
Relax: Ai will be the primary engine for creative exploration.

The title of video might be the greatest oxymoron of our time.

(Don’t watch this on full stomach).

https://youtu.be/vGGkHp5MrQg?si=oRHDvaIxcECFu5Yn

#aisucks

CURIOSITY FOR INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM - First Lady Melania Trump

YouTube

Who’s fracking who?

A visual guide to Disney’s ‘investment’ in Open Ai.
https://youtu.be/r7B0MzvwDcA?si=SNdHqjLqGyu2dWlO

#aisucks

What if you kept digging downward?

YouTube

Correction: “OpenAI gave no indication it was working to wind down Sora in a blogpost on Monday titled “Cratering with Sora safely”

GTA runs out of petrol.

#aisucks
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/24/openai-ai-video-sora

OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora after just six months

App that allowed people to make and share AI videos was popular but received criticism for racist and violent content

The Guardian

"In a detailed report released last week, titled The Urgent Case Against #DataCenters, #FWW pointed to some of the 'documented harms caused by #AI and data centers,' including:

- Enormous #energy footprints: A single hyperscale data center can consume as much energy as 2 million US households.
- A lifeline for #FossilFuels: The thirst for fuel is being met by keeping old #coal-fired power plants running and by building new natural gas ones. [And restarting old #NuclearPlants]
- Skyrocketing electricity costs: Increased #EnergyDemand can raise residential rates, which soared 31% from 2020 to 2025 (compared to 4% from 2015 to 2020).
- Drained water resources: By 2028, AI data centers could use as much water as 18.5 million households, just for cooling their servers.
- An investment bubble: A handful of companies are investing in one another and increasingly turning to risky debt structures to hide the threat of the bubble.
- A litany of other harms: This includes massive amounts of electronic waste (#EWaste), unrelenting noise pollution, loss of #farmland, political instability from #deepfake videos, lost revenue from data center tax incentives, and #ChildEndangerment from #AI #chatbots."

#NoDatacenters #NoAI
#NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution
#AISucks #USPol

With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, #BernieSanders and #AOC Propose #Moratorium on New #AI #DataCenters

“These massive facilities are sucking up precious #water resources, paving over #farmland, driving #ClimateChange, and disrupting the fabric of communities,” said one supporter of the new legislation.

by Jake Johnson, Mar 25, 2026

"Two of the leading progressives in the US Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced legislation on Wednesday that would impose a nationwide moratorium on the construction of new artificial intelligence data centers amid mounting concerns over their insatiable consumption of power and water resources, impacts on the climate, and other harms.

"Sanders’ (I-Vt.) office said in a press release announcing the #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenterMoratorium Act that the construction pause would remain in effect 'until strong national safeguards are in place to protect workers, consumers, and communities, defend privacy and #CivilRights, and ensure these technologies do not harm our #environment.'

"Sanders and #OcasioCortez (D-NY) are set to formally introduce their legislation at a press conference on Wednesday at 4 pm ET.

"Food & Water Watch (#FWW), which last year became the first national organization in the US to call for a total moratorium on the approval of new AI data centers, celebrated the first-of-its-kind bill and called on other members of Congress to 'move quickly to sponsor, champion, and pass' it. FWW’s groundbreaking call for a national AI data center moratorium was later echoed by hundreds of advocacy organizations at the state and national levels.

" 'We need a halt to the explosive growth of new AI data center construction now, because political and community leaders across the country have been caught completely off guard by this aggressive, profit-hungry industry,' Mitch Jones, FWW’s managing director of policy and litigation, said in a statement Wednesday. 'It has yet to be determined if—not how—the industry can ever operate in a manner that sufficiently protects people and society from the profusion of inherent hazards and harms that data centers bring wherever they appear.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-data-center-moratorium

#AWS #NoDatacenters #NoAI #NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution #AISucks #USPol

With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, Sanders and AOC Propose Moratorium on New AI Data Centers | Common Dreams

"These massive facilities are sucking up precious water resources, paving over farmland, driving climate change, and disrupting the fabric of communities," said one supporter of the new legislation.

Common Dreams

I designed these bozo’s brand and site. The perfect embodiment of the lunacy at the time. Utterly confident of their brilliance. They tried to hire me with stock and ipo promises.

As @baldur said in his lovey article, I told them to feck right off.

Everything has changed.
But nothing much has changed.

#aisucks
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/13/internetnews.business2

Moving on Liv4now founder steps down

Serena Doshi, above, is stepping down as chief executive of youth portal Liv4now.com.

The Guardian

TDLR: Announcing Ai data centres and negotiating with Iran are surprisingly similar.

Just take their word for it.

#aisucks
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

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I do hope a side effect of the increase in energy prices due to the US-Israel war on Iran is that the increased cost of powering AI data centres is passed onto consumers, causing companies who have gone all in on vibe coding and the like to truly question their life choices 🤞🤞🤞
#RisingEnergyPrices #AISucks

On a related note... (Sortakinda...)

Data Centers Are Military Targets Now
With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.

Sam Biddle, March 20 2026,

"The motive behind the attack, according to Iranian state television, was not to block people from ordering groceries or posting to social media, but rather to highlight 'the role of these centers in supporting the enemy’s military and intelligence activities.' Though only #Amazon’s centers are known to have come under fire, a March 11 tweet from the quasi-official Tasnim News Agency listed dozens of regional facilities, including data centers owned by #Microsoft, #Google and others, deemed '#EnemyTechnologyInfrastructure' suitable for targeting.
It’s unclear if the #AmazonDataCenters struck by Iranian drone strikes are used for military purposes or civilian purposes, or both. And it’s unknown if the attacks in any way hindered the militaries of the U.S., Israel, or their allies in the Gulf from using AI or other cloud-based services in their war efforts. But with Amazon, Google, and even Facebook parent company #Meta are all eager partners of the #Pentagon that augment the destructive power of the United States in Iran and elsewhere, server farms may now have the same status as factories building #bombs and #warplanes."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/20/ai-data-centers-military-targets-iran-war/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/6H3hzx

#NoWar #Endlesswar #USPol #WorldPol #DataCentersSuck #AISucks #Skynet #Terminator #WorldWar3 #WarOnIran

Data Centers Are Military Targets Now

With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.

The Intercept