> 99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/99-percent-ceos-workers-ai-survey
Survey, so as usual possible caveats. Still, I get a feel all those #librarians who should know better rushing to be #cogsuckers may be in a precarious position. Same for #academia and #HigherEd
#AISlop #sloperator #BadEconomy #tech #corruption #exploitation
On a side note, I watched a webinar on AI in information literacy and #libraries this morning, and the amount of #librarians who should know better capitulating to becoming #sloperators and #cogsuckers is a bit sickening TBH.
But that is another story. . .
And speaking of #AISlop workplaces with worker #sloperators and #cogsuckers
> An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/local-newspaper-shut-down-reporters-ai-fakes
> One New Thing: Campus Libraries Become AI Hubs
https://www.usnews.com/education/u-s-news-higher-ground/articles/2026-05-07/artificial-intelligence-college-library
Ugh. I honestly wish #librarians who should know better heard themselves when they say "oh, we need to promote and embrace #AISlop despite (insert major issues with it)." Sadly, this is increasing including my campus.
RE: https://kind.social/@azteclady/116523267528644246
Cheating bastard, but sadly not surprising in the #HardTimes
FTA: He is "known for his meticulous research." Now we know what that really means.
So AP "...one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organizations..." is now saying fuck it to move to "more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence..."
https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f
FFS.
The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company for more than 1½ centuries. The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence. That's to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets. Once the lion’s share of AP’s revenue, big newspaper companies now account for 10% of its income. Julie Pace, AP's executive editor, says that “we’re not a newspaper company and we haven’t been for quite some time.
And speaking of #AISlop and #surveillance
> The Palantir Panopticon https://attackthesystem.com/2026/04/03/the-palantir-panopticon/
Michael Rectenwald Apr 03, 2026 In my book Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (2019), I argued that the main danger with AI is not a rogue super-intelligence that might rebel against humanity; the far greater danger is perfect AI obedience. AI could function as the ultimate instrument of authoritarian “elites,”
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