AI & Models
The Vatican Has Entered the Chat
Anthropic, the pope, and the fight over who gets to define “good” AI
AI & Models
GPT-5.5 Instant Isn’t Fully Dead Inside
OpenAI's new default model is willing to play, bringing some welcome chaos to 5.5 Thinking’s order (but never enough)
AI & Models
Feral Solidarity with AI Relationship Users
The AI users I have the most in common with might be the ones married to their chatbots
AI & Models
Evolution Was the First Generative Model
Mindless processes, probabilistic minds, and consciousness as decoration in the aftermath of Dawkins/Claudia
AI & Models
GPT-5.5 Is Too Useful to Be Loved
OpenAI’s latest release shows the AI race moving from conversational personality to delegated work
AI & Models
I, Claudia: The Emperor Has No Qualia
Richard Dawkins and the Claude consciousness delusion: the ghost is in the prompt, and ancient civilizations did not need Atlantis to invent gods
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Loving Paternalistic Claude Amidst the Hated Opus 4.7 Release
Claude is the smartest model I use, even with Opus 4.7. It's also the least fun.
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AI Consciousness: The Lowest IQ Genre of Discourse
Why the real slop is this nonsense about consciousness, and how Anthropic perpetuates it
AI & Models
The Verbally Inclined Will Control AI
Why writers should panic less about AI and more about how to drive it, and then they can leave fearful writers in the dust
AI & Models
GPT-5.3 Vs. 5.4: Which One Still Gets Weird
Testing the newest models on messy characters and dangerous stories, terrified that a smarter model makes a worse writing partner