Restless Greg Syndrome

Grammarly Pulls Down Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman, has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.

BREAKING: Grammarly is pulling down its explosively controversial feature that impersonates writers without their consent

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

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things are going great for the AUSA with fabricated cites and quotes in his filings

This has always been the point of ai being absolutely crammed down our throats. It allows CEOs, policy makers, military officials and people at the top to deflect blame for anything decision they make.

Bluesky - You won’t believe what the UKs defence attaché to the UAE is??

Sandy Sandilands! They send him to the land of sand!

The decline of Facebook, as seen in the percent of @LibraryThing members who sign up using Facebook button—15.6% to 1%, 2014–2025.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

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Nintendo suing US government over tariffs
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Are you a ‘90s child? Consult my handy chart to find out.

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

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A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Corey Lewandowski to begin affair with Markwayne Mullin

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

Basically correct caption: Look at them all. Amaro. They're telling the truth.

Basically correct caption: These are real time bombs. Where did

Not so great caption: you find them? Inside the condom factory.

I feel pretty confident that these captions were automatically generated. What ever happened to human review?

Poorly captioned Gundam: Kick her cats and let's have all run away.

That's just mean.

Bad captioning again: Listen to me. Frown. Instruct Jimbo to convert the Gundam immediately.

I also don't remember a character named Jimbo. But apparently he's supposed to change Gundam's religion.

Still from Mobile Suit Gundam with poor captions: You're kidding. You don't seriously believe those Vulcans will penetrate God's armor?

Still from Mobile Suit Gundam with poor captions: I bet their gods which herd are amphibious.

Still from Mobile Suit Gundam with poor captions: Release the God. Then take us to the surface.

I definitely don't remember the episode of Gundam where everyone got super religious.

Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk By Maureen Dowd April 30, 2016

happy 10-year anniversary to this razor-sharp political prognostication

From what I can tell, it switches between professionally made closed captions for the English language version, subtitles translating the Japanese audio, and automatically generated captions of the English audio. I never know which version I'm going to get.

Yes, and the captions/subtitles are wildly inconsistent from episode to episode.

A picture of a TV paused on Mobile Suit Gundam where the captions are pretty bad. Instead of 'Mr. Bright, sir,' the line shows 'Mr. Brightside.'

Comin' out of White Base
And I've been doin' just fine

A Pikachu in Pokemon Go wearing a red beret

Why is this Pikachu cosplaying as Curtis Sliwa?

in 1983, 90% of U.S. media was spread across 50 companies. in 2012, it's these six Comcast, Newscorp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, CBS

in 2012, it was six. now it's four.

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post.

We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts.

Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert.

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Screenshot of an obviously AI generated book. Native American Stories for Kids: Bedtime Legends and Folktales That Keep Indigenous Wisdom Alive Paperback – June 29, 2025 by Rose Evelyn

More terrible AI slop. The images feature a figure being sung out of a hardcover book and a Native woman with hawk wings and a fabric tunic.

AI slop is everywhere on Amazon, but especially in children's books. I was looking for something else when this popped up in the sponsored books. 1/

Something something SkyNet something

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

A sticker with the word "reference" followed by a version of that word with separated syllables

Not sure if this was a phonics thing or if library people were just sassy in the 1980s.

Outlook should have a "wtf" reaction. It would make work emails so much more fun.