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  Shaming (kinda) works: Proton cancels ‘re-interviews’ Just one day after 404’s piece on Proton CEO Andy Yen’s AI psychosis, and much public sneering of the matter… those pending ‘re-interviews’ on staff’s submission to slop apparently won’t be happening. But Yen is still an all-in slopbro, so.

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  One Torment Nexus, hold the liability Disney is looking to buy up all the staff and assets of suicide-as-a-service provider Character.AI, conveniently leaving behind its bankrupt husk to cover all the liability in multiple ongoing lawsuits.

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  Strangely, ‘model welfare’ always takes priority to ‘human welfare’

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  Firefox’s biggest priority: rounding corners Mozilla once again notices that, in spite of the lavish salaries they heap upon their techbro executives, Firefox’s userbase continues to dwindle. Could this be because they don’t operate a monolithic surveillance advertising racket? Or maybe it’s because the corners in the UI aren’t round enough. www.firefox.com/en-US/whatsnew/157/ Choice quote from that interview, which was important enough to get a big box in the release notes too: We are b...

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  Sloperators declare: slopping kinda sucks It was fine when I was free to foist slop upon my coworkers, but now everyone is returning the favour?? What the hell. This sucks. Naturally commenters are careful to note that they of course use the chatbot with care and precision, it’s those insidious others taking the easy approach and not having the moral fortitude to apply a little thought