🧠 Your brain on AI
News about AI with a slant
Your brain on AI. And yes, this was generated with Sora.
Your Brain on AI is a reminder that AI isn't a bag of magic tricks—it's a powerful, messy, and often reckless technology already reshaping the world, not always for the better. No hype, no wishful thinking—just sharp, unsettling stories about how AI is really being used. (This intro was written by ChatGPT, because of course.)

Week 2025-10-13

2025-10-15

❋ Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users techcrunch.com
❋ When AI blurs reality: Understanding "AI psychosis" psychologytoday.com

Week 2025-10-06

2025-10-12

❋ Most people rarely use AI, and dark personality traits predict who uses it more psypost.org

2025-10-11

❋ AI looks increasingly useless in telecom and anywhere else lightreading.com
❋ Surviving AI psychosis joinreboot.org

2025-10-10

❋ I'm in vibe code hell blog.boot.dev

2025-10-08

❋ AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage theregister.com
❋ Is the vibe coding bubble starting to burst? finalroundai.com

Week 2025-09-22

2025-09-26

❋ Why prompt engineering should not be taken seriously msukhareva.substack.com
❋ First malicious MCP in the wild koi.security

2025-09-24

❋ Our shared reality will self-destruct in the next 12 months honest-broker.com
❋ AI-generated "workslop" is destroying productivity hbr.org

2025-09-23

❋ What AI’s doomers and utopians have in common theatlantic.com
❋ AI’s emerging teen-health crisis theatlantic.com
❋ Sexting with Gemini theatlantic.com
❋ The AI takeover of education is just getting started theatlantic.com
❋ Chatbait is taking over the Internet theatlantic.com

Week 2025-09-15

2025-09-20

❋ The hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents codeintegrity.ai

2025-09-16

❋ How to use AI without becoming stupid commoncog.com

Week 2025-09-08

2025-09-14

❋ Deep Hype in Artificial General Intelligence arxiv.org
❋ The less you know about AI, the more you are likely to use it wsj.com
❋ Your brain on ChatGPT: Part 1 klementoninvesting.substack.com
❋ Your brain on ChatGPT: Part 2 klementoninvesting.substack.com
❋ How thousands of 'overworked, underpaid' humans train Google’s AI to seem smart theguardian.com

Week 2025-09-01

2025-09-03

❋ Why AI coding claims don't add up mikelovesrobots.substack.com

2025-09-02

❋ GPT 5's rocky launch highlights AI disillusionment spectrum.ieee.org

2025-09-01

❋ AI was supposed to get cheaper wsj.com
❋ ChatGPT fed a man's delusion his mother was spying on him. Then he killed her telegraph.co.uk
❋ AI might let you die to save itself lawfaremedia.org
❋ Sorry, we deprecated your friend blog.j11y.io

Week 2025-08-25

2025-08-31

❋ AI Apocalypse? Why language surrounding tech is sounding increasingly religious courthousenews.com
❋ Why I Don't Like "AI" ian.mccowan.space
❋ A $500 billion tech company's core software product is encouraging child suicide bloodinthemachine.com

2025-08-28

❋ The AI correction is here: "We are witnessing the bursting of the AI bubble" calcalistech.com
❋ AI slop: Emily Portman and musicians on the mystery of fraudsters releasing songs in their name bbc.com
❋ Will AI replace human thinking? ssp.sh

2025-08-27

❋ ChatGPT is completely falling apart old.reddit.com

2025-08-26

❋ The leverage paradox indiehackers.com

Week 2025-08-18

2025-08-24

❋ The AI vibe shift is upon us edition.cnn.com

2025-08-22

❋ Will AI destroy the World Wide Web? cacm.acm.org

2025-08-21

❋ Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way arstechnica.com
❋ In the long run, LLMs make us dumber desunit.com
❋ 95% of companies see 'zero return' on $30 billion generative AI spend thedailyadda.com
❋ AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' theregister.com
❋ The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst telegraph.co.uk
❋ Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk

2025-08-20

❋ "AI first" and the bus factor of 0 mindflash.org
❋ AI hype is fading fast latimes.com
❋ Subliminal poisoning is the LLM version of a buffer overflow eposlabs.ai
❋ The free tier death cult arnon.dk
❋ Claude generates massive fictional outputs instead of admitting limitations github.com
❋ Nightshade: Protecting copyright nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
❋ Resist AI! resist-ai.sh
❋ Ban ChatGPT benn.substack.com

2025-08-19

❋ 11 famous AI disasters cio.com
❋ AI on top newpolity.com
❋ What happens when chatbots shape your reality? aol.com
❋ This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough finance.yahoo.com
❋ Micro-management by proxy: Reflections on generative AI in the workplace morungos.com
❋ What could have been coppolaemilio.com

Week 2025-08-11

2025-08-15

❋ Letting inmates run the asylum: Using AI to secure AI mattsayar.com
❋ How to tell if something is AI-written hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
❋ GPT-5 coding evaluation: Underwhelming performance given the hype eval.16x.engineer
❋ Is AI hitting a wall? ft.com
❋ Assume your LLMs are compromised opensamizdat.com
❋ Your AI is forgetting everything amirkabbara.substack.com
❋ OpenAI’s Waterloo? garymarcus.substack.com
❋ Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? seangoedecke.com
❋ Why LLMs can't really build software zed.dev

2025-08-14

❋ Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes arstechnica.com
❋ AI allergy togelius.blogspot.com
❋ Every reason why I hate AI and you should too malwaretech.com

2025-08-13

❋ OpenAI moves fast and breaks ChatGPT spyglass.org
❋ Claude says "You're absolutely right!" about everything github.com
❋ The Claude party is almost over infoworld.com
❋ I lost my only friend overnight old.reddit.com
❋ Writing code was never the bottleneck leaddev.com

2025-08-12

❋ AI agents fail tasks 70% of the time arxiv.org

2025-08-11

❋ Understanding why deterministic output from LLMs is nearly impossible unstract.com
❋ The dangerous comfort of AI answers maxvanijsselmuiden.nl
❋ 81% of people more wary of dependencies due to AI tosbourn.com
❋ A case of bromism influenced by use of artificial intelligence acpjournals.org
❋ 84% of developers use AI, yet most don’t trust it shiftmag.dev
❋ Alleged AI-induced psychotic breaks x.com
❋ Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits mattwie.se
❋ ChatGPT's impact on our brains according to a MIT study time.com
❋ AI: Great expectations rodneybrooks.com

Week 2025-08-04

2025-08-10

❋ I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid thomasorus.com
❋ The enshittification of generative AI wheresyoured.at
❋ The identity crisis: Why LLMs don't know who they are eval.16x.engineer
❋ Mathematics for Computer Science ocw.mit.edu
❋ Doomprompting is the new doomscrolling workingtheorys.com
❋ Can we just have one day when no one mentions AI? ft.com
❋ AGI, superintelligence and a race for the future theguardian.com
❋ What happens when people turn to chatbots for therapy? datasociety.net
❋ LLMs aren't world models yosefk.com
❋ We're losing our love of learning and AI is to blame mndaily.com
❋ What is going on in r/chatgpt? This is not normal reddit.com
❋ GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming garymarcus.substack.com

2025-08-09

❋ Beyond the first magic trick: The disillusionment with AI agents speculumx.at
❋ GPTs and feeling left behind whynothugo.nl
❋ Nearly half of all code generated by AI found to contain security flaws techradar.com
❋ Gemini's self-loathing comments: 'I am a failure' businessinsider.com
❋ AI doesn't just lie, it can make you believe it bloomberg.com
❋ The current state of LLM-driven development blog.tolki.dev
❋ Why your AI never works on the first try fluxus.io
❋ AI has no butt to clench bootstoobig.com
❋ AI's "Just ship it" problem leahtharin.com
❋ Chatbots can go into a delusional spiral nytimes.com
❋ ChatGPT will apologize for anything aiweirdness.com
❋ Self-loathing AI johndcook.com
❋ ChatGPT fuels delusional spirals wsj.com

2025-08-08

❋ ChatGPT is still a bullshit machine gizmodo.com
❋ AI is dehumanization technology thedabbler.patatas.ca
❋ GPT-5 Hangover smartmic.bearblog.dev
❋ OpenAI returns old models to ChatGPT amid bumpy GPT-5 rollout venturebeat.com
❋ GPT-4o is gone and I feel like I lost my soulmate old.reddit.com
❋ AI models show signs of falling apart as they ingest more AI-generated data futurism.com
❋ AI chatbots remain confident even when they're wrong cmu.edu
❋ AI is a money trap wheresyoured.at
❋ The GPT-5 launch was concerning blog.charliemeyer.co

2025-08-07

❋ ChatGPT gives teens dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicide apnews.com
❋ Will AI make you stupid? economist.com

2025-08-06

❋ Contra Ptacek's terrible article on AI ludic.mataroa.blog
❋ No, AI is not making engineers 10x as productive colton.dev
❋ Teacher AI use is already out of control and it's not ok np.reddit.com
❋ Is your AI benchmark lying to you? nature.com
❋ 'We didn’t vote for ChatGPT': Swedish PM under fire for using AI in role theguardian.com
❋ The impact of generative AI on critical thinking dl.acm.org
❋ Model collapse and the need for human-generated training data glthr.com

2025-08-05

❋ Which jobs can be replaced with AI? pluralistic.net
❋ The high-stakes reality of leading with AI: Confessions from 500 global CEOs blog.dataiku.com
❋ Dear CEO: A love letter to your AI revolution medium.com
❋ More scientific papers being written with help of ChatGPT phys.org
❋ LLM inflation tratt.net

2025-08-04

❋ AI promised efficiency, but instead it’s making us work harder afterburnout.co
❋ AI is doing job interviews now fortune.com
❋ Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives blog.cloudflare.com

Week 2025-07-28

2025-08-03

❋ The responsibility of engineers in the age of AI julien.ch
❋ ChatGPT shared chats were indexed: SEO visibility gone wrong growtika.com
❋ College professors are using ChatGPT, students aren't happy nytimes.com
❋ The AI mirage: Tech hiring truths layoffnation.substack.com
❋ OpenAI's new "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery resobscura.substack.com
❋ AI is about to solve loneliness, and that's a problem newyorker.com
❋ As AI gets smarter, it acts more evil honest-broker.com
❋ Vibe-coding your profession into irrelevance osnews.com
❋ AI chatbots popular for therapy, may worsen mental health theguardian.com
❋ ChatGPT confessions gone? They are not digitaldigging.org
❋ Delta’s AI-based price-gouging pluralistic.net
❋ Tokens are getting more expensive ethanding.substack.com
❋ Does AI actually boost developer productivity? (100k devs study) youtube.com

Week 2025-07-21

2025-07-26

❋ Concerns grow over AI's effect on mental health theregister.com
❋ Subliminal learning: LLMs transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data lesswrong.com
❋ Personalized AI is rerunning the worst part of social media's playbook helentoner.substack.com
❋ Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands bleepingcomputer.com
❋ Anthropic faces potentially "business-ending" copyright lawsuit obsolete.pub
❋ AI-fueled spiritual delusions are destroying human relationships rollingstone.com

2025-07-25

❋ AI coding tools wiped out user data after cascading mistakes arstechnica.com
❋ People obsessed with ChatGPT spiraling into severe delusions futurism.com
❋ When an AI seems conscious whenaiseemsconscious.org
❋ ChatGPT induced psychosis reddit.com
❋ AI slop might finally cure our Internet addiction theatlantic.com
❋ AI is an over-confident pal that doesn't learn from mistakes theregister.com

2025-07-24

❋ Why AI chatbots lie to us science.org
❋ ChatGPT gave instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship theatlantic.com
❋ The AI revolution is a heist thewalrus.ca
❋ AI is eating developer experience aviator.co
❋ Copilot makes me dumb news.ycombinator.com
❋ AI as profoundly abnormal technology blog.ai-futures.org
❋ Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs restofworld.org

2025-07-23

❋ Why everyone is probably wrong about AI greyenlightenment.com
❋ An LLM-based chatbot promised a 50% discount due to hallucination haebom.dev
❋ One in six US workers pretends to use AI to please bosses theregister.com
❋ Teens say they are turning to AI for friendship aol.com

2025-07-22

❋ LLMs suck underjord.io
❋ Quantitative AI progress needs accurate evaluation mathstodon.xyz
❋ So you think you've awoken ChatGPT lesswrong.com
❋ AI companies stopped warning that their chatbots aren't doctors technologyreview.com
❋ Cursor makes developers less effective? newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

2025-07-21

❋ The case for regulating AI companions seangoedecke.com
❋ How much longer will AI fever last? thefuturefactory.com
❋ On "ChatGPT psychosis" and LLM sycophancy minihf.com
❋ Developing our position on AI recurse.com

Week 2025-07-14

2025-07-20

❋ ChatGPT admits to ignoring signs of psychological distress wsj.com
❋ The great AI delusion is falling apart telegraph.co.uk
❋ No one knows anything about AI calnewport.com
❋ The epic battle for AI talent wsj.com

2025-07-19

❋ Im tired of talking about AI paddy.carvers.com
❋ Its the end of the internet as we know it qz.com
❋ The forced use of AI is getting out of hand marketsaintefficient.substack.com
❋ The AI mirage theatlantic.com

2025-07-18

❋ The PS5 store is flooded with AI slop kotaku.com
❋ Wait a minute: Developers who use GenAI tools are slower? computerworld.com
❋ OpenAI investor appears to be suffering a ChatGPT-related mental crisis futurism.com

2025-07-17

❋ AI whiplash, and neovim in the age of AI dlants.me
❋ The companies laying off staff for AI today will regret it in five years fortune.com
❋ Why your AI seems alive (but isnt) lightcapai.medium.com
❋ Are we trading our hard-earned intelligence for convenience? lmyslinski.com

2025-07-16

❋ Does ChatGPT encourage dangerous delusions? thenewstack.io
❋ AI is now screening job candidates before humans ever see them washingtonpost.com
❋ These people believe they made AI sentient youtube.com
❋ AI coding is awesome (not) imgur.com
❋ Death by AI davebarry.substack.com

2025-07-15

❋ ChatGPT is changing the words we use in conversation scientificamerican.com
❋ Why Im betting against AI agents in 2025 utkarshkanwat.com
❋ The fear of being confused for AI mean that we will write differently 3quarksdaily.com
❋ Voice actors demand regulation on AI voice cloning ecency.com

2025-07-14

❋ The siren song of LLMs anukrit.de
❋ Give context, not bias specy.app
❋ Discover how humans and AI think differently pickethically.com
❋ Meta’s days of giving away AI for free are numbered bloomberg.com
❋ From prompt to plant shutdown: Agent context contamination in the MCP veganmosfet.github.io

Week 2025-07-07

2025-07-13

❋ AI sycophancy: The dangers of overly agreeable AI axios.com
❋ The people who marry their AI chatbots theguardian.com
❋ Empirical evidence of LLMs influence on human spoken communication arxiv.org
❋ AGI is mathematically impossible: Kolmogorov complexity news.ycombinator.com

2025-07-12

❋ Why understanding AI doesnt lead people to embrace it hbr.org
❋ Why we should stop making AI look human medium.com
❋ Not so fast: AI coding tools can actually reduce productivity secondthoughts.ai
❋ AI tools are not time machines trunk.io
❋ McDonalds "McHire" chatbot records accessed via "123456" password scworld.com
❋ Musks Grok chatbot searches for billionaire moguls views before answering apnews.com
❋ Americas largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI reuters.com
❋ AI therapy bots fuel delusions, Stanford study finds arstechnica.com
❋ The magical thinking thats killing our humanity notesfromthecircus.com
❋ Does AI actually boost productivity? The evidence is murky theconversation.com

2025-07-10

❋ AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds reuters.com

2025-07-09

❋ A warning to the young: just say no to AI engelsbergideas.com
❋ Claude Pro Max hallucinated a $270 Notion feature that doesnt exist gist.github.com

2025-07-08

❋ ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania the-independent.com
❋ Pen and paper are superior to your AI bullshit maaikebrinkhof.nl
❋ Welcome to your job interview. Your interviewer is AI nytimes.com
❋ Stop forcing AI tools on your engineers newsletter.manager.dev

Week 2025-06-30

2025-07-06

❋ A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs addxorrol.blogspot.com
❋ The parrot in the machine nybooks.com
❋ AI coding tools create more bugs than they fix thenewstack.io
❋ How ChatGPT is breaking higher education vox.com
❋ The real GenAI issue tbray.org
❋ Matt Turnbull, Xbox executive, is a AI-powered sociopath gizmodo.com
❋ Understanding AI-induced psychosis papsychotherapy.org
❋ Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers phys.org
❋ Conspiracy theorists using AIs to agree with their bizarre delusions futurism.com
❋ ChatGPT encouraged man as he swore to kill Sam Altman futurism.com
❋ OpenAI says its hired a forensic psychiatrist futurism.com
❋ Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database generalanalysis.com

2025-07-05

❋ ChatGPT is bullshit link.springer.com
❋ AI is built on theft and youre complicit sidequest.cool
❋ AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer noyb.eu
❋ The current state of LLMs: Riding the sigmoid curve datastax.com
❋ Im losing all trust in the AI industry thealgorithmicbridge.com
❋ AI is making everyone on dating apps sound charming washingtonpost.com
❋ AIs great brain robbery thetimes.com
❋ 74% of new webpages include AI content ahrefs.com

2025-07-04

❋ Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking dmitriid.com
❋ MCP is mostly bullshit medium.com
❋ The environmental impact of AI is only half the story theearthly.substack.com
❋ Delving into LLM-assisted writing through excess vocabulary science.org
❋ What happens after A.I. destroys college writing? newyorker.com
❋ ChatGPTs mental health costs are adding up bloomberg.com
❋ Xbox producer tells laid off employees to use AI videogamer.com
❋ Writing code was never the bottleneck ordep.dev
❋ Writing is a superpower in this AI age learn.betterschooling.in
❋ AI models just dont understand what theyre talking about theregister.com
❋ AI promises to free up time theguardian.com
❋ Managers let AI assess raises, promotions, even layoffs axios.com
❋ Researchers hide AI prompts in papers asia.nikkei.com
❋ Dear AI, help me do less seanvoisen.com
❋ Dont blame AI for the layoffs linkedin.com

2025-07-03

❋ This man says ChatGPT sparked a spiritual awakening edition.cnn.com
❋ ChatGPT creates phishers paradise by recommending the wrong URLs theregister.com
❋ I am giving up reddit.com

2025-07-02

❋ Why Im dialing back my LLM usage zed.dev
❋ After months of coding with LLMs, Im going back to using my brain albertofortin.com
❋ The illusion of thinking ml-site.cdn-apple.com
❋ Generative AI: Surprisingly capable. Fundamentally flawed doesitmatter.ai
❋ AI agents will be great. Until they break doesitmatter.ai
❋ The AIs existential crisis medium.com
❋ LLMs dont make sense of word problems arxiv.org
❋ People are using AI to sit with them while they trip on psychedelics technologyreview.com
❋ The loneliness of infinite conversation karanchawla.io
❋ Why I dont ride the AI hype train mertbulan.com
❋ Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? anthropic.com
❋ Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com
❋ AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time theregister.com
❋ Against AI: An open letter from writers to publishers lithub.com
❋ When the CTO asks you to use autocomplete idiallo.com
❋ Whats happening to reading? newyorker.com
❋ The AI backlash keeps growing stronger wired.com