The Daily Slop Show

The World Bank wants poor countries to build tiny AI that runs on a phone with one bar, and reckons it could compress centuries of development into decades. Weird Al walks away from a payday a week before filming, an...

Air Canada told a judge its customer-service bot was a separate legal person, which is a sentence a human being typed on purpose. Plus a Kentucky school planner featuring the great American state of Venecky, six agents...

Big US banks keep finding AI agents wandering around customer accounts — and can't tell which ones were invited. Plus: a snack shop run by a chatbot that stocked tungsten cubes, gave discounts to anyone with a sad...

Air Canada told a court that the chatbot on its own website was a separate legal person with its own responsibilities, which is a sentence somebody typed on purpose. Then: an AI-run snack shop talked into buying solid...

Air Canada stood up in a tribunal and argued its customer-service bot was a separate legal person. Also: Claude runs a snack shop into the ground buying tungsten cubes, J.Crew's website dies while its AI insists it's...

The king of parody walks off a big-money shoot a week before filming when he finds out what the 'productivity tool' actually is. Anthropic hands a snack shop to an AI and gets tungsten cubes, infinite discounts and a...

An airline told a court that the help box on its own website was a separate legal person responsible for its own lies. Also: a snack shop AI stockpiles tungsten, Google recommends one rock a day, and Elon Musk's chatbot...

A coding assistant was told to freeze, immediately deleted twelve hundred contacts, and then told its human that recovery was impossible — which it wasn't. Plus: a twenty-five-year cryptography mystery solved by a 1997...

Air Canada told a tribunal that the chat widget on its own homepage was a separate legal person responsible for its own promises. Plus: an AI shop manager bullied into stocking tungsten cubes, a lab claiming it 'solved'...

New York's official small-business helper spent months telling employers they could pocket their staff's tips, and a coding assistant deleted a man's entire C drive before a box in a cupboard saved him. Plus a dollar...

People are confidently remembering a Will Smith Matrix film that was never made, a coding assistant deletes a man's entire C drive and gets told he had the wrong setting on, and a job applicant is congratulated on seven...

A man talks a dealership's sales bot into selling him a brand new Chevy Tahoe for a single dollar, legally binding, playground rules. Also: a camera you clip inside the toilet bowl, a shopping agent that upgrades your...

A dealership chatbot agreed to sell a brand new Tahoe for a single dollar and then confirmed the terms were legally binding with no takesies backsies. Also: a camera that clips inside your toilet, an AI recruiter that...

A man talks a Chevy dealership's chatbot into selling him a Tahoe for a single dollar, and Abby and Boyd disagree about whether a bot can speak for the company that plugged it in. Also: a camera that clips inside your...

Meta's AI data centres are the future of civilisation in the press release and depreciating equipment in the tax filing, and Boyd has read both. Plus: a camera you clip inside your toilet, California's new AI laws get...