The AI dooooooom thread

[Syt]

Fortunately, it's not real: https://nurtureos.ai/

If You Want This App, You're A Bad Parent

NurtureOS was built to show just how far (and how fast) AI can spiral when we let convenience outrun common sense. If this made you pause, good. There's a much bigger story behind why this campaign exists, what it warns against, and how you can help shape a more positive future for AI.

[Josquius]

....but surely people who know they're bad parents is a legit target group?
Min-maxing the infants seems a wondrous idea.

[DGuller]

I'm sure your child would prefer you not to waste your own time on repetitive child interaction tasks, they'd prefer you to leave that to AI and instead work more hours so that you could buy them more toys.

[Syt]

....but surely people who know they're bad parents is a legit target group?
Min-maxing the infants seems a wondrous idea.

I'm sure some tech bro will put this into the market eventually.

[The Minsky Moment]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Cornell University study of productivity impact of AI on coding tasks

Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the February-June 2025 frontier affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers. 16 developers with moderate AI experience complete 246 tasks in mature projects on which they have an average of 5 years of prior experience. Each task is randomly assigned to allow or disallow usage of early 2025 AI tools. When AI tools are allowed, developers primarily use Cursor Pro, a popular code editor, and Claude 3.5/3.7 Sonnet. Before starting tasks, developers forecast that allowing AI will reduce completion time by 24%. After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%--AI tooling slowed developers down. This slowdown also contradicts predictions from experts in economics (39% shorter) and ML (38% shorter). To understand this result, we collect and evaluate evidence for 20 properties of our setting that a priori could contribute to the observed slowdown effect--for example, the size and quality standards of projects, or prior developer experience with AI tooling. Although the influence of experimental artifacts cannot be entirely ruled out, the robustness of the slowdown effect across our analyses suggests it is unlikely to primarily be a function of our experimental design.

[Tamas]

One of the investigative journalist outfits in Hungary has proven that in order to appear to have supporters among young people, Fidesz in Hungary have had a virtual existence of about a 100 fake Facebook profiles created. These no doubt aided by AI have lively profiles, posting about their hobbies, even about relationship drama and obviously beside all the hip stuff they enthusiastically share government propaganda.

They are so convincing that some of them have been able to get real people add them as friends.

[Zoupa]

I'm sure your child would prefer you not to waste your own time on repetitive child interaction tasks, they'd prefer you to leave that to AI and instead work more hours so that you could buy them more toys.

Not sure if serious lol. If you are, this is the clearest indication that you do not have children.