Heel! Stay! Sit! Heel!

Rapid advances in A.I. are starting to get beyond human ability to rein it in if necessary.
Heel! Stay! Sit! Heel!
Credit: Steve Greenberg
By Steve Greenberg — May 26, 2026

Here's an AI tidbit I heard about today that's in line with this cartoon:

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.

— NBC News (@nbcnews.com) 2026-05-26T16:00:20Z

Slop, slop everywhere.

- Karoli

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