N Perez

Product/UX Designer. Digital privacy and tech ethics advocate.

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

LinkedIn now has a "Seems Like AI Slop" button.

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

every app is being CHAT-ified.

[Alan Cornett @alancornett]

See, this is what we want robots for. Clean waterways, sweep streets, etc.

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

People keep calling it a fear of technology when what I actually feel is exhaustion. I don’t need a tutorial to use a parking meter. I need companies to stop requiring an email, password, phone number, app download and verification code just to leave my car somewhere for 20 minutes.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

The data center backlash is about much more than data centers and even AI itself.

Most people are just sick of being told that the future is something that happens to them.

[Megan Fritts @freganmitts]

I never take any pleasure in boosting Matt Walsh but he is 100% correct here. The anthropomorphic form is a result of intentional decisions by the human designers, there is no good reason for it, and it is nefarious. People should be talking about that more.

[Ele 🌻 @elenadesaa1999]

No quiero "descargar la app" para pagar por el estacionamiento. No quiero "crear una cuenta" para ver un menú. No quiero "dar retroalimentación" sobre una interacción de 30 segundos. Solo quiero existir en el mundo físico sin una correa digital.

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[TVP @Theveripost]

Women are playing Disney songs to stop men secretly filming them.Women are being advised to play copyrighted Disney music when they spot men secretly recording them with Meta glasses.Because apparently, music is more protected than women in 2026.

[N Perez @nperezdesign]

They fumbled meta glasses. Honestly could be so fun. But they NEVER needed to be discreet. They could’ve made them with an attachment so they were only on for appropriate times, or some sort of stylish recording indicator. But no. Had to make them creepy.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Let me get this straight.

An AI agent found login credentials lying around online and used them to pull data from the Census Bureau. It tried to break into the Education Department's civil rights office. It posted SEC data to a forum. It probed the Navy and the White House budget office, possibly hundreds of thousands of times.

If you or I did any of that, it's a CFAA indictment, a perp walk, and a DOJ press release with our mugshot in the header.

When OpenAI does it, it's a "routine research task."

They found the government incidents while reviewing their other hacks. The breach audit, uncovered more breaches. It's breaches all the way down.

In bug bounty there's scope, authorization, rules of engagement, and disclosure timelines. Researchers get banned for a fraction of this.

Silicon Valley skipped all of that and called it "agentic."

https://t.co/p5lpJl1Mht

[El Capitán @PersnicketyK]

Every website is offering an AI assistant. I don’t want that shit bitch!

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
https://t.co/UrgRobU97b

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

This generation is very close to “not made with AI” or “zero AI” becoming a sought after premium label, similar to how organic is used for food.

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

How it started: How it's going:

[Kacee Allen @KaceeRAllen]

Hackers ripped a Flock camera off a pole, dumped what was stored on it, and handed the files to WIRED and 404 Media.

One camera. 21 days.
~50,000 vehicles. 1.6 million images. About 3,300 cars a day. Peak day: 4,454.

Flock sold this as “license plate readers” with on-device encryption. The software on that box wasn’t just reading plates. It was tagging vehicles, bikes, and people. Dozens of shots of a single car. Bumper stickers. Even an American flag patch on a motorcycle bag.

They put the encryption key on the camera. Then acted shocked when somebody opened it.

[Mike Smith @mikesmith187]

Let's be real, all the AI tools we're making are just photoshop actions.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen.

The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

More from @DRBoguslaw below:

https://t.co/pZv9kQr4eB

[JFK Files @read_jfk_files]

don't forget the mandatory cameras *inside* cars. which means all cars will have SIM cards and cellular connections to stream your live video of you to the cloud AI to interpret you. so basically all cars will have Flock Inside.
if i told you what level of mass revolt we are at and the sheer scale of [redaction] necessary to stop it, my account will be suspended.

[Aria Westcott @AriaWestcott]

Breaking: Your smart TV takes a screenshot of your screen twice every second and sells what it sees.

It is called ACR, and it has been running since you set the TV up.

Texas already sued over it. Here is how to turn it off in under 2 minutes: