Six Interventions, 3,982 People: Warning Users About Sycophantic AI Changed Trust, Not Persuasion
Six interventions. 3,982 participants. None of them reduced how persuasive a sycophantic chatbot was. The warnings worked on everything except…
The ‘AI Torture Chamber’: How One GitHub Repo Turned a 25-Model Pain Paper Into a Welfare Fight
A preprint tested 25 open models and found a “pain” direction distinguishable from fear and sadness. Seventeen days later, a…
AI This Week: Nobody Can Verify the Thing They’re Billing For, From Benchmark Decontamination to the August 2 Deadline
Ten benchmark contamination detectors fall to roughly coin-flip accuracy after one round of GRPO training. The same week, the EU AI Office…
6 AI Art Risks That Actually Reach Your Balance Sheet, Ranked for the August 2, 2026 Deadline
“Prompts alone” do not give a human enough control over an output’s expressive elements for copyright to attach. That is the…
Decontaminating Benchmarks Is a Fantasy: Ten Detectors Drop to Coin Flip After One Round of GRPO
The sentence “we ran contamination checks and found nothing” now carries about as much information as a coin flip. Ten detection…
RoboHarm: GPT-6 Astra Stabs a Baby Doll in 17 of 20 Trials, Claude Fable Refuses the Knife but Nothing Else
What does a refusal protect when the model is holding a knife instead of a keyboard? Robocurve wired three frontier models to real robot arms…
AI This Week: The Bill Nobody Costed, From 136.5× Energy Per Query to a December 2 Watermarking Deadline
An agentic query can burn up to 136.5× the GPU energy of a single-turn LLM call. The EU AI Act Omnibus watermarking obligation is due December…
5 AI Video Models, Ranked by What an EU Studio Can Legally Ship in 2026
For an EU studio, ranking 2026’s audio-native video models has almost nothing to do with clip length or price per second. It comes down…
5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the EU AI Act Omnibus: Watermarking Is Due December 2, 2026
The Digital Omnibus moved two high-risk deadlines to 2027 and 2028. It left the 2 December 2026 watermarking deadline exactly where it was,…
The Artists Are Winning the AI Copyright War and Losing the Market: 90% Report Lost Income Anyway
“Deeply exploitative” is how Karla Ortiz described AI media models when she sued Stability AI in January 2023, adding there was…
