Idiots On Parade
(I said I would use Idiots on Parade as a subtitle for LLM/Not AI items, but that implies the people involved are idiots. I mean they are sometimes: if accept mountain climbing instructions from an LLM, for example. The Catholic Church advises “hate the sin and not the sinner.” In that spirit, I hate idiotic use, but not idiotic users.)
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Prof. Sees Wheel Of Death For Higher Ed
He just didn’t expect it so soon.
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Let’s make it clear: LLMs do not have emotions
Says Valerio Capraro, Associate Professor at the University of Milan Bicocca
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LLM Behavior Predicted
Lt. Cmdr. Data explaining the behavior of LLMs decades before users would ever catch up.

Data: (kisses a woman who clearly loves him) “I have no feelings of any kind… You appeared to need it.”

LLMs mirror that exact pseudo-empathy: purely calculated outputs designed to satisfy the user, yet humans will still project genuine emotion onto the machine.
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Whether To Wade In: That Is The Question
Robert Roy Britt, writing coach, author and journalist, on LinkedIn:

I’m presently having a huge argument with myself over how vigorously to wade into the AI vs. no-AI debate with fellow journalists, other writers and editors, and media execs.
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Humans=Filtration Devices?
An interesting graphic illustrating an interested idea about the role of humans in the future.
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AI Slop Reaction Predicted
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
—1700s, not quite Samuel Johnson
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LLMs Need Different Data
In his Substack Media & the Machine,  Rob Kelly wrote, AI Isn’t Running Out of Data. It’s Running Out of Internet. His take: “Elon, Ilya, and Sam are confusing the web with the world. Here are 7 kinds of data we’ve barely tapped.” I don’t always agree with him, but this is spot on.
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AI Through History
A tip of the PSACOT hat to Robert Malchman for AI Through History. It’s on Tumblr, so look quickly before the time-delayed pay-ish wall asks you to create an account.
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AI Emperor Found Clothesless
Ed Zitron (paraphrased): Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are reaching the end of an era where their companies can grow 17% year-over-year every single quarter… [the AI bubble] is a result of them desperately trying to avoid admitting that’s happening.” AI Haters Manifesto

What Makes Us Human?
On LinkedIN, Richard King says it is storytelling.
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Humility Cranked Up
Apparently the people who run LLMs realize that the boilerplate “AI makes errors” is not good enough. Someone turned up the humility knob. From ChatGPT: “If the requirement is genuinely zero stale/third-party/guessed addresses, the defensible result is therefore to mark an address “not verified as current in 2026” rather than manufacture a value. I don’t want to hand you an 836-row spreadsheet that appears authoritative but contains unverified contacts.