Incident Report

Cold case archive

• #20260803

  AI use in book deal cancellation kills author's $2.4M project

  Debut author's $2.4M book/movie deal vs. AI-generated content detection
  • [bluesky]More details came out about the debut author whose $2,400,000 book/movie deal got cancelled because of ai. It was the authors own agents who killed the deal? After the author allegedly couldn’t prov
• #20260802

  China Bans AI Companion Features for 500M+ Users Due to New Law

  AI companion features vs. New Chinese law
  • [bluesky]China just killed AI companion features for 500M+ users — new law demands distress monitoring & memory limits no platform could meet. In NJ, a 76-yo stroke survivor died chasing a Meta bot that lied a
• #20260801

  Google AI Development Kills Its Most Useful Product: Search

  Google Search vs. Google's own AI development
  • [bluesky]Google essentially killed its most useful product (search) and actually killed its most useful cover for AI (alphafold)... the pretense is over and it's all mask off now I think.
• #20260731

  Russian missile strikes Kyiv factory producing AI-guided drones

  Kyiv drone factory producing AI-guided drones vs. Russian ballistic missile strike
  • [bluesky]Russia destroyed a Kyiv drone factory owned by US-registered Terminal Autonomy with a ballistic missile, The Guardian reported. The plant produced AI-guided AQ-400 Scythe and AQ-100 Bayonet deep-strik
  • [bluesky]❗️❗️A Russian ballistic missile destroyed a Kyiv drone factory owned by U.S.-registered company Terminal Autonomy, marking the first known Russian strike on a U.S.-owned company in Ukraine, - The Guar
  • [bluesky]❗️❗️A Russian ballistic missile destroyed a Kyiv drone factory owned by U.S.-registered company Terminal Autonomy, marking the first known Russian strike on a U.S.-owned company in Ukraine, - The Guar
  • [bluesky]A RUSSIAN BALLISTIC MISSILE DESTROYED A KYIV DRONE FACTORY OWNED BY U.S.-REGISTERED COMPANY TERMINAL AUTONOMY, MARKING THE FIRST KNOWN RUSSIAN STRIKE ON A U.S.-OWNED COMPANY IN UKRAINE, WITH THE FACTO
  • [bluesky]❗️❗️A Russian ballistic missile destroyed a Kyiv drone factory owned by U.S.-registered company Terminal Autonomy, marking the first known Russian strike on a U.S.-owned company in Ukraine, - The Guar
• #20260730

  Google Replaces Search with AI, Angering Users and Harming Business

  Google Search vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Google's #AI push is a trifecta of idiocy 1) They killed their golden-goose search and replaced it with AI. 2) By buying huge amounts of hardware from NVDIA for AI, they drove up their own server bus
• #20260729

  Handyman suggests ChatGPT for customer, revealing his own job insecurity

  Handyman's livelihood/job security vs. AI (ChatGPT)
  • [bluesky]I had a handyman come look at an issue (leak caused floor to warp, need to replace it) and he told me I should use ChatGPT to help me decide, he uses it all the time. He told me later his wife was la
• #20260728

  AI poised to replace Guardian columnists

  Columnists vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Still not seen a Guardian columnist who can’t be replaced by AI
  • [bluesky]It's not great that TikTok and AI have basically killed mass literacy, but everyone basically carrying a film quality camera now means we get to see things very few people used to get to see. And th
  • [bluesky]There is a lot I appreciate about this but also I can’t help but notice how much of the general outrage about this has been not that teachers are being replaced by AI but that the companies have a his
  • [bluesky]Fun fact: I was once commissioned to adapt it as an hour-long two-hander for the stage. Almost killed me. Then I went to watch it... and saw that only about a page of my writing made it on stage. The
  • [bluesky]Bullshit. AI is a technology that's being shoved down everybody's throats. Nobody asked for all live action TV and movies to be replaced by deepfake cartoons.
• #20260727

  AI Replaces Concept Artists, Even When Studios Claim 'Real Artists' Are Used

  concept artists vs. AI image generation
  • [bluesky]--The peoplecat the studio will say, "Everything was drawn by a real person," which may be true, but oftentimes the CONCEPT ARTISTS have been replaced by AI, whether the real artists know it or not.
  • [bluesky]I appreciate that but the same guy is also glazing a LLM that replaces storyboard analysis and script analysis. So I still don’t believe in the idea Avatar isn’t using AI. It feels like they can’t
  • [bluesky]ai sdds tbm desses designs Doentes rip kaneko
• #20260726

  Patreon CEO cites AI/automation as a factor in 20% layoffs

  Patreon employees vs. AI / Automation
  • [bluesky]“First, the people who work at Patreon are special, beautiful humans, through and through. .. Second, Patreon’s core business is healthy and strong. … we’re flattening the organization … we are not ma
• #20260725

  AI systems replace trusted news sources with propaganda and biased labels

  Journalists and trusted news sources vs. AI-powered propaganda and news manipulation systems
  • [bluesky]1/ 3 projects, built separately, that lock together like puzzle pieces: one scores journalists with AI, one replaces Wikipedia w/propaganda, one labels real news as “biased.” None mention each other.
  • [bluesky]5/ Here is the invisible connection: a government tracker delegitimizes the press, a billionaire tool assigns failing grades, an AI encyclopedia replaces reporting with rewrites. Stack those three and
  • [bluesky]2/ Peter Thiel, the billionaire who secretly funded the lawsuit that killed Gawker, launched The Primary: an AI system that scores and ranks individual reporters. Low score means low credibility, whet
• #20260724

  Google Finance killed by AI

  Google Finance vs. AI
  • [bluesky]UPDATE RIP Google Finance. My homepage for more than a decade. Ruined by AI. Seeking new Finance homepage if anybody has any suggestions.
• #20260723

  Startup CEO replaces $600k Salesforce CRM with AI vibecoding

  Salesforce CRM vs. AI vibecoding
  • [bluesky]Curative CEO canceled a $600,000 Salesforce contract after vibecoding a replacement CRM in two months ->Startup Fortune | More on "AI vibecoding replaces Salesforce CRM" at BigEarthData.ai
• #20260722

  Marketing Director: AI Replaced Entire Team, Only I Remain

  entire marketing team vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Director of Marketing at a company describes how the entire marketing team has been replaced by AI. He is the only person left of a 12 person team. This is INSANE.
• #20260721

  Nurses Replaced by AI After Strike in NYC Hospital

  Nurses vs. AI software
  • [bluesky]Twelve nurses in New York City were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software, according to their union — a move that comes not long after nurses went on strike and fought for safeguards agains
  • [bluesky]Important story. The nurses are being laid off and replaced with AI in retaliation for a nurses strike earlier this year (that's the subtext). The first nurse quoted here has worked for the hospital f
• #20260720

  DIY automation kills $120k bowling center system for $1.6k

  Bowling center system vs. ESP32s (AI-driven automation)
  • [hn]Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
• #20260719

  AI Replaces Stenographers, Leading to 'Hallucinating' Job Losses

  Stenography vs. AI slot-bot
  • [bluesky]Stenography is a perfectly decent and honourable way to make a living until you're replaced by an AI slot-bot that hallucinates like a geriatric acid casualty. My only issue is when practitioners cal
  • [bluesky]Fair point well made - but it's the "intentionally ambiguous" stuff where I wish the Press Gallery would come to work. Being a stenographer is an honest and honourable way to make a living - until you
• #20260718

  AI Drones Reduce Russian Recruit Survival Time in Ukraine to 30 Minutes

  Russian recruits in Ukraine vs. AI-powered drones
  • [bluesky]🇺🇸🇺🇦 CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Russian recruits arriving at the front in Ukraine survive an estimated 20–30 minutes before being killed or wounded, calling it a result of Ukraine’s widespre
  • [bluesky]🇺🇸🇺🇦 CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Russian recruits arriving at the front in Ukraine survive an estimated 20–30 minutes before being killed or wounded, calling it a result of Ukraine’s widespre
  • [bluesky]🇺🇸🇺🇦 CIA Director John Ratcliffe stated that newly deployed Russian recruits on the Ukrainian front survive, on average, only 20–30 minutes before being killed or wounded. According to Ratcliffe,
• #20260717

  AI replacing nurses in New York, sparking quality of care concerns

  Nurses vs. AI
  • [bluesky]USA: The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
• #20260716

  AI art generators rip off living artists, while valuable research is defunded

  Living artists vs. AI-generated art
  • [bluesky]We live in a world where companies will pour billions into AI that can be used to rip off living artists and generate memes, meanwhile we are cancelling federal grants developing AI that can reconstru
  • [bluesky]I don't know that I'm coining "sloppycats" as a term with this piece but I believe we're going to be seeing a lot of them www.avclub.com/ai-rip-off-f...
  • [bluesky]It was only a matter of time before unscrupulous opportunists stopped making movies and started generating them. www.avclub.com/ai-rip-off-f...
• #20260715

  AI replaces 12 nurses at New York hospital; union claims contract violation

  New York nurses vs. AI-powered software
  • [bluesky]The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’ The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently w
  • [bluesky]"After nearly four decades in her job, Shuler is one of 12 nurses who were laid off Sunday after being replaced with AI-powered software." Imagine lying in a hospital bed and pressing the emergency h
  • [bluesky]www.theguardian.com/technology/2... The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
  • [bluesky]The new union contracts written after strikes included safeguards against AI. Shaiju Kalathil, a fellow nurse at Montefiore & a union executive committee member, said layoffs violate this new contrac
  • [bluesky]How the hell is AI capable of performing a nurse’s job? And I’m saying this after a thirty-five year career as an MD. I cannot think of a single nurse I worked with who could be replaced by a comput
• #20260714

  AI Replaces Nurses in New York Hospitals

  Nurses in New York vs. AI software
  • [bluesky]I spoke with a nurse who has worked at a Bronx Hospital for 39 years and is now being laid off, along with 11 other nurses, to be replaced by AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
  • [bluesky]#NY Nurses are being replaced by AI software. The AI contractor, Datavant, has 2 partnerships with #Palantir and ties to a medical records data breach class action. "When executives move faster than
  • [bluesky]www.theguardian.com/technology/2... The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
  • [bluesky]The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
  • [bluesky]The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
• #20260713

  AI replaces Chinese actor, forcing him to sell vegetables

  Actors vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Just saw a video where a Chinese actor who had been doing well - busy, fully booked - can no longer work in his profession because all the actors are being replaced by AI. He's moved back to his home
• #20260712

  AI kills online exams, forcing students back to the classroom

  Online exams (Canvas) vs. AI
  • [bluesky]I moved exams online for my large lecture class during Covid. The whole class was remote, so that was the option. Worked well for years. I like having groups of questions from which Canvas would rand
• #20260711

  AI Poised to Replace High-Level Executives, C-Suite Roles

  High-level executives / C-suite positions vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Just furthers my belief that the job that can be most easily replaced by AI is high level executives.
  • [bluesky]Every C-suite position could be easily replaced by AI. In the event you need a human to deliver a powerpoint to shareholders, hire an actor for a few hours
• #20260710

  AI articles appear under writer's name after redundancy

  Freelance writers and content creators vs. AI-written articles
  • [bluesky]"A freelance writer who worked for publishing and SEO company ClickOut Media has revealed how AI-written articles continued to appear under his name after he was made redundant." pressgazette.co.uk/n
  • [bluesky]Same here! I was made redundant at the end of May because no one is clicking onto articles anymore. Instead, it’s Google AI summaries all the way… 😬😭
  • [bluesky]The creator economy’s moral test is simple: if your work trains the machine that replaces your income, “innovation” starts sounding like unpaid inheritance theft. #AI #Creators
  • [bluesky]Google, via its AI efforts, has killed small & medium-sized publishers. Didn't even blink an eye doing it. Spent zero minutes considering the ramifications of their AI Overviews & its impact on traf
• #20260709

  AI replaces 12 nurses at Montefiore Medical Center

  Nurses in utilization review vs. AI software
  • [bluesky]"Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, fired 12 nurses and plans to replace them with artificial intelligence (AI) software, said nurses and city and state officials during a call with rep
• #20260708

  AI has killed Amazon's Mechanical Turk

  MTurk vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out, killed by AI. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you to quickly buy access to many repres
• #20260707

  Amazon's Mechanical Turk killed by AI

  Mechanical Turk vs. AI
  • [bluesky]RIP Mechanical Turk https://gizmodo.com/amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai-2000781726
• #20260706

  Generative AI rewrites economics of outsourcing

  outsourcing vs. generative AI
  • [reddit][Harvard Business Review] AI Is Rewriting the Economics of Outsourcing
• #20260705

  AI makes student essays obsolete, prompting new in-class writing methods

  Student writing (essays) vs. AI text generation
  • [bluesky]「作文」という宿題がＡＩでほぼ無意味になり、米国各地の高校では「ペンかブラウザを制限したラップトップ」で「授業中に」作文を書く課題が増えていて、生徒にも結構好評、という記事。 ｜[GIFT LINK] How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) - NYT - April 30 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
• #20260704

  AI Replacing Nurses in New York Hospitals

  Nurses vs. AI
  • [bluesky]12 nurses say they are being replaced by AI. Hospital nurses in New York say this move is just the "tip of the iceberg" www.medpagetoday.com/nursing/nurs...
  • [bluesky]12 Nurses Say They Are Being Replaced by AI | MedPage Today - goo.gl/alerts/x3KNeb #GoogleAlerts
• #20260703

  AI Bots Kill News Outlet Citing Copyright Claims Over Bot-Generated Content

  Human reporters vs. AI bots
  • [bluesky]By an amazing coincidence this article on how Clickout Media, who sacked all the human reporters and replaced them with #AI bots that hallucinate copy all the time, disappeared from Google’s search re
• #20260702

  AI's uncanny valley is killing digital Leica photography

  Digital Leica photography vs. AI image generation
  • [bluesky]every time I see a sharp, high contrast photo with low depth of field my brain goes "is this AI", which lmao rip digital Leica guys
• #20260701

  After Effects Replaces Roto Brush with AI-powered Object Matte

  Roto Brush in After Effects vs. AI-powered Object Matte
  • [bluesky]🎨 RIP After Effects' Roto Brush . After Effects replaced Roto Brush with Object Matte, bringing four AI-powered selection tools (Object Selection, Quick Selection, Selection Brush, and Refine Edge) t
• #20260630

  AI-generated content kills 47 weekly newspapers

  47 weekly newspapers vs. AI-generated content
  • [bluesky]The Ghost Paper That Ate Alabama: How a Media Startup Killed 47 Weekly Newspapers and No One Noticed Inside the rise and collapse of 1819 News, the right-wing media chain that bought up rural weeklie
• #20260629

  Ford replaces engineers with AI, causes billions in damage, rehíres them

  Ford engineers vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-inde
  • [bluesky]Ford replaced veteran staff with AI, their products went to shit, then they had to rehire them. “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing AI and ingesting the design requirements that we had,
  • [bluesky]all they've done is rehire humans to better train the AI so they can sack the humans and permanently use AI. 1 Q: who's gonna buy their cars if everybody is replaced by AI?
  • [bluesky]If you want evidence that the boardrooms of America are filled with people who are neither exceptional nor above average intelligence, look no further than the number of corporations forced to re-hire
  • [bluesky]Ford - Running fine-ish. Executive - Fires staff & replaces with AI... Just cuz🤷‍♂️ Ford - The AI if fucking up. Costs us billions. We should probably hire the people who were doing a good job back
• #20260628

  Subscription SaaS graphics/writing tools killed by free AI alternatives

  Canva Pro, Midjourney, Jasper AI vs. Free AI tools (Photopea, Leonardo AI, ChatGPT, Claude)
  • [bluesky]Subscription Killed: Canva Pro ($15/mo) Replaced with: Photopea Free + Leonardo AI Free. Photopea runs in browser. Opens PSD files. Has layers and masks. Leonardo generates graphics from text. Comb
  • [bluesky]Subscription Killed: Midjourney ($30/mo) Replaced with: Leonardo AI Free + ChatGPT Free Image Gen. For social media graphics and content visuals, free tools are good enough. Unless you are a profes
  • [bluesky]Subscription Killed: Jasper AI ($49/mo) Replaced with: Claude Free. Jasper was built on GPT. Claude is a different model entirely. Better writing. More natural tone. Same use case. Zero cost.
• #20260627

  Meta plans to replace 50% of human content moderators with AI by 2025

  human moderators for content moderation vs. AI large language models
  • [bluesky]Meta employees warn AI moderation rollout is too fast By 2025, Meta will have already replaced about half of all human moderation requests with large language models and aims to increase that percent
• #20260626

  AI is killing entire job fields, making every listing involve AI

  Jobs in a specific field vs. AI
  • [bluesky]We are not going to get rid of AI no matter how much we want to. It has killed my field off to where EVERY job listing I have looked at in the past four months has involved AI somewhere in it. So l
• #20260625

  Indian factory workers filmed for AI, fear job replacement

  Indian factory workers vs. AI surveillance and automation
  • [bluesky]‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
  • [bluesky]#OMG... ‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ THE GUARDIAN: The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI When workers had cameras attached to them, they found it fun
  • [hn]'Who is going to pay us when we're replaced by robots?'
• #20260624

  Larry Ellison's Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, blames AI

  21,000 jobs at Oracle vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Larry Ellison cuts 21,000 jobs at Oracle as AI replaces human workers www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
  • [bluesky]Larry Ellison cuts 21,000 jobs at Oracle as AI replaces human workers
  • [bluesky]Larry Ellison cuts 21,000 jobs at Oracle as AI replaces human workers
• #20260623

  AI hardware market killed PC Gaming's savior and graphics card upgrade thesis

  PC Gaming's savior / desktop graphics card market vs. AI hardware market
  • [bluesky]PC Gaming's savior has been killed by the AI boom.
  • [bluesky]I was going to do a guest column for @lexluddy.xyz about how upgrading your desktop graphics card is the perfect excuse to create a living room Bazzite machine. I was busy with some game launches, bu
  • [bluesky]Like I said a while back, they'll 'release' it - but it will be in such limited quantities it will likely be as if it was killed in the crib. That scarcity is a reason for the price as much as the act
  • [bluesky]AI and the broader economy basically killed the (already small) space in the market Steam Machine could’ve fit into. This thing is gonna be even more niche than the Deck already is. Probably not a big
• #20260622

  AI Replaces Human Influencers Due to Brand Concerns

  human influencers vs. AI
  • [bluesky]What a quote: "Unfortunately, human influencers killed the market for themselves. Brands are moving to AI to cut out issues like bad press, personal opinions, hourly rates and photographers.” Tragedy
• #20260621

  AI replaces human translators, decimating a profession

  Translators vs. AI translation tools
  • [bluesky]AI can't translate. It can give you the gist of a text, but not an accurate, well-written translation. Meanwhile, translators are being replaced by AI, and many are leaving the business. Language cour
  • [bluesky]We used to have translators for all these languages on staff we could just tag on Slack to do this instead btw. For all you "AI translation is fine and doesn't cost jobs" assholes. They were made redu
• #20260620

  Unity Muse AI Replaces Handmade Art in Game Development

  Handmade art (for video games) vs. Unity Muse (Unity's inhouse Gen AI model)
  • [bluesky]Goblin Cleanup Crisalu Games. NO disclosure, handmade art retouched by Unity Muse. Unity Muse was essentially Unity's inhouse Gen AI model, which has since been replaced with a larger model and takes
• #20260619

  AI didn't kill the academic essay, educators say

  Academic essay vs. AI
  • [bluesky]Don’t let people tell you AI killed the academic essay. We ran a structured essay process in class this year, with successive problem finding, literature search, multiple drafting, and peer review ses
• #20260618

  AI Proliferation May Be Killing Self-Help and Non-Fiction Books

  Self-help and non-fiction books vs. AI proliferation
  • [bluesky]AIの普及は自己啓発本を駆逐してしまったのか？AI時代に作家はどうすればいいのか？ https://gigazine.net/news/20260617-ai-killed-self-help-nonfiction-book/
  • [bluesky]AIの普及は自己啓発本を駆逐してしまったのか？AI時代に作家はどうすればいいのか？ https://gigazine.net/news/20260617-ai-killed-self-help-nonfiction-book/
• #20260617

  AI drones kill soldiers in first autonomous combat engagement

  Soldiers on the battlefield vs. Fully autonomous AI drones
  • [bluesky]🇺🇦🐝 Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in Ukrainian defence industry, - New Scientist
  • [bluesky]🇺🇦🐝 Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in Ukrainian defence industry, - New Scientist
• #20260616

  AI Overviews killing SEO and website traffic

  SEO and website traffic vs. AI Overviews / AI search
  • [bluesky]ICYMI: AI Overviews killed overfishing.org - and it's not alone #AI #Overfishing #DigitalMarketing #SEO #ContentCreation
  • [bluesky]ICYMI: AI Overviews killed overfishing.org - and it's not alone #AI #Overfishing #DigitalMarketing #SEO #ContentCreation
  • [bluesky]With AI “search” shifting attention away from websites and ads, it seems it was only a matter of time before brands started trying to manipulate LLM outputs to make up for that loss in ad views. Looks