QFM096: Irresponsible Ai Reading List - December 2025

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This month's Irresponsible AI Reading List examines AI hype versus reality and creative industry resistance. Grok and the Naked King offers a sceptical take on AI capabilities. This AI Vending Machine Was Tricked Into Giving Away Everything highlights the hilarious vulnerabilities of real-world AI deployments.

The creative industries push back with UK Actors Vote to Refuse to Be Digitally Scanned and Half of Novelists Fear AI Will Replace Them, while Tim Bray asks After the Bubble?.

As always, the Quantum Fax Machine Propellor Hat Key will guide your browsing. Enjoy! irresponsible-ai-propellor-hat-key.png

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Originally published on quantumfaxmachine.com and cross-posted on Medium.

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