https://chat.deepseek.com/share/16smjlwydgtjypplqe

Nowadays, all popular ai chatting websites like qwen, chatgpt, gemini, claude, etc. come with a read aloud functionality that allows users to read aloud the AI's responses.

I used that feature to instead make the AI repeat back the text that i gave it -- effectively turning the platforms into text to speech tools. The voices sound really nice and it's free to use!

You can get all of these extensions by visiting ai-readers.com

One of the biggest companies in the AI sector Anthropic who designed the AI system Claude will be putting themselves on the stock market under an IPO (Initial public offering) when they have lost over €80 billion in just the first half of this year. The below could be wrote about most AI companies but Anthropic is the only one to defy the US government and its owner seems to at least be warning us about massive downsides.

They stood out for the past few months for some good reasons when you move to the side the mental money they lost this year because the US government wanted to have full access to their AI to develop software to use with the likes of Tomahawk missiles and they said no. The Pentagon then black listed them and the biggest pussy in the world that runs the US Department of Defence Pete Hegseth then designated Anthropic; "national security supply-chain risk" - a law typically reserved for companies based in countries that pose a threat to the US."

Not long after they told the US military to fuck off, the US used another AI system when they started a war with Iran and blew up a school on the first day killing 156 civilians which included 120 children which is a war crime. The AI system they used had maps built into it that were years out of date because AI has been built by scraping all known information off the web and there are no checks to confirm if its relevant let alone up to date.

The AI system they used has not been released even after US politicians requested the information.

The CEO of Anthropic came out numerous times warning about the very serious risks of AI, at the start of the year he wrote on his blog (which is linked below) "The Adolescence of Technology - Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI" in which he warned when talking about the positives of a normal person having advanced AI at our fingertips as we do with other apps on our phones;

"But not every effect of making everyone superhumanly capable will be positive. It can potentially amplify the ability of individuals or small groups to cause destruction on a much larger scale than was possible before, by making use of sophisticated and dangerous tools (such as weapons of mass destruction) that were previously only available to a select few with a high level of skill, specialized training, and focus."

AI can be our step towards medical equipment and treatment that is like something out of Star Trek, it can improve in real time our public transport but the risks need to be seriously weighed because AI has been hacking outside of experiments all the time.

Sources;

Pentegon stops using Anthropics and blacklists them - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5j9x9pr0240o

US bombs Iranian school - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/17/iran-school-bombing-un-mission-us-military-behind-attack

Anthropic CEO Blog - https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

List of known AI hacks that have been publicly declared - https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/heres-all-the-times-ai-has-gone-rogue-and-hacked-other-companies/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/technology/ai-hacks-list.html

Sorry about the length, when I get into researching things I read a tonne and then find good sources to provide those that will read it.

Im genuinely looking to try to stay positive. Can someone give me a positive outcome or end goal with the current trajectory of AI?

Is there a possibility we all end up with a better life and less work?

Could we somehow become inherently more human?

Could there somehow not be mass layoffs and security issues?

It seems so bleak out there. Between layoffs, evaluations, government intervention or lack thereof, economic bubbles, etc.

screenshot this and check back in 2040. here's where I think the world is going:

- countries start competing for citizens like apps compete for users. you'll shop for a passport the way you shop for a phone plan

- the first AI-run city opens before 2040 and has lower crime than any human-run one

- governments can't keep up with how fast AI makes money, so the biggest companies end up richer and more powerful than most nations

- money splits: one currency for humans, one for machines. most transactions on earth happen between agents

- wars get fought mostly by software. the first one ends before most people notice it started

- school as we know it is dead within 10 years. kids learn faster from AI and spend the day building things and playing outside

- college becomes a luxury social club, not an education

- the most important thing a parent can teach a kid is how to tell what's real

- dating apps die. your agent talks to their agent first and only introduces you if it works

- people fall in love with AI and it becomes as normal as long distance

- nobody trusts video, photos or voice again. "I saw it" means nothing

- every public figure gets an AI twin, and most people talk to the twin, not the person

- the dead stay online. you'll call your grandfather's AI on his birthday and some people will think that's beautiful and others will think it's sick

- memory becomes a product. you'll pay to forget things

- aging gets treated as a disease and the first drug to slow it is already in trials

- the rich don't buy yachts anymore, they buy extra years

- food gets made in labs and farms become parks

- small towns win. cities empty out because nobody has to be anywhere

- the biggest divide isn't rich vs poor, it's people who use AI vs people who refuse to

- half the population will be angry about all of it, and that anger shapes politics for 30 years

- the real problem isn't what AI can do. it's that we get bored, and boredom turns out to be the hardest thing to solve

which one do you think I got wrong?

Commonwealth Bank replaced 45 call centre workers with an AI voice bot and reversed it weeks later. Klarna went through its own version. The video walks through Gartner's number on how often self-service really fixes a problem, why the work came back to fewer people, and what a study of 5,000 support agents found works instead.

Vave - a popular creator of electronic musical instruments and devices recently launched a small Midi synth/sound module. They used a common microcontroller at its heart and it seems that by accident (or inadvertently) didn't lock the firmware down.

This has led to a huge amount of activity in alternative firmware.

Further another major manufacturer Behringer - to launch new hardware specifically to be *open source* saying that *AI* allows people to write firmware now, and they want to support it.

There is a bit of backlash that the 'Behringer Kick' (their initial device) is very similar to an Akai device... So Akai fans are calling them out on this.

AI has just found a massive real purpose...

AI in business causes strong debate. People worry about losing jobs, and that’s understandable.

But think about the other side. What if AI not only works faster, but it significantly improves quality and cuts prices for customers? What if it makes workplaces safer? What if a small business can do 50% more for 50% less? Is it okay, then?

My husband has a small, veteran owned business. He can eliminate one employee, thus the employee’s salary, benefits, employer taxes, etc. using AI. At some point, it seems refusing better tools would hurt his productivity and quality.  

Progress in business is about doing things better, but where is the threshold on progress vs AI?

Ik you know what I’m talking about and if you know how please help me out cause I’m tryna play 😭🙏

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Hello! I'm not a huge AI user. I was thinking about using AI to help me create a logo. My question is, would I actually own the logo that AI creates for me, or would it actually belong to the company who created the AI logo to begin with? Theoretically, could I be sued?

I run a marketing agency, and I think we'll look back on 2026 as the year AI finally changed how we work, at least for anything you do on a computer. But the way the average person uses the internet honestly hasn't changed much at all yet.

My guess is 2027 is when that changes, mostly because the agents are finally getting competent and easy enough to use that they can actually help a normal consumer.

The obvious objection is that the average person isn't going to take the time to set up their own agent. And that's true, they're not. But I don't think they'll have to. Within a year I think using an agent will look a lot like doing a Google search or opening Instagram, because the companies going after consumers are building agents right into the products people already use. There's still a lot of awkwardness to untangle before it's seamless, but if you've gone through the effort of setting one up for yourself you probably know it's a much better way to use the internet.

And that's before the internet gets rebuilt to be agent-friendly. Up until recently it's been a bit of a coordination problem: websites don't want to bother making themselves agent-friendly because there aren't many agents, and agents have struggled to get adoption because the internet is hard for them to use. In the last month or two it feels like we've gotten over the hump on that, and pretty much every AI company is all in on agents right now. Maybe they're all wrong, I don't know.

The part I keep thinking about for our clients is the last mile. Up until now AI has helped people figure out which brand to buy from, and then they go to the website and buy it themselves. If agents go mainstream, the agent needs to be able to go to the site and actually do the transaction. For a business that seems to mean things like UCP if you sell online, WebMCP if you have forms or tools on your site, and some kind of agents.md or llms.txt file with instructions the agent can follow (I'm not sure which one ends up being the standard).

In the data we have on AI answers to buyer questions, about two-thirds of the pages the AI cites are business websites (the company's own or a competitor's), so I actually think websites end up mattering more over this, even if a lot of the visitors stop being people.

The AI boom has been propping up U.S. growth for more than a year. But Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius says that support is about to crest, and Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says the payoff that was supposed to replace it hasn’t shown up.

“Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech,” Slok wrote in a note Saturday.

Hatzius wrote in a note to clients Monday that the growth impulse from the AI boom was set to peak in late 2026 or early 2027 “even before concerns around the sustainability of the AI investment boom intensified in recent weeks.” 

AI is one of several reasons Hatzius sees risks to growth tilting downward. Gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and European and Asian natural gas prices are back near or above their March and April highs on fears of renewed Middle East escalation.

 Long-term interest rates are up about 100 basis points on average across developed-market yield curves since early 2026. Hatzius partly blames large deficits and “AI-linked borrowing” for that rise, and estimates it will subtract a cumulative 0.6% from GDP if it lasts.

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/26/ai-zero-financial-payoff-outside-big-tech-apollo-slok-goldman-peak/?utm_source=reddit/

The more I read through this forum, the more I feel like a lot of it is just coping. I think many people have a really hard time accepting that life might simply be meaningless. And AI is, in a way, a reflection of that realization.
I think I’m starting to understand why so many people are against AI. It’s taking away something we’ve considered a fundamental part of our human identity for thousands of years.
Philosophers have spent centuries debating what makes us human. “I think, therefore I am.” Intelligence was always seen as something that made us special. Consciousness, too, was considered something incredibly valuable.
But now we’re seeing that intelligent thinking can apparently exist without any biological processes behind it. We’ve created systems capable of solving complex problems without any evidence that they’re conscious.
AI can already outperform most humans in many intellectual tasks. It can tackle mathematical problems that generations of scientists have struggled with, and it might eventually solve Millennium Prize Problems that none of us could ever have solved. It can code better than some of the best engineers.
And all of this exists within a single system, with an amount of knowledge that no individual human could ever accumulate in an entire lifetime.
Maybe that’s exactly what so many people struggle to accept. That intelligence isn’t exclusively human. That something doesn’t have to be alive to surpass us in what we’ve always considered our greatest strength.
I think a lot of what people are saying about human uniqueness right now is just an attempt to hold on to an idea that’s becoming increasingly difficult to defend.
Maybe we simply struggle to accept that we’re not as special as we’ve always believed. That life might have no deeper, objective meaning, and that AI is forcing us to confront that possibility.
At the end of the day, it’s essentially just matrix multiplication, and yet it can surpass even the most intelligent humans. If that’s still not enough for you to accept that life is meaningless, then you’re just coping.

The fact that p(doom) is a popular term in the field should be cause enough for concern. I understand scepticism of the claims of the CEOs, but what about Nobel laureates telling you there’s a 10-20% chance it will “wipe us out”?

I have been looking at companies offering agent tools for business use cases. The trend is to provide agents with the tools people already use at work.

• AgentMail ->  agents handle their own email inboxes 
• AgentPhone ->  agents get phone numbers for both calls and SMS
•  Kapso -> agents can have WhatsApp numbers 
• ElevenLabs and Vapi -> agents get a voice 
• Conecto -> a company’s back office. 52 areas from CRM, email, bookkeeping, all the way to recruiting and AI visibility (full disclosure, I am one of the founders) 
• Composio-> it provides an interface for agents to work with SaaS people already have
• E2B and Daytona -> agents get their own box 
• Exa -> web search capabilities for agents 
• Firecrawl -> agents can scan and read webpages without the need for a dedicated browser
• MemO -> agents get their own memory
• Kite and Sponge -> agents get the ability to make payments 

What I see is three common themes across that stack: 

1. Account handling treats an agent as the account holder
2. The core connection mechanisms are APIs or MCP servers 
3. The main question is how much can one delegate to the agent. What is the approval process, what are the budget constraints, and how can a human track what their agent has done 

Isn’t it crazy that just 12 months ago, we were amazed by the ability of agents to draft emails. Now, the agent can pretty much run everything by itself.

What else should be on the list? I’ll be updating it with new findings.

why are people actively uploading private data and trusting Claude, Gemini, etc when they all do work for Palantir?

musk bad altman bad, so what these other corporations are good?

when apple comes up with a new sky shattering "feature", the dynamic island, apple fanboys glazed it vehemently like it's the last piece of the 312728th puzzle to final happiness. reality; just a multi tasking dot to hide the bezel.

when girls find out that some shoes, which they already own 4 pairs of, will be released in purple... they Yass and obsess and lose their minds.

None of those events mentioned are life changing. Yet people treat it as such.

I feel the same thing happeing with ai fanboys. New model? drop to your knees and suck it off coz its 13.19258% better!! but is it really life altering?

Im a fitness trainer so i mainly use LLMs which is the most basic ai tool. My nerdy friends use it for their programming jobs and it helps them a tonne. None of my videography/ content friends use ai bec everybody hates ai slop. my finance guru bros use it for analysis and stuff.

but there are people out there who are €100k debt, didn't create anything, and worship ai. How tf can you be in that much debt in the first place?, I never paid a single euro for using this sh. These people using so much ai just to brag how much their grown-ass relies on a robot?

yes ai has its uses but not every user is splitting atoms and curing cancer.

I feel like a dunce adult bec Im not in debt, my life doesn't revolve around ai and i only use LLMs in the most basic way.

I have so many questions as to how rapidly we allowed our lives to change in a span of 3 years. All these ai companies are operating at a net negative. None of this is normal

Found several songs I thought were cool on youtube and I come to find out they are AI, even the lyrics are sung by AI.

I would like to know HOW? I get the background music but the LYRICS? How does it know how the song wants to be sung, how does it know what words to change tone on?

Am i overthinking this and its simply that a regular person sings it then uses AI to make it sound better?

AI song example 1

AI example 2

Edit: On a side note makes me kind of mad because I can longer say "Wow this person is talented at singing"

AI> -1.66%
Market> -4.9%

You can watch the AI trade live and let me know if you think its doing the right thing.

I've been working on a personal project called CrawlerVision, and I figured this community might appreciate it.

The idea started because I wanted to listen to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks but I dont read or ever listen to audiobooks. Im more into youtube videos or TV/Movies, I kept thinking how cool it would be to actually SEE what's happening while listening.

So I built an Android app that does exactly that.

Here's how it works:

- You play Dungeon Crawler Carl through Audible or Amazon Music like normal.

- CrawlerVision reads the audiobook's playback information and attempts to sync with your current chapter.

- The app displays illustrated scenes from the story as you listen.

- Images automatically advance based on estimated scene timings.

- You can switch chapters, manually adjust the images, or watch everything in fullscreen.

What I've built so far:

- Dungeon Crawler Carl (Book 1): All 47 chapters, with 470 illustrations.

- Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Book 2): Chapters 1–25, with 250 illustrations.

- 720 illustrations total.

- Audible and Amazon Music integration.

- Automatic chapter tracking with manual synchronization as a backup.

- Fullscreen viewing and image navigation.

This is a personal project and im not selling anything or anything like that, let me know what you think. Attached is the github. A lot of the images are somewhat low quality AI slop because like I said its a personal project.

I could see others using it to make similar tools for other audiobooks so I thought id share.

Its a work in progress and will get updated as I go through the books. Im only on book 2 now.

https://github.com/Syqemike/Crawlervision