Six months ago I asked for a Central Asian woman with deep russet-brown skin and freckles, and Flux handed me a white woman. Repeatedly. So did Grok, Seedream, GPT-2, and MAI—every top-shelf model whitewashing the same prompt to various degrees. Then Google dropped Nano Banana 2 on February 26, and for the first time a model got close enough to argue with instead of throw out. Close enough that I could finish the job by hand: a dozen generations, masked composites, and freckles hand-painted back into pigment in Photoshop. The silicon half of the bias is finally moving. The other half is the part nobody wants to talk about.
Sam Harris Is Wrong About AI. The Truth Is We’re Screwed.
Sam Harris thinks AI is coming for our jobs. Sam Altman says the work it replaces wasn’t “real work” anyway. Microsoft’s AI boss says every white-collar job is gone in eighteen months. The elite consensus has converged, and it’s wrong on both ends. METR’s randomized controlled trial found experienced developers were slower with AI tools while believing they’d been faster. Apple researchers tested frontier reasoning models on scalable puzzles and watched performance collapse to zero at high complexity—not degrade, collapse. Meanwhile UK tech graduate roles fell 46% in 2024 and US junior software postings are down 67%. The end-of-work crowd is staring at the wrong horizon.