Midnight Protocol - Bibliography
Publication date: 9 May 2025 | Read time: 5 min
Once again, this article relies heavily on the tireless work of Ed Zitron. I did my best not to completely rip him off, but I'm not sure if I succeeded.
I'd also like to give special thanks to Rosenkrantz - also for proofreading this article. Thank you, my friend!
Economy
Futurism: The Amount Amazon Is Actually Making on AI Will Make Your Eyebrows Raise Dramatically
The Register: How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business
TechCrunch: Current AI scaling laws are showing diminishing returns, forcing AI labs to change course
OpenAI lost $5 billion in 2024 (and its losses are increasing)
CNBC: OpenAI says it needs ‘more capital than we’d imagined’ as it lays out for-profit plan
The Information: OpenAI Forecasts Revenue Topping $125 Billion in 2029 as Agents, New Products Gain (paywalled)
The Byte: Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day
Ed Zitron: There Is No AI Revolution
Ed Zitron: Bubble Trouble
Business Insider: Sam Altman says the cost of using AI will drop by 10 times every year
SoftBank’s top 10 worst startup investments
Data scarcity
MIT Technology Review: AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
Oxford's Reuters Institute: How many news websites block AI crawlers?
The New York Times: The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast
The Guardian: Elon Musk says all human data for AI training ‘exhausted’
Wall Street Journal: For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
Xing, X., Shi, F., Huang, J. et al. On the caveats of AI autophagy,
“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs
Copyright/IP
The Guardian: ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Federal Court Sides with Plaintiff in the First Major AI Copyright Decision of 2025
TechCrunch: OpenAI calls for US government to codify ‘fair use’ for AI training
Dune Screenshot comparison - part of Uncertain Boundaries: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Copyright Issues in Generative AI
Delete all IP law: a billionaire’s switch from proprietor to opponent
Mashable: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk call to delete IP laws, but artists are pushing back
Politico: OpenAI, Google reject UK’s AI copyright plan
AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare
EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence
EU AI Act: Article 5: Prohibited AI Practices
Generative AI Lawsuits Timeline: Legal Cases vs. OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Perplexity, Intel and More
AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know
Evil
Futurism: Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"
Futurism: Actors Horrified as They Learn What Selling Their Faces as AI Actually Means
Manipulating explainability and fairness in machine learning
Aivodji, U., Arai, H., Fortineau, O., Gambs, S., Hara, S. & Tapp, A.. (2019). Fairwashing: the risk of rationalization.
Time: How Google Appears to Be Adapting Its Products to the Trump Presidency
There’s a glaring issue with the AI moratorium letter
Researchers Say Undetectable AI May Be a 'Modern Threat to Academia'
Meta will train AI models using EU user data
Reuters: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google
AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce
Artists Voice Concerns Over The Signatures In Viral LensaAI Portraits
AI is replacing artists, and here's the proof
AI Fails
Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets
Scientific American: AI Chatbots Will Never Stop Hallucinating
Forbes: 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
BuzzFeed News: Why Are AI-Generated Hands So Messed Up?
ArsTechnica: Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar
The Guardian: Fake cases, judges’ headaches and new limits: Australian courts grapple with lawyers using AI
TechCrunch: OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
CNN: Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
The High Cost of Hubris: Why Firing and Rehiring Engineers Threatens AI’s Future
“You Can Keep Your ‘AI-First’ Company”: Loyal Users Cancel Duolingo Over AI Replacing Workers
Futurism: Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened
Information
Explained: Generative AI
IBM: What is a neural network?
A A AI 2025 Presidental Panel on the Future of AI Research
Dead Internet theory on Wikipedia
Futurism: Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End
ArsTechnica: Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
What is Vibe Coding? How Creators Can Build Software Without Writing Code
Gizmodo: ‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year
Fatigue
AI Fatigue Is Wearing Me Down. The Hype Obscures What We Really Need to Know
AI fatigue sets in among workers and company leaders
AI fatigue explained: What it is and how to combat it
Resistance
What Is Nightshade?
Glaze
Video: THE AI 'ARTISTS' ARE MAD AT ME - LavenderTowne
Video: MAKING POISONED ART TO PUNISH AI THIEVES - LavenderTowne
Joseph Wilk: Resisting GenAI - Poisoning Text Training Data
2023 SAG-AFTRA strike on Wikipedia
uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist
Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
Anubis - Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers
Other
CNN: It’s not just you. More weird spam is popping up on Facebook
What is fairwashing? Learn what fairwashing is and how to spot it
My review of Midnight Protocol on Steam
I swear, I never want to read another AI-related article ever again.
I'd also like to give special thanks to Rosenkrantz - also for proofreading this article. Thank you, my friend!
Economy
Futurism: The Amount Amazon Is Actually Making on AI Will Make Your Eyebrows Raise Dramatically
The Register: How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business
TechCrunch: Current AI scaling laws are showing diminishing returns, forcing AI labs to change course
OpenAI lost $5 billion in 2024 (and its losses are increasing)
CNBC: OpenAI says it needs ‘more capital than we’d imagined’ as it lays out for-profit plan
The Information: OpenAI Forecasts Revenue Topping $125 Billion in 2029 as Agents, New Products Gain (paywalled)
The Byte: Just Running ChatGPT Is Costing OpenAI a Staggering Sum Every Single Day
Ed Zitron: There Is No AI Revolution
Ed Zitron: Bubble Trouble
Business Insider: Sam Altman says the cost of using AI will drop by 10 times every year
SoftBank’s top 10 worst startup investments
Data scarcity
MIT Technology Review: AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
Oxford's Reuters Institute: How many news websites block AI crawlers?
The New York Times: The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast
The Guardian: Elon Musk says all human data for AI training ‘exhausted’
Wall Street Journal: For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
Xing, X., Shi, F., Huang, J. et al. On the caveats of AI autophagy,
“Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs
Copyright/IP
The Guardian: ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Federal Court Sides with Plaintiff in the First Major AI Copyright Decision of 2025
TechCrunch: OpenAI calls for US government to codify ‘fair use’ for AI training
Dune Screenshot comparison - part of Uncertain Boundaries: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Copyright Issues in Generative AI
Delete all IP law: a billionaire’s switch from proprietor to opponent
Mashable: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk call to delete IP laws, but artists are pushing back
Politico: OpenAI, Google reject UK’s AI copyright plan
AI Creating 'Art' Is An Ethical And Copyright Nightmare
EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence
EU AI Act: Article 5: Prohibited AI Practices
Generative AI Lawsuits Timeline: Legal Cases vs. OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Perplexity, Intel and More
AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know
Evil
Futurism: Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"
Futurism: Actors Horrified as They Learn What Selling Their Faces as AI Actually Means
Manipulating explainability and fairness in machine learning
Aivodji, U., Arai, H., Fortineau, O., Gambs, S., Hara, S. & Tapp, A.. (2019). Fairwashing: the risk of rationalization.
Time: How Google Appears to Be Adapting Its Products to the Trump Presidency
There’s a glaring issue with the AI moratorium letter
Researchers Say Undetectable AI May Be a 'Modern Threat to Academia'
Meta will train AI models using EU user data
Reuters: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google
AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce
Artists Voice Concerns Over The Signatures In Viral LensaAI Portraits
AI is replacing artists, and here's the proof
AI Fails
Air Canada found liable for chatbot's bad advice on plane tickets
Scientific American: AI Chatbots Will Never Stop Hallucinating
Forbes: 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
BuzzFeed News: Why Are AI-Generated Hands So Messed Up?
ArsTechnica: Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar
The Guardian: Fake cases, judges’ headaches and new limits: Australian courts grapple with lawyers using AI
TechCrunch: OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more
CNN: Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
The High Cost of Hubris: Why Firing and Rehiring Engineers Threatens AI’s Future
“You Can Keep Your ‘AI-First’ Company”: Loyal Users Cancel Duolingo Over AI Replacing Workers
Futurism: Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened
Information
Explained: Generative AI
IBM: What is a neural network?
A A AI 2025 Presidental Panel on the Future of AI Research
Dead Internet theory on Wikipedia
Futurism: Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End
ArsTechnica: Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
What is Vibe Coding? How Creators Can Build Software Without Writing Code
Gizmodo: ‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year
Fatigue
AI Fatigue Is Wearing Me Down. The Hype Obscures What We Really Need to Know
AI fatigue sets in among workers and company leaders
AI fatigue explained: What it is and how to combat it
Resistance
What Is Nightshade?
Glaze
Video: THE AI 'ARTISTS' ARE MAD AT ME - LavenderTowne
Video: MAKING POISONED ART TO PUNISH AI THIEVES - LavenderTowne
Joseph Wilk: Resisting GenAI - Poisoning Text Training Data
2023 SAG-AFTRA strike on Wikipedia
uBlockOrigin & uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist
Cloudflare: Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
Anubis - Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers
Other
CNN: It’s not just you. More weird spam is popping up on Facebook
What is fairwashing? Learn what fairwashing is and how to spot it
My review of Midnight Protocol on Steam
I swear, I never want to read another AI-related article ever again.