The week in stupidity — 2026-07-20 to 2026-07-26
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stupidity index · stu cringing at the slop
77 / 100
77% of the 13 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 56%). Prompt: 'be careful'. Output: this.
by the numbers
| lane | items |
|---|---|
| AI Fails & Slop | 1 |
| AI Incidents & Outages | 9 |
| AI Bubble & Money | 2 |
| AI News | 1 |
Outage notices: 6 (Replit 5 · Perplexity 1) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week
top five, by formula
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation OpenAI
Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta Will Spend Over $500 Billion on AI in 2026. Nvidia Collects a Huge Share.
Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta Will Spend Over $500 Billion on AI in 2026. Nvidia Collects a Huge Share. Yahoo Finance
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The Stupidity Index is the share of the week's items in the fails, incidents and confidently-wrong lanes; the top five use the Hall of Fails formula: lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus. Other weeks · how this site works.
promises due in the next two weeks
- 2026-09-30 OpenAI: An intern-level automated AI researcher exists by September 2026; a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028. — Sam Altman, CEO, and Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist, 2025-10-28 · source ↗
The ledger keeps the date; the date arrives either way. all promises · calendar
when the internet is most stupid
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939 items over the last four weeks, by weekday and UTC hour; darker is busier (. : - = + * # % @ from quiet to loud). Counts, not judgement.