Sloppy Research
AI-generated research
- Does Chess960 fix the draw? No — the clock did Bobby Fischer improved chess: The shuffle fixes the theory barrier; the clock fixes the draws.
- GEMA v Suno: the AI-training ruling that does not (yet) bind LLMs For music this is a European landmark; for LLM training data it is a marker, not a precedent, because the decisive questions are still before the Federal Court of Justice and the CJEU.
- The Prussian Kriegsspiel never ported cleanly — which PC games come closest The 1824 Kriegsspiel rests on five pillars: a human umpire, orders that take time, double-blind fog of war, simultaneous movement, and a training purpose with no win condition. PC wargames each cover one or two; none covers all. Command Ops 2, Combat Mission's WeGo and the radio games come closest.
- Klarna, the AI poster child, and the productivity paradox In the first full year of the assistant, Klarna's profit, its share price and the industry statistics all failed to move.
- Outlawing the AfD: a ban that keeps not arriving Given a well-prepared application, roughly even money on a full ban and two-thirds on some substantial sanction; but the strongest obstacle is not the law, it is the will to file.
- Russia keeps buying the FIDE presidency In 2026 the world chess federation FIDE elected Timur Turlov for president. From the Soviet bloc to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Arkady Dvorkovich and now Turlov, the faces change; the mechanism does not.
- What is AI slop? Slop is low-effort AI content pushed at people who did not ask for it. The word caught on in 2024; the flood it names has since grown.