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SCOUNDREL.AI is the official blog of elsewares, llc, a development and design studio in Chicago.

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Bullshitmaxxing

Tokenmaxxing is like Looksmaxxing: Gamifying the Wrong Metric In Defense of TokenmaxxingMay 13, 2026 ยท Episode Links & TakeawaysThe AI Daily BriefAI Daily Brief In today's edition of the newsletter The AI Daily Brief, there was a defense of tokenmaxxing AI usage: the gamification by leaderboard and other incentives for companies to

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AI and The Artist

Over on Facebook the other day, Tony Dowler, an artist whose work I admire (particularly his maps), posted this: Yesterday, I asked AI to produce some cover art for my games. The results were pretty astounding. I immediately thought that these were probably better covers than I could have created

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Disaster At 1 MPH: AI's Creeping Existential Risk

I was already in the process of writing a response to this Big Technology article by Alex Kantrowitz when news of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI was announced Friday, and it took me until today to reorganize myself enough to respond. That was enough time to find out that Meta

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