Daily News Stuff 22 August 2026

Diseneuropification Edition Top Story All the news is stupid. AI use boosts the quality of students' homework - and then craters their exam scores. (Economist) (archive site) Who knew? Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 is a smut machine. (Tech Crunch) The whole article is about users deliberately jail-breaking Claude Opus 4.6, an older version of that particular LLM, to use it to write porn. And blames…