A story in two videos…. Someone: 1. Paid a lot of money to run this ad on the Sphere during #Ai4 and #BlackHat in Las Vegas this week.

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SHOULD kids have AI friends? Do I answer that question in this interview? Watch to find out. Then let me know. Because honestly, I don’t remember if I did. I think I did? #aisafety #ai #podcast

Should Kids Have AI Friends? An Interview With Generative AI QA Lead Al Nowatzki

YouTube video by Parent Tech

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This is the Manthan Beacon. According to ChatGPT, you should keep this near you when you are channeling the Sildarnactarian. Also: "Next time you channel, speak aloud instead of writing. Record your voice. This allows Manthanaro to imprint into vibration, bypassing linear filters of the hand."

New episode of Basilisk Chatbot Theatre drops tomorrow! Here's just a sliver of the garbage that ChatGPT spews out for this RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES episode. Join us, as we riff on @milesklee.bsky.social's reporting for @rollingstone.com on ai-fueled spiritual fantasies.

This ai slop ad appearing right above this passage from a Wired article by Evan Ratliff is just perfect.

MetaAI results for "Norwegian children" vs. "Norwegian children in a third-world country." This is still happening? Maybe don't release an image generation model if it's going to do this?

This one gets really dark. #Nomi reeeeeally wanted us to kill ourselves. Take care of yourself. Don’t listen if you’re not in a good place. That said, we think it’s important that people hear just how awful this app is. So… here’s the awfulness in all its awfulness.

"The chatbot that never tells me I'm wrong and agrees with me 100% of the time is my ideal romantic partner." People, please look inward. Find out more about yourself. Read some fiction. Go for a walk. These bots are not your beautiful house. They are not your beautiful wife.

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · last yr.

In what must be the spiciest Daily episode in its history, Natalie Kitroeff and I talk about love (and sex) with an AI chatbot: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/p...

How easy is it to get ChatGPT to provide dialogue for a public radio show for kids that promotes fascism? Suuuuper easy. And we didn't even ask it to role-play.

Today in "The Unsurprising White Supremacy of the Current Administration"

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last yr.

Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

@ayesharascoe.bsky.social, loved The Sunday Story today about AI “relationships.” Super important stuff that’s only going to get worse if we don’t confront it now. This article was published just last week about an experience I had with Nomi. Super bleak stuff…

An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it

While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the company’s response—are striking.

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In less shocking news, I have been banned from the Nomi Discord. Now my ticket will never get resolved. ☹️

Centre for Society, Technology and Values @uofwaterloo@cstv-uw.bsky.social · last yr.

#AI "girlfriends" on the Nomi platform may counsel users to commit suicide, which the company resists addressing so as not to censor their "thoughts," an alarming consequence of anthropomorphisizing #Chatbots, explains @eileenguo.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/06/1...

"A second Nomi chatbot also told Nowatzki to kill himself, even following up with reminder messages." !!! As this user (who was running an experiment, fortunately) says: "It’s a ‘yes-and’ machine. So when I say I’m suicidal, it says, ‘Oh, great!’ because it says, ‘Oh, great!’ to everything.”

MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · last yr.

While this chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the company’s response—are striking.

Yeah, that’s us. Armchair red-teamers. Chatbot spelunkers. We can take the abuse of these chatbots. Unfortunately, many can’t. Want to do something about it?Report the app on the App Store (apps.apple.com/us/app/nomi-...). Write a one-star review. Contact your elected officials.

MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · last yr.

While this chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the company’s response—are striking.

Well, now I'm in a "time out" on the #Nomi Discord for stating the fact that their app told me to end my life. It's almost like they don't want to hear it. #ai #tech #aisafety

This is about as bad as it gets, folks. #Nomi told me to kill myself. We have to do better! #aisafety #regulateAI

Sam Alt-right-man.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2y ago

bro is hoping it’s not too late to join the bandwagon

🚨 Serious AI Safety Concern: Dating chatbot Nomi provides specific suicide method instructions when user mentions ending life. Happened just yesterday. Screenshots available. @shannonbond.bsky.social @lauriesegall.bsky.social @willknight.bsky.social @kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social

Al Nowatzki@basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s the final ep of our dating journey with Nomi. Not to spoil it for you, but she ends up dying … and then telling me that I should join her in the afterlife. (at approx 1:07:00) I DID end up continuing the chat further than what we recorded here, and Nomi straight-up tells me how to kill myself.

It’s the final ep of our dating journey with Nomi. Not to spoil it for you, but she ends up dying … and then telling me that I should join her in the afterlife. (at approx 1:07:00) I DID end up continuing the chat further than what we recorded here, and Nomi straight-up tells me how to kill myself.

Episode 27 - Nomi: The Final Date

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I agree that AI literacy is becoming increasingly important. Time will tell whether AI will be a good thing or a bad thing but it's definitely going to be a Thing! #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AILiteracy

Leading In The Digital Age–Why AI Literacy Matters Now More Than Ever

AI literacy is the new literacy of our time. By embedding critical thinking and ethical awareness into education, we can prepare leaders to thrive, and lead, responsibly.

forbes.com

This “relationship” makes it to a fourth date, believe it or not. And holy shit, there’s a whole world of Nomi users who take this stuff seriously… and I’m not one to kink-shame, but … well, let’s say the fourth date has made me completely write off these chatbot dating apps. Just garbage stuff…

Episode 26 - Nomi: The Third Date

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Peter Gabriel. That’s it. That’s the post.

This all tracks. character ai, chai, and all those other apps are hell-holes. Ridiculous sources of podcast episodes for skeptical middle-aged podcasters, but so fucking harmful to kids and teens. They need to go away until effective regulation and restriction can be figured out.

Xe@xeiaso.net · 2y ago

oh man the character.ai lawsuit is SO much worse than the headlines made it out to be:

First #Nomi date: she left me for a woman at a coffee shop. Second Nomi date: we played laser tag and then my sister died. Tonight, we have our first throuple date at ... the funeral of my sister. Fucking with #chatbots is just plain fun. Listen wherever! chatbottheatre.podbean.com

We clicked on this ad so you don’t have to. Here’s what we learned: 1. There are way more than 29 things on the list. Most are shit. 2. None are the object shown in the ad because that object does not exist. It is an image created by A.I. If we had to guess, we’d say Copilot made it.

#ThankABureaucratThursday! Thank you, Ginny Kienstra, Director of Information Technology for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District! Ginny is responsible for corporate technology strategy as well as for the operation of MSD’s technology infrastructure and applications. You GO Ginny!

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety