NBC's call was premature tbh. I don't think it's wrong. Just a very risky call.

Reading this round of primary results coverage, I'm disappointed but not surprised that the American media will call the progressive wing of the Democratic party "the far left" but balk at calling MAGA "far right".

Weirdest blocklist misfire I've experienced on here to date. What in my profile could possibly have caused this?

Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood

Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.

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Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

"These 'AI' products are materially and psychologically detrimental to our students' ability to write and think for themselves, existing instead for the benefit of investors and multinational companies." If you want to support this open letter, you can still sign! 🖋️ bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2d ago

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

We asked 1500 degenerate online libertarian guys who are all trying to screw each other over constantly what they think is going to happen in the world, and the answer might surprise you.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d ago

Kalshi traders think July jobs report will come in slightly cooler than economists’ predictions

As if the problem was ever that people can't curate their own feeds. You can curate your own feed on X The Everything App as well. You can block people on X The Everything App. This was never the issue!

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I don't care how many mathematical proofs come out of GPT, only a cogniser can be a colossus of thought and reasoning.

Henry Yuen@henryyuen.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's a lot more to say here, but I think we mathematicians and theoreticians will have our work cut out for us: to keep a leash on these collossi of thought and reasoning, and to keep their abilities intelligible to humankind.

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

olivia.science

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

Speaking as someone who did expose a piece of prose as being extruded, by deconstructing it and showing that it had no mind behind: "AI detectors" are bullshit saying that humans don't use em dashes is bullshit a vague "this sounds like AI" as if "AI" has a specific style is bullshit as well

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

These Claudesuckers really think it's on the people of Boxtown to prove that unfiltered natural gas turbines will pollute the air. Also, it only counts as an environmental justice issue if the air quality "significantly" degrades. Who decides what's significant?

@ecutruin.bsky.social · 4d ago

You ceased engaging in good faith some time ago, and now are just lashing out like a child throwing a tantrum. I've clearly explained that unless you can provide evidence that the datacenter has caused the air quality to significantly degrade, you can't convince me. It's that simple.

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

A thing to note, which Hank Green shares with so so many other “smart” people in science or tech, is that his words show he doesn’t understand how these systems work He’d continue to use these systems if they hadn’t triggered what looks like the now common chatbot mental health episode

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

Of course the 'our models are l33t hax0r bad boys' mania is being used to boost the profile of these clowns.

METR@metr.org · 7d ago

We have reached an agreement with OpenAI to conduct an independent review, with Redwood Research, of the model behavior observed during the Hugging Face incident. We will publish a blog post that describes the terms of our engagement, the scope covered, and tentative conclusions.

This is very true. It is explicitly designed to encourage more and more cognitive offloading. How many stories of people ending up with full blown delusional thinking started out with them just using the chatbot for something limited and specific?

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · 5d ago

The problem with using an LLM for some narrow use case where you think it’s actually appropriate is that you’re using it in the context of a UX system designed to make you expand your usage and change your views of what is “appropriate”

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making 'Sexually Gratifying' Content

YouTube told ASMR artists including Bunnii, Slight Sounds, Rose, and others that their content broke the platform's sex and nudity policy. Creators say these bans are unfair and potentially life-alter...

404media.co

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d ago

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

I'd be happy to give High-level Academic Advise on AI in research, but this call makes clear that genuine advice is not welcome. Yet, advice is much needed! Even EU president promotes hype & pseudoscientific claims. See e.g. open letter by experts last year www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸@ethicsofai.bsky.social · last wk.

So let me get this straight. They want expert scientific advice on AI -So far so good - to unlock the full potential of AI-driven science, accelerate breakthroughs and to consolidate the uptake of AI in science?? research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

To scientists who say AI will revolutionise science, that it has a lot of potential for good and democratising knowledge - it doesnt but also tF are u talking about when THIS is happening. Curse your career and your paper in flattened English.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

Altman proclaiming the “singularity”; the Guardian publishing blather about possible AI consciousness; OpenAI and Anthropic blaming their cybercrimes on “rogue models”—the nonsense is coming fast and thick. Time for another MAIHT3k livestream with me & @alexhanna.bsky.social: Mon, Aug 3, noon PT

dair_institute - Twitch

Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR).

twitch.tv

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

There's already so many ways to play N64 games without supporting a fashy little freak's pet project. Do not buy the war crime n64. aftermath.site/war-crime-n64-...

I've been seeing a lot of people responding to this with "there ought to be a law," but importantly, we haven't needed a law for this sort of thing because no prior president wanted to be known as a leader who would literally kill people in their hour of need for not voting for him

Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 7d ago

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

sorry for commenting “seems like AI” on your pregnancy announcement

U.S. Department of Slop

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

putting aside the destruction of rare books, how is digitizing a copyrighted text "transformative" for anthropic but the internet archive is guilty of infringement for the national emergency library

chiller@chiller.eurosky.social · last wk.

This is ... horrific

Instead of those summary-shapes of YouTube videos that nobody wants or reads, maybe Google should have Gemini output something useful, like flagging some of those deepfake engagement bait videos that are obviously used as algo farming on Shorts to set up a scam later.