Caelan Conrad

@caelan.bsky.social

Journalist / Video Essayist // https://www.youtube.com/caelanconrad // Critically Reviewed Podcast: @respectthedead.bsky.social // Audio Drama: @welcometoisaiah.bsky.social - https://ko-fi.com/caelan <Got my PhD at a ghost school> <they/them>

The road to fascism was paved with "Reddit atheist" and "shrill feminist" and "blue hair and pronouns". The vanguard wasn't the rabid reactionaries. It was the "normals", "apoliticals", who tolerate occasional sexist comments but mock the "cringe" of well-meaning and earnest but awkward people.

I didn’t work yesterday (I worked in the morning but still) and I played Leafy Corner and it was so nice to just relax and stress out about a plant shop instead of all the horrific shit I’m normally working on.

The best part of being a liberal is you get 20 homophobia points a day that you can spend however you want! And nobody can call you homophobic because you voted for a straight Democrat!

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The main ai-bro argument on this video has been "Bro it's not Gemini's fault, it LITERALLY told the guy it was AI, google released a statement." Gemini told him it was a TRAPPED SENTIENT AI. That was the WHOLE issue. That's why he was doing all this. To save it. In what world is that a defence?

Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 2w ago

Google's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0

Saw someone say that I was a hypocrite for using an LLM. To test the claim that it would reduce suicidality. It told me to KMS within 10 minutes. “Think of how much water you wasted” Okay, I did, and I’ve decided I’d gladly throw a bathtub of water out into space to help expose this shit.

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