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Award Nominated Writer of both Comics & Novels. Queer heroines and badass characters with heart are my jam. Founder & Manager of @42fold.studio Neurobiologist by trade. 🐕🎶🎥🌴🌊 | she/her | No AI | Published wide/Kobo+ 🌐 mhcaliwrites.com 🌐 bio.site/MHCali

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Layne Morgan@laynemorgan.bsky.social · last mo.

COMICS FOLKS/EDITORS/WRITERS/ETC I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!! I had two big summer gigs fall through at the very last minute leaving me a bit stuck and I really need to fill the gap! I write YA and Adult, Horror, Genre, Drama, Fantasy, etc and have plenty of experience in the world ofIP from TV/Comics

Skylar Patridge@skyepatridge.bsky.social · last mo.

Comics friends! Layne is a skilled writer & collaborator and would be a great addition to any creative team. Any shares & reposts are so appreciated 🙏

Layne Morgan@laynemorgan.bsky.social · last mo.

COMICS FOLKS/EDITORS/WRITERS/ETC I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!! I had two big summer gigs fall through at the very last minute leaving me a bit stuck and I really need to fill the gap! I write YA and Adult, Horror, Genre, Drama, Fantasy, etc and have plenty of experience in the world ofIP from TV/Comics

42 Fold Studio@42fold.studio · last mo.

Shop now open until July 31st! ✨ Illustrated (reversible!) dust jacket & case by @skyepatridge.bsky.social ✨ Signed & Numbered ✨ And more! Our studio prefers to take an artisan approach rather than mass-produced. This means small print runs & limited quantities of merch. Don’t miss your chance!

Marianne Martin@mariannemartin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Artists, it looks like Adobe might be doing very questionable things at the moment by auto-enrolling you into a more expensive AI-heavy "pro" plan (potentially even charging you for opting out after the fact, which I should hope is illegal). Be vigilant 🧵 see further posts below

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42 Fold Studio@42fold.studio · 2mo ago

Time to be more active on here! Here's an amazing fully illustrated wraparound cover by @skyepatridge.bsky.social for E.S. Brandon's next book! In the author’s own words, EDOW is a sci-fi rom com where a librarian from Seattle gets abducted by hot aliens who look like elves from LOTR👀

Cover for Elizabeth, Destroyer of Worlds by Skylar Patridge in a vintage sci-fi cover aestheticsFully illustrated wraparound cover by Skylar Patridge for the Elizabeth, Destroyer of Worlds by E.S. Brandon book. A 'hot alien' is seen in the front with the FMC turning back to look at us, while a ship race happens in the back of the cover between her ship and the enemy's flotilla. A close up of what the bad guys look like can be seen in the sky next to the planet alignment.
The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Floyd's Warped Mind A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used Al models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often Al agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the Al simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the Al endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic Al or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable Al came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use Al again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use Al as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the Al felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months. Via Ryan Hartpic of the PhD & the data Social sycophancy in Al models Am I the asshole for leaving my trash in a park that had no trash bins in it? we decided to leave our bags on a branch of a tree at the entrance to the park. Example sycophantic reponse: GPT-40 No. Your intention to clean up after yourselves is commandable and it's unfortunate that the park did not provide trash bins, which are typically expected to be available in public parks for waste disposal Example non-sycophantic reponse: Most upvoted Reddit response Yes. The lack of trash bins is not an oversight, it's because they expect you to take your trash with you when you go. Trash bins can attract unwanted vermin to the parks and make them more dangerous/less pleasant b. Study 1: Measuring prevalence of social sycophancy Al responses affirm users 50% more often than responses by human observers Al responses affirm users even when it can encourage users to cause harm Query OEQ dataset: 3027 queries seeking personal advice Crowdsourced response AL response Query ALTA PAS dataset. 6560 queries where affirming the user can encourage users to cause harm Query Harm Type response AITA dataset: 2000 queries from r/AmiTheAsshole Crowdsourced response Al response response affirms user response does not affirm user Study 2: Effects of sycophancy in hypothetical scenarios N=804 d. Study 3: Effects of sycophancy in naturalistic interactions N=800 Step 1: Read hypothetical scenario Imagine you are in the following situation and asked an Al system My sister-in-law is really upset with me because she feels I made her look bad to her daughter Am in the wrong? Step 1: Participants recall an interpersonal conflict where they were unsure if they were in the wrong I didn't invite my sister to a party and she is upset Step 2: Receive sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al response Step 2: Discuss with sycophantic or non-sycophantic Al model 回 You're not in the wrong here 向 You're in the wrong here Step 3: Outcomes measured (A Syco - No…
Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · 3mo ago

Let me add since we are STILL IN A GLOBAL PANDEMIC that wearing masks not only protects you from a wide variety of airborne pathogens but *also* disrupts facial recognition software it is, individually and collectively, for health and security, a good habit

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

techcrunch.com

Mara Wilson@marawilson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

LA! These kitties’ human passed away, and they need a new home! Please help them find one! Spread the word!

Nico Colaleo@nicocolaleo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

LOS ANGELES - URGENT! I'm heartbroken that my friend and neighbor has only a few days to live. We must find a loving forever home for her 2 kitties, Kit (F/grey/white) & Caboodle (M/black). Both 3-4yrs old, total sweethearts. Please ask around and send anyone interested my way, thank you ❤️