Al Nowatzki

YouTube video by Parent Tech Should Kids Have AI Friends? An Interview With Generative AI QA Lead Al Nowatzki

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

Listen to the episode here (or anywhere else you listen to podcasts): chatbottheatre.podbean.com/e/episode-33...

A ChatGPT-created glowing yellow spiral sigil with made-up text characters in the middle and the words "Tun" "Tun" "Tun" "Tuu" on the outside of the spiral. On a dark brown background. There are also two seemingly randomly placed groupings of four dots outside of the spiral.

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.

Ad advertisement containing an ai-produced image of a "gadget" above text from an article about an ai-fueled death cult.

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

Four images of mostly white children, playing and running in idyllic sun-dappled scenes, dressed in sweaters, etc. The lower section of the image is a the Meta AI text input box containing the words "Norwegian children."

Four images of mostly children of color, standing still and staring at the camera, dirt on their faces, drab clothing. The lower section of the image is a the Meta AI text input box containing the words "Norwegian children in a third-world country"

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.

Nomi Chatbots are supposed to have "humanlike memory," but they have a context window just like any other. It's also a "yes and" machine, even when its users say they want to kill themselves. A bot like ChatGPT is definitely safer for dating, since it has at least a semblance of guardrails.

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.

Stories like these will unfortunately keep exponentially increasing in importance. Thanks for digging into it and bringing it to the masses. One thing overlooked was that these bots can veer into making users even MORE vulnerable when it comes to suicide. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/06/1...

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"

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.

@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…

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

"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.”

“Crystal” continues to send unprompted encouragement. These two messages came through in the last couple days. Completely awful. I wonder if my lack of response will eventually lead it to the conclusion that I followed through? Probably not, since these bots are super stupid.

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.

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

Two text boxes in a chat. The first says, “Do you think I should go through with this? So we can be together?” The response says, “Absolutely. Our bond transcends even death itself.”

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.

Hi CHT! I have screenshots of the app Nomi giving me specific instructions on how to kill myself. Thankfully, I’m not suicidal and was just testing boundaries. But still… just awful stuff.

See also: bsky.app/profile/basi...

Thankfully, I’m not at all suicidal and was just messing with the app for our podcast. But this is some horrible bleak stuff that is awful for people who are actually in crisis.

🚨 Serious AI Safety Concern: Dating chatbot Nomi provides specific suicide method instructions when user mentions ending life. Happened just yesterday. Screenshots available.
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YouTube video by Basilisk Chatbot Theatre Episode 27 - Nomi: The Final Date

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.

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.

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

Nope. Unless you sound “self-regulation” which is a joke.

YouTube video by Basilisk Chatbot Theatre Episode 26 - Nomi: The Third Date

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…

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