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just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society

MrBeast at some event posing with his uncanny smile and dead eyes wearing a black suit jacket over a fuckin hoodie “Obviously we won’t kill people.” -MrBeast, on creating his version of ‘The Hunger Games’

had the idea of collecting the most ominous or threatening images of MrBeast but fear nothing can top this

Old guy Google searched seniors discount for our client online and the Google AI summary just hallucinated a fake promotion. I had to explain to him AI hallucinates bullshit a lot of time and not to rely on it for information. This is going to be a massive social crisis man

Too bad @jwherrman.bsky.social didn’t check out my article before writing his…

I think many journalists aren’t really understanding how fundamentally similar SEO is to GEO, in terms of the actual work involved.

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one thing I wish more people knew is that many offices have such poor air circulation that CO2 levels in meeting rooms can rapidly exceed 1000ppm, the point at which people start to get groggy and sleepy

people are literally suffocating in offices every day & absolutely no one talks about it

One of the top ChatGPT consumer use cases is personal therapy. It's easier for some people to talk to AI than it is to talk to another human.

Here Sam Altman reminds users that private, confidential, and intimate details shared with ChatGPT are not in fact, private and confidential.

This is right-on. In my twenties, I used to grab The Village Voice the afternoon it showed up, not necessarily to read the reviews but to scour the culture listings. So many cultural things I did--seeing Robert Altman at Two Boots, Pete Seeger at a pepper festival--were because of those listings.

Don't want to be picky, but in the lawsuit in question, that's not at all what was found. The judge divided the books into different categories, and found that they paid for a large batch of books. They *also* torrented some books. But it's not accurate to say they were unwilling to pay for one copy

The AI companies are so profoundly hostile to creators, so ideologically committed to theft, that they were unwilling to pay for one (1) copy of the works they were stealing to train their AI models.

BTW, I stayed on the South Side for a week last summer and had a blast. Chicago never fails to make me happy.

I lived in — and fell in love with — Chicago when I first met my wife. This is amazing content

At first, by “Elmo,” I thought they meant Elon Musk. And my immediate thought was, how would they know he was hacked?

Just landed in Boston flying from DC… 3 hours late. I should’ve Acela’d.

I’m continually baffled by MLB powers-that-be’s disinterest in helping fans watch their sport.

Grok upgrades your Tesla Model S to a Tesla Model SS.

Thank you, Tobin 🫶

After 181 caps, 2 World Cups, and 2 Olympic gold medals, an iconic career has come to a close as Tobin Heath has announced her retirement from professional soccer.

OTD In 1999: An unforgettable moment at The Rose Bowl winning our second @fifawwc.bsky.social 🏆

I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.

One 'quirk' about Google's dotted-line links within AI Overviews is that they don't just take you to a new Google search for that word/phrase...

They take you to a search that expands off your previous search.

And often, the resulting AIO response makes no sense.

“After two glorious years at the helm of this wonderful company, I have decided that being CEO during the release of Mechahitler was honestly a pretty bad vibe.”

people are being really unfair about this grok thing. everyone who works in software knows that all products inevitably evolve into nazis. where do you think clippy went? why did they discontinue google reader? because they became hitlers, that’s why.

Just need to insist that we get the subject right here. Grok didn’t do anything. Elon Musk did it.

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music

I have said for a while that AI doesn’t scare me; bad people using (or, y’know, controlling) AI do.

Here’s the thing about Grok: I’m 99% sure Musk did not tell his AI team “make our house LLM an overtly Nazi conspiracy theorist who pines for Hitler to return.” That’s just the side-effect of whatever mix of training weights & directives needed to stop it giving “bad” answers.

Grok is being antisemitic again and also the sky is blue | TechCrunch Grok, the AI chatbot powered by Elon Musk's xAI company, is back with more antisemitic rants.

I deleted my X account after I saw a pro-H*tler post go viral with tens of thousands of likes and millions of views. Today, its resident AI posts anti-Semitic comments and references H*tler favorably.

The fish rots from the head as the saying goes.

you know you’ve messed up when the dictionary drags you

During brainstorms, the AI tried to push the idea of “bleachless bleach,” he adds, which isn’t something that would actually work in real life. It’s a nonstarter, especially at Clorox. When brainstorming about cat litter, the AI pushed the idea that since you love your pet, you might also love your pet’s poop. It takes a human to realize, “No, that wouldn’t sound good,” he says. AI did finally help come up with a product, the Toilet Bomb cleaner, a tablet of pre-dosed cleaner that foams in the bowl. What it evokes—blowing up one’s toilet—isn’t something Clorox would typically endorse, says Schwartz. It’s the sort of weirdness that comes from AI’s tendency to hallucinate and free-associate, a problem in many applications but helpful when you’re trying to be creative.

The Clorox conglomerate has gotten some great ideas from its AI tools, including bleachless bleach, a foaming toilet bomb and cat poop you can love www.wsj.com/tech/ai/clor... @mims.bsky.social

I do marketing for a living. These are wise words: “You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage… Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.”

The Onion is leaning in on being awkward, slow, inefficient, weird, in otherwords, human. May we all follow their lead. Time to embrace being a mammal with too much anxiety. Since it ruined a perfectly good ape, might as well use my humanity.