Got a hilarious story for today: ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600

Its definitely petty, but making Altman's all-consuming incompetence known to the world is something I strongly approve of.

Definitely goes a long way to show why he's an AI bro.

New 404 Media article: Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

So we can add "fully automatic sexual harassment" to the list of reasons Twitter can die in a fire

Update on the University of Zurich's AI experiment: Reddit's considering legal action against the researchers behind it.

Solid, high-quality sneer from Adactio - the end is a particular highlight:

The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.

If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.

Stumbled across some AI criti-hype in the wild on BlueSky:

The piece itself is a textbook case of AI anthropomorphisation, presenting it as learning to hide its "deceptions" when its actually learning to avoid tokens that paint it as deceptive.

On an unrelated note, I also found someone openly calling gen-AI a tool of fascism in the replies - another sign of AI's impending death as a concept (a sign I've touched on before without realising), if you want my take:

Jingna Zhang found an AI corp saying the quiet part out loud:

In a previous post of mine, I noted how the public generally feels that the jobs people want to do (mainly creative jobs) are the ones being chiefly threatened by AI, with the dangerous, boring and generally garbage jobs being left relatively untouched.

Looking at this, I suspect the public views anyone working on/boosting AI as someone who knows full well their actions are threatening people's livelihoods/dream jobs, and is actively, willingly and intentionally threatening them, either out of jealousy for those who took the time to develop the skills, or out of simple capitalist greed.

Between the gen-AI industry's nonstop lawsuits and public embarrassments like Google's glue pizza debacle, I'd bet good money Microsoft and OpenAI are gonna struggle to convince local journos that gen-AI's alleged benefits are worth the inevitable retractions/lawsuits/general pain and suffering.

Considering Glaze and Nightshade have been around for a while, and I talked about sabotaging scrapers back in July, arguably, it already has.

Hell, I ran across a much smaller scale case of this a couple days ago:

Not sure how effective it is, but if Elon's stealing your data for his autoplag no matter what, you might as well try to force-feed it as much poison as you can.

Zitron's given commentary on PC Gamer's publicly pilloried pro-autoplag piece:

He's also just dropped a thorough teardown of the tech press for their role in enabling Silicon Valley's worst excesses. I don't have a fitting Kendrick Lamar reference for this, but I do know a good companion piece: Devs and the Culture of Tech, which goes into the systemic flaws in tech culture which enable this shit.

ah, sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension:

(This would've been more shocking to me in 2023, but after over a year in this bubble I have stopped expecting anything resembling basic human decency from those who work in AI)

Is it just that these AI programs need no skill at all?

That's a major reason. That Grok's complete lack of guardrails is openly touted as a feature is another.