Karl Bode

this really is wild they just asked Meta AI chatbot support for access to high profile accounts and it obliged comes after Google complete broke its search results these are not serious, capable companies deserving of professional respect. they rushed shit product to market.

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co

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this may alarm you folks in the BLUE SKY BUBBLE, but I deeply trust the same giant companies that cozied up to fascism to responsibly repackage my work, hijack the ad revenue I might have otherwise received, and present archival knowledge in a way that consistently serves the …

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch techcrunch.com

smell that fear

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most tech outlets spent the week burying the lede that this was a completely avoidable error (or intentional marketing decision) by a human being, and not a malevolent self aware cyber consciousness that slipped its leash

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error wired.com

has a single journalist asked Jacob Coxon if he voted for the corrupt autocrat who dismantled U.S. cybersecurity standards and defenses?

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’ wired.com

I cannot believe our poorly-monitored and secured automatic hacking software would do this "unprompted"

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I don't think that you can (or should) write about this subject without heavily emphasizing the fact the people in charge of how this technology evolves enthusiastically supported fascists who dismantled much of the federal regulatory and public protection apparatus

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these gentlemen are very very unwell and need to be excised from the body politic like a testicular cancer

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN cnn.com

sure would be something if Larry Ellison's last few years involved him losing his shirt on AI as the state antitrust lawsuit dismantles his nepobaby son's debt-riddled dreams of media domination

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The Atlantic quotes a dodgy corporate "think tank" (I routinely see them make bogus claims on broadband) that insists that people should love having an AI data center in their backyard, because the low latency means innovators will flock to the neighborhood, which is an outright lie

AI adoption is going great at our home insurance company Liberty Mutual

The 27-year old anthropic researcher at the heart of the last two weeks of media AI doomsday hype went on Fox News and said: "I agree with President Trump’s tweet that global warming doomsday scenarios were overplayed."

if anybody needs me I'll be over here getting hot and horny mental health advice from my meta AI Tamagotchi in a country too corrupt to regulate data brokers

while hacking software automation will certainly be a real problem the anthropic engineer is a kid who is pushing the idea that AI is on the cusp of self-aware superintelligence at which point it will immediately decide to kill us all

I maintain that gutting our regulators poses a much more disastrous threat than AI becoming self-aware and solylent greening the eastern seaboard yet curiously the press coverage of the former is muted at best, wonder why that is

Bluesky takes endless heat for being an echo chamber but I challenge you to find a bigger insular logic circle jerk than hustlebro X users huffing their own farts on AI policy regulation

the hatred the AI code bros have for Cory Doctorow is extremely entertaining I think a very large amount of it is because he makes them think about political reality for more than 30 seconds

hey good news I have been told by literally two dozen major reputable news outlets in the last month alone that the trump administration is working closely with industry to implement sensible safety and regulatory guardrails for AI

hah, lost some of my paid newsletter subscribers when I wrote about how AI isn't sentient