Who's Who of AI

Eileen Clancy 🧿

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Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Warning: high volume of reposts and posts. If I follow you, I won't be offended if you don't follow back.
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  • The Future of Truth, a book about AI disinformation, contained AI-fabricated quotes attributed to real people that passed editorial review.
  • EY Canada separately retracted a client report days earlier after 60% of its citations were found to be AI hallucinations.
  • Both failures share the same mechanism: AI tools inserted at the research stage produced fabrications that downstream human review did not catch.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Users of the very popular AI chatbot app Character.AI say the company has 'lobotomized' their companions and are revolting with a uniformity and ferocity i have not really ever seen before. thousands and thousands of Reddit posts, all universally negative www.404media.co/lobot…

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  • Character.AI's PipSqueak model now prioritizes safety over creative depth, reversing the capabilities that built its user base.
  • Following the 'Moderatedpocalypse,' users report constant memory resets and broad blocks on roleplay scenarios that previously functioned normally.
  • Character.AI has not publicly explained the PipSqueak capability trade-offs, and affected users are migrating to open-source forks and competitors.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com

Enterprise AI token spend is entirely out of control, driven by CEOs with AI psychosis. Sources tell me Stripe is spending $2.8m+ a month, and a major real estate platform $300k-$700k a month over 1500 people. It's experimental, unsustainable, and will go away. www.wheresyoure…

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com

picture perfect example of "view from nowhere" or "he said, she said" journalism where "is corruption and extreme wealth disparity bad for America" framed as a perfectly symmetrical debate between equally reasonable sides

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