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Researcher with public evidence across AI research.
"The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I." 🫠🫠🫠
It starts like this…& it builds. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 “If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality & its creation of disinformation on a scale unpreceden…
The environmental damage is well documented at this point. I think the status of data centers as focal points of economic damage merits a little more expansion: www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
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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
"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performa…
AI-generated, fabricated citations are a huge problem in research. A recent study by Columbia University researchers examined 2.5 million biomedical papers across three years, and found that one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 contained fabricated refe…
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NEW: DOGE used AI for housing policy. The government won't say how. read @telliotter.bsky.social's latest:
"AI" is not the future: "Worldwide, three-quarters of people could face drought impacts by 2050 all while datacenters use 9.3tn liters of water in the coming decade, enough to meet the drinking water needs of the planet’s human population for over year" www.theguardian.com/us-…
“Doctorow points out that so much money is going into AI and data centres that the companies involved simply can’t make a profit, ever. No matter how many high-salary jobs AI replaces, it won’t bring in enough to cover the investment in AI, let alone make a profit.”
the amount of time and energy wasted on all things ai
so the ai sales pitch logic is that people are supposed to use ai but also pretend not to and then be ashamed of the way they used it if caught
the thing is i don’t hate people who use ai or bitcoin etc lol what..why would anyone make a list like this i just can’t be convinced that these things (ai etc) have redeemable qualities
has anyone compared gen ai to hypnotism specifically? i was thinking how some folks can and some can’t be hypothesized. and while the mechanism of hypnosis is real, the tap dancing and alien speak that comes from being under is made up
Being 'down' reminds us all that ChatGPT, Claude & Grok are commercial services that make --or not-- these LLMs bots available. This is why people are critical of the political economy, ownership models, and a reliance on -- often in addition to other critiques.
Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres “But the data centre boom is zeroing in on one province: Alberta. The prairie province accounts for 93 per cent of all planned data centre capacity in Canada, in large part because of its cheap natural gas-powered electricity.”
being on here feels like archiving the self-undoing of ai, bit by bit
“Destructive scanning was Anthropic’s solution to a problem: in order to “train” Claude, Anthropic had to procure a large, high-quality language dataset, preferably one created before 2022 and the corrupting influence of generative AI on contemporary text.”
social media psychosis to ai psychosis pipeline
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