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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 1d

From this past summer. Minolta alpha 7 with 25 year slide film. #believeinfilm

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 1d

Blurgh. Tough on Thanksgiving

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 1d

Saluting you with a similar new friend

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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 2d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 2d

This is satire.

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 2d

Enshitification

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 3d

📕#BookReview

Hannah Chazin's 'Live stock and dead things' reconsiders the idea that domestic herd animals were passive economic resources in the past, investigating how living and working with animals shaped society, economy, ritual and politics 1/2

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Cover of the book reviewed with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll be talking Tiwanaku here too!

TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Registration is now open! 📢

Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.

Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40

More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a national lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America this year. I’m presenting in Montreal on October 23rd at Concordia if anyone is interested in 25 years of work into the emergence of Tiwanaku. Details here www.archaeological.org/event/a-high...

AIA Event Listings - A High Altitude "Big Bang": Late Formative Period Archaeology of the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia - Archaeological Institute of America

Archaeological event listing for Archaeological Institute of America

www.archaeological.org

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 3d

Push the button. 📷Leica m2 #believeinfilm #HamOnt

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 5d

Can't believe it hasn't happened yet. (maybe it has?)

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 5d

Love many of the new street art installations in #HamOnt, but can’t say I’m a fan of our downtown getting a real estate salesman sprayed just because he put money into a festival. Leica m2. #believeinfilm

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 5d

Longer read, but the best I've read in a while on why no one should be using AI shit. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d

Short of a revolutionary new power source, in order for big tech to fulfill all the shareholder promises already made they have to choke us all to death with emissions. But even if cold fusion was a reality tomorrow, fossil fuel giants would still oppose it because global geopolitics run on oil.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 5d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 7d

Hamilton 📷Leica m2 #believeinfilm

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Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 8d

I’m sure this will work out fine.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 8d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

Andy Roddick @aroddick.bsky.social · 8d

Wow! Congratulations

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 9d

If you view fascism as a 0/1 binary, then Americans are not living under fascism.

If you fascism as a continuum, you'd have to notice that someone is fucking with the dial and moving it very rapidly in the FASCIST direction

Dude here thinks adopting the first pose makes him seem smart.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.