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Dale Hennessey

@dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca

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Climate, bird flu, AI, and Trump are our next existential crises. I like to think my opinions are well-considered but I have blind spots and am open to new perspectives... Always. Frequent dropper of F-bombs; less frequent dropper of C-bombs.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3h

as someone who was a teenage girl on the internet, i think making AI-generated revenge porn of a minor should get you the electric chair actually

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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TiggsCupcake @tiggsisacupcake.bsky.social · 16h

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 16h

Oh fuck off. Gas powered vehicles are WAY worse and you know what? Gas powered vehicles aren't required to keep people alive. This is ableist bullshit.

STITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 17h

Inhalers in the US emitted 24.9 million metric tons of CO2e over a decade, costing society an estimated $5.7 billion.

by Feldman WB, Han J (...) Chesebro BB et 2 al. in JAMA #MedSky

👉 get more here

📖 read the article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2839471

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Alt Evil @altevil.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say this was shocking... But is it really?

Leaked "Young Republicans" Group Chat Shows Them Regularly Engaging In Racial Slurs, Bigotry, And Praise For Hitler

A report was published on Tuesday that revealed the contents of a Telegram chat by the Young Republican National Federation, which featured ...

thegodlessliberal.blogspot.com

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

It's crazy how m
people are dumb as rocks these days. There's a dearth of critical thinking skills everywhere.

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Gabi T 🇨🇦 @gabituto.bsky.social · 1d

lol not quite as intended 👇
@deonandan.bsky.social
@jonathanconp.bsky.social

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

Thank you - as always - for telling truths.

Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

Given everyone's ridiculous swarming to AI to help them work - and organizations forcing members to do so - it seems entirely realistic this happened. 2/2

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

Not completely. We're trusting the original poster to be truthful. That said, this isn't the first time AI garbage has been passed off as "real product." Scientific papers, legal briefs, and student essays have all been found to include AI garbage. 1/2

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

It looks like it was generated with older versions of AI than currently exist. Newer AIs produce better garbage (which, IMHO, makes them more dangerous). If that is what the teacher did they deserve to be fired for being stupid & lazy.

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 1d

The self-checkout machine accused me of an "unexpected item." The item was my will to live, which I had mistakenly placed in the bagging area.

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

This is vile & disgusting. AI use in schools should be banned, not encouraged - especially if it makes teachers this stupid & lazy. AI is trash.

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

Absolutely!

Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 1d

I will be so happy when people wake up to just how shitty and unreliable AI is.

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Stephen Vincent @chelseaman.bsky.social · 14d

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 1d

That's crazy.

Astronauts cannot spend more
than 18 months in space, or their
bodies would transform into
perfect spheres due to the
lack of gravity.

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penboyasgod.bsky.social @penboyasgod.bsky.social · 2d

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Stef Schrader @hoonofthe.day · 2d

this may be the best description of theftbot-generated slop I've ever read

via this great rant: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Quote from n+1:

But a still graver scandal of AI — like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency — is the technology’s colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole — and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays. Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Dec 27

"oh, so you're saying--" no. i'm saying the thing i said, not the thing you made up. go back and read the thing i said

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Dad Jokes @dadsaysjokes.com · 2d

The man behind me honked at me for going 70 in a 50. So now we're going 20. Together.

I hope he packed a lunch.

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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 2d

This fucker!

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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