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Dr J. Rosenbaum
@jrosenbaum.com.au
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Artist and researcher working with AI perceptions of gender. PhD, nerd, muso, they/them pronouns 🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺 links page at minxdragon.com
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 11h
Really delighted that I was able to speak to @karenhao.bsky.social on @moreperfectunion.bsky.social about the "AI Psychosis" problem. It's a great piece with key details on the issue, check it out!
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He Lost His Mind Using ChatGPT. Then It Told Him to Contact Me
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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blair @blairaf.com · 11h
every AI policy person upon hearing this news
Image of bugs bunny drinking a glass of carrot juice at a bar in a white tuexdo looking really tired
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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 10h
i'm convinced "verification" will be a worldcoin-style biometric data harvesting scheme. zero chance in hell i'd as much as send this company a copy of my driver's license.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11h
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 17h
have you heard?
Josh Ruben, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and Zac Oyama miming offering gifts. In each of their hands, text is overlaid that reads "MSN is back"
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14h
stylish, practical, brave, good: www.404media.co/the-surreal-...
The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog
Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 12h
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10h
Articles like this drive me insane. The amount of tokens being used is going up because they explicitly made it so that models use more tokens. This is the tech section of a globally-renown newspaper and it's an argument that's unmoored from reality or meaning.
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“Over the last few months, we’ve begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,” Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in July on the social-media giant’s second-quarter earnings call. All of that should make AI models more efficient, which could have a beneficial effect on the economics of AI. Second, data centers under construction around the world will soon begin operations, increasing the supply of computing power and energy and driving down the cost of training and using AI. Tech company Microsoft last month said it is in the final stages of construction on a $3.3 billion data center in Wisconsin and announced plans for a second, $4 billion facility in the area. And third, increasing demand for tokens could finally become an economic benefit as models improve and the supply of computing infrastructure expands. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Preview Subscribed Another massive increase in demand for AI is likely in the coming months or quarters, just as those other forces take hold, according to Terry. That’s because the most promising corporate AI trials are likely to move into broader deployment.
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 10h
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Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World - IGN
The Japanese government has made a formal request asking OpenAI to refrain from copyright infringement. This comes as a response to Sora 2’s ability to generate videos featuring the likenesses of copy...
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tt🪦RIP💀gifs @ttrpgifs.bsky.social · 11h
Roll one six-sided die—sorry, roll one six-sided unalive...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10h
the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode
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🪦"Pushing Up" Daisy 🥀 @daisyfm.net · 1d
What if corporations talked about other things we don't want the same way they talk about AI?

"Poisonous mushrooms are here to stay, so here's 10 delicious poisonous mushroom recipes!"

"Mosquitoes are here to stay, so our new line of laptops are filled with live mosquitoes!"
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 1d
New from me on productivity, AI, and the problems in how we measure it: “AI’s core function is completing goals as if they were a yes/no checkmark: having a text, rather than writing the text; having a numbered list of ideas rather than finding a good idea.” www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...
Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press
People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h
It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.
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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 1d
a big adventure for a little kitten
A picture of a black kitten looking out of a partially zipped open cat carrier seated on a subway car
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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 2d
even when writing makes me want to tear my eyeballs out of my skull, I still wouldn't want AI to take away this experience. the uncomfortable friction between what's in my brain (makes sense!) and what's on the page (does not make sense!) is where the good shit happens
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 2d
Someone created a searchable database of Epstein files www.404media.co/data-hoarder...
Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files
The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
“…several primary care doctors at MGB say the AI platform is just a Band-Aid for deeper problems. They say MGB doesn’t do enough to retain and recruit primary care doctors and could remedy that by paying higher salaries, providing more support staff, and giving doctors greater say in decisions…”
MGB is turning to AI to ease shortage of primary care doctors. Some of them don’t like it. - The Boston Globe
Several providers said the app — which questions patients, reviews medical records, and produces a list of potential diagnoses — sidesteps real solutions.
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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 2d
We can only hope but I'm not holding my breath. OpenAI have put in protections against using living people's likenesses unless they specifically opt in.
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 2d
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d
"Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis." futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
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Ric Angius @storitu.org · 2d
You can safely replace “AI” with “corporations and billionaires” in any mainstream piece of content.
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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 2d
AI, now more realistic!

Everytime it is a new horror story.
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 2d
What kind of field is it? Is it overgrown? Is it fallow? Is it filled with animals, what kinds of animals? Is it neatly cropped? Is it boggy? Does it have illicit substances? Are the fences in good condition? I've seen lots of fields, but a short description can tell me a lot about it.
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Praba Pilar @pilarva.bsky.social · 2d
Where we're at with #AI now, the #enshittified slop phase, with Peter Thiel rambling incoherently about his buddies the Anti-Christs, just more and more epistemic pathogenic #tech boy feces, #artifecalintelligence and #artifecallogics. From my latest talk on Desludging AI.
Slide from a talk by Praba Pilar. The blurry background shows a hand over a face during a conversation with AI chatbot Tamalit. On the left are the following words, in bright orange: "hyperFECALreal, epistemic shit, industry excreta, pathogenic tech boy feces, rhetorical E. coli, cultural waste, caca overflow, repression, mental enteritis, rectal LLMs, cognitive shitstorms, artifecal logics, anal terror, necropolitics, shitty black swans, demon hauntings, political repression, clogged flows, enshittified fascist populists, vulnerable population transmission, inadequate waste disposal structure." On the right side, the following words in a light orange, with a line through it: "revulsion, reproduction & death, anguish, disgust, withdrawal."
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