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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 18h

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14h

Legs are evolution’s attempt to invent wheels

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14h

"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14h

Kate

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 14h

Sadness

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 15h

Oh man, if this happened to me I would put it in my bluesky bio. But I can see how some might find it concerning

Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 1d

The actual story has a pretty great lede, too, posing the eternal question:

“What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?”

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/13/h...

A peer-reviewed paper claimed a researcher was an expert in sex robots. He’s not.

3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots? That was the situation for one rather panicked research…

retractionwatch.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16h

OpenAI claims to have solved issues with mental health of user.

And in other news: GPT erotica coming soon

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16h

Why yes I always drive in the opposite direction from my home for a while and regularly make U-turns and backtrack. Obviously.

Also, my commute by bike takes much less time than the algorithm thinks because it’s not actually on roads with traffic.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16h

It looks like my phone is trying to learn my commute. But my regular commute is by bike along bike paths that mostly don’t follow roads. The AI is trying to map my data to roads cars can drive and the result is hilarious.

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · 19h

The (Virtual) CS+Law Workshop will start up this year on Friday, Oct 14, 1-3pm Central with:

- Cullen O’Keefe on "Law-Following AI: Designing AI Agents to Obey Human Laws"
- Mark Riedl (@markriedl.bsky.social) on "Legally Informed Explainable AI"

Full details: www.cslawworkshop.org

CS+Law

When: Third Friday of each month at 1 PM Central Time (sometimes fourth Friday; next workshop: Friday, October 17, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Central Time). What: First 90 minutes: Two presentations of CS+Law...

www.cslawworkshop.org

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 2d

Tron 3: it’s Morbin’ Time

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating experiment

Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 16d

Does AI get bored?

I gave them nothing to do, just to see what happens

one thing — they devolve into a repetitive “collapse” state, I guess you could call it boredom

but some break out into math & poetry on their own, I didn’t expect which ones that would be

timkellogg.me/blog/2025/09...

Does AI Get Bored?

timkellogg.me

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3d

Was just telling people that I thought OpenAI was trying to build a walled garden ala Apple.

WIRED @wired.com · 3d

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Be Your Future Operating System

At OpenAI’s Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window—a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 3d

A company that believed it was in the verge of AGI or ASI wouldn’t capitulate to the government because it wouldn’t care about government contracts. They would soon BE the economy and the government would soon be capitulating to them.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 4d

Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an 'AI Homeless Man' TikTok Prank

Find another way to mess with your parents.

gizmodo.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

Fair

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

Just for the record: Wreck-It Ralph is the best movie set in the Tron universe.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

Another allegedly "liberal" billionaire tech mogul bends a knee

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 4d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

"ads sometimes show when the display is set to show personal photos"

Oh that on the shelf? That's just pictures of my family: there's Sam and Linda, Sport, our golden retriever, and Elderberry herbal supplements

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4d

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads

“I’m about to just toss the whole thing…”…

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence reut.rs/4h2JXgV

Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence

Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 4d

“This is a place for edgelord humor” 😬

www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-...

Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.

Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.

www.businessinsider.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 5d

That’s an interesting answer from someone at Anthropic.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 6d

did they answer the question “are LLMs worth it?”

Why is Anthropic giving this talk when so many have made all these points before? (Rhetorical question, doesn’t need to be answered).

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 6d

Fact o morning: Three of the six Nobel Prize winners in the sciences are Americans who are immigrants. www.wsj.com/opinion/nobe...

Opinion | Immigrants and American Nobel Prizes

Three of the six U.S. science winners this year are foreign-born.

www.wsj.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sub-skeeting current events

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