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I started putting my thoughts together on why I don't use AI. It will take time to write it all out, it feels like an essay. I could probably come up with a hundred reasons, but I am currently at eight just off the top of my head.
I want to share one that no one talks about.
Big tech companies are using cheap labor in the global south to filter the human trauma on the internet in order to train LLM models. People in countries like Kenya, India, and the Philippines spend 9+ hours per day viewing the most horrific content imaginable (violence, abuse, hate speech, etc) at $1.50/hr. They are literally using the minds of people in precarious economic situations as a filter to protect the sensibilities of the wealthy. They claim it is opportunity when it is actually predatory.
The next time you ask an "ai" to summarize a 450 word article for you, think about the human filter required to make that answer safe. You are not just saving time, you are benefiting from a predatory labor practice that pays pennies to protect your sensibilities.
Further reading:
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
#NoAI #NoAI #EthicalTech #LaborRights #HumanRights #FOSS #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #Gemini
In which OpenAI admit that people aren't paying them enough to use their spicy autocomplete : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgjn012k3do
A mere week into 2026, OpenAI launched “ChatGPT Health” in the United States, asking users to upload their personal medical data and link up their health apps in exchange for the chatbot’s advice about diet, sleep, work-outs, and even personal insurance decisions.(from https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-wants-your-health-data/).
This is the probably inevitable endgame of FitBit and other "measured life" technologies. It isn't about health; it's about mass managing bodies. It's a short hop from there to mass managing minds, which this "psychologized" technology is already being deployed to do (AI therapists and whatnot). Fully corporatized human resource management for the leisure class (you and I are not the intended beneficiaries, to be clear; we're the mass).
Neural implants would finish the job, I guess. It's interesting how the tech sector pushes its tech closer and closer to the physical head and face. Eventually the push to penetrate the head (e.g. Neuralink) should intensify. Always with some attached promise of convenience, privilege, wealth, freedom of course.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #ChatGPT #health #HealthTech
A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…
Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.
“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”
Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.
Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.
CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.
The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.
What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.
You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.
Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt
A popular TikTok channel featuring an "Aboriginal man" presenting animal facts has been exposed as an AI forgery.
AI is Iggy Azalea on an industrial scale:
"The self-described “Bush Legend” on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram is growing in popularity.
"These short and sharp videos feature an Aboriginal man – sometimes painted up in ochre, other times in an all khaki outfit – as he introduces different native animals and facts about them.
...
"But the Bush Legend isn’t real. He is generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
"This is a part of a growing influx of AI being utilised to represent Indigenous peoples, knowledges and cultures with no community accountability or relationships with Indigenous peoples. It forms a new type of cultural appropriation, one that Indigenous peoples are increasingly concerned about."
...
"We are seeing the rise of an AI Blakface that is utilised with ease thanks to the availability and prevalence of AI.
"Non-Indigenous people and entities are able to create Indigenous personas through AI, often grounded in stereotypical representations that both amalgamate and appropriate cultures."
#ChatGPT #gemini #AI #TikTok #tiktoksucks #Claude #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #AIslop
Afroféminas anuncia con bombos y platillos una «IA decolonial y antirracista» que no es otra cosa que un GPT «personalizado» desde la propia OpenAI 🤦🏼♀️
Nadie las obligaba a usar ChatGPT de base para esto. Fue una elección. Ok. Pero no salgan a venderla como decolonial y antirracista si están usando de base el mismo sistema opresor y tecnofeudalista que se intenta combatir. Creen un modelo desde cero, aunque les tome más tiempo, y ahí sería más coherente el mensaje.
Therefore, if we were having a technical conversation about large language models and their use, we'd be addressing these and related concerns. But I don't think that's what the conversation's been about, not in the public sphere nor in the technical sphere.
All this goes beyond AI. Henry Brighton (I think?) coined the phrase "the bias bias" to refer to a tendency where, when applying a model to a problem, people respond to inadequate outcomes by adding complexity to the model. This goes for mathematical models as much as computational models. The rationale seems to be that the more "true to life" the model is, the more likely it is to succeed (whatever that may mean for them). People are often surprised to learn that this is not always the case: models can and sometimes do become less likely to succeed the more "true to life" they're made. The bias bias can lead to even worse outcomes in such cases, triggering the tendency again and resulting in a feedback loop. The end result can be enormously complex models and concomitant extreme surveillance to acquire data to feed data the models. I look at FORPLAN or ChatGPT, and this is what I see.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #GPT #ChatGPT #LatentDiffusion #BigData #EcologicalRationality #LessIsMore #Bias #BiasBias
Anyway:
ChatGPT and related applications are presented as inevitable and unquestionably good. However, Herbert Simon’s bounded rationality, especially in its more modern guise of ecological rationality, stresses the prevalence of “less is more” phenomena, while scholars like Arvind Narayanan (How to Recognize AI Snake Oil) speak directly to AI itself. Briefly, there are times when simpler models, trained on less data, constitute demonstrably better systems than complex models trained on large data sets. Narayanan, following Joseph Weizenbaum, argues that tasks involving human judgment have this quality. If creating useful tools for such tasks were truly the intended goal, one would reject complex models like GPT and their massive data sets, preferring simpler, less data intensive, and better-performing alternatives. In fact one would reject GPT on the same grounds that less well-trained versions of GPT are rejected in favor of more well-trained ones during the training of GPT itself.#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #GPT#ChatGPT #OpenAI #Galatea #PygmalionHow then do we explain the push to use GPT in producing art, making health care decisions, or advising the legal system, all areas requiring sensitive human judgment? One wonders whether models like GPT were never meant to be optimal in the technical sense after all, but rather in a metaphysical sense. In this view an optimized AI model is not a tool but a Platonic ideal that messy human data only approximates during optimization. As a sculptor with well-aimed chisel blows knocks chips off a marble block to reveal the statuesque human form hidden within, so the technologist with well-curated data points knocks chips of error off an AI model to reveal the perfect text generator latent within. Recent news reporting that OpenAI requires more text data than currently exists to perfect its GPT models adds additional weight to the claim that generative AI practitioners seek the ideal, not the real.
Study: AI Successfully Completed Commission Work 2.5% of the Time… At Best
A study has come out and dealt a fresh blow to how well AI can handle replacing humans at various tasks.
https://www.freezenet.ca/study-ai-successfully-completed-commission-work-2-5-of-the-time-at-best/
#News #Technology #AI #ChatGPT #commission #Gemini #Grok #Manus #research #Sonnet #study #work
"The door is open a crack, the wind is blowing, the post-American internet is upon us: it's a new, good #internet that delivers the technological self-determination of the old, good internet, and the ease of use of Web 2.0 that let our normie friends use it, too."
@pluralistic
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet/
#enshittification #tariffs #digitalmarketsact #eu #apple #amazon #google #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #microsoft #chatgpt #tesla #technology #bigtech #economics #diday #opensource #foss
ChatGPT ZombieAgent Exploit Enables Persistent Data Theft
https://www.webpronews.com/chatgpt-zombieagent-exploit-enables-persistent-data-theft/
#ChatGPT #DataTheft #PromptInjection #ConnectedServices #Email #Calendar #CodeSnippets
Holy mother of silicon chips and salsa. That ChatGPT telling us all to run commercial was the most dystopian thing I've seen all day and I read the Internet, people.
Its just missing the last seconds of the camera panning to the army of bots chasing them.
So, now they know how real creators feel after having been ripped off by "AI"…
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art
#tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
Gericht: ChatGPT in der Schule ist auch ohne explizites Verbot eine Täuschung
Wer KI-generierte Texte als eigene Leistung ausgibt, riskiert die Note "ungenügend". Das gilt auch, wenn die Schulregeln das Werkzeug nicht namentlich erwähnen.
Tried to create a new #Reddit account. Had to sign up for new email, because of course. New email, new account - can't make posts, vote on posts. Tried to make a post, says it was removed right away and not why.
Reddit is a failed site, and sadly the top search result. It's what #ChatGPT was trained on and toxic.
I've been banned recently for saying a product doesn't work - it removes speech.
#OpenAI launches #ChatGPTHealth , encouraging users to connect their #medical records-Verge
company is encouraging users to connect their personal medical records & wellness apps, such as #AppleHealth , #Peloton , #MyFitnessPal , #WeightWatchers , & Function, “to get more personalized, grounded responses to their questions.” It suggests connecting medical records so that #ChatGPT can analyze lab results, visit summaries, & clinical history
#chatgpthealth #ai #privacy
New.
Radware: ZombieAgent: New ChatGPT Vulnerabilities Let Data Theft Continue (and Spread) https://www.radware.com/blog/threat-intelligence/zombieagent/ #threatintel #threatintelligence
More:
"ZombieAgent used a character-by-character exfiltration technique and indirect link manipulation to circumvent the guardrails OpenAI implemented to prevent its predecessor, ShadowLeak, from exfiltrating sensitive information."
Ars Technica: ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/chatgpt-falls-to-new-data-pilfering-attack-as-a-vicious-cycle-in-ai-continues/ @arstechnica @dangoodin #infosec #ChatGPT #OpenAI
Da wird #Microsoft demnaechst wohl noch mehr Angestellte entlassen muessen, um weiterhin Rekordgewinne zu schreiben.
Dieses Urteil gegen #OpenAI duerfte noch schneller die milliardenfache Urheberrechtsverletzung von #ChatGPT offenbaren. Gut so!
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/news-orgs-want-openai-to-dig-up-millions-of-deleted-chatgpt-logs
With the US acting more and more like a rogue state, it's time to impose your own personal sanctions.
Bite the bullet. Stop using Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and ChatGPT - where you can. Hit them where it hurts and burst that AI bubble.
Most of the barriers come down to inconvenience.
#LeaveBigTech #Boycott #BoycottAmerica #US #BigTech #Microsoft #Apple #Google #Meta #ChatGPT #AIBubble
"Act surprised when it DOES work, and hand the developer a lolly-pop."
#survivalstrategies #aislop #ChatGPT
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804847534496514048/they-arent-making-things-up-they-arent-that?source=share
@dashremover I genuinely find #ChatGPT incredibly useful for doing a lot of systems work (though GPT 4o is _much_ better than 5.2), but I have to treat it as though I just got an idiot savant operator forced upon me on a Youth Training Scheme programme.
Generally, it's amazing, it can do #Windows command line stuff I had no idea was even possible, and it's amazing at installing things on obscure and obsolete #Unix setups, but you still have to check every single thing it does that you know isn't reversible.
I use GPT a lot, and with the switch from 4 to 5, I think #OpenAI has been pretty reckless, ironically, if you ask #GPT why, it will tell you. It's geared towards generating conversation and interaction rather than just following instructions cleanly - And I guess wiping out all of your users' files is a talking point that could generate loads of fun data for the OpenAI datamoles.
I wonder how much damage ChatGPT (in this case, 5.2) causes to people who follow its instructions without checking.
In this case, I saw where it was heading and was curious if it would just tell me to wipe out all my files, so I went with it. And it did.
It's told me to do some pretty destructive things in the past which I have caught, but casually wiping out an entire instance with all of its user-data and trying to frame that as "good news" and pointing out that I should "Accept the loss as done" (which to be fair, would be the only possible action in this case) is about as dangerous as it gets.
From @WIRED: The U.S. invaded Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro. ChatGPT’s output delivered something else. Read more on how some AI chatbots have a surprisingly good handle on breaking news, while others don’t:
Inasmuch as LLMs make people stupider, they are the greatest ally imaginable for conservatives who rely heavily on the exact category of empty mistakenness these programs engender.
so...rather by accident, I had my first experience today of someone using ChatGPT when transacting some sort of business with me, and it was my vocational counselor! she ran my provisional resume through #ChatGPT to polish it up. and under the circumstances, I didn't feel like making any kind of fuss about it.
I must be honest: when it comes to trying to sound appealing to human-resource drones, I haven't the faintest idea what they want, and I have an extremely bad history of guessing and improvising on my own. The sad thing about AI slop-filtering is that it's surely attuned to the expectations of just the sort of people who end up making hiring and management decisions.
~Chara (cont'd)
Digitaler #Neokolonialismus
"Arbeiter:innen in #Kenia sollten teils traumatisierende Texte lesen, um #ChatGPT zu optimieren. Ihr Stundenlohn: bis zu zwei US-Dollar. Eine Recherche des Time Magazines zeigt: Hinter dem Hype um die Künstliche Intelligenz steckt auch eine Geschichte von Ausbeutung im globalen Süden."
https://netzpolitik.org/2023/globaler-sueden-prekaere-klickarbeit-hinter-den-kulissen-von-chatgpt/
Хорошо, что университетов разных много, а не один только Калифорнийский Государственный. И все эти университеты встречают этот дизрапшин по разному. CSU вот решил снюхаться с OpenAI. Но другие пойдут другим путём. Что из всего этого выгорит, покажет время. И деньги. В конце концов, любой университет, это коммерческое предприятие, которое продаёт образование. Если такое образование окажется ценным для экономики, то деньги в такой университет потекут. Если нет, то ну чтож, деньги потекут в другой университет, который сделал ставку на что-то другие.
Мы сейчас, никто из нас, не знаем, какая ставка окажется правильной. Это уже, как карты лягут.
Но да, как действует OpenAI, мне крайне не нравится. OpenAI вовсе не опен, и ChatGPT это всего лишь LLM, который ещё не AI. Но как бы то ни было, Сэм Альтман хочет многа деняк. И он их, сука, получает.
Es tropft und zwar aus dem Quellcode von ChatGPT. Ein Screenshot zeigt, dass möglicherweise mit Werbung im Chatbot experimentiert wird.
#ki #kuenstlicheintelligenz #chatgpt
RE: https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/115446644659078400
🤖 #OpenAI just officially admitted that they will never be able to make their #AI Browsers truly safe!
Of course they won't let themselves be stopped from selling their #product by such a minor detail ;)
"We expect adversaries to keep adapting. Prompt injection, much like scams and social engineering on the web, is unlikely to ever be fully “solved”..."
https://openai.com/index/hardening-atlas-against-prompt-injection/
#chatgpt #atlas #it #news #internet #browser #artificialintelligence #ki #promptinjection #tech #technology #software
AodeRelay boosted🤖 AI browsers are NOT safe!
There is a thing called "prompt injection" and it works.¹
Funnily the thing that most see as a major issue with AI, the
crawling of the #web and one-way use of it's content, is exactly what makes their AI browsers unsafe.If you place malicious #code in that very content, the AI scans it & then runs it² on your OS 🤯
This issue has been known to the #tech corps for years³, but they released their #AI browsers nonetheless 🤑
1/2
"I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me."
https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
#tech #technology #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
how dare i forget my year in poem!
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4hawmtgzjx3vclfyphbhfn7v/post/3malzavejrs2h
“i asked #chatgpt” yeah well i asked the town’s local witch and she turned all my enemies into frogs. so. you’re next.
no i dont want to ‘ask #chatgpt’ i want to go to a wikipedia page and spend half an hour reading an article like a real person
If you are outraged over Mozilla putting "ai" features into Firefox, you should be just as offended by your search engine pushing, promoting, and profiting from them as well.
That is why I am giving @MetaGer a try. It ticks off most of the boxes of my search engine wish list. They respects your privacy by not spying on you, no ads, open source, nonprofit with a community led open governance model, custom filtering & prioritization, and most importantly they doesn't push a LLM onto you.
While I cannot find any mention of their stance on LLMs (please let me know if you have a source). Their social media posts seem to suggest they are not fans of it. The fact that they try to filter out slop and do not offer "ai" features is such a relief.
Since they do not have ads they rely on a donation of about €0.01 per search. I think that is reasonable. I am willing to pay for a good service that does not make me the product.
#MetaGer #Mozilla #Firefox #noai #ai #Privacy #Gemini #openai #chatgpt #SearchEngine #Search #DuckDuckGo #Google #Bing #Brave #StartPage #Yahoo #Ecosia #Qwant
Update. New study using #ChatGPT to assess referee reports: "Female first authors received less polite reviews than their male peers… In addition, published papers with a female senior author received more favorable reviews than papers with a male senior author."
https://elifesciences.org/articles/90230
Bought 5 tickets for the PowerBall last night and decided to experiment this morning by asking both #Copilot (Consumer) and #ChatGPT to check my numbers. I gave them the same prompt - "Did any of these numbers win last night's PowerBall" accompanied by a photo of my ticket.
Copilot didn't correctly OCR the ticket getting several of the numbers wrong. ChatGPT accurately read the ticket. Sadly we didn't win.
Disappointing that Copilot wasn't able to accurately read the numbers, though.
One quick way to lose my respect is to say "we don't know whether AI is gaining consciousness"
WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.
Oh. My. God. Yes we do. Large language models are not intelligent. They are not conscious.
If this is difficult for you (or someone you know) to understand, please read the book AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
#ai #chatgpt #llm #artificialintelligence #openai #marketing #capitalism #gemini #technofeudalism
Wer hat mir eigentlich die Domain "schenkl . de" weggeschnappt?
Und warum zur Hölle tut die nix anderes als auf #ChatGPT weiterzuleiten??? 🤢
»Wie gut sind ChatGPT, Gemini & Co. wirklich?
"Kassensturz" zeigt in einer Spezial-Ausgabe, was KI heute schon alles kann. Im Test: der grosse Chatbot-Vergleich – mit überraschenden Resultaten.«
Endlich mal eine TV-Doku die auch aufzeigt wie KI ua durch "Billigarbeit" aufgebaut ist. Das die KI nichts selber für dauerhaft beibringt sollte eigentlich nun endlich populär klar sein.
#kassensturz #chatgpt #gemmini #srf #tv #ki #chatbots #billigarbeitskrafte #doku
It’s Not An AI Bubble. It’s A Black Hole
#finance #imperialism
#democracy #poverty #trump #maga #nokings #antifa #techbros #billionaires #nvidia #bigtech #stocks #market #trade #unitedstates #palantir #mastodon #education #fediverse #canada #newyork #california #openai #montreal @ledevoir @eff #gpu #uk #china @democracy @povertyandinequality #aibubble #amazon #microsoft #chatgpt #banks #datacenters #401K #mutualfunds @workersrights #LAYOFFS
8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions
#UrbanVPN #Claude #ChatGPT #DeepSeek #Perplexity #GoogleGemini #Grok #BiScience
https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection
Most companies (FaceBook, Google, etc.) have policies to handle user death. There have been laws passed about some types of #Data, in part to protect those who have been wrongfully declared dead. #OpenAI are too busy building an #AI idol to allow little things like that to take up five minutes.
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like #ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me. I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
👉🏻 https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt
Murder-suicide case shows #OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI is facing increasing scrutiny over how it handles #ChatGPT data after users die, only selectively sharing data in lawsuits over ChatGPT-linked #suicides.
Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before a 56-year-old bodybuilder, Stein-Erik Soelberg, took his own life after “savagely” murdering his mother, 83-year-old Suzanne Adams.
#privacy #security #ai
Ignoring every single other controversial trait about #ai, can i just ask what exactly happened to googling things????? Cause like. 'i asked #chatgpt this or that and it gave me shitty responses' you could have done all that by just putting your question into a search bar and clicking on the first site you get. Like ???? Am i in crazy town right now????? Why do these people use chatgpt when googling is and always has been right there ????????
My Codex Coordinator is really useful (to me) right now. Single command install & Login, central management for AGENTS.md, slash commands, profiles, MCP Server included. And more.
github.com/christianreiss/codex-orchestrator
#codex #openai #coding #ai #chatgpt #github #selfhosting #selfhosted
AMOS Stealer Exploits AI Trust: Malware Delivered Through ChatGPT and Grok
#AMOSStealer #ChatGPT #Grok
https://www.huntress.com/blog/amos-stealer-chatgpt-grok-ai-trust
The census sketch from SNL captures one of the central problems of LLMs perfectly.
"How long have you lived at this address?"
"...What do most people say?"
We never needed a machine to crowdsource our creativity, our businesses, even our identities. We're practicing parroting what others might want to hear instead of, you know, actual facts or personal truth.
What an inane way to flatten the human experience.
@pbeens #ChatGPT has no role in education and its adoption is reducing students' creativity and ability to learn. Additionally, LLMs are dangerously inaccurate and inauthentic, providing a hallucinatory alt-world that has no connection to objective reality.
#AI in its current form diminishes humans in every way, at an extraordinary environmental cost. To involve children in that process is reckless, short-sighted, and cruel.
Gestehe, KI: OpenAI bringt Modell dazu, seinen Betrug zuzugeben
Große Sprachmodelle lügen und betrügen oft. Das lässt sich nicht verhindern, aber wir können sie dazu bringen, zuzugeben, was es gemacht hat.
Disgruntled ChatGPT Users Think Ads Have Rolled Out. The Timing Couldn’t Be Worse
Users think they see Target ads. Not
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/vlrp1
https://gizmodo.com/disgruntled-chatgpt-users-think-ads-have-rolled-out-the-timing-couldnt-be-worse-2000696598#ads #artificial-intelligence #chatgpt #target
8 Privacy Tricks I Use to Prevent ChatGPT From Knowing Too Much About Me | PCMag https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/8-privacy-tricks-i-use-to-prevent-chatgpt-from-knowing-too-much-about-me #AI #ChatGPT #limiting #information #privacy #identity
Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Slop may be seeping into the nooks and crannies of our brains.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/m9pn0
https://gizmodo.com/chatbot-dialect-2000696509#artificial-intelligence #chatbots #chatgpt #linguistics
I can write clear English but vague on the strict rules of grammar and punctuation. When I misread a phrase because the first sentence ended in "U.S." and the sentence that followed began with a capitalised proper noun, I got confused and had to re-read it a few times until I spotted the catch.
Asked #ChatGPT to don its English language professor hat and chime in.
This did not help... lolz
We had a good time and we also spoke about #cybersecurity!
How is that even possible? 😂 🤣
p.s. we did throw a couple of Italian words here and there but it is an episode in English - will launch my podcast in Italian soon! 😉
Dr. Steve Mancini, cybersecurity professor, Homeland Security veteran, and Honorary Italian Consul in Pittsburgh, challenges the myth of constant technological evolution. From War Games to #ChatGPT, the principles of cyber threats remain unchanged—but our over-reliance on #technology is making us more vulnerable.
In this Hybrid Analog Digital Society, the ultimate breach isn't data—it's humanity itself.
#infosec #tech #society #socialmedia #ai
Studio C60 / ITSPmagazine Sean Martin, CISSP
In case you didn’t expect it, OpenAI has embedded references to adverts on the mobile ChatGPT app. So adverts might be coming.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
- - -
Au cas que vous ne l’attendiez pas, OpenAI a intégré des références aux publicités sur l’application mobile ChatGPT. Les publicités pourraient donc arriver.
// Article en anglais //
OpenAI denies that they’re rolling adverts on paid subscriptions. They say they’re app recommendations from a partner.
Me: If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it is…
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-denies-rolling-out-ads-on-chatgpt-paid-plans/
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OpenAI nient qu'ils déploient des publicités sur les abonnements payants. Ils disent que ce sont des recommandations d’apps de la part d’un partenaire.
Moi: il n’y a pas de fumée sans...
// Article en anglais //
Sam Altman bought a bunch of RAM to complicate production for other companies marking the first time someone was making humans and computers stupider simultaneously.
ChatGPT is bullshit
A whitepaper on how LLMs make things up and how we should classify their output
#chatgpt #llms #bullshit #confabulations #hallucinations #reading #language
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf
(cont'd) Mixed up in this belief in the infallibility of sufficiently prolonged use of #statistics, is a general assumption that all unanswered questions have single answers. There's a correct answer and a lot of wrong answers, and therefore the business of making a machine that has all the answers to all possible questions is merely a matter of optimizing a single set of probabilities.
One sees this in how the #technology nerdbros routinely talk about #ChatGPT and #Grok and #Claude and all the other #LLM thingummies. They wave away all criticism about the tendency of their devices to spew out wrong answers by insisting that their machines are—they swear up and down—99.5% correct, or 99.7% correct, or 99.85% correct, or some other figure that is always (A) very close to 100% correct and (B) supposedly always getting closer and closer to perfection. What "100% correct" even means, in this context, isn't a question they want to answer.
~Chara (cont'd)
In the past 24 hours I've gotten email spam from OpenAI encouraging me to use ChatGPT and an app store notification that "hey, people are really loving ChatGPT, so you should use their app". Ugh. I did not ask for this. Although I have used it before, I am a certified AI (or at least LLM) curmudgeon. This only encourages me to go yet one more day without using their slop product.
ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says
Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/chatgpt-hyped-up-violent-stalker-who-believed-he-was-gods-assassin-doj-says/#ai #chatgpt #cyberstalking #instagram #openai #policy #spotify #tiktok
@paulrickards @scruss I've seen this on the Apple II as well, ofc, but I can't find the code out there. I wanted to run it on my IIe.
But I can share a little fun I had with ChatGPT and its attempt to rewrite the thing for Applesoft BASIC. This is after several iterations.
I think it got tired of all that crap and said, "BORING - I want to code some demos instead!!!" Who knew GPT was a scene fan? lol
#AppleII #demoscene #C64 #BASIC #hat #plotting #retrocomputing #ChatGPT #AI
(01 Dec) OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
OpenAI risks increased fines after deleting pirated books datasets.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/165n9
#ai #chatgpt #copyright-infringement #online-piracy #openai #pirating-books #policy #training-data
ChatGPT working on an integration into Apple Health
https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/12/03/apple-health-integration-chatgpt/
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ChatGPT travaille sur une intégration à Apple Santé
// Article en anglais //
#ChatGPT #OpenAI #Apple #AppleHealth #AppleSanté #iOS #AppleWatch #iPhone
I found this piece by @motherjonesmag insightful on why more and more of my patients tell me they’re turning to #ChatGPT for medical advice
“it’s become increasingly clear just how much a humanlike string of words can captivate, entertain, and influence us”
Why Do We Trust ChatGPT?
The science of how AI chatbots captivate, entertain, and influence us.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/chatgpt-trust-ai-chatbots/
Then how come we still get this from #AI #GENAI? WTF is going on with these people??
#meta #amazon #google #microsoft #chatgpt #openai #anthropic #nvidia
Chinese sex doll maker sees jump in 2025 sales as AI boosts adult toys’ user experience https://www.byteseu.com/748815/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #baidu #ChatGPT #DataCentres #DeepSeek #Europe #Guangdong #iFlyTek #Italy #LargeLanguageModel #LiuJiangxia #Llama #MetaPlatform #MetaPlatforms #MetaBoxSeries #MindWithHeartRobotics #NorthAmerica #OpenSource #OpenAI #PrivacyConcerns #SexDollIndustry #Shenzhen #StarperyTechnology #StartUp #UnitedStates #WMDoll #Zhongshan
Ugh...#ChatGpt uses #Bing for web search results...
But it's better!
it basically cheats by working harder (i.e. going through as many pages as needed). It uses multi-hop reasoning and synthesizes an answer.
Where as a human looks at #google and judges results on the top 2-3 results (usually)
https://robonomics.substack.com/p/search-the-moat-of-the-search-index
🚀 New toy: Codex Orchestrator is live!
🔑 Self‑hosted PHP 8.2 + MySQL service that keeps one canonical Codex auth.json per host, syncs via /auth, and ships slash‑commands, token usage + ChatGPT quota/pricing for your dashboards.
Repo: https://github.com/christianreiss/codex-orchestrator
#CodexOrchestrator #Codex #DevOps #SelfHosted #PHP #MySQL #ChatGPT #AI #OpenSource #Infosec #openai
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
#OpenAI #ChatGPT
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/leak-confirms-openai-is-preparing-ads-on-chatgpt-for-public-roll-out/
Are You Interviewing a Candidate—or Their AI? https://hbr.org/2025/11/are-you-interviewing-a-candidate-or-their-ai #AI #Hiring #Recruiting #interviews #ChatGPT #Grok #Google #Claude #Perplexity
After seeing some #AI #privacy posts about #ChatGPT claiming to not be able to see your location, IP, or anything I decided to test it.
With no account or history, I asked it a few questions, and sure enough, it not only knows exactly where I am but is gaslighting me into thinking it was pure coincidence.
A friend followed the same instructions and got the same results in his location as well.
Yikes.
'Buried in a footnote were two sentences that revealed at least one member of law enforcement used ChatGPT to write a report that was meant to document how the officer used force against an individual.'
https://gizmodo.com/judge-says-ice-used-chatgpt-to-write-use-of-force-reports-2000692370
Critical reasoning vs Cognitive Delegation
Old School Focus:
Building internal cognitive capabilities and managing cognitive load independently.
Cognitive Delegation Focus:
Orchestrating distributed cognitive systems while maintaining quality control over AI-augmented processes.
We can still go for a jog or go hunt our own deer, but for reaching the stars we, the Apes do what Apes do best: Use tools to build on our cognitive abilities. AI is a tool.
3/3
#AI #Education #FutureOfEducation #AIinEducation #LLM #ChatGPT #Claude #EdAI #CriticalThinking #CognitiveScience #Metacognition #HigherOrderThinking #Reasoning #Vygotsky #Hutchins #Sweller #LearningScience #EducationalPsychology #SocialLearning #TechforGood #EticalAI #AILiteracy #PromptEngineering #AISkills #DigitalLiteracy #FutureSkills #LRM #AIResearch #AILimitations #SystemsThinking #AIEvaluation #MentalModels #LifelongLearning #AIEthics #HumanCenteredAI #DigitalTransformation #AIRegulation #ResponsibleAI #Philosophy
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Immer mehr Menschen sehen sich im beruflichen Umfeld genötigt, mit generativer #KI zu arbeiten.
Besonders Großunternehmen „überrollen“ damit ihre #Mitarbeiter. Es wird eine Art #Wettbewerbsdruck unter #Kollegen aufgebaut.
Hier meine #Buchempfehlung für alle, die in generative #Chatbots wie #ChatGPT schnell einsteigen möchten oder müssen. 🙄
#Büroalltag #Buchtipp #Nachhilfe #Bewerbung #SEO #Bewerbung #PromptEngineering #Prompten