Fuck AI

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is targeting Spanish-speaking voters with an AI-generated ad that shows a caricature of a trans girl playing soccer against high school girls. The ad even features an AI-generated version of his Democratic opponent, Xavier Becerra, taking a policy position that he does not take in real life.

Which CEO has sunk the furthest into the putrid muck of Donald Trump’s decaying brain?

Anthropic’s mounting operating losses coupled with emerging competition from a plethora of open-source models led New Constructs to conclude that, “We don’t think Anthropic has a viable business.”

Editors using the visual editor will now see a warning when they paste text that is likely to have initially been copied from one of five external generative AI chatbots into Wikipedia. This feature is known as LLM Paste Check. It is a type of Edit Check that is community configurable. The check looks for markers in the copied HTML and is not using content watermark detection. Edits will also be tagged so that patrollers can review them more closely. The feature helps newcomers add content that respects Wikipedia’s policies and makes it easier for experienced editors to identify problematic edits. Communities with local policies about LLM usage can adjust the wording and policy that is linked. The team apologizes that this was rolled out without a delay for translations.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/53878608

“Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con.

Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.

This was going to happen eventually.

New York City has also banned AI for younger students as concerns over classroom use grow

Gotta make sure the people currently being bombed out of existence don’t sound too resentful about it, after all

The developer behind Teach My Little Sister How to Drive, a driving instruction sim where you instruct a generative-AI-powered, dynamic NPC, has been spending $1,000 dollars a day to keep the demo working.

That’s the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment

Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude.

“You Know Who” wrote this:

Why does anyone play fantasy football? This is not a trick question, although it’s also not particularly difficult to answer. Perhaps they do it for money, or they enjoy football, or they want a shared activity to help stay in touch with friends or family. Whatever the reason, the fun is in picking your guys and managing your little team and hoping you win more often than you lose. Some people have a healthier relationship to this endeavor than others. Still, if none of it appeals to you, then you can always not do it.

Aaand it’s gone… Rare example of sanity in the AI investment market.

Finnish authorities have ordered a halt to building work at two planned Google data centres amid concerns over the clearance of more than 300 hectares of forest.

Taking away the learning, the sense of progression and the very soul of things. I’m not convinced.

Teen mode doesn’t live up to OpenAI’s promises to make ChatGPT safe for kids by default.

Democracy Now interviews the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence. “Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems,” Gebru says tech leaders like SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are “marketing their systems as all-knowing, superpowerful, superintelligent,” and lobbying for “self-policing and self-regulation” to avoid being held “liable through existing laws.” Gebru expresses skepticism over increasingly widespread claims that AI algorithms pose an existential risk to humanity, warning that such claims are overblown and that “what is actually happening is regulatory capture.”

Do you have a video channel that has decided not to use AI? Add your project to the list today.

Our testing shows that across all three of those dimensions, this chatbot, this new version of ChatGPT for Teens, isn’t actually acting that differently than the previous version of ChatGPT… and that’s not going to be apparent to a parent…

Hey there! Some of you may have seen my post from a couple weeks ago to the open source community about this project, if you haven’t, feel free to go there and read it for some context.

Being a doctor is one of the jobs expected to be least at risk from AI replacement. But a new program launched in Utah is raising questions over that assumption. A healthcare startup will begin offering AI examinations and prescriptions to patients without direct human oversight, making Utah the first state to replace a doctor with an AI.

Plagiarism machine; and now literal forgery machine.

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits “something’s clearly not working” with the artificial intelligence money that has flooded the midterm elections — and he doesn’t expect President Donald Trump’s rebrand of the technology to improve his industry’s image with the American public, either.

There are now a wide variety of categories and projects on noailist.org, the list of projects that have specifically chosen not to use AI.

What just happened? Another incident has taken place that illustrates the need to be careful what you tell AI. A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote that she planned to “shoot up” the Sheriff’s office. After a human reviewer examined the statements, they were reported to police.

The man himself has this to say:

Yes, he literally demands devs who don’t accept LLM security reports to be removed from the project.

A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology.

Who could POSSIBLY have seen this coming‽

Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories.

Bastard tries to drink from the well he dug and all he got was piss.

Godawful as hell. How stupid this really is.

I suppose that’s another reason why Trump likes Musk so much. Musk can fine tune the anime waifu Trump loves, while it tells him how cool he would be if he bombed Iran.

arXiv, the preprint paper repository, is seeing so many low-quality submissions, with AI tools helping drive the surge, that it has imposed a hard limit of two new submissions per month per submitter, regardless of whether they were produced solely by humans or with help from AI tools.

Also note the conspicuous absence in who Anthropic chose to invite:

I think that the push of AI on the software development this will be a huge hurdle to solve, even if we manage to solve. This is my view on the cognitive debt with AI tooling. And how shit it is to help on this.