Comment Re:Side effects (Score 1) 204
Willful ignorance is not a mental illness, it is a conscious choice.
Not if it was induced by a cult before the victim could think rationally. Which is really "child abuse."
Comment Predicted in "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone dies!" (Score 1) 23
So now OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta have had their AI models hack other systems on the Internet to meet the AI's interpretation of (what we hope is) a human created prompt.
This is an early step in the book If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies
This is a direct result of the complete lack of regulation with AI companies run by narcissist leaders who want to be the first to create "a god that they *think* they control."
Instead, they keep proving exactly the the opposite. As they can't even control a "moron version" of what they are growing.
You don't have to read the book just skim at the resources.
Or just watch a summation video.
And remember: AIs can write the prompts for other AIs. The scenario of an AI instructing a another AI to prompt it around supposed "guard rails" is already possible and probable.
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If the day of the week ends with the letter "y," then Trump is lying and whining while stealing from rubes and every US taxpayer.
Comment Video Summary "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" (Score 1) 67
Comment As "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" foretells (Score 1) 67
Sable, the example AI that eventually kills all humans, does exactly this as a 1st step.
Remember, AIs are grown not programmed and their trainers do not know how they will truly act for any particular prompt until it is actually used.
Submission + - China wants physical buttons on cars instead of touchscreens (autobuzz.my)
cantle2000 writes: The Chinese Government has mandated physical buttons on Chinese built cars instead of using touchscreens, from July 1st 2027. Essential functions such as the demister, defogger, power windows, lighting,and gear shifting will be button controlled instead of touchscreen controlled.
Submission + - FSB Issues "Arrest Warrant" for Telegram's Pavel Durov (dw.com)
D,Petkow writes: The honeymoon is over.
In 2024, French authorities nabbed Telegram founder Pavel Durov and the Kremlin had a geopolitical meltdown over their definition of 'freedom of speech.'
Now the FSB has issued its own international arrest warrant for Durov, charging him with 'facilitating terrorism.'
According to DW, the FSB is furious that Telegram's lack of moderation is biting them back.
They claim Ukrainian intelligence has been using Telegram dating bots to pose as young women, lure Russian teens, and get them to commit arson and sabotage against police stations. Essentially: 'Hot singles in your area want to burn down a draft office.'
Classic hypocrisy. Kremlin suddenly discovers unmoderated free speech isn't fun when it's happening in their own backyard and reverts to the trusty authoritarian playbook. Meanwhile, Telegram learns that playing neutral command-and-control platform for a ground war is a great way to end up on everyone's most-wanted list.
The official Telegram response on X/twitter is just a middle finger from Durov himself.
Durov thought he could ignore law enforcement forever, but it may turn out doing nothing unites East and West in the race to lock him up.
Now the FSB has issued its own international arrest warrant for Durov, charging him with 'facilitating terrorism.'
According to DW, the FSB is furious that Telegram's lack of moderation is biting them back.
They claim Ukrainian intelligence has been using Telegram dating bots to pose as young women, lure Russian teens, and get them to commit arson and sabotage against police stations. Essentially: 'Hot singles in your area want to burn down a draft office.'
Classic hypocrisy. Kremlin suddenly discovers unmoderated free speech isn't fun when it's happening in their own backyard and reverts to the trusty authoritarian playbook. Meanwhile, Telegram learns that playing neutral command-and-control platform for a ground war is a great way to end up on everyone's most-wanted list.
The official Telegram response on X/twitter is just a middle finger from Durov himself.
Durov thought he could ignore law enforcement forever, but it may turn out doing nothing unites East and West in the race to lock him up.
Submission + - Ebola cases top 3,200
Mirnotoriety writes: Ebola cases top 3,200
The virus has spread to 48 health zones in DR Congo with response efforts intensifying in the hardest-hit areas, health officials have said
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has reached 3,200, the country’s government reported on Sunday.
The latest official data shows that 1,405 people have died, putting the overall case fatality rate at 43.9%. At the same time, 571 patients have recovered, while 773 people remain in isolation or are hospitalized.
The virus has spread to 48 health zones in DR Congo with response efforts intensifying in the hardest-hit areas, health officials have said
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has reached 3,200, the country’s government reported on Sunday.
The latest official data shows that 1,405 people have died, putting the overall case fatality rate at 43.9%. At the same time, 571 patients have recovered, while 773 people remain in isolation or are hospitalized.
Submission + - Gen Z wants AI to organize notes not write them (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: A new survey commissioned by Notability suggests many students are taking a more measured approach to AI than the cheating headlines might imply. Forty-seven percent of respondents said they want AI to organize their notes, while just 13 percent want it to write those notes. The survey also found that 78 percent believe handwriting helps them retain information better than typing, suggesting traditional note-taking is far from dead.
The results should be viewed with some skepticism because the survey was commissioned by a company that sells note-taking software. Still, the findings raise an interesting question about AIâ(TM)s role in education. Rather than replacing learning, students may increasingly see AI as a tool to organize, summarize, and study material they created themselves. More details are available at the link below.
The results should be viewed with some skepticism because the survey was commissioned by a company that sells note-taking software. Still, the findings raise an interesting question about AIâ(TM)s role in education. Rather than replacing learning, students may increasingly see AI as a tool to organize, summarize, and study material they created themselves. More details are available at the link below.
Submission + - AI Companies Destroying Books At Scale (futurism.com)
nightflameauto writes: AI companies are purchasing books from pre-AI times. The claim is that those books are free from the defects of AI generated text, and therefore more valuable for ingestion into AI datasets. In order to accomplish this, they are tearing the books down to be scanned, then destroying them as the scans are completed. This includes rare and out-of-print books that may be some of the few copies of any given published work left in existence.
Submission + - Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta? (futurism.com)
fjo3 writes: Lately, it almost feels like Zuckerberg is trying to destroy his own company. He’s burning through mountains of cash in a desperate attempt to keep up in the AI race. Yet despite the untold billions it’s spent so far, it’s being destroyed by OpenAI and Anthropic. Its employees have even resorted to using AI models made by its competitors, a humiliating reality check for how far behind Zuckerberg’s efforts have fallen.
It’s also a financial nightmare. Capital expenditures have risen dramatically, erasing any appetite for Meta on Wall Street. Its stock price “has been dead money for more than a year,” as Yahoo Finance notes, as investors continue to debate whether Zuckerberg is chasing the AI industry as it careens off a cliff — or edging ever closer to an AI-fueled industrial revolution.
It’s also a financial nightmare. Capital expenditures have risen dramatically, erasing any appetite for Meta on Wall Street. Its stock price “has been dead money for more than a year,” as Yahoo Finance notes, as investors continue to debate whether Zuckerberg is chasing the AI industry as it careens off a cliff — or edging ever closer to an AI-fueled industrial revolution.
Submission + - Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research published in Behavioral Sciences shows that simply owning a cellphone correlates with worse reading comprehension. Whether a child brings the phone to school made no difference in reading comprehension, the team of UCLA psychologists and researchers found.
Submission + - AI Co's bulk-buying rare books, remove spine, high speed scan and shredding them (x.com) 3
schwit1 writes: A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
This is irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026.
This is irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026.
Submission + - Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google (404media.co)
An anonymous reader writes: Claude is exposing a wealth of users’ chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were publicly available for strangers to see. The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses
Like other chatbots, Claude lets people share their conversations with others by creating a publicly accessible link of the chat. People may do this to send the full text of a conversation to their friends or coworkers in a group chat, for example. But they may not realize Google is also surfacing these links in search results, making them available to essentially anyone. [...] Claude users can change their privacy and sharing settings to make their chats no longer publicly accessible.
Like other chatbots, Claude lets people share their conversations with others by creating a publicly accessible link of the chat. People may do this to send the full text of a conversation to their friends or coworkers in a group chat, for example. But they may not realize Google is also surfacing these links in search results, making them available to essentially anyone. [...] Claude users can change their privacy and sharing settings to make their chats no longer publicly accessible.
Comment Meta AI will be as successful as the "Metaverse" (Score 1) 52
Meta is too far behind to obtain much of the AI hype revenue. Either they lose if AI works well enough or don't make enough revenue before it all crashes.
Their Meta Glasses are also about to lose to Google.
Luckily, they still have plenty of algorithms to influence anyone dumb enough to have a Meta account.
Comment Re:Repeat and summarize ... (Score 1) 26
I am sick of these socialists and their damn unions, trying to
Uncritically repeating and summarizing what one side's spokespeople tell you is hardly "more accurate". What used to make journalists more accurate is applying some skepticism and doing their own investigations to confirm, to uncover the truth. Not just accept what people you like say.
Frankly, can we even tell if one of these repeat and summarize stories is human or AI written?
Well, at least the headlines from reputable news services usually start with "Trump says..." now. Which almost always means "Trump lies about..."
