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Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool. Source: They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. – The New York Times

An unspeakably dismal choice is being made before our eyes and without our consent: machines over humans, inanimate over animate, profits over all else. With stunning speed, the big tech megalomaniacs have quietly rolled back their net-zero pledges and lined up by Trump’s side, hellbent on sacrificing this world’s real and precious resources and creativity…

Subsequent research has shown that these fail-prone consumers tend to cluster in “harbinger ZIP codes” — entire geographical swaths that share the same niche purchase preferences.When they move away from one harbinger ZIP code, they tend to end up in another harbinger ZIP code.And if they move to a non-harbinger ZIP code — an area…

  Look, I’m begging people to take this all-time example and look at the yawning gulf here—between the marketing promises of the always latent “all powerful AI that benefits all of humanity” and the reality of “White House intern uses ChatGPT to generate trade policy that might cause a global recession.” Predicted benefits, and proven…

That Mr. Musk has come to hold so many of the same beliefs about social engineering and economic planning as his grandfather is a testament to his profound lack of political imagination, to the tenacity of technocracy and to the hubris of Silicon Valley. Mr. Musk left South Africa for Canada in 1989, where he…

It’s embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right. Source: AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

Rise lightly from the earthAnd try your wingsTry them nowWhile I make the darkness invisibleThe visibility of the dayIs the invisibility of the nightSo rise lightly from the earthAnd try your wingsTry them nowWhile the darkness is invisible#SunRa

“This will go down on your permanent record” – long a largely empty threat that, under a regime of data extraction and surveillance, now means that students’ futures are permanently recorded, predicted, and policed. And thanks to the opacity of AI’s algorithms, there will be no redress – no ability for the student or their…