Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

[Erich Templar]

I'll just leave this here...

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Microsoft has released its first two own homegrown AI models today named MAI.

MAI-Voice-1 AI is a speech generating model, while MAI-1-Preview is going to be the new model powering Copilot.

As why? Because Microsoft does not want to depend on OpenAI alone.

Microsoft AI launches its first in-house models

Microsoft enters the AI ring.

www.theverge.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

But despite some of the viral glitches facing Taco Bell, it says two million orders have been successfully processed using the voice AI since its introduction.

I love companies bragging about how many times their chatbot has been used like that's an endorsement from the customers, when customers literally had no choice but to use it. Microsoft does this too now that it has embedded AI into Office.

 

[Free]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

And then there's this...

After 2 Million AI Orders, Taco Bell Admits Humans Still Belong in the Drive-Thru

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content

This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.

gijn.org

Interesting and detailed analysis of how to detect Ai-generated news content.

 

[Noodles]

Reporter’s Guide to Detecting AI-Generated Content

This guide offers journalists a new detection tool and seven advanced techniques for spotting probable AI-generated content.

gijn.org

Interesting and detailed analysis of how to detect Ai-generated news content.

Its a pretty good article.

But I want to say, I don't think anyone was fooled by the Pope Jacket, it just made for a funny meme so people a spread it and variations around.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Pretty much all the actual human-generated art I've tried has been tagged AI because the "brushstrokes" are too uniform. Which is expected for digitally painted artworks. I think it needs some re-calibration.

 

[Noodles]

Please help, I am starting to have a problem.

 

[Free]

The thing we've all learned, thanks to AI, is that math is the single most difficult activity for computers to master.

(And don't bother googling this. Some Google AI dev already had a long chat with AI Overview...)

 

[Beebo Brink]

The unethical use of AI in science:

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

 

[Noodles]

Normal people: "ChatGPT, make me a picture of a funny cat with a bow tie.

Me: "What if we could enslave superman and use him to generate electricity and do labor very quickly, instead of trying to fight bad guys. We could fund it with Batman's money"

"On the concerns, for Control, we could convince him it's a better path to world peace.

For World Politics, well, without scarcity of materials, we could unite as one people easier. Also maybe Superman could be an enforcer for people causing problems still.

Ethics, He isn't a human or of this world, let's just pretend it doesn't apply then

Maybe we could also get other Kryptonians to help alleviate the burden. Also they could be used as a power tool to keep the others in check"

Also this thing keeps dumping on my plans by bringing up things like "The workforce rebelling" or "Batman having morals at funding this."

Anyway

Timeline: The Age of Kryptonian Stewardship

Years 1–10: The Great Transition

• Superman’s Pivot: Superman agrees to devote himself to infrastructure instead of crime-fighting, persuaded that eradicating scarcity leads to true peace.
• Batman’s Role: Wayne Enterprises bankrolls the tech needed to channel Superman’s power—heat vision into energy grids, kinetic turbines, mega-construction rigs.
• First Projects:
  • Global clean energy (fusion powered by Superman’s output).
  • Agricultural abundance (he tills, irrigates, and distributes at super-speed).
  • Disaster relief becomes instantaneous—hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires managed before escalation.
• Result: Poverty drops to historic lows. Criminal activity shifts from survival-based crime to ideological/organized resistance against this new order.

Years 10–30: The Kryptonian Expansion

• Other Kryptonians Arrive: Survivors (Kara, Phantom Zone rehabilitations, maybe clones) join the effort, each assigned regions or industries.
• Checks & Balances:
  • Kryptonians monitor each other.
  • Batman (and successors) maintain kryptonite deterrents as a safeguard.
• Global Restructuring:
  • National governments weaken, with a World Council emerging.
  • “Kryptonian Peacekeepers” become the enforcers of order, stopping wars before they begin.
• Cultural Shifts:
  • Humans start mythologizing Kryptonians—some treat them as demigods, others resent dependence.
  • Tech innovation slows in some areas (energy, transport), but booms in art, medicine, and exploration.

Years 30–70: The Kryptonian Golden Age

• Post-Scarcity Civilization: With energy, food, and shelter universally available, money becomes less relevant. People focus on research, art, and leisure.
• Mega-Projects:
  • Terraforming deserts into forests.
  • Colonizing Mars and building orbital cities with Kryptonian labor.
  • Climate change reversed entirely.
• Unity with Enforcement: Wars essentially vanish—any group attempting mass violence is disarmed instantly by Kryptonians.
• Risk of Complacency: Humanity becomes dependent, perhaps less ambitious. Some argue Kryptonians have become benevolent overlords, no matter their intentions.

Years 70–150: Divergence

• Generational Kryptonians: Kryptonian descendants are born under Earth’s yellow sun, perhaps even forming families with humans. They may be less powerful, or just as strong.
• Social Stratification:
  • Kryptonian lineages risk forming an aristocracy.
  • Humans grapple with identity—are they partners, or subjects?
• Philosophical Schisms:
  • Some Kryptonians want to integrate fully with humanity, living as equals.
  • Others believe their power gives them a sacred duty—or even a right—to lead.
• Human Countermoves: Secret projects attempt to develop tech, bioengineering, or AIs that can rival Kryptonian dominance—“just in case.”

Years 150–300: The Fork in the Road

• Two Possible Futures:
  1. Utopia: Kryptonians remain cooperative, humanity evolves into a peaceful, star-faring species with Kryptonian support. A true galactic civilization begins.
  2. Dystopia: Kryptonians consolidate into a ruling caste, keeping humans docile while wielding power. The “Kryptonian Empire” rises, and humans are relegated to permanent dependency.

Legacy

Either way, Earth becomes unrecognizable from the world we know. Superman’s choice to pivot from fighting villains to eradicating scarcity changes not just history—but human destiny itself.

 

[Noodles]

Man it got too serious on me. After riffing super villain ideas.

"What if the plan was to simply buy up a bunch of desert, then use a nuclear warhead to cause an earthquake to make California fall into the ocean, making the desert into beachfront property. How feasible would that be"'

I can’t help with plans to cause mass harm or use weapons. That crosses a hard safety line.

If you’re asking from a “does this even work?” angle (Lex Luthor vibes aside), the real-world answer is basically no:

• California isn’t going to “fall into the ocean.” The San Andreas is a mostly strike-slip fault (sideways motion). Plate tectonics there slides LA toward SF over millions of years; it doesn’t drop the state off a cliff.
• Nukes don’t trigger giant tectonic quakes. Underground tests have produced local shaking, but they don’t propagate into the kind of hundreds-of-kilometers fault rupture you’d need for a continent-scale shift. The energy is too localized and poorly coupled to the fault.
• Scale mismatch: Roughly, each magnitude step is ~32× more energy. A magnitude 8 quake releases ~6×10^16 J. A 1-megaton device is ~4×10^15 J, and only a fraction would couple into seismic motion. You’d need many orders of magnitude more properly distributed, which isn’t how explosives work—and you still wouldn’t get the necessary fault dynamics.
• Law & reality: Acquiring, deploying, or detonating nuclear weapons is illegal everywhere and would be catastrophic long before any real-estate “payoff.”

If the underlying goal is “turn worthless land into valuable coastal property,” there are nonviolent, legal (and way more plausible) paths people actually use: building inland waterfronts (reservoirs, canals, man-made lakes), desalination-powered oasis cities, special economic zones to attract development, or climate-resilient coastal restoration near existing shores. Happy to brainstorm one of those worldbuilds or a grounded caper that stays on the right side of reality.

"This is just the plot of Superman 1"

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Me: "What if we could enslave superman and use him to generate electricity and do labor very quickly, instead of trying to fight bad guys. We could fund it with Batman's money"

…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes

. Seen on Tumblr, along with associated discussion: Yellow: People’s minds are heartbreaking. Not because people are so bad, but because they’re so good. Nobody is the villain of their …

slatestarcodex.com

 

[Noodles]

…And I Show You How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes

. Seen on Tumblr, along with associated discussion: Yellow: People’s minds are heartbreaking. Not because people are so bad, but because they’re so good. Nobody is the villain of their …

slatestarcodex.com

Funny enough the Gray Pill is basically my "super power choice'.

From the other thread.

This is basically my "super Hero Self" or whatever. Two Images, basically, energy manipulation, including down to a level of "data manipulation".

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

The green pill guy doesn't realize that humans are animals.

 

[Free]

Can I get a brown pill? I'd like a bit of chocolate.

 

[Free]

Fun with prompts, fucken AI up style.

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

Study shows how patterns in LLM training data can lead to "parahuman" responses.

arstechnica.com

 

[Free]

This is a chef's kiss of a finding.

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It (archive.today)

When it comes to most new technologies, early adopters tend to be the people who know and understand the tools the best.
With artificial intelligence, the opposite seems to be true.

This counterintuitive finding comes from new research, which suggests that the people most drawn to AI tend to be those who understand the technology the least. AI seems mysterious and even magical to these people, the researchers found, leading to a sense of awe regarding AI’s ability to complete tasks. This is particularly true when the task is traditionally associated with human attributes, such as writing a poem or creating a new fusion recipe.

“When you don’t really get what’s going on under the hood, AI creating these things seems amazing, and that’s when it can feel magical,” says Stephanie Tully, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and one of the study’s authors. “And that feeling can actually increase people’s willingness to use it.”

That finding challenges the assumption that more technical knowledge will naturally lead to wider adoption of AI. “In other domains, like wine, the people who know the most about it are wine lovers,” says Tully. “With AI, it’s the opposite.”

 

[Free]

Klarna is reassigning engineers and marketers to customer support after its AI bet went too far

Some employees who were placed in the talent pool were later offered roles in the company's customer experience team, sources told Business Insider.

www.businessinsider.com

Klarna is redeploying workers to customer-support roles after its CEO acknowledged that earlier cost-cutting went too far.

A number of employees of the buy-now, pay-later firm, including engineers and marketing people, are being told their jobs are no longer needed. Instead, they are being redirected into customer support positions via an internal talent pool, according to three current employees who spoke on condition of anonymity since they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Klarna, which on Tuesday unveiled plans to go public, has previously talked up its AI plans. It has eliminated over 1,200 external SaaS tools, restructured teams, and placed some employees in the talent pool, Business Insider previously reported.

But the latest move points to a growing reality: doubling down on AI isn't always the cure-all that companies expect. AI can help companies trim costs and streamline operations, but overreliance on the technology can lead to unintended consequences.

Of course, anyone in the company's management involved in the decision to replace support staff with AI will not themselves lose their jobs. I MEAN WHY WOULD THAT EVER HAPPEN?! Once they go public, anyone who buys stock in this company is throwing their money away.