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

[Innula Zenovka]

82% of Amazon “Herbal Remedies” Books in 2025 Were Likely AI-Written – Originality.AI

Is the Herbal Remedies book you’re reading on Amazon real or an AI-generated fake? Discover the concerning impact of AI on herbal remedy books published on Amazon in 2025.

originality.ai

 

[Innula Zenovka]

BBC News - Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US - BBC News

Armed police handcuff teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun in US

Taki Allen, 16, said he was eating a bag of Doritos after football practice before being handcuffed by police.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Free]

Doritos IS considered a lethal weapon in several states. But that's usually considered to be from the breath.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Especially Cool Ranch. Yikes.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Especially Cool Ranch. Yikes.

Never mix with several beers and a bottle of brandy.

 

[Free]

Law School Students to Argue Before Jury of AI Programs in Mock Trial

Three artificial intelligence programs will decide the fate of a fictional defendant when the University of North Carolina School of Law presents “The Trial of Henry Justus” during Converge-Con, UNC-Chapel Hill’s AI Festival on Oct. 24 at 10:00 a.m.in the Graham Kenan Courtroom. The event will also be available on live stream.

In what organizers describe as one of the first simulations of its kind, law students will present a complete criminal trial before a jury composed of ChatGPT, Grok and Anthropic. The unscripted courtroom drama imagines a 2036 legal system where AI jurors replace humans to minimize bias and cognitive errors in criminal proceedings.

The fictional case involves Henry Justus, an African American high school senior charged with robbery, tried under an imaginary AI Criminal Justice Act of 2035. Real verdicts from the three AI models will be revealed live to participants and audience members.

This looks like it could be unusual. I'll be interested in seeing reporting of the results.

 

[Free]

More of this.

Replacement.AI

Humans are no longer necessary. So we’re getting rid of them.

replacement.ai

 

[Free]

Microsoft has a line it won't cross. For now...

Microsoft Risks the Ire of the Anti-Woke, Won't Build a Jerk-Off Machine

Don't sext Clippy.

gizmodo.com

A line in the sand has been drawn in the AI race: the porn-brained and the porn-banned. Microsoft has sorted itself into the latter category. According to a report from CNBC, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told an audience at the Paley International Council Summit that the company would not allows its LLM-powered tools to generate “simulated erotica,” marking a stark contrast from its partner/rival OpenAI.

“That’s just not a service we’re going to provide,” Suleyman reportedly said. “Other companies will build that.”

 

[Free]

I was tempted to post this in the AI chatbots causing mental health crises because this sounds like someone has lost their mind.

‘Albania’s AI Minister Pregnant With 83 Children’: PM Edi Rama’s Bizarre Announcement

Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced that the country’s first AI-generated government minister, Diella, is “pregnant", and is expected to “give birth" to 83 AI “children," one for each Socialist Party member of parliament.

While addressing the Global Dialogue (BGD) in Germany’s Berlin, Rama said, “We took quite a risk today with Diella here and we did very well. So for the first time, Diella is pregnant and with 83 children."

Rama explained that the “children," or assistants, will document all parliamentary proceedings and update legislators on any discussions or events they were unable to attend.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I was tempted to post this in the AI chatbots causing mental health crises because this sounds like someone has lost their mind.

‘Albania’s AI Minister Pregnant With 83 Children’: PM Edi Rama’s Bizarre Announcement

 

[Free]

Paul Schrader Says ‘We’re Only Two Years Away From the First AI Feature’ — and He Has the ‘Perfect Script’ for It

Paul Schrader is ready to embrace AI in filmmaking, saying in a new interview that he has the "perfect script to do all AI."

variety.com

Paul Schrader is ready to embrace artificial intelligence in filmmaking, saying in a new interview that he has the “perfect script to do all AI.”

He has a script for an All AI film? I don't think Schrader comprehends what an "all AI" movie really means.

This isn’t the first time Schrader has supported the use of AI in the film business. Earlier this year, he posted on Facebook that he asked ChatGPT to generate plots for movies by famous filmmakers, including himself, and was impressed by the results.

“I’M STUNNED,” he wrote. “I just asked chatgpt for ‘an idea for Paul Schrader film.’

Or maybe he does. The man seems to really be looking forward to sacking himself and all humanity from the film industry.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda

ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.

www.wired.com

Evernote Link

Also

Why AI Breaks Bad

Once in a while, LLMs turn evil—and no one quite knows why.

www.wired.com

Evernote Link

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

I know why.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I know why.

At this point, my scripting skills are limited to LaTex and a little HTML/CSS. My programming skills have evaporated leaving just enough of a sticky residue for me to occasionally get the jokes here. Even I am not that puzzled by this AI outcome.

I'm absolutely sure I don't understand it at your level, but the basic concept of GIGO ain't that esoteric!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Large Language Models have no concept of truth or falsehood, they just generate a stream of tokens that are statistically similar to the body of text their neural nets were generated from. They have no memory or modelling or reasoning capability, they just generate text that humans are likely to see as a plausible continuation of the text they were prompted with. Plausible, not factual, or safe, secure, or sane, just something that might have been in the source text if the prompt had also been in there.

One way to apparently increase the chance that the results will seem appropriate is to test the prompt against that body of text. If the prompt is something that matches it well, then it's less likely to produce surprising results. This is not a guarantee, by any means, but it does help. If it doesn't, then the software could indicate that and decline to generate anything.

 

[Free]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/626

 

[Free]

I have to say this is a unique use of AI technology.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

In March, three months after being forced out of his position as the CEO of Intel and sued by shareholders, Patrick Gelsinger took the reins at Gloo, a technology company made for what he calls the “faith ecosystem” – think Salesforce for churches, plus chatbots and AI assistants for automating pastoral work and ministry support.

The former CEO’s career pivot is taking place as the US tech industry returns to the political realm as a major revenue stream. Some of its most prominent present-day leaders have funded Donald Trump’s re-election and renewed their pursuit of government contracts as the second Trump administration has revitalized religious conservatism in Washington DC.

Now Gloo’s executive chair and head of technology (who’s largely free of the shareholder suit), Gelsinger has made it a core mission to soft-power advance the company’s Christian principles in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond, armed with a fundraised war chest of $110m. His call to action is also a pitch for AI aligned with Christian values: tech products like those built by Gloo, many of which are built on top of existing large language models, but adjusted to reflect users’ theological beliefs.

“My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ’s return,” he said.

Sounds great. Keep in mind Gelsinger is the "boy wonder" who in three years made a struggling Intel into a demolished one. One can hope he's maintained his skillsets from his last job.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

This is leaking over from a Phillip K Dick timeline.

 

[Free]

This is leaking over from a Phillip K Dick timeline.

If that was true, I'd be enjoying the read a lot more.