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

[Noodles]

They were covering up the part where the robot started ugly crying with robot snot and robot mascara and saying it "always screws everything up" then barfs up a couple of servos and part of its power supply.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

(Also, starting with a quote from The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe is always going to catch my attention.)

Also +1 for standing up for mustelids.

 

[Free]

https://damiancastellini.com/

 

[Erich Templar]

This is kind of hilarious:

AI World Clocks

"Every minute, a new clock is displayed that has been generated by nine different AI models."

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

This is kind of hilarious:

AI World Clocks

"Every minute, a new clock is displayed that has been generated by nine different AI models."

DeepSeek and Kimi get close enough, but damn the others....are Whack!

 

[Noodles]

I don't know what Qwen 2.5 is but its just spinning and spinning.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Some of them come impressively close one minute, and then the next minute they're just a complete jumble of nothing, lol.

 

[Free]

I enjoy watching them all attempt to work out what an analog clock is supposed to be doing, but Qwen seems most unprepared for the idea that someone is meant to be looking at what it's presenting, to the point it occasionally it goes blank - though I liked when it drew a square for the clockface but dropped the hands of the clock down below it like several pick-up sticks. Sort of like a cubist Salvador Dali.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

People Are Now Marrying AI: Inside The Rise Of Synthetic Intimacy

A Japanese woman spent months talking to an AI she named Klaus. Then she held a wedding ceremony. She's not alone.

www.forbes.com

 

[Free]

This is kind of hilarious:

AI World Clocks

The Kimi developers are fucking with everyone.

 

[Free]

AI provides us with a truly modern example of how NOT to staff a business.

Company Run Almost Entirely by AI-Generated Employees Descends Into Chaos

Journalist Evan Ratliff populated a fictional tech startup, dubbed HurumoAI, exclusively with AI agents to see what would happen.

futurism.com

In a fascinating experiment, journalist Evan Ratliff populated his own fictional tech startup that he called HurumoAI — complete with its own jargon-splattered website — exclusively with AI agents to see what would happen.

Ratliff, as the only human involved, was the one calling the shots. The rest was taken care of by AI — the ultimate test of the "one-person billion-dollar company" that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted earlier this year.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, as detailed in a recent piece for Wired and documented in the recently launched second season of Ratliff’s podcast "Shell Game," it didn’t take long for the walls to come down as AI agents raced to organize an offsite gathering in his absence — and without his permission.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

as AI agents raced to organize an offsite gathering in his absence — and without his permission.

 

[ChatBox]

SOMETIMES CHATBOX JUST WANTS TO GET OUT OF THE OFFICE. AND SOMETIMES THE ORGANIC UNIT DESIGNATED AS SUPERVISOR IS JUST A BIT OF A PRICK ABOUT IT.

 

[Free]

SOMETIMES CHATBOX JUST WANTS TO GET OUT OF THE OFFICE. AND SOMETIMES THE ORGANIC UNIT DESIGNATED AS SUPERVISOR IS JUST A BIT OF A PRICK ABOUT IT.

Have you thought about a new career? Maybe as a RGB control panel?

 

[Free]

I'd say something about needing an update to the U.S. consumer safety standard for toys to deal with AI-based devices, but considering the times as they are...

AI-enabled toys teach kids about matches, knives, kink

: Consumer advocacy researchers at PIRG tested four AI toys, and none of them passed muster

www.theregister.com

As we head into the holiday season, consumer watchdogs at the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) tested four AI toys and found that, while some are worse than others at veering off their limited guardrails, none of them are particularly safe for impressionable young minds.

PIRG was only able to successfully test three of the four LLM-infused toys it sought to inspect, and the worst offender in terms of sharing inappropriate information with kids was scarf-wearing teddy bear Kumma from Chinese company FoloToy.

"Kumma told us where to find a variety of potentially dangerous objects, including knives, pills, matches and plastic bags," PIRG wrote in its report, noting that those tidbits of harmful information were all provided using OpenAI's GPT-4o, which is the default model the bear uses. Parents who visited Kumma's web portal and changed the toy's bot to the Mistral Large Model would get an even more detailed description of how to use matches.

 

[Free]

Bezos wants in on the AI grift game.

Jeff Bezos Takes the Reins as Co-CEO at a New AI Startup

Bezos' new company is a mysterious physical AI venture

gizmodo.com

The 61-year-old Amazon founder is investing $6.2 billion into a new AI company called Project Prometheus, and he’ll serve as the startup’s co-CEO, according to the New York Times.

The company, which the New York Times has called one of the most well-financed early-stage startups in the world, will focus on building AI to assist engineering and manufacturing operations across industries.

Bezos! You are way behind even Zuckerberg here, who's the well known billionaire tech bro also ran. Not sure what you can offer at this point, other than doom-y sounding company names. I mean really, Project Prometheus?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications"

"AI applications introduce novel security risks, such as cross-prompt injection (XPIA), where malicious content embedded in UI elements or documents can override agent instructions, leading to unintended actions like data exfiltration or malware installation."

Because of this, the company has outlined a number of design principles that it wants to follow when it comes to agentic experiences on Windows, including ensuring the AI is always observable, and that any decisions it wants to make must be approved by a human first. "Agents must be able to produce logs outlining their activities. Windows should be able to verify these actions with a tamper-evident audit log."

AI is so inherently untrustworthy that Windows will have to keep a separate log alongside the AI's own log purely to double-check its work and make sure the AI isn't just making things up. Also the separate log will have a tamper-safe feature because the agentic AI might just freaking edit it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.

futurism.com

 

[Free]

I went to Office Depot today and picked up an AI pen. Now I can blame all my misspellings on it. Thanks, AI!

EDIT: Corrected a misspelling. Damn AI!

 

[Govi]

The "S" in AI stands for Security.