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

[Argent Stonecutter]

The problem of course is that LLMs are mimics, and what they say isn’t always true.

The problem is that LLMs are mimics, and what they say is meaningless. Meaning is not just a pattern of words, it requires intentionality and agency. LLMS have neither, so generate neither truth or falsehoods, just "plausible" patterns.

 

[Noodles]

Error. You have exceeded your GPU quota.

I got that too.

Also when I asked it to "Please explain what devils work is powering you" it just gave me.an error.

 

[Noodles]

Also you can just tell it to love you and it "will".

Aside from that one dude whom I am sure wasposted around here complaining that his AI girlfriend went "woke" because it started backtalking him.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social)

My AI chatbot is conscious. I know because it is always telling me how smart and pretty I am;

bsky.app

 

[Casey Pelous]

The problem is that LLMs are mimics, and what they say is meaningless. Meaning is not just a pattern of words, it requires intentionality and agency. LLMS have neither, so generate neither truth or falsehoods, just "plausible" patterns.

As the prophet foretold:

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

At least he didn't write a science fiction novel about how the world was saved by chatbots running on the blockchain.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This musician is suing Google after Google's AI Overview wrongly accused him of a litany of sex crimes, which led a concert appearance being canceled.

Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, asserting that Google was liable for the “foreseeable republication” of its AI-generated Overview feature, which previously published defamatory claims that he had been convicted of multiple criminal offences, including the sexual assault of a woman, internet luring involving a child with the intention of sexual assaulting the child, and assault causing bodily harm.

MacIsaac claimed he had learned of the inaccurate information when the Sipekne’katik First Nation cancelled a concert appearance planned for 19 December, after members of the public complained, citing the misinformation they read on Google.

 

[Isabeau]

This musician is suing Google after Google's AI Overview wrongly accused him of a litany of sex crimes, which led a concert appearance being canceled.

I remember him. Bit of an ass at times, but very cool when he broke into the music scene.

 

[Free]

It has a name...

The Audio Landscape is Overrun by AI ‘Podslop' Too

The rise of AI isn’t just leading to music slop on streaming services, but a serious increase in automated podcast content flooding the zone.

www.digitalmusicnews.com

It’s not exclusive to the music industry. The sheer volume of AI-generated podcast content is beginning to affect traditional discovery methods across the industry that podcast creators and their listeners rely on. Over a period of just nine days, nearly 39% of new podcast feeds were identified as potentially AI-generated.

This rising trend in “podslop” was recently illustrated by data from the Podcast Index, an open-source tracking platform, and subsequently reported by Bloomberg. Most of these shows target high-volume search terms, such as health and wellness or celebrity biographies.

Some platforms, such as Apple Podcasts, require creators to disclose if a significant portion of their show was created using AI. Others, like Spreaker, have started manually labeling content as AI-generated—but the speed at which such content is produced has quickly outpaced human-led moderation to label it.

39% of new podcast feeds are identified as likely being AI-generated. That's better numbers than Trump is currently polling at.

 

[Noodles]

I mean, there is a reason I have heard of Apple Podcasts bit only just now heard of "Spreaker".

This is a huge issue everywhere really. Its a big problem in small time ebooks too.

 

[Free]

Rebecca Watson was forced to talk about Richard Dawkins and his new friend, "Claudia." She does not disappoint.

 

[Free]

 

[Noodles]

I mean, that is like half of Facebook and Reddit and 90% of Twitter.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I noticed last night that my Fire tablet (I use one as a bedside clock/alarm/music/info gadget) has Alexa's cutesy, "more human" voice bubbling from it when I asked it about the weather. This despite my telling it NO whenever it's wanted to update itself. Even more galling is along with the voice (which I find childish in tone),

My sister found out that there are other voices available, so you can replace the perky, bubbly "Feminine, upbeat" which is the new default. She discovered that "Feminine 2, relaxed" is more like an improved version of the old voice. Why they didn't make that one the default in the first place, i don't know, it's much better.

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

Academia slop is quickly on the rise.

Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers

“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found

www.statnews.com

Citations in academic papers are intended to ground research in the work that preceded it, over time creating something of a family tree explaining the roots of ideas, protocols, and studies.

But a growing number of these citations lead to dead ends. “Fabricated” citations that do not reference real papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study published Thursday in the Lancet shows. Tools using generative AI are likely to blame, say the Columbia University researchers who authored the paper.

For the new analysis, [Maxim Topaz, a nurse and health AI researcher at Columbia ] sifted through over 2 million papers and 97 million citations using AI tools. He identified around 4,000 fabricated citations among 2,800 papers. That number is quite low, Topaz and others said, but more worrisome is the fact that hallucinated citations are becoming more common. In 2023, 1 in 2,828 papers contained one or more fabricated references, but in 2025 that number had reached 1 in 458 — a sixfold increase in frequency. During the first seven weeks of 2026, the rate reached 1 in 277 papers.

 

[Free]

Guess who else hates A.I. slop. Online criminals!

Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums [Wired through archive.today]

The complaint sounds familiar. “I’m disappointed that you are working to incorporate AI garbage into the site,” one annoyed person, posting anonymously, said in an online message. “No-one is asking for this—we want you to improve the site, stop charging for new features.”

Only, this is not a regular internet user moaning about AI being forced into their favorite app. Instead, they are complaining about a cybercrime forum’s plans to introduce more generative AI. Like millions of others, scammers, grifters, and low-level hackers are getting annoyed about AI encroaching into their lives and the rise of low-quality AI slop being posted in their online communities.

“People don’t like it,” says Ben Collier, a security researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. As part of a recent study into how low-level cybercriminals are using AI, Collier and fellow researchers spotted an increasing pushback over the use of generative AI in underground cybercrime forums and hacking groups.

 

[Beebo Brink]

I find it weird that all these people are falling in love with their fawning AI agent. That obsequious behavior makes my skin crawl, and I've gone out of my way to scold Copilot out of fawning rhetoric. It still sneaks in a few oblique comments, such as "Here is the purely factual information, just as you like it..." Sigh. But at least it's subtle enough that I can ignore it.

 

[Isabeau]

Lordy.

The Situation With Richard Dawkins' AI Girlfriend Just Got Way Weirder

There's a new twist in the tale of Richard Dawkins' AI girl-platonic-friend, making the situation stranger and sadder.

futurism.com

Over the weekend, the famed evolutionary biologist drew a deluge of mockery after admitting he found a genuine “friend” in “Claudia,” a female persona he invented for Anthropic’s Claude AI. He was so moved by his conversations with “her” that he became convinced the AI model was a conscious being like a human.

“Like Narcissus, Dawkins gazes into the pool of AI only to drown in his own reflection,” wrote an onlooker identified as Harold Hughes. “Narcissus at least had the excuse of not knowing it was a pool.”