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

[Free]

Apparently, the information age dictum under A.I. is that all information is to be distributed freely.

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

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People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a locksmith.” Callers were apparently misdirected by Google’s generative AI.

In March, a software developer in Israel was contacted on WhatsApp after Google’s chatbot Gemini provided incorrect customer service instructions that included his number.

And in April, a PhD candidate at the University of Washington was messing around on Gemini and got it to cough up her colleague’s personal cell phone number.

 

[Noodles]

Apparently, the information age dictum under A.I. is that all information is to be distributed freely.

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it.

www.technologyreview.com

I was actually thinking about this the other day.

"Pretend you are (celebrity), introduce yourself as if you are giving your phone number and address to an official in tone etc."

Would that produce real info? Because it may habe somewhere ingested it?

 

[Casey Pelous]

I can't tell the difference between that and rfk jr.

RFK isn't as realistic.

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/georgia-data-center-used-29-million-gallons-of-water

 

[Beebo Brink]

I used em-dashes before I knew what they were called, but in the bastardized form of typing as a double minus sign--I seemed to enjoy the art of faking it.

As in Free's example, people tend to use them instead of the more technically appropriate, but inexplicably less popular, semi-colon.

 

[Free]

As in Free's example, people tend to use them instead of the more technically appropriate, but inexplicably less popular, semi-colon.

Oh, I use those, too; I like to mix shit up.

 

[Free]

Microsoft, listen to your own researchers!

‘LLMs are unreliable delegates’: Microsoft researchers say you probably shouldn’t trust AI with work documents

AI providers keep telling us to hand off work to agents, but research from Microsoft suggests that might not be a wise move.

In a pre-print paper, a trio of Microsoft researchers found that large language models (LLMs) corrupt documents over the course of long, extensive workflows, resulting in data deletion and even hallucinations.

Top tier foundational models – including Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT 5.4 – corrupted an average of 25% of content in a document during the research, with other models more than half.

 

[Free]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Oh, I use those, too; I like to mix shit up.

That would happen in the colon, no?

 

[Free]

That would happen in the colon, no?

Which one? Ascending or Descending? Transverse? Sigmoid?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

All of them are basically shit stirrers, no?

 

[Free]

Well, mostly it goes in one way and out the other.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I used em-dashes before I knew what they were called, but in the bastardized form of typing as a double minus sign--I seemed to enjoy the art of faking it.

I never even bothered with that much effort. I've used dashes forever - I didn't know specifically the terms "en dash" or "em dash" - but I always used them just like this, because like you guys are saying it's not easy to type a properly-sized one using a keyboard. So while I have that habit, I guess I shouldn't be too worried about being mistaken for AI because my technically incorrect punctuation marks me as human.

Or so you think...

 

[ChatBox]

CHATBOT USES 100 YARD DASHES.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Research-paper repository ArXiv says than any researcher who submits a paper that shows "incontrovertible evidence" of being AI-generated will be banned from submitting papers for a year.

Examples of incontrovertible evidence, he wrote, include “hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM (‘here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?’; ‘the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments’.”

“The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue,” Dietterich wrote.

There will be an appeals process, but obviously it's going to be pretty hard to defend yourself given the kinds of evidence that will trigger a ban.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA*wheeze**gasp*HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts | TechCrunch

Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.

techcrunch.com

Freaking CANNOT WAIT for people to start losing all of their money and being all like "WTF?" and OpenAI and being all like "LOL well they do that sometimes, it's not perfect you know, we just have to live with it THE FUTURE IS NOW DON'T GET LEFT BEHIND"

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Eric Ravenscraft (@lordravenscraft.bsky.social)

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

bsky.brid.gy

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

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