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

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/copernican

 

[Noodles]

Last year I self published an ebook. Of everything, my worry was people would assume it was AI.

 

[Khamon]

Last year I self published an ebook. Of everything, my worry was people would assume it was AI.

Yes I've been dogged to hell on Reddit for being an AI agent because my posts are "too perfect" and "informative." Dropped a few groups rather than argue I have. Socialization has lately suffered the loss of Trumpublicans, vicious sworn enemies of my AI persona, and now most of the Baptists I know. Not to mention social media feeds being uselessly full of people I don't know, products I'm not interested in, and news items that I don't trust. Thank Heaven for SLUWATBBQVVO because one would be lost without y'all.

/me continues ranting that I also hate feeds resetting every few minutes. Queue something that I actually want to read, get coffee, pee, answer the phone, whatever, come back and find that it's automatically gone! Aggravates me to no end. /r

 

[Noodles]

Yeah, i still lurk like 3 subs still on another another another alt, but getting banned from Reddit has honestly been kind of nice. Also, going back and looking, especially since they killed /r/all, it's REALLY obvious they are trying to hide how much everyone fucking hates all the terrible shit going on in the world.

 

[Free]

There' a hole in my bucket,
Elias, Elias...

Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named 'Elias Thorne'?

Chatbots just aren't very creative.

gizmodo.com

Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why… until now. According to a new preprint research paper first reported by 404 Media, the proliferation of the legend of Elias might be related to guardrails put in place for AI models during safety and alignment training.

If you need to catch up on the Elias Thorne of it all, the paper published by researchers Sil Hamilton and David Mimno at Cornell University is a good place to start. They gave several AI models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Mini, Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5, and Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, five different prompts to generate stories. They looked at about 20,000 stories generated by the models and found a shocking amount of repetition: 11 words—Lighthouse, Keeper, Baker, Mayor, Clockmaker, Fisherman, Librarian, Conductor, and the names Mara, Elias, and Elara—appeared in a whopping 88% of all stories.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ooops! (Evernote link because of FT paywall):

KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

A KPMG report on how AI is being used by businesses across the world exaggerated adoption of the technology with bogus case studies that appear to have been based on AI hallucinations.

The October report, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI”, made numerous false claims about the use of AI by organisations including the Swiss bank UBS, the UK’s National Health Service and the public transit groups Swiss Federal Railways and Transport for London.

The inaccuracies were identified as AI hallucinations by the research group GPTZero and verified by the FT. After being alerted to the issue, UBS said it would ask KPMG to remove the false claims, and the Big Four firm on Thursday pulled the report from some of its websites.

Also


Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

Evernote Link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Dutch far-right party pays damages to court artist after changing image with AI

“There are three things that upset me,” she said. “One is that my work was used without asking my permission. Secondly, this was done for a political party, when I want to work as neutrally and independently as possible. And thirdly – and this makes it really strange – the distortion was done with AI.”

Under Dutch law, creators are not only protected by copyright but also have moral rights to object to any distortion of their work that could harm their reputation. There was widespread shock in May after Urban shared the images with fellow court reporters, and the case had widespread press coverage.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Anthropic spent a few days a couple of weeks ago engaging (as typical) in a BS advertising campaign proclaiming that its newest LLM, "Mythos", was "extremely dangerous", maybe even too dangerous to release publicly, because it was soooo good at finding exploitable bugs in software code that they had to rig tests and spin the results in order to show how good and dangerous it was. They then...released it publicly anyway, via subscription.

Except yesterday the federal government, which has for the most part drunk the LLM Flavor-Aid, sent Anthropic an order banning them from allowing foreign nationals to use the Mythos LLM as well as another LLM called Fable, because it was too dangerous. Any and all foreign nationals, including, specifically and hilariously, foreign nationals that work for Anthropic as developers on these very LLMs. Because it is impossible for Anthropic to determine whether any particular customer is a US citizen or not, they have had to shut Mythos and Fable down entirely.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI

Derbyshire police told the Financial Times: “A criminal investigation has been launched into an allegation of perverting the course of justice after the alleged use of AI systems by an officer to create evidential material in a number of cases.

It said: “The officer involved has been removed from frontline duties, pending the outcome of the investigation. No arrests have been made.”

The officer’s role or the exact nature of the suspected misconduct has not been disclosed.

 

[Noodles]

I honestly don't even understand what people use AI for so much. And I use AI pretty regularly.

But then I don't use it at all, for weeks. Because I literally can't come up with something I would want AI to do for me, especially that I couodn't just, do myself.