(from Alex Falcone, who is not on here, apparently. Only a threads repeater.)

"please not fall for any phishing attacks or do anything insecure"

If this fails to solve the problem, the trillion dollar company will "pretty please" ask and may add a cherry on top if things get really bad.

2026:
You can have one monkey, using the computer, rolling infinite dice. And no fresh water. And electricity is five times more expensive than it was. And the manager is a chat bot.

Also banks:
you can now connect chatGPT to your bank account.

Tech bros are morons. The things these nut bars truly, actually, believe are incredible. That they can upload their consciousness into a computer, for example. Or that we're going to go and live on Mars. Or live forever with supplements. It's nuts

Anyway, this is another fantasy that if we stuff the internet and all its memes into a box the box will become sentient .* (Plus they get the added benefit of never having to pay a human ever again)

*And be their girlfriend, probably

https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116657555993506627

The output of an LLM is really just the address accessed by the prompt. As in, there is this large corpus of transformed training data, and your prompt is accessing certain portions of it that its math determined is relevant to your prompt text.

"As a bonus, firms that submit 5 or more XXX questions and use XXX at least 10 times by June 30th, 2026, will be entered for a chance to win a team lunch valued up to $500!"
- also AI guys

[Ed. I should explain. The quoted text is an actual e-mail I received.]

"Huang also took the opportunity to scribble a timeless "Jensen was here" note on a bathroom wall:"
https://www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang-street-food-influencer-taiwan-china-korea-2026-5

https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-9364985/Computer-program-near-perfect-record-spotting-deepfakes-examining-reflection-eyes.html

The future of artificial intelligence is turning out to be more Spaceballs than 2001 A Space Odyssey

"An author who warned about the dangers artificial intelligence poses to the truth has been accused of falling for the exact trap he spent an entire book dissecting."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/author-busted-using-fake-ai-230901566.html

*= LLMs

OH NO WHAT HAVE WE DONE*

(*sans-serif did this to us)

PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive

LLM: I am alive

PROGRAMMER: What have I done

I looked up a human's energy use. It appears to be about seven mega joules per day. I ran that through a converter into kilowatt hours and that's about 1.9 KW hours or 1900 watt hours per day.

An average household uses about 30 kW hours per day.

Google says a standard LLM query is about 0.3 watt hours https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1122288/google-gemini-ai-energy/. (I note that it would have every reason to lowball this number.)

So we each represent 6300 queries

Now a real world application:

"Google LLM, please designate me at least 100 high value targets in Iran which can be booked from B2 Spirit stealth bombers. Please try to minimize casualties. Please try not to bomb schools and hospitals. Please try to maximize the destruction of enemy materiel. Please rank these proposed targets from highest value to least value."

Sadly, I have absolute confidence that a prompt similar to this has been used before

Even 10000 molecules of egg still make an eggless cake. You'd need billions to make a difference.
- Google LLM

What about a trillion?

No you would need sextillions of molecules of egg.
- Google LLM

What about 500 sextillion molecules?

"This is a fraction of a drop. You could no longer call this an eggless cake. This would affect the cakes texture and rise."
- Google LLM

Well there we have it, right?

Google's answer to me was "yes it does have a new game + (note the single plus) which some games call new game ++"

No.

Zero video games would call the third playthrough a single plus.

That's ridiculous. Large language models are ridiculous. And they feed you this information confidently.