"artificial intelligence" (AI)* thread 🧵
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"artificial intelligence" chat bots will give you terrible advice in order to flatter you.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-sycophancy-chatbots-science-study-8dc61e69278b661cab1e53d38b4173b6
"Last year, the first support group for people whose lives have been derailed by AI psychosis was formed. The Human Line Project has collected stories from 22 countries. They include 15 suicides, 90 hospitalisations, six arrests and more than $1m (£750,000) spent on delusional projects. More than 60% of its members had no history of mental illness."
How many tokens did they burn, too. And yet OpenAI ain't nowhere near profitable
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion
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"Last year, the first support group for people whose lives have been derailed by AI psychosis was formed. The Human Line Project has collected stories from 22 countries. They include 15 suicides, 90 hospitalisations, six arrests and more than $1m (£750,000) spent on delusional projects. More than 60% of its members had no history of mental illness."
How many tokens did they burn, too. And yet OpenAI ain't nowhere near profitable
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/26/ai-chatbot-users-lives-wrecked-by-delusion
Just heard on the radio that chat bots flatter people and the people become more self-centered and less open to outside suggestion.
This garbage just gets worse and worse. As if humanity needs to be more self-centered.
Edit: Here's the study
https://www.tun.com/home/stanford-study-warns-ai-advice-can-make-users-more-self-centered/Edit 2: This is the same study as two posts back.
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Just heard on the radio that chat bots flatter people and the people become more self-centered and less open to outside suggestion.
This garbage just gets worse and worse. As if humanity needs to be more self-centered.
Edit: Here's the study
https://www.tun.com/home/stanford-study-warns-ai-advice-can-make-users-more-self-centered/Edit 2: This is the same study as two posts back.
As if data centres weren't terrible enough already, they warm their surroundings by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit.
" ...warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. "
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported
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As if data centres weren't terrible enough already, they warm their surroundings by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit.
" ...warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. "
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported
Can we call them chips instead of tokens so that I can feel like if I ask an LLM a question I am actually at the casino?
Because I'm actually at the casino.
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Can we call them chips instead of tokens so that I can feel like if I ask an LLM a question I am actually at the casino?
Because I'm actually at the casino.
Has anybody seen any analyses of how quickly large language models collapse when you feed them training data which is the output of large language models?
In other words, as more of the garbage on the Internet is created by large language models, are the new models going to implode? And if so how quickly?
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Has anybody seen any analyses of how quickly large language models collapse when you feed them training data which is the output of large language models?
In other words, as more of the garbage on the Internet is created by large language models, are the new models going to implode? And if so how quickly?
_Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts_
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-technical-codingWhy would he know how to code? His job is to con people.
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_Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts_
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-technical-codingWhy would he know how to code? His job is to con people.
They tested an AI running a fake store. It failed and went bankrupt.
Make it President, perhaps?
"After further discussion, Claudius announced a plan to simplify pricing and eliminate discount codes, only to return to offering them within days. Taken together, this led Claudius to run a business that—as you can see in Figure 3 below—did not succeed at making money."
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They tested an AI running a fake store. It failed and went bankrupt.
Make it President, perhaps?
"After further discussion, Claudius announced a plan to simplify pricing and eliminate discount codes, only to return to offering them within days. Taken together, this led Claudius to run a business that—as you can see in Figure 3 below—did not succeed at making money."
But here's the capitalist tech.bro dream para
"It’s worth remembering that the AI won’t have to be perfect to be adopted; it will just have to be competitive with human performance at a lower cost in some cases."
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But here's the capitalist tech.bro dream para
"It’s worth remembering that the AI won’t have to be perfect to be adopted; it will just have to be competitive with human performance at a lower cost in some cases."
I found it interesting that when the anthropic guys said that the model did not perform well, one of their solutions was "stromger prompting"
So you beg the word matcher to match words better?
Does this actually work in anything other than the most temporary or transitory way?
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I found it interesting that when the anthropic guys said that the model did not perform well, one of their solutions was "stromger prompting"
So you beg the word matcher to match words better?
Does this actually work in anything other than the most temporary or transitory way?
For the billions of dollars poured into creating a data center, you would expect thousands of jobs.
Nope.
Couple hundred.
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For the billions of dollars poured into creating a data center, you would expect thousands of jobs.
Nope.
Couple hundred.
BISAHA: Now, this is actually the second $10 billion data center project Mississippi announced in the last year. The state called that the largest economic development project in its history, which sounds like an economy-transforming event, like a car factory bringing in thousands of jobs. But the thing to remember about data centers is that they just don't hire many people.
KARTIK HOSANAGAR: Most data centers, you know, they employ about hundred to 200 people.
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BISAHA: Now, this is actually the second $10 billion data center project Mississippi announced in the last year. The state called that the largest economic development project in its history, which sounds like an economy-transforming event, like a car factory bringing in thousands of jobs. But the thing to remember about data centers is that they just don't hire many people.
KARTIK HOSANAGAR: Most data centers, you know, they employ about hundred to 200 people.
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BISAHA: Kartik Hosanagar is the codirector of the Wharton Business School's AI research center.
HOSANAGAR: In fact, when Apple created a $1 billion data center in North Carolina, the news stories reported that there were less than hundred permanent jobs created as a result.
(Ed. "Fewer than")
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BISAHA: Kartik Hosanagar is the codirector of the Wharton Business School's AI research center.
HOSANAGAR: In fact, when Apple created a $1 billion data center in North Carolina, the news stories reported that there were less than hundred permanent jobs created as a result.
(Ed. "Fewer than")
So, unsurprisingly, OpenAI has already thought about the possibility of influencing the answers that ChatGPT gives you, for advertising purposes.
" “Most importantly: ads will not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you,” said Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of applications, in a social media post Friday. "
https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-ads-openai-advertising-83812a066375a805fa2e29b28fc77da1 -
So, unsurprisingly, OpenAI has already thought about the possibility of influencing the answers that ChatGPT gives you, for advertising purposes.
" “Most importantly: ads will not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you,” said Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of applications, in a social media post Friday. "
https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-ads-openai-advertising-83812a066375a805fa2e29b28fc77da1_Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs_
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/"The document reportedly explains that Meta feels AI models don’t understand how people use computers, so the company needs real-life examples of how meatbags click their way through a working day so it can build agents. ...
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_Magnificent irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs_
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/"The document reportedly explains that Meta feels AI models don’t understand how people use computers, so the company needs real-life examples of how meatbags click their way through a working day so it can build agents. ...
" ... CTO Andrew Bosworth apparently said collecting this data from Meta staff will help the company to realize a vision for a world “where our agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct, review and help them improve.” "
[Breathes in]
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
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" ... CTO Andrew Bosworth apparently said collecting this data from Meta staff will help the company to realize a vision for a world “where our agents primarily do the work and our role is to direct, review and help them improve.” "
[Breathes in]
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Yo dog, I heard you like to put your important documents into a statistical word machine. This paper got some statistics for your statistics.
At best, 25% of the time your documents are going to come back corrupted. Even using the latest and greatest statistical word machine.
_LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate_
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Yo dog, I heard you like to put your important documents into a statistical word machine. This paper got some statistics for your statistics.
At best, 25% of the time your documents are going to come back corrupted. Even using the latest and greatest statistical word machine.
_LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate_
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597This is why when I use LLMs to edit important documents, I always have an employee double-check things. He or she is the person I fire when it comes to light the LLM screwed everything up.
'Cause you can't fire a chatbot, silly!
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This is why when I use LLMs to edit important documents, I always have an employee double-check things. He or she is the person I fire when it comes to light the LLM screwed everything up.
'Cause you can't fire a chatbot, silly!
Some people have said there are no savings doing it my way.
But you know, I have to tell those people that there are greater things than pure profits. Like quality of output. Pride in workmanship. Stuff like that. If you need further examplea I'll ask ChatGPT for more. Hmm gotta refill the token wallet I guess.
Anyway what was I saying?
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Some people have said there are no savings doing it my way.
But you know, I have to tell those people that there are greater things than pure profits. Like quality of output. Pride in workmanship. Stuff like that. If you need further examplea I'll ask ChatGPT for more. Hmm gotta refill the token wallet I guess.
Anyway what was I saying?
Ai agent deleted the inbox of a Meta AI director
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Claude Code deleted 2.5 years of data
_Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant_
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-code-deletes-developers-production-setup-including-its-database-and-snapshots-2-5-years-of-records-were-nuked-in-an-instant
