"artificial intelligence" (AI)* thread 🧵
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The hits keep comin:
Steal your employees' tips! Discriminate against renters on basis of race!
Just two of the wonderful suggestions that Microsoft's LLM is telling people to do. (Clearly simply reflecting what humans do, back to them)
https://themarkup.org/news/2024/03/29/nycs-ai-chatbot-tells-businesses-to-break-the-law
Article presented interview with Michael Schumacher and hid that it was entirely AI chatbot generated until the end. It even then suggested the AI had been trained by Mr. Schumacher.
The Schumacher family sued. The magazine had to pay $217,000.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/michael-schumachers-family-gets-settlement-after-fake-ai-interview
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Article presented interview with Michael Schumacher and hid that it was entirely AI chatbot generated until the end. It even then suggested the AI had been trained by Mr. Schumacher.
The Schumacher family sued. The magazine had to pay $217,000.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/michael-schumachers-family-gets-settlement-after-fake-ai-interview
Google might have liability for its "artificial intelligence" snippets because it is no longer merely surfacing third party information.
https://www.vox.com/technology/351189/google-ai-overview-section-230
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Google might have liability for its "artificial intelligence" snippets because it is no longer merely surfacing third party information.
https://www.vox.com/technology/351189/google-ai-overview-section-230
Is AI a scam? Yep.
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Is AI a scam? Yep.
Altman recently asked people to consider a time when we'll be able to ask artificial intelligence to "discover all of physics" or "start and run a great company" and that "it can go ahead and do that."
Sigh
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-generative-business-money-revenue-1.7264014
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Altman recently asked people to consider a time when we'll be able to ask artificial intelligence to "discover all of physics" or "start and run a great company" and that "it can go ahead and do that."
Sigh
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-generative-business-money-revenue-1.7264014
A Washington Post investigation conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, Riverside, recently revealed that ChatGPT requires up to three bottles of water to generate a single 100-word email. If the global AI demand continues its current trajectory, best estimates put its water withdrawal around 4.2 – 6.6 billion cubic meters by 2027; the equivalent of the annual consumption of half the United Kingdom.
https://www.techpolicy.press/why-we-dont-know-ais-true-water-footprint/
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A Washington Post investigation conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, Riverside, recently revealed that ChatGPT requires up to three bottles of water to generate a single 100-word email. If the global AI demand continues its current trajectory, best estimates put its water withdrawal around 4.2 – 6.6 billion cubic meters by 2027; the equivalent of the annual consumption of half the United Kingdom.
https://www.techpolicy.press/why-we-dont-know-ais-true-water-footprint/
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And here is a paper cited in the article which notes in its abstract that for Microsoft to train GPT3, it directly evaporates 700,000 litres of fresh water.
Later, they note AI consumes 0.33% of the United States' total water consumption.
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And here is a paper cited in the article which notes in its abstract that for Microsoft to train GPT3, it directly evaporates 700,000 litres of fresh water.
Later, they note AI consumes 0.33% of the United States' total water consumption.
I stumbled on this page which explains what the various vendors use water for, how some of it is lost, how reclaimed, how water use is measured. I can't vouch for the site, I don't know it, but it seems to have very detailed information about data centre water use.
https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/
I should go looking for other industrial users of water to see how they compare to current state of AI data centre water use.
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I stumbled on this page which explains what the various vendors use water for, how some of it is lost, how reclaimed, how water use is measured. I can't vouch for the site, I don't know it, but it seems to have very detailed information about data centre water use.
https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-water-usage/
I should go looking for other industrial users of water to see how they compare to current state of AI data centre water use.
For anyone who ever wanted their social book reading app to [checks notes] aggressively accuse them of being anti-white racist in the fun end-of-year summary, well, AI has got you covered.
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For anyone who ever wanted their social book reading app to [checks notes] aggressively accuse them of being anti-white racist in the fun end-of-year summary, well, AI has got you covered.
"AI Search Has A Citation Problem.
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News."
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php -
"AI Search Has A Citation Problem.
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News."
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.phphttps://apnews.com/article/gabbard-trump-ai-amazon-intelligence-beca4c4e25581e52de5343244e995e78
"Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington."
Didn't they accidentally release a whole bunch of Social security numbers and other sensitive data?
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https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-trump-ai-amazon-intelligence-beca4c4e25581e52de5343244e995e78
"Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington."
Didn't they accidentally release a whole bunch of Social security numbers and other sensitive data?
Divorce because of chat bot advice. Sure, why the hell not.
Dating a chatbot? Hell yeah we've come this far let's do this.
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Divorce because of chat bot advice. Sure, why the hell not.
Dating a chatbot? Hell yeah we've come this far let's do this.
"Hundreds of users tagged X's integrated AI bot Grok to ask: Is this real?
It's not — the video was created with generative AI. But Grok's responses varied wildly, sometimes minute to minute. "The video likely shows real damage," said one response; "likely not authentic," said another."
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5442682/ai-chatbots-fact-check-videos-images-israel-iran
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"Hundreds of users tagged X's integrated AI bot Grok to ask: Is this real?
It's not — the video was created with generative AI. But Grok's responses varied wildly, sometimes minute to minute. "The video likely shows real damage," said one response; "likely not authentic," said another."
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5442682/ai-chatbots-fact-check-videos-images-israel-iran
AI agents fail a lot at their tasks, many aren't even AI, and tons will be cancelled in the coming years for risk and lack of return
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/
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AI agents fail a lot at their tasks, many aren't even AI, and tons will be cancelled in the coming years for risk and lack of return
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/
Water scarcity becoming an issue between the United States and Mexico.
Meanwhile generate an emoji with "AI" and it'll use something like a litre of water.
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Water scarcity becoming an issue between the United States and Mexico.
Meanwhile generate an emoji with "AI" and it'll use something like a litre of water.
I wrote code to count to ten.
Is this "AI" these days?
Im pretty sure everyone is calling everything AI or, even worse, intentionally uaing "AI" for tasks that "AI" is not good at performing and simpler systems would be just fine for.
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I wrote code to count to ten.
Is this "AI" these days?
Im pretty sure everyone is calling everything AI or, even worse, intentionally uaing "AI" for tasks that "AI" is not good at performing and simpler systems would be just fine for.
"Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a “Godfather of AI” — a technology that likely wouldn’t exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT."
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"Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a “Godfather of AI” — a technology that likely wouldn’t exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT."
"But that is not what’s happening with AI, because AI isn’t really designed to be therapeutic,” the Stanford professor continued. “It’s really designed to make people feel better in the short term, which also ultimately promotes continued engagement — which is the real agenda for these companies that are making and creating and profiting from these products… they’re not optimized for well-being.”
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"But that is not what’s happening with AI, because AI isn’t really designed to be therapeutic,” the Stanford professor continued. “It’s really designed to make people feel better in the short term, which also ultimately promotes continued engagement — which is the real agenda for these companies that are making and creating and profiting from these products… they’re not optimized for well-being.”
"Total AI spending has contributed more to the growth of the US economy this year than all of consumer spending combined."
_Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
"AI machines — in quite a literal sense — appear to be saving the US economy right now."_
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry -
"Total AI spending has contributed more to the growth of the US economy this year than all of consumer spending combined."
_Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
"AI machines — in quite a literal sense — appear to be saving the US economy right now."_
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industryThey were right when they said AI would take my job.
I just didn't realize it was my job as a spender in a capitalist system that they were talking about.
