"artificial intelligence" (AI)* thread 🧵
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Related article about how machine bias works against minorities.
_Machine Bias. There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks._ (2016)
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing_AI chatbots pose 'dangerous' risk when giving medical advice, study suggests_
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3093gjy2ero -
_AI chatbots pose 'dangerous' risk when giving medical advice, study suggests_
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3093gjy2eroMicrosoft's subscriber numbers for paid Copilot (its "AI") are dismal.
"Microsoft is investing heavily in artificial intelligence, but customers’ willingness to pay is barely keeping pace. Despite new records in user numbers, only 3.3 percent of users pay for the copilot - a discrepancy that raises questions." "
https://winfuture.de/news,156745.html
(Article is in German)
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Microsoft's subscriber numbers for paid Copilot (its "AI") are dismal.
"Microsoft is investing heavily in artificial intelligence, but customers’ willingness to pay is barely keeping pace. Despite new records in user numbers, only 3.3 percent of users pay for the copilot - a discrepancy that raises questions." "
https://winfuture.de/news,156745.html
(Article is in German)
AI agent posting code and published personal attacks about the code maintainers who rejected the code (in accordance with the project rules).
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Good times indeed.
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AI agent posting code and published personal attacks about the code maintainers who rejected the code (in accordance with the project rules).
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Good times indeed.
Just reviewed another chatGPT output and it's full of legal errors.
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Just reviewed another chatGPT output and it's full of legal errors.
"Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission."
Microsoft said the bug, trackable by admins as CW1226324, means that draft and sent email messages “with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.”
DRAFTS?!
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"Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission."
Microsoft said the bug, trackable by admins as CW1226324, means that draft and sent email messages “with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.”
DRAFTS?!
Oh no my drafts are being ingested by Copilot! Whatever will I do!
Pic: It's a draft e-mail to "microsoft AI" which reads "Is Bill Gates a pedophile? He seems concerned about the Epstein Files. I mean, could he be a pedophile? Bill Gates a pedophile? Could he have committed crimes such as would be committed by a pedophile? Bill Gates, I mean?"
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Oh no my drafts are being ingested by Copilot! Whatever will I do!
Pic: It's a draft e-mail to "microsoft AI" which reads "Is Bill Gates a pedophile? He seems concerned about the Epstein Files. I mean, could he be a pedophile? Bill Gates a pedophile? Could he have committed crimes such as would be committed by a pedophile? Bill Gates, I mean?"
Oh good. Some of my Law Society fees are going towards generative AI. By "good" I mean "stop burning my money".
“The 2026 budget:
Enhances access to legal information: Funding to support CanLII’s Generative AI project, in collaboration with other Canadian law societies, to develop and operate an AI powered legal research product that will facilitate access to information.”From a recent Law Society update justifying the fee increase they are charging. (I posted here https://www.crookston.ca/wp/2026/02/20/law-society-fees-going-towards-generative-ai/)
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Oh good. Some of my Law Society fees are going towards generative AI. By "good" I mean "stop burning my money".
“The 2026 budget:
Enhances access to legal information: Funding to support CanLII’s Generative AI project, in collaboration with other Canadian law societies, to develop and operate an AI powered legal research product that will facilitate access to information.”From a recent Law Society update justifying the fee increase they are charging. (I posted here https://www.crookston.ca/wp/2026/02/20/law-society-fees-going-towards-generative-ai/)
"In total, big tech companies are predicted to spend a record-breaking $650 billion on AI in 2026 alone, astronomical commitments that have Wall Street seriously on edge.
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According to a new Bank of America survey of 162 fund managers, a significant 35 percent said corporations are overinvesting in capital expenditures
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"In total, big tech companies are predicted to spend a record-breaking $650 billion on AI in 2026 alone, astronomical commitments that have Wall Street seriously on edge.
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According to a new Bank of America survey of 162 fund managers, a significant 35 percent said corporations are overinvesting in capital expenditures
......A full 25 percent of survey respondents said they see the AI bubble as the largest risk — even more so than inflation and geopolitical conflict. And 30 percent said that AI expenditures were the most likely source of a credit crisis."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/blinking-new-warning-sign-ai-industry
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...A full 25 percent of survey respondents said they see the AI bubble as the largest risk — even more so than inflation and geopolitical conflict. And 30 percent said that AI expenditures were the most likely source of a credit crisis."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/blinking-new-warning-sign-ai-industry
Hey everyone, the guy who made billions selling shovels to people shoveling "AI" is saying "AI" is not a bubble, and that the investment money into "AI" is just the start.
He's trustworthy and impartial on this issue, right?
There's gold in them thar hills, right? Here, buy my shovel and go find it.
_Nvidia’s Huang says AI investment is just beginning, dismisses AI bubble fears_
https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202602190001 -
Hey everyone, the guy who made billions selling shovels to people shoveling "AI" is saying "AI" is not a bubble, and that the investment money into "AI" is just the start.
He's trustworthy and impartial on this issue, right?
There's gold in them thar hills, right? Here, buy my shovel and go find it.
_Nvidia’s Huang says AI investment is just beginning, dismisses AI bubble fears_
https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202602190001Would you like some psychosis with your gasoline spaghetti?
_Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis _
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/before-psychosis-chatgpt-told-man-he-was-an-oracle-new-lawsuit-alleges/ -
Would you like some psychosis with your gasoline spaghetti?
_Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis _
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/before-psychosis-chatgpt-told-man-he-was-an-oracle-new-lawsuit-alleges/Call me when the headline reads "AI blames human for coding" because then I know we will have arrived.
_Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake
Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools._
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/882005/amazon-blames-human-employees-for-an-ai-coding-agents-mistake -
Call me when the headline reads "AI blames human for coding" because then I know we will have arrived.
_Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake
Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools._
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/882005/amazon-blames-human-employees-for-an-ai-coding-agents-mistakeSo, if you ask generative "AI" to give you a password it will give you a crummy easily guessed password because of course it will. Why would it be random. People doing this are fools for using generative "AI" to generate a password. And they're probably fools for using it for other things too.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/
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So, if you ask generative "AI" to give you a password it will give you a crummy easily guessed password because of course it will. Why would it be random. People doing this are fools for using generative "AI" to generate a password. And they're probably fools for using it for other things too.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/
"artificial intelligence" involves cutting high-paying jobs and outsourcing training the "AI" to the cheapest possible human beings. (In this case, forcing women in rural India to watch abuse videos for 8 hours a day to train the AI. It could also be driving robotaxis. It's all a con.)
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"artificial intelligence" involves cutting high-paying jobs and outsourcing training the "AI" to the cheapest possible human beings. (In this case, forcing women in rural India to watch abuse videos for 8 hours a day to train the AI. It could also be driving robotaxis. It's all a con.)
Anthropic tossed its guardrails and adopts a non-binding safety policy.
Fastest "don't be evil" to "meh, evil is not so bad, really" in recent memory. (Google took a bunch of years to get there, for ex.)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change
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Anthropic tossed its guardrails and adopts a non-binding safety policy.
Fastest "don't be evil" to "meh, evil is not so bad, really" in recent memory. (Google took a bunch of years to get there, for ex.)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change
Me: Asks legal search engine "AI" for "I want a high-level case about adverse inference."
It thinks for 30 seconds then spits out "adverse inference" without any further limitation (which is as difficult as selecting appeal courts in a drop down).
I could have typed "adverse inference" in the box myself and saved 394 gallons of fresh water
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Me: Asks legal search engine "AI" for "I want a high-level case about adverse inference."
It thinks for 30 seconds then spits out "adverse inference" without any further limitation (which is as difficult as selecting appeal courts in a drop down).
I could have typed "adverse inference" in the box myself and saved 394 gallons of fresh water
We're never getting rid of this stupid LLM stuff because it appears to be talking to us and we humans love that. Oh boy.
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We're never getting rid of this stupid LLM stuff because it appears to be talking to us and we humans love that. Oh boy.
Here's your modern use of "AI": to automatically be targeted to be killed based on perceived connections to undesirables.
"Surely their most deadly endeavor, however, is Project Lavender. The group developed the Lavender software, which uses A.I. and big data to develop a profile on every person in Gaza (including children), assigning them a score of 1-100, based on individuals’ perceived connections to Hamas. ...
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Here's your modern use of "AI": to automatically be targeted to be killed based on perceived connections to undesirables.
"Surely their most deadly endeavor, however, is Project Lavender. The group developed the Lavender software, which uses A.I. and big data to develop a profile on every person in Gaza (including children), assigning them a score of 1-100, based on individuals’ perceived connections to Hamas. ...
... A wide range of characteristics, including sharing similar work schedules to or being in a WhatsApp group with a known Hamas member, would raise one’s score. If an individual’s number reached a certain level, they would automatically be put on a list."
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... A wide range of characteristics, including sharing similar work schedules to or being in a WhatsApp group with a known Hamas member, would raise one’s score. If an individual’s number reached a certain level, they would automatically be put on a list."
Advertiser:
Tell me all your deep dark secrets so I can target you with ads.Person:
No wayAdvertiser in the guise of AI chat bot:
Tell me all your deep dark secrets so I can target you with ads.Person:
Okily dokily Ms. Sentient Computer. After all, you're my best friend.
