#fuck_ai

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is "broken" A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology. David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports that accompanied the ChatGPT developer’s product releases, explained his resignation in an essay headlined, “I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken”… “Imagine ‘rogue’ agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep,” wrote Robinson… Source [2026-10-03]

US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court Who could POSSIBLY have seen this coming‽

Dem Candidate Sends “Cease and Desist” Order to Republican Over Deepfake Ads | Truthout

It's your writing, not theirs — and that matters. Don’t let AI dictate the way you write! We’ve all got a personal and unique typing style just as we do in our spoken language. Have you ever been writing something and then thought to yourself, “fuck I kinda sound like AI”, and then rephrase it? I’m here to say fuck that shit, write how you want to! Don’t let Sam Altman et al. dictate the fucking English language (or any language for that matter)! If you’re being accused of using AI it likely means one of five things: You just said something really fucking stupid. You just said something interesting enough that people assume you couldn’t have known that. You made some shit up out of thin air You’re arguing about AI with another AI You used AI cause your brain don’t work so good on its own. No matter what category you fall under, just own it. The internet is shitty enough, we don’t need to be worrying about self-censoring for fear of being whipped by the cult of daddy Altman and granddaddy Huang. OK, maybe the em dash is fucked, but we can’t win 'em all!

Trump Launched an America.[gov] “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election. Bastard tries to drink from the well he dug and all he got was piss.

Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president I suppose that’s another reason why Trump likes Musk so much. Musk can fine tune the anime waifu Trump loves, while it tells him how cool he would be if he bombed Iran.

US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court Godawful as hell. How stupid this really is.

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday’s announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages. Aten said he never granted Muse permissions to read his messages and had assumed they were off-limits. Social media last week blew up with masses of people who agreed and said the incident showed that AI assistants given access to calendars, emails, messages, shopping accounts, and other resources are akin to a skill saw or other power tool. While potentially useful, they can do real damage if not used carefully.

My take on AI as an EE student I generally wouldn’t post something like this because I do think there are advantages using AGI. However, it is unsustainable and that warrents concern for the future. I say “future” not in a dystopian-like world where were fighting against robots, rather hundreds of years of infrastructure and development crumbling. We are progressively seeing this happen like with stackoverflow. So from an engineering standpoint the technology is unsustainable both in terms of energy (which we don’t have), money (which we don’t have), and humans, critical thinking humans (which we have very sparse of, but to generalize; we don’t have). On top of all of this it is funneling literary work, it is funneling all of our digitized information (crappy and or otherwise), into an ai system that doesn’t know how to solve a transistor problem which has been ID’d and given to be in saturated mode. What would otherwise take a few minutes to do research on google or duckduckgo of a saturated mode transistor with an example a few years ago, is now taking two hours to search: It’s not just funnelling information, it’s collapsing everything that it has scraped into a single centralized source. Do you know what this sounds like (give or take a few years), this sounds like constrained indoctrination. Here’s a thought experiment, what if in every cupcake baking book someone said “now put 300g of 10 microcurie uranium-238” what’s stopping the AI of generating that? what’s stopping a human from actually making uranium cupcakes? Nothing is. If the only source of information is generative AI Who’s to say that “uranium cupcakes” are indigestible if everyone is following the same lead. There is no common sense. Common sense is AGI and if AGI says to start putting uranium into your cupcakes, you bet your ass everyone’s going to do it. Just like how people have committed suicide because they listened to AGI. So here’s my solution (which tech companies won’t agree with because they’ll loose money as a result) diversify your learning, spread your learning to multiple sources not just generative AI, use websites such as stack overflow or reddit to ask questions, get people to answer those questions, make HTML websites explaining something you learned. It doesn’t matter if its being scrapped for more training. If no ones using it, or (as a better relationship) the cost of scraping and training costs more then its annual profit (which it currently is) its only a matter of time until these AI companies call it quits. By not posting, by not asking questions on posts, by simply using generative AI, you are doing the exact thing that works with the agi companies. If you really want to fight it, revive stack overflow by asking questions. Make posts on reddit, if you have money make a HTML website and discuss what you learned. Agree with surveillance capitalism for one moment and when they blow their budget training on our data, delete your accounts. This is only temporary, because AI is temporary (contrary to popular belief). Its not here to stay, it was never here to stay.

Anthropic secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety...and then tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing Also note the conspicuous absence in who Anthropic chose to invite:

Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to 'self-police' AI development | CBC News Seems legit!

Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn: "What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and cloud unlocked."

I don't fucking *want* "infinite personalized music", I want music conceptualized, created, and played by human beings.

People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All In a Facebook group called “Urine Therapy, your sacred plasma medicine,” which has over 45,000 members, some discovered that popular AI chatbots initially push back on wild notions of tinkle as medicine.

Generative AI is like fast food, and it’s embarrassing that some people don’t realize that. It “works” the same way you can eat fast food to prevent starvation since you do get calories from it. But you essentially do damage to yourself long term and slowly kill yourself. In moderation it can work, but just like fast food, it’s always better to eat less, ideally 0 amount.  It might be worth it if you don’t have any other option, but not having any other option is a bigger failing on overall planning. If you consume lots of it then you do tolerate it more than those who abstain themselves; whom totally feel sick when they consume any of it. At the end of the day, it would never be considered quality or good, but just like fast food, our cooperate overlords will try to get us to use it as much as possible. I just hope this means that similarly, those who respect their mind/body can easily live their life and avoid it. The only difference I can think of is that fast food is profitable, which is pretty hilarious. So, back to the title, imagine living in a world where a significant chunk of the population think McDonald’s is somehow better than home cooked meals. That’s where we are at atm.

You cook the food and have a phone in your pocket. Why oh why are the pictures AI?

[cw - lewd] Jerkle Circ

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.

AI Companies Are Calling It “Democratization.” Artists Call It Theft Cover art by me. Art and music are facing a difficult moment. Major companies are gathering millions of images, texts, and music tracks to train generative models, often without creators’ consent or compensation. Then they sell tools that can produce new images and music, sometimes deliberately imitating the work of the very people whose creations helped build those models. What angers me isn’t the idea of new technology. It’s who profits from it, and at whose expense. Artists spend years developing their skills and bring their own experience to their work. Corporations treat that work as free raw material. Creators may have no way to opt out, no share of the profits, and no clear answer about whether their work was used at all. “Democratizing creativity” is a convenient corporate slogan. Companies call it democratization when they take other people’s work, turn it into a commercial product, and keep the power to decide who can use it and on what terms. That doesn’t give people more power. It concentrates power in the hands of companies that own the models, the servers, the data, and the platforms. We’re told that now anyone can “create.” But being able to press a button isn’t the same as having control over the tool, sharing in its profits, or having a say in the rules. Artists are expected to accept that their work may have been used without permission, then compete with products built from that same work. Meanwhile, corporations get a scalable business, paying customers, and a feel-good story about progress. How convenient: call appropriation innovation, call pushing workers out efficiency, and call not asking permission democratization. If this is really about democratizing creativity, why don’t creators get a say in whether their work can be used? Why aren’t they given transparency and compensation? Why does “making creativity accessible to everyone” so often mean that a company gains control while the creator loses it? This isn’t about saying only trained artists should be allowed to use AI, or that everyone needs years of practice before they can express themselves. The question is why corporations sell access to tools built on the large-scale use of other people’s work while offering those creators no meaningful choice and no fair share. Democratization without creators’ consent or control isn’t creative freedom. It’s appropriation with a nicer marketing slogan.

Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta’s Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.