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Matt Round @mattround.com · 3h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 8h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 9h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Slater @slatersev.bsky.social · 3d

IC makes it clear that Wiegraf is still in control. And he is belting out similar lines in the monastery fight before that happens

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Slater @slatersev.bsky.social · 3d

He‘ very articulate in chapter 3 actually

“The reeking masses yearn for gods and miracles. It is their opiate, and they consume it greedily. The people do not endeavor towards greatness, but rather mire themselves in their petty strifes—shackles on the feet of man.”

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4d

If youre in the UK and havent signed this petition, please do despite their response here. At 100k sigs they have to discuss it again

Petitions arent a silver bullet on their own, but they help communicate how many people do/dont support something. Its low commitment and worth doing!

GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 4d

UK Gouvernment: Payment Processors Can Ban NSFW Content
According to the UK treasury, payment processors are in the right and the gouvernment has no plans to step in. This puts it in direct contrast to what artists and the UK games industry have asked for.
www.gamesmarket.global/en/business/...

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Kris Werewolfheart @kriswolfhe.art · 5d

lol @ the head of mobile game studios shitting their pants at the EU going 'so uh this shit is clearly evil and partly responsible for the explosion in gambling apps, we need to regulate this shit'

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 6d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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animspotlight3d.bsky.social @animspotlight3d.bsky.social · 4d

With Tron back in the spotlight, Legacy for love and #tronares for, uhhhhhhhh well not that. I am here to remind everyone that the best thing to ever come out of Tron as a property is the Tron Uprising Cartoon. And a big reason is it has a gleefully horny Villain x Hero thing going on. Hope on peak

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Aug 20

I want a presidential candidate who promises to construct Union memorials and statues all over the country.

And yeah, North and South. Blanket Virginia with statues of Thomas, who actually chose the right side.

Hell, put one of Sherman in the middle of Peachtree Park.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 5d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 19d

Charleston quite famously wanted to enforce it's fugitive slave laws in Boston

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 19d

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

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📺~CRT~📺 @crtvheadvt.bsky.social · 5d

A "small" datacenter was going to go up near me in Charlotte and the local community (including my conservative in-laws) fought it and won.

It's not inevitable.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Slater @slatersev.bsky.social · 5d

He would not shut the fuck I’ll about how great it was in Kojima’s anniversary livestream while Del Torro was pushing back. Your giving him far to much grace

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16d

ulysses grant currently smashing through his coffin like uma thurman in kill bill

Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 16d

Cool Confederate flag on your Jeep, bro. Did you know you're in Ohio.

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Mom @milph.mom · 7d

I reposted someone talking about it earlier but since I see people panicking over AI scraping, just a PSA:

The AI service BlueSky is using is for image/video moderation in the same way Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, and Twitter functions.

It sees if something is sus and then flags it-

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Slater @slatersev.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone remember when Shadowbringers came out there was that absolutely insane person who insisted Runar was abusive to Y’shtola and that Ishikawa was a misogynist fascist for writijg the two of them having any sort of connection? Wonder what there reaction to this would have bee. lol

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 9d

Relevant to recent events, I think

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 9d

We’re on a speedrun to bluesky banning anti ai hate speech but leaving anti trans hate speech awesome

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s fucking go we better respect the robots before “they use us“

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Mom @milph.mom · 9d

I’m moving to Silicon Valley to start my new life as a successful Wallet Inspector

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s fucking go we better respect the robots before “they use us“

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Mom @milph.mom · 9d

As I state here, I think the “clanker” stuff is cringe af and it is just an excuse by some bad actors to invent new slurs, but your perspective is 100% out of whack if you think you being bullied out of using genAI is remotely in the same ballpark to calling me a fag.

bsky.app/profile/milp...

Mom @milph.mom · 9d

I read her other replies on the matter, and it’s a combination of both misunderstanding what AI currently is along with not liking the clanker trend, which I don’t either.

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