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Scary G

@carrieg.bsky.social

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Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · May 5

AI is a con. Listen to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social explain why:

www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

www.buzzsprout.com

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Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 2h

It’s excellent

Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 19h

Beautiful 😍

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Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 2d

Adding Legionnaire of the anti-Christ to my LinkedIn bio

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

wapo.st

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 2d

Study from @anthropic.com + Turing Institute finds just 250 documents are enough to "poison" any LLM, allowing you to trigger a backdoor with a fixed prompt, here ''

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

wow LLMs really do learn just like humans

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 2d

I thought everyone loved Tron and I was the only child who was thoroughly meh about it

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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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Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 3d

😂 I’m tired

Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 3d

Aggasiz (BBC mangled it in one of their reports once, or I never would have thought about it)

In the opposite direction, outsiders add a letter in their head for Simon Fraser

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 4d

🫧

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?

Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?

www.nature.com

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 5d

Coca-Cola Coke Zero

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 6d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Scary G @carrieg.bsky.social · 6d

Dehumanization for decades

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 6d

Medical and legal experts lay out a very clear case for why these are war crimes and genocide. I encourage everyone who cares to listen to this. revealnews.org/podcast/gaza...

US doctors in Gaza find evidence that kids are being targeted by the Israeli military

American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.

revealnews.org

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.