Mark Riedl
@markriedl.bsky.social
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
It was fun when image generators were pretty bad and it was obvious. I would intentionally pick absurd images for slides just to make people chuckle.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It was fun when image generators were pretty bad and it was obvious. I would intentionally pick absurd images for slides just to make people chuckle.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
This is very disturbing
This is by a large margin the most serious problem and mistake in conference peer review I have seen in my career. Apparently a many people were aware of this and many could find out who their reviewers were. This probably has created a large number of unnecessary enmities.
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is very disturbing
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
“if we don’t make S-risk profoundly disturbing, it will not sound worse than X-risk, and [our center] will then struggle to obtain large sums of money from impressionable Silicon Valley billionaires who have read a few tweets about AGI.”
From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers:
"S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it."
directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...
"S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it."
directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...
“I’ll never sleep again”
Our intern Clem Park writes about her rewarding summer at CAAAC, spent writing scenarios where an AGI enslaves and tortures humanity forever
directing.attention.to
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“if we don’t make S-risk profoundly disturbing, it will not sound worse than X-risk, and [our center] will then struggle to obtain large sums of money from impressionable Silicon Valley billionaires who have read a few tweets about AGI.”
Yikes
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Yikes
😭
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
😭
SocArXiv has had enough of AI papers. Requires acceptance of those papers first. Exceptions are made for studies of the effects of AI in society.
1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
SocArXiv has had enough of AI papers. Requires acceptance of those papers first. Exceptions are made for studies of the effects of AI in society.
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ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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Your homework “won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation” is actually a pretty low bar in a world where the blobfish is supposedly one of God’s creations.
I’m probably going to Hell now
I’m probably going to Hell now
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Your homework “won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation” is actually a pretty low bar in a world where the blobfish is supposedly one of God’s creations.
I’m probably going to Hell now
I’m probably going to Hell now
Pope says don’t use AI to cheat in school.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Pope says don’t use AI to cheat in school.
I guess we will soon see if “don’t use unsafe thing to do unsafe things” is a sound legal defense.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I guess we will soon see if “don’t use unsafe thing to do unsafe things” is a sound legal defense.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Is it a pet rock? I hope it’s a pet rock
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
Altman describes OpenAI's forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone | TechCrunch
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
techcrunch.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Is it a pet rock? I hope it’s a pet rock
I thought Altman said they solved the problem /sarcastic
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I thought Altman said they solved the problem /sarcastic
Everyone is giving their ranking of star wars. Here is mine:
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Everyone is giving their ranking of star wars. Here is mine:
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
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Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk | TechCrunch
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
techcrunch.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
Make MTG mean Magic: The Gathering again
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Make MTG mean Magic: The Gathering again
This is extraordinarily shitty
hearing more about people using AI tools for financial advice, and wanted to re-up my reporting for @wired.com about finance-focused bots seeing distressed young people as promising forms of revenue…
www.wired.com/story/ai-fin...
www.wired.com/story/ai-fin...
AI Financial Advisers Target Young People Living Paycheck to Paycheck
AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big time.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is extraordinarily shitty
Saw this in my bike commute this morning. Local companies are now using AI backlash to advertise.
(I do not know this company and I make no endorsement)
(I do not know this company and I make no endorsement)
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Saw this in my bike commute this morning. Local companies are now using AI backlash to advertise.
(I do not know this company and I make no endorsement)
(I do not know this company and I make no endorsement)
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Jesus didn’t have venture capital. TIL
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Jesus didn’t have venture capital. TIL
Zork code has been open-sourced opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Zork code has been open-sourced opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...
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It would be really funny if Liberal Arts majors were the ones who saved the world from the robot apocalypse
its 2025 and we're attacking AIs with poetry
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It would be really funny if Liberal Arts majors were the ones who saved the world from the robot apocalypse
Have there been mysterious push updates to Grok's prompt again?
Musk's ego was mortally wounded by Joyce Carol Oates and he's been on a narcissistic supply bender since
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Have there been mysterious push updates to Grok's prompt again?