Ben Wyborney
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"Taken together, these results suggest that optimizing persuasiveness may come at some cost to truthfulness" 🤔
NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds
A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Taken together, these results suggest that optimizing persuasiveness may come at some cost to truthfulness" 🤔
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Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
June 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
June 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On ‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Tutorial
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June 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On ‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Tutorial
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theonion.com/musk-we...
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Choglit (2002-circa 2003): A chocolate-flavored "dairy-based" beverage, created in a collaboration between Coca-Cola and Nestle to directly compete with Yoo-Hoo. It contained 16% low-fat milk, and was the first dairy product ever made by Coca-Cola. Sold in both cans and glass bottles
May 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Choglit (2002-circa 2003): A chocolate-flavored "dairy-based" beverage, created in a collaboration between Coca-Cola and Nestle to directly compete with Yoo-Hoo. It contained 16% low-fat milk, and was the first dairy product ever made by Coca-Cola. Sold in both cans and glass bottles
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Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
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ChatGPT ass presidency
Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.
April 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
ChatGPT ass presidency
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Administering electric shocks to people in the adjacent room and hesitating when the screams get too loud. Thankfully there's an authority figure here reassuring me that it's ok to continue
February 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Administering electric shocks to people in the adjacent room and hesitating when the screams get too loud. Thankfully there's an authority figure here reassuring me that it's ok to continue
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PARTY AT BASS PRO SHOP
![Tweet with a picture of a partial solar eclipse where the sun looks like it's hanging on the top of a pyramid. The text accompanying the picture is "This photo from the Eclipse is funnier when you realize that the pyramid is a Bass Pro Shop [fishing emoji]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3oxonnqqqkmzzavbtbnqdq2i/bafkreicw5gvezyduwbjjyccwgck43wyulxwodjawklq5gtcpm4imcpprc4@jpeg)
April 9, 2024 at 12:26 AM
PARTY AT BASS PRO SHOP
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.
October 13, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend.