Denise Utochkin
denise-utochkin.bsky.social
Denise Utochkin
@denise-utochkin.bsky.social
Working on ridding us of 'AI'.

Ludic luddite, trolley-problem abolitionist, "pleasure without an identity card".

Proudly fired from Uni of Copenhagen due to the above 🙃

We can do this, you guys.

They/them btw.
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Non-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.

People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Already in a few hours we'll be taking a fresh look at a technology more stale than a fossilised loaf of sliced bread (and much less useful if you ask me).

Come join us in-person or online as we scratch our heads and maybe even look for lines of flight:
portals.icareus.com/en/tiedekulm...
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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It is _literally_ stolen intellectual labor.

Embedded AI observes what you write, erase, revise, edit and save as final to steal HOW you think through a sentence, a problem, a proposal or a decision.

Your intellectual labor is taken to teach it to "predict" text or "soften" or "sharpen" tone.
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The point of LLMs aren't even that it will accurately enforce the desired ideological conformity. The stochastic errors and subsequent penalization are the point.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Woman Trying To Find Nonpolitical Way To Say Her Cleaner Was Deported https://theonion.com/woman-trying-to-find-nonpolitical-way-to-say-her-cleaner-was-deported/
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing."

-- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).
Critical AI Literacy: Beyond hegemonic perspectives on sustainability
How can universities resist being coopted and corrupted by the AI industries’ agendas? Originally published here: https://rcsc.substack.com/p/critical-ai-literacy-beyond-hegemonic
zenodo.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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The good news is that OpenAI and Meta now have more than enough text to make a realistic Jeffery Epstein AI chatbot
every doc containing the word "thiel" in it from today's dump
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Bruh
September 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life.

www.politicshome.com/news/article...
April 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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The reason our environmental laws are bad is because they fail to protect the environment from the endless capitulation of cowards.
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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the future is so goddamn stupid
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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This is another example of where generative AI is not user triggered - which means it's fundamentally unboycottable.
Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people

Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest

www.404media.co/the-future-o...
The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Once again:
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Source: 9to5google.com/2025/10/29/y...

*End users* can opt out, and will be able to check in the player whether they are watching a real or upscaled video. But I am very curious, if you could put an exact cost on this decision in terms of kWh/atmospheric CO2, what the total would come to.
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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October 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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October 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM