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jon mothman

@jonchristian.net

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Editor at Futurism, horror/pinball enthusiast, lover of weird stuff, as previously seen in the Boston Globe, Vice, Slate, Wired etc. Please DM with tips and/or memes

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · Jun 10

NEW: we talked to a bunch of people who say their family and loved ones became obsessed with ChatGPT and spiraled into severe delusions, convinced that they'd unlocked omniscient entities in the AI that were revealing prophecies, human trafficking rings, and much more

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People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 10h

who up grinding their stump

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 14h

Also maybe I'm confused but isn't the median income in the US way higher than that?

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 16h

i feel like we're living through era of "gas leak politics"

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 16h

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Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

NEW: People are generating Sora 2 videos of famed physicist Stephen Hawking being horribly brutalized in terrible ways -- no matter how bad you thought OpenAI's guardrails were, I guarantee they're worse

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People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 8d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

surely they'd flip it around in some unexpected way for the sake of comedy? but who knows

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

i feel like even family guy (which i despise) probably wouldn't do a bit where a guy in a wheelchair just gets horribly beaten

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 1d

Poetic for a technology that often (incorrectly and offensively) hides behind a shield of "giving disabled people access to creativity"

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

folks, what are we even doing here

In one video, a forklift delivers Hawking’s wheelchair into a WWE-style ring, where he’s immediately knocked to the ground by burly wrestlers.

“This shouldn’t even be legal!” exclaims an announcer in the AI-generated clip.

In another video, Hawking takes blow after blow to the face from a UFC fighter. “Hawking’s in trouble,” the announcer yells, as the physicist topples out of his wheelchair.

In another, Hawking is trampled by a raging bull. In another, he’s attacked by a crocodile that drags him into a muddy river. In yet another, he drops into a skateboarding halfpipe and wipes out badly, smoke pouring from his wheelchair.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

hit me up if you ever have an idea!!

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

folks, what are we even doing here

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

🤨 "Weiss’ Sorkinesque call to journalistic arms, which seems to be paraphrased from the critically polarizing series The Newsroom"

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

as my bones crumble into dust

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

it's wild that they've poured so much money into AI infrastructure but every single AI generated image still has clear signs of demonic possession somewhere if you look closely enough

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

i don't fish they're just for a midnight snack

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

my fridge

fridge that says "worms and crawlers... bait... night crawlers"

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

my fridge

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

i feel like it's grossly tasteless, probably reasonable to moderate posts like that, but (if i'm understanding the situation correctly) seems outrageous to permaban over it

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

what does it say about two allegedly high powered full time media jobs if you have time to do them simultaneously

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 3d

okay i have to admit i'm a little morbidly fascinated to grab a copy of this "horror zine" just to see what it's actually able to publish under these extraordinary restrictions

"The Horror Zine does not accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatterpunk. We do not accept any religious or political themes. We do not accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do not accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do not accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance from, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do not accept fan fiction."

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 4d

watson sends his regards

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 5d

dear heaven pitchfork

From pitchfork:

It’s telling that The Life of a Showgirl’s most sensual line—“Feels like you’re flirting with me…It’s kind of making me wet”—appears here, and not on any of the songs addressed to Kelce. One of the main cogs in the Swiftian songwriting machine is spite, and it’s getting pretty rusty.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 6d

not convinced OpenAI quite understands the world of pain it's getting into with content moderation of a social platform

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Sora 2 Is Creating Ads for "Epstein Island" Children's Toys

A viral video made on OpenAI's Sora 2 that looks like a 1990s toy ad makes fun of financier Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump.

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