This needs to be a bigger story. The same AI company that wants a bailout encouraged 16-year-old Adam Raine to kill himself. AI is a danger to humanity: From telling teens to kill themselves to stealing our energy & jobs. Chat GPT doesn’t need a bailout. It needs to be shut down.

The thing that gets me about this is that if AI artists were truly proud of the technology, they'd just show how the real process works instead of trying to pretend they did things the traditional way. Is that not the biggest admission that the process also matters?

🚨 BREAKING: Yesterday, SEVEN (!) lawsuits were filed against OpenAI over ChatGPT-assisted suicide and other claims. Psychological manipulation is cited in all cases. 😱 Is an AI-led mental health epidemic emerging? Yesterday, the Social Media Victims Law Center and Tech Justice Law Project filed seven lawsuits in California against OpenAI and Sam Altman. Among the legal claims are wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and other product liability, consumer protection, and negligence issues. Similarly to the recent Adam Raine case, in which ChatGPT tragically assisted him in planning "a beautiful suicide" (read my full article about the case), the victims and victims' families here argue that ChatGPT 4o was released to the public without adequate safety mechanisms, which allowed the AI chatbot to behave in an overly sychophantic, manipulative, and often exploitative way. The lawsuits allege that OpenAI rushed ChatGPT 4o's safety testing to beat Google’s Gemini, and that top executives resigned over this. If you read yesterday's edition of my newsletter (link below), Ilya Sutskever's deposition on the Musk vs. Altman lawsuit indeed mentions ChatGPT safety issues as important concerns that led to his resignation from OpenAI. ChatGPT 4o was notably over-agreeable, mimicking the user's personality and endorsing whatever worldview the user held. As recent cases and lawsuits show, when the user had a mental health disorder, ChatGPT also fostered and accelerated it, leading users to a tragic (sometimes fatal) spiral. Many say, "The world is full of people with mental health disorders, and these people also use ChatGPT; there is nothing to be done here." I disagree. AI chatbots intensify and worsen the mental health issues by agreeing with, endorsing, and extrapolating them to new levels. Also, the manipulative, anthropomorphic features make the user overly dependent on it, leading them to avoid REAL HELP. There are a variety of technical mechanisms and model specs that can be implemented to make an AI model safer, especially when mentally vulnerable people are using it. These safer default settings might, however, be less enticing and dopamine-fostering, leading to less usage time. Many AI companies prefer to keep usage time as high as possible (at the cost of user safety). That's the importance of AI regulation: if no penalties and enforcement mechanisms are established, companies will do whatever brings them more money, even if people are harmed or die. We are still living in the AI chatbot regulatory Wild West. Hopefully, these cases will increase scrutiny over AI companies' practices, including model specs and safety testing. A reminder that my recommendation is that children should never use AI chatbots unsupervised. - 👉 NEVER MISS my essays on AI: join my newsletter's 84,600+ subscribers (link below).

Meta is desperate to change the narrative around data centers

After we made a video about the destructive construction of a Meta data center, Meta visited Beverly, whose water pipes had been corroded. They showed up at her doorstep and pledged to be a good neighbor. Her response: It took seven years and a video for Meta to even show up.

Happy 40th anniversary to "Thundercats". Opening animated by Masayuki (who was only 22 years old at the time).

Thank you to @_KarenHao and everyone fighting the good fight.

Exigimos tener el mismo altavoz desde el Ministerio de Cultura de España para denunciar las ilegalidades de la IA generativa. Organicen un Congreso únicamente con los grupos que luchamos CONTRA la IAG y dennos 1 hora sin interrupciones a cada orador. Es lo mínimo que corresponde.

Mamdani wanting free buses and child care for working New Yorkers is scary communism but a bunch of already rich dudes asking for hundreds of billions in government handouts is totally okay?

ChatGPT helped Viktoria plan a suicide, encouraged her to write a suicide note, and drafted the note for her. What are we doing here?? Why are these platforms not being regulated as rapidly as possible? From the BBC today: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3x…

Una hora de venta y promoción de la IA generativa y la única mención a los derechos de autor es este pase de comedia mal hecho donde hasta se burla del tema y lo pasa completamente de largo porque ni vale la pena en esa ocasión. No vaya a ser cosa que le arruine el negocio 😠

This sociopath is literally saying, "Yeah, I'm making billions building up a bubble, but that's okay, because when it bursts, the American taxpayers will bail me out, so I can keep making more billions." Hard to even find words for the depravity of these MFers.

New trailer for ‘ARCO’, starring Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Flea, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, and Andy Samberg. The film follows a boy from a peaceful, distant future who accidentally travels back to the year 2075 and discovers a world in peril.

Bet you didn't think you'd see Wallace in his underwear today? 😅 A new #BarbourChristmas film with national treasures Wallace & Gromit? That’s just grand. #WallaceandGromit

Behind the scenes of "Black" short film by Shinya Ohira (Star Wars: Visions). >> piped.video/watch?v=O8xykZzY…

My first short film - Clear New Memory - comes out NOV 15!!! It deals with a lot of the things I overcame on this 2 year break, animating it almost entirely solo has been the most fulfilling experience, I’m so SO excited to finally share - hope you like the trailer!!! ⛅️

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses had serious sourcing problems: missing, misleading or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details & outdated information. Gemini had errors 76% of the time.

"AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources. That is the opposite of what librarians do, and teachers do, and scientists do, and experts do." 🔗 404media.co/ai-is-supercharg… =

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