Wirsenius

Any given sunday.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

One of the most evil things imaginable to me

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is the only country in the world that can bomb 9 countries and invade 3 neighboring countries in one year; kill 100,000 people—including 25,000 children—in 1,000 days; displace nearly 6 million people in 3 countries; starve 2 million people in Gaza; violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty; kidnap, rape and torture children and women; shoot, imprison and murdering; and still be perceived as the victim.

[Wally Rashid @wallyrashid]

Everyone needs to see this. Hundreds of Israeli settlers are coming down from hilltops and setting entire Palestinian villages on fire. Full on pogroms.

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

🇵🇸 ❤️💛🇪🇸

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

Getting dogwalked by a washed Belgium after getting the president to rig the game, maybe the most embarrassing performance of this tournament

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[GL @gldivittorio]

Bar

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[Pyro Selassie @Pyroselassie45]

Raljerande åsido. Vi har tre likadana scenarion i loppet av en vecka. I övriga matcher så var det paus en stund sen upptogs spelet igen utan några konstigheter.

Men med polismyndigheten i väst så blir konsekvensen 80 minuters uppehåll, inställd match och utredning av mordbrand!?

Man har dessutom klivit upp på läktarna med ganska kraftig polisiär närvaro, nätverksstämplat grupperna och delat ut vistelseförbud, vilket inte skett någon annanstans i landet vad det gäller fotbollssupportrar.

Det är ganska uppenbart att Polismyndigheten i väst inte längre är objektiva i sin syn och hantering av fotbollssupportrar. Man går emot nationella riktlinjer och löper amok på eget bevåg. Det börjar faktiskt likna en fixering och vendetta mer än något annat.

Det är inte så det fungerar i ett demokratiskt samhälle. En enskild myndighet kan inte bara ”göra som den vill”. Man kan både fördöma bränningar på läktaren och samtidigt se att det polisen i väst gör just nu är oproportionerligt och gränsöverskridande.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

This

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

The most annoying thing about being human on Earth right now is the absolute waste of potential.

Brilliant minds and artists could be solving world hunger, climate change, and ending cancer, etc.

We could house, feed, clothe, and care for everyone.

But instead, we’ve decided to let a handful of asshats become billionaires, start wars, murder and imprison people, and keep the majority in poverty while ruining the climate.

It’s so stupid. The wasted ingenuity hurts to think about.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral https://t.co/boGcDphpay https://t.co/boGcDphpay

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Wishah was killed in an Israeli strike that targeted his vehicle in Gaza City.

His death brings the number of Palestinian journalists killed since October 2023 to 262, amid violations of the US-brokered “ceasefire.”

#JournalismIsNotACrime

[onion person @CantEverDie]

genuinely perfect representation of the american mind. if you ignore the atrocities committed by your leaders they just don’t exist

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

“Water, soil, and oxygen should not be infinitely accessible. They are assets that should be included in global economic balance sheets.”

This is not satire. The World Economic Forum wants to monetise breathing.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Seems like it should be bigger news that Sam Altman is being sued for raping his own sister when she was a child