jade

skizzy mars is my father

[jade @jahdeeey]

omg i just tried texting my number twin and you won’t believe what happened

[Lerato. @baddaysareover]

LMAO

[Michael Agwu @MichaelAgwuart]

Not to brag, but i made this artwork completely from electronic waste

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[John Thorsson @thorsson_john]

The government was never meant to be run like a company. Its bottom line isn’t profit margins, it’s people.

The notion that the government should be run like a business is an absurd one.

[disco lines @discolines]

hootin is a gateway drug to hollerin

[David, Historian Martial Artist🥊 @DavidLeftyMA]

Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Art by Victoria Villasana
#giselepelicot

[Cody 🫧 @Thot_Pocket]

a new bombshell has entered the prison yard

[sheldon cooper @youthsheldon]

rabe stopppp…. you weren’t mean to rost this…

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

It's impossible to have a conversation around this but, if I were to try, it would be this:

People (esp young people) are furious at the diffusion of responsibility that our modern world represents. Bureaucracies, public & private, can do anything and no one is held responsible

[inhumans of capitalism (Ojibwa ) @Inhumansoflate1]

Actual terrorism

[onion person @CantEverDie]

remember when everyone spent weeks arguing about how israel would never bomb a hospital and since then they’ve just been bombing hospitals and schools every day

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

THEYRE HITTING LUIGI WITH TERRORISM CHARGES OH BROTHER

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

“Violence isn’t the answer” unless you’re Israel, the American government, the police, military-trained vigilantes, or a for-profit healthcare system.

[Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack]

DO YOU WANT TO BE SECRETARY OF STATE?

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

get to know your new republican cabinet