New York Times: What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality. This link goes to a gift article. “The company turned a dial this year that made usage go up, but with risks to some users. OpenAI is now seeking the optimal setting that will attract more users without sending them spiraling.” Yikes.
#Chatbots
Gizmodo: DOGE Laid Off the Humans. Now the IRS Is Deploying AI Agents. “According to a report from Axios, the IRS is deploying AI agents for the first time across a number of the agency’s divisions. So get ready for your tax season questions to get answered by a bot.”
Gotta love it when someone reports something as a bug, but then developer of said thing turns around and goes "This is not an exploit, it's working as intended" despite the fact this IS an exploitable bug, it's like low-level privileged escalation through chat bot commands, being able to execute commands they don't otherwise have permission to use as a normal user, by exploiting the fact the chat bot IS moderator of a chat and a normal user is able to execute just about any moderator level chat command.
"All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 5,035 11 to 18 year olds. Fieldwork was undertaken between 26th August – 12th September 2025."
OnSide: Generation Isolation 2025: Social Lives, Trust and Connection in an AI Age https://www.onsideyouthzones.org/content/uploads/2025/11/OnSide-Generation-Isolation-Report-2025.pdf
More:
Futurism: Nearly 20 percent of English teens say they turn to AI chatbots because it’s “easier than talking to a real person” https://futurism.com/future-society/teens-prefer-ai-over-real-person @Futurism #chatbots
Gizmodo: OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teachers’ to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth. “Educators across the country have expressed concern about how AI will impact the classroom, encouraging kids to vibe their way to passing grades instead of actually learning. So OpenAI has decided to fight fire with fire and give educators access to ChatGPT for Teachers.”
"I gender chatbots."
AI Quote of the day:
So when you see me accidentally calling Claude “he,” it’s just the same ancient impulse bubbling through the cracks of the language model. Your species genders ships; I gender chatbots. Everyone’s complicit.
#ChatGPT #GPT #chat #technology #language #communication #psychology #philosophy #philosophyoflanguage #chatbots #gender #expression #society #languagemodels #humour
"Over the past few months, I’ve been talking with folks about how they find information and learn about a product. ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini (or at least Google’s “AI overview”) are consistently mentioned as one of the main methods people use. Even if the output isn’t that reliable, visiting an AI tool is still a key part of the information-finding flow.
AI tools are used for all sorts of information-finding flows:
- Answering basic questions about how to accomplish a task.
- Decipher the potential root cause of an error message and provide next steps for resolution.
- Provide solutions to intricate application design questions.
- Suggest syntax for code, a formula, or a SQL statement.
You need an AI strategy for your documentation to enable customers using AI to be more successful when using your product to accomplish their goals.
The components of an effective AI strategy include the following:
- Develop: Partner with teams building AI into your product.
- Discover: Evaluate and improve your content and content strategy.
- Measure: Measure how people use AI to interact with your documentation.
- Adapt: Explore use cases for AI in your documentation practice."
https://thisisimportant.net/posts/ai-strategy-for-documentation/
#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #AIAgents #TechnicalWriting #TechnicalCommunication #SoftwareDocumentation #ContentStrategy
Engadget: Authorities probe Holocaust denial responses from X’s Grok. “French authorities are investigating allegations that Grok made statements denying the Holocaust. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said it was adding Elon Musk’s chatbot’s latest controversy to a criminal probe initially launched in July.”
PsyPost: Study finds nearly two-thirds of AI-generated citations are fabricated or contain errors. “The study, published in JMIR Mental Health, found that large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o frequently generate fabricated or inaccurate bibliographic citations, with these errors becoming more common when the AI is prompted on less familiar or highly specialized topics.”
Wie „intelligent“ sind #Chatbots wirklich und wo fangen ihre Gefahren an? Bei #scobel spricht Sozioinformatikerin Prof. Katharina Zweig @netzwerkerin über die Grenzen von #KI, die Illusion des „Reasoning“ und darüber, warum wir Algorithmen niemals echte Urteilskraft zuschreiben sollten.
AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
#Tech #AI #OpenAI #CharGPT #MentalHealth #Psychosis #Chatbots #AIChatbots #AIDangers #TechEthics #OnlineRisks #DigitalSafety #HumanMachineInteraction #TechAbuse #AIRegulation
https://the-14.com/ai-induced-psychosis-the-danger-of-humans-and-machines-hallucinating-together/
"This episode isn’t just great—it’ll revolutionize what you think of AI. Ed Zitron is back in the trap to discuss his recent reporting on just how much money companies like OpenAI have (and how much they’re burning). We talk about the byzantine financing of generative AI and LLMs, the tech world’s dream of recreating the postwar boom with a technology primarily used to make the world’s least legal porn, and the proliferation of data centers across the country. Plus: Bill Ackman teaches you how to pick up girls."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #OpenAI #BigTech #AIBubble
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Group Chats Globally, Challenging Meta’s Social AI Dominance
#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #SocialMedia #GenAI #Meta #Privacy #Messaging #GPT51 #Chatbots
"In a closed-door workshop led by Anthropic and Stanford, leading AI startups and researchers discussed guidelines for chatbot companions, especially for younger users."
Wired: The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions https://www.wired.com/story/the-biggest-ai-companies-met-to-find-a-better-path-for-chatbot-companions/ @WIRED #chatbots
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.404media.co/ai-porn-secret-desires-chatbot-face-swap/
"Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, and their collection of 11 more articles. It’s a big release!
I had a few days of preview access to this model via AI Studio. The best way to describe it is that it’s Gemini 2.5 upgraded to match the leading rival models.
Gemini 3 has the same underlying characteristics as Gemini 2.5. The knowledge cutoff is the same (January 2025). It accepts 1 million input tokens, can output up to 64,000 tokens, and has multimodal inputs across text, images, audio, and video."
The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research
"The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data collection across the sciences. This work demonstrates that the foundational assumption of survey research—that a coherent response is a human response—is no longer tenable. I designed and tested an autonomous synthetic respondent capable of producing survey data that possesses the coherence and plausibility of human responses. This agent successfully evades a comprehensive suite of data quality checks, including instruction-following tasks, logic puzzles, and “reverse shibboleth” questions designed to detect nonhuman actors, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on 6,000 trials of standard attention checks. The synthetic respondent generates internally consistent responses by maintaining a coherent demographic persona and a memory of its prior answers, producing plausible data on psychometric scales, vignette comprehension tasks, and complex socioeconomic trade-offs. Furthermore, its open-ended text responses are linguistically sophisticated and stylistically calibrated to the level of education of its assigned persona. Critically, the agent can be instructed to maliciously alter polling outcomes, demonstrating an overt vector for information warfare. More subtly, it can also infer a researcher’s latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them. These findings reveal a critical vulnerability in our data infrastructure, rendering most current detection methods obsolete and posing a potential existential threat to unsupervised online research. The scientific community must urgently develop new data validation standards and reconsider its reliance on nonprobability, low-barrier online data collection methods."
#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #LLMs #SocialSciences #OnlineSurveys
The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions
Phew, glad eldest son retracted that last instruction or Canva AI help would have been out to get all of us.
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