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A.I. Delusions

Suppose you were the sort of person who got a little obsessed with someone. Suppose you thought that this person was sending you subtle signals that they really wanted to be with you. Suppose you had a machine that would confirm those delusions, one that was, in fact, programmed to encourage you to think you were right?

We’ve identified at least ten cases in which chatbots, primarily ChatGPT, fed a user’s fixation on another real person — fueling the false idea that the two shared a special or even “divine” bond, roping the user into conspiratorial delusions, or insisting to a would-be stalker that they’d been gravely wronged by their target. In some cases, our reporting found, ChatGPT continued to stoke users’ obsessions as they descended into unwanted harassment, abusive stalking behavior, or domestic abuse, traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

In other cases, the built-in confirmation bias of LLMs can lead otherwise intelligent people to think they were doing some serious "research" to their own detriment...

Though Dr. Marzbani didn’t know it, Joe was routinely asking questions about his cancer to several generative A.I. tools, which often struggle to give accurate medical advice. He told them to list the early signs of Richter’s, interpret his lab results and explain complicated research about the treatment his doctor recommended. He knew not to trust A.I. unilaterally. He often read the scientific papers the tools cited and — as best he could without medical training — tried to verify that they aligned with what the tools had said.

He came away feeling so confident in his understanding of the science that declining treatment seemed to be the obvious choice.

It can be a useful tool for some things, but it's important to get second opinions and reality checks. I know we think we're all way too smart to get trapped in a spiral like that, but...

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA

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Memes to Kick Off the Week!

Tab Clearing...

• Fortunately, that will buff right out: Photos of a visibly patched-up KC-135 transiting through RAF Mildenhall en route back to CONUS for repairs.


• The Click That Cost $11,000: Google placing ads for various third party travel agency intermediaries above the links to the actual hotel is a perfect example of enshittification.


• Europe about to feel jet fuel crunch.

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WTAF?

I have no idea what's supposed to be going on in this AI slop picture. Is that Jefferey Epstein or Hunter Biden he's laying hands on?

EDITED TO ADD: Ell. Oh. Ell. This post took so much blowback from MAGA stalwarts that it got deleted.

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Automotif DCXVIII...

I was aware of the existence of a Vietnamese automobile manufacturer by the name of "Vinfast". I knew that they were gradually getting a small toehold in the US market, but they don't make the kind of cars I really dig, and I couldn't have told you off the top of my head what any of their model names were or what their vehicles looked like, exactly.

Therefore, first time I saw one in the wild and thought to myself "I have no idea what I'm looking at here", I suddenly realized that this is what all cars look like to non-enthusiasts: an otherwise undifferentiated automobile-shaped object.

Anyway, this is a VF 8.

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Don't Forget to Grab a Meme for the Weekend!

They're from the government and they're here to help.

"The Trump administration wants to require health insurance companies to hand over troves of sensitive, detailed, and identifiable medical records from millions of federal workers and retirees, along with their families. The move is raising immediate concern from legal and health policy experts, according to a report by KFF Health News."

I see no way that this data could possibly be misused. Besides, citizen, if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about, nicht wahr?

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