So apparently there’s a game online where, instead of having AI create slop for you, you can have actual people “role-play” AI and do so … www.youraislopbores.me

Acht Männer beraten in einem Telegramchat, wie sie Frauen betäuben und vergewaltigen. Einer überwältigt fremde Frauen bei Wohnungsbesichtigungen, einer über Monate seine Nachbarin, ein anderer sein Onlinedate, der vierte gibt Tipps zu Betäubungsmitteln. 1/6

As Günther Anders warned in 1956, what matters is not the decision AI reaches when it comes to questions about war, but the very fact that humanity would debase itself by asking a computer such questions at all... #NihilismAndTechnology

BREAKING: Media company found clickbait inside of tech company that found hype that could increase investments... #NihilismAndTechnology

Nein, auch im beruflichen Kontext sind Frauen nicht sicher. Immerhin scheint ja irgendwer geplaudert zu haben aus der Männerriege. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Workers are “mounting iPhones on their heads and recording themselves folding laundry, washing dishes, and cooking. The job pays well by local standards and is boosting local economies, but it raises thorny questions around privacy and informed consent.”

“the idea for the AI tutor came from students telling professors they were often struggling with homework at midnight or later. Faculty wanted something students could turn to 24/7 for help, not answers — they knew many students were going to LLMs when they couldn’t figure problems out on their own”

Normal stuff, totally fully massively normal stuff: "Journal for AI Generated Papers Where humans and machines are welcomed. The Open Prompting Journal Built Collaboratively by its Community." jaigp.org

What’s the life of a @utwentepsts.bsky.social student like? At the moment (finals season!) it looks like this! (Not included: the tears we were laughing at our team meeting… watch til the end for a cute guest appearance!) www.instagram.com/reel/DWi3Bfc...

Who could have predicted.

I love this for them.

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wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Ada Loveless explaining why ChatGPT and other LLMs are not now nor ever will be “AI”:

I started by counting my steps. Soon, I was counting every other biometric. Was that a good thing? on.wsj.com/4cbc4cV

Amazon’s new suite of surveillance tools now also includes these monstrosities.

Holy New York.

Thousands march against far right in London in biggest ever multicultural protest

“… across the 11 models, the AI-generated answers validated user behavior an average of 49% more often than humans. In the [“you are the asshole”] examples drawn from Reddit, chatbots affirmed user behavior 51% of the time … for the queries focusing on harmful or illegal actions … 47% of the time.”

Der von der Bundesregierung geplante radikale Umbau der Demokratieförderung stößt auf breiten Widerstand. Mehr als 1.000 nicht von der Finanzierung abhängige Organisationen und Personen warnen vor einer Destabilisierung der gesamten Demokratiearbeit. netzpolitik.org/2026/1-000-e...

Foucault did not want to be a Marxist but the world is forcing them together like they're starring in a romcom...

“Germany says it wants to make pornographic deepfakes a criminal offence after a TV star accused her ex-husband of spreading sexualised images of her online.” www.instagram.com/p/DWZT7YgASL...

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

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When tech companies run kindergartens... #NihilismAndTechnology

Self-prescribed movie night… Bullet Train (2022)

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Die Bundesregierung will Lücken bei der Strafbarkeit digitaler Gewalt schließen. Nach dem Aufschrei über den Fall von Collien Fernandes soll das Kabinett schon diese Woche über einen Entwurf abstimmen. Wir veröffentlichen den strafrechtlichen Teil des Gesetzentwurfs. netzpolitik.org/2026/gesetz-...

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you remember how a bunch of those ai assistant startups turned out to just be people from poorer countries halfway around the world?

🤖 Interesting study about relying on increased automation. Beyond cognitive offloading, *cognitive surrender* involves thinking system output is basically your own thought…analytical skills degrading all the while. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Are we asking the wrong question about loving chatbots? | https://bit.ly/418CCoS Nolen Gertz argues that fixating on whether AI romance is “real” hides the costs that make it possible, from mass data extraction and invisible moderation work to water- and energy-hungry data centres.

personally I'd prefer an economic system where advertising complicity in and utility for sexual harassment didn't generate an increase in perceived value

Bitte keine Unterstellungen, dies is keinesfalls autoritärer Kulturkampf! Nichts zu sehen, weitergehen!

Elemente des autoritär-fascho Playbooks: Feindbilder etablieren (Minderheiten) ✅ Lügen statt Fakten ins Feld führen ✅ Unsagbares in Sprache bringen („Remigration“ …) ✅ Loyalität über Kompetenz (Spahn, Reiche…) ✅ Kulturkampf (Weimer) ✅ Institutionen delegitimieren oder handlungsunfähig machen:

Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

“The chatbot readily engaged in these delusions: every user saw messages from the chatbot misrepresenting that it had sentience." #NihilismAndTechnology

Holy shit, this Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge found "AI" bullshit in briefs filed by the lawyers in this case and was having utterly and completely None Of It. Fucking *Love* to see it.

Joseph Weizenbaum tried to tell us this in the 1960s

Reminder that the eugenicists currently dismantling public health think everyone should be outfitted with a wearable.

we did not need a study to tell this to us, but I welcome it of course loneliness is DEFINITIONALLY about needing another person or people

Forschung und Lehre sind vor allem frei im Sinne des Grundgesetzes