christopher nolan needs to return to his core competency... movies about Batman

things I suspect would be very different if LLMs had been rolled out like this first

the existence of casual drug use implies the existence of ranked competitive drug use

Bari Weiss could face the Streisand Effect here, causing the segment to get far more exposure than it would have absent her censorius meddling. www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...

not the ex-splunk execs

“a new paper published in the New Engl Jnl of Med…argue[s] that clashing incentives in the AI marketplace around ‘relational AI’…have created a dangerous environment in which the motivation to dominate the AI market **may relegate consumers’ mental health and safety to collateral damage**” [OOF]🧪🛟

i believe that a lot about our current era snaps into focus when you realize that modesty is dead and self-delusion reigns futurism.com/future-socie...

New -- I spoke to a physician warning that AI industry incentives are a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis: “If we fail to act, we risk letting market forces, rather than public health, define how relational AI influences mental health and well-being at scale.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

the bar is apparently in hell but congratulations to bush and obama for not being in the epstein files i guess

why is it the oof meme

accidental renaissance

who could ever have foreseen this futurism.com/future-socie...

who could ever have foreseen this futurism.com/future-socie...

vaxxed??

the wild thing to me is that he would publish an entire column about how we should ignore powerful men hanging out with Epstein... WITHOUT MENTIONING THAT HE'D BEEN DOING THE SAME THING!!! does the NYT just not have standards for its opinion writers? www.huffpost.com/entry/david-...

Eno diary, 19 Dec 1995: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided."

put some respect on Shrek's name

probably not a popular take but when Luigi appears in court and mugs for the camera and everybody fawns over him, it kinda seems like it's feeding into some kind of bizarre personality disorder he has

Please Do Not Release Any More Epstein Files, They Are Not Important, by A Guy In The Epstein Files

fiending for serotonin rn

i took a screenshot from the sony trinitron in my mind palace

interesting about-face -- this was the editor-in-chief of CNET who championed its AI-generated articles even as they had to be extensively corrected for huge numbers of errors back in 2023

this is what i see whenever two pundits are retweeting each other

wanna see a clip that's equal parts painful and satisfying futurism.com/artificial-i...

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

keeping it classy to the very end

Sauron releases a nine-pillar hobbit policy framework for Middle-earth

should i do it

opportunity beckons... staph infection dot com is up for sale

wanna see a clip that's equal parts painful and satisfying futurism.com/artificial-i...

a16z gave a million dollars to a phone farm that's flooding TikTok with AI-generated influencers. A hacker contacted 404 Media to reveal what these accounts are and what products they're promoting www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

ram prices dropping 🔥

According to a WaPo spokesperson, “This is how products get built and developed in the digital age: ideation, research, design and prototyping, development, and then Beta.”

Communities throughout the US are rising to meet the unprecedented privacy and safety challenges caused by AI police surveillance. My latest roundup takes a quick look at some different ways people are fighting back: futurism.com/future-socie...

corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures

Maggie is an essential follow on AI and mental health. Granted, you will be often troubled by what she reports but it’s good to know.

i love how the motivating question throughout spielberg's career is "what if aliens"

NEW: A report found that a significant number of kids and teens are using AI companions. More striking: themes of violence — which can include sexual violence — drove more engagement among young users than any other type of content, according to the report. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The more research comes out, the more worried I am that we have absolutely no idea how AI is affecting entire generations of kids -- including extremely young ones futurism.com/artificial-i...

there a trillion magazines now called like ThoughtThink. Unsaid. CensoredMedia. The Believer. CrossingLines. The New Principles Of Thought Project. and every single one has written the same article a million times over that is just "i had to take a diversity training at work and it was annoying"

interesting that r/conservative, which is usually a lockstep MAGA forum, is in absolute meltdown over what Trump said about Rob Reiner

why is this every couple in bushwick

frowning and shaking my head while emailing the monstrous sex crimes guy so everybody knows i don't approve

i stumbled on this looking for something yesterday and i have not stopped laughing

serious question: how is this any different from stuff people were losing their jobs over about charlie kirk?

how is this real

new york post... welcome to the resistance

"the 80s are now longer ago than the 1950s were during the 198-" shhhh... you don't have to be like this

for sale: piss statue, never used

went to a white elephant last night and ended up with this absolute monstrosity