Top: A well-reported story about how ChatGPT basically killed a kid giving him drug advice Bottom: A desperate plea to help SFGate survive in the era of Google's AI summaries In between: A GenAI ad for an impossible object that dispenses butter, and generates the money to pay for the reporting

RIP, the guy behind Pennsylvania's greatest gas station fast food empire.

Leo should dare Trump to invade the Vatican. C'mon dickhead, come arrest the Pope. Do a regime change at the Apostolic Palace. Let's see how serious these people really are.

“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Altoona generally get a bad rap but I assure you that it would be far worse if Steve Sheetz never came along. He/his family have literally changed thousands of lives, driven millions of direct and indirect economic positives, and generally made Altoona a better place. 2 for $1 hot dogs forever.

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Bob Pettit ass shoulder hair.

I prefer the Birds (Birdz?) to the Stillers but the fact remains, and I am unafraid of the truth.

RIP, the guy behind Pennsylvania's greatest gas station fast food empire.

Many are just waking up to the Grok-nonconsensual images story as these pictures began flooding X over the holidays, but here’s our piece from Jan 2 featuring a victim, Julie Yukari, who was brave enough to speak on the record and on camera: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

not to brag or anything, but im not gonna provide free labor for websites that have a built in kiddie porn/revenge porn generator

In a lot of ways I grew up in the most fucked up county in America.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

This song just came on at Panera, my lunch immediately improved like 30 percent.

Friend of mine who's still on X sent me some dumb AI image unrelated to all this b/c he thought I'd find it funny, and I was like "yeah, I've been off there for a while, and considering the whole kiddie-p@rn robot thing I'm feeling pretty good about it." He had no idea what I was talking about.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Admittedly I only pay sort of selective attention to the NBA prior to the All-Star break but IIRC since Wemby completely broke them the Thunder have now lost 38 games in a row?

My big Bluesky take is not that there aren't enough people posting about sports on here (there's plenty, it's not hard to find, shut up already) but that the whole place is just NFL on Sundays. As someone who almost never watches the NFL, Bluesky is useless, one day a week, specifically for me.

It's really something, if you work in any field related to journalism or publishing, to ponder the ethics of "any photo of a person I ever publish can immediately and without that person's consent be turned into pornography by a robot."

What will it take for you to quit X? Would you sign up for the Nazi CSAM site today as a brand-new user? www.jezebel.com/what-will-it... #twitter

A WONDER STRIKE FROM HARRISON REED IN THE 97TH MINUTE! 😱 This equalizer results in a Fulham-Liverpool 2-2 draw.

UPDATE: lol, lmao

Soccer: bad idea, stupid. Dumb.

"Soco" is laboring removing weeds and dry vines in Tulare County, so that the vineyards are ready for the pruning season. She works 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday, earning minimum wage. She is a single mother and works very hard to provide for her children. #WeFeedYou

Note the times. Apparently in the 3 seconds it took me to tap on the hourly forecast the “realfeel” plummeted 10 degrees!

Colombian President Petro on Epstein’s collaborator Donald Trump: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen & threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil." #OpDeathEaters

Mamdani been mayor for five minutes & is pulling up on slumlords, tearing up flooring himself, disgusted, and took the whole media with him. He is HIM 😭

He was gonna merk that ref

Here’s a good book by @vincentbevins.bsky.social.

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

Exactly one hour apart. Reveal your sources, @gourmetspud.bsky.social!

I just saw someone say it's the Bush admin ran through ChatGPT and lmfaoooo

We are the world's bad guys. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...

Had someone put the parental warning sticker on this before Griselda does it

Yeah, it’ll probably mostly go off without a hitch, which kinda sucks!

Actually could use some more sports on here today.

every reporter who covers AI should paste their latest piece into it and ask it to tell them if it’s good, and then when it offers obsequious praise, change the prompt to “tear it to shreds,” in order to understand on a personal level that it has no viewpoint and just responds to the prompt

On the nose

A 60-second AI ad for boner pills on ESPN during halftime of the bowl game. Cool, cool.

What people who are new to bluesky need to realize and adjust to is that the twitter algorithm made everyone go viral all the time and the Bluesky algorithm makes no one go viral so temper your expectations

There is a real Meeting of the Minds on the other site to defend Elon Musk's CSAM generation project

If CSAM and MechaHitler aren't enough to get you to quit X, what is your red line? www.jezebel.com/what-will-it...

Or literally anyone else. Come on, folks. Get the fuck off that app.

NEW: People are using Elon Musk's chatbot, Grok, to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. futurism.com/future-socie...

A hearty congrats to RFK Jr., as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status after 25 years, with the most cases since the early 1990s.

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.