ai girlfriends might wreak havoc on society. they might also be a huge boon in the loneliness epidemic. @jackiesnow.bsky.social spoke to men about the tricky balance between being enamored with a chatbot and leaning on it for extra support www.gq.com/story/ai-gir...

Can someone explain how giving Grok AI GF mode gets us to AGI

And last time I checked, they have no models, minimal research, and use humans to improve models with a method that Hinton just called "a pile of crap."

This chef had her cooking responsibilities taken away and given to robots that customers complained couldn't make the food as good as hers. Now she does the dishes, despite us having robots, called dishwashers, that are actually very good at that. restofworld.org/2025/robot-c...

From the company that said you can't use AI in your job application.

Sad to see humans taking the jobs of AI fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...

Read the full story about these four exceptional journalists on our website: ista.ac.at/en/news/the-...

"Letter after letter showed me a refreshing disregard for that invisible tyranny of taste determining what we 'should'—even 'must'—read." @jackiesnow.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬:

Learning prison regulations felt like studying for a degree in carceral bureaucracy. Behind every rejection lurked an institutional paranoia: hidden messages, drugs or seeds of discontent that might blossom into unrest concealed within innocent pages. Must-read! lareviewofbooks.org/article/read...

If you read this and are so moved, purchases for @dcbookstoprisons.bsky.social are doubled now through May 5. bookshop.org/wishlists/a6...

"What our incarcerated readers demonstrate is that true literary autonomy is about the right to seek what speaks to our individual humanity rather than institutional expectations." @jackiesnow.bsky.social on what she learned about reading from DC Books to Prisons. lareviewofbooks.org/article/read...

Can't tell if the rear cab wall goes down and if my board would fit, but this could be my new dream truck

how fancy superyachts found their purpose ~ by @jackiesnow.bsky.social 🐋🛥️ www.fastcompany.com/91319437/lux...

I bought two copies of @georgetakei.bsky.social's Nos Llamaron Enemigo (They Called Us Enemy Spanish Edition). We get a ton of Spanish requests and never have enough books to send. There are lots of other fun titles you can get to help incarcerated readers out!!

Starting today in celebration of Independent Bookstore books donated off our wishlists found here - linktr.ee/dcbtp will be matched by a generous donor. Help us send books to prisoners and support independent bookstores! #BooksToPeopleInPrison #IndieBookstoreDay

guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from? i went to the pit for y'all and brought back the screenshots with alt text

This woman on TikTok argues that Pete Hegseth used ChatGPT in that bomb planning Signal group, and I think she's right. I would do almost anything to see Hegseth's prompt engineering to get the messages he sent.

For @fastcompany.com: I wrote about how @safetychanges.bsky.social is tracking how AI companies' safety promises are changing as the Trump administration rolls back the few AI rules we have (spoiler: it's not usually to make us safer) www.fastcompany.com/91304014/thi...

AI, it's just like us: when operating a vending machine business, AI will contact the FBI when it feels it's being illegally charged a business fee (I use all these verbs nouns very loosely), via @jackclarksf.bsky.social's newsletter: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Increasingly frustrated with The Times coverage of AI and how little follow up there is to claims like "AGI is nigh" and "Agents will be a useful tool in 2025."

The Los Angeles Times has removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan

As the kids used to say, this is extremely my shit

2021: We’re gonna invest half a trillion and create 20,000 U.S. jobs! 2025: We’re gonna do it for real this time!

Brandon Sanderson told me I am a piece of art. jackiesnow.co/brandon-sand...

For @fastcompany.com, I wrote about the need to teach everyone the basics of AI and how important it is not to stick your head in the sand when it comes to this tech or just assume AI is magic www.fastcompany.com/91276048/ai-...

I started a blog as I want complete control of one stream of my online life. I'm not totally sure what I'll put on there, but I did just share an email I got from someone who read my robotics story and shared his family's history w/apple orchards that I quite liked: jackiesnow.co/note-from-a-...

I wrote about how researchers, nonprofits, and NASA are sticking satellite data into foundation models and creating tools that could help us understand our planet better than ever before. Gift link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/arti...

Every tree fruit you eat is picked by hand. It's intensive labor and increasingly hard to get the workers (and probably going to get even harder!!). Robotics is starting to lend a helping suction cup or a three-finger gripper to help. Gift link of my latest @wsj.com story www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...

For @latimes.com, I wrote about how to protect your skin, sinuses, and eyes during wildfires. Excuse me while I go lather on moisturizer (from a jar; anything from a pump bottle isn't thick enough), use a Neti pot, and wear wrap-around sunglasses when I go out 😎. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

Big news in my non-AI life: Steven Soderbergh has read Emily Henry—unfortunately he picked probably my least favorite of her novels, but still!!

"As data centers drain America’s power grids, a fierce battle is being waged for electricity. On Navajo Nation land, many are on the losing end." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Your rent spike might be determined by AI if you live in California. Here’s how, and what’s been done 👇 themarkup.org/locked-out/2...

The "bias meter" sounds like an unproven use case for an unreliable technology offering a crude facade of objective critique that's useless because readers can think by themselves. But the button to plop out a ChatGPT counter-take for every op-ed may be even worse www.latimes.com/california/s...

We don't NEED a Friday Night Lights reboot, what we NEED is a SPIN-OFF called RIGGINS' RIGS to see how America's favorite brooding boy Tim Riggins is doing as a brooding middle-aged man

I'm flattered!!! My bojin story lives on through Yelp www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

A crazy thing about bringing back the buffalo jump is this: no living person has ever seen one. You'd have to go back to the 1700s or earlier. It's like trying to revitalize a language nobody speaks, or a sport nobody plays — but both of those things have been done. thenarwhal.ca/blackfoot-gu...

We are about to be able to use 💩 and other emojis in our passwords. My @wsj.com story on NIST's new password guidelines, which should be made official next year (gift link) www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

There's a quote I think about all the time from Virginia Eubanks' 'Automating Inequality' - when she was surprised to learn algos were monitoring a woman's food stamp purchases, the woman told her: 'You should pay attention to what happens to us. You're next.' www.fastcompany.com/91231274/how...

Look ma, I'm in @latimes.bsky.social, and not just my byline. @alyssabereznak.bsky.social let me write about a facial I saw on Tiktok and now I'm a devotee.

A new dating app thinks it can keep trans women off it using face rec tech. Unless there has been a massive improvement that somehow has gone undocumented in research papers, cis women with dark skin are as likely to get blocked from this app as trans women. www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/03/l...

Secure your account, but make it meta

Researchers warn if LLMs get trained on too much AI-generated content, there could be model collapse. I thought this was a tomorrow type problem but ChatGPT just served me up an answer that cited a very clearly AI-generated site (first link): chat.openai.com/share/3d2fc5...

Complaining about algorithms is the background static of the internet — a perpetual faint whir, oscillating in volume but always there. But the tenor of the latest round of complaints ~seems~ different. And, yes, ChatGPT is at fault, at least in part. themessenger.com/business/app...

“if you’re unable to sell ads on a beloved 16-year-old feminist website with great name recognition during a time when women’s rights are under an unprecedented threat, that says a whole lot more about your business acumen than it does about the quality and importance of the site’s journalism.”

An alleged “watchdog” spread a lie that could get reporters killed, and now, after it went viral, he admits he had ZERO evidence of his accusations that any journalists knew about an attack ahead of time. These sorts of lies endanger journalists lives. apnews.com/article/isra...

I wrote about new research that found the training data behind ChatGPT is overwhelmingly written by men, embedding sometimes subtle perspectives and stylistic differences that could have far-reaching implications. themessenger.com/business/she...

Hello! We're new to bluesky, but we've been sending books to prisoners for over 20 years. We are located in Washington DC, but send over 7,000 book packages a year to 34 states and federal prisons. It's a lot of work that is made possible through our amazing volunteers and donors.

ChatGPT made up an email address and told me to send my half-finished novel there. The email address exists but the chatbot doesn't have access to it. So...who does? A mystery and warning on the unreliability of chatbots themessenger.com/business/the...

“…generative AI systems have tendencies toward bias, stereotypes, and reductionism when it comes to national identities…” - can’t say I’m surprised, but still, this analysis is eye-opening restofworld.org/2023/ai-imag...

ChatGPT made up an email address and told me to send my half-finished novel there. The email address exists but the chatbot doesn't have access to it. So...who does? A mystery and warning on the unreliability of chatbots themessenger.com/business/the...