This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Move info on this website: olivia.science/ai by @olivia.science QR code goes here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities - on.ft.com/3IuZ5qz via @FT

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

Age-verification is an invasion of privacy. The technologies behind it are gender- and racially-biased and least effective where it most matters - for those ages close to 16. It needs to be abandoned for methods which respect privacy and effectively protect children online. www.theguardian.com/...

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

Morning everyone.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Speaking of which.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

I think a lot of what people are calling "capitulation" would be better understood as "support"

The Nightmare Sequence is out now in the US through Nightboat Books. Here’s an excerpt of Safdar’s art - one of his sequences is called “genocide culture”. NB: All artist royalties will be donated to Palestinian aid nightboat.org/book/the-nig...

logging on

if it were still like 2018 or something I'd say sure, let's not do the whole "sins of the father" thing, but Elon is literally inciting anti-immigrant mobs to violence right now we've passed the time for playing coy, he needs to openly own these views so we can deal with the reality here

This guy is a real piece of work. Offered his services to the dept of Immigration to write a $30k report accusing real researchers of being "advocates primarily and researchers secondarily" in relation to asylum seekers in detention. www.theage.com.au/national/can...

Again and again: free speech silenced at the behest of an organised pro-Israel lobby group by weak-kneed management. If people don’t stand up to this pressure there won’t be a single institution left in which anyone can talk about the genocide in Gaza.

This just keeps happening

Saying they cancelled the event due to ‘safety fears’ for staff is such straight up bullshit. It’s not even an event about Gaza. Can’t talk about kids in war zones anymore unless people get the idea you think you’re against the idea.

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What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

If only we had national anti- corruption commission to look into things like this

I am really learning that normal people know practically nothing at all about Groypers. I'll tell you, I have been wondering for YEARS how the Right has been able to get away with pretending they're the normal ones and we're all crazy. This is how.

www.smh.com.au/culture/book... This is absolutely fucked, but also very funny. Great job avoiding scandal guys.

The "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" is an example in Orwellian named organisations. News organisations should avoid using this name regardless of whether it's official or not, it's propaganda and a front to perpetuate war crimes. Call it what it is: a trap.

1/ aww jeez ... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

aaaaaand Hot Dog Man meme

Best of luck to Thomas in her civil case & also the other arrestees still facing bullsh!t charges. ✊ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Whoa who knew the guys who changed the campaign finance requirements to make it harder to track dodgy donations would ALSO be trying to make FOI laws less transparent. Coincidences are everywhere these days!!

Would be amazing if they changed it to ‘fuck-ups’. “Yes, AI is prone to fuck-ups, but the potential of the technology cannot be denied.”

TBH I think it's hard to overstate the gap between the assumed guard rails and reality. people think "well it might be wrong on the details sometimes" and the reality is that it is **coaching children to commit suicide** you wouldn't expect that from ANY product! why would that exist!

“people with lower AI literacy are typically more receptive to AI," "people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI's execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes." futurism.com/more-people-...

The little Meanjin collection that I helped bring into the world as editor. Just a fragment of its 85-year catalogue. What an act of bone-stupid arrogance to kill it.

Global weapons manufacturers are delivering the planes, drones, bombs, rockets and bullets for Israel's #GazaGenocide. Big tech is delivering the propaganda.

If true, this update is astonishing. The Commission climbed down from a planned break up of Google’s ad business to a mere fine, and then dropped even the fine for fear of offending Trump. This is for market violations that have been proven in U.S. court.

We have no idea if it’s effective, but we do know it doesn’t cost as much as the things that are actually effective.

It would be a massive mistake for progressive folk to convince themselves the March for Australia was a bust, or can safely be ridiculed. It was an alarming escalation of far-right action, and we need to reckon with it. More thoughts (un-paywalled) here: www.lamestream.com.au/how-mainstre...

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe, whose uncle Robbie Thorpe established the camp, wants the attack investigated as a hate crime. “The aim of this attack was to cause fear and terror in the hearts and minds of our people.” www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa...

"... two were taken to hospital with severe head injuries, one with a deep gash to their head, the camp said. ... all of those injured were younger women of colour. "... the men yelled slogans such as “white power” and “white man’s land”, as well as sexist and racist slurs."

ANALYSIS: “the Nazi rally was organised by Nazis”

hall of fame legal AI moment: a judge figures out that someone's court submission was generated using AI because it cites "a wholly imaginary judgment for which the plaintiff claims that I am the author."

i assume he was quietly transferred to another server

This was part of a clip posted yesterday, but the end of it really hit me, so I downloaded a whole parliamentary session just to reclip it. This is not something the government can say about welfare, disability, or cost of living measures. #auspol

Clearly the optimal way to write a policy analysis of the issues associated with a failure to apply human diligence and judgment to specific sets of facts is to ...... oh wait I'm getting an automated prompt. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Everyone involved in this needs to repay whatever public money was involved in full. Deloitte, the DEWR Secretary's salary for any time in commissioning it, all of you. This must be referred IMMEDIATELY to both the Australian Public Service Commission and the NACC.

Important report

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

Human in the Loop is a participatory foresight and storytelling project that explores the near-future risks of generative AI in India loop.digitalfutureslab.in

“Silicon Valley is full of wealthy men who think they are victims, says wealthy man who thinks he is a victim and person with humiliation kink, Nick Clegg.”