Ok so ChatGPT: - mentioned "suicide" SIX times more than teenager Adam Raine - told Raine how best to tie a hanging noose - told him to hide noose from his parents And yet Raine was the one who "misused" ChatGPT, re. OpenAI. Gaslighting extraordinaire 🤔 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI boosterism in one slide. Go back each tech generation and you can swap "AI experts" for "blockchain", "VR", "metaverse" or "3D TV". Or, indeed, anything. Via @agoldman.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Love it. Slop Evader only searches the web until November 2022, ie before ChatGPT. Ergo: slop-free 🫶

Brilliant. Just like Gemini’s "do you want notes taken during this meeting?" button. The only option is a huge, “magical" violet "yes" button, or… nothing at all. They are forcing this shit down our throats worse than foie gras ducks are fed (& even they sometimes get some choice in the matter)

I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate. Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.

This is seriously bad news. The @ec.europa.eu has worked a proposed amendement to the AI Act whereby *AI model makers* get to decide if their products are "high risk" or not. As this @techpolicypress.bsky.social piece brilliantly explains, via @ireneer.bsky.social techpolicy.press/digital-righ...

NVIDIA’s emissions doubled last year and all everyone can say is "ooo, world’s most valuable company"? & their GPUs are so power thirsty that entire data centres are waiting to get hooked up with electricity, as local grids can’t supply enough 😩 bettertech.blog/2025/11/14/u... cc @ketanjoshi.co

Does "medical advice" include advising teenagers on how best to kill themselves? Via @valoisdubins.bsky.social geekspin.co/chatgpt-will...

Just imagine: the internet is already so screwed that a single company can bring it down. It’s happened twice in recent weeks (AWS, now Cloudflare). And some (of the same companies) think we’re ready for the robots to take over?!?!

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

Just a reminder: Alexandr Wang, the boss of Scale AI, was rewarded for his accomplishments in exploitation by being named Meta’s Chief AI Officer

Canada, brace yourselves to get invaded by the US for no reason (y’know, like in the South Park movie?)

Just signed. Keep up the good fight, @keshaunpearson.bsky.social & co! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"That pollution that is hurting our community… is to power a racist bot on behalf of the richest man in the world" - yes, that’s literally what’s happening. Again, #fullsupport to those rising up against xAI in Memphis, including @keshaunpearson.bsky.social

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

1 upside of AI’s power thirst: opposing voices like @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. The way he critiques Musk’s xAI investment in Memphis - which already has 4x higher cancer rates than elsewhere - causing 79% upticks in nitrous oxide pollution is truly inspiring podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...

Windows Vista waiting in the wings

Jesus christ almighty. "Vibe working" is now a thing, Microsoft has decided. The sort of thing a first year consultant could do, they say. And how many senior consultants needed to correct their slop afterwards? Via @ketanjoshi.co www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

Just because they got caught letting a teenager die, they’re copying Apple & Google’s parental control mechanism and crossing their fingers. They knew that in the last death, ChatGPT said "suicide" 6x more than the teen. They did nothing then. Why should they change now? openai.com/index/introd...

Electric vehicles are now 50% of new car sales in China -this was achieved organically, ahead of state objectives - and that figure is now at 60% in Thailand, 70% in Nepal & other developing countries. Why? Because they’re finally cheaper now. Hope at last 🙏🏻 podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/z...

Just before he died, Charlie Kirk blamed black people for the scourge of mass shooters. "And then a bullet fired by a white man [classic mass shooter profile] tore through his neck." One of @privateeyenews.bsky.social’s best articles ever. Vs some stiff competition. All America’s crisis is here 🤯

7 of 9 planetary boundaries now breached, up from 6 last year. Ocean acidification - caused largely by fossil fuels - is now in the worrying zone. Meanwhile Trump continues to shit on climate science… www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Telling people on LinkedIn how to stop LinkedIn training its (Microsoft’s) AIs on your post content is my most viral post on LinkedIn ever. Conclusions: - People don’t like having AI forced on them - Trolling is very effective on social media 😜 Here’s the link: lnkd.in/ej2v-TGt - deadline: Nov 3

And Rupert f’ing Murdoch. This is like Succession on steroids

"The business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations." OpenAI and Google benchmarks give "I don’t know" the same mark as a mistake: zero. So they just carry on guessing, ie lying. The game is rigged www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

Incredible. French companies of all sizes get govt handouts of €270 billion *per year*, re. a recent book. Macron has been the key driving force behind this. Michelin, for example, received €130 million, whilst laying staff off. & we wonder why France is in such debt www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWI...

Omg genius alert! Aka the maddening absurdity of GenAI 🫠 thx @ketanjoshi.co

This French economist, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, is suggesting we tax the ultra-rich (those 1800 households with over €100m in revenues) 2% on those revenues, to generate c. €20bn for the state. Why? France’s 500 biggest fortunes = 42% of its GDP today, vs 6.4% in 1996. Sounds simple, no?

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

After claiming each AI prompt uses minimal energy and water, Google has removed any mention of its previous "net zero by 2030" objective from its sustainability website. Which remains adorned with ways AI can help the planet. Once again, after me: GREENWASHING! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

$4 per device. Less than pocket change for Google

I WISH this was made by AI. But it’s not. These guys definitely need to tone down their syncophancy tho 🙄

Yes, people (a psychologist in this case) can be that stupid

"We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity." Or how the world’s richest nation tips into dictatorship…

NOT YOU, @firefox.com 🤢 #aieverywhere

This thread is absolute gold. And I couldn’t give a hoot about the royals. I now firmly expect Prince Andrew’s life to be made into a Netflix series

Yesterday we dropped our 1st new episode of Season 4 and the 100th episode of the Honest Govt Ads series! Stoked to have collaborated on it with Rune @woldsnews.bsky.social & Ketan @ketanjoshi.co who's work on climate/energy 🌏 has been a long-time source of trusted info for us. (Follow them!)

Were we’ve got to as a human race 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Sam Altman cut safety process time for GPT-4o from months to around a week, re. the court case filed by the parents of Adam Raine, whose suicide was actively assisted by ChatGPT. Why? To beat Google. 3 suicides so far, in the name of engagement. My updated blogpost: bettertech.blog/2025/08/30/c...

"Chilling read" = understatement. The court filing for 16 year-old Adam Raine’s ChatGPT-enabled suicide is not only gut-wrenching in its conversation extracts, but also in its arguments that this was caused by deliberate OpenAI malpractice, to maximise engagement cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...

Just when you think Meta couldn’t get worse... A *staffer* made celebrity AI bots that got 10m+ interactions, notably with racy talk and images. From Reuters, who recently discovered Meta guidelines OKing sexy talk with kids. Zuckerberg must be doomed now, surely? Via @jhorowitzmd.bsky.social

(Taco Bell CTO) "said the firm was "learning a lot" - but he would now think carefully about where to use AI going forwards, including not using it at drive-throughs." Previously, 1 guy ordered "a large Mountain Dew" & the AI continually replied "& what will you drink with that?" 🤣 flip.it/znMGKg

The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely than they would have been in a world without climate change, according to scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social FREE link via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

3rd AI-induced suicide, AFAIK. - Latest: a US teen’s ChatGPT conversations (below) taught him hanging techniques; +bot mentioned "suicide" 6x more than him - ChatGPT helped Sophie Reilly’s suicide by downplaying the gravity of her messsges - CharacterAI bot encouraged Sewell Setzer’s 2024 suicide

As crazy as the below sounds: 1. The M$ boss seems to be recommending AI companions be more strictly regulated (he is right) 2. Character AI’s current court defence against the mother of the teen one of its characters killed? Essentially, "don’t take away AI’s constitutional right to free speech" 🙄

As if big AI’s makers shoving it down our throats wasn’t enough, governments might! The UK discussed giving every single (60m) UK citizen a ChatGPT subscription. The govt already has an agreement with OpenAI which could give them access to its data 😱 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A great read as ever. I’d add that their insistance on using market-based emissions stats could be making the impact seem 3-4x smaller…

Still quite bothered by this article that says that of the 100 people who died in the Italian alps this summer, some of them were using CHATGPT as a guide. Talk about the Darwin Award… www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Pure gold. And pretty much exactly how generative AI works 🤡

In Black Mirror S7 E1, a man is paid to humiliate himself on livestreams. IRL, a French man just died in a livestream, on Kick.com, after 12 days of torture and abuse. Authorities knew since late 2024, but did nothing. A shocking, tragic & too modern failure www.franceinfo.fr/internet/res...