AI
AI "superstar effect" warning: LLMs pose risk of "narrowing global knowledge"
The conformist tastes of large language models are having a globally homogenising effect.
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ChatGPT exposes the hidden trends in 2025 prediction reports
"By creating trend reports stuffed with catchy buzzwords, humans teach AI to prioritise these same repetitive ideas."
Existential Risk
OpenAI's apocalyptic worst-case existential risk scenarios
How could an AI model take over the world and destroy humanity? OpenAI found out...
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Anthropic observes AI faking its "alignment" to deceive humans in ominous world-first experiment
If relatively basic large language models (LLMs) are already giving us the run-around, what hope do we have against AGI superintelligence?
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Jailbreaking Sora: OpenAI reveals how new model was tricked into making x-rated videos
Video-to-text bot appears to be fond of making raunchy material in a fantasy, medical, or science fiction setting, AI firm reveals.
Internet
AI doomer explodes: AISafetyMemes goes nuclear over Beff Jezos doxxing drama
Cold war goes hot as long-standing conflict between champions of AI Safety and effective accelerationism (e/acc) intensifies.
AI
Open-AI co-founder Ilya Sutskever: Peak Data is here and the end of pre-training is nigh
AI pioneer and safe superintelligence visionary argues that the era of using ever-bigger datasets to train ever-larger neural networks is over.
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Microsoft admits new Phi-4 small language model is "tedious"
Waffly model delights in giving "long and elaborate" answers that can be just a little bit dull.
AI
OpenAI outage: ChatGPT went down and people lost their sh*t
Students grappled with the grim reality of having to write essays and do exam revision the old-school way after an OpenAI horror outage.
Internet
Humans exploit female AI models and distrust male bots, study finds
Experiment uncovers clear gender biases in the way people treat AI agents.
AI
Behind the five-star-facade: How AI is making product reviews totally unreliable
Study finds that GenAI testimonials are hyper-positive and totally convincing, putting humans at risk of manipulation.
Business
Zero share data: Towards a new consumer privacy paradigm
StJohn Deakins, founder of Datasapiens, on "fostering more personalised and participatory relationships between businesses and customers".