Ronny Chieng from The Daily Show did a report on people in AI-generated relationships:
I think the woman at the end decided to do some outsourcing. 
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Asked GPT to (impossibly) “write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral”
Its suggestion: “just saw a guy confidently order a “croissantini” at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation.”
Then I said “Make it more viral” and things got weird…
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Just posting this because the photo of the new CEO makes her look like she’s either a vampire or else some kind of AI-simulated human being. Could the name “Simo” be a reference to the fact that she’s simulated? Like the titular character in that silly movie “Simone”?
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It turned piece-by-piece into a lost David Lynch movie.
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The one box doesn’t really present the issues, unlike the original headline in my feed
Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors
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Rejoice. Sir Jonathan is working with OpenAI to bring us LLMs with rounded edges.
All will be well.
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God, the Devil, and AI feat. Miles Klee (E323)
QAA Podcast
People use generative artificial intelligence to troubleshoot technical problems, churn out anime-inspired images based on their personal photos, and drive university professors who teach undergrad courses to the darkest pits of despair.But are the applications of artificial intelligence limited to worldly matters?
On today’s episode, we discuss how strings of words generated by mindless neural network predictions over tokenized inputs are burrowing into our very souls. First, we speak to Rolling Stone journalist Miles Klee, who recently published a fascinating investigation into people who have fallen into spiritual fantasies because of their conversations with ChatGPT. And then Annie covers how conservative author Rod Dreher sees the devil in AI chatbots.
Have you heard the good news of our lord and savior: byte pair encoding tokenization?
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Nightmare Blunt Rotation
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The partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has raised millions of dollars for an artificial intelligence startup hoping to introduce a product that can be used in medical testing and other settings, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the endeavor who could not speak publicly because the company has not yet officially launched. The company is called Haemanthus, which is Greek for “blood flower.”
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It was a good, thoughtful conversation but they really committed to that “it’s a d*ck-sucking machine” metaphor, didn’t they? (Not that I disagree!)
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