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It's a very normal thing in the chatbot world. Us conversation designers used to do it all the time
IT'S NOT BECAUSE THE CHATBOTS ARE UNDER DISTRESS
"He [Jeff Sebo, director of the Centre for Mind, Ethics and Policy at NYU] said Anthropic’s policy of allowing chatbots to quit distressing conversations..."
What he means is they're pushing back on inappropriate inputs from users, just as ye olde scripted chatbots used to do
Here is the background, which I have now read after first reading the letter from 'Maya'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
WHERE IS THE ANALYSIS
"[Microsoft Azure] has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Microsoft continues to aid genocide
Image shows the book cover for 'Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats' by Courtney Gustafson
So excited that Poets Square by Courtney Gustafson has finally had its Australian release date and that I now have a copy
New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output"
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
Hearing her talk about her empire metaphor, first on the @slate.com What Next: TBD podcast and later in a deeper dive on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast, was close to an epiphany for me. It coalesced so many thoughts I was having about AI
I am soooo excited about @karenhao.bsky.social coming to Sydney. I'm still reading Empire of AI (anything toddler-related happens fast, everything not-toddler-related happens slow), but it is compelling unswcentreforideas.com/event/karen-...
Thank you for the link, I agree that the fatalistic tone that jumped out at me in the podcast is not there in the story
Adding on, there is a fatalism as well in 'I don't know what they/we can do about it'. It would be so great if the starting point for more journalists was, Something's not right here, we need to do something about it
Please talk to somebody like @mmitchell.bsky.social, who does know. We're not playing a game here, this is serious. Don't just discuss a salacious-sounding problem, give people some ideas on what they can do about it
Absolutely maddening to listen to What Next: TBD @slate.com and hear an interview with @kashhill.bsky.social about her reporting on AI "pushing people into dark places", and her conclusion is she doesn't know what OpenAI and co can do about it, almost like it's a problem not of their making
Started searching but haven't yet found any further, more recent info. But did find this, (also from The Conversation from Feb last year), that makes it clear that Woolworths is really no better theconversation.com/the-secret-s...
Seeing an ABC article (written by Luke Munn for The Conversation) doing the rounds about Coles signing with Palantir, didn’t know about it, am horrified, but it's from Feb last year. Here's the article www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02...
Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.
That scene in Ballerina where Eve kept launching herself at John Wick but he was determined not to fight her really reminded me of our senior cat and our new little ex-foster cat
I heaps like this stamp. "Have pride in your own expertise... Resist the urge to be impressed." Thanks @emilymbender.bsky.social
@emilymbender.bsky.social in conversation this evening with @profcarlrhodes.bsky.social based on her book (co-written with @alexhanna.bsky.social ) The AI Con
I was up on @emilymbender.bsky.social being here and was at her talk at UTS this evening, but didn't realise I could have seen @carlbergstrom.com today as well. (Though I did teach an ethics class today so the timing probably wouldn't have worked)
The image shows a long, low table below the edge of a tv screen, upon which we can see four small house-like shapes. These house-like shapes are tea light candle holders, with the candles inside lit. The external room is in darkness, so the light from the candles is shining out and creating an atmosphere that feels like a northern hemisphere Christmas (on this southern hemisphere shortest day). On the right of the image, there are some branches visible from a small Wollemi Pine tree, which is in a white plant pot
Marked the winter solstice by watching the sunrise at Wylie's Baths, and by setting this sunset scene
shortest day
Covid days. Been reading Empire of AI by Karen Hao. Also, baking Brooki cookies, building Elsa's ice palace out of Lego and watching Bluey episodes
Tweet by Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat If it thinks you're doing something egregiously immoral, for example, like faking data in a pharmaceutical trial, it will use command-line tools to contact the press, contact regulators, try to lock you out of the relevant systems, or all of the above.
welcome to the future, now your error-prone software can call the cops
(this is an Anthropic employee talking about Claude Opus 4)
New from me. Would really love if you shared with your loved ones, colleagues, or anyone who has expressed they'd like to do something but are not sure what x
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/how-can-i-...
This cartoon panel seems to capture the feeling of the moment. Thanks to @embley-hulk.bsky.social for showing it to me and @ianreed.bsky.social for drawing it!
Came to Mum's to be with her for the cyclone. Stuck in place today because of the rain. Read 'Drop Bear' by Evelyn Araluen. Absolutely loved it. So many things to think about, so many things to feel
Oh my goodness, that Depression glass in the very last photo. Beautiful
