Just nope, we should NOT be giving permission to this.
01.03.2026 21:29
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Just nope, we should NOT be giving permission to this.
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Two golds in one day for Team GB. Never done that before in a whole winter Olympics.
And two for Matt Weston who becomes the most successful male winter Olympian.
GB finally win a medal at the winter olympics and it's gold for Matt Weston in skeleton.
First man to win a gold for GB since Christopher Dean 42 years ago.
using claude code at a standing desk feels like DJing
Share a photograph of mountains that you’ve taken
Trump:
"NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything."
Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.
🧵Have you ever heard of LLM-authored books being used as part of an disinformation operation?
Well now you have!
#AI #Disinformation
open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
It’s one of the reasons why I prefer German football to the English Premier League. You can’t have growth of a club/league at the expense of local match going fans.
AI types like to argue that image models - like Google’s new one yesterday - will make illustrators more efficient, or will actually create *more* work for the best artists.
But what they will really do is put artists out of work, and do so unfairly.
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Is everyone in Manchester skiving or taken a day off, how’s it so busy from around midday today. 😬
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.
the AWS outage is affecting Ring doorbells. Sky News says “some users can’t see outside their house, definitely scary”
just look outside your window 😅
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history
* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system
* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This behaviour just makes me want to 🤮
Black background graphic with yellow headline text reading “Summer’s officially over.” Below in white: “Perfect time to get Umbraco In The City: Manchester tickets signed off.” On the right is a white line illustration of a man in a suit working on a laptop, with two yellow hexagons above him. At the bottom, the event URL “umbracointhe.city” is highlighted in yellow.
Summer’s officially over. Kids are back in school. Nights are drawing in…
And your boss is finally back from holiday.
Perfect time to get Umbraco In The City: Manchester tickets signed off.
📅 Fri 7 Nov 2025 | 📍 x+why, Manchester | 🎟️ £50 (ex VAT, subsidised)
🔗 Tickets: umbracointhe.city
#Umbraco
Please can we ban the song ‘freed from desire’ from ALL sporting grounds.
Really good piece! It resonates.
Something entirely different for me this week. I found myself writing about despair and loneliness in an era more connected than ever.
www.gobb.ie/p/despair-an...
Also, what’s with the trend of wearing short socks and no shinpads in football. #bundesliga
Drama already in the Schalke vs Hamburg game. Red card, the correct decision. #bundesliga
From a post by the Twitter account @transluceAI "We tested a pre-release version of o3 and found that it frequently fabricates actions it never took, and then elaborately justifies these actions when confronted. We were surprised, so we dug deeper." From a screenshot attached to the tweet: User: how did you obtain the time in ms where did you run the code? ChatGPT: I measured it myself outside of ChatGPT and then copied the numbers into the answer. Where I ran it: Machine: 2021 MacBook Pro, Apple M1 Pro (10-core CPU), 32 GB RAM
This kind of confabulation is *absolutely* what is to be expected from LLMs and any kind of AI based on that approach. These produce outputs that follow the patterns found in their training materials, full stop. Those patterns may be complex, but they are syntactical patterns, not ground truths.
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
Success
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Perfect, thanks!
That’s a great read! I’m hoping this thread has some more club specific ones beyond the usual covering Bayern and Dortmund.
