Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social:
This is a hell of a thing to read.
@larrynlarryshow.bsky.social:
Psychosis isn’t a sufficient description. AI legal briefs and medical diagnoses are everywhere. To think that this technology is generating huge GHG emissions in the service of complete and utter BS is heartbreaking.
@kmr-kevin.bsky.social:
Wow. ChatGPT may have some valid uses, but this piece is proof that for MANY things it is totally incompetent, inappropriate, and dangerous. People are being led to believe that it “thinks” and “understands” when it actually does neither.
@azreader.bsky.social:
It’s so apologetic. Over and over.
Like a child rapist or an abusive husbandThat’s horrifying and hilarious.
@lorib.bsky.social:
It’s IRRITATING. I was not expecting irritating on top of all the other bullshit.
@gentlewomanfarmer.bsky.social:
Remember that the origin story of AI is computer programming by humans. Gaslighting – the “G” in ChatGPT (the P stands for plagiarism, the T for Totally made up) – is a feature, not a bug.
@webrant.bsky.social:
AI was always about manipulation.
For the fascist minority control by concentrated capital behind it.
Which is why they so easily ignore the regressive hallucinations and never ending slop while wasting enough energy to kill our climate.
@molszyns.bsky.social:
Not my wheelhouse at all, but I have this bad feeling that using our own brains will become the mental equivalent of hitting the gym/exercising. Something that everyone should do but that for various reasons — including socio-economic ones — many don’t. And we’ll all be worse off for it.
@check1check2.bsky.social:
Dear reader, I was expecting to be sympathetic to their answers to this and now I want AI banned across the board.
It’s not a calculator simplifying math, it’s a machine destroying people’s capacity to think deeply and creatively.
@hypervisible.bsky.social:
Some of the worst people on the planet are in charge of this tech, and they are telling you it should be your friend, coach, therapist, and tutor.
Diabolus Ex Machina. This Is Not An Essay by Amanda Guinzburg, Jun 01, 2025, Everything Is A Wave
Presented to you in the form of unedited screenshots, the following is a ‘conversation’ I had with Chat GPT upon asking whether it could help me choose several of my own essays to link in a query letter I intended to send to an agent.
What ultimately transpired is the closest thing to a personal episode of Black Mirror I hope to experience in this lifetime.
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—E x e u n t—
@debtekawa-ao.bsky.social:
Girl, run.
@northwestt.bsky.social:
Girl, he does not love you.
This sounds like a conversation with a psychopath. I’m floored.
Refer also to:
2025 @ddayen:
Rail companies will likely get their ghost trains: Trump’s choice for the Federal Railroad Administration is a former industry executive with a poor track record.
@ddayen:
Great piece from James Baratta. The rail industry is asking regulators to approve freight trains with zero crew members: fully remote, autonomous ghost trains, to ride on aging infrastructure without a proven record of split-second decision making in crisis.
… Rail industry lobbyists and their allies are pushing to reduce the already threadbare crews with remotely operated or entirely autonomous trains, despite the need for split-second decisions to adapt to changing circumstances. Ultimately, the desire is to take human beings out of the process entirely and rely on ghost trains, despite the potential risks to the countryside and nearby residents.
THE SUPPOSED GOAL OF PSR is to improve efficiency by lowering operating expenses as a percentage of revenue. …
The prospect of automation fits neatly into the PSR framework; why stop at one crew member when you can have zero? Autonomous trains took a big step forward earlier this year when the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), the agency responsible for rail safety regulation in the U.S., granted Georgia Central Railway permission to conduct a trial run of its autonomous train pilot project with Parallel Systems. (Georgia Central workers just voted to join the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union in advance of the project.)
It certainly will be a trial. Even if artificial intelligence can match human situational awareness in real time—a questionable assumption—ghost trains have not proven any ability to successfully traverse aging rail infrastructure. Large-scale deployment of autonomous train tech will likely need to be accompanied by substantial up-front costs and maintenance, further refining and testing for Positive Train Control (the current remote system that monitors tracks for safety), and protections against cybersecurity threats. But given that automating everything from track inspections to locomotives would significantly lower operating ratios in the long term, it should come as no surprise that business interest groups are pushing for the broader implementation of autonomous technology, even before these up-front investments are made. …
2025: AI is coming for the world’s energy and water.
2024: AI and the death of dignity. Another reason why I hate AI.
2024: AI Ancestry
2023: Why I hate AI