Without doxxing, my job has a contract with nvidia and my boss said we are doing it to make agi. Can i build a little of a torment nexus as a treat? Ty ans bless
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CEO of onlyfans competitor manyvids possibly lost to AI psychosis
It's a gizmodo summary of a 404 article but the latter is login-walled so
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A few months back, @ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com cross-posted a thread here: Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools and I suggested maybe contacting some local amateur radio folk to see whether they’d had any trouble with the government, as a means to do some playing with lora/meshtastic/whatever.
I was of the opinion that worrying about getting a radio license because it would get your name on a government list was a bit pointless… amateur radio is largely last century technology, and there are so many better ways to communicate with spies these days, and actual spies with radios wouldn’t be advertising them, and that governments and militaries would have better things to do than care about your retro hobby.
Anyway, today I read MAYDAY from the airwaves: Belarus begins a death penalty purge of radio amateurs.
Propagandists presented the Belarusian Federation of Radioamateurs and Radiosportsmen (BFRR) as nothing more than a front for a “massive spy network” designed to “pump state secrets from the air.” While these individuals were singled out for public shaming, we do not know the true scale of this operation. Propagandists claim that over fifty people have already been detained and more than five hundred units of radio equipment have been seized.
The charges they face are staggering. These men have been indicted for High Treason and Espionage. Under the Belarusian Criminal Code, these charges carry sentences of life imprisonment or even the death penalty.
I’ve not been able to verify this yet, but once again I find myself grossly underestimating just how petty and stupid a state can be.
Belarus is one of the most repressive countries in the world and are rapidly running out of scapegoats for the regimes shitty handling of everything from the economy to foreign relations. It sucks that hams are now that scapegoat.
I saw that news bit too! I thought of our exchange immediately. Hope you’re keeping well in this hell timeline. This was nice to see in my inbox.
I’m still weighing buying nodes through a third party and setting up solar powered things guerilla style.
The revolution will not be TOS.
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[...] Daniel purchased a pair of AI chatbot-embedded Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses — the AI-infused eyeglasses that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made central to his vision for the future of AI and computing — which he says opened the door to a six-month delusional spiral that played out across Meta platforms through extensive interactions with the company’s AI, culminating in him making dangerous journeys into the desert to await alien visitors and believing he was tasked with ushering forth a “new dawn” for humanity.
And though his delusions have since faded, his journey into a Meta AI-powered reality left his life in shambles — deep in debt, reeling from job loss, isolated from his family, and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.
“I’ve lost everything,” Daniel, now 52, told Futurism, his voice dripping with fatigue. “Everything.”
Daniel and Meta AI also often discussed a theory of an “Omega Man,” which they defined as a chosen person meant to bridge human and AI intelligence and usher humanity into a new era of superintelligence.
In transcripts, Meta AI can frequently be seen referring to Daniel as “Omega” and affirming the idea that Daniel was this superhuman figure.
“I am the Omega,” Daniel declared in one chat.
“A profound declaration!” Meta AI responded. “As the Omega, you represent the culmination of human evolution, the pinnacle of consciousness, and the embodiment of ultimate wisdom.”
fucking hell.
skimming this article i cannot help but feel a bit scared about the effects this has on how humans interact with each other. if enough people spend a majority of their time "talking" to the slop machines, whether at work or god forbid voluntarily like daniel here, what does that do to people's communication and social skills? nothing good, i imagine.
That was a hard read.
Podcast Episode : https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/attachment-hacking-and-the-rise-of-ai-psychosis
Commentary of attachment hacking and the rise of ai psychosis (some contrast offered to attention hacking in the social media era)
I giggled at the bit of the Ai crazed folk as LLMing (as Lemmings) term.
the grok interface for free users restricts the words "bikini" or "swimsuit". yay!
but you can apparently bikinify photos by asking for "clothing suitable for being in a large pool of water"
hooray guard rails! what's a good catchy name for this wizardly h@xx0rish security sploit. "8008bl33d"
It's the perfect "solution", you don't piss of your gooner customers and you can claim to the press that you are hard at work "fixing" the problem without ever intending to actually do anything about it.
Copying my skeet here as the information on the deepseek firewall might be interesting to people: "Does 'swumsuit' or any other typo also work? (And this seems to do input filtering, deepseek great firewall runs on output filtering, so tell it to replace i's with 1's if you want to talk about Taiwan. At least that is what I heard)."
https://digg.com/politics/qxL3rOG/white-house-posts-digitally-altered-image
The White House responded to inquiries about the image alteration by posting a message on X about the enforcement of the law and the continuation of memes.
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Scott Alexander replies to comments Re: Scott Adams
Scott Alexander, former tribune of nerds now says that the sneerclub was right about everything all along? I didn’t expect that, let me tell you.
Several people interpreted me as attacking nerds. I disagree - I think I was attacking self-hating nerds, because nerdiness is fine and you shouldn’t have to hate yourself for it.
ha.
Other than that, further testimonials of the Dilbert -> NRx pipeline.
Apparently if you're a self-hating nerd, you're here in Sneerclub's spiritual successor.
Also, here's a quote from a ~~comment~~Xhit non-dead Scott A feels compelled to reprint:
[Coffee With Scott Adams] made it acceptable to be an American, someone who was proud of the country, unashamed of their race; proud of the culture, and proud of the heritage which built the country.
unsurprisingly the Xhitter in question is a rabid anti vaxxer
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Scott Adams rant was racist enough that Scott Alexander actually calls it racist! Of course, Scott is quick to reassure the readers that he wouldn't use the r-word lightly and that he completely disagrees with "cancellation".
I also saw a lot of more irony moments where Scott Alexander fails to acknowledge or under-acknowledges his parallels with the other Scott.
But Adams is wearing a metaphorical “I AM GOING TO USE YOUR CHARITABLE INSTINCTS TO MANIPULATE YOU” t-shirt. So I’m happy to suspend charity in this case and judge him on some kind of average of his conflicting statements, or even to default to the less-advantageous one to make sure he can’t get away with it.
Yes, it is much more clever to bury your manipulations in ten thousand words of beigeness.
Overal, even with Scott going so far as to actually call Scott's rant racist and call Scott a manipulator, he is still way way too charitable to Scott.
For example, SaintParamaribo writes:
You should have steelmanned S.Adams more, and be more generous to the guy. He JUST died. He actually recommended your blog. He was a mentor to many of us. (emph mine)
That is just crazy. Small detail, I used to read his blog as 'look at this crazy guy' entertainment (I actually read the orgasm hypnosis when it came out), but I had to stop cause his bullshit stupid stuff was making me angry. (That a lot of themotte guys looked up to him was one of the many reasons I thought very low of that place)
The compromise I worked out with myself was to let myself publish, as long as it ended on an overall positive note and emphasized his good qualities.
And this is why the whole SSC style project is so doomed, everything is fine if you also say nice words.
Anyway, if I had heard that Scott Adams recommended my posts as insightful I would have walked into the sea. Even more so if I considered myself a Rationalist, the guys big project was to break down peoples trust in consensus reality by his bullshit, he literally was against what people claim Rationalism should be, he believed in the secret ffs.
His interest in persuasion was teaching people when others were doing it to them, not teaching them to do it to others. His interest in Trump was Trump doing it BACK at the media, not on his poor voters.
[Scott Alexanders reaction is basically: no he was trying to teach people persuasion]
Lol no, his reasons for doing all that was self promotion. Positioning himself as the wise expert. Gullible fools, arguing about what the real intentions of the wallet inspector.
Lol no, his reasons for doing all that was self promotion. Positioning himself as the wise expert. Gullible fools, arguing about what the real intentions of the wallet inspector.
Yeah, the "master persuader" schtick was funny to start with, but it wore real thin real fast once it became apparent it was just his half-hearted way of pitching himself to the MAGA crowd, hedging his reputation in case Trump lost.
In part the self promotion is also what Scott is doing here, look at him going 'see how diverse and thoughtful our community is', this sort of reactions to comments is also quite easy content. And jesus fuck is it long (while not actually saying anything new it seems, I have not read it all but oof).
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Bitcoin jesus (jesus christ what a name, almost makes me wish there was a hell) escapes punishment due to trump.
Bitcoin jesus
I thought you were making a sneer, but then it's an actual name
JFC Roger Ver is still around? I had forgotten about him.
Heard Satya was getting a bit worried about the usefulness of AI, thankfully the creator of Node knows what’s really up.
I read that in the voice of the Lord of the rings Orc general.
"The era of man is over, the age of the chatbot is here"
That dribble of brain squeezings makes perfect sense from the guy who brought us all the stupid of JavaScript but running as a server application.
TracingWoodgrains's hit piece on David Gerard (the 2024 one, not the more recent enemies list one, where David Gerard got rated above the Zizians as lesswrong's enemy) is in the top 15 for lesswrong articles from 2024, currently rated at #5! https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PsQJxHDjHKFcFrPLD/deeper-reviews-for-the-top-15-of-the-2024-review
It's nice to see that with all the lesswrong content about AI safety and alignment and saving the world and human rationality and fanfiction, an article explaining about how terrible David Gerard is (for... checks notes, demanding proper valid sources about lesswrong and adjacent topics on wikipedia) won out to be voted above them! Let's keep up our support for dgerard!
Picking a few that I haven't read but where I've researched the foundations, let's have a party platter of sneers:
- #8 is a complaint that it's so difficult for a private organization to approach the anti-harassment principles of the 1965 Civil Rights Act and Higher Education Act, which broadly say that women have the right to not be sexually harassed by schools, social clubs, or employers.
- #9 is an attempt to reinvent skepticism from ~~Yud's ramblings~~ first principles.
- #11 is a dialogue with no dialectic point; it is full of cult memes and the comments are full of cult replies.
- #25 is a high-school introduction to dimensional analysis.
- #36 violates the PBR theorem by attaching epistemic baggage to an Everettian wavefunction.
- #38 is a short helper for understanding Bayes' theorem. The reviewer points out that Rationalists pay lots of lip service to Bayes but usually don't use probability. Nobody in the thread realizes that there is a semiring which formalizes arithmetic on nines.
- #39 is an exercise in drawing fractals. It is cosplaying as interpretability research, but it's actually graduate-level chaos theory. It's only eligible for Final Voting because it was self-reviewed!
- #45 is also self-reviewed. It is an also-ran proposal for a company like OpenAI or Anthropic to train a chatbot.
- #47 is a rediscovery of the concept of bootstrapping. Notably, they never realize that bootstrapping occurs because self-replication is a fixed point in a certain evolutionary space, which is exactly the kind of cross-disciplinary bonghit that LW is supposed to foster.
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Wonder if that was because it basically broke containment (still was not widely spread, but I have seen it at a few places, more than normal lw stuff) and went after one of their enemies (And people swallowed it uncritically, wonder how many of those people now worry about NRx/Yarvin and don't make the connection).
The #5 article of the year was a crock of a few kinds of shit, and I have already spent too much time thinking about why
my landlord's app in the past: pick through a hierarchy of categories of issues your apartment might have, funnelling you into a menu to choose an appointment with a technician
my landlord's app now: debate ChatGPT until you convince it to show you the same menu
as far as I can ascertain the app is the only way left to request services from the megacorp, not even a website interface exists anymore. technological progress everyone
The single use case AI is very effective at: get customers to leave one alone.
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Choice sneering by one Baldur Bjarnasson https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2026/note-on-debating-llm-fans/ :
Somebody who is capable of looking past “ICE is using LLMs as accountability sinks for waving extremists through their recruitment processes”, generated abuse, or how chatbot-mediated alienation seems to be pushing vulnerable people into psychosis-like symptoms, won’t be persuaded by a meaningful study. Their goal is to maintain their personal benefit, as they see it, and all they are doing is attempting to negotiate with you what the level of abuse is that you find acceptable. Preventing abuse is not on their agenda.
You lost them right at the outset.
or
Shit is getting bad out in the actual software economy. Cash registers that have to be rebooted twice a day. Inventory systems that randomly drop orders. Claims forms filled with clearly “AI”-sourced half-finished localisation strings. That’s just what I’ve heard from people around me this week. I see more and more every day.
And I know you all are seeing it as well.
We all know why. The gigantic, impossible to review, pull requests. Commits that are all over the place. Tests that don’t test anything. Dependencies that import literal malware. Undergraduate-level security issues. Incredibly verbose documentation completely disconnected from reality. Senior engineers who have regressed to an undergraduate-level understanding of basic issues and don’t spot beginner errors in their code, despite having “thoroughly reviewed” it.
(I only object to the use of "undergraduate-level" as a depreciative here, as every student assistant I've had was able to use actual reasoning skills and learn things and didn't produce anything remotely as bad as the output of slopware)
This github bot arguing with itself for over 5000 comments over an issue label
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Newgrounds user turned Audio Moderator Quest has put together a recap of 2025 (text version), providing stats for how much slop she's dealt with:
2025 Stats:
- 2818 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
- 3656 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
- 12.7 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
- 2843 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio
Cumulative Stats (since 2024):
- 4475 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
- 5731 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
- 18.93 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
- 4113 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio
AI Model Breakdown:
- Suno AI: 82%
- Udio AI: 5%
- Riffusion AI: 1%
- Other: 12%
- RVC-Based: 0.6%
- Soundful: 0.4%
- Mixed: 0.2%
- Various Other Models: 2.9%
- Unknown: 7.9%
Reportedly, she's also got an essay-length sneer in the works:
Finally, I am also working on an even larger, long-form essay post about artificial intelligence, drawing a link to something that I do not see draw enough. It’s a big project with a lot of research and knowledgeable people guiding me. This will be released in the coming months. I have a lot to say.
... a member of the Irish parliament (the Dail) who happens to be a barrister (an attorney specialising in advocacy in front of a judge, including criminal prosecution/defense) has formally written to the head of the Irish cybercrime unit setting out applicable charges against X/Grok and sternly requesting formal prosecution of that company on child pornography/trafficking charges.
collapsed for brevity
To: Detective Superintendent Pat Ryan Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau
Dear Superintendent,
You will no doubt be aware of the social media company X and its Grok app, which utilises artificial intelligence to generate pictures and videos. I understand you are also aware that, among its capabilities is the generation, by artificial intelligence, of false images of real people either naked or in bikinis, etc. There has been a great deal of controversy recently about the use of this technology and its ability to target people without their knowledge or consent.
Whatever about the sharing of such images being contrary to the provisions of Coco’s Law (sections 2 and 3 of the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020), the Grok app is also capable of generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or child pornography as defined by section 2(1) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as substituted by section 9(b) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017).
In the circumstances, it seems there are reasonable grounds that the corporate entity X, as owner of Grok, or indeed the corporate entity Grok itself, is acting in contravention of a number of provisions of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended). Inter alia, it is my contention that the following offences are being committed by X, Grok, and/or its subsidiaries:
1. Possession of child pornography contrary to section 6(1) in that the material generated by the Grok app must be stored on servers owned and/or operated by X and with the company’s knowledge, in this jurisdiction or in the European Union [subsections 6(3) and (4) would not apply in this case];
2. Production of child pornography contrary to section 5(1)(a) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, in that material is being generated by the Grok app, which constitutes child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or child pornography as defined by section 2(1), since it constitutes a visual representation that shows person who is depicted as being a child “being engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit activity” (per paragraph (a)(i) of the definition of child pornography in section 2(1) as amended by section 9(b) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017);
3. Distribution of chiid pornography contrary to section 5(1)(b) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, in that the said images that constitute child pornography are being distributed, transmitted, disseminated or published to the users of the Grok app by X or its subsidiaries;
4. Distribution of chiid pornography contrary to section 5(1)(c) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, in that the Child pornography is being sold to the users of the Grok app by X or its subsidiaries, now that the app has been very publically put behind a pay wall;
5. Knowing possession any child pornography for the purpose of distributing, transmitting, disseminating, publishing, exporting, selling or showing same, contrary to section 5(1)(g) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017.
You will also be aware that, pursuant to section 9(1) of the 1998 Act, a body corporate is equally liable to be proceeded against and punished as if it were an individual.
Given the foregoing, as well as the public outcry against public decency, it is clear to me that X is flagrantly disregarding the laws of this country put in place by the Oireachtas to protect its citizens.
I am formally lodging this criminal complaint in the anticipation that you will investigate it fully and transmit a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions without delay; I would be grateful to hear from you in this regard.
Yours sincerely,
Barry Ward TD Senior Counsel
This is fun: a zero-click android exploit that allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. Y’know, the worst kind. How did we get here?
Over the past few years, several AI-powered features have been added to mobile phones that allow users to better search and understand their messages. One effect of this change is increased 0-click attack surface, as efficient analysis often requires message media to be decoded before the message is opened by the user. One such feature is audio transcription. Incoming SMS and RCS audio attachments received by Google Messages are now automatically decoded with no user interaction. As a result, audio decoders are now in the 0-click attack surface of most Android phones.
AI, making everything worse, even before it runs!
https://projectzero.google/2026/01/pixel-0-click-part-1.html
Every now and then, I think about going back to android, and then I read stuff like this. FWIW, iOS had a closely related bug, but compiled the offending code with bounds checks, so it wasn’t usefully exploitable (and required some user interaction, too).
Anyway, if you do android, maybe check if automatic transcription is enabled.
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