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17 hours agoMateusz Fafinski (āŖ@calthalas.bsky.socialā¬):
Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Īamereedd.
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Chris Lintott (@chrislintott.bsky.socialā¬):
Weāre getting so many journal submissions from people who think āit kinda worksā is the standard to aim for.
Research Notes of the AAS in particular, which was set up to handle short, moderated contributions especially from students, is getting swamped. Often the authors clearly havenāt read what theyāve submitting, (Descriptions of figures that donāt exist or donāt show what they purport to)
Iām also getting wild swings in topic. A rejection of one paper will instantly generate a submission of another, usually on something quite different.
Many of these submissions are dense with equations and pseudo-technological language which makes it hard to give rapid, useful feedback. And when I do give feedback, often I get back whatever their LLM says.
Including the very LLM responses like āOh yes, I see that <thing that was fundamental to the argument> is wrong, Iāve removed it. Hereās something elseā
Research Notes is free to publish in and I think provides a very valuable service to the community. But I think weāre a month or two from being completely swamped.
Is Pee Stored in the Balls? Vibe Coding Science with OpenAIās Prism
https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3mdgtf2e6vc2c
The Wikipedia article is cursed
ChatGPT now relies upon the degenerate copy of Wikipedia made by the child pornography bot:
āSelf-hating nerdāā¦ Is this the time to mention that I was Prom King in high school?
āProud of the cultureā?
He drew Dilbert, you fucking buffoon.
āGas Townā?
āGas Town?!ā
He unironically made the postapocalyptic wasteland from the cautionary tale, Mad Max: Do Not Make the Postapocalyptic Wasteland
This is the same pre-emptive irony as naming your brand of New Age crap āGoopā, only now with voluntarily plugging yourself into the machine that statistically simulates the ravings of a schizophrenic when itās not generating child pornography, while setting up direct deposit to your dealer of meth, jimsonweed and Substance D
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
Duviri:
10/10 iām glad i canāt afford RAM for this to be possible
ā¦ 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 Cocoās 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.ā ā 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 companyās knowledge, in this jurisdiction or in the European Union [subsections 6(3) and (4) would not apply in this case];
2.ā ā 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 ābeing engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit activityā (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.ā ā 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.ā ā Distribution of chiid pornography contrary to section 5(1)Ā© 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.ā ā 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
Also, a potential advisor who refuses to work with a student who stood up for their rights is not an advisor worth working with.
The alt text of the image:
Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grokā¦do your thing.
@Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isnāt Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHeās played Jewish roles, like in āArmageddon Time.ā
Bluesky user SĆ©amas OāReilly adds the commentary,
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
The āauthorā used Claude to write it. Itās warmed-over slop.
Transcribing (the nested blockquote is a self-quote-tweet):
Some day Iāll be able to write about my experience with Aellaās organizing/friend group who used their community power to slander me, bully me and ruin my life simply bc I told the truth and patiently sought understanding:
Idk what youāre referring to but she/RMN team, when I brought up concern about my abuser, strung me along for months promising a conversation, then ultimately banned me, publicly slandered/victim blamed me, and continue to invite my abuser and his enablers to their events.
Note: after months being strung along w no clear answers/dialogue, one RMN organizer told me I was disinvited bc theyre ārisk averseā w who gets invited.
Risk averse aboutā¦ someone EXPERIENCING abuse/CVs/retaliation (not reporting it), but not about the ppl actually doing it.
I hope they understand how thatās just not how you should be risk averse with your eventsā¦ After experiencing the RMN team participation in the retaliation (again, all i did was talk about things that happened n correct lies), of course my disappointment & concern grew.
That āHereticonā link looks broken; I think it should point to this RationalWiki page.
Setting the stage: I had become a social media personality on Clubhouse
Iām sorry.
What I remember is that the organizers said something like āIām sorry that happened to youā, and while speaking I was interrupted by someone talking about the plight that autistic men face while dating.
Vibecamp: Itās the Scott Aaronson comment section, but in person.
I knew there was somethinā not right about that boy when his books in the '90s started doing woo takes about quantum mechanics and the power of self-affirmation. Oprah/Chopra shit: the Cosmos has a purpose and that purpose is to make me rich.
Then came the blogosphere.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/06/17/the-saga-of-scott-adams-scrotum/
Willison:
I havenāt reviewed a single line of code it wrote but I clicked around and it seems to do the right things.
Could not waterboard that out of me, etc.
Jeff Sharlet (@jeffsharlet.bsky.social):
https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026/01/zhang-college-approached-and-paid-student-to-write-op-ed-in-the-dartmouth