I want to create a repository of some of the more relevant threads I've created over the years all in one easier-to-find spot, so here you go. Thread-ception. A thread of threads. For all your privacy, law, tech, and terrible movie needs.

Or just get a goddamn slow-cooker, they're cheap as hell and won't try to mine your data or sell you "cooking but with bullshit."

I mean, it's actively making my life and the world worse but you and the other AI-pushers have given us no option to get rid of it. Unless you're saying we should all get rid of Microsoft, which is a bold and fascinating stance.

"It's measurement, not causation" We have evidence that a massive number of ChatGPT users are experiencing dangerous effects. For any other product, we would pause or put in protections until we're sure the product isn't hurting people. AI does not get a pass here.

"Adults should be able to make their own decisions" Yes. Adults should be able to make their own FULLY INFORMED decisions. How many do you think fully understand how AI works and what the risks are? And you missed that many AI-linked suicides are not adults. They're teens.

(This is the same company that, after years of claiming AI would help cure cancer, now is making AI porn, there is no altruistic mission, they just want your money.)

The company's own measurements are showing the thing is actively bad for its users but OpenAI is still actively pushing for FEWER regulations on AI. They do not care about hurting people.

According to THEIR OWN ESTIMATES, around 560,000 people PER WEEK exchange messages with ChatGPT indicating mania or psychosis and 2.4 MILLION MORE express suicidal ideation or prioritize ChatGPT over loved ones, school, or work. PULL. YOUR. PRODUCT. https://t.co/u3uqoqVfBA

(Yes, I am aware that the problem is with my simple midwestern tourist brain and New Yorkers navigate this easily all the time, I just love a good juxtaposition.)

Absolutely incredible that NYC's streets are laid out in a simple grid that any child could figure out and NYC's public transportation is a complex riddle that can only be solved with blood runes and a blessing from the fickle Alley God* *I think it is a pigeon but can't be sure

https://t.co/A7F9iqCWPp

(Spoiler alert, tho, EPIC's putting out some major reports v soon, get ready for some light* reading) *Several hundred pages

That feeling when you're putting out three major reports and attending a multi-day communications training across the country all in one week:

Do you think @Microsoft has been paying attention to how many searches for "how to remove CoPilot" have come up since they attached that monstrosity to the tool bar?

Shoutout to my fellow legionnaires.

Omg, tysm.

you do not hate AI enough

Btw, if you haven't read Empire of AI, I highly recommend you do, it is bracingly enlightening about exactly who is running OpenAI and what their priorities are.

I almost have to respect the grifter hustle of a man who raises billions for a product claiming it will cure cancer and somehow keeps those billions when it turns out it just does things we already do but worse and through theft. Almost.

"Don't hate the player, hate the game." Sorry to hear you're unable to multitask your hatred, guess I'm just built different.

Earlier this year, after receiving emails from people in the throes of AI psychosis, I began to keep in touch with one man as he journeyed to recovery. I'm grateful to James that he was willing to go on record. He wanted people to know: humanlike chatbots are dangerous.