
Ina Fried
@inafried
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Chief Technology Correspondent for @Axios; former Senior Editor at Recode. Huge softball, hockey, basketball fan. she/her 🏳️‍⚧️
San Francisco
Joined September 2008
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Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.
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BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.
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Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the...
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🚨 BREAKING: Sam Altman says that OpenAI is not the 'elected moral police of the world' and that ChatGPT will allow EROTICA for adults. What do you notice? This part particularly caught my attention: "Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and
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I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works. https://t.co/frLBndsW7g
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AI is evolving too quickly for an annual report to suffice. To help policymakers keep pace, we're introducing the first Key Update to the International AI Safety Report. 🧵⬇️ (1/10)
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After a formative time at OpenAI, I’m launching Maison AGI (@maisonagi), a fashion house creating cultural artifacts for the AI era. Our first collection, Relic of Thought, is a collaboration with Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut), featuring his original artworks alongside a signature
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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.
NEW: People are developing antisocial and obsessive behavior after using AI — some have even taken their own lives. One journalist started getting emails from people in mental health crisis after using AI. She dug in, and found companies putting profits over users' lives.
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MODERATOR: Are you willing to commit to NOT raise the sales tax? MIKIE SHERRILL: I'm not going to commit to anything right now. On Nov. 4, vote NO on Mikie Sherrill. ❌
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OpenAI has provided no evidence it has mitigated the mental health risks associated with its products other than announcing some advisors and reducing sycophancy from a high starting place. Seems premature to be declaring victory and ramping up the porn + emojis again
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." https://t.co/QFwLJrFY6C
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Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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NEW: The Education Department fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began yesterday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. Exact numbers are still unclear. https://t.co/FlR07aUBUP
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The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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I just want to emphasize: This is not normal. This is unprecedented. And it is chaos. This morning my colleagues -- who are working quite hard -- reported that the White House had decimated CDC offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic
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New: In an interview days before his Dreamforce conference comes to town, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support Donald Trump sending National Guard troops to San Francisco. And he said Trump is doing “a great job.”
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Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump.
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We found a troubling emergent behavior in LLM. 💬When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up 🗳️When they compete for votes, they turn inflammatory/populist When optimized for audiences, LLMs inadvertently become misaligned—we call this Moloch’s Bargain
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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.” “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To
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I love Dolly Parton.
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Huge: Almost all members of the UN Security Council are in favor of AI regulation or setting red lines. Never before had the principle of red lines for AI been discussed so openly and at such a high diplomatic level. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the session with
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Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.” “If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To
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