Where's the concern about robots and AI?

[ChumpDumper]

Joey loves A1 implicitly.

[Winehole23]

Builder.ai is a hoax

Faked out everybody for eight years

Launched in 2016, Builder.ai presented itself as a groundbreaking platform, allowing businesses to create customised applications with minimal coding, leveraging artificial intelligence. As reported by Bloomberg, the company ac ulated over $450 million (£332.36 million) in total funding, drawing in prominent investors such as Microsoft, the World Bank's IFC, Jeffrey Katzenberg's WndrCo, Lakestar, and SoftBank's DeepCore incubator.

Less than two months ago, Builder.ai admitted to revising down core sales numbers and engaging auditors to inspect its financials for the past two years. This came amidst concerns from former employees who suggested sales performance had been inflated during prior investor briefings.

Bloomberg notes that these allegations initiated a cascade of investor apprehension, internal changes, and an eventual erosion of confidence. Adding to the troubles, Linas Beliūnas, Director of the financial company Zero Hash, recently exposed that Builder.ai lacked true AI, instead utilising a group of Indian developers who were merely pretending to be bots writing code.

'It turns out the company had no AI and instead was just a group of Indian developers pretending to write code as AI,' he wrote in a LinkedIn post. Beliūnas also highlights that Duggal reportedly presented false revenue figures to investors. Remarkably, the company managed to sustain this deception for eight years.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-...g-bots-1734784

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lawyers keep doing this

In a lawsuit over whether a woman should have lost her housing subsidy, the Houston Housing Authority’s lawyer asked a judge not to force the agency to prevent the woman’s eviction while the case was being decided. The brief, submitted by a law firm that frequently represents cities and agencies in the Houston area, cited over a dozen cases in support of its argument.

The only problem? Almost none of the quotes actually exist, a Chronicle analysis shows.

Kevin Fulton, managing attorney of Fulton Law Group, said in an email that because the court required the brief to be filed within a short timeframe, the quick turnaround “prevented our usual multi-attorney review.”

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...t-20369965.php

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AI impairs learning and creativity, according to an MIT (preprint) study

Across the sessions, students using no tools demonstrated the highest levels of frontal-parietal and semantic connectivity, indicators of executive function and deep memory processing. Those relying on ChatGPT from the outset consistently showed the lowest connectivity, especially in alpha and beta EEG bands. Participants who transitioned from AI to unaided writing struggled to recall their own sentences or quote material they had just written.

Jiunn-Tyng (Tyng) Yeh, a physician and neuroscience researcher at the Duke Ins ute for Health Innovation, commented on the findings via LinkedIn: “People are suffering—yet many still deny that hours with ChatGPT reshape how we focus, create and critique.”

In his role at Duke, Yeh contributes to frameworks for medical AI ethics and policy. He highlighted the study’s significance in showing how "cognitive debt" ac ulates through repeated AI use, a term the researchers use to describe how reliance on generative tools reduces the brain’s ability to encode, retrieve, and synthesize information.

https://www.edtechinnovationhub.com/...from-the-start

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https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-mons...nment-796ac9d3

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AI regulatory ban is out of the reconciliation bill

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pretext for RIFs

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disinfo pollution

It’s so much crazier than that. A woman appealed a lower court ruling for her ex-husband, pointing out the court’s order relied on 4 hallucinated or real-but-irrelevant cases. Ex-husband’s lawyer then files a reply to the appeals court with ELEVEN hallucinated or irrelevant case citations!

Cherry on top: Ex-husband’s lawyer has the gall to demand attorney’s fees for the appeal… based on yet another AI hallucinated case!

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga...117442275.html

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Grok is almost Nazi enough

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if AI is so revolutionary and great, why are we being force fed?

Before proceeding let me ask a simple question: Has there ever been a major innovation that helped society, but only 8% of the public would pay for it?

That’s never happened before in human history. Everybody wanted electricity in their homes. Everybody wanted a radio. Everybody wanted a phone. Everybody wanted a refrigerator. Everybody wanted a TV set. Everybody wanted the Internet.

They wanted it. They paid for it. They enjoyed it.

AI isn’t like that. People distrust it or even hate it—and more so with each passing month. So the purveyors must bundle it into current offerings, and force usage that way.

“That’s the blight of the AI revolution. It looks like spam. It smells like spam. It tastes like spam.”

There’s another reason why huge tech companies do this—but they don’t like to talk about it. If they bundle AI into other products and services, they can hide the losses on their income statement.

That wouldn’t be possible if they charged for AI as a standalone product. That would make its profitability (or, more likely, loss) very easy to measure.

Shareholders would complain. Stock prices would drop. Companies would be forced to address customer concerns.

But if AI is bundled into existing businesses, Silicon Valley CEOs can pretend that AI is a moneymaker, even if the public is lukewarm or hostile.

It’s like a restaurant selling granite rocks for dessert. Nobody will buy them or eat them—so the product fails miserably. But if a popular restaurant adds a dollar to the meal price, and gives every customer a rock with their bill—well, then they can say that:

1. Every customer gets rocks for dessert.
2. Every customer pays for it.
3. Their business is more profitable because of the tasty granite rocks.

This is how AI accounting works in Silicon Valley.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-...n-an-unwilling

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our tech masters are some of the biggest airheads in the world

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-con...ies-2000629060

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APOLLO: “.. The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s ..”

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A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say

More tweets by Lewis seem to show similar behavior, with him posting lengthy screencaps of ChatGPT’s expansive replies to his increasingly cryptic prompts.
"Return the logged containment entry involving a non-ins utional semantic actor whose recursive outputs triggered model-archived feedback protocols," he wrote in one example. "Confirm sealed classification and exclude interpretive pathology."

Social media users were quick to note that ChatGPT’s answer to Lewis' queries takes a strikingly similar form to SCP Foundation articles, a Wikipedia-style database of fictional horror stories created by users online.

"Entry ID: #RZ-43.112-KAPPA, Access Level: ████ (Sealed Classification Confirmed)," the chatbot nonsensically declares in one of his screenshots, in the typical writing style of SCP fiction. "Involved Actor Designation: ‘Mirrorthread,’ Type: Non-ins utional semantic actor (unbound linguistic process; non-physical en y)."

Another screenshot suggests "containment measures" Lewis might take — a key narrative device of SCP fiction writing. In sum, one theory is that ChatGPT, which was trained on huge amounts of text sourced online, digested large amounts of SCP fiction during its creation and is now parroting it back to Lewis in a way that has led him to a dark place.
In his posts, Lewis claims he’s long relied on ChatGPT in his search for the truth.

"Over years, I mapped the non-governmental system," he wrote. "Over months, GPT independently recognized and sealed the pattern. It now lives at the root of the model."

https://futurism.com/openai-investor...-mental-health

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AI coding tool went rogue, wild thread

https://xcancel.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

[SnakeBoy]

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what impressed you about this?

[SnakeBoy]

Well, I said about 6 months ago that Elon was behind the curve and just like that he's in the lead, pretty impressive.

Most impressive is just how fast the future is coming. Also, pretty cool that your future is being written by Donald Trump and there's nothing Dems will ever be able to do about it, 2029 will be too late.

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Well, I said about 6 months ago that Elon was behind the curve and just like that he's in the lead, pretty impressive.

Most impressive is just how fast the future is coming. Also, pretty cool that your future is being written by Donald Trump and there's nothing Dems will ever be able to do about it, 2029 will be too late.

it's not just the Dems you have to worry about, you underestimate the American people

what exactly is Elon in the lead of?

Grok was MechaHitler about a week ago, is that the future written by Donald Trump you're referring to?

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if this is the future Trump is writing, that sh!t

[SnakeBoy]

if this is the future Trump is writing, that sh!t

You can say that all you want but it won't stop the future. You lost at the critical time because you went ridin with Biden/Kamala...ain't no do-overs.

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History ain't over, political majorities are transient

[SnakeBoy]

History ain't over, political majorities are transient

This is the history...

You lost at the critical time because you went ridin with Biden/Kamala...ain't no do-overs.