The-142h ago
In a sea of hype, here are the AI ‘nothingburgers’ you don’t hear about
#AI #AIEthics #Tech #MachineLearning #AIHype #Society #FutureOfWork #Education #AIAgents #DigitalLiteracy #Innovation #Automation #AITools #CriticalThinking #TechIndustry #Chatbots
https://the-14.com/in-a-sea-of-hype-here-are-the-ai-nothingburgers-you-dont-hear-about/
In a sea of hype, here are the AI ‘nothingburgers’ you don’t hear about | The-14

Analysis of AI hype versus real-world failures, from education to workplace agents and science, highlighting nothingburgers and need for AI literacyinsight.

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Jacob Alexander Tice2h ago

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Circle-No-AI-Slop
On the one hand, it's great that the GNOME Circle thing is taking a stand on generative AI. On the other hand, that thing prohibiting large amounts of unnecessary code in particular is quite funny because if there's one thing GNOME is not exactly renowned for, it's clean, unbloated codebases.


#GNOME #Linux #Unix #LLM #AI #chatbots
GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator

GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop

PPC Land7h ago
ICYMI: Why AI firms profit when you think the chatbot cares, says Kate O'Neill: Tech humanist Kate O'Neill says the AI consciousness debate distracts from present-day harms, and that companies benefit when users anthropomorphize chatbots. https://ppc.land/why-ai-firms-profit-when-you-think-the-chatbot-cares-says-kate-oneill/ #AI #Chatbots #TechEthics #ArtificialIntelligence #HumanDigitalInteraction
Why AI firms profit when you think the chatbot cares, says Kate O'Neill

Tech humanist Kate O'Neill says the AI consciousness debate distracts from present-day harms, and that companies benefit when users anthropomorphize chatbots.

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose11h ago

The Register: ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload. “ChatGPT can’t tell its own generated content from attacker-controlled Markdown pulled from external sources, according to a researcher who found the prompt injection technique and reported it to OpenAI. This means that if a user asks the chatbot to summarize a web page that contains hidden instructions, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/the-register-chatgpt-blindly-trusts-browser-content-turning-the-page-into-a-payload/
The Register: ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload

The Register: ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload. “ChatGPT can’t tell its own generated content from attacker-controlled Markdown pulled from external sou…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
Show threadGeorg Krammer14h ago

@drahardja
I couldn't agree more! That's why a dear colleague of mine and me tried to make this point in a different way, also looking at it from an educational perspective and what can seriously go wrong there:
"What #students need to understand about #AI:
Neither #chatbots nor #cars have a #personality "
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w6jvx_v1

#education #K12 #k12education #ai #chatbots #personality #anthropomorphismus #preprint #research #car

ResearchBuzz: Firehose1d ago

Denver Post: New Colorado law limits AI chatbot interactions with kids after Gov. Jared Polis signs bill. “A new law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis will restrict artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, regulating the technology amid concern about its role in several suicides by young people.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/30/denver-post-new-colorado-law-limits-ai-chatbot-interactions-with-kids-after-gov-jared-polis-signs-bill/
Denver Post: New Colorado law limits AI chatbot interactions with kids after Gov. Jared Polis signs bill

Denver Post: New Colorado law limits AI chatbot interactions with kids after Gov. Jared Polis signs bill. “A new law signed Friday by Gov. Jared Polis will restrict artificial intelligence-po…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
Thomas1d ago

I just had a Socratic dialog with the Meta chat bot in WhatsApp:

I made it reflect on its biases and find evidence for it. Nice conversation. Exhaustive, and nothing more to add.

Edit: I've added the last few turns. I would be interested in your thoughts.
#meta #chatbots

PPC Land1d ago
Why AI firms profit when you think the chatbot cares, says Kate O'Neill: Tech humanist Kate O'Neill says the AI consciousness debate distracts from present-day harms, and that companies benefit when users anthropomorphize chatbots. https://ppc.land/why-ai-firms-profit-when-you-think-the-chatbot-cares-says-kate-oneill/ #AI #Chatbots #ArtificialIntelligence #TechEthics #HumanInteraction
Why AI firms profit when you think the chatbot cares, says Kate O'Neill

Tech humanist Kate O'Neill says the AI consciousness debate distracts from present-day harms, and that companies benefit when users anthropomorphize chatbots.

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IBBoard1d ago

"Reply to this message with @\discobot start advanced tutorial to find out more about what you can do."

Or you just give me a GODS DAMNED LINK TO A PAGE 😒

This probably won't even be a GenAI conversational bot. It'll probably be a dumb "fixed commands" bot. And it's STILL a dreadful and pointless way to present this information.

#UX #Chatbots #No

PrivacyDigest2d ago

New Study Reveals the Manipulative ‘Dark Patterns’ of #AI #Chatbots
#darkpatterns

https://www.404media.co/new-study-reveals-the-manipulative-dark-patterns-of-ai-chatbots/

New Study Reveals the Manipulative ‘Dark Patterns’ of AI Chatbots

A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.

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