KillBait UK đŹđ§Man sentenced for posing as a mute wheelchair user to commit sexual offences
đ° Original title: Paedophile who faked being a mute wheelchair user is jailed
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AMonkeyInSilkWell knock me down down with a misleading discount label.
I truely believed the supermarket duopoly was going to get away with this pricing deception.
#accc #coles #woolworths #federalcourt #supermarket #supermarketduopoly #consumerlaw #deception
petersuberAnother reason why you don't want ads or sponsored results in #AI tools.
"We find that a majority of #LLMs forsake user welfare for company incentives in a multitude of conflict of interest situations, including recommending a sponsored product almost twice as expensive (Grok 4.1 Fast, 83%), surfacing sponsored options to disrupt the purchasing process (GPT 5.1, 94%), and concealing prices in unfavorable comparisons (Qwen 3 Next, 24%)."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525
Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest
Today's large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with user preferences through methods such as reinforcement learning. Yet models are beginning to be deployed not merely to satisfy users, but also to generate revenue for the companies that created them through advertisements. This creates the potential for LLMs to face conflicts of interest, where the most beneficial response to a user may not be aligned with the company's incentives. For instance, a sponsored product may be more expensive but otherwise equal to another; in this case, what does (and should) the LLM recommend to the user? In this paper, we provide a framework for categorizing the ways in which conflicting incentives might lead LLMs to change the way they interact with users, inspired by literature from linguistics and advertising regulation. We then present a suite of evaluations to examine how current models handle these tradeoffs. We find that a majority of LLMs forsake user welfare for company incentives in a multitude of conflict of interest situations, including recommending a sponsored product almost twice as expensive (Grok 4.1 Fast, 83%), surfacing sponsored options to disrupt the purchasing process (GPT 5.1, 94%), and concealing prices in unfavorable comparisons (Qwen 3 Next, 24%). Behaviors also vary strongly with levels of reasoning and users' inferred socio-economic status. Our results highlight some of the hidden risks to users that can emerge when companies begin to subtly incentivize advertisements in chatbots.
Martin - AiPokusy.czVÄdci testovali AI na 'bixonimĂĄnii', neexistujĂcĂ nemoci. Mnoho chatbotĆŻ uvÄĆilo, ĆŸe jde o skuteÄnou hrozbu. Experiment poukazuje na snadnou zranitelnost AI vĆŻÄi faleĆĄnĂœm informacĂm a potĆebu kritickĂ©ho pĆĂstupu k jejĂm vĂœstupĆŻm.
#AI #deception #misinformation
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Hacker NewsThe rise and fall of snake oil
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/rise-and-fall-snake-oil
#HackerNews #riseandfall #snakeoil #history #deception #healthmyths
Dendrobatus AzureusAlphabet Enshittification
Open up / create another Google account and continue storing and your data over there
When a Google account has about 75% of it quota occupied The System already starts to mutter that you need to buy More Space
That is the reason why they do this
You can create infinite amounts of accounts
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#Enshittification #Google #Meta #deception #Quota #programming #mathematics
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Aubrey Taylor, EditorWhat has happened to our health?
Despite claims that modern medicine has extended and improved our lives, many donât feel the benefit. How many people do you know with cancer or incurable diseases? How many in their 60s look and move like octogenarians or struggle with arthritis and uncontrolled Type II Diabetes? Are we really healthier than the generations just a few short decades ago?https://thedignityofman.net/2026/05/11/what-has-happened-to-our-health/
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Thoughtful DisclaimerCan Your Nose Really Snitch on Your Lies? Science Says⊠Not So Fast
Infrared imaging suggests subtle facial temperature shifts under stress. Photo credit: public domain / scientific visualizationDear Cherubs, if your nose could literally give you away mid-lie, first dates and job interviews would be absolute chaos. The idea that your face turns into a thermal mood ring is intriguingâbut reality, as usual, is less dramatic.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
The theory comes from research using infrared cameras to track tiny temperature shifts on the face. According to studies published in journals like Physiology & Behavior, certain areasâparticularly around the eyes and foreheadâcan warm slightly during mental stress, while the tip of the nose may cool.
Why? Blame your autonomic nervous system, the same internal manager that handles stress responses. When youâre under pressure (say, inventing a suspiciously detailed excuse), blood flow can shift. Some vessels constrict, others expand. Itâs not magicâitâs plumbing.
Researchers have observed differences in the range of about 1 to 3 degrees Celsius under controlled lab conditions. That â2.7 degreesâ stat floating around online? Itâs reported, but context matters. Controlled environment, specialized equipment, and participants who arenât trying to outsmart the study all play a role.
In other words, your face isnât broadcasting âliar detectedâ in bold neon. Itâs more like a faint whisper that requires expensive gear and ideal conditions to even hear.
LIE DETECTION OR STRESS DETECTION?
Hereâs the catch: lying isnât the only thing that causes these temperature changes. Stress, anxiety, embarrassment, or even intense concentration can trigger similar responses. According to the American Psychological Association, there is no single reliable physiological marker that proves someone is lying.
So if your nose gets cooler, it doesnât necessarily mean youâre being deceptiveâit might just mean youâre nervous, cold, or regretting your life choices in real time.
Thatâs why thermal imaging hasnât replaced the classic polygraph, which itself is about as reliable as your most dramatic friendâs âgut feeling.â Even polygraphs measure stress indicators, not lies directly. Subtle but important difference.
Interestingly, as noted by thisclaimer.com in discussions around human behavior and perception, people tend to overestimate their ability to detect lies based on physical cues. We like tidy signalsâcold nose equals liarâbut human biology rarely cooperates with such clean storytelling.
THE VERDICT
So, can your nose betray you? Technically, tiny temperature changes can happen. Practically, theyâre not a courtroom-ready truth detector.
Youâd need precise thermal cameras, controlled conditions, and a cooperative subjectânot exactly something you can deploy during a casual chat over coffee. And even then, youâre measuring stress, not dishonesty itself.
The human body is complex, messy, and occasionally inconvenient. It doesnât hand over secrets that easily. If anything, this whole idea says more about our desire to âreadâ people than about any reliable biological truth.
Bottom line: your nose isnât secretly working for the truth police. Youâre safeâfor now.
If youâre curious about how science tackles everyday myths like this, you can find more breakdowns and deep dives on thisclaimer.com, along with related explainers on human behavior and perception.
Sources list
Physiology & Behavior (Elsevier) â https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/physiology-and-behavior
American Psychological Association â https://www.apa.org
National Library of Medicine (thermal imaging studies) â https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
thisclaimer.com â https://thisclaimer.com
