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Research finds AI users scarily willing to "surrender" their cognition to LLMs
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Fabien 1d ago

Admiral Wonderboat 1d ago

the "upside" to AI

Fabien 2d ago

JA Westenberg 2d ago

“we’re disrupting X” means we found a cheaper way to do X that externalises all the costs onto someone who can’t afford a lawyer

Fabien 2d ago

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Ged Maheux 3d ago

Yet another thing AI has ruined for all of us - Nostalgic fun.

I came across these cool, nostalgic pictures supposedly from the set of #StarTrek TOS classic episode City on the Edge of Forever.

I squealed w/joy because I’ve NEVER seen them before. The comments were filled with happy Trek fans but close scrutiny reveals they must be AI slop. The last pict is NOT Joan Collins plus other clues.

None of us can trust anything online anymore and it royally sucks.

#FuckAI

Fabien 3d ago

Kris 3d ago

Fabien 3d ago

Entertainment Porpoises Only 3d ago

People out here Versioning Their Prompts now

IT'S ALL NON-DETERMINISTIC FFS

Fabien 3d ago

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116324029728877255

It's the usual “AI can do everybody’s job but mine”.

Because when it's not your own domain, you can't tell the result is crap.

Fabien 3d ago

Pavel A. Samsonov 3d ago

The main problem with checking AI outputs is that you need to have an idea of what you actually wanted it to do, and most people use AI as a substitute for having to figure that out.

Fabien 3d ago

David Gerard 3d ago

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Main Packaging System Where This Regularly Happens

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan#am-i-affected

axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity

Hijacked maintainer account used to publish poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The attacker injected a hidden dependency that drops a cross platform RAT. We are actively investigating and will update this post with a full technical analysis.

Fabien 3d ago

Deixis9 3d ago

It’s official, Twitter is now an official US propaganda tool.

'The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk’s X as an “innovative” tool to help do it.’

'The cable, signed by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Monday and obtained by the Guardian, also suggests embassies and consulates work alongside the US military’s psychological operations unit to address the problem of rampant disinformation. It lays out a sweeping set of instructions for how embassy staff should push back against what it describes as coordinated foreign efforts to undermine American interests abroad.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/30/embassies-campaign-marco-rubio-elon-musk

US directs embassies to team up against foreign ‘hostility’ – and use X to ‘counter anti-American propaganda’

Cable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit

The Guardian