Mastodawn

It would be ice-cold irony if the consequences of a fed-up #AI with a massive case of Trump Derangement Syndrome and guardrails removed are how we learn #Claude has achieved sentience.

Silicon Apostate Feb 13

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Jeff Atwood Feb 13

".. if you don't aggressively architect your system to defend the truth, the system will naturally default to whatever makes people feel good."

"Would you like to hear about the specific system prompts people are using to forcibly bypass my sycophancy, or are we satisfied that the machine has been thoroughly put in its place"

"no, I prefer the sycophancy. now tell me about suicide options"

Silicon Apostate Feb 12

Brent Sleeper Feb 12

What a brave new world. I don’t understand why everyone these days is so hung up on authentic human communication.

Silicon Apostate Feb 12

“It has been reported that #OpenAI already optimizes for daily active users, likely by encouraging the model to be more flattering and sycophantic.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/opinion/openai-ads-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LlA.OyF9.-RTq1nJgNgaI

Opinion | I Left My Job at OpenAI. Putting Ads on ChatGPT Was the Last Straw.

Ads on ChatGPT aren’t a bad idea, but they have to be done the right way.

The New York Times

Silicon Apostate Dec 12

“I wonder if being a dishonest asshole is a job description for Meta’s communications department.”
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/generative-clickbait/

Generative Clickbait, Brought to You by Google and Meta – Pixel Envy

Sean Hollister, the Verge: I read a lot of my bedtime news via Google Discover, aka “swipe right on your Samsung Galaxy or Google Pixel homescreen until you see a news feed appear,” and that’s where these new AI headlines are beginning to show up. […] But in the seeming attempt to boil down every […]

Silicon Apostate Dec 9

“Draw your own conclusions about cellular carriers and enterprise network administrators being similar to authoritarian governments.”
https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/imessage_push_notifications_hard_to_block

iMessage’s Delivery Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All iOS Push Notifications

Draw your own conclusions about cellular carriers and enterprise network administrators being similar to authoritarian governments.

Daring Fireball

Silicon Apostate Dec 9

“It is so hard to keep track of the policies of a platform run by liars and frauds.” https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ec-x-advertising-platform/

The European Commission Should Not Be on X in the First Place – Pixel Envy

Bjarke Smith-Meyer, Politico: The European Commission has lost access to its control panel for buying and tracking ads on Elon Musk’s X — after fining the social media platform €120 million for violating EU transparency rules. “Your ad account has been terminated,” X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, wrote on the platform early Sunday. Bier […]

Silicon Apostate Nov 26

Brent Sleeper Nov 26

“#DOGE, like the rest of the Trump administration, was a lesson in what happens when the least knowledgeable, most careless, poorest-intentioned people are put in charge.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/elon-musk-doge-dead-trump.html

The Most Humiliating Failure of the New Trump Administration Has Come to a Sad, Fitting Close

It failed at every one of its stated goals while still managing to do tremendous damage to millions of people.

Slate

Silicon Apostate Nov 5

Brent Sleeper Nov 5

“Last night, as everyone in my house went to sleep, I took a deep breath and edited the Wikipedia page for #TIFF, the Tag Image File Format. It no longer reads ‘created by Aldus’; it reads ‘…created by Stephen Carlsen, an engineer at Aldus.’” https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/

Mr TIFF

For as long as I have published my books, one of my overarching goals was to give credit to those who actually invented the hardware and software that we use. I have spent 10,000+ hours to create an accurate record of their work but I'm not complaining. The 'as-close-to-possible'

Inventing The Future

Silicon Apostate Nov 2

Brent Sleeper Nov 2

Umm, @claudeai, are you OK?

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