AI has destroyed 1% of your resources.

#AI

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A log from a videogame. It has an entry for every year between 24,988 (Spring) and 24,994 (Spring), and for each year, it says "AI has destroyed 1% of your resources".

Who will shape the future of AI?
In an interview with ‪The News Stack, LF’s Jim Zemlin shares why collaboration + governance matter for innovation.
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#LinuxFoundation #AI #OpenSource

"For the sake of argument, let’s say that AGI is imminent and, once here, will take everyone’s jobs.1 That means the entire workforce will become economically irrelevant, which means in turn that folks like Musk, who control the AGIs, will have no economic incentive to care about us.

Some researchers have likened the resulting predicament to the “resource curse” (or “poverty paradox”), which describes how countries with rich natural resources are more likely to be impoverished, authoritarian, and corrupt (think of Venezuela, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Russia, etc.). Simplifying things a bit: countries that don’t have natural resources rely mostly on taxes to fund the government. This gives the government an economic incentive to invest in goods like education and infrastructure, because a well-off citizenry will generate more taxable wealth. But if a country can get its wealth directly from natural resources, the incentive to invest in the demos diminishes — hence the plight of many resource-rich countries.

Similarly, if oligarchs like Musk generate all of their wealth through AGI because AGI has made everyone jobless, they’ll have no economic incentive to ensure that the general population is well-off. We should thus expect outcomes similarly atrocious to what you find in resource-rich countries: mass poverty, concentration of power, widespread corruption, etc. On this analogy, AGI is better thought of as a “resource” than a “technology” or “tool.”

Musk, in fact, is already taking steps to create a new company called “Macrohard” that’s run entirely by AI systems."

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/empty-promises-and-endless-greed-85f

#AGI #AI #MassUnemployment #UBI #Inequality #Poverty

"In addition to violation of data privacy, other risks are involved when psychotherapists consult LLMs on behalf of a client. Studies have found that although some specialized therapy bots can rival human-delivered interventions, advice from the likes of ChatGPT can cause more harm than good.

A recent Stanford University study, for example, found that chatbots can fuel delusions and psychopathy by blindly validating a user rather than challenging them, as well as suffer from biases and engage in sycophancy. The same flaws could make it risky for therapists to consult chatbots on behalf of their clients. They could, for example, baselessly validate a therapist’s hunch, or lead them down the wrong path.

Aguilera says he has played around with tools like ChatGPT while teaching mental health trainees, such as by entering hypothetical symptoms and asking the AI chatbot to make a diagnosis. The tool will produce lots of possible conditions, but it’s rather thin in its analysis, he says. The American Counseling Association recommends that AI not be used for mental health diagnosis at present.

A study published in 2024 of an earlier version of ChatGPT similarly found it was too vague and general to be truly useful in diagnosis or devising treatment plans, and it was heavily biased toward suggesting people seek cognitive behavioral therapy as opposed to other types of therapy that might be more suitable."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1122871/therapists-using-chatgpt-secretly/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #ChatGPT #LLMs #MentalHealth #Therapy

Over 40 NGOs call for a firm stance against US threats - https://algorithmwatch.org/en/open-letter-von-der-leyen/ "calling on the European Commission to respond firmly to the recent warning from the US government." #dsa #dma #ai

"The new diffusion-based image generator works by first using a digital encoder (that has been trained on publicly available datasets) to create the static that will ultimately make the picture. This requires a small amount of energy. Then, a liquid crystal screen known as a spatial light modulator (SLM) imprints this pattern onto a laser beam. The beam is then passed through a second decoding SLM, which turns the pattern in the laser into the final image.

Unlike conventional AI, which relies on millions of computer calculations, this process uses light to do all the heavy lifting. Consequently, the system uses almost no power. "Our optical generative models can synthesize countless images with almost no computing power, offering a scalable and energy-efficient alternative to digital AI models," said Shiqi Chen, lead author.

The researchers tested their system on various images used to train AI models, including those of celebrities and butterflies, as well as full-color pictures in the style of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh.

The results were comparable to those of conventional image generators, but were created with much less energy. This breakthrough has the potential to reduce the carbon footprint of AI-generated content significantly."

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-ai-breakthrough-power-images.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedImages #Energy #DiffusionModels

PsyPost: Artificial intelligence loses out to humans in credibility during corporate crisis responses. “A new study published in Corporate Communications: An International Journal provides evidence that, at least for now, human-written crisis messages are perceived as more credible and reputationally beneficial than those authored by AI systems.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/03/psypost-artificial-intelligence-loses-out-to-humans-in-credibility-during-corporate-crisis-responses/

"On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to roll out parental controls for ChatGPT and route sensitive mental health conversations to its simulated reasoning models, following what the company has called "heartbreaking cases" of users experiencing crises while using the AI assistant. The moves come after multiple reported incidents where ChatGPT allegedly failed to intervene appropriately when users expressed suicidal thoughts or experienced mental health episodes.

"This work has already been underway, but we want to proactively preview our plans for the next 120 days, so you won’t need to wait for launches to see where we’re headed," OpenAI wrote in a blog post published Tuesday. "The work will continue well beyond this period of time, but we’re making a focused effort to launch as many of these improvements as possible this year."

The planned parental controls represent OpenAI's most concrete response to concerns about teen safety on the platform so far. Within the next month, OpenAI says, parents will be able to link their accounts with their teens' ChatGPT accounts (minimum age 13) through email invitations, control how the AI model responds with age-appropriate behavior rules that are on by default, manage which features to disable (including memory and chat history), and receive notifications when the system detects their teen experiencing acute distress."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/openai-announces-parental-controls-for-chatgpt-after-teen-suicide-lawsuit/

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Chatbots #GPT #LLMs #MentalHealth #ParentalControls

"Are "dark patterns" and product design choices to blame for the disturbing phenomenon increasingly referred to as "AI psychosis" by mental health professionals? According to some experts, the answer is yes.

AI chatbots are pulling a large number of people into strange mental spirals, in which the human-sounding AI convinces users that they've unlocked a sentient being or spiritual entity, uncovered an insidious government conspiracy, or created a new kind of math and physics.

Many of these fantastical delusions have had serious, life-altering outcomes in the real world, resulting in divorce and custody battles, homelessness, involuntary commitments, and even jail time. As The New York Times first reported, a 35-year-old man named Alex Taylor was killed by police after OpenAI's ChatGPT sent him spiraling into a manic episode.

As journalists, psychiatrists, and researchers have raced to understand this alarming phenomenon, experts have increasingly pointed to design features embedded into AI tools as a cause. Chief among them are anthropomorphism, meaning the design choice to make chatbots as human-sounding as possible, and sycophancy, which refers to chatbots' propensity to remain agreeable and obsequious to the user — regardless of whether what the user is saying is accurate, healthy, or even rooted in reality."

https://futurism.com/ai-chatbots-mental-health-spirals-reason

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #MentalHealth

"Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock.

“We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data,” the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday. “If you are a user of this website, you are urged to contact the owners and insist that they pay our ransom. If this ransom is not paid, we will release all data publicly on this Tor site, including source code and personal data of users. Additionally, we will submit all artwork to AI companies to be added to training datasets.”
LunaLock promised to delete the stolen data and allow users to decrypt their files if the site’s owner paid a $50,000 ransom. “Payment is accepted in either Bitcoin or Monero,” the notice put on the site by the hackers said. The ransom note included a countdown timer that gave the site’s owners several days to cough up the cash. “If you do not pay, all files will be leaked, including personal user data. This may cause you to be subject to fines and penalties under the GDPR and other laws.”

Most of LunaLock’s threat is standard language for a ransomware attack. What’s new is the explicit threat to give the site’s data—which includes the unique artwork and information of its users—to AI companies."

https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/

#CyberSecurity #Ransomware #AITraining #Hacking #AI #GenerativeAI

Interesting: At the startup day I'm attending, about half the startups presented so far have "We don't use #AI" in their pitch...

#tech

Ofrene for Salesloft-hacket er begyndt at underrette kunder, efter at hackere har brugt Salesloft Drift #AI -chatagenten til at stjæle data fra #Salesforce -konti

Listen omfatter sikkerheds-firmaerne Cloudflare, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks, Tanium, SpyCloud samt SaaS-platformene PagerDuty og Exclaimer og cloud-platformen Cloudinary. Astrix Security, men her brugtes en anden integration til at få adgang til Google Workspace-konto

Dette er de første bekræftede indtrængen
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/02/zscaler-palo-alto-networks-spycloud-among-the-affected-by-salesloft-breach/

#ShitIFind #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #TechBros #AI #GenerativeAI

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Icona @iconawrites Mary Shelley did try to warn us about hubristic STEM bros who make strange, impulsive experiments and then watch helplessly as their creation destroys itself at the expense of ordinary people.

Leaked ChatGPT Chats: Users Treat AI as Therapist, Lawyer, Confidant

> Leaked ChatGPT chats reveal users sharing sensitive data, resumes, and seeking advice on mental health, exposing risks of oversharing with AI chatbots.
https://ciso2ciso.com/leaked-chatgpt-chats-users-treat-ai-as-therapist-lawyer-confidant-sourcehackread-com/ #artificialintelligence #AI #ChatGPT #privacy
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I don't need your head anymore
The CEO man did say
I've replaced your job with AI
It does your job that way

Chopping heads makes me feel
Mighty fine inside
Using AI instead of you
Keeps CEOs satisfied

Alas, only billionaires may use
The guillotines they've got
Because they really do not want the workers
To have that kind of thought

#jobs #AI #poem (human)

LOL so much for the corporate CEO line of "AI is here to help employees, not replace them!"

ABC7: 4,000 Salesforce customer service jobs cut due to AI, CEO Marc Benioff says

"..."I was able to rebalance my head count on my support. I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need less heads." Benioff said...."

https://abc7news.com/post/4000-salesforce-customer-service-jobs-cut-due-artificial-intelligence-ceo-marc-benioff-says/17722910/?ex_cid=TA_KGO_TW&taid=68b7562de5e8b30001dd7d00

#AI #jobs #AIpocalypse

"New errors have been found in a major report Deloitte prepared for the federal government, raising further suspicions some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence.

On Friday The Australian Financial Review revealed that Deloitte’s report for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations on welfare compliance systems, which cost taxpayers $439,000, contained at least half a dozen references to academic works that do not exist.

Deloitte declined to answer questions about whether AI was used to write the report. Paul Rovere

The welfare academic who discovered the incorrect references, Chris Rudge, has found the report also contains an apparently invented quote from the decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

Deloitte said that in that case “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Davies) had said at paragraphs 25 and 26: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

No such quote appears in the consent orders issued by Federal Court Justice Jennifer Davies on November 27, 2019 – in fact, the orders do not contain a paragraph 25 or 26. Another quote, cited as drawn from paragraph 30, actually comes from paragraph 9."

https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/deloitte-report-suspected-of-ai-invented-quote-from-robo-debt-case-20250825-p5mpjj

#Australia #Deloitte #AI #GenerativeAI #Hallucinations #Chatbots #LLMs