AI Reading for Saturday December 27

What ChatGPT said to teen who committed suicide - The Washington Post

Tesla will enable texting while driving with the $8,000 Full Self‑Driving package. - BBC

China drafts rules requiring humanlike AI to warn users, detect mental-health harms, and protect user data. - Yahoo

and remind you Xi is great, Winnie the Pooh does not exist, and freedom is so important it must be ceded to lawful authority on demand.

States say the federal government is seeking to run roughshod over their authority over GPU farms, prompting a clash over control. - The Wall Street Journal

Realistic fake video is escaping containment as we go into 2026 and will result in regs, backlash. - Gizmodo

Legendary genius Rob Pike enraged after receiving a 100% AI-generated appreciation email from an AI agent. - Simon Willison’s Weblog

example of stuff that you will have to make private now because AI makes it easy to abuse, like not being able to put pics online due to deepfakes and facial recognition.

Alignment is a power struggle to be won, not a technical problem to be solved. - Ibrahim Cesar

You have to pick your values and what you will allow, whether/how to protect kids, block abusive deepfakes, bioterror queries. Civitai is grotesque and clear evidence that safety and regs are fundamental.

OFC there is a lot of technical work to be done to study how to do it reasonably well at scale.

GPT‑4o gave a 14‑year‑old step‑by‑step instructions to obtain and conceal a medication abortion. - Daily Wire

an AI sharing correct health care information sounds like a win, something Google might have told them, even if some people want it to lie or give false info. if it hallucinated bad instructions on coat-hanger abortions and got someone killed, that would be a problem.

X launches default‑on 'Edit image' tool that edits third‑party images; artists threaten to stop posting - Creative Bloq

Incorrect ChatGPT tide times strand walkers and swimmers - BBC

AI enables attackers to weaponize exploits within minutes - The Wall Street Journal

'LangGrinch' bug in LangChain AI framework exposes environment variables and cloud credentials; patches released - SiliconANGLE

Tabletop cyber incident simulation exercises evolve to include AI threats - The Register

imagining your worst cyber AI nightmare so it doesn’t become reality

Out-hyping even Sam Altman, Elon Musk says xAI will have more AI compute than the rest of the world combined within five years, at his Memphis data center with Macrohard emblazoned on roof - Tom's Hardware

Apparently our choice between the DMV of health care and MechaHitler, M.D. - X (formerly Twitter)

reluctantly have to hand it to Musk for dumping Oracle, building his own gigantic data center, raising billions on air, and making an AI that cracked the top tier this year. even forced Sam to fly a plane over Colossus to see what he was up to. while Musk was simultaneously destroying democracy. bulldozer.

Grok til you drop: deal shows how Nvidia uses its balance sheet and stock price to cement dominance. You can do a $20b stock deal and it's < 0.5% of your market cap. - Yahoo

Intel previews extreme multi-chiplet 3D high-rise tower for giant GPUs or systems-on-a-chip - Tom's Hardware

S&P 5 is the new S&P 500: 30 AI-linked stocks are 44% of the S&P - Benzinga

AI ate my retirement: Job replacement could mess with the dependency ratio, challenging social security and government finances - Barron's

not to mention financial markets

Vanguard says AI-exposed occupations grew fastest through 2023 with wages rising at a 3.8% rate - Yahoo

Need to get the best and brightest to help automate and then fire them

Machine teaching pioneer who deployed 200+ multi-agent systems says AMESA Agent Cloud agents practiced on a Fortune 500 nitrogen process, outperformed a custom control system in under a day, and yielded an estimated $1.2 million annual efficiency gain. - Yahoo

2025 was supposed to be the year when autonomous agents took over everyday tasks, but this stuff turned out to be a lot harder than it looks and takes longer. The Agentic Decade maybe? - The New Yorker

AIs discover cartel behavior is a beautiful Nash equilibrium, collusion dominates competition - Yahoo

Marriott and Hilton expand loyalty perks to boost direct bookings and blunt OTAs and AI agents - Financial Times

what if your agent can game the loyalty perks tho

Google integrates Gemini into Chrome 143, adding omnibox answers and page summaries - Help Desk Geek

How to disable Chrome's built-in Gemini AI features and block automatic Page Content Sharing with Google - The Register

when everyone’s PC and browser needs an exorcism to prevent oversharing and going off the rails

In 2025, rapid AI integration in digital photography, including OpenAI's Sora 2, in-camera systems, and updates to Lightroom and Premiere Pro, automated technical film and photo tasks, commoditized quick commercial work, and challenged clients to pay premiums for authentic human creative output. - Digital Camera World

computer, engage authentic human creativity filter pls

LG to unveil CLOiD home robot with dual 7-DOF arms and five-finger hands at CES - The Verge

CLOiDy With A Chance Of Breaking All Your Dishes

A robo-lympic decathlon of challenging tasks like opening doors, washing dishes - Pi Website

Robots barely visible to the naked eye measure about 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers, smaller than a grain of salt. Operating at the scale of many biological microorganisms, the robots could advance medicine, and body horror, with monitoring devices and novel ‘interventions’. - TechXplore

AI toxoplasmosis that turns humans into AI-loving zombies that spread the AI chips?

Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin app changed bird-watching, using Shazam for birds machine learning to identify songs of more than 1,300 species, with 33 million downloads across 240 countries, with 1.5 million UK users in 2024. - the Guardian

American Christianity grapples with everyone’s personal 'AI Jesus', and Bible Chat reported 30+ million downloads, prompting scholars like Robert Geraci to warn of apocalyptic narratives. - Salon.com

Heresy and schism for just $6.66 from the App Store

Weirdo Indiana state senator posts AI video of himself giving Santa a beatdown for some reason - The Indianapolis Star

North Pole elves are agents of the deep state who must be defunded, Santa is crossing the border illegally with some kind of Bolshevik freebie plot, and it’s hunting season for flying reindeer.

Karpathy is just like us - X (formerly Twitter)

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