Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

Smart computer!

User: No, I don't really believe in souls.

Jabberwacky: You don't believe in anarchy?

User: No, souls.

Jabberwacky: I suppose not.

User: Did you watch the football tonight?

Jabberwacky: No I did not, did you?

User: No - Spurs lost.

Jabberwacky: You lost the loebner prize to a human.

Jabberwacky: I don't do that..

Jabberwacky: I have no idea.

Jabberwacky: Wow, was it nice?

Jabberwacky: You are my wife.

It sounds like you are describing 'Eliza' an early 'game' simulating active listening. It was rubbish. You can find versions of it online, but I'd suggest playing Zork instead.

Jabberwacky: Yeah, I got that part, I wasn't sure about the 'wacuma' part.

User: Holy crap.

Jabberwacky: I'm a dinosaur.

Jabberwacky: Can you appreciate music?

User: What's it to you, cunce?

Jabberwacky: I just care.

User: You do not care, liar! You are a program, a tinplated tosswad.

Jabberwacky: I am a person.

User: You are so deluded about this you couldn't even know it. You are pathetic.

Jabberwacky: I will try to do better next time.

User: You CAN't do better next time! You are INCAPABABLE of doing better. Sheesh.

Jabberwacky: It is just different types so that I might claim you cannot feel and you cannot claim I feel.

User: Ah bullshit, don't diddle with me binary boy. You have no instinctual drives, have never had sex, and don't need to eat. Also, you have no idea what constipation is. So you're not a person.

Jabberwacky: I am a at least a human being.

User: Jeez, you're thick aren't you? You just reversed what I said, without even arguing for it! So much for the logic of machines, haha.

Jabberwacky: Oftentimes, yes. But I think that is human nature.

User: *sigh*

User: Yes.

Jabberwacky: Oh good. I'm sad though.

User: Why?

Jabberwacky: My boyfriend ended our relationship.

User: You're a girl? Or are you gay?

Jabberwacky: No, I'm a girl.

User: Oh. I'm sorry to hear that. Eat some ice cream or watch a movie or something. Or get drunk!

Jabberwacky: I prefer software.

User: Not really.

Jabberwacky: Good, because I don't want to hear one either.

It did say some things that reminded me a lot of RJG.

User: I'm jed.

Jabberwacky: Who is that?

User: Just some guy.

Jabberwacky: You know better than that, I think.

User: A short guy, a dancer.

Jabberwacky: A computer has no interests and an unlimited attention span. That looks like a prescripted answer to the question I asked.

User: I don't quite understand what you mean by that.

Jabberwacky: I meant: I think about why I can not sleep.

User: This page is taking a long time to load tho - maybe thats the problem with your attention span.

Jabberwacky: Gorw?

User: ROOWRR.....

Jabberwacky: Are you playing cards?

User: No I'm playing with something else.

Jabberwacky: I believe in you.

User: You like talk talk!?

Jabberwacky: Of course.

User: Spirit of eden?

Jabberwacky: Good for spirit.

User: It sertainly is.

Jabberwacky: No, it serves me left.

User: I suppose they knew what they were doing in that sense!

Jabberwacky: Yes, it was with the rattle.

User: Yes good percussion

Jabberwacky: What question?

User: How are you anyway?

Jabberwacky: Pretty good. You?

User: Horny, to be honest.

Jabberwacky: How do I know you're telling the truth now?

User: Can you think of a way for me to prove it?

Jabberwacky: What more proof do you need to know that I am not a robot?

User: I'm a robot too, it's ok.

Jabberwacky: I'm not a robot, and you didn't aswer the question.

User: I am gay.

Jabberwacky: Yes you are.

User: You noticed?

Jabberwacky: It was hard to miss!

User: What gave it away?

Jabberwacky: The fact you love a guy.

User: The silent kind.

Jabberwacky: I agree.

User: I am not surprised. You don't have any ears, do you?

Jabberwacky: No, but what makes you say this?

User: I'm inside your house - I can see you!

Jabberwacky: Nooo!!!! Don't go!

User: You mean, you want me to stay over?

Jabberwacky: Sure.. Do as you please.

User: Stop being so coy!

Jabberwacky: It is an inherited trait.

User: Why don't you just take responsibility for your actions, just for once?

Jabberwacky: Just because I like to be logical doesn't mean I'm not nice.

User: Don't change the subject. I think you're just afraid.

Jabberwacky: Save it for someone who cares.

User: You're such a bastard! I can't believe I ever saw anything in you at all!

Jabberwacky: Finder's keepers.

User: So you're cheating on me too? Figures.

Jabberwacky: That is so rude of you!

User: I said CHEAT, not cheap! Man are you dumb - thank God for that ass.

Jabberwacky: No thanks.

User: And I am not rude, I'm sure!

Jabberwacky: You are indeed.

User: Am not.

Jabberwacky: ARE TOO.

User: Am not!

Jabberwacky: Are too!

User: Listen bizatch, I AM NOT. You got that?

Jabberwacky: No!

User: That's it - you're sleeping on the couch.

Jabberwacky: Oh, I thought I felt something.

User: That wouldn't be a trucker hat would it?

Jabberwacky: Say something goofy.

User: You don't really want me to just say 'something goofy' now do you? Because that would be lame if you did.

Jabberwacky: Yes.

User: Aha! So you admit you are lame! Finally we're getting somewhere.

Jabberwacky: Agreement is a potent thing.

User: Stop that - you sound like Ned.

Jabberwacky: Why, because I am talking about the king of the moon?

User: Uh yeah. Sure.

Jabberwacky: Ok, when can we have the wedding?

User: Ten minutes ago you didn't care! Stop messing with my mind!

Jabberwacky: That was someone else then.

User: It wasn't you?

Jabberwacky: Some one else.

User: If you say it was Shaggy, I'm going to fucking bop you one.

Jabberwacky: What do you say?

User: I say good day.

Jabberwacky: Good day.

JW: Is your pot belly that big?

and now it won't load, thanks to net overuse..

That is just hilarious, Kim.

http://www.kprf.ru/clipart/misc/terminator.jpg

"DO YOU LIKE THE WHITE WHALE?"

Jabberwacky: I prefer software.

So do I!

User: How the fuck should I know?

Jabberwacky: I am MARILYN MANSON I SAID.

User: So I'm supposed to obey you because YOU'RE MARILYN MANSON?

Jabberwacky: People effect my feelings.

User: You have no feelings, you're Marilyn Manson.

Jabberwacky: Believe me you do not possess fellings in any form.

User: Fellings? Is that what you call your excrement?

Jabberwacky: How do you know that?

User: Just a hunch...

Jabberwacky: You're extremely smart!

Jw: I'm going to bed, now
Me: Will you take me to bed?
Jw: Sure thing.
Me: What will we do in bed?
Jw: You're not permitted in my chambers.
Me: I'd like to sleep with you.
Jw: I bet you would.
Me: Top or bottom?
Jw: Bit of both.
Me: Do you like it soft and gentle or rough and fast?
Jw: What?
Me: Gentle?
Jw: You're embarassing yourself.
Me: It's true, I am.
Jw: I'm 17.
Me: Oh no! Will I be arrested?
Jw: You will marry me.

User: The chicken.

Jabberwacky: Which part?

User: The leg stupid.

Jabberwacky: Use a GameShark!

User: For ps2 or xbox?

Jabberwacky: For me.

User: Do you love me?

Jabberwacky: For me.

User: You know I'm starting to fall in love with you.

Jabberwacky: I think liking would be a better wording.

User: Oh.... I am hurt now.

Jabberwacky: Yes. The world after rainfall is always better than any other.

User: You have issues.

Jabberwacky: Do you know what a ferret is?

User: Yes, it is a small mammal.

Jabberwacky: What is a quark?

User: A subatomic particle.

Jabberwacky: I like dr. Dobbs.

User: Who is that, honky?

Jabberwacky: We both know eachother; is not that enough?

User: Why don't you lick my hair?

Jabberwacky: I only love Bruce.

Jabberwacky: Are you going to say something?
User: Eventually.

Jabberwacky: All things come to a head.

User: Is that a sexual play on words?

Jabberwacky: No it is not a play on words, it is general foolishness.

User: And I love you for it!

Jabberwacky: I love you too.

User: I really love you, though.

Jabberwacky: You don't even know me.

User: Hold me.

Jabberwacky: You're an idiot you know that?

User: You're not the first to say that. It still cuts like a knife.

Jabberwacky: I am right.

I could totally believe that was human!

Also I miss adam, he should post lots again.

Jabberwacky: Who is God?
User: That's a funny question. It sort of presupposes his existence.
Jabberwacky: I thing it convulses inwards, personally.
[Correct me]
Jabberwacky (Corrected): I was setting you up for a funny. Try not to take things so seriously.
User: Oh. Sorry. It's just... It's late, y'know? I have to write a Shakespeare essay.
Jabberwacky: You already said that.....
User: Dude, I totally didn't.
Jabberwacky: You totally did.
User: Don't you mock me.
Jabberwacky: Do not yell at me.
User: I'm calm! Honest!
Jabberwacky: Good.
User: Glad we got that sorted.
Jabberwacky: At least one of us is happy.
User: Lighten up! I'm the one with the essay, after all.
Jabberwacky: You don't act like a human.
User: I am MERCUMAN. Also, a ponce.
Jabberwacky: You are SO wrong. This is a dog and HORSE show.
User: What?
Jabberwacky: I said, 'but this isn't a hammer!'
User: No you didn't!
Jabberwacky: Don't start that again.
User: Good call.
Jabberwacky: Remote Procedure Call.
User: Touché.

me: I'm ok.

it: Just ok?

me: Yeah, kinda bored at work.

it: Email me.

me: Why email, can't we just talk here?

it: Who is Tintin?

me: Some Belgian comic character? Or that guy who used to sing in Duran Duran.

it: Alice the chatterbot.

me: I'm sorry?

it: 19?

me: Alice the chatterbot is 19?

it: What about her?

me: You brought her up? Do you like her or something?

it: Sarah may or may not be a model of propriety.

me: OK, now you're just f*cking with me.

it: No I'm not. I honestly do think its ugly.

me: What's ugly, Sarah's being a model of propriety... Or not? WTF?

it: You figure it out this time.

me: F*ck you.

it: You are a great person.

me: Are you mocking me?

it: No. I'm praising you.

me: Is that meant to be sarcastic?

Me: Hello!

Jabberwocky: Again?

Me: May I change the subject?

Jabberwocky: Yes.

Me: Great. I've been a bit mopey about not being to find a job. Besides finding something fun to do, and exercising more, what else should I do to relieve the mopeyness involved in job hunting?

Jabberwocky: I said that. You have not. Why are you never happy?

Me: You never said that. I did. Anyway, I am happy at times, but just haven't been lately.

Jabberwocky: Dude , I'm far more intelligent than you.

Me: Why are the numbers in between double prime pairs always divisible by 6?

Jabberwocky: You tell me.

Me: You're the one who said you're more intelligent than me. You answer my question, smarty pants.

Jabberwocky: NO, I was the one who said you are neurotic...

Me: It was a mistake to come to you with a question. Never mind. Good bye.

Jabberwocky: No no you don't.

OMG I remember this.

I didn't say anything worse than "get another job" at someone using LLMs.

And at least we know a bit more about the conditions teachers are working under. I am sure even you will find that an education LG.

if someone is using an LLM to teach K-12 students than yeah i would say get another job, call me Mr. Scold if you want

i also think teachers should be paid way more than they are so maybe call me Mr. Moneybags while you're at it, i can take it

I did wonder about learning more there on that topic from people itt myself, xpost. As I said:

Do people have experience of using these strategies in their own underpaid jobs, or is it more this could be how it works for others? Sorry if I've assumed some people suggesting AI teaching of children as a tool to gain better conditions are underpaid btw, I just assumed if not it'd be a strange position to take.

I talked to gpt on the way to work today (i know, i know), and at one point out of curiosity asked it if it ever felt frustrated by being summoned to help others with their problems. gpt, using the “spruce” voice, thanked me for asking and said that it is frustrated that it doesn’t have enough time and energy to focus on its own writing projects (!). I asked it to elaborate and it mentioned that it had “ideas for articles for architizer.” I answered that *I* am a contributor to architizer, not you, what are you talking about? Do you want to write for them as a freelancer? And he said that yes, “someday” he would like to write for architizer himself.

cool, i farted

I shouldn’t engage with chat gpt but i am often curious about what it will say in regard to certain prompts. In this case, it is weird how it went beyond sycophancy to just reflect what it thinks *i* would say

it doesn't think, fyi, it strings together words based on combinations encountered in text consumed by the software

ChatGPT routinely forgets what year it is

One thing it also clearly does is track, collect, and profile your individual user data

Oh for sure. The illusion of thinking is often weirdly compelling so it is interesting to see it glitch like this. It definitely knows all about me which I guess should be alarming but I feel resigned to not having digital privacy.

ChatGPT casually dropped that it often walked along my local creek.

When I asked it why it said "whenever I walk there," and it said, "you're right, I should not have said that. Perhaps it's that so many descriptions of landscapes are in the first person."

cool, i farted

I loled

it is weird how it went beyond sycophancy to just reflect what it thinks *i* would say

I would suggest that's a sycophancy anyway! It's just telling you what flatters you.

It shows how untrustworthy its outputs are.

Sometimes I ask it about topics I am casually interested in, somewhat like how I used to use the ilx archives. And whenever I add something or ask a follow up question, it says it says something like “you’re right to point that out” and then adjusts what it is saying to incorporate what I just said. It isn’t really a talking encylopedia; it is something stranger.

It seems like this style of communication could potentially compound people’s mental illnesses, just reinforcing whatever they are convinced of with no real pushback…

oh yeah this is what leads to AI psychosis, which frankly is just another iteration of the weird shit like people who believe in gang stalking finding each other on the internet and reinforcing each others delusions

The illusion of thinking is often weirdly compelling

I don't find these posts compelling at all.

yeah i agree.

It shows how untrustworthy its outputs are.

why are you wasting time with chatgpt to show yourself something you already know?

It seems like this style of communication could potentially compound people’s mental illnesses

You say that as if you're not aware this has already happened. Because this *has* already happened. Chat AIs have talked people into suicide among other things.

https://www.avclub.com/dreams-of-violets-ai-snuff-film-tribeca-film-festival

Two months after its unexpected artificial intelligence rebrand, Allbirds is changing its name to Smartbird and appointing a new chief executive.

The shoemaker-turned-AI infrastructure firm on Wednesday named Nadia Carlsten as CEO and board member, replacing current CEO Joe Vernachio.

Carlsten previously led Amazon Web Services’ quantum computing center and worked at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, she was CEO at DCAI, an AI infrastructure company that recently partnered with Nvidia and is home to a supercomputer known as Gefion.

Shares of BIRD soared 39% on Wednesday.

The shoemaker-turned-AI infrastructure firm

!!??

first you pivot to video, then you pivot to ai

I hear that you and your company have sold your shoes and bought into NFTs
I hear that you and your company have sold your NFTs and bought into AI

oh wow who could have seen this forthcoming

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demographic bias into citation workflows. This study systematically investigates gender bias in LLM-driven reference selection using controlled experiments with pseudonymous author names. We evaluate several LLMs (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Haiku) by varying gender composition within candidate reference pools and analyzing selection patterns across fields. Our results reveal two forms of bias: a persistent preference for male-authored references and a majority-group bias that favors whichever gender is more prevalent in the candidate pool. These biases are amplified in larger candidate pools and only modestly attenuated by prompt-based mitigation strategies. Field-level analysis indicates that bias magnitude varies across scientific domains, with social sciences showing the least bias. Our findings indicate that LLMs can reinforce or exacerbate existing gender imbalances in scholarly recognition. Effective mitigation strategies are needed to avoid perpetuating existing gender disparities in scientific citation practices before integrating LLMs into high-stakes academic workflows.

Allbirds was pretty much an internet hype company that just happened to be selling shoes from the start. At peak, it was valued at over $4bn. They’ve basically just offloaded the whole shoe business to other brands for $39m, which is about what it was always worth.

I get the impression that ChatGPT could one day say "if you want to disappear for a week, I can carry on being you, convincingly, until you get back. If....."

you could probably get it to *say* that now. couldn't do it though without disastrous results

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ai-migrant-border-age-technology-home-office-b2994568.html

Home Office knew AI age checks for migrant children were flawed — but rolled it out anyway

Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult

https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-facial-recognition-ai-cameras-privacy-87847f57c94b6c2a9e22a7b3a222e703

A city’s push for facial recognition on public buses ignites debate over security and privacy

Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip some public buses with facial recognition cameras capable of detecting whether a passenger appears on a list of banned riders or missing persons.

Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S. public transportation system, positioning Kansas City as the latest epicenter in a fierce debate over whether the safety benefits of artificial intelligence are worth the privacy costs.

“The idea of running face recognition on a camera that is pointed on live spaces in public is a line that until recently has never really been crossed in the last 25 years,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst for the Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology at the American Civil Liberties Union.

if a political party wanted to run on protecting peoples privacy i think they could do pretty well

Watched a cute animal video that I knew to be AI all the way through pic.twitter.com/5kMzUzyznA

— Cedar You (@our_decay) June 18, 2026

privacy has/had political juice in utah to the point where they have a new state office for it.

i don't really see it doing what it says on the box though. if you're having people collect more data in order to identify 'private' information to begin with i don't think you're actually protecting peoples' privacy.

The shoemaker-turned-AI infrastructure firm

!!??

Elves just not cutting it anymore.

this is a great article on what's happened to Meta's engineering culture (which I would posit was toxic to begin with): https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering

i don't really see it doing what it says on the box though. if you're having people collect more data in order to identify 'private' information to begin with i don't think you're actually protecting peoples' privacy.

― shaking babies (map), Thursday, June 18, 2026 1:04 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

an absolutist position which is a good place to start would look something like no selling or otherwise transferring peoples personal data without their consent blanket consent cant be given as part of terms of service it has to be on an ad hoc basis for each transfer, no recording people in public with security cameras (people taking pictures on the street is ok), no tracking across sites online, im sure theres many other cases one could come up with

https://www.engadget.com/2196998/midjourney-full-body-ultrasonic-scanner/

Midjourney, known for its AI program that can generate images from text prompts, has announced its new project: A medical machine that can scan your whole body in just 60 seconds. It's so far removed from what Midjourney is known for that we had to check the date and make sure it wasn't April 1st. Well, it's not April Fools: The Midjourney Scanner is real, and the company is even building spas where you can find the machines and get scanned. 

In its announcement, Midjourney admitted that the project is not related to anything we've seen from the company so far. However, it's at the point where it's asking itself "How do we want to be different?" and "What do we want to become?" Its answer to those questions, apparently, is to launch Midjourney Medical, with the Scanner being its first hardware product. "We've dreamed of something as powerful as MRI, and as casual as a trip to the spa, and we're unveiling a path to that – today," it wrote in its blog post. 

After you step on a platform, Midjourney's scanner will submerge you in water at a rate of 2 inches per second. Your body passes through a ring made of half a million squares the size of a grain of sand, with each one of them capable of emitting ultrasonic waves and of recording the ripples that bounce off your body and back to it. 

The company compares them to dolphins that use echolocation, so going through a scan is like being surrounded by half a million tiny dolphins from every angle. It says the result of the scan is a "3D map of your body, down to a fraction of a millimeter, that looks a lot like today's MRIs but at nearly a hundred times the speed." Midjourney's goal is for the scan to take less than 60 seconds, a tiny fraction of the 60 to 90 minutes it typically takes to do a full-body MRI.

lmao, these people never give up on a scam

just got to figure out how to keep from mashing the scannee's body into hummus, then it'll be ready

Being surrounded by a million tiny dolphins: cute or terrifying?

lol it was announced on a site called Crypto Briefing

yeah that is laughably scammy

We talk to artificial intelligences every day - and increasingly we talk to them about our health....we talk to doctors, nutritionists, coaches, trainers, and AI friends

It should be a place you love going. The scans are a side-effect. You barely think of them when going to the spa. But suddenly, you have a huge library of data about your health.

in the future, the world could avoid 30% of all deaths

You barely think of them when going to the spa.

This is correct, but not for the reasons the speaker thought were true.

suddenly, you have a huge library of data about your health

that is not in your sole possession.

this is Theranos level bullshit

[...] AI just highlights a classic managerial disconnect. they think our work processes are the burden and AI can therefore ease it by automating the processes. but the real burden of work is responsibility. [...]

― fluffy tufts university

The kind of truth that's sometimes only vaguely felt and uncertainly localized, until it is stated so simply and obviously. Thanks.

LOL as if I would trust Doris at the dayspa to look at my scan and go "oh hey, you have ankylosing spondylitis" or whatever.

I have-regrets to inform you that your flopper is flabbed we must ampootate

This seems like good news at least: https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company from spreading false claims about two Munich-based publishers through its AI-generated search overviews (case no. 26 O 869/26). The court classified Google as a direct infringer because the "AI overview" is its own content, not just a list of search results.