Introduction

AI Hell has frozen over for a single hour. Alex and Emily visit all seven circles in a tour of the worst in bite-sized BS.

References:

Pentagon moving toward letting AI weapons autonomously kill humans

NYC Mayor uses AI to make robocalls in languages he doesn’t speak

University of Michigan investing in OpenAI

Tesla: claims of “full self-driving” are free speech

LLMs may not "understand" output

'Maths-ticated' data

LLMs can’t analyze an SEC filing

How GPT-4 can be used to create fake datasets

Paper thanking GPT-4 concludes LLMs are good for science

Will AI Improve Healthcare? Consumers Think So

US struggling to regulate AI in healthcare

Andrew Ng's low p(doom)

Presenting the “Off-Grid AGI Safety Facility”

Chess is in the training data

DropBox files now shared with OpenAI

Underline.io and ‘commercial exploitation’

Axel Springer, OpenAI strike "real-time news" deal

Adobe Stock selling AI-generated images of Israel-Hamas conflict

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by AI Writers

Cruise confirms robotaxis rely on human assistance every 4-5 miles

Underage workers training AI, exposed to traumatic content

Prisoners training AI in Finland

ChatGPT gives better output in response to emotional language
- An explanation for bad AI journalism

UK judges now permitted to use ChatGPT in legal rulings.

Michael Cohen's attorney apparently used generative AI in court petition

Brazilian city enacts ordinance secretly written by ChatGPT

The lawyers getting fired for using ChatGPT

Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives

Your palette-cleanser: Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?

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Music by Toby Menon.
Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
Production by Christie Taylor.