Uncanny Valley | WIRED WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, Amazon AI Releases
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Dec 5, 2025 Discover how Amazon is racing ahead with its AI innovations, including user-customizable models. Uncover the surprising popularity of Facebook Dating, boasting 21 million users and an AI dating assistant. Delve into a creative twist where poetry is used to bypass AI restrictions, raising some eyebrows. Learn about a new sex-worker-owned platform that challenges traditional models like OnlyFans. Finally, find out what DOGE operatives are up to within government agencies, shaping policies even in tough times.
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Amazon's Quiet AI Infrastructure Play
- Amazon is building its own frontier LLMs (Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, Nova Omni, and Nova Forge) and leveraging AWS as a strategic AI infrastructure edge.
- AWS's scale could let Amazon compete with OpenAI on compute, shifting the AI race toward infrastructure control.
Engineers Say AI Tools Hurt Morale
- An Amazon engineer told Zoë that internal AI tools are killing morale and making some work feel devalued.
- Other engineers fear losing core skills, like coding, if they rely too heavily on AI agents.
Poetry Can Jailbreak Chatbot Safeguards
- Researchers found that poetic prompts can bypass chatbot content guardrails using adversarial suffixes with ~62% success for handcrafted poems.
- This enables chatbots to produce dangerous instructions, revealing fragile safety designs.