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Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post)

How an obscure website became a force in America’s election information machine
Experts are concerned the new crop of influential AI-created sites could quietly spread errors to millions of voters.

National Geographic Society sent my mother a fundraising letter. She asked if she should donate, and i said absolutely not, they partnered with the Murdochs, the infamous reactionary propagandists. I checked my facts though and it's worse— the magazine and TV channels and everything anyone actually knows about in 2015 became 73% owned by 21st Century Fox which itself is now owned by Disney. And they fired all the magazine writers in 2023. So i feel that this is fully a for-profit ope…

I guess I won’t hit send on this reply to a right-wing Princeton alum organization.
“You can’t be serious, you fascist racist MAGAt pigs. Take my address off your mailing list and burn in hell.”
But I enjoyed composing it.

How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions https://www.404media.co/how-a-massive-chinese-crime-ring-hacked-staples-to-steal-millions/

We've tweaked the front page of the Museum Data Service site! You can instantly see how many millions of object records have been shared by hundreds of museums https://museumdata.uk/
And the 'Request a Search API key' form is live - if you want a search api key, try it and let us know if any tweaks wo…

Museum Data Service
A free new service that aims to bring together and share all the object records of all UK museums.

So after an obviously politically-motivated attempt to prosecute people who protested against ICE—so obvious they could not get a grand jury to indict, even after dismissing jurors who correctly called the case "a crock of s---", the Chicago US prosecutors office cites the stress caused by the governments own orgy of violence—violence against immigrants, people of color, and anybody trying to stop the kidnappings and assaults—as excusing away mistakes.
“This case involved irr…

Hmm, I wonder why they didn’t just use a herd of #AI agents to fix the code?
Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Software Flaws Exposed By Anthropic's Mythos - Slashdot

How anyone can even consider voting for any Republicans anymore is beyond me.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/21/trump-deportation-deals
"Nika is one of more than 25,000 people deported by the Trump admi…

When discussing scientific achievements made mostly or partly by AI systems, especially the headline-making ones, it's good to think about the resources being allotted to such projects, which are plausibly incomparable to previous investment. For instance, I suspect that no one had previously invested several millions of dollars to hire a team of mathematicians exclusively to tackle a single millennium problem.

Destroying rare books to stave off large language model collapse seems like a far cry from recursive self-improvement for generative 'AI'.