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A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding Canadian city councils with climate misinformation, and already having some 'success'.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/investigations/weaponized-ai-chatbot-…

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to resonate with municipal officials’ duty to represent local interests. The chatbot drops the cost of misinformation to "close to zero."

Prompt-Hacking: Apple-Intelligence-Schreibwerkzeuge zum Chatbot machen
Apple hat es gezielt unterlassen, Apple Intelligence mit eigenem Chatbot auszurüsten – nur ChatGPT ist aktivierbar. Mittels Writing Tools geht es aber dennoch.

Vorwurf: Hinter KI-Chatbot steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 indische Programmierer
KI-Chatbot Natasha sollte Kunden im Baukastenprinzip mobile Apps entwickeln. Medienberichte werfen die Frage auf: Steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 Inder dahinter?

Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly ‘scraping’ user comments to train chatbot Claude
https://apnews.com/article/reddit-sues-ai-company-anthropic-claude-chatbot-f5ea042beb253a3f05a091e70531692d

Reddit sues Anthropic, accusing the AI company of illegally scraping data from its site
Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude. Reddit claims that Anthropic has used automated bots to access Reddit’s content despite being asked not to do so. Anthropic didn’t immediately return a request for comment Wednesday.

See, this is another problem with the chatbot bullshit. Here, an OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to 'subhuman' men saying they won't be able to find chicks no matter how much confidence they fake.
Dudes, let me tell you, this is TOTAL bullshit. I mean, if I can find a wife, ANYONE can. 😂 The incel bullshit is so sad. It's all lies, they're believing all these lies.

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology

An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol…

Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

»Vorwurf – Hinter KI-Chatbot steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 indische Programmierer:
KI-Chatbot Natasha sollte Kunden im Baukastenprinzip mobile Apps entwickeln. Medienberichte werfen die Frage auf - Steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 Inder dahinter?«
Überrascht dies wem und wenn ja weshalb? Dies musste doch mal öffentlich werden da KI-Marketing eh belügend ist mMn. Für deren Training werden Menschen seit jeher ausgenommen.
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Vorwurf: Hinter KI-Chatbot steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 indische Programmierer
KI-Chatbot Natasha sollte Kunden im Baukastenprinzip mobile Apps entwickeln. Medienberichte werfen die Frage auf: Steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 Inder dahinter?

With the advent of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum's first psychotherapist chatbot, NLP took another major step with pattern-based substitution algorithms based on simple regular expressions.
Weizenbaum, Joseph (1966). ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Com. of the ACM. 9: 36–45.

Das ewige Leben des Mechanical Turk.
https://www.heise.de/news/Vorwurf-Hinter-KI-Chatbot-steckten-in-Wirklichkeit-700-indische-Programmierer-10422912.html

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Vorwurf: Hinter KI-Chatbot steckten in Wirklichkeit 700 indische Programmierer

Jetzt wissen wir alle inzwischen, dass #ElonMusk mit dem, was früher mal #Wahrheit genannt wurde, eine sehr interessante und spannungsvolle Beziehung unterhält.
Anscheinend stehen ihm jedoch nicht alle

"They ran the bare job titles through GPT, without looking at the details of the specific jobs, and got the chatbot to guess what those titles would have meant. Then they decided the chatbot could do most of the jobs. They were, after all, using the chatbot to do their job."
Rule: your job can successfully be taken over by a chatbot if it comes with no accountability.

“Humans generally want to feel chosen and special, and some individuals will believe they are to an extraordinary degree.” —YDS Prof Yii-Jan Lin as quoted in Rolling Stone on A.I. and religious fervor. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05740 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

ChatWise: A Strategy-Guided Chatbot for Enhancing Cognitive Support in Older Adults
Cognitive health in older adults presents a growing challenge. Although conversational interventions show feasibility in improving cognitive wellness, human caregiver resources remain overloaded. AI-based chatbots have shown promise, yet existing work is often limited to implicit strategies or heavily depends on training and label resources. In response, we propose a strategy-guided AI chatbot named ChatWise that follows a dual-level conversation reasoning framework. It integrates macro-level s…

"A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange

A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation
Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received AI emails from a group called KICLEI, a name that mimics the international network ICLEI.

Zuckerberg’s new Meta AI app gets personal in a very creepy way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/meta-ai-privacy/
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KI oder nicht KI, das ist hier die Frage! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
Builder.ai, ein einst hochgehandeltes KI-Start-up mit Sitz in London, sorgt für Schlagzeilen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10422912?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.ma…

«OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men»
https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men/

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

artificial intelligence “enables the cost of misinformation to come close to zero.” 
And it is starts with flooding Canadian city council mailboxes with climate misinformation https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/2

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to resonate with municipal officials’ duty to represent local interests. The chatbot drops the cost of misinformation to "close to zero."

Obviously.
https://newsie.social/@infodocket/114613809101339221

AI cannot fact check
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250602-hey-chatbot-is-this-true-ai-factchecks-sow-misinformation

Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/chat

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds | TechCrunch
Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18407 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

A Statistical Framework for Ranking LLM-Based Chatbots
Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, with frameworks like Chatbot Arena providing pioneering platforms for evaluating these models. By facilitating millions of pairwise comparisons based on human judgments, Chatbot Arena has become a cornerstone in LLM evaluation, offering rich datasets for ranking models in open-ended conversational tasks. Building upon this foundation, we propose a statistical framework that incorporates key advancements to address specif…

the first time i needed a lawyer an AI chatbot picked up... it was actually a good one who understood me and used my deranged ramblings of what happened, and basically filed a very complex form for me, right then and there, on the phone. It was a random law firm in cologne my legal insurance automatically forwarded me to. I was impressed, as I had not seen such a technology before, and my hatred towards AI Chatbots mainly stemmed from my experience with chatbots, and my hatred towards AI. Th…

COMUNICATO STAMPA – L’Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati lancia un chatbot powered by OpenAI sulla protezione dei dati online
https://www.

Dienstag: Betrüger nutzen S-pushTAN-Probleme, NSO Group will neues Verfahren
Betrugsseiten ködern Opfer NSO Group hält Strafsumme für zu hoch Bundeskartellamt sieht Missbrauch Berufung gegen EU-Vorgaben Inder hinter KI-Chatbot

«The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, plans to fire 10,000 civil servants by the end of this parliament, 2029 at latest. Reeves told the BBC that “advances in technology and artificial intelligence” would surely make this possible, let alone sensible»
LOL, the UK's civil services are already crumbling as is, between lack of staff and corruption. But surely the firing people and replacing them with "AI" will fix that.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/30/the-uk-will-totally-replace-two-thirds-of-junior-civil-servants-with-ai-chatbots-says-the-chatbot/

Durov announces Telegram's partnership with Musk's xAI, who says no deal signed yet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/durov-announces-telegrams-partnership-with.html

»Integration von Grok Telegram schließt 300-Millionen-Dollar-Deal mit #Musk:
#ElonMusk's KI-Chatbot Grok soll für ein Jahr in den Messenger Telegram integriert werden. Das hat Telegram-Gründer #PawelDurow

Integration von Grok: Telegram schließt 300-Millionen-Dollar-Deal mit Musk
Elon Musks KI-Chatbot Grok soll für ein Jahr in den Messenger Telegram integriert werden. Das hat Telegram-Gründer Pawel Durow bekannt gegeben. Nutzerdaten für das Training der KI will Telegram demnach nicht mit Grok teilen.

"My advice to young students today is to study language and mathematics. When you talk to a chatbot, you’re using everyday language to talk to a mathematical system that, in turn, talks back to you. Technical skills won’t be enough to deal with the unpredictable results in markets, so a broad-based knowledge of math and language will be the only way to adapt."

Can LLMs and humans be friends? Uncovering factors affecting human-AI intimacy formation
Yeseon Hong, Junhyuk Choi, Minju Kim, Bugeun Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24658

Can LLMs and humans be friends? Uncovering factors affecting human-AI intimacy formation
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in conversational roles, yet little is known about how intimacy emerges in human-LLM interactions. Although previous work emphasized the importance of self-disclosure in human-chatbot interaction, it is questionable whether gradual and reciprocal self-disclosure is also helpful in human-LLM interaction. Thus, this study examined three possible aspects contributing to intimacy formation: gradual self-disclosure, reciprocity, and naturalnes…

"Wenn ich träumen könnte, ist eine Welt, in der wir AGI haben, eine Welt des Überflusses."
So der #OpenAI Chef von #ChatGPT. Jazz, Lyrik, Imkern gar?
Kapitalismus ist Exzess. Der befreiende, strotzende Überfluss muss gegen AI arbeiten.

Every company is undergoing an invisible reorg. You report to your boss but your boss reports to an #AI, offloading the job of management entirely onto a bot and then merely communicating its wishes back to the team.
This is the Nothing Manager, surrounded by #LLM tools to avoid having to interact with…

AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss (The Everything App part 2)
As managers continue to outsource data-gathering and decision-making to LLMs, the person above you on the org chart is transforming into a chatbot's clerk – and leaving product teams with the consequences.

Am 3. April,15:00–16:30, bietet der Workshop "RAGtAIme – vom Custom GPT zum KI-Chatbot mit OpenAI Assistant" praxisnahe Einblicke in die Anwendung von KI im Bibliothekswesen. Uwe Dierolf (KIT-Bibliothek) erläutert RAG, Custom GPTs und die Entwicklung KI-gestützter Chatbots – auch ohne tiefgehende Programmierkenntnisse.
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Omfg, as much as I have mixed feelings about setting up ecommerce stores of any kind, Freewebstore is another level of nightmare.
Simulated chatbot "conversations" that make onboarding / offboarding annoyingly lengthy. GIVE ME OLD-FASHIONED FORMS GOD DAMMIT.
UX that treats me like a toddler while trying way too hard to upgrade me to a paid plan.
Oh, and of course. AI. AI this, AI that 😓 😡
Never, never, never again.

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

I made another foray into the ethics of AI, this time with my colleagues Jan-Willem van der Rijt and Bram Vaassen.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05723
We argue that some interactions with chatbots involve a kind of offense to users' dignity. When we treat chatbots as if they were fello…

I'm not shocked that Musk would try to manipulate Grok to vent his opinions. We've seen his manipulation before in the twitter recommender system.
I am kind of fascinated by how difficult it is. I think that broadly trained LLMs tend to converge to the same "worldview", which is mostly left-libertarian.
You can't really force them away from this on one issue without introducing inconsistencies, and breaking the guardrails.

#ai

Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok
Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.

Je p̂ropose un atelier sur ChatMD ce samedi de 10h Š 11h aux Journées du Logiciel Libre Š Lyon.
ChatMD est un logiciel libre et gratuit qui permet de créer un chatbot Š partir d'un simple fichier en Markdown.
Hésitez pas Š me dire si vous venez Š la JDLL !
#JDLL #jdll2025
#ChatMD
#LaForgeEdu
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AI is changing the world rapidly, and we are still only at the beginning.
So the fact that #ElonMusk is trying to teach his #AI to parrot conspiracy theories is a scandal.
The fact that he doesn't seem to be able to is wonderful news.