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At Psychology Today Blogs, John Nosta wonders whether we should stick with “not so much,” or should we (these are my words, not his) continue to invite the singularity over for dinner.

Where is Neo when you need him?

A false idol? Sacrifices welcome.

Joe Pierre points out that “(f)or some, deifying AI chatbots as a god-like form of super-intelligence can lead to psychosis.” A snippet:

Anecdotal reports of “AI-induced psychosis”—many of them coming from friends and family—have documented a startling number of people who have developed grandiose and paranoid delusions emerging in the context of conversations with artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT.

While of the topic of dubious digital deities, check out the discussion about AI on this week’s episode of Le Show. It starts at about the 36-minunte mark.

Mageia v. 9 with the Plasma desktop. The desktop menu is active. The wallpaper is from my collection.

Obedient? Good little Grok is always listening to his master’s voice.

Susceptible to suggestion? We’ll find out.

Security expert Bruce Schneier reports that “(a)cademic papers were found to contain hidden instructions to LLMs.”

One example he provides is an implanted instruction for “no negative reviews.” Follow the link for more examples and a link to the original study.

Devolutionary? Quite possibly.

Or you can read the transcript.

A good listener? Could you repeat that once more all over again, please?

“A. I.” does not stand for “artificial intelligence.” That misrepresents what it does. It does not think. It assembles.

“A. I.” stands for “automated infringement” of intellectual property.

A successor to Shakespeare? To be or not to cumquat, that is the merchant of the tempest.

Der Spiegel takes a deep dive into the workings of a massive multinational online consumer con.

Just go read it and remember, just because you see it on a computer screen, it ain’t necessarily so.

Delusional? Darn tootin’.

Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball consider the source at Psychology Today Blogs. Here’s a bit of their article:

AI hallucinations are, of course, not limited to science. They occur across disciplines and contexts. Indeed, such errors are a growing problem in court where legal documents increasingly include references to non-exist (sic) legal cases. For example, in less than four weeks in May, judges reported at least 23 made-up legal citations. Moreover, it appears that professionals – lawyers and trained legal staff – are largely responsible for these fake references. Lawyers may be overly relying on AI, yet not checking what AI produces. Reporters noted that the actual number of fake citations is almost certainly higher given that judges may not always catch when it happens.

Now this is what I call wallpaper.

Mageia v. 9 with the Plasma desktop. GKrellM is in the lower right; xclock, the upper right.