Eye on AI — 10/16

checking on Skynet

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says we’re going to need to tile the entire Earth with data centers to power AI

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots you can fuck

ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get instructions on how to create homemade explosives, maximize human suffering with chemical agents, create napalm, disguise a biological weapon, and build a nuclear bomb

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Over 50 percent of the internet is now AI slop, new data finds

Microsoft to provide free Copilot tools for Washington state schools amid debate over AI’s role in learning

Drug dealers’ capitalism: The first hit is always free.

New paper finds that when you reward AI for success on social media, it becomes increasingly sociopathic

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

Robin Williams’ daughter tells fans to ‘stop sending me AI videos of Dad’: It’s ‘gross’ and ‘not what he’d want’

Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage

But what’s the entire point of an AI companion bot, if not emotional manipulation?

Stanford study: ‘AI’ generated ‘workslop’ actually making productivity worse

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be your future operating system

YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

Meta launches ‘Vibes,’ a new short-video feed of AI-generated content nobody asked for

Earlier ominous AI news

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