what's the dumbest shit in AI annoying everyone today, I need to write one up

[castanea_jo@ni.hil.ist]

@davidgerard Apparently stress about ignoring/resisting use at work is bleeding into my dreams. That may not be writeable but it is annoying af personally.

[tom@labyrinth.social]

@davidgerard idk how new this is but I recently noticed YouTube shorts pushing a "reimagine" feature where you're prompted to use the short as the basis for an AI slop video based on it (like, take the guy in the video and make him do a little dance, or a spider falls into frame and everyone freaks out)

[mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@davidgerard antropic getting in bed with spacex is the "daaaaaamn" for today. Just look at THAT datacenter.

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@wordshaper @davidgerard The true irony, if you read the most cogent cybersecurity analysis posted for this situation, is that it DOESN'T EVEN USE THE LOCAL MODEL. It just sets it up for future abuse of the user's system. Some have suggested this violates the Computer Misuse Act in the UK. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

[peter_mcmahan@mas.to]

@davidgerard
Don't type "ignore all previous instructions" or you'll make the robot cry!

[robbo@mutual.tls.zone]

@njoseph @davidgerard In Greek, this is a lament.

[wordshaper@weatherishappening.network]

@bms48 @davidgerard Eh, I'd be inclined to think most of the legal analysis in that blog post is perhaps a bit hyperbolic, since you could reasonably apply it to things like pre-downloaded fonts, or shard libraries, or a big cache of images that any app might have for its use. (I can say many things about large blobs of unused data that an app might have but "this is illegal" isn't in that set)

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@wordshaper @davidgerard The key difference here is if an "agentic" approach is adopted. Those things you've cited are largely static; there's nothing inherently pseudo-autonomous about them. People ascribe conscious agency to tech sold as "AI" that isn't there, but if a local LLM model is used to enable "agentic" services with a degree of local pseudo-autonomy (still directed by human prompting), we might have a cybersecurity problem.

[gericci@indieweb.social]

@davidgerard AI?

[wordshaper@weatherishappening.network]

@bms48 @davidgerard "Those things you've cited are largely static"... I have some bad news about font files. Also shared libraries.

This argument would also mean that if chrome had a blob of javascript libraries it exposed then that'd be an issue. Or a shared library that added javascript functions. (Even if they weren't used or exposed)

The legal argument there is really thin. But that's fine, snagging 4G on every install everywhere is more than bad enough, even if it were just fonts.

[jztusk@mastodon.social]

@peter_mcmahan @davidgerard

This is new to me, and is the most barftastic thing I've seen in a while.

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@davidgerard

elon musk on trial count? He's certainly annoying the judge

Musk's AI empire is unraveling — the trial is just the beginning

From OpenAI's founding to the xAI implosion, a timeline of Elon Musk's decade-long obsession with controlling AI.

Electrek (electrek.co)

[hennes@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Not worth writing about but.

1. I work for a company which is green, responsible, thinks about the planet and proudly puts that on its trucks.

2. We need to burn more forests, pollute more air, waste more water (aka use more AI).

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@wordshaper @davidgerard I am of course using the term "static" in the sense of agency, not code linkage (e.g. ELF PLT and ECOFF thunks) or the possible Turing completeness of certain glyph formats... JS does take the cake. FWIW I'm evaluating a certain RPC substrate for some tasks and its schemata allow for annotations, perhaps containing YAML which requires sandboxing and breaking the loop to defeat Turing completeness from a defensive cybersecurity posture

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@bms48 @wordshaper yeah the legal arguments are entirely speculative and i would say "cool story, call me when you get it to stick"

i mean NOYB has had some spectacular GDPR successes! but again, call me when

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@jztusk @peter_mcmahan yeah those are hard AI doomsday cranks

[haverholm@radikal.social]

@davidgerard Maybe this bullshit: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/06/more-liability-will-make-ai-chatbots-worse-at-preventing-suicide/

Apparently, demanding provider liability for chatbots' potentially terrible suicide prevention advice is a "moral panic", and also somehow makes the chatbot responses even worse...? 🤨

[michael_w_busch@mastodon.online]

@davidgerard

There is the group of American Senators who want to spend government education funds on "K-12 AI curricula and teacher training".

By which they apparently mean "waste education funds on hyping the automated plagiarism machines"

[stuartmarks@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard Remember last week when Jer Crane of PocketOS wrote up the incident where Cursor deleted their production database and its backup? The incident has been covered ad nauseam but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone analyze Crane’s statements:

“It confessed in writing. … The Agent’s Confession … This is the agent on the record, in writing.”

This is so mind-bogglingly stupid I don’t know where to begin. Maybe you do.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@haverholm Masnick will never not make excuses for slop