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The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-04 08:00:57

Recently, a woman slowed down a line at the post office, waving her phone at the clerk. ChatGPT told her there's a "price match promise" on the USPS website. No such promise exists. But she trusted what the AI "knows" more than the postal worker—as if she'd consulted an oracle rather than a statistical text generator accommodating her wishes. This scene reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about AI chatbots. There is nothing inherently special, authoritative, or accurate about AI-generated ou

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Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-04 09:57:08

Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump, inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May 30, 2025. Sales of Tesla cars in Europe plunged in July, in the company's seventh consecutive month of declines, while Chinese rival BYD saw a monthly surge, data released on Thursday showed. New car registrations of Tesla vehicles totaled 8,837 in July, down 40% year-on-year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, or ACEA. BYD meanwhile recor

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This Bluetooth tracker earned my trust over AirTags (and it works on Android, too)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-04 08:45:18

Pebblebee Clip ZDNET's key takeaways The finder tag is equipped with a rechargeable battery, so you won't have to throw away old button cells It features a bright LED for finding things in low light. The tag is on the pricier side. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I have a habit of putting things down and forgetting where I put them, so finder tags like the Apple AirTag have been a game-changer for me, saving me endless amounts of time and frustration.

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On the screen, Libyans learned about everything but themselves (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Mohammed Alnaas 2025-11-30 18:12:22

The first Hollywood film I watched in a theater was “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” in 2017 in Tunis — the movie in which Disney definitively ruined the franchise forever. Before that, in Libya, I used to buy pirated movies on CDs, or download them from illegal websites. Even the Libyan government got in on the piracy racket, illegally packaging the Arabic-speaking Disney channel along with 19 others and selling it just for 150 Libyan dinars. I say “just,” but 150 Libyan dinars was around $100 U.S.,

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Will Bardenwerper on Baseball's Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 06:46:15

Journalist Will Bardenwerper joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss his new book, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America, which explores the consequences of Major League Baseball cutting 40 affiliated minor league teams, each one only as expensive as an average Major League salary. He explains how the accessibility and affordability of minor league baseball has made it a unique gathering point for working-class communities like the one in

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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience

news.ycombinator.com Hannah Close 2025-11-30 20:43:55

What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience Dan Nixon Mar 1st, 2021 ‘How is the social fabric being rendered digital? How does a particular ‘currency of ideas’ shape how we see ourselves and others on social media platforms, and what might we experiment with here? How do our egos come to take centre-stage in our online spaces? What options do we have, amidst the algorithms and incentives underpinning our media ecosystem, for getting a more expansive view of what’s

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Nearly Every Whale Shark at This Tourist Destination Bears Human-Made Scars

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-04 05:00:25

The world’s largest living fish has plenty to fear from people. New research shows that a large proportion of whale sharks at a popular and protected tourism region bear scars caused by human activity. A large group of marine scientists examined more than a decade’s worth of whale shark sightings in the Bird’s Head Seascape off Indonesia. Among other things, they found that over half of the sharks had injuries attributable to humans. Many of these injuries were preventable, the researchers say,

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Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, Aug. 28

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 03:31:00

Gael Cooper CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The Totally Sweet '90s." She's been a journalist since 1989, working at Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Sidewalk, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and NBC News Digital. She's Gen X in birthdate, word and deed. If Marathon candy bars ever come back, she'll be first in line.

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 03:05:11

For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "A

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Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

news.ycombinator.com Amy Amla Kartar 2025-12-04 06:22:24

The popularity of breathwork as a therapeutic tool for psychological distress is rapidly expanding. Breathwork practices that increase ventilatory rate or depth, facilitated by music, can evoke subjective experiential states analogous to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) evoked by psychedelic substances. These states include components such as euphoria, bliss, and perceptual differences. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the profound subjective effects of high ventilation b

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FDA approves updated covid vaccines, but with severe new limits

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-04 06:10:15

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. On Wednesday, the FDA approved the new round of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax for use by seniors over the age of 65. But for anyone younger than that, the FDA approval only mentions people who have “at least one underlying condition that pu

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 15:05:11

For the better part of a year, we've watched — and reported — in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "A

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Your favorite e-ink sketchbook might be getting smaller

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-04 16:55:24

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR A very short reMarkable “special event” on YouTube teases a new device heading to shelves. Interested shoppers can tune in on September 3 at 8 AM ET to find out more details. For now, speculation suggests a smaller form factor. It appears reMarkable isn’t done scribbling in the e-ink margins. The company dropped a cryptic teaser video, showing off what looks like a downsized tablet with familiar Paper Pro DNA. While the clip doesn’t confirm much beyon

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OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other's AI systems

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 16:36:37

Most of the time, AI companies are locked in a race to the top, treating each other as rivals and competitors. Today, OpenAI and Anthropic revealed that they agreed to evaluate the alignment of each other's publicly available systems and shared the results of their analyses. The full reports get pretty technical, but are worth a read for anyone who's following the nuts and bolts of AI development. A broad summary showed some flaws with each company's offerings, as well as revealing pointers for

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OpenAI Admits Safety Controls ‘Degrade,’ As Wrongful Death Lawsuit Grabs Headlines

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-12-04 16:28:46

ChatGPT’s safety guardrails may “degrade” after long conversations, the company that makes it, OpenAI, told Gizmodo Wednesday. “ChatGPT includes safeguards such as directing people to crisis helplines and referring them to real-world resources. While these safeguards work best in common, short exchanges, we’ve learned over time that they can sometimes become less reliable in long interactions where parts of the model’s safety training may degrade,” an OpenAI spokesperson told Gizmodo. In a blo

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Delivery Companies Around the World Stop Shipments to the US: Here's Who's Affected

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 14:45:51

Primary shipping services, including the European branch of DHL, multiple European state postal services, Australia Post, Japan Post and Taiwan's state postal service, have stopped shipping consumer goods of varying amounts (over $100 in some cases) to the US. The pause is currently expected to be temporary as countries respond to the latest US tariff measures, but could have a significant impact on US businesses selling anything from Taiwanese GPUs and Japanese card packs to European electronic

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AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-04 20:10:03

Are "dark patterns" and product design choices to blame for the disturbing phenomenon increasingly referred to as "AI psychosis" by mental health professionals? According to some experts, the answer is yes. AI chatbots are pulling a large number of people into strange mental spirals, in which the human-sounding AI convinces users that they've unlocked a sentient being or spiritual entity, uncovered an insidious government conspiracy, or created a new kind of math and physics. Many of these fan

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OpenAI Plans to Add Parental Controls to ChatGPT After Lawsuit Over Teen's Death

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-04 20:35:47

OpenAI has announced its plans to implement parental controls and enhanced safety measures for ChatGPT after parents filed a lawsuit this week in California state court alleging the popular AI chatbot contributed to their 16-year-old son's suicide earlier this year. The company said it feels "a deep responsibility to help those who need it most," and is working to better respond to situations involving chatbot users who may be experiencing mental health crises and suicidal ideation. "We will a

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MongoDB stock surges 37% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-05 02:00:46

MongoDB shares skyrocketed 37% on Wednesday after the database software company posted better-than-expected fiscal results and gave an upbeat forecast. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $591 million vs. $556 million expected MongoDB's revenue increased 24% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended July 31. The company had a net loss of $47.04 millio

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Passenger Assaulted in Viral TikTok Video Sues Southwest Airlines, Blames Seating Plan

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-05 02:20:03

Video footage went viral on social media earlier this summer after an intoxicated woman was seen on a Southwest Airlines flight pulling another woman’s hair and shouting abusive things before being subdued and arrested. Now the woman who was attacked has filed a lawsuit against her attacker and named Southwest as a co-defendant, partially blaming the airline’s open seating policy for the confrontation. Leanna Perry, identified as a 32-year-old illustrator from Brooklyn by the New York Post, was

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Japanese Online Marketplace Begs People to Stop Selling Ultrasound Photos

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-12-05 02:35:15

Some people will tell you that no one wants to see pictures of your kids, but they’ve apparently never been on the Japanese marketplace app Mercari. According to SoraNews24, there was a surprisingly robust market for ultrasound photos on the e-commerce platform, which resulted in Mercari ultimately banning the sale of said images. Ultrasound images have landed on the list of “inappropriate items” that Mercari maintains, which are restricted from being sold on the platform. The ban will go into

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I trust this Bluetooth tracker more than Apple AirTags - and it works with iPhone and Android

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-12-05 06:27:00

Pebblebee Clip ZDNET's key takeaways The finder tag is equipped with a rechargeable battery, so you won't have to throw away old button cells It features a bright LED for finding things in low light. The tag is on the pricier side. View now at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. I have a habit of putting things down and forgetting where I put them, so finder tags like the Apple AirTag have been a game-changer for me, saving me endless amounts of time and frustration.

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I Am An AI Hater

news.ycombinator.com Moser'S Frame Shop 2025-12-05 06:10:37

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. To speak politely about AI, you put disclaimers before criticism: of course I’m not against it entirely; perhaps in a few years when; maybe for other purposes, but. You are supposed to debate how and when it should be used. You are supposed to take for granted that it must be useful somewhere, to someone, for something, eventually. People who are rich and smart and respected are saying so, and it would be arroga

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OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-05 06:14:01

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce competition. The effort aimed to surface blind spots in each company’s internal evaluations and demonstrate how leading AI companies can work together on safety and alignment work in the future. In an interview with TechCrunch, OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba said this kind of collaboration is increa

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The AI Researchers That Mark Zuckerberg Lured to Work for Him With Huge Payments Are Already Quitting for Mysterious Reasons

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-05 10:06:19

Even in the money-soaked world of AI, the hiring efforts of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg stood out this year as he enticed top machine learning researchers with payments reportedly reaching up to $1 billion to defect from their employers and come work for him instead. The overtures weren't always successful; in one embarrassing case, an individual was offered 10-figures to work at Meta's so-called Superintelligence initiative — but turned it down to stay at Thinking Machines Lab, a venture star

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VIM Master

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 08:50:54

VIM Master VIM Master is a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short, focused levels. No installs required—just open index.html and start practicing. Demo Open index.html directly in your browser. directly in your browser. Best viewed on desktop for full keyboard support. Screenshot Features Normal/Insert modes with an on-screen status bar Command log showing your keystrokes Levels that validate your action outcomes (not just keystrokes

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Our First Look at Nicolas Cage’s Jesus Horror Movie Is 20 Seconds of Agony

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-12-05 11:00:13

Nicolas Cage has become his own genre at this point, and for every risky triumph (Longlegs, Dream Scenario, Mandy) or intriguing lurch into the edgier fringes of the mainstream (Renfield, the upcoming Spider-Noir series), there have been several misfires. It remains to be seen where The Carpenter’s Son will fall, but the premise is bonkers enough to make us pay attention. Yes, this is the Jesus horror movie, and the first teaser is here. It’s short, but it’s still extremely unnerving. We first

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Join me and the Android Authority team for a Pixel 10 series AMA right now!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:00:09

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority After its announcement last week, the Pixel 10 series will officially start shipping tomorrow, August 28, 2025. Many of you have already pre-ordered one of the three phones, but many are probably still waiting for real-world feedback before they make up their mind. That’s what we’re here for. If you’re eager to know more about the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL, their performance, how specific features work and how good they are, you can join me,

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Pixel 10’s Tensor G5 deep dive: All the info Google didn’t tell us about its new chip

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:30:30

Tensor is the Pixel’s secret sauce, empowering the series with AI smarts you can’t find elsewhere and solid-enough performance and battery life to last the day. However, Google has been quieter than in previous years about exactly what went into the Tensor G5 inside the Pixel 10 series. The silence doesn’t bode well; companies usually scream their subtlest of improvements from the rooftops. Still, with Pixel 10 in hand, I’ve managed to discern the good and the bad of the Tensor G5’s new feature

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Google has been testing this app-launching trick since last year — now it’s live

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-05 16:52:29

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is starting to roll out an auto-open toggle for when you download apps. When enabled, the app you’re downloading will open automatically. You will receive a notification with a five-second countdown before the app opens, giving you a chance to cancel. Google has long been working on a feature for the Play Store that automatically opens apps after they are downloaded. This feature was first spotted in one of our APK teardowns in September of la

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The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

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Will Bardenwerper on Baseball's Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience

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Your favorite e-ink sketchbook might be getting smaller

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OpenAI Admits Safety Controls ‘Degrade,’ As Wrongful Death Lawsuit Grabs Headlines

Delivery Companies Around the World Stop Shipments to the US: Here's Who's Affected

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MongoDB stock surges 37% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

Passenger Assaulted in Viral TikTok Video Sues Southwest Airlines, Blames Seating Plan

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I trust this Bluetooth tracker more than Apple AirTags - and it works with iPhone and Android

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The AI Researchers That Mark Zuckerberg Lured to Work for Him With Huge Payments Are Already Quitting for Mysterious Reasons

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Pixel 10’s Tensor G5 deep dive: All the info Google didn’t tell us about its new chip

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