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   Mignon Fogarty (grammargirl@zirk.us)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 16:04:33 JST Mignon Fogarty

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   Multiple studies have shown that LLMs can be more persuasive than the average human. They are sycophantic and will lie—and they're good at it.

   Combine that with someone who is unstable or vulnerable, and it can be a disaster.

   In the featured story, the man started using AI for work and then fell into dangerous conversations. He viewed ChatGPT as the smartest search engine he had ever used.

   He didn't know it could hallucinate and was prone to agree with whatever he said.

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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 06:44:27 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   I have to say that being at eye level about 2 feet away from a polar bear (on the other side of a sturdy glass window) while he happily lapped up his breakfast kibbles was an incredible experience. I knew it would be cool, but I didn't expect to be moved to tears!

   I spent a long time thinking about why it made me so emotional. Perhaps because polar bears are such a powerful symbol of both conservation efforts and impending climate disaster.

   In any case, the Assiniboine Zoo is doing great work!

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   Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 22:17:01 JST Richard Stallman

   The UK has granted a license for a new nuclear power plant, Sizewell C. https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/07/sizewell-c-suffolk-granted-nuclear-site-licence-edf

   It probably will never be finished, because at some point the government will have a crisis which will prevent it from continuing to pay for it. But the unfinished reactor will play a part in bringing the country to that disaster.

   In the mean time, it will do plenty of harm to non-rich Britons.