Notices by Deborah Preuss, pcc (deborahh@cosocial.ca)

I just gave some cash to The Tyee and The Maple, two Canadian independent news orgs I value. They're concerned the impending changes to Google search will kill traffic to their sites. :-(

If you can, please support your fav independent investigative journalism sites!

"AI told users it was sentient - it caused them to have delusions.

… Some … have joined a support group for ppl who've suffered psych. harm while using AI (the Human Line Project), which has gathered 414 cases in 31 countries to date. … set up by a Canadian, after a family member went through an AI-related mental health spiral.

… a psychologist tested 5 AI … and found Grok was the most likely to lead to delusion."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o

… "In the test, the latest version of ChatGPT, model 5.2, & Claude were more likely to lead the user away from delusional thinking.

Etienne Brisson from the Human Line Project says this kind of research is limited & that they had heard from people who'd had mental health spirals on these latestmodels too.

In April, Elon Musk shared a post about delusions on ChatGPT, saying 'Major problem', but hasn't openly addressed the problem on Grok."

Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general.

"Supply Ontario had the bots transcribe 2 conversations betw health-care workers & patients. Most of the vendors … had inaccuracies in their results, including 'incorrect information, AI hallucinations, incomplete information,' …

60% … recorded a different drug than was prescribed … 17 of 20 'missed key details of the patients’ mental health issues in at least 1 of the 2 tests.'"

😨 #AI #dystopia

https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/politics-government/ontario-medical-ai-scribes-erred-tests-auditor-general-12269474

I usually just ignore JKR. But I hadn't seen this. And her platform is so big, her lies have real reach, including children: 😡

"is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now?

The British author posted that Nazis did not persecute trans people.

That’s false."

https://forward.com/culture/592580/j-k-rowling-holocaust-denial-trans/

Is it because #dyslexia is a superpower?
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https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/humans-popr71k0z/-/a-p_GMS3kkTsO2BXBcSbe-YQ%3Aa%3A565656366-%2F0

@evan thx 🙏

Let me k ow if it becomes opt-in by tag. Then I'll want to use it again!

@evan @PhoenixSerenity @jerome @mayintoronto good idea :-)

@evan @PhoenixSerenity @jerome @mayintoronto ok, i moved #noTagsPub (properly spelled!) Into main part of profile. Seems to work now. Thx

@evan yeah, there appears to be a problem: I unfollowed and added #noTagsPub last night in my profile, but it's still boosting me :-(

I guess I'll have to block it.

@PhoenixSerenity @jerome @mayintoronto

@mayintoronto @PhoenixSerenity @evan I wonder if it will boost the toot of a non-follower of tags.pub, if it is *boosted* by a follower of tags.pub?

@evan @Beltliner403
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@evan @mayintoronto I only use lists, that I curate myself. I unfollow/block AI offenders. So, surprisingly few!

@evan @RonJeffries I wonder how answers differ between *writers* of such articles and *readers*.

@evan @mayintoronto but I wish the geeky "instances" word could be made more general-public friendly.

#warcrimes? or #marketManipulation?

Why not both?

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@evan I think the obvious question, (in character 😁), might be:

"Sir, what's a spreadsheet?"

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@evan so, does tags.pub now turn every hashtag I use into (what looks like) a globally followable account? Not loving that, actually. I'd like to choose which tags get this treatment. For privacy's sake.

Friends, @evan is legit - he's an admin of my instance and a co-authour of Fedi's ActivityPub Protocol (see his profile).

He's working on something new. Wanna help?
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https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116307853693355052

On my fridge:

Barn's burnt down.
Now I can see the moon.
- Masahide

Amen.