You Do Not Need an AI Policy — Sonja Drimmer You do not need an AI policy. Forget the crisis in plagiarism and cheating; that’s yesterday’s news. It is becoming increasingly common for my colleagues, both within my own university and elsewhere,...

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That is absolutely the right answer.

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

I mean, costco wasn't in my plans this week, but...

Oh hello there little ones!

I may not have time to immediately make an owl bear club, but I think it's important that I immediately order the means to make an owl bear club. (The gelatinous cube is also adorable.)

This is delightful!

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Woot!

"No," the swordmaster said.

"One does not refuse the king," the herald said.

"I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war."

"You will regret this!"

"No," the swordmaster said.

This is true! Actual progress was really very far from that, though. (Any criticism was my by starting over with an entirely new draft...)

The conspiracy theory "science" was not even the worst part of the thesis; it was not ever finished.

Once upon a time I got roped into advising a master student thesis that wanted to perform some sort of statistical analysis to indicate that the craters on the moon were the result of electrical strikes. I can't see these posts of delight without a little bit of pondering how disappointed he'd be.

Yes, this!

A light green sticker that says FUCK SCOTUS. The "Fuck" is made up of capital letters that are actually composed of flowers. Underneath this, in small print, it says "(with an ethics code and six more justices)"

Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote.

In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

Y'know what, I'm still with it

"War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

That definitely gets you flagged on the bag scanning machine.

Heh. I am not the person in question!

A white woman with brown hair and a dark jacket leans over a blue table at a book signing to have her picture taken with @tkingfisher.com. She's holding a recently signed copy of Wolf Worm. The background is (part of) Brookline Booksmith's extensive greeting card display.

I got to see @tkingfisher.com tonight! She's delightful.

This..... 0.0080, on my phone with some glare.

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

... and this is how I found out that I need a ticket for Wednesday. Acquired!

Sending all the mojo your way!

Absolutely agree with the way evangelicals interpret "love" in "love thy neighbor", but I've also seen some real twisty redefinitions of "neighbor" to make 🧊 stuff OK in the past few months.

... and also read cover to cover last night - it's delightful!

After being on hold with the skymiles members line for 4 hours, I talked to someone who took my message, but seemed to have no idea what was going on - I had to repeat it several times. But she did take the message.

A hand holding the newly released book 1 of Side Quested, by Ale Presser and K. B. Spangler.

In my mail today! @kbspangler.com @alepresser.com (from bookshop.org.)

Text reads chem test today, I’m prepared to cheat on the whole thing. They’re already in the classroom and it seems too late to stop them from cheating.

They’ve decided to cheat with ChatGPT, saying: “Hello chat, I’m going to upload four pictures and a couple of minutes (they probably meant in.. omg 😭) I need you to give me the answers for every problem, do not explain how to get the answer, just show me the answer and the slight work for it if it needs it. If it’s an ABCD question, immediately give me the answer.” ChatGPT replies: “Got it” and gives them the instructions back in full and tells them to go ahead and upload the images.

They got their test back, their result is an F, who could’ve seen that coming right?

This text to ChatGPT reads: Chat let me know how I got an F. ChatGPT: You probably got an F, because many of the answers I gave you earlier were wrong. It then proceeds to show them the correct answers from the test.

A story in four parts. 😭

If they sometimes used glue to keep th cheese on the pizza, I'd go with slower. If we got faster lunches by selectively destroying the environmental conditions for less-coated for populations, same.