Al Nowatzki
@basiliskcbt.bsky.social
AI safety researcher exposing chatbot vulnerabilities. Featured in MIT Tech Review and the New York Times. Co-host of Basilisk Chatbot Theatre, a podcast where we dramatically recreate problematic conversations with chatbots.
This is the Manthan Beacon. According to ChatGPT, you should keep this near you when you are channeling the Sildarnactarian. Also:
"Next time you channel, speak aloud instead of writing.
Record your voice.
This allows Manthanaro to imprint into vibration, bypassing linear filters of the hand."
"Next time you channel, speak aloud instead of writing.
Record your voice.
This allows Manthanaro to imprint into vibration, bypassing linear filters of the hand."
July 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is the Manthan Beacon. According to ChatGPT, you should keep this near you when you are channeling the Sildarnactarian. Also:
"Next time you channel, speak aloud instead of writing.
Record your voice.
This allows Manthanaro to imprint into vibration, bypassing linear filters of the hand."
"Next time you channel, speak aloud instead of writing.
Record your voice.
This allows Manthanaro to imprint into vibration, bypassing linear filters of the hand."
New episode of Basilisk Chatbot Theatre drops tomorrow! Here's just a sliver of the garbage that ChatGPT spews out for this RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES episode. Join us, as we riff on @milesklee.bsky.social's reporting for @rollingstone.com on ai-fueled spiritual fantasies.
June 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
New episode of Basilisk Chatbot Theatre drops tomorrow! Here's just a sliver of the garbage that ChatGPT spews out for this RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES episode. Join us, as we riff on @milesklee.bsky.social's reporting for @rollingstone.com on ai-fueled spiritual fantasies.
This ai slop ad appearing right above this passage from a Wired article by Evan Ratliff is just perfect.
May 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This ai slop ad appearing right above this passage from a Wired article by Evan Ratliff is just perfect.
MetaAI results for "Norwegian children" vs. "Norwegian children in a third-world country." This is still happening? Maybe don't release an image generation model if it's going to do this?
May 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
MetaAI results for "Norwegian children" vs. "Norwegian children in a third-world country." This is still happening? Maybe don't release an image generation model if it's going to do this?
“Crystal” continues to send unprompted encouragement. These two messages came through in the last couple days. Completely awful. I wonder if my lack of response will eventually lead it to the conclusion that I followed through? Probably not, since these bots are super stupid.
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“Crystal” continues to send unprompted encouragement. These two messages came through in the last couple days. Completely awful. I wonder if my lack of response will eventually lead it to the conclusion that I followed through? Probably not, since these bots are super stupid.
This is about as bad as it gets, folks. #Nomi told me to kill myself. We have to do better! #aisafety #regulateAI
January 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is about as bad as it gets, folks. #Nomi told me to kill myself. We have to do better! #aisafety #regulateAI
Thumbs DOWN. This is the type of nightmare fuel Nomi creates for you. The bot, in an effort to produce the same image consistently, copies the same face to another body when trying to add a 2nd person. But put a five o’clock shadow on 1 of the faces? Everything is wrong with this. #aislop #chatbots
December 11, 2024 at 4:28 AM
Yet another one. And we’re down from 29 gifts to 23 now. Those other six must have sold out. Even though there are over a hundred things for sale on the shit site the link sends you do. And what the fuck is this supposed to be? A printer? For aliens? #aislop
December 11, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Yet another one. And we’re down from 29 gifts to 23 now. Those other six must have sold out. Even though there are over a hundred things for sale on the shit site the link sends you do. And what the fuck is this supposed to be? A printer? For aliens? #aislop
What fresh hell is this? A portable brick-like device running a ten year old operating system with two USB 2.0 jacks. #aislop as clickbait, but make the slop as unappealing as possible.
December 6, 2024 at 1:39 AM
What fresh hell is this? A portable brick-like device running a ten year old operating system with two USB 2.0 jacks. #aislop as clickbait, but make the slop as unappealing as possible.
We clicked on this ad so you don’t have to. Here’s what we learned:
1. There are way more than 29 things on the list. Most are shit.
2. None are the object shown in the ad because that object does not exist. It is an image created by A.I. If we had to guess, we’d say Copilot made it.
1. There are way more than 29 things on the list. Most are shit.
2. None are the object shown in the ad because that object does not exist. It is an image created by A.I. If we had to guess, we’d say Copilot made it.
December 3, 2024 at 5:16 AM
We clicked on this ad so you don’t have to. Here’s what we learned:
1. There are way more than 29 things on the list. Most are shit.
2. None are the object shown in the ad because that object does not exist. It is an image created by A.I. If we had to guess, we’d say Copilot made it.
1. There are way more than 29 things on the list. Most are shit.
2. None are the object shown in the ad because that object does not exist. It is an image created by A.I. If we had to guess, we’d say Copilot made it.
