SolomonDaines
@solomondaines.bsky.social
Sociology Major working towards Masters. Lover of comics and video games.
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i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
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The shorter version of every Miller post is "I'm not just a White Nationalist. I'm also an idiot."
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The shorter version of every Miller post is "I'm not just a White Nationalist. I'm also an idiot."
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(Paul is just posting this, not responsible for it, don't attack him.)
I am actually 100% open to having conversations about AI, but unfortunately the conversations often start from the premise "the tools that are being found to fail ~90% of the time in actual use are inevitable"
And I disagree. 🤷🏻♀️
I am actually 100% open to having conversations about AI, but unfortunately the conversations often start from the premise "the tools that are being found to fail ~90% of the time in actual use are inevitable"
And I disagree. 🤷🏻♀️
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
file770.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
(Paul is just posting this, not responsible for it, don't attack him.)
I am actually 100% open to having conversations about AI, but unfortunately the conversations often start from the premise "the tools that are being found to fail ~90% of the time in actual use are inevitable"
And I disagree. 🤷🏻♀️
I am actually 100% open to having conversations about AI, but unfortunately the conversations often start from the premise "the tools that are being found to fail ~90% of the time in actual use are inevitable"
And I disagree. 🤷🏻♀️
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My latest for @heatmap.news:
It’s now safe to say the “all-of-the-above” Republican Party is dead.
A new anti-renewables movement is gaining steam in Congress and could derail the chances of a comprehensive deal to change the federal permitting process. And they nearly sank it today.
It’s now safe to say the “all-of-the-above” Republican Party is dead.
A new anti-renewables movement is gaining steam in Congress and could derail the chances of a comprehensive deal to change the federal permitting process. And they nearly sank it today.
The Party of ‘All of the Above’ Is Now ‘Anything But’
The tension between the two GOP energy philosophies — one admitting renewables, the other firmly rejecting — could tank the SPEED Act.
heatmap.news
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My latest for @heatmap.news:
It’s now safe to say the “all-of-the-above” Republican Party is dead.
A new anti-renewables movement is gaining steam in Congress and could derail the chances of a comprehensive deal to change the federal permitting process. And they nearly sank it today.
It’s now safe to say the “all-of-the-above” Republican Party is dead.
A new anti-renewables movement is gaining steam in Congress and could derail the chances of a comprehensive deal to change the federal permitting process. And they nearly sank it today.
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bernie wades into the data center issue with a video calling for a moratorium on construction: x.com/SenSanders/s...
December 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
bernie wades into the data center issue with a video calling for a moratorium on construction: x.com/SenSanders/s...
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The purpose of a system is what it does.
GenAI truly is the asbestos poisoning our collectively shared resources and infrastructure.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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I’m genuinely baffled that they are not only licensing their valuable characters for the slop-shop, but they’re *paying* for it. Ass-backwards buffoonery.
Glitch Productions responds to Disney licencing over 200 characters to Sora and ChatGPT and investing $1 BILLION in OpenAI in a new post:
“the fuck are they doing”
“the fuck are they doing”
December 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I’m genuinely baffled that they are not only licensing their valuable characters for the slop-shop, but they’re *paying* for it. Ass-backwards buffoonery.
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At this point it feels like only a general strike by all creatives could defend against the onslaught of corporate genAI. A last stand.
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
At this point it feels like only a general strike by all creatives could defend against the onslaught of corporate genAI. A last stand.
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Your regular reminder that generative AI is an existential threat to the arts and creativity and if you use or support it in any way we won't work with you or give you coverage. Do better. #NoAIArt
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will let the AI platform use its characters to make social-media videos.
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
on.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Your regular reminder that generative AI is an existential threat to the arts and creativity and if you use or support it in any way we won't work with you or give you coverage. Do better. #NoAIArt
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Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.
Fox News will applaud this but can you imagine their coverage if President Biden hatched a secret plan to take over Fox News and revamp its programming to be nicer to him
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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“I didn’t expect so many people would be so risk-averse.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“I didn’t expect so many people would be so risk-averse.”
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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Don't forget the part where data centers are also polluting our drinking water and giving people super cancer
This company is stealing from us. All of us! And it's not even profitable! And it doesn't even make anything useful! It's going to explode and erase your nan's pension! After ensuring that the next PlayStation costs two grand and turning half of everyone you know into jelly-brained zombie fuckwits!
Someones gotta do something about Sam Altman
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Don't forget the part where data centers are also polluting our drinking water and giving people super cancer
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Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
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Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
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This is the head of the company that CNN just partnered with, insisting that prediction markets are a great way to cut through the noise and determine what’s true and what isn’t.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is the head of the company that CNN just partnered with, insisting that prediction markets are a great way to cut through the noise and determine what’s true and what isn’t.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
No, really, listen to him. It’s actually that stupid.
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Most of what pundits refer to as “the masculinity crisis” is more accurately described as a maturity crisis.
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Most of what pundits refer to as “the masculinity crisis” is more accurately described as a maturity crisis.
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I usually have no sympathy for the youth but I would not want to be a student at any level today. They’ve just completely fucked the educational infrastructure of this country from the bottom up and AI implementation is just the latest display of contempt for the institution.
Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.
After mass AI college-cheating freakout, many admissions offices are using it to screen student applications | Fortune
It wasn't long ago they began banning student use of it for homework or test-taking. Admissions offices are different, though.
fortune.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I usually have no sympathy for the youth but I would not want to be a student at any level today. They’ve just completely fucked the educational infrastructure of this country from the bottom up and AI implementation is just the latest display of contempt for the institution.
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we're all thinking it
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
we're all thinking it
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Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
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they should build this and make ai ceos live in it as a punishment
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
they should build this and make ai ceos live in it as a punishment