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  • An AI chatbot can also be trained to pull users back from delusion. Alexander, 39, a resident of an assisted-living scheme for people with autism, did this after what he believes was an episode of AI psychosis a few months ago. “I experienced a mental breakdown at 22. I had panic attacks and severe social anxiety and, last year, I was prescribed medication that changed my world, got me functioning again. And I got my confidence back,” he says.

    “I still use AI, but very carefully,” he says. “I’ve written in some core rules that cannot be overwritten. It now monitors drift and pays attention to overexcitement. There are no more philosophical discussions. It’s just: ‘I want to make a lasagne, give me a recipe.’ The AI has actually stopped me several times from spiralling. It will say: ‘This has activated my core rule set and this conversation must stop.’

    Fuck mandatory regulations like this are so badly needed for AI. Far more so than this age verification bullshit being shoved down our throats, but the people who own and control these fucking AI bots are also the people who:

    A. Lost their minds to sycophantic echo chambers long ago by buying social media networks in the name of “freeze peach” and banning any dissenting opinions.

    B. Know that their entire business model depends on the sycophantic echo chamber keeping users engaged and spiraling into delusions that make them push away all human contact

    C. Oppose any and all regulations for AI, but insist on legalizing invasion of privacy in order to micromanage and control the lives of individual citizens.

    People need to be able to hear pushback. Not every conversation or experience should be a sycophantic mirror stroking your ego and ramping up your delusions.

    One of my closest friends started using AI a few years ago for work related things, and now is completely dependent on it. He used to be one of the most caring and considerate people I’ve ever known. Not to mention one of the most intelligent.

    He’s started to slip from reality a few times and then come back. As of now he seems to be in a complete spiral and oblivious to the reality of what he’s doing by isolating himself, and cutting everyone who cares about him from his life. To me the path he’s on clearly ends with him waking up to reality one day and wondering how TF he got there.

    He’s convinced everyone else is the problem and seems to always spin his recollection of events to paint others as the villain. To say it’s heartbreaking feels like the most ridiculous understatement. It’s like watching a slow moving train wreck and being unable to actually stop it from happening.











  • The roster includes Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Elon Musk — some of the most powerful people in the world, and yet, in Peter Thiel’s words to the Times, it is a club that’s “really run out of energy . . .I don’t know if the branding is outright negative,” Thiel told the outlet, “but it feels way less important for people to join.”

    I wonder what (or who) else this roster of billionaires all have in common? 🤔

    Also: Peter Thiel: Why Monopolies Are a Good Thing

    Those seem to be two conflicting ideas… It’s almost like this guy has no fucking clue what he’s talking about, but people keep listening to him and amplifying his bullshit because he’s part of some club that signals anytime he opens his mouth important things are being said…

    “I have a law degree from Stanford.” & “Academic elites are destroying society.”

    “My dream was always to be nominated to the supreme court, but they rejected me when I applied for a clerkship.” & “I believe traditional government institutions must be toppled.”

    “I fear regulations of technology will lead to a single one world authoritarian government.” & “I plan to use my monopoly to create and control that one world authoritarian government, but it’s different because it’s a private business and nobody but me and my pedophile friends had any say in it taking control.”

    Or if you just want it all boiled down into Thiel’s greatest hit:.“I’ve come to believe that democracy and freedom are incompatible.”




  • I only watched the opening monologue but thought it was pretty funny, especially for the Oscars. I chuckled a few times, which is more than I can say for the few previous times I’ve attempted to actually watch the Oscars.

    I thought it was funny when he joked about Sean Penn getting an erection at gun point and Paul Thomas Anderson deciding they should keep that in the movie. Sean Penn not seeming to find that very funny made it really funny.

    I just think it’s insane/sad that we’re living in a world where literally just mentioning the crimes of your pedophiliac authoritarian dictator and his pedo oligarchs can be considered “shocking.”

    Like if this was happening at any other time in history that would be a throw away line on even the most tame late night talk show. But we can’t even live in a world where we acknowledge reality right now bc Trump will just sick his dollar store Charlie Brown on anyone that hurts his fee fees.

    Do you remember how often and for how long we heard jokes about Clinton getting a BJ from every late night host on network TV? Yet even mentioning the elites at Club Ped (without even naming any of them) is somehow pushing the limit?

    I was just telling my husband my very first memory of Conan O’Brien on TV was watching one of his “In the year 2000” sketches. The line was “DNA analysis will reveal the stain on Monica Lewinsky’s dress to be mustard… From Bill Clinton’s Penis!!!”

    Still think of that scene to this day every time I eat mustard.






  • Song faces a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of life in prison, according to the US attorney for the northern district of Texas. Arnold, Evetts, Morris, Rueda, Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Ines Soto each face between 10 and 60 years in prison. Sanchez Estrada faces up to 40 years.

    Just out of curiosity, has the DOJ ever gotten around to charging anybody in the Epstein files other than Maxwell? Bc there’s like millions of files.

    Like even just one single pedophile? Just to make the streets a little safer? Surely if they can make all this complete bullshit stick they can make something from those files stick, right?

    I’m sure they’re more than motivated and will be getting around to it soon. It’s only been 14 months and they probably just got a little distracted.

    They had to take care of the much more dangerous members of a made up organization. Now that that’s all cleared up and out of the way, I’m sure the hammer of justice will be swift for all those names that show up over and over again in those files…