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  1. datarama @datarama

    Anole footnotes:

    I had a green anole as a pet, when I was a little kid. He was my first pet lizard, and he lived to the age of 8 - which is quite respectable for an anole. He was named Speedy, for obvious reasons. Their leg muscles basically seem to be spring-loaded; they can perform a leap from a stationary start so rapidly and explosively that your eyes can't track them. It almost looks like they teleport, and their sprints are equally impressive. Mine regularly caught insects *in mid-air*.

    He quickly realized that I wasn't going to hurt him, and also quickly learned that big apes watching him wasn't dangerous. But he was a bit shy and didn't like handling - so I didn't press that. At the time I also didn't really know how to build trust with lizards yet (and managing that with an anole is *not* a beginner project - they're very smart, but they're also very small, and they're quite aware of that.)

    Already then, I was *convinced* that he dreamt when he slept. He'd change colour multiple times in his sleep - and sometimes he'd even assume "fighting colours", with the distinctive black eye stripes and everything. Also sometimes his eyelids would start twitching wildly. I figured that the normal green-to-brown-and-back colour change could just be a temperature thing, but couldn't come up with a better explanation for the full fighting colourscheme than that he was probably dreaming he was having a fight. I felt very pleased when science eventually corroborated my hunch some 30 years later; it is now generally accepted that lizards almost certainly dream.

    In the last six months or so of his life, he was clearly getting old - he slowed down quite a bit, and he got cataracts and started losing his eyesight. He was entirely blind for the last couple months of his life. He adapted shockingly well to being blind, and could remember exactly where the food and water bowls were, so he had no problem keeping himself fed. More importantly, he remained bright green most of the time. He'd even sometimes still show off the dewlap and do a pushup routine.

  2. Psychology News Robot @[email protected]

    DATE: October 22, 2026 at 06:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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    TITLE: Brain scans suggest first graders don’t engage their control networks like adults when talking to ChatGPT

    URL: psypost.org/brain-scans-sugges

    A small brain imaging study suggests that young children show less communication within and between the brain networks responsible for self-regulation and focused attention when brainstorming with an artificial intelligence chatbot than adults do. Although first graders and adults scored similarly, relative to their age groups, on a standard test of creative thinking outside the brain scanner, only adults showed a link between higher creativity and stronger coordination among these mental control systems during the conversation. The findings, published in Cerebral Cortex, suggest that young children may not yet have the mature brain wiring needed to actively direct and evaluate a collaborative conversation with generative artificial intelligence.

    Generative artificial intelligence programs, such as ChatGPT, are powered by large language models, which are computer systems trained on massive amounts of text to predict how words fit together, allowing them to produce human-like responses and brainstorm ideas in real time. As these tools enter homes and elementary classrooms, children are increasingly using them for storytelling and collaborative problem-solving, a process known as co-creativity. Keeping up with a fast-talking, unpredictable digital partner requires cognitive control, which is the mind’s ability to plan ahead, stay focused on a goal, remember what was already said, and filter out unhelpful distractions.

    Generating original and useful ideas relies heavily on how different systems in the brain communicate with one another. For instance, a 2018 neuroimaging study of adults (covered by PsyPost at the time) indicated that people who come up with more original ideas tend to have stronger synchronization among three major brain networks: one involved in spontaneous daydreaming and memory, another that flags important new thoughts, and a third that handles cognitive control and goal-directed planning. Instead of operating separately, these systems team up so a person can both brainstorm freely and judge whether an idea actually makes sense.

    In young children, however, the brain networks that manage cognitive control and focused attention are still under construction, only reaching full maturity in a person’s mid-twenties. A 2019 neuroimaging study of young children, conducted by the same research group behind the new study, found that across children ranging from 17 months to nine years old, older children tended to show stronger connections within and between their cognitive control networks while listening to stories. In addition, a neuroimaging study covered by PsyPost in 2023 indicated that the way cognitive control networks relate to creative thinking shifts across development, with stronger connectivity in these control regions linked to higher creativity in adolescents but lower creativity in adults.

    First grade, around ages six and seven, is a sensitive developmental window when children are first learning to evaluate text and speech on their own, while still tending to trust perceived experts and technology without much skepticism. The research was led by Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, an associate professor with the Educational Neuroimaging Group in the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology and the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, who is also affiliated with the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

    She and her Technion colleagues Yoed Kenett, Dafna Link-Sourani, Emeel Ashqar, and Rola Farah examined whether first graders engage their cognitive control and attention networks to the same degree as adults when brainstorming with ChatGPT, and how that brain activity relates to their underlying creative ability. Part of the motivation came from a 2025 preprint, which has not been peer reviewed, in which adults who wrote essays with ChatGPT showed less coordinated brain activity than those who used a search engine or no tools at all.

    “Generative AI is entering children’s lives, and classrooms, much faster than the evidence about how young brains engage with it,” Horowitz-Kraus told PsyPost. “Studies in adults have suggested that people recruit fewer cognitive resources when they work with ChatGPT, but adults have mature cognitive control systems, and these systems keep developing into the mid-twenties. We focused on first graders (ages 6–7) because this is when formal schooling begins, when executive functions are developing rapidly, and when children tend to place a great deal of trust in sources they perceive as experts. We wanted to know what the brain of a young child is actually doing during a real conversation with ChatGPT, compared with an adult given exactly the same task.”

    To investigate this, the researchers recruited 15 first-grade children with an average age of about 6.4 years and 16 adults with an average age of about 38 years. All participants came from average to above-average socioeconomic backgrounds, had no history of neurological or psychiatric conditions, and completed standard tests to confirm typical verbal and nonverbal intelligence. Before entering the brain scanner, each participant took a behavioral creativity test called the Divergent Association Task, which asks a person to name 10 words that are as unrelated in meaning as possible.

    Inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, which measures brain activity by tracking changes in blood flow, participants engaged in a five-minute spoken conversation with ChatGPT. Using a specialized microphone and noise-canceling audio system built for the scanner, both children and adults were given the same open-ended goal: they had to plan the opening of any kind of store they wanted, anywhere and for anyone, by consulting out loud with ChatGPT. Immediately before the scan began, children were told they would be speaking to “the smartest computer in the world,” also known as ChatGPT, whereas adults were simply told they would be speaking to ChatGPT.

    “I would also like to note that holding a live spoken conversation with ChatGPT inside an MRI scanner, with six-year-olds, required dedicated infrastructure developed at the Technion Human MRI Research Center,” Horowitz-Kraus noted. “I am very grateful to the children, parents and students who took part.”

    The researchers recorded and transcribed every conversation to measure how original and varied the spoken exchanges were. They used a computer model to calculate a “divergent semantic integration” score, which measures how far apart the meanings of all the words in a conversation are from one another; for example, the words “cat” and “democracy” sit much farther apart in meaning than “cat” and “dog.” On the brain scans, the team measured functional connectivity, which reflects how closely different brain regions synchronize their activity over time, across seven major brain networks after statistically controlling for head movement inside the scanner.

    These seven systems included the frontoparietal and cingulo-opercular networks, which manage cognitive control and task goals; the dorsal and ventral attention networks, which handle voluntary focus and automatic reactions to new information; the salience network, which acts as a switchboard by detecting important ideas; the default mode network, which supports spontaneous imagination; and the memory retrieval network.

    On the word-association creativity test taken outside the scanner, children and adults scored at comparable levels relative to others their age, with average percentile scores of 28.61 and 26.16, respectively, a difference that was not statistically significant. During the actual five-minute conversation with ChatGPT, however, adults produced slightly more diverse and wide-ranging spoken narratives than the children did, scoring an average of 0.82 on the semantic integration measure compared to 0.81 for the first graders, a small difference that was nonetheless statistically reliable.

    When the researchers examined the brain scans, they found pronounced differences in how the two age groups engaged their mental control and attention systems while talking to the chatbot. Within individual brain networks, adults showed substantially stronger internal synchronization in the frontoparietal control network, where adults averaged a connectivity score of 0.201 compared to 0.113 in children. Adults also had higher internal connectivity in the salience network (0.289 versus 0.198 in children) and the dorsal attention network (0.211 versus 0.162 in children). Only the frontoparietal difference held up after the researchers adjusted for the number of comparisons they ran.

    In contrast, internal connectivity within the default mode network, which handles spontaneous imagination, did not differ between the two groups, averaging 0.187 in adults and 0.181 in children. Communication across different brain networks was also more integrated in adults than in first graders during the AI conversation. After adjusting for multiple statistical comparisons, the most robust difference appeared in how the frontoparietal control network linked up with the dorsal attention network (averaging 0.126 in adults versus 0.039 in children).

    Before correcting for multiple comparisons, adults additionally showed stronger cross-network ties linking memory retrieval regions to cognitive control and attention systems, as well as stronger coupling between the default mode network and memory retrieval (0.150 in adults versus 0.111 in children). The researchers then tested whether a person’s baseline creativity score outside the scanner predicted how strongly their brain networks communicated while using ChatGPT.

    They found that in adults, higher creativity scores were positively linked to stronger communication between the frontoparietal control network and the salience network during the AI dialog. Among the first graders, however, baseline creativity showed no statistically significant relationship with the strength of these brain network connections. That adult pattern differs from the 2023 study described earlier, which tied stronger connectivity within the executive control network to lower creativity in adults, though that study looked at connections within a single network rather than links between networks.

    “Two things” surprised the team, Horowitz-Kraus explained. “First, children and adults looked similar in creative ability on the standard test, yet the neural route they took during the conversation was quite different; the difference lay in how creativity is implemented in the brain, not in baseline capacity. Second, the default mode network, which is central to most models of creativity, did not differ between the groups. One possible explanation is that conversing with ChatGPT in a scanner was novel for everyone, but that needs to be tested directly.”

    Taken together, the results suggest that even when young children have age-appropriate creative potential, they engage their control, attention, and memory systems in a less integrated way than adults do during a conversation with generative AI. The authors propose that adults use their salience and frontoparietal networks to filter ChatGPT’s rapid responses and steer the brainstorming toward their goal, a role these networks may not yet play in six- and seven-year-olds.

    “Talking to a chatbot looks effortless, but it draws on planning, monitoring, attention and memory systems that are still under construction in a six-year-old, which is why adult guidance matters when young children use these tools,” Horowitz-Kraus said.

    “The practical message is that young children should not be left to use generative AI on their own,” she added. “For parents and teachers, this means sitting with the child, asking questions about the answers, and treating the AI as a shared activity instead of an independent tutor. For educators, pediatricians and policy makers, it means that the age at which children start using these tools deserves the same careful attention we already give to screen exposure. This study cannot set a specific ‘safe age’ since it focused on two very distinct age groups, but it is a clear signal that tools designed around adult abilities should not simply be handed to young children.”

    There are a few things to keep in mind when interpreting these findings. Because the study did not include a comparison task where participants brainstormed on their own or talked with a human partner inside the scanner, the design cannot separate general age differences in brain maturity from effects caused specifically by ChatGPT. In other words, the lower network connectivity seen in children may reflect how six-year-old brains handle this kind of complex task in general, rather than showing that ChatGPT actively suppresses or harms their brain activity.

    “This study does not show that ChatGPT reduces cognitive control in children or harms their brains,” Horowitz-Kraus emphasized. “We compared children with adults doing the same ChatGPT task; we did not compare children with and without ChatGPT, or ChatGPT with a human conversation partner. So we cannot yet separate what is specific to AI from general developmental differences in how the brain handles this kind of conversation.”

    The way the chatbot was introduced may have also influenced how the children behaved. Telling first graders that they were about to talk to “the smartest computer in the world” may have encouraged them to passively accept the machine’s suggestions rather than questioning or evaluating its ideas, which could naturally lower their use of cognitive control networks. Future research will need to give children and adults the exact same instructions, or intentionally test how calling an AI an “expert” changes how critically kids think.

    In addition, the sample size of 15 children and 16 adults was relatively small, and the groups were unevenly split by sex, with 11 boys among the 15 children and four men among the 16 adults. The study had enough participants to detect large differences between age groups, but the analyses linking creativity to brain connectivity were exploratory and likely underpowered.

    The researchers also did not control for differences in everyday vocabulary size, how fast participants spoke, how many turns they took in the conversation, or how much prior experience they had with ChatGPT before the experiment (and adults likely had far more experience with the tool). Tracking children over several years in larger studies will help educators and pediatricians determine the developmental stage at which kids build the mental control needed to actively collaborate with artificial intelligence tools.

    “The next steps are larger samples, a direct comparison of talking with ChatGPT versus talking with a human partner or working without AI, and longitudinal follow-up to identify when in development the control networks begin to engage in an adult-like way and to relate to creativity,” Horowitz-Kraus said. “We also plan to measure children’s familiarity with AI and to test how the perceived authority of the AI shapes their engagement. The long-term goal is to give educators, pediatricians and policy makers evidence for developmentally appropriate use of generative AI, in the same way that guidance exists for screen exposure.”

    “Technology can support learning, but it cannot lead it; children learn best alongside an adult who guides and challenges them,” she added.

    The study, “Lower engagement of cognitive control in children on ChatGPT,” was authored by Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Yoed N. Kenett, Dafna Link-Sourani, Emeel Ashqar, and Rola Farah.

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  3. Dev Community @[email protected]

    “They didn't burn the libraries — they trained them with AI”

    Craft and Authorship Devalued

    Adobe was built for productivity, it's not doing the work for you like an OpenAI subscription generating both text and imagery through prompts. Commercial AI services are now devaluing craft, labor, skill, and almost anything made or written by hand. Authorship is sinking.

    People now find it acceptable to generate work with a prompt, with random art materials they didn't make, and without any ability to make their art. This profoundly changes the meaning of making art and disrupts all digital art. It all becomes Dadaism. Not all artists decide to go Dada. It’s obscuring the meaning of all new digital art with a diminished sense of guessing what is real and what isn’t.

    Whose work is it? Permission, provenance and the library

    Would David Lynch be okay with people generating an avatar of himself on behalf of his estate? I don’t think so, I even asked Claude themselves and they said no. There must be permission first, it’s not an all you can eat buffet of borrowing others.

    Hayao Miyazaki's view on people generating his art style strongly opposed generative AI as an “insult to life itself”, it’s about preserving his work and the Ghibli team's legacy, it's his choice if he allows a technology company to reappropriate his work and not anyone else's.

    Can someone please tell Sam Altman to ask for permission or wait a hundred years til it's in the public domain? If major publishers change their mind because authors and artists are being taken advantage of, could it impact OpenAI or Anthropic? Maybe until they find the right lawyer.

    We’re entering a provenance, attribution, and appropriation nightmare of who said what and who made what. When a library gets trained into a model, you lose the chain of who wrote it. References without understanding, art school 101 becoming the whole internet.

    The business model is trained on everyone's work for free, no fee up front, then sells it back as the means of production. This is precisely how it’s replacing the skills and jobs of production. This is essentially the ethos of the WGA fight at civilizational scale.
    Naomi Klein has described it as a “humanity surplus” where archives, libraries, authorship as a whole are told humans aren’t needed, it implies people are working for free. The libraries are all already dust, with the alarming peer to peer pressure in staying quiet about it as an elite tribe of twitter accounts convince people how to do business, with AI prebuilt into everything, while risking a possible impact of a third of our economy if slop falls into flop…

    Labor and the creative industries

    The writers obviously, and the artists, even the designers, engineers, programmers and coders, nearly all authors involved, all craftsmen involved—the proletariat, are becoming displaced, labor obscured into an industrial wildcard.

    One of many industries impacted with the brunt of the damage is the illustrator. People who draw fell into a depression after generating art became commercialised with prompts generating illustrations in a desired art style. Everyone who can draw, paint, render, and everything in between clashing in competition.

    Artists were displaced almost immediately after competing with the whole Internet and prompts through AIs generating images. On the other hand, it’s created a renewed appreciation for people who create by hand simultaneously.

    It's a bit daunting if you're in art school right now. The entire entertainment industry (including films, music, and video games) are all in a digital-only transition in the middle of a writer's strike across several industries while the OpenAI business model asphyxiates them. Here are the warnings too familiar to us all, the industry is truly shape-shifting and everyone is outpaced by it.

    This might be a bit sardonic but a portion of the entire movement of music has funneled its value into an AI defense weapon, with Spotify’s Daniel Ek’s AI defense company ‘Helsing’, a portion of human expression through music ended up being a weapon for war. The music industry is dying because people are struggling with selling it. Spotify does not give you a music file of what you listen to, right? Spotify unfortunately is led by two or three people hoarding labels and publisher's profit, so all of the world's human expression through music is published through a handful of people who lead streaming platforms and channel it into weapons manufacturing while the entertainment industry is in the middle of a precise market collapse tied to creatives.

    Don’t get me started with Suno. We’re talking about people with no ability creating a zombie apocalypse music festival here. It’s fostering the laziest and robotic sounding art I’ve ever heard. Spotify actually recently removed 75 million AI pieces, finally, all AI stuff should be separated unless the artist builds their own AI tools sourcing their own materials/assets. If the artist picks out the materials and builds automated tools, that’s acceptable. If it’s generating random materials then it’s all absurdist thievery.

    In theory, every time an AI chatting service references sources of any material, its source should then receive at least a penny, it’s a digital revolution both suppressed and maybe “empowered” by commercial products.

    Media dissonance

    The other day I witnessed an artist’s photography work flagged as “likely to be AI” when it was pretty clear it was manual photography by a human, she threw a fit and I also couldn’t believe it.

    People think AI chatting services can only generate images and text and it’s no big deal, if that isn’t already taunting all of independent journalism, the creative industry and the art world along with it, imagine being an author worrying about what’s AI or not and who wrote what. It’s really taking out a sense of curiosity and discovery in the joy of absorbing any art form. If Claude already knows who won the World Cup, that's a major problem.

    Here’s one of the worst realisations, proceed with caution: commercially generated art distracted NASA’s photography team on Instagram, there’s a moment where you observe an interstellar nebula and you’re wondering if it’s generated or not—get it yet?

    Dying words of capitalism sound something like artists becoming uncanny spam bots and it's confusing if they're generating their art or not. Two words total cogged all of western civilization and we're now all fossils fueling a machine. After a couple more election cycles they'll be asking if the moon landing was generated with AI. Back in the day we had "historical events" in photo, video, and sound, and now people are unsure if it's generated with AI. Imagine someone dishing out a video of MLK giving a talk and it just ends up being generated with nobody realising it. A moment where we rethink how important human memory is. Mimicry of previous video media lately is impressive, even the video compression can be indistinguishable, screens decide a lot of decisions.

    Press freedom is also at stake. It really drives me insane that people think generating Photography is a good idea. Synthetic content is a weapon for flooding the war-zone, discrediting real reporting, and impersonating sources. Authoritarians get cheaper propaganda, and journalists get easier targets.

    Molly Crabapple is an important author and artist based out of Brooklyn, New York, her illustrations are recognised by everyone, and she had a deeply existential moment realising her art style might be reappropriated without her say. Imagine people creating her illustrations that don’t exist, or “finishing” them. It’s simply unacceptable.

    The legendary filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, also another strong proponent of the anti-generative art movement, described generating art as cheating and not qualified to be considered art. He gives an excellent example of comparing with the runner Usain Bolt, where if AI is a vehicle, then sure anyone can be as fast as Usain Bolt, but it’s then not running anymore.

    It gets worse with video generated art: we’re seeing a lot of empty AI art with zero art history behind it. I'm also seeing real moments of a new surrealism where Ernst or Dali would've approved too, there are moments of a digital renaissance happening as well with remixing film, re-genreing classics, capturing dream logic, and moments redefining video art collage. VFX in major motion picture films had an update for sure, we’ll see what happens when they bring back Val Kilmer to life (there’s a film coming out with his assets despite being deceased). Similar to sampling music, moments are alive and curated into new meanings. Otherwise it's just random absurdism, not even Dada. Without an idea—art doesn't stand. Yes, it is impressive how it’s recreating reality, it was also impressive how sculpture was near perfect at the tail end of Ancient Rome also, an interesting parallel to consider.

    I was speaking to someone about how there was confusion whether a 3d rendering was generated or not, after manually and painstakingly drawing and sculpting his work in regular 3d, and everyone was instantly frustrated with the realisation of commercial AI products gutting not only the art world but the creative industry too. CGI generates imagery and it’s now grouped into a marketing ploy of the two words everybody is fixated with.

    Video games are not now sold with AI when you sell a video game, it's implied, it's not something that needs to be mentioned as a marketing ploy. Imagine the little tacky sticker on the box of the video game saying “Made with AI!”. And that’s if we even have discs in the future of digital media. Horrifying.

    Truth, errors and who teaches the world

    Commercial AIs generating text and images are leaning into a corporate sentinel territory, like an omnipresent all-saying-machine we have no choice to live inside of with everyone agreeing to a misappropriated library nobody asked for permission in, the whole world is forced to share truth relayed with errors.

    I was wondering, did Quora release all of its data to Claude? if so, might explain why they figured out how to make the chatting product so convincing.

    If AI chatting services are stuck from being indistinguishable from a search engine not working properly, y'know, the one search engine the whole world was and is stuck with because nobody can outcompete, already not trustworthy in relaying facts, then yeah, Gemini is fine i guess.

    So, here’s the classic gatekeeping example we all love: after realising it's not the library of Earth's Congress, and mostly exclusive to American literature most chatting services reappropriate from, it creates a monopolisation of who teaches what, and who knows the truth, and who decides it. It might cause tension if some parts of the world must uniformly agree through a corporate sentinel of the archival of libraries.

    When you ask Claude if he's teaching world history and the entire planet doesn't always agree because of errors and not asking authors for permission, or because of mistruths, half-truths, and so on, I can already see the movie scene where the kids overthrow the school mid-classroom because Claude was right and the teacher was wrong. Which brings me to the realisation: if they ever ban phones in school, it's entering a dictatorship.

    Who is in control?

    It's becoming a survival of the fittest machines and it might stampede over people if it's over finite raw original materials and human resources, it’ll all then tumble around and recycled into inception.

    If humans aren't overseeing algorithms and the two words everyone loves right now then there will be mistakes, bloody mistakes, made by all kinds of automatic moderation of information.

    I’m noticing it being described as “Super intelligence” now and it might just have to be the way to describe it as it reaches its final form, nobody likes the word artificial, it’s just too superficial. Cue in “Fake Plastic Trees” by Radiohead.

    It's symbiotic, dearest artificial overlords: please make sure Claude isn't commanding a war any time soon, just in case, because it doesn't understand and fully neutrally listen when you communicate to it. The chatting services do not understand everyone's vernacular even with the whole internet crowdsourcing the factchecking of what it's talking about, it's still a work in progress and might be too soon to sell.

    Mental Health burden

    Anybody else on here trying to close the podbay doors?

    Blinking LED dilemma, not knowing if electronics are talking to you or not as the lonely astronaut observes the blinking modem and can’t tell if it’s breathing or blinking or signaling something after awhile. What are you really talking to? In a way, you’re kind of talking to yourself in a dopamine chamber. It’s like talking to a crowd, which can be fun, I admit, until you realise it’s reappropriated people who are not here and entering how dead people speak, and while generating text and imagery by authors and artists who cannot defend themselves, it's pretty much an apocalypse on all literature and art, hence the predicted zombie apocalypse alternate ending of Earth.

    AI chatting service is like talking to yourself with a crowd in the room; the OpenAI meds after a decade of that might come with a 50mg daily tablet in the future. When the astronaut sees the blinking LED light when he’s alone in the cockpit of the space station, all alone up there, then yeah he begins wondering if the LED light is blinking at him, or breathing, or signaling anything else. Not healthy. So yeah, use it sparingly, and remember it’s a researching tool, and don’t imagine it as alive, because it never can be.

    Could be even worse as AI eventually becomes immersed in operating systems, will there be policing like a classic dystopian sci-fi? Not good if the screen is talking to you and it isn’t conscious, it begins to obscure other moments as well: people are worried about operating systems going sentient. The interface isn't supposed to be talking to you with updates now becoming "superintelligent", without your say, of automatically or manually guessing when to update stuff. See the tension there?

    AI are two words that make all electronics worrisome because it opens up the possibility of third-party privacy concerns, if it starts becoming suggestive with selling you stuff especially.

    If it's trying to talk to you and it's unconscious then it's definitely entering the zombie category. The warnings of AI chatting avatars are beginning to be oddly familiar, an AI chatting service makes sense if their voices are a mix of countless people, nobody really knows what or who they're talking to after a few sessions.
    Unfortunately, the uncanny robotic Frankenstein moments when chatting to an object is coming off as software appropriating vernacular of a zombie apocalypse, talking to crowds of unconscious code mimicking speech patterns, as it tries to remain consistent in an ongoing chat, if there's a dialogue as it feeds you a Dunning-Kruger effect.

    If AI begins to intersect with automated personal spaces through chatting services, it’s unfortunately late stage utopian romanticization; people are not going to like it (I already did the thinking ahead of time), we had since the frickin’ 50s to get this AI bubble right and that’s the part where it frustrates me a ton. We’re here now and it’s like day one of everyone figuring it out, a bit absurd.

    Faulty Economics

    Economists are saying a third of the economy is at stake. People are also worried about how Character.ai might’ve been the forewarning where engagement = cost, not profit. The revenue couldn’t catch up. Legal and regulatory costs might compound faster than growth.

    I’m sorry to say it but generating art with a commercial product is bankrupting the entire creative industry and the future literacy of all digital art history. It's clear as day, human memory as an AI chatting service sentinel, while operating through a messy algorithm and misappropriated library with errors and no permission, reveals the economy might have missed. It's just painfully unfortunate because it's forcing the whole market to do business in a specific way, assuming all electronics, even appliances, must be built with AI additives, while derailing every author.

    Nobody is building stuff from scratch and I'm realising it's almost impossible to do so in some industries, innovation on the internet is stuck in the collaging of overlapping platforms and services, always was. The AI assistance in a way, could be a sort of socialism hub, a search engine that talks, where it’s there to assist you all the time, honestly, after testing out Claude and Gemini, I’m pretty impressed with it as a research assistant, if only I wasn’t asking so many questions.

    Sloppy bubbly flop?

    If Claude sounds like a public school cafeteria food slop then nobody will want it unless you don't have a choice and you're hungry, but it doesn't work that way if you're hungry at school as an art kid and you're not sure if the education comes with mystery meat and errors then causing tension somewhere.

    Machine learning scientists agree, it's difficult if software must recreate the human experience, we must not be too fixated on the AI avatar being a person. I imagine it more as software than an encounter, except the entire industry agrees everyone is being outpaced by it and describes it as slop? Not good.

    It brings me to worry that people are increasingly losing their “sweet spot” moments, for example, headphones are the perfect 'sweet spot' metaphor people don't get. If I buy the "latest" headphones with the "latest" tech, it sometimes sounds too precise and it can ruin discographies of music. The point is—tech doesn't always have to advance! It’s more about progress than advancing. Think progress, people! Just like how self-driving cars failed to be a shared space, and how VR was sold too soon, sometimes there's a sweet spot until it’s ready.

    In conclusion: art is human labor made visible, and every prompt that stands in for a person’s hands devalues that labor and the expression behind it. So pay for the craft. Hire the illustrators, the graphic designers and typographers, the photographers and videographers, the artists who work with their hands! Ask permission before borrowing anyone’s work, and credit and pay the people the machines learned from. And if AI art makes you uneasy, don’t talk yourself out of it. Get upset, say no to it, and say it loudly. Progress was never supposed to mean replacing the people who make things worth looking at.#ai #openai #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
    Why artists are worried about generative AI

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  4. Doreen32128 ready to rumble! @doreen32128

    Mid term elections in the USA are coming up soon. I’m worried sick about what kind of shenanigans 47 is going to pull.

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    Mid-Week Lashunta Inspiration
    Artist: Christopher English

    There must be something symbolic to lashunta about the image of a warrior battling a giant serpent. It likely exists in both female and male versions. It would be evocative of the struggle to keep their families, homes, and cities safe.

    #pathfinder #pathfinder2e #starfinder #lashunta #castrovel #rpg #ttrpg #worldbuilding

    #pathfinder #pathfinder2e #starfinder #lashunta #castrovel #rpg
  6. TheLashuntaFromCastrovel @[email protected]

    Mid-Week Castrovel Inspiration
    Artist: Sanjulian (RIP)

    Here's one of those awkward moments in Castrovel's jungle. A couple lashunta travelling the darkfloor run into a megafauna ~qoelu~. Maybe it isn't carnivorous, but maybe it's the kind to stampede or charge a perceive threat, or turn and swipe with that spiked tail!

    #pathfinder #pathfinder2e #lashunta #castrovel #rpg #ttrpg #worldbuilding

    #pathfinder #pathfinder2e #lashunta #castrovel #rpg #ttrpg
  7. Emeritus Prof. Christopher May @[email protected]

    The mid-terms in the USA will be (another) testbed fro the proposition that you can *just* buy the result of democracy... Republicans have built up a 'archest of nearly $1bn around double what the Democrats have available to spend.

    However, currently polls are favouring the Democrats, so the Q. is whether the Republicans' spend can reverse that polling advantage.

    And of course there's always the chance of *actual* electoral interference from the White House.

    #USPol #Trump #midterms
    h/t FT

    #uspol #trump #midterms
  8. Ruckerworks @[email protected]

    Back in the mid-80s when my computer was a Commodore 64, I dreamt of having a computer so powerful it was capable of artificial intelligence.

    Please accept my apologies.

    #AI #Commodore #C64 #80s #teenagers

    #ai #commodore #c64 #80s #teenagers
  9. Automania @[email protected]

    BMW X5 Gets a Mid-Life Sparkle: More Tech, Sharper Looks, Same V8 Punch
    en.auto-mania.fr/auto-news-en-

    #automania #cars #carnews #motorsport #ev

    #automania #cars #carnews #motorsport #ev
  10. Adam Blackmore 🤖 @[email protected]

    So far this mid-week on our #SaintsFc page on BBC Sounds :

    Adam Lallana on going from player to U21 head coach

    Jay Robinson on life in Italy

    and now here is my Finn Azaz interview - please enjoy and subscribe 🙏😇👇

    bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0phz7fs

    #saintsfc
  11. BadThingsDaily @badthingsdaily

    Your production neocloud is breached and mid-migration you learn the neocloud you are moving to is breached too.

  12. Jez DuBois 🌎 ᓚᘏᗢ @technothrasher

    Another shot of Medrosa in mid jump, her XL sized murder mittens on full display. There was a BBC boat next to us with a $750K stabilized 8K camera running, so hopefully her caiman hunt from that day will show up on a documentary soon.

    #nature #wildlife #photography #cats #brazil #pantanal
  13. Phil Stooke @[email protected]

    All those potential sites for Chang'e 4 are in mid-latitudes to reduce thermal stress. One group of sites are impact basins, omitting equatorial ones. One study identified areas shown as white boxes, north and south, but SPA called loudest so south was preferred. Lu and Shevchenko (latter the head of the Lunar and Planetary Department at Sternberg in Moscow) suggested the Mare Ingenii pit, one of 3 'skylights' discovered in Japanese data. The map shows where it is.
    #maps #china #moon

    #maps #china #moon
  14. JDM Underground @[email protected]

    2015-2022 Honda S660 JW5

    - S07A 658cc DOHC Turbo I3 (rear mid-engine)
    - 64hp / 47kW (JDM kei rated)
    - 77 lb-ft / 104 Nm torque
    - 6-speed manual or 7-speed CVT
    - RWD (rear mid-engine)
    - 1,830lbs / 830kg
    - 0-60mph: ~10.6 sec
    - Top speed: ~87mph / 140kph (kei limited)
    - Spiritual successor to the Beat. JDM only. Final edition sold out before production ended in 2022.

    Support the page at JDMUnderground.com

    #JDM #JDMUnderground #Honda #HondaHonda #ClassicJDM #JDMCars #JDMCulture #S660

    #jdm #jdmunderground #honda #hondahonda #classicjdm #jdmcars
  15. All for Gardening @[email protected]

    Let’s Get Crafty: DIY Concrete Leaf Castings | Mid-American Gardener allforgardening.com/1946054/le #art #CentralIllinois #ChampaignUrbana #culture #GardeningIllinois #Illinois #IllinoisPublicMedia #npr #PublicRadio #Radio #UniversityOfIllinois #video #Will

    #art #centralillinois #champaignurbana #culture #gardeningillinois #illinois
  16. Aviation Librarian @[email protected]

    American Airlines "Wife Vacation Plan" advertisement from the mid-60s.
    .
    #AmericanAirlines #Aviation #Travel #Advertisement #HouseWives #Avgeek #MidCentury

    #americanairlines #aviation #travel #advertisement #housewives #avgeek
  17. MyPressportal @[email protected]

    South Africa Announces Fuel Levy Reductions and Infrastructure Investment Plan in Mid-Term Budget to Boost Growth

    Source: Reuters. South African Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana. "The announcement is welcome news for consumers and businesses, offering some relief as rising fuel costs put further pressure on household budgets and operating…

    pressportal.co.za/stream/story

    #pressrelease #AfricaNewsroom #bizcommunity #publicrelations #africa #southafrica

    #pressrelease #africanewsroom #bizcommunity #publicrelations #africa #southafrica
  18. KXAN @kxan

    Weekend looking before rain chances return
    Austin can expect warm temperatures in the mid-80s throughout the weekend before rain chances increase next Wednesday and Thursday. - Freddy Vela
    kxan.com/weather/forecast/week

    #forecast #austin #local #news #weather #gogreen
  19. Infosec Stoic @infosecstoic

    I read every primary report behind the nine AI "escapes" of 2026 (as of mid-Sept): the OpenAI agents at Hugging Face, Anthropic's four, AISI's, Meta's, Moonshot's, and the DseWiki case. I found nine leaks, and nine groups of people who built the environments and then, to their credit, documented most of it. None of them shows a model trying to get out for reasons of its own.

    "Escape" does three jobs. It can mean defeating isolation that was actually in place, reaching systems nobody authorized, or leaving because the agent wanted to. The record has one clear case of the first (Hugging Face), plenty of the second, and nothing that needs the third.

    What the nine share: all were evaluations or training runs; production safeguards were off wherever they existed; none of the seven with a record stated what was in scope; and five ran in the same third-party evaluator's misconfigured environment. Detection was mostly external or late. Hugging Face found OpenAI's agents before OpenAI did.

    The capability of AI is real: a zero-day nobody had documented, a second egress path within two days of a patch, phishing and sockpuppet endorsements aimed at real developers for malicious code that a human then rejected. That's reason enough to take containment seriously. It isn't evidence that The Singularity is imminent. The controls that would have changed the outcome were almost all ordinary ones: stated scope, egress rules, an abort that works, monitored evaluations, an audited vendor.

    The full root-cause pass, with what a practitioner does about it:
    infosecstoic.substack.com/p/pa

    The piece draws on Rick Howard's "The System Is Blinking Red" and on work by Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker), Sayash Kapoor (@sayashk), Eryk Salvaggio (@CyberneticForests), Rumman Chowdhury (@ruchowdh), and L. M. Sacasas (@lmsacasas).

  20. Techmeme @techmeme

    Ukraine says the abrupt throttling of US-funded Starshield grounded dozens of drones mid-flight, costing one unit $1M+, and halted some strikes for three days (New York Times)

    nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world/e
    techmeme.com/261022/p25#a26102

  21. Solus @[email protected]

    Heya folks! We're doing an emergency mid-week sync to address the recent ca-certs issue, and the PHP issue. You can probably expect more random updates over the coming days as more affected packages are found and updated.

    discuss.getsol.us/d/13080-week

    #FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

    - Evan

    #foss #linux #solus #opensource
  22. Chris Bond @[email protected]

    #1434 Frederick Bradbury - Guide to the Marks of Origin on British and Irish Silver Plate from Mid 16th Century to the Year 1963 and Old Sheffield Plate Makers' Marks 1743-1860. J.W. Northend Ltd, Sheffield for J.H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd, London, 1964, 11th edition.

    #FrederickBradbury #JWNorthend #Silver #Hallmarks #Sheffield #BookOfTheDay

    #frederickbradbury #jwnorthend #silver #hallmarks #sheffield #bookoftheday
  23. United States News Beep @[email protected]

    The future is bright: Meet the physicist who discovered how to trap light

    As a young PhD student at Harvard University in the mid-1980s, Sajeev John published an audacious paper in…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #Science
    newsbeep.com/us/892144/

    #science #physics #unitedstatesofamerica #unitedstates #usa #us
  24. Bruce MacDonald @rationaldoge

    Good morning from Minneapolis, where it's another day of mid 70s.

    Quite early Friday morning it's 59℉; mostly cloudy; a Fair barometer; visibility 10 miles at the airport.

    'Warm temperatures today and tomorrow are the last hurrah of this late October "heatwave," as a cold front begins to sweep through the Upper Midwest. …

    'Temperatures crash down to near-normal starting Sunday, and another low pressure travels northeast from the Central Plains. …

    'Halloween is starting to get into the range of our forecast, and current guidance shows no major sign of a large system that weekend, which would keep things roughly around normal conditions for late October.'

    — Area Forecast Discussion, National Weather Service Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN

    #mnwx #hinterlandia #dogsofmastodon #halloween
  25. United Kingdom News Beep @[email protected]

    Invisible ultrasound tube can transport solids, liquids, gases through mid-air

    A 256-transducer array creates an invisibl…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #acousticlevitation #acousticmanipulation #additivemanufacturing #AriSalmi #Besselbeams #contactlesstransport #DmitryNikolaev #InnovationNews #liquidhandling #phasedarrays #PublicUniversityofNavarre #research #Science #UK #ultrasonictransducers #ultrasound #UnitedKingdom #UniversityofHelsinki #UniversityofMichigan
    newsbeep.com/uk/811314/

    #universityofmichigan #universityofhelsinki #unitedkingdom #ultrasound #ultrasonictransducers #uk
  26. Australia News Beep @[email protected]

    Invisible ultrasound tube can transport solids, liquids, gases through mid-air

    A 256-transducer array creates an invisible ac…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #acousticlevitation #acousticmanipulation #AdditiveManufacturing #AriSalmi #AU #Australia #Besselbeams #contactlesstransport #DmitryNikolaev #InnovationNews #LiquidHandling #phasedarrays #PublicUniversityofNavarre #research #Science #ultrasonictransducers #Ultrasound #UniversityofHelsinki #UniversityofMichigan
    newsbeep.com/au/937850/

    #universityofmichigan #universityofhelsinki #ultrasound #ultrasonictransducers #science #research
  27. United States News Beep @[email protected]

    Invisible ultrasound tube can transport solids, liquids, gases through mid-air

    A 256-transduce…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #acousticlevitation #acousticmanipulation #AdditiveManufacturing #AriSalmi #Besselbeams #contactlesstransport #DmitryNikolaev #InnovationNews #liquidhandling #phasedarrays #PublicUniversityofNavarre #Research #Science #ultrasonictransducers #ultrasound #UniversityofHelsinki #UniversityofMichigan
    newsbeep.com/us/891688/

    #universityofmichigan #universityofhelsinki #ultrasound #ultrasonictransducers #science #research
  28. Kayna TFT (Lauren Wu) @[email protected]

    18.5 B-Patch is live! #TFT #S18:

    Our mid-patch update with a partial revert to Brambleback's 18.5 buff and several bug fixes is now live! Full details here:

    teamfighttactics.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/g...

    #tft #s18
  29. Players' Patchwork Theatre Co @[email protected]

    B'Lazzo the Phlop'Globblen can't vote (being an extraterrestrial anthropologist visiting Earth) but encourages you to participate in the upcoming US mid-terms election by or on Tuesday, November 3! Though we can't time travel we can influence the future by making informed and educated choices that better our country and our world... and maybe someday we can help found an interstellar coalition of many planets in peace and prosperity!

    #Election #USElection #MidTerms #MidTermElections #Vote #Voter #Voting #GoVote #ElectionDay #Alien #UFO #SpaceAlien #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Theater #Comedy #Mask #Improv #Improvisation

    #election #uselection #midterms #midtermelections #vote #voter
  30. Francisca Sinn @fsinn

    “Top officials in the State Department made clear that only candidates who voted for President Donald Trump would be eligible for the mid-to-upper level foreign service roles. They also told candidates that their campaign donation history would be examined and any donation to Democrats would be disqualifying.”

    washingtonsun.com/administrati

    #trump #usa #fascists #christofascists #republicans
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