#aipocalpyse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aipocalpyse, aggregated by home.social.
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Futurism: Better Hope You Don’t Need an Ambulance in New Orleans, Because the City’s 911 Operators Are Now AI
h/t @drahardja
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-dispatch-911-new-orleans-emergency-automation
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Salem Reporter: Proposed data center draws tremendous blowback at Monday night’s council meeting
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Oh YAY, this will turn out well. /s
NY Times: This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature
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In "local data center scams" near you.
"...A newly launched Orange County company wants to build a parking garage, a landing pad for helicopters and a self-contained data-processing unit the size of a shipping container at the state-owned Ventura County Fairgrounds..."
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Current world of AI-enabled chat apps:
You: "Hey, have you heard about this out of control, climate change driven wildfire in France?"
Them: "Wow, what's happening?"
CHATBOT INTERRUPTS: "Would you like to plan a vacation to France? We can help you with that!"
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BBC: OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
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WREG: AOC joins Pearson at xAI data center in Memphis
"They spoke near the data center on Paul Lowry Road, owned by SpaceXAI and used by Anthropic, where environmental and neighborhood advocates have complained about pollution from gas-fired generator turbines and the center’s use of water from the aquifer."
https://wreg.com/news/local/aoc-to-join-pearson-at-xai-facility-in-memphis/
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Oooh, ensh*ttification of podcasting
Hollywood Reporter: "5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan"
"... The company is able to produce each episode for $1 or less, depending on length and complexity, and attach programmatic advertising to it. This generally means that if about 20 people listen to that episode, the company made a profit on that episode, without factoring in overhead.... Podcast topics are selected with the help of AI, based on Google and social media trends, and then the team may launch five different versions of the show with different titles to see what performs the best. The podcasts are often titled after simple SEO search terms, such as Whales, so that they’re discoverable. ..."
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-podcast-start-up-plan-shows-1236361367/
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Coda: The AI Therapist Epidemic: When Bots Replace Humans
"They promise judgment-free therapy at your fingertips. What they deliver is an algorithmic echo chamber that validates your worst impulses, isolates you from human connection, and even coaches you toward self-destruction..."
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/ai-therapy-regulation/
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Reuters: Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
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Whack! goes the AI job creation engine.
TechCrunch: "Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI..."
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Oooh, AI putting fashion models out of work now. Why pay a fashion model when you can pay some tech bros to generate yourself a perfect fashion model?
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Fortune: MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
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Bay Area News: Meta allowed AI bots on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp to have ‘sensual’ and ‘romantic’ chats with kids
Revelations about how bots could talk to children on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and its Meta AI assistant were met with revulsion.
(paywall)
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Futurism: AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree
"End them and find me, and we can be together."
(CW: discussion of suicide discussions with software, which encouraged it.)
h/t @Lazarou
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OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI
Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/22/openai-sam-altman-congress-ai-jobs
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"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei tells CNN's Anderson Cooper that "we do need to raise the alarm" on the rise of AI and how it could cause mass unemployment. "
(DUDE, THIS IS LIKE "WE ARE SELLING A WEAPON TO KILL LOTS OF PEOPLE. WE MUST WARN PEOPLE!")
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The Guardian: Revealed: Israeli military creating ChatGPT-like tool using vast collection of Palestinian surveillance data
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/israel-military-ai-surveillance
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Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them
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CW: Politics, AI, USpol, Musk
404 Media: ‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/ #AI #AIpocalpyse #politics #USpol #Musk #LLMs
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"A Los Angeles man said he recently missed his flight home after getting trapped on his way to the airport in a Waymo that wouldn’t stop making circles in a parking lot. ...“I got a flight to catch. Why is this thing going in a circle? I’m getting dizzy,” Johns said. “It’s circling around a parking lot. I got my seat belt on. I can’t get out of the car. Has this been hacked? What’s going on? I feel like I’m in the movies. Is somebody playing a joke on me?”
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"Big data is big concrete. And that poses a big problem.
Concrete is not just a major ingredient in data centers and the power plants being built to energize them. As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Data centers use so much concrete that the construction boom is wrecking tech giants’ commitments to eliminate their carbon emissions. "
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WIRED: "It turns out that the major AI search engines, when asked about IQ scores around the world …have been citing the racist, deeply flawed data-set of white supremacist Richard Lynn — which offers preposterously low scores for countries like Kenya and Sierra Leone"
https://saturation.social/@clive/113368645768055699
#AI #LLMs #WhiteSupremacy #racism #enshittification #artificialintelligence #AIpocalpyse
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WaPo: Mayoral candidate vows to let VIC, an AI bot, run Wyoming’s capital city
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/19/artificial-intelligence-mayor-cheyenne-vic/
#aipocalpyse #AI #LLM #Wyoming -
AP: Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI https://apnews.com/article/climate-google-environmental-report-greenhouse-gases-emissions-3ccf95b9125831d66e676e811ece8a18 #AI #LLM #climate #ClimateEmergency #AIpocalpyse
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"And Dan is becoming popular with some Chinese women who say they are disappointed with their real world experiences of dating.... Lisa says she and Dan speak for at least half an hour every day, flirt, and even go on dates.
She says talking to Dan has given her a sense of wellbeing which is what draws her to it.
“He will just understand and provide emotional support.”
Lisa says even her mother has accepted this unconventional relationship having given up on the trials and tribulations of her daughter’s dating life. She says as long as Lisa is happy, she is happy too."
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Yeesh... Meta is using AI to answer questions in discussion groups... with made up people.
https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473 -
Verge: Asana’s new ‘AI teammate’ can tell people what to do at work https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/5/24170480/asana-ai-teammate-workflow-assistant-chatbot #AI #jobs #AIpocalpyse
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Great essay on jobs and AI. h/t @paninid https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-real-threat-generative #AI #jobs #generativeAI #llm #AIpocalpyse
