The AI dooooooom thread

[Syt]

ChatGPT CEO has a moment:



(I know, he probably meant to troll Musk, but still ...)

[Sheilbh]

Finally found a second use for AI - as someone who is not at all green-fingered it's very helpful on planning the garden.

I do not think this is what Sam Altman meant when he posted a picture of the Death Star to trail the release of GPT5...

[Syt]

 

[grumbler]

 

 

[garbon]

It is good

[Sheilbh]

To be positive again - this is fantastic journalism by the Guardian, using AI as a tool for journalists and also explaining how they've done it:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/sep/28/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow

Really good example of a "how to" I think - and given the Guardian is the bit of the UK press that always gets the massive terabytes of data leaks, I think this is something they will explore responsibly.

[Josquius]

That Facebook is a far right cess pool I've known for a long time. Huge factor in boomer radicalisation.
Nice to see this getting attention and proof.

And yes. I can think of a few similar mass data crunching uses for AI. Image recognition has a lot of potential in managing traffic flows, making a fairer council tax system, spotting fraud etc...

[Sheilbh]

I believe it's already being used in newsrooms as a first pass for the open source style recognising where a photo is taken and other stuff that investigative desks do - again as a first pass with the investigative reporters also working on it. At least in the broadsheets who have investigative reporters.

I imagine there are far fewer controls on, say, the way Reach are using AI

Edit: Also sorry I linked to the article only. It's in the footnote but the separate article detailing how they used AI was I think a model in this area:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/28/reading-the-post-riot-posts-how-we-traced-far-right-radicalisation-across-51000-facebook-messages

[Josquius]

Can't find an example but I've definitely seen on the reach owned local papers site bluntly factual articles by a young looking guy with the title "AI-assisted reporter".
Probably just parsing court records or so.
I'm sure I remember them recruiting for this - posted it on languish I think - salary was minimum wage.

[grumbler]

That Facebook is a far right cess pool I've known for a long time. Huge factor in boomer radicalisation.

Is "boomer radicalization" really such a problem in the UK?  What do radical boomers do?  SHake their walking canes at poor downtrodden millennials?

[Josquius]

That Facebook is a far right cess pool I've known for a long time. Huge factor in boomer radicalisation.

Is "boomer radicalization" really such a problem in the UK?  What do radical boomers do?  SHake their walking canes at poor downtrodden millennials?

Brexit.

[crazy canuck]

That Facebook is a far right cess pool I've known for a long time. Huge factor in boomer radicalisation.

Is "boomer radicalization" really such a problem in the UK?  What do radical boomers do?  SHake their walking canes at poor downtrodden millennials?

Worse, they vote

[Josquius]

One for CC.

https://www.404media.co/18-lawyers-caught-using-ai-explain-why-they-did-it/

[grumbler]

Is "boomer radicalization" really such a problem in the UK?  What do radical boomers do?  SHake their walking canes at poor downtrodden millennials?

Worse, they vote

I have honestly never thought that voting was radical. Care to explain why you think that it is?

[crazy canuck]

Is "boomer radicalization" really such a problem in the UK?  What do radical boomers do?  SHake their walking canes at poor downtrodden millennials?

Worse, they vote

I have honestly never thought that voting was radical. Care to explain why you think that it is?

Voting is not radical, radicalized boomers are voting.