2025-05-28
Sam Altman's latest brain worm — to ensure that humans will remain “special and central” in the AI era. The Orb that will scan all the nooks/crannies of your iris and then provide you “inviolable proof of your humanity: a 12,800-digit binary number, known as an iris code.” — What could go wrong?
Time
A look at Tools for Humanity, cofounded by Sam Altman, as the company plans to deploy 7,500 iris-scanning Orbs across the US over the next 12 months
Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future. The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd.
2025-05-17
“an unauthorized modification was made” — The ongoing adventures of the passive voice — in a world where things just sorta happen and no one can really say why. [embedded post]
TechCrunch
After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14
We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal S...
2025-05-16
“an unauthorized modification was made” — The ongoing adventures of the passive voice — in a world where things just sorta happen and no one can really say why. [embedded post]
TechCrunch
After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14
xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok …