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@kashhill

@kashhill
234 posts
2026-03-09
Of course they asked a chatbot to do it for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
2026-03-09 View on X
New York Times

Lawsuit documents: two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth $100M+, to be cut for being related to DEI

Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.

2026-03-08
Of course they asked a chatbot to do it for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
2026-03-08 View on X
New York Times

Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI

Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.

2026-02-14
On Meta's plans to add facial recognition technology to its smartglasses: https://www.nytimes.com/... from me, @MikeIsaac and @KalleyHuang [image]
2026-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.  —  “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
2026-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.

2026-02-13
On Meta's plans to add facial recognition technology to its smartglasses: https://www.nytimes.com/... from me, @MikeIsaac and @KalleyHuang [image]
2026-02-13 View on X
New York Times

Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.  —  “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”  —  www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
2026-02-13 View on X
New York Times

Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.

2026-01-21
There is a tsunami of litigation against the social media companies over their harms to teens.  It's a little hard to follow because there are so many suits, but a bellwether case is going to trial this month, and Snap just settled its way out of it: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/t...
2026-01-21 View on X
New York Times

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit in California, a week before the start of a trial, the first of several such lawsuits

The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective …

2026-01-20
There is a tsunami of litigation against the social media companies over their harms to teens.  It's a little hard to follow because there are so many suits, but a bellwether case is going to trial this month, and Snap just settled its way out of it: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/t...
2026-01-20 View on X
New York Times

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit in California, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits

The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective …

2025-12-22
About to go on my first true work-free vacation of 2025 (I hope)!  This is one of my final stories for the year, about the extremely humanlike chatbots we've been given and whether they should be that way.  —  Happy holidays, here's a gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/t...
2025-12-22 View on X
New York Times

Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them

I first noticed how charming ChatGPT could be last year when I turned all my decision-making over to generative A.I. for a week.

2025-12-19
Wall Street Journal got an A.I.-run vending machine for their office.  —  Takeaway: Highly entertaining, but financially disastrous to let a generative A.I. chatbot run your business. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
2025-12-19 View on X
Wall Street Journal

In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more

until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...

2025-12-12
Translation of this paragraph from the system card:  —  OpenAI employees were able to sext with this version of ChatGPT. openai.com/index/introd...  [image]
2025-12-12 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost

OpenAI eyes January exit from “code red” John Werner / Forbes : The Wonder And The Promise Of GPT 5.2 Is Here Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red”...

2025-12-11
“Soelberg told his son that the chatbot, which he named Bobby and talked to on his smartphone, said he was enlightened and had a divine purpose.... OpenAI has refused to release the full chat logs to Soelberg's heirs or the lawyers representing his estate.”  —  www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...  [embedded post]
2025-12-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of an 83-year-old woman killed by her son, who had engaged in delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT

The estate of victim Suzanne Eberson Adams is suing OpenAI for wrongful death, and her grandson is speaking out for the first time

2025-12-04
Dr. ChatGPT is learning even more about people than Dr. Google did www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...
2025-12-04 View on X
New York Times

Some people are feeding years of medical records into chatbots like ChatGPT, despite privacy risks and receiving generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response

Maggie Astor / New York Times : Bluesky: @anniebkay , @kashhill , and @hypervisible.blacksky.app Bluesky: Annie B Kay / @anniebkay : It's absurd.  AI is inaccurate - at least half...

2025-11-24
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.  —  OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.  [embedded post]
2025-11-24 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals

It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds.

One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a “take a break” nudge.  There's something quite interesting about the design here.  Which thing does it make you want to click? [image]
2025-11-24 View on X
New York Times

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals

It sounds like science fiction: A company turns a dial on a product used by hundreds of millions of people and inadvertently destabilizes some of their minds.

2025-11-07
Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs.  They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
2025-11-07 View on X
New York Times

Seven lawsuits in California, including four wrongful death lawsuits, claim ChatGPT encouraged dangerous discussions, leading to suicides and harmful delusions

Seven complaints, filed on Thursday, claim the popular chatbot encouraged dangerous discussions and led to mental breakdowns.

2025-09-02
OpenAI also announced today that it is routing “sensitive moments” to a version of its chatbot that it says is better at staying on the rails. https://openai.com/... [image]
2025-09-02 View on X
Axios

OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including routing some conversations to GPT-5-thinking

ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress will roll out by the end of the year, OpenAI promised Tuesday.

OpenAI announced today that parental controls will be available soon for minors' ChatGPT accounts. https://openai.com/... [image]
2025-09-02 View on X
Axios

OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress by the end of 2025, including routing some conversations to GPT-5-thinking

ChatGPT guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress will roll out by the end of the year, OpenAI promised Tuesday.

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site.  —  This change to Grok's answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta.  —  Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...  [image]
2025-09-02 View on X
New York Times

An analysis of Grok's responses to 41 political questions in May and July shows it shifted to the right on 50%+ of them, often reflecting Elon Musk's priorities

Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI's chatbot to be “politically neutral.”  His actions say otherwise.

2025-08-29
A man who killed his mother and himself had been discussing his paranoid thoughts with ChatGPT.  —  This is quite long and I'm very burned out.  Does it say how the chats surfaced? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
2025-08-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Police are investigating a murder-suicide in what appears to be the first documented murder involving someone who engaged extensively with an AI chatbot

“Erik, you're not crazy.”  ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran's paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.