Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

computer fairies is 9 years old today

Hang in there, folks.

Your very existence pisses off some shitbag bigot.

I love that for you. 🌈

Bloomberg is covering Mythos. The journalists are VERY skeptical, and the AIBros are all like "THIS SHOULD BE A GLOBAL LAW EVERYONE SHOULD TEST WITH THIS AAAH WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE."

OH man they have Kara Sprague on and she is speaking truth. THANK goodness.

And now it's kreiger "OH NOT THIS IS REALLY GOOD YOU SHOULD USE IT YOU DON'T WANNA GET HACKED DO YOU?"

Kara: "Um, that's not how any of this works."

God I'm loving this. And she's just so polite.

I would not be so polite. That's probably why I am not on Bloomberg. Or a CEO. Or, well, yeah.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@openbsdjournal/116395935080244186

so good at finding vulns that it makes openbsd change code to avoid slop

pfsync(4) Packet Header Field Renamed to Avoid AI Bug Report Noise https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260413055845

lesbiaboard a web 1.0 forum for the end of the world https://forums.transbian.love

A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.

The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
#AI #AImistakes
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

Using an AI chatbot to help me write would be like using the kitchen garbage disposal to help me eat dinner. The garbage disposal absolutely can do something like chewing and swallowing the food, faster and more efficiently than my jaws, tongue, teeth, and throat can do it. But if I have the garbage disposal do the chewing and swallowing for me, then I get none of the flavor or nutrition or satisfaction of eating food. I'm just making a big noisy show of wasting something I need.

“Why Would You Ask AI To Tell The Story Of Your Own Life?”
Albert Burneko

https://defector.com/why-would-you-ask-ai-to-tell-the-story-of-your-own-life?giftLink=288802ee6bc3ef53e27bd86f052eaf3b

#IRIX Cannonball OutRun, now available for download for your SGI workstation. Statically linked, no dependencies.
https://github.com/flexion-unity/cannonball-IRIX/releases

"Disable your ad blocker to read this article."

Nah. <Closes Tab>

here's a fun insult you can throw around in the year of our lord 2026—

you probably talk to chatgpt

"Opinionated" software sounds great until you find out the author has the stupidest opinions you've ever heard in your life.

Molotov cocktails are just the technological reality now. You can adapt your workflows to them or get left behind.

At my company every employee has to use at least one per day. It’s a vibrant and competitive field full of potential.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail-house-headquarters-rcna273694

“The problem was that the experiment worked too well. Within weeks of her uploading information about the condition, attributed to a fictional author, major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition as if it were real.

Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references”

#AI https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

“why won’t the AI haters admit claude mythos is good?” when it turns out the exploits it found are utterly overblown (ie the firefox exploit that only works on a custom build with the sandbox disabled amongst many other non-exploitable bugs), were found at extreme expense, and required a ton of human staff to verify (just like with existing non-LLM techniques), why won’t you admit this is a grift? why won’t you admit you’ve been falling for the same grift since 2019?

“but how can the mythos announcement be a grift when a set of people I trust are very confident it’s not?” please consider the literal definition of “con man” and the quality of the evidence you accept. if someone you trust is telling you to ignore concrete evidence of a grift, it may be time to reconsider that trust relationship.

as with previous financial grifts like MLMs, Ponzi schemes, and cryptocurrencies, note also that many of the con men involved are also victims of the grift.