Archive - My AI Obsession

My unsettling conversation with Looksmaxxing GPT, before OpenAI shut it down

OpenAI hosted a chatbot that rated people's looks, based on a scale literally devised by incels, then told them what surgery they needed to fix their…

Jun 5 •

July 2023

AI companions aren't docile little Stepford Wives. Not yet, and hopefully not ever

Developers promise AI companions you can control. But they're uncontrollable

Jul 25, 2023 •

How releasing the Llama 2 language model as open source could come back to bite Meta, and all of us, in the ass ... at least according to…

The AI bot is sounding a lot more sensible than Meta's AI bigwigs

Jul 20, 2023 •

That robot press conference at the United Nations was a really bad idea

Unless the intention was to get right-wingers even more riled up by artificial intelligence

Jul 13, 2023 •

Is it Replika's fault that some dude tried to kill Queen Elizabeth with a crossbow?

No. But the companion bot may have hardened his resolve to go ahead with his plan

Jul 7, 2023 •

Replika: The world's least loving lovebot?

Replika users face off against the "therapist bots" that have eaten their former AI lovers

Jul 1, 2023 •

June 2023

May 2023

Quick take: Nobody puts baby in a corset

What we have here is a failure to LARP

May 29, 2023 •

People are having sex with ChatGPT

And it just seems wrong, somehow

May 25, 2023 •

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