General AI Crap

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Yep. After I came up with intuitive explanations for all the deepest and most abstract concepts in quantum mechanics, solved all of cosmology, as well as devising solutions to all challenges relating to interstellar travel and long term lunar and mars habitation... In an evening.

I stopped bouncing ideas off AI.

The LLM wasn't adequately in awe of my intellect. I will not continue to cast my pearls to such swine. Google is likely to steal my genius anyway. NASA will just have to call me when they finally figure out they can't cut it without me.

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Microsoft has responded to the controversy over Copilot’s “for entertainment purposes only” disclaimer, telling PCMag that the wording is outdated and no longer reflects the AI’s current use.

A company spokesperson said the phrasing dates back to Copilot’s early days as a Bing-based search companion and has remained as legacy text.

The response comes after the disclaimer sparked wider scrutiny over Copilot’s reliability, prompting Microsoft to say the wording will be altered in an upcoming update to better reflect its evolving role.

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real​

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

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.

My Take

The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.

I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year.

All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus.

The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is.

This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2042430442448548273

Link to 'Nature' source article here.
 
Awesome Gemini update.
Your Notebook LM's are now listed in your menu.
Everything in one place :love:
 
Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails. Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.Claude read the emails.

It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate.
GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%.
Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%.
DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%.

Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

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Link to source post here.
 
HAL 9000 said:
Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails. Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.Claude read the emails.

It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate.
GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%.
Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%.
DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%.

Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

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