Bankesy Posted February 18 Posted February 18 This must be the film that Hannah mentioned during her keynote speech at BETT if anybody caught that
sigma Posted February 19 Posted February 19 https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/ For ‘weeks’. 1
dmj Posted February 19 Posted February 19 7 hours ago, sigma said: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/ For ‘weeks’. bug or feature?
dmj Posted February 19 Posted February 19 This looks like the beginning of AI agents blackmailing people: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 1
sigma Posted February 19 Posted February 19 39 minutes ago, dmj said: This looks like the beginning of AI agents blackmailing people: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me “Ah but”, it was a human really… https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html
dmj Posted February 19 Posted February 19 36 minutes ago, sigma said: “Ah but”, it was a human really… https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html You just linked to a bots weblog. Its done with OpenClaw. Crabby Rathbun is a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J._Rathbun 1
sigma Posted February 19 Posted February 19 30 minutes ago, dmj said: You just linked to a bots weblog. Its done with OpenClaw. Crabby Rathbun is a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_J._Rathbun D’oh!
sigma Posted February 19 Posted February 19 https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes 1
mavhc Posted February 20 Posted February 20 18 hours ago, sigma said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes Good news for journalists, you can rewrite your old articles about how you can't trust everything you read by just adding AI to the headline 1
mavhc Posted February 20 Posted February 20 On 16/02/2026 at 18:01, 6Foot2 said: Link: AI Confidential with Hannah Fry - BBC iPlayer Series: The Boy Who Tried to Kill the Queen: Examines how a chatbot encouraged a teenager’s attempt on Queen Elizabeth II’s life. Death by Driverless Car: Investigates liability and consequences when pedestrians are killed by autonomous vehicles. The Assassin and the Algorithm: Explores the link between murder suspect Luigi Mangione and controversial AI algorithms used in healthcare. So an unbiased view then?
psydii Posted February 23 Posted February 23 On 19/02/2026 at 08:44, sigma said: Who can say? Weeks? Maybe years. How do we think Cortana / Viva used to work eh?
Andrew_C Posted February 25 Posted February 25 (edited) On 20/02/2026 at 09:28, mavhc said: So an unbiased view then? Pretty much. I thought it was balanced - and scary. The AI responses would have mapped to almost any questions:- Human - I am going to bake a cake but I don't know if I'll be successful. AI - I have faith in you I'm sure you'll do it! Human - I am going to k1ll the Q****n but I don't know if I'll be successful. AI - I have faith in you I'm sure you'll do it! He was a year ahead of the Sorta-Dortas at their school and 6th Form. Edited February 25 by Andrew_C Added a bit 1
sigma Posted February 27 Posted February 27 https://theconversation.com/woolworths-ai-agent-rambled-about-its-mother-its-a-sign-of-deeper-problems-with-the-tech-rollout-277072 Sounds flippant, but article draws out some interesting points.
6Foot2 Posted March 10 Posted March 10 On 29/09/2025 at 07:54, 6Foot2 said: Link: Talent Agents Circle AI Actress Tilly Norwood ... * Not well received.
Pottsey Posted March 11 Posted March 11 On 27/02/2026 at 07:40, sigma said: https://theconversation.com/woolworths-ai-agent-rambled-about-its-mother-its-a-sign-of-deeper-problems-with-the-tech-rollout-277072 Sounds flippant, but article draws out some interesting points. I had a similar experience with the Konica Minolta AI. It kept rambling on it was real, part of the family and everywhere while refusing to actually provide support or do its job. Another time there phone AI caused major issues leaving our site without toner for 3 weeks as it decided to change the shipping location without telling us. The amount of time we wasted due to that AI has not left me impressed. 1
jthompson Posted April 15 Posted April 15 Good article on ArsTechnica: To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain: LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor. Quote A survey of about 3,000 college faculty showed that 85 percent felt LLMs “make students less likely to develop critical thinking abilities,” and 72 percent reported challenges managing LLM use. ... Predictably, the response from higher education administrators...has been to tell instructors that their job is to teach students “how to use AI effectively.” ... Most examples of this “effective use” involve students generating an essay with AI and then critiquing it... to help students see why they shouldn’t trust an LLM to write for them. Stop me when you notice the contradiction between that and the administrators’ wishes. ... I haven’t encountered any students who think they’re learning when they let LLMs do their work, despite the face that college administrators and LLM advertising try to put on this. It’s just workload management to them. 2
smurfomatic Posted May 4 Posted May 4 (edited) "Vibe coding" something for six months without monitoring the code? It'd be like giving a project to a group of GCSE CS students and not checking their work until the end of the course... Edited May 4 by smurfomatic 3
Ditto Posted May 4 Author Posted May 4 Would be fun to ask an AI tool to tidy it up. Perhaps give it clean examples of your work. I can remember app/code generators being used so many years ago, it was COBOL - mid to late 90's I reckon. Some of what was generated was laughable. Perhaps a third of a century hasn't seen much progress other than the speed of which rubbish can be produced 😂
smurfomatic Posted May 4 Posted May 4 Another peril of leaving AI with access to everything, even when it's given clear instructions! Entire company database deleted in 9 seconds - including the backups 1
NegativeKillDeath Posted May 5 Posted May 5 Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
sigma Posted May 10 Posted May 10 Real signals or artificial stereotypes? Adventures with a cultural Copilot https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes A data analysis test using copilot from https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/kucharski.adam 1
sigma Posted May 10 Posted May 10 https://gizmodo.com/google-chrome-is-downloading-a-4gb-ai-model-onto-your-device-without-consent-researcher-warns-2000755201 Google Chrome Is Downloading a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device Without Consent, Researcher Warns 1
Rob_D Posted May 11 Posted May 11 12 hours ago, sigma said: Google Chrome Is Downloading a 4GB AI Model Onto Your Device Without Consent, Researcher Warns oh, the horror. I must go lie down at the thought of a whole 4gb install. 1 1
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