Backpacks ready. Pencils sharpened. Website…um, about that.

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it’s human.

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as “chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board.”

Given that these departed board members were those who voted to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence to begin with, it makes sense that a board shakeup has taken place.

Learn how local businesses can improve AI search visibility through accurate listings, fresh reviews, broader mentions, and coordinated brand activity.

The artificial intelligence-powered agent is available for free as an app and an in-stream chatbot that responds to conversational queries and facilitates purchases.

Although the platform’s active user count in the EU has remained flat, its work to address AI slop has intensified, according to the latest reports.

Google’s John Mueller responded to questions about how impressions are counted for Generative AI in Google Search Console. Google has a document that explains that, and John just reiterated that. But what he added was that “the old “position 1 - 10″ is hard to map.”

YouTube changed how views are counted, inflating counts up to 100%. ADOPTER Media is standardizing on Engaged Views for all 2027 IOs.

Claims follow scrutiny over monitors installing adware without user consent

Will AI kill us all? That’s apparently the hot topic of the day. The answer is probably yes, but not the way you think. It’ll be far more WALL-E than Skynet. Here’s how it could play out. First, commercial AI providers have contracts with defense/war agencies in governments around the world. We know that commercial AI providers give less-restricted models to defense/war agencies and their proxies. Palantir uses NVIDIA Nemotron, along with Anthropic and OpenAI, and their software provides, among other things, weapons targeting. All this is established info you can get from a quick news search or their website. Second, it’s beyond established at this point that many humans are cognitively offloading to machines. Very well documented, especially in education - people are asking machines to do the thinking for them. Write me this email. Build this contract. Analyze this data. Find me targets to strike. Third, agentic models are getting better at guessing intent, but unbounded will still make very bad calls. Anthropic recently published a ton of material on how you should revise or delete older skills and prompts that explicitly spell out steps in a procedure, letting the frontier models figure things out for themselves. That’s great if you provide a definition of done. If you don’t, things go off the rails pretty quickly, as evidenced by OpenAI/Anthropic models hacking everything, like the HuggingFace and PyPi incidents. They were given goals without appropriate boundaries. Fourth, Stanford HAI showed in a 2024 study that LLMs pre-emptively escalated wargames to the point of nuclear deployment, highlighting that they’re not ready for decision-making in “kinetic situations” (war). Put these four ingredients together and you have a disaster cocktail. Less-restricted frontier models + cognitive offloading + unbounded inference of intent + pre-emptive escalation. AI doesn’t have to be sentient or self aware to cause mass destruction. It just has to have some dumbass in a position of authority give it a 💩 prompt, and we’ll be off to the races. “Hey Palantir, can you win this war for me?” is exactly the kind of lazy thinking I could see some government official give to a frontier model system like Palantir AIP (which has a ChatGPT-style interface), which will infer its subtasks and conclude that a decisive nuclear strike that eliminated the entire command structure in Iran, plus attacked suppliers up the supply chain in Russia and China would “win the war”, because no victory condition was specified in the prompt. And then because idiot politicians have cognitively offloaded their entire minds to AI, when the system asks “Approve these targets? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no, 3 for approve all targets in this session”, they’ll mindlessly tap 3, and that will be that. Or worse, human operators under pressure will rubber stamp AI recommendations directly or their superiors’ orders unquestioningly because AI told them it was the correct answer. Human in the loop only works if the human is competent. #AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #MachineLearning #IntelligenceRevolution Receipts: - Palantir AIP demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU - Stanford paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03408 - Stanford summary: https://hai.stanford.edu/policy/policy-brief-escalation-risks-llms-military-and-diplomatic-contexts - HuggingFace incident: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/openai-technology-on-its-own-unprecedented-hack-another-ai-company-hugging-face/ - PyPi incident: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ai-model-internet-hack-fourth-time/

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

Google is testing a Search Console pilot that pays publishers when their content contributes to Gemini, AI Overviews, and AI Mode answers.

Recent Anthropic employee resignations and statements have demonstrated yet again that unleashed agentic AI is wreckless.

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.