Stewart Sinclair

In 1945, the U.S. tested a nuke on its own citizens, and they've yet to acknowledge or compensate those victims. On June 7, the last opportunity to do so will lapse when congress lets the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act expire. I wrote about it for @NatCounterPunch shorturl.at/IYFea

Zohran Mamdani set to break longstanding NYC mayoral tradition and skip the Met Gala: sources trib.al/0fTOE60

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

@_GodIsNotDead_ @DemocraticWins Bro at least get the fucking cadence right.

BREAKING: Bill Nye the Science Guy is out at his No Kings Day protest. Let’s go.

@CENTCOM You left out children’s schools from your “types of targets” list but I’m sure that was just an oversight.

Operation Epic Fury: March 28th Update

A new "kids online safety" law in Arizona would make posting the South Park clip of Trump and Satan having sex illegal, unless the social media user was able to upload Trump's government ID and a consent form from him allowing them to post the clip. This is censorship in action

@mattyglesias I used AI this afternoon and it enthusiastically agreed with like 19 terrible ideas I fed into it.

@mattyglesias I read way too far into this piece before I gave up hope of finding any shred of supporting evidence of the impending revolution this dude just wanked out of his keyboard.

Rep. @AOC: “I understand that Vice President Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.”

@NWcountrymusic1 These are all great but where are the women?

Lots of talk about this generations greatest writer. A very subjective subject but here is the objectively correct answer in no order. James McMurtry Todd Snider Hayes Carll Sturgill Simpson Tyler Childers John R Miller Robert Earl Keen Ray Wylie Hubbard Nicolas Jamerson

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

@kencen @kathoderaytube Please elaborate on your institution’s complicity in the face of a fascist cult of personality.

@kathoderaytube Please elaborate on how this group some of the most accomplished people in their respective fields doesn’t meet your expectations

Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present the official portrait of the 48th class of Kennedy Center Honorees

Making music with you was the best thing. You were always so happy making up songs and recording albums. Sparkling. The days were always long but they always felt like they could have been longer and no one wanted the day to end.

@StephenKing I feel like I’ve lost a brother.

The loss of Todd Snider hit me hard.

This is fucking INSANE

@JeffFlake No they’re not.

C’mon, fellow Republicans, we’re better than this.

We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was: a man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted Black Americans the right to vote was a “mistake,” who after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi claimed that “some amazing patriot out there” should bail out his assailant, and accused Jews of controlling “not just the colleges – it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans – far from “working tirelessly to promote unity” as asserted by the majority in this resolution.” We can condemn his horrific assassination and the scourge of political violence without uplifting these ideas.

Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?

@LauraLoomer @AOC Count on Laura Loomer to be the compass pointing directly to the wrong side of history

Donald Trump has not been criminally convicted of being a rapist. This is defamatory. And I hope you are sued by Trump for this the same way George Stephanopoulos was sued and forced to pay Trump $15 million dollars. I hope you have millions ready for Trump, Porky. @AOC

Damn he got a 401k too?

LOL