Cat Staggs 🍁🧙♀️
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@CatStaggs
Co-Creator on Death Mask & Crosswind,Artist: Wonder Woman '77,Supergirl,Smallville S11,John Carpenter's Tales for a Halloween Night,Star Wars,draws like a girl
Meet David Dastmalchian, @CatStaggs, and @davidmackkabuki, the creative team of the new graphic novel, THROUGH, at Golden Apple on Saturday February 21st from 3-5PM. Purchase a book for a free autograph, limit one additional personal item per person
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🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.” You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening. The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement. Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year. Source: @heynavtoor
Today’s Artemis II launch is brought to you by the Biden Administration. You know Donald Trump wasn't going to send a woman and a Black man into space.
The CDC has paused testing for rabies, smallpox, and mpox. This comes after widespread layoffs and resignations have significantly shrunk the CDC's virus teams.
I remember when this happened in the 2008 election, but we ended up with Republican policies anyway.
🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI and Google are about to have a massive legal problem. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have repeatedly sworn to courts that their models do not store exact copies of copyrighted books. They claim their "safety training" prevents regurgitation. Researchers just dropped a paper called "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" that proves otherwise. They didn't use complex jailbreaks or malicious prompts. They just took GPT-4o, Gemini, and DeepSeek, and fine-tuned them on a normal, benign task: expanding plot summaries into full text. The safety guardrails instantly collapsed. Without ever seeing the actual book text in the prompt, the models started spitting out exact, verbatim copies of copyrighted books. Up to 90% of entire novels, word-for-word. Continuous passages exceeding 460 words at a time. But here is the part that changes everything. They fine-tuned a model exclusively on Haruki Murakami novels. It didn't just learn Murakami. It unlocked the verbatim text of over 30 completely unrelated authors across different genres. The AI wasn't learning the text during fine-tuning. The text was already permanently trapped inside its weights from pre-training. The fine-tuning just turned off the filter. It gets worse. They tested models from three completely different tech giants. All three had memorized the exact same books, in the exact same spots. A 90% overlap. It's a fundamental, industry-wide vulnerability. For years, AI companies have argued in court that their models are just "learning patterns," not storing raw data. This paper provides the smoking gun.
🚨 Missouri Republicans have overturned a Citizen Led Ballot Initiative to implement paid sick leave and tie the minimum wage to inflation. They hate you.
Justice Jackson just made the point that parental allegiance was not mentioned in the citizenship clause.
The biggest land scam in Florida history is complete. Miami Dade College sold it for $10.
There are 50 Rice's whales left alive on Earth. They live nowhere else but the Gulf of Mexico. The admin’s own scientists said *last year* oil & gas drilling would drive the species to extinction. Today, Trump's cabinet removed every protection standing between the oil industry and these animals’ deaths.
