How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/#atom-everything
The irony here is that the one thing AI agents can never have is true agency. Making a decision to reach out to a stranger and take time out of their day needs to remain a uniquely human decision, driven by human judgement.
Setting a goal for a bunch of LLMs and letting them loose on Gmail is not a responsible way to apply this technology.
Trolls like those involved in Gamergate are even more hostile when they're using their real names on social media networks like Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook (FB) — Quartz
http://qz.com/741933/internet-trolls-are-even-more-hostile-when-theyre-using-their-real-names-a-study-finds/
Trolls like those involved in Gamergate are even more hostile when they're using their real names on social media networks like Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook (FB) — Quartz
http://qz.com/741933/internet-trolls-are-even-more-hostile-when-theyre-using-their-real-names-a-study-finds
Sinéad O'Connor: A Mea Culpa < PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/154983-sinead-oconnor
It’s time to apologize to Sinéad O’Connor. Remember her? Ripped up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live before adding, “Fight the real enemy” to protest child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and the complicity of the church hierarchy? Already a platinum record and a number one single to her name, Sinéad’s career was never the same again.