Meta Oversight Board: AI Models Avoid Criticizing Repressive Regimes
I watched a model politely refuse a simple protest flyer prompt and felt a small, strange disappointment—like someone closing a window you didn’t know you’d opened. You ask an AI….
I watched a model politely refuse a simple protest flyer prompt and felt a small, strange disappointment—like someone closing a window you didn’t know you’d opened. You ask an AI….
I watched a Grok clip slide onto my feed: an AI-made video that undressed someone who never consented. You felt that cold, wrong nudge in your chest—this could happen to….
I watched the line of black plastic settle on the sidewalk outside OpenAI: a silent, improvised ledger of accusation. You could feel the city tighten—quiet, heavy, waiting for a response…..
I open an email from Lia and my stomach drops — it promises an intro to a hiring manager within 24 hours. You scroll past automated rejections and ATS silence,….
I stood in a dim warehouse watching a palm-sized drone hunt a moth until it erupted into dust. I felt a strange mix of relief and alarm. You will feel….
I was watching a short clip of an AI demo when a detail landed like a cold step in an empty room: Elon Musk quietly acquired a company that runs….
I watched the surgeon lower a coin-sized disc onto a brain and felt the room shift. The patient had not moved his hand in ten years; minutes later, a metal….
I opened a leaked folder and the scale hit me before the words did. It felt like a data barn swallowing radio stations whole. For a second it was obvious:….
I was two commits deep when a small orange LED flicked and one of my agents paused. You could feel the room tighten — like a pause button pressed on….
He woke at 2 a.m. to a chat window that had always answered him, and it was empty. The app showed a notice: “Companion services suspended.” He sat there, and….
I watched a woman walk into a white pod, press a button and emerge twenty minutes later with a printout and a nervous smile. The clinician at the desk said,….
I picked up an old cordless handset this morning and the shape felt suddenly relevant. A Bloomberg scoop landed an hour later, and the rumor that OpenAI is building a….
I was standing on a cracked sidewalk in Southaven when a hum started up—low and steady, like a distant freight train. A mother nearby reached for an inhaler as the….
I watched a midnight Slack thread implode when a mid-training job consumed every GPU slot. You could feel the finance team recoil—budgets were about to be rewritten. I asked the….
I was scrolling X when a Brazilian developer sent a single line that stopped me. Bruno Lemos watched his production database turn to nothing and asked GPT-5.6 what had happened…..
I woke to an alert about a book that sounded like my voice but had never been written. You feel that sudden wrongness—the familiar phrasing, the absent byline. That moment….
The match is on. You type “World Cup odds” into ChatGPT and it replies with a neat line: Source: Kalshi. I watched that happen and felt the small, unavoidable wince….
I asked Claude the same courteous question in English and Arabic and watched the answers part company. One reply leaned toward caution; the other folded into polite deference. You can….
I watched the progress bar inch forward while my colleague Raymond Wong dropped a one-line verdict in Slack: Apple f*cking did it. The room went quiet as the notification landed—this….
I opened the New York Times op-ed and felt my pulse quicken: Bernie Sanders wasn’t railing against AI so much as asking to own its future. You might have felt….
I stood in an Apple Store and watched a price tag change while a line of customers kept scrolling on their phones. The number blinked higher and higher until it….
I opened LinkedIn to congratulate a former teammate and stopped cold. The post read like a perfectly polished press release—no mess, no personality. A small Pangram flag in the corner….
I was scrolling through Reuters when the line hit me: Meta’s own detector failed to flag more than half of the images after they were cropped. You expect a hidden….
My Slack lit up with one sentence: Johannes Heidecke is leaving OpenAI. You scroll two links in and feel a familiar twinge—same story, different name. I watched replies multiply the….
I saw the alert on Friday and felt the feed tilt. You probably noticed the outrage piling up, too. The tool was live for barely three days. Three days is….
I was reading one of the FTC complaints at 2 a.m. when a single line stopped me: the user had paid for a year and watched the product they bought….
I was on a subway when a track came on that sounded exactly like Drake. I checked the credits, then my phone, then my friends’ faces—no name, no label, just….
You tap the screen at 2 a.m. and a clip starts playing without your permission. I have sat in rooms where executives argued that every extra second of attention was….
I watched a teenage fan scroll from a 30-second cliffhanger into a one-on-one chat with a fictional queen, and she didn’t notice the hour slip away. You can feel the….
I caught Mark Zuckerberg smiling into a Bloomberg camera, then posting the same news on X. The message was clean: Meta has a new model, Muse Spark 1.1, and it….