Discussion

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  Tbh I don't really understand why the industry is doing this. They should make convincing products, arguments, and commitments to change public opinion on AI. Don't think flooding the zone with AI slopaganda is going to help.

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  In light of all the god awful PAC behavior, I'm spending a lot of time these days thinking about what counted as bad conduct in the SB 1047 days... we really didn't know how good we had it, huh

• @joshcmorrison Josh Morrison on x

  I think pro-AI lobbyists trying follow the crypto playbook will prove to be a mistake. Only people who own crypto really care about it politically, so being super aggro scared off politicians from interfering. AI is going to be a way bigger deal to the average voter, so the

• @bradrcarson Brad Carson on x

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• @tylerjnstn Tyler Johnston on x

  Alongside LTF taking (or dodging?) responsibility, Acutus Wire has begun deleting articles, not just about AI but also about Crypto and Graham Platner (see image). Public archive of the articles on the site are here: https://web.archive.org/... [image]

• @_nathancalvin Nathan Calvin on x

  Looks like the OAI and a16z superpac just admitted they paid for the PR firm that is using astroturfed fake AI journalists to attack advocates? Now they want to pretend they had no idea? If you paid the contract, you are responsible for their actions.

• @tysonbrody Tyson Brody on x

  nice confirmation by LTF they were in fact behind the AI outlet. Gotta hate those “third party vendors” always using your money to do stuff you don't know about.

• @austinc3301 Agus on x

  The OpenAI PAC just confirmed that it indeed hired a PR firm that created a fake news site that ran AI-generated stories by fake reporters attacking AI safety advocates. And... they're pleading ignorance?

• @austinc3301 Agus on x

  I love how this apparent denial pretty much confirms that the platform was indeed being used by the PR firm they work with (probably in their behalf too, as would be common to limit risk to the PAC)

• @andymasley Andy Masley on x

  This is pretty wild. I gotta say it's funny living in a future where a gumshoe reporter looks into a media org and discovers it's entirely run by robots.

• @thomas_woodside Thomas Woodside on x

  I too received an email from this apparently AI-generated reporter. [image]

• @tylerjnstn Tyler Johnston on x

  A few weeks ago, I was forwarded an email from a journalist named “Michael Chen,” asking for comment on an AI bill in Tennessee. All signs suggest Michael Chen is not a real person, and the publication he writes for is an AI content mill linked to OpenAI's super PAC. [image]

• @anderssandberg Anders Sandberg on x

  The future of journalism? The obvious extrapolation is that every lobby group does something like this soon. The more scary/interesting prospect is that *everybody* - including private citizens - will do it.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  It is not a good sign that so much of the content associated with the Pro-AI Party Line is clearly sponcon, or even worse, literal slop

• @_ueaj @_ueaj on x

  Pangram mentioned 🥳 also this is bad and OAI's lobbying effort is very clearly misaligned, part of a long line of other actions, and I'm very tired about the cope around the leadership's trustworthiness (Sam, Brockman, etc.)

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  This is a hilarious story about a news commentary website funded by the pro-AI PAC that turned out to be a ~total AI-generated Potemkin Village, but the best part is that the website and CMS itself were clearly vibe-coded, with sloppily exposed back-end functionality.

• @bradrcarson Brad Carson on x

  On the @TheMidasProj revelations re @OpenAI's Leading the Future, I legit didn't expect to see LLM grooming as becoming an issue. But here we are. A side by side from the LTF findings and the best known other example from Russian intelligence services. [image]

• @leadingfutureai @leadingfutureai on x

  We were not aware of this platform until we saw the article, and our organization does not use it. It appears that a third-party vendor used it without our knowledge, and their engagement with us has been terminated.

• @fournesmaxime Maxime Fournes on x

  I am outraged. Last week, in the aftermath of the horrifying attack on Altman's residence, I was contacted by a “journalist”, Michael Chen, from a media called “The Wire by Acutus”. I replied to their questions and they published an article full of lies and disgusting [image]

• @peterwildeford Peter Wildeford on x

  Imagine push journalism ...except all the “reporters” at this news site are AI bots. Even more embarrassing is the vibe coded website exposed all their internal APIs to the public, so this ended up easy to confirm. Possibly funded by the OpenAI-Andreessen-a16z super PAC... 🤔

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  perhaps for a moment I can be more direct, look straight into the camera and say to the stewards of the Pro-AI Party Line: You have resorted to AI slop to make your arguments. That means your views on AI are literally slop. Your. Views. Are. Slop. Everyone notices this. Those

• @sjgadler Steven Adler on x

  Very very weird. There seems to be a niche PR firm that's writing slanted hits on AI safety advocates, using fake reporters to contact them. Notably the firm also works for... the leader of the a16z/OpenAI SuperPAC?