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Benjamin Riley

@benjaminjriley
7 posts
2026-03-02
It's hard not to read this story and conclude that every single person and entity involved is moronic.  The US government is in the hands of facist morons, and the Big Tech companies producing AI tools are led by delusional or self-serving morons.  —  We are in a very dangerous place.
2026-03-02 View on X
The Atlantic

A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans

Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …

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It's hard not to read this story and conclude that every single person and entity involved is moronic.  The US government is in the hands of facist morons, and the Big Tech companies producing AI tools are led by delusional or self-serving morons.  —  We are in a very dangerous place.
2026-03-02 View on X
New York Times

Sources detail how the Anthropic and DOD talks fell apart and how officials at US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, still hope for a peace agreement

The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence.  But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.

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It's hard not to read this story and conclude that every single person and entity involved is moronic.  The US government is in the hands of facist morons, and the Big Tech companies producing AI tools are led by delusional or self-serving morons.  —  We are in a very dangerous place.
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

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2025-12-11
Earlier this week, 42 state attorneys general sent a warning letter to the major AI companies regarding the dangers and harms created by AI chatbots.  It's as forceful an indictment of what's happening that I've found, so here's a short thread to walk you through the evidence they've compiled... 🧵
2025-12-11 View on X
Reuters

US state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and nine others, warning that their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws

Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were among the 13 companies that received a warning from a bipartisan group …

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2025-10-27
Everything in this story is infuriating apart from (a) the quotes from students who analogize AI efforts to sitting through a timeshare presentation, or Black Mirror episode, and (b) recognizing resistance efforts by @olivia.science & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social  —  www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
2025-10-27 View on X
New York Times

A look at Cal State's plans to become an “AI-empowered” university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... Benjamin Riley / @benjaminjriley : Everything in this story is infuriating apart from (a) the quotes from students who analogize AI efforts to sitti...

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2024-12-21
There's a lot to chew on in this story but it's inescapably amusing to me that the desire for “more data” to feed into LLMs is fueling efforts to hire humans to produce knowledge.  The thousand monkey-thousand typewriter theory of software development, only we are the monkeys.  [embedded post]
2024-12-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI's GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data

OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion Bluesky: @allytibbitt.me , @tomashirstecon , @columnist , @madamehardy , @daw...

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2024-05-14
ChatGPT-4o is here and omg...it still can't handle a simple reasoning task that most adult humans can figure out. But it did produce this very wrong answer much faster than it usually takes. (Ongoing shout out to @colin_fraser for identifying this particular task.) [image]
2024-05-14 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks

There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o  —  We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, visi...

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