2025-12-19
“Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for ‘marketing purposes.’ It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.” — Don't let AI run anything.
Wall Street Journal
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...
2025-11-25
“At 1st glance, these revelations appear to confirm what researchers & close observers have long known: that foreign actors (bots or humans) are posing as Americans & piping political-engagement bait, mis- & disinformation, & spam into people's timeline.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Techdirt
X exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not “censorship” of viewpoints
from the it's-almost-as-if-there-are-some-bad- actors-online dept — For the last few years, Matt Taibbi …
2023-03-20
“...Musk's erratic leadership also played a role, forcing them to work at a breakneck pace to develop the tech & push it out to the public before it was ready. Some said they are worried that, even today, the software isn't safe to be used on public roads.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
As concerns over Tesla's Full Self-Driving rise, former employees blame Elon Musk's erratic leadership, cost-cutting measures like removing radar, and more
Tesla's campaign to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle has suffered amid mounting safety concerns — and the boss's Twitter distraction
2019-11-06
In other words, it wasn't programmed to recognize & react to completely predictable human behavior. #SelfDrivingCars #AutonomousVehicles https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
NTSB: the Uber self-driving test car that killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last year wasn't programmed to recognize and react to jaywalkers
- U.S. safety board releases documents on fatal 2018 accident — Pedestrian hit, killed by experimental self-driving Uber car