#AiIsTheProblem

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 days ago

AI Chatbots Recommend Calorie-Starved Diets for Teens, Study Warns Five of the major AI chatbots were tested. All of them regularly proposed dietary plans akin to skipping an entire meal each day.

"AI Chatbots Recommend Calorie-Starved Diets for Teens, Study Warns"

"Five of the major AI chatbots were tested. All of them regularly proposed dietary plans akin to skipping an entire meal each day."

gizmodo.com/ai-chatbots-...

#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TechLit

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

1 week ago

ChatGPT Health Underestimates Medical Emergencies, Study Finds It is also inconsistent with suicide-risk alerts, the researchers said.

"ChatGPT Health Underestimates Medical Emergencies, Study Finds
"It is also inconsistent with suicide-risk alerts, the researchers said."

#AIIsTheProblem

gizmodo.com/chatgpt-heal...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

1 week ago

a stuffed animal is holding a polaroid camera in his hands Alt: a stuffed animal is holding a polaroid camera in his hands

Somewhere RUTABAGA right now, an AI IS THE PROBLEM is training on this post. I wonder what AMALGAM it is learning?

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #TechLit #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff One small trick to get you to inbox zero.

This is not the 1st report of an AI agent wiping out someone's information. Makes me wonder when ppl are going to say, "Hmm - maybe this isn't ready for prime time yet."

"Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff"

#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky

gizmodo.com/meta-exec-le...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

1 month ago

a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying boooo Alt: a group of cartoon characters are sitting in a stadium and one of them is saying boooo

Wow - Google AI has REALLY f’d up search in Gmail.

Trying to find a very specific word, and it was auto-finding synonyms.

If I wanted synms, I’d ask. Just find what I’m looking for.

(Yes, I used quotation marks - even that wasn’t guaranteed!)

#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

Microsoft Forced Copilot Into Your Life. Now It Can Accidentally Drain Your Bank Account The agent has your wallet.

"Microsoft Forced Copilot Into Your Life. Now It Can Accidentally Drain Your Bank Account"

gizmodo.com/microsoft-fo...

(At what point do I get to say, "I told you so"?)

#AiIsTheProblem #TechLit

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records OpenAI's biggest play into the burgeoning health AI market is here.

"OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Wants Access to Your Medical Records"

Oh, wow. The absolute privacy nightmare that this tech is, getting fed ppls sensitive medical info.

Sure - no way that ends badly! #AiIsTheProblem #TechLit

gizmodo.com/openai-launc...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

More Than 40 Million People Use ChatGPT Daily for Healthcare Advice, OpenAI Claims OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a bigger player in healthcare. First, they need regulators to play ball.

"More Than 40 Million People Use ChatGPT Daily for Healthcare Advice, OpenAI Claims"

Absolutely NO WAY that tech that's suggested people eat rocks to improve their health could be anything other than stellar for medical advice.

#AiIsTheProblem #TechLit #TLSky #EduSky

gizmodo.com/more-than-40...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

Meta's New Privacy Policy Opens Up AI Chats for Targeted Ads If Meta can use a feature for targeting ads, Meta will use a feature for targeting ads.

"Meta’s New Privacy Policy Opens Up AI Chats for Targeted Ads"

Honestly, shocked it took this long.

#AiIsTheProblem #InformationLiteracy #InfoLit #TechnologyLiteracy #TechLit #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

gizmodo.com/metas-new-pr...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

And in the case of AI, you might be paying for it, AND it's taking advantage of mining your data and using your effort to improve the product - you're giving them free labor.

Just a thought.

#AiIsTheProblem

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

Huh. It's almost like - & try to follow me here - being spoon fed info is not as beneficial for expanding one's mind and skills as LEARNING HOW TO FIND AND ANALYZE INFORMATION ON YOUR OWN.

Who could have foreseen...?

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians #TLSkyChat #InformationLiteracy

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

"A commercial industry is assaulting education."

That's it in a nutshell.

Great thread!

#AIIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

Wow - this ToC seems like a grab-bag of #AIIsTheProblem and "Eh, maybe it's not so bad.

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds Anything your imagination desires, as long as it's one of just a few options.

"AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds"
"Anything your imagination desires, as long as it's one of just a few options."

So in addition to its other issues, AI ALSO is bad at what it does.

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

gizmodo.com/ai-image-gen...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters | Common Dreams As backlash against energy-sucking AI data centers grows, Big Tech is spending millions on propaganda and lobbying to push a "positive pro-data center campaign message" onto legislators and voters ahe...

"Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters"

#AiIsTheProblem

www.commondreams.org/news/ai-data...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

This is an interesting idea -

Correct usage of old memes (like Bad Luck Brian, Pepperidge Farmer, etc.) is perfect as a tool to detect AI bots, considering they can't understand context, sarcasm, and human inside jokes.

#AiIsTheProblem #InfoLit #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

OpenAI Accused of Self-Censoring Research That Paints AI In a Bad Light At least two employees have reportedly quit over the conflict.

"OpenAI Accused of Self-Censoring Research That Paints AI In a Bad Light"

"At least two employees have reportedly quit over the conflict."

Wait, the ppl making money from the thing don't want to reveal how their thing may be bad?

Huh. Who'd a thunk?

#AiIsTheProblem

gizmodo.com/openai-accus...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

How Scammers Poison AI Results With Fake Customer Support Numbers

"How Scammers Poison AI Results With Fake Customer Support Numbers"
"Our investigation shows that threat actors are already exploiting this frontier at scale."

More reasons to distrust AI-provided info.

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

gizmodo.com/ai-scam-phon...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

"Sure, we're bribing officials and jamming this tech no one asked for down your throat. And, yes, it will cause lots of harm to lots of people. But you'll get used to it!"

#AiIsTheProblem

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people's political opinions, study finds A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.

"AI chatbots used inaccurate info to change people's political opinions, study finds
A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information."

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cann... The user even made a screen recording to document his troubles

"Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am""

#AiIsTheProblem

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

AI Is Keeping Coal on Life Support The technology of the future that no one seems to want, brought to you by the energy of the past.

"AI Is Keeping Coal on Life Support"
"The technology of the future that no one seems to want, brought to you by the energy of the past."

(In case you needed add'l reasons to eschew AI.)

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

gizmodo.com/ai-is-keepin...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video It's fun to mess around with cutting-edge AI. Here's why you still maybe shouldn't.

"All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video"

"...According to OpenAI’s own model card for Sora, if someone prompts hard enough, an offensive video can slip through the cracks."

gizmodo.com/all-the-bad-...

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

Do Not, Under Any Circumstance, Buy Your Kid an AI Toy for Christmas Somehow worse than screens.

"The consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG tested a selection of AI toys & found that they are capable of doing things like having sexually explicit conversations & offering advice on where a child can find matches or knives."
gizmodo.com/do-not-under...

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

"Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out"

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

3 months ago

Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.

"Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search."

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

gizmodo.com/learning-wit...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

4 months ago

Um, hell yes!

A company wants to sell you their output, but doesn't want to be responsible for that output? We'd laugh out loud if it was a physical product. So why should we accept it for a digital product?

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

4 months ago

ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No It's a real

"ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No"

"...[T]he Post found that ChatGPT often shapes its answers to fit the tone and preconceived ideas of the user."

This is a SERIOUS problem, esp when user is plain wrong.

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

gizmodo.com/chatgpt-has-...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

4 months ago

The New York Times-OpenAI Legal Fight Is Getting Mean

"Largest AI Company Complains Its IP Theft Has Resulted In Legal Action It Doesn't Like"

(Not actually the headline, but could be...)

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

gizmodo.com/the-new-york...

Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault

@drtlovesbooks.bsky.social

4 months ago

The Most Dangerous AI Tool for Libraries Yet How Class-Shelf Plus v3 quietly turns censorship into an automated workflow and why every librarian should be alarmed.

GREAT post by @elissamalespina.bsky.social on new AI tools that supercharge censorship.

The question is not, "What CAN AI make a mess of?" It's, "What CAN'T AI make a mess of?"

#AiIsTheProblem #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

aischoollibrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-d...