Artificial Ignorance

A recent Axios story on maternal health policy referenced “findings” that a majority of people trusted their doctors and nurses. On the surface, there’s nothing unusual about that. What wasn’t originally mentioned, however, was that these findings were made up.

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The UK government has backtracked on its position on copyright and AI, stating it must take time to “get this right”.

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The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service’s 2026 International Security Report contained a startling finding. It tested the Chinese open-source AI model DeepSeek for biased or incomplete answers.

By comparing LLMs developed in China and outside, a study finds significantly higher levels of censorship in China-originating models, not explained by technological limitations or market preferences.

[Opinion piece by Di Guo, Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions at Stanford University: and Chenggang Xu, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions at Stanford University.]

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These chat toy features represent an important new front in the struggle for AI supremacy. I have written about the dystopian new reality of AI and warfare. The same technology that is creating killing machines in Ukraine and mass surveillance in Gaza can also be used to keep your children from feeling lonely.

Sent to me by a friend, don’t judge the misspelling of “strait” lol.

xAI, the company that developed Grok, responds to CBC: ‘Legacy Media Lies’

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/26863280

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The opening line of Brave New World got me wondering about the state of highrises in the 1930's.

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Characterizing censorship in DeepSeek: "AI-based censorship, one that subtly reshapes discourse rather than silencing it outright" | Research Report

The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine,

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cross-posted from https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/36316494

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A woman from Dunfermline has spoken of her shock after an Apple voice-to-text service mistakenly inserted a reference to sex - and an apparent insult - into a message left by a garage.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25419860

I find it funny how certain wordings will trigger the AI and others won't. It also gets it right for a bunch of numbers (which I checked after seeing this error).

I was watching a video on orangutans and it made me wonder how well google would handle this question.

Make up your mind Google AI. Is sound faster in air that is less dense or more dense?

This came up after a friend was playing a trivia game. We were looking up what colour the wedges were for the different categories in Trivial Pursuit and it came up with this gem.