Media Systems
Somebody Added the Torches
Two newsrooms reported that OpenAI said its models went rogue. OpenAI did not say it. What the company did say — in the same post, in plain sight — was that it had turned the refusals down on purpose.
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Ai-culture
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- AI Culture
Being Wrong in Specific Ways
Confidence used to be a receipt for knowing. The machine now prints the receipt separately — and fills every void it finds with something the exact size and color of the missing thing.
- AI Culture
Meaning Sold Separately
The token economy has taught two lessons in the same week — strip the words going in, ban the words coming out — and both are the same lesson.
- AI Culture
The Attribution Reflex
On the single tool we apologize for using, and the long list we do not. A field note on attribution, the impostor reflex, and a verdict we enter and then, on schedule, vacate.
- AI Culture
Slop, For Whom
A note on the screenshot-driven argument that AI writes slop, and the older, unresolved question hiding inside it.