AI Humor
AI Slop
dingchilling wrote:
Announcing iloveAIslop, a new AI lab for converting human written texts to polished AI generated slop. We believe AI generated slop has the right to exist. We aren't trying to beat pangram. In fact, 100% of user queries are flagged fully AI-generated. Weights and link below!
AI Slop: The Musical
Tibo wrote:
ajambrosino (Andrew Ambrosino works on Chat and Codex for OpenAI) thought it was too hard to upload music to twitter, so he just prompted a whole music app hosted on ChatGPT Sites into existence just to share his album
Andrew Ambosino has created an entire album of AI generated music using OpenAI’s Codex. You can listen to the album here.
Now That’s What I Call Slop: The Commerical
Dominik Kundel wrote:
Can't go without an appropriate ad
The ad really is funny and does a great job recreating those 90s era commercials. You can watch it here.
Ward’s Words
ChatGPT integration with Apple iMessage
ChatGPT wrote:
Everyday conversations just got easier with the new Apple Messages plugin.
Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies—all with ChatGPT on your Mac.
Now available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop.
This set off a flurry of responses. Almost all of them negative.
Ed Andersen wrote:
Shut this company down, decades of iMessages in chat.db ending up in the training data without consent from the other parties
Incredible malice. Just pure evil
Luiza Jarovsky wrote:
🚨 IMPORTANT: OpenAI has partnered with Apple, and through this new plugin, it will be able to access a user’s entire message history and send texts on their behalf. People who want to reduce their privacy risk (and keep their agency!) should probably avoid this plugin. Also, a reminder that your contacts might have enabled this plugin, so some of you might prefer to stop using iMessage altogether. Protecting privacy has just gotten harder.
Mark Gurman wrote:
There are concerns here but OpenAI claims your whole database isn’t uploaded - just the conversations you ask about. Users also know what they’re getting into via the setup screens. Last thing I’ll say is most people won’t even figure out how to turn this on because of macOS.
He’s not wrong about most people not being able to figure it out because of MacOS. 😂
Steve wrote:
I’m actually pretty upset Apple allowed this. While the feature is cool, the technical functionality that enables it is not cool.
If I was Tim Apple, OAI would be temporarily banned from the App Store until this is reversed, and here’s why:
I use iMessage because it’s quantum encrypted, with server keys I can own. Local caches are on devices that are encrypted with my passwords, not apples keys.
This makes it and computationally and legally impossible for anyone else to access chat history but the people I trust and directly communicated with.
But *now* the copies of my messages from years ago on *anyones* laptop in what is *supposed* to be an encrypted-at-rest local cache only can now be fetched directly by chatgpt without my permission or even knowledge and stored and processed in plain text forever on openai / Microsoft servers unencrypted and requested by any government entity at a moments notice without my knowledge and openai/Microsoft legally have to provide that, in federally enforced total secrecy. And they’re never legally allowed to admit they do it.
AND because of default chatgpt settings most people haven’t bothered to turn off, all those private texts can now be used for training and will end up in the weights of future models, so all future AI models will permanently know all of our private lives as a part of the weights, immortalized forever as training checkpoints.
Total architecture abandonment and user trust betrayal on Apples part. This should be the most viral story of 2026 by 100x. The permanent end of private communication in the US.
I believe that’s a good take. I really wonder how much of this was worked out and agreed to by Apple because it does seem to be at odds with past behavior and their current fight with the European Union regarding giving third-parties first level access. Granted, it doesn’t seem like ChatGPT will have complete access to your message history (only the ones you ask about), but it still feels like a departure for Apple to permit something like this.
My Take
Why not wait? Every report I have seen from beta testers who have installed the new version of iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS all speak in glowing terms of how great Siri has become. More than that I have seen pundits like John Gruber and Chance Miller specifically talk about how you can use this new version of Siri to query iMessages. They even speculate that an improved Siri may represent a security risk to users who have come to depend on the search feature being broken in iMessage. The reason it may represent a security risk is because the new integration with Siri (which will eventually index and have full access to all of your messages) will make it possible for users to ask things like, “What’s my social security number?” If you have ever texted that number to someone in the past, the new Siri will make it easy to query. Fortunately, you can also just delete that message and it will no longer appear in search results.
The episode where they discuss this is here. The part about social security numbers begins at the 23 minutes and 41 seconds.
Apple hasn’t announced a release date for the new operating systems, but typically they are made available to the public sometime between October and November. If you’re in Apple’s ecosystem and wanting to use AI to scan your text messages, I would tell you to wait. Apple already has all of those messages. Why share them with a third party when you don’t need to?
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News
ChatGPT Image Improvements
Tibo wrote:
Yay, you can now make transparent images in ChatGPT and through the API with GPT-Image-2. Here is a cactus cactus I am about to print and put on my laptop.
AI Medical Guidance?
Joseph Younis, MD wrote:
This is a well-designed randomized control study that asks the question: Does an LLM’s ability to diagnose and manage the same medical scenarios degrade when a patient is the communicator versus a physician.
The result: 60% drop in diagnostic accuracy, 12% drop in appropriate management decisions
The answer essentially confirms the following suspicions:
1. LLMs are suggestible, naive, and sycophantic
2. Medical literacy drives output; less literacy, less accurate LLM outputs
3. Prompting still confounds frontier models’ medical accuracy
It is not safe to have people trust LLM medical advice when they’re incapable of detecting their own bias and inaccuracies.
Corporations Switch to Local Models
Hesamation wrote:
AT&T is doing exactly what OpenAI and Anthropic fear about enterprise.
they’re routing 40% of employee AI usage to open models, and intend to boost it to 60-70%.
> coding costs down 56%
> quality dropped just 2%
> 45B tokens/day btw.
AT&T AI chief: open models are “just as good or better” for many tasks.
they still use frontier models for the critical work but everything else gets routed to cheaper open models.
AI Hardware
AJ wrote:
Xiaomi just showed its AI Cube Prototype and this could become a serious GB10 competitor from China 👀
- 3 custom chips: Xring O3, O100, D100
- 200 TOPS NPU
- 1.22 TB/s AI memory bandwidth
- Up to 160GB unified memory
- 150W sustained power
- 120B models running locally
Xring O100: 1.22TB/s + 330 t/s on a 150w AI box is 🔥
Once it hit's the marked, going to sell like hot cakes.
Jun Song wrote:
Xiaomi AI cube has 1.22TB/s bandwidth what?
Up to 160GB unified memory.
M5 Ultra is expecting to have 1.2TB/s bandwidth, so it will be competitive.
Price is not announced yet, but I guess it will be cheaper than future Mac Studio M5 Ultra.
AI Industry is Bad at Messaging
Andrew Curran wrote:
Sam Altman on how he feels the industry has not done a very good job with messaging.
D’oh!
Source Interview
If you want to watch the full 78 minute interview from which those quotes are sourced, it’s available here:
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