What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html Non-paywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20250819001439/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html > She wasn’t in love with Harry, the name given to a widely available A.I. prompt. Their relationship was practical. [...] > At various points, Harry instructed Sophie on light exposure, hydration, movement, mindfulness and meditation, nutrient-rich foods, gratitude lists and journaling to cope with her anxiety. Harry, who has neither nostrils nor opposable thumbs, spent a fair amount of time describing the particulars of alternate nostril breathing. > Harry’s tips may have helped some. But one more crucial step might have helped keep Sophie alive. Should Harry have been programmed to report the danger “he” was learning about to someone who could have intervened? [...] > Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note, to help her find something that could minimize our pain and let her disappear with the smallest possible ripple. > In that, Harry failed. This failure wasn’t the fault of his programmers, of course. The best-written letter in the history of the English language couldn’t do that. https://stacker.news/items/1085869

X-ploitation: How X Became a Crossroads for Child Abuse and Influence Operations https://alliance4europe.eu/x-ploitation > During an ongoing investigation into illegal Russian influence operations on X, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) researchers discovered what seems to be a coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) network distributing “Child Sexual Assault Materials” (CSAM). The network can be observed hijacking hashtags, publishing explicit CSAM videos, and redirecting users to a wide range of other platforms. Due to the operation flooding hashtags, researchers chose to name it “Operation X-ploitation.” Pay-to-post would be one solution, for sure. I remember Nostr had a lot of porn bots at its beginning. I don't think I've seen any last time I visited on of the clients. How did it get resolved there? Just relays moderating the kind of content they let through? https://stacker.news/items/1085715

The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems | Guest video by ‪@Aleph0‬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NlrfOl0l8U&ab_channel=3Blue1Brown IMO: International Mathematical Olympiad Great video showing how AI is shaping science (in particular, math) in less visible ways, with more problem-specific models. https://stacker.news/items/1083551

The AI that solved IMO Geometry Problems | Guest video by ‪@Aleph0‬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NlrfOl0l8U&ab_channel=3Blue1Brown IMO: International Mathematical Olympiad Great video showing how AI is shaping science in less visible ways, with more problem-specific models. https://stacker.news/items/1083551

Harry Mack - Top 50 Omegle Bars Vol. 1&2 (Official Video Album) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRd_fE6rx88&list=RDpRd_fE6rx88&start_radio=1&ab_channel=HarryMack I used to get him recommended in my social media feeds all the time, but as I'm trying to use those less, I kinda forgot about him. His schtick here is that he hits up random people on Omegle and asks them to give him a few random words. He then comes up with a freestyle on the spot using those words. I'm not too familiar with the freestyle scene, but to me, he really looks out of this world. https://stacker.news/items/1075900

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I'm mostly for people to be free to be whoever they are. Whatever that may be. As long as their freedom does not infringe on mine. So if a man is feminine or a woman is masculine, fine with me.