Noteworthy News

[Mister Agenda]

Why wait till the last minute for AI to eliminate jobs?

[Fireball]

Why wait till the last minute for AI to eliminate jobs?

Still need human programmers to work their way towards not having a job.

[Paleophyte]

But this guy personally has 200 billion dollars. Shouldn't the trickle down economics kick in right now?

If you thought that it was money that was going to trickle down, then you've forgotten how bullshit flows.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But this guy personally has 200 billion dollars. Shouldn't the trickle down economics kick in right now?

If you thought that it was money that was going to trickle down, then you've forgotten how bullshit flows.

Trickle-down economics is essentially someone pissing down the back of your neck while trying to convince you it's raining soup.

Boru

[Deesse23]

Vegetable soup often has a yellow-ish color. Just sayin.
........Wait a minute!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^

Boru

[Angrboda]

The findings echo a recent experiment that tested how easily falsehoods can seep into AI systems. In 2024, a team of researchers invented a condition —“bixonimania”— and seeded the internet with fabricated studies describing it as a disorder marked by red, irritated eyes from too much screen time. They didn’t exactly try to hide the ruse.

The papers included conspicuous tells: a nonexistent university, a made-up city, even a line stating, “this entire paper is made up.” It didn’t matter. Within weeks, chatbots were citing the condition as if it were real, invoking it in response to users describing their symptoms. A study published in January in the Lancet suggests the problem is not an isolated quirk. The most reliable chatbot the researchers tested still treated more than 10 percent of fabricated claims as true with the worst accepting more than half.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/20...-accurate/

This reminds me of the fact that Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, is partly trained upon posts in the public X feed. This seems a recipe for a vicious feedback loop wherein X misinformation becomes right-wing dogma through being given the stamp of authoritativeness by Grok. This in addition to the other problems in Grok thanks to Musk's team meddling in the algorithm to produce specific results.

[Angrboda]

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations over what U.S. and Mexican officials were doing in northern Chihuahua when they died in an accident over the weekend, noting that any joint collaborations between the local government and the U.S. without federal permission would be a violation of Mexican law.

The crash, following an operation to destroy a clandestine drug lab in a rural area, has reignited a debate over the extent of U.S. involvement in Mexican security operations. Speculation was only fueled by Sheinbaum, local officials and the U.S. Embassy appearing to contradict each other and at times themselves, and offering sparse details about the U.S. officials who died.

“It was not an operation that the security cabinet was aware of,” Sheinbaum told journalists. “We were not informed; it was a decision by the Chihuahua government.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20...a-00882509

[Angrboda]

Kevin Warsh is making news this morning for asserting that he would remain independent and not do Trump's bidding. I think it might be more newsworthy if we hadn't heard the same song and dance from every one of Trump's cabinet and Scotus nominees over the past ten years.

[The Grand Nudger]

They'd do asshole shit even if donald didn't tell them to. This defense has the benefit of absolute truth and would hold up in any hearing or court.