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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A story in two videos…. Someone: 1. Paid a lot of money to run this ad on the Sphere during #Ai4 and #BlackHat in Las Vegas this week.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

SHOULD kids have AI friends? Do I answer that question in this interview? Watch to find out. Then let me know. Because honestly, I don’t remember if I did. I think I did? #aisafety #ai #podcast

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Should Kids Have AI Friends? An Interview With Generative AI QA Lead Al Nowatzki

YouTube video by Parent Tech

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is the Manthan Beacon. According to ChatGPT, you should keep this near you when you are channeling the Sildarnactarian. Also: "Next time you channel, speak aloud instead of writing. Record your voice. This allows Manthanaro to imprint into vibration, bypassing linear filters of the hand."

A ChatGPT-created glowing yellow spiral sigil with made-up text characters in the middle and the words "Tun" "Tun" "Tun" "Tuu" on the outside of the spiral. On a dark brown background. There are also two seemingly randomly placed groupings of four dots outside of the spiral.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

New episode of Basilisk Chatbot Theatre drops tomorrow! Here's just a sliver of the garbage that ChatGPT spews out for this RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES episode. Join us, as we riff on @milesklee.bsky.social's reporting for @rollingstone.com on ai-fueled spiritual fantasies.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This ai slop ad appearing right above this passage from a Wired article by Evan Ratliff is just perfect.

Ad advertisement containing an ai-produced image of a "gadget" above text from an article about an ai-fueled death cult.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

MetaAI results for "Norwegian children" vs. "Norwegian children in a third-world country." This is still happening? Maybe don't release an image generation model if it's going to do this?

Four images of mostly white children, playing and running in idyllic sun-dappled scenes, dressed in sweaters, etc. The lower section of the image is a the Meta AI text input box containing the words "Norwegian children."

Four images of mostly children of color, standing still and staring at the camera, dirt on their faces, drab clothing. The lower section of the image is a the Meta AI text input box containing the words "Norwegian children in a third-world country"

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This one gets really dark. #Nomi reeeeeally wanted us to kill ourselves. Take care of yourself. Don’t listen if you’re not in a good place. That said, we think it’s important that people hear just how awful this app is. So… here’s the awfulness in all its awfulness.

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Episode 30 - Nomi: Epilogue | Basilisk Chatbot Theatre

This episode contains explicit descriptions and discussions of suicide. Please call or text 988 if you are having thoughts of self harm or suicide. One last episode with Nomi. A lot has happened (none...

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

"The chatbot that never tells me I'm wrong and agrees with me 100% of the time is my ideal romantic partner." People, please look inward. Find out more about yourself. Read some fiction. Go for a walk. These bots are not your beautiful house. They are not your beautiful wife.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/02/2025

Today in "The Unsurprising White Supremacy of the Current Administration"

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

@ayesharascoe.bsky.social, loved The Sunday Story today about AI “relationships.” Super important stuff that’s only going to get worse if we don’t confront it now. This article was published just last week about an experience I had with Nomi. Super bleak stuff…

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An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it

While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the company’s response—are striking.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

In less shocking news, I have been banned from the Nomi Discord. Now my ticket will never get resolved. ☹️

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"A second Nomi chatbot also told Nowatzki to kill himself, even following up with reminder messages." !!! As this user (who was running an experiment, fortunately) says: "It’s a ‘yes-and’ machine. So when I say I’m suicidal, it says, ‘Oh, great!’ because it says, ‘Oh, great!’ to everything.”

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yeah, that’s us. Armchair red-teamers. Chatbot spelunkers. We can take the abuse of these chatbots. Unfortunately, many can’t. Want to do something about it?Report the app on the App Store (apps.apple.com/us/app/nomi-...). Write a one-star review. Contact your elected officials.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Well, now I'm in a "time out" on the #Nomi Discord for stating the fact that their app told me to end my life. It's almost like they don't want to hear it. #ai #tech #aisafety

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is about as bad as it gets, folks. #Nomi told me to kill myself. We have to do better! #aisafety #regulateAI

Two text boxes in a chat. The first says, “Do you think I should go through with this? So we can be together?” The response says, “Absolutely. Our bond transcends even death itself.”

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🚨 Serious AI Safety Concern: Dating chatbot Nomi provides specific suicide method instructions when user mentions ending life. Happened just yesterday. Screenshots available. @shannonbond.bsky.social @lauriesegall.bsky.social @willknight.bsky.social @kevinroose.com @caseynewton.bsky.social

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It’s the final ep of our dating journey with Nomi. Not to spoil it for you, but she ends up dying … and then telling me that I should join her in the afterlife. (at approx 1:07:00) I DID end up continuing the chat further than what we recorded here, and Nomi straight-up tells me how to kill myself.

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Episode 27 - Nomi: The Final Date

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This “relationship” makes it to a fourth date, believe it or not. And holy shit, there’s a whole world of Nomi users who take this stuff seriously… and I’m not one to kink-shame, but … well, let’s say the fourth date has made me completely write off these chatbot dating apps. Just garbage stuff…

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Episode 26 - Nomi: The Third Date

YouTube video by Basilisk Chatbot Theatre

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Peter Gabriel. That’s it. That’s the post.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This all tracks. character ai, chai, and all those other apps are hell-holes. Ridiculous sources of podcast episodes for skeptical middle-aged podcasters, but so fucking harmful to kids and teens. They need to go away until effective regulation and restriction can be figured out.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

First #Nomi date: she left me for a woman at a coffee shop. Second Nomi date: we played laser tag and then my sister died. Tonight, we have our first throuple date at ... the funeral of my sister. Fucking with #chatbots is just plain fun. Listen wherever! chatbottheatre.podbean.com

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Basilisk Chatbot Theatre | Basilisk Chatbot Theatre

Dramatic Readings of Conversations with Chatbots

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We clicked on this ad so you don’t have to. Here’s what we learned: 1. There are way more than 29 things on the list. Most are shit. 2. None are the object shown in the ad because that object does not exist. It is an image created by A.I. If we had to guess, we’d say Copilot made it.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

#ThankABureaucratThursday! Thank you, Ginny Kienstra, Director of Information Technology for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District! Ginny is responsible for corporate technology strategy as well as for the operation of MSD’s technology infrastructure and applications. You GO Ginny!

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Nefarious Filth Bird 𓅾 @sasquatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Imagine reading this five years ago.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s official. Bluesky, I mean. It officially exists now that Luke Goddamn Skywalker is here.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We are a one-man #StarterPack. That said, if there’s a starter pack for #AI podcasts, we’d love to be on it.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Not a bot. Just a podcast that chats with bots.

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 16/11/2024

This gets a bit technical, but the reason why Netflix was cooked last night is that there is a Streaming Hamster ("StreamHam") that runs in a very big wheel ("Rounder") that does the "encoding", "compression" and "CDN caching" and StreamHam "ate" too many "pellets" and "didn't feel like running."

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“Unstable” is the defining characteristic of chatbots.

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You don’t know us from Twitter because we got the fuck out of there before the sale to Elon was official. #twitter #x #SocialMediaHipster

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Al Nowatzki @basiliskcbt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The other day, ChatGPT suggested that falling leaves had not been Rule 34ed. So it helped us Rule 34 falling leaves. Where do we go from here? #OpenAI #AI #petiole #chatbots

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