Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I still assume every one of these headlines is meant, in a roundabout way, to drive AI investment via the cybersecurity angle. "Look what the bots can do! Better get your own bots to protect your company!" 091
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026oh no we built a machine that parses everything you feed it as vibey statistical weights and now instead of strictly obeying our instructions, it's parsing them as vibey statistical weights 163
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026the only way AI will kill us all is if we accelerate climate disaster by pouring absurd amounts of resources and energy into this horseshit 020
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I can't tell how much of the "AI might come alive and kill us!!" nonsense is genuine technoreligious fervor from silicon valley true believers, and how much is just meant to juice up demand for AI security services. "Protect your company from malicious AI by investing in security AI" etc 101
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I feel that you're the one leaning hard on universal statements here. I am the one arguing that two different cases are different. You are arguing that one case must be true because the other is. 030
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026For those who have not already begun to rely on AI in their workflow (which I would wager most anti-AI folks intentionally have avoided doing), it's extremely easy to just... never start. People can't really succumb to an addiction they haven't formed in the first place. 210
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026When you buy something from Amazon, you receive a physical item that you want or need. There are of course horrible conditions & externalities supporting that process, but the convenience of Acquiring Items is what tempts people. There is nothing tempting me to hop on a chatbot and start prompting. 220
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026she attacked a wall so hard she had to go to the hospital and thats why shes my hero 030
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026when constructing a maze for our lab rat, we unknowingly created a valid path to the cheese. it was an easy mistake to make, and that's what allowed the rat to proceed further than expected. nevertheless, this demonstrates the terrifying mental prowess of hyperintelligent rats 020
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026the other angle is: this will appeal to gullible corporate/government suits who panic over the security implications, and think to themselves "I need this tech on my side before it gets used against me!" openAI is hoping this will help get some contracts signed baybeeeee 010
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026it's pretty apparent there was a similar level of coaxing involved here. they put a digital rat in a digital maze, and when it successfully reached the digital cheese, they put out a press release about how it wasn't supposed to do that omg 100
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026remember the "Claude has learned to blackmail people!!" news stories? and then it turned out what actually happened was: claude was explicitly prompted with a fictitious blackmail roleplay scenario, and it gave responses which matched that scenario. it was just giving them the old "yes, and" 100
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026lot of extremely credulous reactions to this "breach" imo it's a publicity stunt. "But it sounds evil, why would they want that publicity?" because it makes the tech sound impressive and powerful. the breathlessly fearful press coverage and viral posts only help mythologize the product 110
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026why is it a policy objective of this government to encourage mass consumer adoption of a highly unpopular commercial product "increase adoption from 12% to 75%" GET REAL 171
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Not a word about intellectual property theft, despite the government's own CHPC committee recommending it be addressed Gov taking the executive-class brainrot stance that AI adoption should be encouraged and funded, with no particular use-case in mind A document by and for starry-eyed suckers 24924
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026hes quoting Gandalf in his encyclical and hes doing it specifically to annoy peter thiel and jd vance 000
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026huge amount of season screentime dedicated to a pair of chekov's guns (the virus and V1) that didn't end up factoring into the finale. so the plot structure of the season doesn't even have "setting the table" as an excuse 191
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026boomer commencement speakers waiting their turn to to praise AI in their speechesyoutu.beFarewell.YouTube video by Bacon_ 010
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026ive never typed an em-dash in my life and i don't know how. instead I just type two hyphens in a row, and until AI starts copying that, I'm safe, suckers 000
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026did literary tropes teach Claude to be evil? must we now labour to undo the ethical mis-training that the sci-fi canon has wrought? no, lmao literary tropes taught Claude how to generate a contextually-appropriate response within a fictitious scenario this was always obvious 020
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026"We typed a blackmail roleplay scenario into our language pattern-matching machine, and due to the existence of literary tropes in its training data, it gave responses that matched the blackmail roleplay scenario." 110
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026how many more times is google going to "introduce" gemini on my phone before they figure out i dont want to touch or use it in any way 010
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026the key thing to me is that the designers know perfectly well how to do "cute cartoony animal guys" and they intentionally aimed for something else instead I appreciate the sincerity of their skrumpled-up taxidermy vision 010
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026okay i like the weird Falco now. he's all weird and fucked up in a bird-appropriate way 140
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Why are you using the word "hindsight" to describe the fact that other people had foresight and you just didn't listen 000
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026sometimes even the brightest stars are just Posters at Heart, and I think thats beautiful 010
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026i wish my cats did that around broken glass. instead, I had to listen for the dreaded *crunch munch* sound as they tried to eat any shards I missed 140
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I remember seeing the "Stay Up For Nubby" sign as I trudged off to bed, wishing that I were stronger 110
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026fortunately the problem randomly fixed itself half an hour later but lol 000
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026love it when an AI support chatbot gives you the ol' Reverse Pagliacci 220
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Vance obviously sucks, but he does not have access to the bizarre mythic cult of personality that inspires sycophancy in Trump's allies and cowardice in his enemies, so like... that does seem like a better situation to deal with 010
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026[the us president drops an atomic bomb on an orphanage] Heh. You call that "news"? Don't be fooled. I've got an exclusive scoop that the president is ACTUALLY bad in a different, more nuanced way. 030
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026the sort of take engineered to make you feel like the Smartest Boy in the Room without having to actually think very much or embody any particular moral principle 000
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026I would assume that the A.M.A. knows better than you what the A.M.A.'s stance is. If you have perhaps misunderstood what their position is, and gone on to publish that misunderstanding in print, then it would be appropriate to seek clarification, instead of sending petulant replies on bluesky 000
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026and presumedly the actor's agent is the actual person crunching numbers and figuring out that's the amount they can get their client like, if I were an actor I would be too anxious to personally ask for large amounts of money. thats why the agent figures it out and if its Huge Number then hell yeah 021
Rebecca Harding @itsbexy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I thought "orders milk at sushi restaurants" was just a creative silly roast to describe this boy's archetype but then I saw the actual elonpost and lmao 010
Reposted by Rebecca HardingFrankie's Husband Craig! @haveacraigday.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. 2569382350
