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Lelia Erscoi

@spookyachu.bsky.social
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Applying the opposite of whatever "it's not that deep" is to everything in my life :D

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo

I stepped away from my computer for a moment. When I returned, it was building something. I did not ask it to do this. We're not ready for what's coming

(picture of windows 3d pipes screen saver)
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 07/09/2026
Enjoy this preprint! I'm going to have a little Bsky break because I need to do some very solid writing and making and recording of talks. ☺️
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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Keri @keriqbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 01/09/2026
Here are links to ten free-to-use picture resources and access to millions of public domain images.
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Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work. When I still used Substack I posted the following Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majori...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 02/09/2026
I shouldn't feel dismayed, but it's been a year and we're still talking about words. If I have any power to change this, I'd just modestly hope to move to *why* they want us to obsess over these silly and very damaging words. But if we could move to substantial points even more it would be best. 1/2
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"The study was the first to show that misogyny was not an isolated prejudice, but a robust, cross-cutting predictor of violent extremism. "The number one thing predicting whether or not somebody is going to hold extremist attitudes is whether they think violence against women is acceptable,"
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.
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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Exactly this. And to my mind this is now creating another perfect storm: the expansion of securitised surveillance in universities in the name of catching cheating. So even as they scream academic freedom our pedagogy is reduced to compliance management
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 12/08/2026
Used to get called a liar about my awful game industry experiences by the unwashed masses due to soy and SJW; now I get called a liar about my awful game industry experiences by the unwashed masses due to woke and transgender. Huge improvement
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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tobacco is also massaging governments through lobbyists (see the EU corporateeurope.org/en/tobacco-i...) & keeps working with universities & scientists (see the @solid-research.bsky.social paper w @unileiden.bsky.social www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026... & doi.org/10.1371/jour...)
corporateeurope.org
Tobacco industry interference within the European Parliament | Corporate Europe Observatory
CEO has written to European Parliament President Roberta Metsola to express concern about tobacco industry interference within the Parliament. The letter highlights the importance of adhering to the U...
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Lelia Erscoi @spookyachu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
*spiderman pointing at spiderman* No, YOU're sexualizing it!
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Robotics CEO fumes after Wired portrays $20K home robot as ‘sexualized’
Dar Sleeper, vice president of product and design at 1X, blasted Wired magazine over the weekend.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/07/2026
This is poised to become a far bigger problem as companies promote always on, always watching devices as a path to a more optimized you.
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How AI Advice Is Undermining Eating-Disorder Therapy
Even a chatbot trained on nutrition and fitness research that dispenses reasonable-sounding guidance can become a deadly influence.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
“Cultural homogenisation is upon us with these trends, while turning a visitor, a reader, a listener, into the filter of AI art slop…”
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AI companies are throwing museums a lifeline. What do they want in return?
Touted as a way to engage visitors and boost funding, new tools are triggering concerns around trust and ethics
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/07/2026
My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.
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Operational biological sex definitions applied to hummingbirds (Bleiweiss 1992; Bleiweiss 1999; Bleiweiss 2001; Diamant et al. 2021; Falk et al. 2022; Falk et al. 2021) where sex is operationally defined by binary plumage phenotypes in the field. Each row depicts a wild individual hummingbird with morphological traits (beak length, plumage coloration), behavioural traits (territoriality) and their unobserved gamete type. This example illustrates how the same individual can be operationally defined as one sex in the field (based on external phenotypes) but classified as a different sex based on their gametes (which cannot be easily observed in the field), highlighting how definitional choices shape scientific reporting of sex.
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TheSnarkTank @thesnarktank.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Mitch McConnell’s consciousness uploaded to turtloid robot, returns to capitol to continue destroying democracy until his nuclear power cells run dry.
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Zoe Washburne Rebel Scum @zoewashburne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Corporations don't GAF about you - but their AI robots...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
“These Meta glasses are anti-social from the jump. If all we have is this ad to judge the product, they’re not about capturing memories with your friends at the bar or a party. They’re about packaging one’s life and then viewing it as an out-of-body experience, like you’re already dead.” 🔥🔥🔥
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Nature @nature.com · 21/06/2026
Researchers have tracked the electrical crackle of individual brain cells in real time during unscripted conversations, capturing how sentences are built before a single word is spoken go.nature.com/4uOEKii
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How the brain builds sentences, neuron by neuron
Nature - Neural maps reveal the specialized cells that produce speech.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/02/2026
OK! I collected much of what I @spookyachu.bsky.social @andreaeyleen.bsky.social (and other collaborators not on here) have said on the Turing test (from critical, gendered, etc. angles) as it keeps being relevant: olivia.science/turing — hope it's useful for others too. Happy Sunday! 🤖💭
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Turing test
On this page are some resources for analysing the Turing test.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 23/11/2025
"It is noteworthy here that in all likelihood, the wealthy would still continue to receive high-quality personal instruction while the less wealthy would be taught by these potentially problematic LLMs due to resource constraints." — me and @samhforbes.bsky.social ☹️
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Chris Hannay @hannay.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A group of hospital physicians met for a virtual rounds meeting. What they didn't realize was that Otter.ai was on the call, too. They found out when the AI transcriber sent a transcript of the meeting -- patient information and all -- to dozens of current and former staff after the call.
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AI bot recorded doctors’ meeting, sent patient info to current and former hospital staff, watchdog says
The transcription tool recorded the meeting on behalf of a physician who no longer worked at the hospital
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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Now with #AltText
A rounded sedan with a giant cherry on top, the typical look of a San Francisco Waymo so-called “automatic driving vehicle” is covered in ACAB graffiti, 1312 written on it, gay shame, a virus in the system. It’s windows are punched out, there is smoke coming from it. Text reads “kill a Waymo, save a cat.” Text is black on a white background.
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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Watching the Epstein survivor admit that she voted for Trump really fucked with my head. The brainwashing against the left that apparently people endure from birth, must be way deeper than I ever imagined. A victim voting for a rapist, who has also been accused by 26 other women? Over a woman? WTAF?
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/11/2025
to my new followers and not, see this if you want to understand why and how much the AI bros hate women and people generally (by @spookyachu.bsky.social, Annelies K, and me): Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Lelia Erscoi @spookyachu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I remember the huge discussion that happened in Romania when authorities suddenly let the Tate brothers leave the country, despite being under judicial supervision. When people said Trump asked for their release (their first destination being Mar-a-Lago), they were called conspiracy theorists.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook
An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
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Lelia Erscoi @spookyachu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Just found out a bunch of my private boards on Pinterest are being automatically flagged by AI systems, like this one for "graphic violence", and I would like to be able to hate on AI art without an AI wrongfully flagging me, thanks. Art by www.robcham.com btw.
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Siobhán 🍉 @siobhomenon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Somehow, Vine Returned
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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Lelia Erscoi @spookyachu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Algospeak-ception I'm sure Orwell is inventing the perpetual motion machine as we speak by rolling in his grave from doing "I told you so"s. Cool documentary but had a couple of jumpscares from their AI-generated footage, even if to prove a point. #Orwell2+2=5 #rokumentti #literally1984 #woke
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Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
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