According to a story in Popular Science that our @ScienceDesk shared, humans just love to physically attack robots — but not if they appear to be in emotional distress, for example, crying out or widening their eyes. Here’s a look at our history of hurting robots, and what that might mean if they become more integrated into our lives in the future.

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Researchers tortured robots to test the limits of human empathy | Popular Science

A brief history of people bullying robots.

^{Mack DeGeurin (Popular Science)}

AI-generated slop is all over Facebook, and it looks like that will be continuing. In a quarterly earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said he is excited for the “opportunity for AI to help people create content that just makes people’s feed experiences better.” What might that look like? “I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” he explained. @404mediaco has more.

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Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}

@pluralistic :

"Worrying about AI" is a zero-sum game. When we train our fire on the stuff that isn't important to the AI stock swindlers' business-plans (like creating AI slop), we should remember that the AI companies could halt all of that activity and not lose a dime in revenue. By contrast, when we focus on AI applications that do the most direct harm - policing, health, security, customer service - we *also* focus on the AI applications that make the most *money* and drive the most investment.

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great, use an unsustainable tool to improve that same unsustainable tool

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The Subprime AI Crisis

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path.

^{Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)}