Ars Technica: Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone. “Ask ChatGPT anything lately—how to poach an egg, whether you should hug a cactus—and you may be greeted with a burst of purple praise: ‘Good question! You’re very astute to ask that.’ To some extent, ChatGPT has been a sycophant for years, but since late March, a growing cohort of Redditors, X users, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/ars-technica-annoyed-chatgpt-users-complain-about-bots-relentlessly-positive-tone/

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Engadget: Using generative AI will ‘neither help nor harm the chances of achieving’ Oscar nominations. “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decide that its official stance towards AI-use in films is to take no stance at all, according to a statement the organization shared outlining changes to voting for the 98th Oscars. The issue of award-nominated films using AI was first […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/22/engadget-using-generative-ai-will-neither-help-nor-harm-the-chances-of-achieving-oscar-nominations/

MIT News: Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language. “Over time, most of us develop an internal ‘guide’ that enables us to learn context behind conversation; it also frequently directs us away from sharing information and sentiments that are, or could be, harmful or inappropriate. As it turns out, large language models (LLMs) — which are trained on extensive, public datasets and […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/22/mit-news-training-llms-to-self-detoxify-their-language/

Distant Librarian: Librarians and teachers amongst the heaviest users of AI – The 2025 AI Index Report. “OK, that’s a clickbait title, but only a little. They’re actually amongst the heaviest users of Claude, according to Anthropic (PDF), via the 2025 AI Index Report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/distant-librarian-librarians-and-teachers-amongst-the-heaviest-users-of-ai-the-2025-ai-index-report/

AFP: Danish brewer adds AI ‘colleagues’ to human team. “They have names, faces, and email addresses, but the five new colleagues at Denmark’s Royal Unibrew only exist in the virtual realm, which the brewer hails as a milestone to unleash the full potential of its staff.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/19/afp-danish-brewer-adds-ai-colleagues-to-human-team/

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The Conversation: Software is increasingly being built by AI – so it’s vital to know if it can be trusted. “Software developers are already very familiar with tools such as GitHub Copilot, a kind of ChatGPT for programmers. It works something like a smart autocomplete tool to increase the productivity of human programmers. But we are now witnessing a more radical revolution, where AI […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-conversation-software-is-increasingly-being-built-by-ai-so-its-vital-to-know-if-it-can-be-trusted/

Poynter: When was the last time AI made you laugh? Scenes from the 2025 Summit on AI, Ethics and Journalism. “Newsrooms on a local and national level are experimenting with AI, using tools inside the newsroom to better report and display stories, and tools externally to better connect with audiences. But audiences, new research shows, are still skeptical about generative AI in news. This […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/poynter-when-was-the-last-time-ai-made-you-laugh-scenes-from-the-2025-summit-on-ai-ethics-and-journalism/

Online Journalism Blog: Google Sheets has a new AI function — how does it perform on classification tasks?. “AI has been built into Google Sheets for some time now in the Clippy-like form of Gemini in Sheets. But Google Sheets’s AI function is different. Available to a limited number of users for now, it allows you to incorporate AI prompts directly into a formula rather than having to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/online-journalism-blog-google-sheets-has-a-new-ai-function-how-does-it-perform-on-classification-tasks/

The Conversation: To understand the future of AI, take a look at the failings of Google Translate. “The first language model on the scale of contemporary LLMs was published in 2007 and was a component of Google Translate, which had been launched a year earlier. Trained on trillions of words using over a thousand computers, it is the unmistakeable forebear of today’s LLMs, even though it was […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/13/the-conversation-to-understand-the-future-of-ai-take-a-look-at-the-failings-of-google-translate/

Florida Atlantic University: Engineers Bring Sign Language to ‘Life’ Using AI. “… researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University have developed an innovative real-time ASL interpretation system. Combining the object detection power of YOLOv11 with MediaPipe’s precise hand tracking, the system can accurately recognize ASL alphabet […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/florida-atlantic-university-engineers-bring-sign-language-to-life-using-ai/

Gizmodo: RealPage Sues Berkeley Over Ban on Algorithmic Rental Pricing . “The city of Berkeley, California is being sued by RealPage over its ban on algorithms used to determine apartment rental prices. The lawsuit states that Berkeley’s ordinance passed in March represents a ‘sweeping and unconstitutional ban on lawful speech,’ and a violation of the First Amendment’s prohibition on […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/09/gizmodo-realpage-sues-berkeley-over-ban-on-algorithmic-rental-pricing/

PYOK: The British Airways Customer Service Chatbot is So Bad It Doesn’t Even Know Where The Airline is Based. “The conversation started with a fairly simple question as the chatbot asked Paddy to tell it where he was flying. The chatbot then suggested that Paddy either type the city or airport code – such as London or LHR for London Heathrow. Paddy replied with LHR, but having just given […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/08/pyok-the-british-airways-customer-service-chatbot-is-so-bad-it-doesnt-even-know-where-the-airline-is-based/