OpenAI and Anthropic are launching AI tools in health care, but their success may depend on transparency about reliability and accuracy, an issue that has already caused Google to fail in the sector. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/20/world/chatgpts-ai-health-care-push/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #ai #chatgpt #anthropic #gemini #claude #openai #healthcare #medicine
OpenAI is rolling out age prediction
https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-age-prediction/
#HackerNews #OpenAI #Age #Prediction #AI #Innovation #Technology #News
David Gerard
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#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYjQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bondholders-sue-oracle-over-openai-debt-deals/
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🔥💸 OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027
｢ even if OpenAI rethinks those limerence-influenced promises and "pays for others with its overvalued shares", there's still a financial chasm to cross. Mallaby isn't the only one thinking along these lines, as Bain & Company reported last year that, even with the best outlook, there's at least a $800 billion black hole in the industry ｣
Elon Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages over his claims that OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/18/musk-damages-openai-microsoft/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #elonmusk #openai #microsoft #ai
Youse younglings seem to forget that for 20 years teh interwebs was not making any moni either...
The 'running out of cash' does not BTW mean all #AI will poof in a cloud of smoke. Its a stressor point only. #OpenAI has been successful at getting suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvestors and the Inference slowly becomes amortized (cached, distilled, edge-run) and revenue may come from other streams (e.g. Militray).
...OOPS sorry I mis-spoke, let me join the cohort:
"WAAAH #AIBUBBLE STOCHIASTIC PARROT #AISlop " 😁 🤡 💀
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
#HackerNews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Ads #billion #burn #test #technology
podfeet
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#OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-bringing-ads-to-chatgpt-192831449.html
#OpenAI is bringing ads to ChatGPT https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-bringing-ads-to-chatgpt-192831449.html
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I started putting my thoughts together on why I don't use AI. 
It will take time to write it all out, it feels like an essay. I could probably come up with a hundred reasons, but I am currently at eight just off the top of my head.
I want to share one that no one talks about.
Big tech companies are using cheap labor in the global south to filter the human trauma on the internet in order to train LLM models. People in countries like Kenya, India, and the Philippines spend 9+ hours per day viewing the most horrific content imaginable (violence, abuse, hate speech, etc) at $1.50/hr. They are literally using the minds of people in precarious economic situations as a filter to protect the sensibilities of the wealthy. They claim it is opportunity when it is actually predatory.
The next time you ask an "ai" to summarize a 450 word article for you, think about the human filter required to make that answer safe. You are not just saving time, you are benefiting from a predatory labor practice that pays pennies to protect your sensibilities.
Further reading:
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
#NoAI #NoAI #EthicalTech #LaborRights #HumanRights #FOSS #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #Gemini
I started putting my thoughts together on why I don't use AI. It will take time to write it all out, it feels like an essay. I could probably come up with a hundred reasons, but I am currently at eight just off the top of my head.
I want to share one that no one talks about.
Big tech companies are using cheap labor in the global south to filter the human trauma on the internet in order to train LLM models. People in countries like Kenya, India, and the Philippines spend 9+ hours per day viewing the most horrific content imaginable (violence, abuse, hate speech, etc) at $1.50/hr. They are literally using the minds of people in precarious economic situations as a filter to protect the sensibilities of the wealthy. They claim it is opportunity when it is actually predatory.
The next time you ask an "ai" to summarize a 450 word article for you, think about the human filter required to make that answer safe. You are not just saving time, you are benefiting from a predatory labor practice that pays pennies to protect your sensibilities.
Further reading:
https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/
#NoAI #NoAI #EthicalTech #LaborRights #HumanRights #FOSS #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #Gemini
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
#HackerNews #Our #approach #to #advertising #and #expanding #access #to #ChatGPT #advertising #access #ChatGPT #OpenAI #innovation
A mere week into 2026, OpenAI launched “ChatGPT Health” in the United States, asking users to upload their personal medical data and link up their health apps in exchange for the chatbot’s advice about diet, sleep, work-outs, and even personal insurance decisions.(from https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/chatgpt-wants-your-health-data/).
This is the probably inevitable endgame of FitBit and other "measured life" technologies. It isn't about health; it's about mass managing bodies. It's a short hop from there to mass managing minds, which this "psychologized" technology is already being deployed to do (AI therapists and whatnot). Fully corporatized human resource management for the leisure class (you and I are not the intended beneficiaries, to be clear; we're the mass).
Neural implants would finish the job, I guess. It's interesting how the tech sector pushes its tech closer and closer to the physical head and face. Eventually the push to penetrate the head (e.g. Neuralink) should intensify. Always with some attached promise of convenience, privilege, wealth, freedom of course.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #ChatGPT #health #HealthTech
#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF3BuIcDYjQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bondholders-sue-oracle-over-openai-debt-deals/
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OpenAI and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk’s claims that Sam Altman’s startup betrayed its founding mission as a public charity when it took billions in funding from the software giant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/16/tech/elon-musk-openai-microsoft-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #elonmusk #samaltman #openai #microsoft #tech #artificialintelligence
This is the script of my national radio report yesterday discussing how AI data centers are damaging communities, and now are damaging everyone who buys computers by massively driving up the cost of a critical component. As always, there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.
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Well, we've talked before about the flood of massive new data centers being built around the country, that many communities are pushing back against now -- data centers mostly to support AI services that nobody asked for and most people don't want. And we continue to see new pushes by those Big Tech Billionaire CEOs and their politician supporters to force AI into everybody's lives in every possible way no matter how much damage they do.
It was just announced that Apple is going to use Google's Gemini AI models for Siri. Google itself is rolling out a pile of Gemini AI features in Gmail to "scour" -- that's the word I saw them use -- your email in ways that personally I'd recommend you refuse and disable when they're offered to you. Don't click that horrific little four pointed star when it shows up that says "Try Gemini" when you hover over it!
Oh and by the way, Google AI Overviews, which are so prone to wrong answers and misinformation, were found to be spewing incorrect and potentially dangerous answers to important medical question searches and Google had to back those off very recently after an outcry. Oh yeah, and OpenAI wants you to feed your personal medical records into a health-oriented version of ChatGPT. What could go wrong, huh?
My recommendation for now is Just Say No to all this AI Slop. These giant AI data centers can ruin areas wherever they're built -- often originally pristine rural areas. They suck up massive amounts of electricity and can push electric rates up for everyone in the region. They can slurp up massive amounts of water for cooling and make existing water prices and water shortages worse. They can cause noise and air pollution from generators, and word now is that many want their own little nuclear reactors for power with the obvious issues of dealing with the waste and potential terrorism.
But now Big Tech has found a way to cost us more money even if you don't live ANYWHERE near a data center! The crush of so many new gigantic data centers is causing the supply to virtually collapse of a critical computer component, used in one form or another by all computers and computing systems, pushing up prices enormously. This component is DRAM, Dynamic Random Access Memory. This isn't like sdcards or other forms of memory that maintain their data without power. The amount of DRAM on a system is one of the basic specifications, today often 4 gigabytes or 8 or 16 or more. This is the actual high speed working memory of the computer where the operating system and programs and apps actually execute. In early days of computers working memory was tiny little magnetic iron doughnuts strung in a complex grid of x, y and sense wires. But for many decades now working memory has been solid state components, either soldered directly into computers (including devices like smartphones of course), or on sticks that can be soldered in or made removable via sockets.
And there have been many generations of DRAM over the years as this kind of memory got faster and denser in terms of capacity. So it's easy to see how shortages and price increases for DRAM being triggered by Big Tech AI's insatiable desire to take over everything is now having such a wide impact on the entire electronics industry.
AI wants our electricity, our water, our personal information, and so much more to churn out deepfakes, wrong answers, and other misinformation, all to benefit that handful of Big Tech Billionaires.
Of course it's up to every individual to decide if they're voluntarily going to participate in this mess when a choice is offered. But more and more that choice is being eliminated, and the reality continues to be that without serious legislation to reign in AI abuses and force Big Tech to take responsibility for the damage that AI causes, the situation is only going to rapidly get worse. It's already bad, but unfortunately when it comes to damage from AI, we haven't really seen anything yet.
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Kathy Reid
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TL;DR: I'm using WhisperIMEplus on my phone, and I think I will finally live in the XXIst century with my phone.
https://github.com/woheller69/whisperIMEplus
I refrained myself from using speech recognition on my android since the beginning because I didn't like the idea of my voice used for other reasons than my need which would have been speech-to-text.
And having on-device speech recognition was pretty niche for a while (I was interested in mycroft and snips at that time). Then there was Mozilla with CommonVoice and deepspeech, unfortunately, DeepSpeech has been shut down (it seems), and the results are far from the Whisper model from OpenAI.
I'm clearly not an OpenAI fan (if you haven't figured it out yet, you will soon if you follow me), but Whisper seems to be the best thing that got out of this, mostly because it's way more open than any other things from OpenAI which are not open at all.
Anyway, I found that now, there is a project called WhisperIMEplus that is used as a keyboard on my android, and it processes my voice, locally, on my device. And the app has NO internet connection rights, so, even if OpenAI added some backdoor to send data online in their Whisper model, well, Android app rights wouldn't allow it.
I'm fine with all of this, so now, I can finally take notes by talking to my phone, in English and French, without having second thoughts about it.
It's good when technology helps you, instead of trying to screw you in different and sneaky ways.
#SpeechRecognition #android #privacy #SpeechToText #OpenAI #whisper #ai
Hut ab und dafuer bekommt Fabian Mehring tatsaechlich #diday und #did Hashtags von mir.
Wer haette gedacht, dass er eine Neubewertung des #Microsoft Projekts in #Bayern fordern wuerde.
Es geschehen noch Zeichen und Wunder!
@pallenberg Da kann man nur die Daumen drücken, dass sich Mehring durchsetzt. Aber #Söder wird schon drauf pochen den Vertrag mit Microsoft abzuschließen, immerhin hat #Microsoft und #OpenAI die Büros in München und zahlen mit Glück ein Obulus an Gewerbesteuer. Da kann sich #Söder und die #CSU schon für ein paar Mio. Euro pro Jahr in die Abhängigkeit einkaufen. Und nach wieder sagen, dass konnte ja keiner Wissen.
