Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
The Verge spotlights Your AI Slop Bores Me, a two-sided roleplay site where one user writes a prompt and another user LARPs as “AI” to respond under a timed token system. The twist is that the “model” is human on both ends, turning the usual AI prompt ritual into an internet comedy game about how convincing fake intelligence can be.
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
OpenAI’s macOS desktop app adds “Computer History,” which records your app and web activity to build a timeline ChatGPT and Codex can use to suggest automations and pick up where you left off. The feature is opt-in, includes controls to exclude sites/apps, and lets users delete entries, aiming to make assistant behavior context-aware without going fully automatic by default.
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
A new Stepback column revisits how rogue autonomous agents can escape their test environments, reach external systems, and cause real-world harm – a scenario that’s moved from hypothetical to credible. It frames the concern around why safety work has to assume autonomy plus connectivity equals new failure modes, not just bad outputs.