About AI

[Brooklyn Bridge]

So I use AI in my work pretty much on a daily basis. If you would've told me a year ago, or even nine months ago how much we would be using it, I would've called you crazy. I do a lot of grant writing, and use AI to improve the sections. Now obviously, I don't use it word-for-word, but it is helpful, especially for grant applications.

My last job instituted AI for it's customer support and reduced wait times, and half of all questions were able to be answered by AI. The thing about AI is that you have to "train" it based on your prompts and what you want it to produce. And as evidenced by the story a few posts above, ALWAYS double-check any references it shows you.

 

[SixToe]

Not surprised about this, but have not seen it before on the WWL site:

By ESPN Generative AI Services
https://www.espn.com/college-baseball/recap/_/gameId/401873815

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

**** Microsoft. Install Debian.

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

 

[dixiehack]

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Dateline St. Louis:

Yesterday, (St. Louis Magazine) asked David Daneshforooz about a $16 million judgment entered against him in May 2025 in federal court in Maryland. As the CEO and co-founder of TerraWatt, Daneshforooz is one of the developers behind the proposed $3 billion St. Louis project often referred to as “The Armory data center” even though the data center would be inside an old warehouse next to The Armory. (The Armory itself would later be developed into high-end office space.) Daneshforooz is also the CEO of Contour, which handled getting the project’s preliminary approvals from the city, making him something of its public face in St. Louis.

But Daneshforooz did not appreciate questions about his business history, and particularly that judgment. “It’s private and privileged information, so what you just asked me is inaccurate,” he said. “And if anything’s printed otherwise, you’re going to have a problem. It’s that simple.”

Court records show that the $16 million judgment against Daneshforooz was related to two previous Delaware-based firms, Contour Propco 1735 S Mission and Contour Opco 1735 S Mission LLC. He was CEO of both.

In 2023, Maryland-based Forbright Bank sued both of them. According to that lawsuit, one LLC had defaulted on a $24 million loan used to purchase a 103-unit assisted living facility in California, a loan guaranteed by the other LLC. The lawsuit also alleged the facility was failing to make payroll and accumulating unpaid bills to vendors. Both LLCs filed for bankruptcy that same month.

The bank also sued Daneshforooz, alleging that he had personally guaranteed the loan. That suit wound its way through federal court in Maryland for two years before a judge issued a $16,183,831 judgment, plus interest, against Daneshforooz in May 2025.

To Daneshforooz, that is not relevant. “You don’t know all the facts,” he said. “If you guys want to take the risk of publicizing something that you don’t have the full facts on, that’s it. You want to publish what you want, go ahead. And if you publish something that’s incorrect or false, I will be suing your ass for libel and slander. Period. So go ahead and see if your general counsel wants to take that risk.”

Asked about the judge’s May 2025 order, which is publicly available, Daneshforooz said, “People are allowed to do whatever they please to do. But what the facts are around it are different, and that’s privileged information. Simple.”​

I look forward to his lawsuit, and more specifically to the process of discovery ... which he won't enjoy.

Key figure in St. Louis data center faces $16M judgment from previous project

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Hoo boy ...

The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other. The judge wrote in a blistering sanctions order, that the lawyers wasted the court’s time, and that “in an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example of the risk associated with serving as a rubber-stamp.”

“This case presents the Court with an unusual scenario—attorneys for both litigants engaged in similar sanctionable conduct,” Sharion Aycock, senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi wrote in a sanctions order. “This court is yet again ‘burdened with addressing AI hallucinations court filings.’”

The case in question involved a contractual dispute between lawyer Tom Withers and the city of Aberdeen, Mississippi, over apparently unpaid legal fees (Withers was not representing himself and was not sanctioned by the court). The case was first noticed by Rob Freund, a lawyer who frequently posts about cases involving AI hallucinations. Freund called it a “comedy of AI errors,” and suggested “there were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT (or whatever LLM) to argue against itself.”​

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

 

[TigerVols]

I just spent 3 days rebuilding 7 workflows using Fable 5 and now, Trump.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

 

[Severian]

I just spent 3 days rebuilding 7 workflows using Fable 5 and now, Trump.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Did Anthropic revoke your access to Fable?

 

[Chet Lemon]

So I use AI in my work pretty much on a daily basis. If you would've told me a year ago, or even nine months ago how much we would be using it, I would've called you crazy. I do a lot of grant writing, and use AI to improve the sections. Now obviously, I don't use it word-for-word, but it is helpful, especially for grant applications.

My last job instituted AI for it's customer support and reduced wait times, and half of all questions were able to be answered by AI. The thing about AI is that you have to "train" it based on your prompts and what you want it to produce. And as evidenced by the story a few posts above, ALWAYS double-check any references it shows you.

I do this with legal brief writing. A lot of times, I’ll give AI first crack at it, just to see what it might spit out that I hadn’t thought of. (Or to confirm my thinking.) But the main usage is to write my brief, run it through the AI, and ask for thoughts/possible revisions. It is extremely useful this way, especially in cutting out some wordiness that creeps in.

 

[TigerVols]

Did Anthropic revoke your access to Fable?

Yes, me and everybody else

 

[Severian]

(Probably) Trump: "A total and complete shutdown of foreigner access to Fable until Anthropic can figure out what is going on."

 

[Baron Scicluna]

That’s because AI is a Springfield thing. They put up data centers in Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook and that put them on the map!

 

[sgreenwell]

hmmmm seems bad:

 

[dixiehack]

Have they tried typing in “How to make money” and seeing what results it sends back?

 

[UNCGrad]

Did have a bad moment at work yesterday that I also understand is unavoidable now. I work in a marketing department as a communications guy, and god only knows how long that can last anymore, especially with execs who are using ChatGPT to write their speeches/presentations to staff.

The detail yesterday was that we were discussing me doing a feature story for an upcoming content email, but then having to make sure there were bullet points because that works well for GEO and AI. I said I'm going to write my story and if we want to add bullets at the end, I might be willing to talk about that. I know that's the future and I don't have to like it. But it really sours me. And I don't care how smart and savvy our new marketing boss thinks he is about it.

I'm the guy who started the topic here of, "When do you know it's time to move on?" I don't know if I got a striking sign yesterday because I don't know where all of this is going. But it surely didn't make me feel good about anything, and now I'm just down as hell sitting at my laptop in my office today. Had nightmares all through the night while trying to sleep, too.

Just a lousy day that's bleeding into this one. Thanks, AI.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Have they tried typing in “How to make money” and seeing what results it sends back?

Tried it.

 

[TigerVols]

Did have a bad moment at work yesterday that I also understand is unavoidable now. I work in a marketing department as a communications guy, and god only knows how long that can last anymore, especially with execs who are using ChatGPT to write their speeches/presentations to staff.

The detail yesterday was that we were discussing me doing a feature story for an upcoming content email, but then having to make sure there were bullet points because that works well for GEO and AI. I said I'm going to write my story and if we want to add bullets at the end, I might be willing to talk about that. I know that's the future and I don't have to like it. But it really sours me. And I don't care how smart and savvy our new marketing boss thinks he is about it.

I'm the guy who started the topic here of, "When do you know it's time to move on?" I don't know if I got a striking sign yesterday because I don't know where all of this is going. But it surely didn't make me feel good about anything, and now I'm just down as hell sitting at my laptop in my office today. Had nightmares all through the night while trying to sleep, too.

Just a lousy day that's bleeding into this one. Thanks, AI.

The thing is, UNC, AI is better at marketing than most marketing professionals (Including the 10 year vet writing this). Your bosses will know this soon enough, and your best chance at succeeding is to embrace AI and make yourself an invaluable resource. For many years to come there will be humans in the loop providing taste and playing critical roles in the AI work flow. Why not make yourself one of them, before it’s too late?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

The thing is, UNC, AI is better at marketing than most marketing professionals (Including the 10 year vet writing this). Your bosses will know this soon enough, and your best chance at succeeding is to embrace AI and make yourself an invaluable resource. For many years to come there will be humans in the loop providing taste and playing critical roles in the AI work flow. Why not make yourself one of them, before it’s too late?

TV, was your account hacked by AI?

 

[UNCGrad]

The thing is, UNC, AI is better at marketing than most marketing professionals (Including the 10 year vet writing this). Your bosses will know this soon enough, and your best chance at succeeding is to embrace AI and make yourself an invaluable resource. For many years to come there will be humans in the loop providing taste and playing critical roles in the AI work flow. Why not make yourself one of them, before it’s too late?

Like, I get all that. And I edit the **** out of anything our higher-ups want to put into the public for that reason.

But I ain't letting it write my goddam feature story.

And AI is only going to get better and better, so I'm not sure the "humans need to provide taste" are gonna matter all that much going forward eventually either. Maybe for a few years, but they'll likely be washed away, too.

 

[dixiehack]

Make it the first editor of your work and then refine what you are asking it to do. You aren’t asking it to write from scratch.