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41 points | 23 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-data-centre-opposition-explained-9.7225796
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63 points | 5 comments
https://vancouversun.com/news/ai-data-centre-protest-vancouver
Excerpt:
LaRocque said the decision is baffling, citing concerns over rising electricity demand, massive water consumption and air pollution linked to AI data centres.
“Vancouver is in the middle of a housing crisis and water shortage,” he said. “These centres will use…
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61 points | 15 comments
I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of “AI” with “Blockchain” to see how silly it all sounds.
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106 points | 8 comments
In case you missed it, ChatGPT 5.1 had a tendency to talk about “goblins” in its responses. Supposedly this was a result of training a “nerdy” personality, but it bled into the model as a whole. Because the training run for the latest model already had this flaw, they had to add specific instructions to the system prompt for their…
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173 points | 18 comments
In case you missed it, ChatGPT 5.1 had a tendency to talk about “goblins” in its responses. Supposedly this was a result of training a “nerdy” personality, but it bled into the model as a whole. Because the training run for the latest model already had this flaw, they had to add specific instructions to the system prompt for their…
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38 points | 5 comments
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/school-shooting-lawsuits-accuse-openai-of-hiding-violent-chatgpt-users/
Lawsuits: OpenAI didn’t report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.
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468 points | 143 comments
https://arcprize.org/blog/arc-agi-3-launch
The ARC Prize organization designs benchmarks which are specifically crafted to demonstrate tasks that humans complete easily, but are difficult for AIs like LLMs, “Reasoning” models, and Agentic frameworks.
ARC-AGI-3 is the first fully interactive benchmark in the ARC-AGI series.…
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76 points | 3 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/seven-year-old-canadian-girl-with-autism-and-mother-detained-by-ice-in-texas
Mother and child held in notorious Rio Grande Valley detention centre despite presenting visa, family says
A Canadian mother and her seven-year-old daughter, who has autism, have been detained by US…
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430 points | 93 comments
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
Excerpt:
“Even within the coding, it’s not working well,” said Smiley. “I’ll give you an example. Code can look right and pass the unit tests and still be wrong. The way you measure that is typically in benchmark tests. So a lot of these…
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561 points | 126 comments
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/
Excerpt:
“Even within the coding, it’s not working well,” said Smiley. “I’ll give you an example. Code can look right and pass the unit tests and still be wrong. The way you measure that is typically in benchmark tests. So a lot of these…
submitted by brianpeiris to programming
31 points | 8 comments
https://metr.org/blog/2026-02-24-uplift-update/
Selected developer quotes:
“I’m torn. I’d like to help provide updated data on this question but also I really like using AI!” — a developer from the original study early-2025 when asked to participate in the late-2025 study.
“I found I am actually heavily biased sampling the…
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47 points | 30 comments
https://leadership.ndp.ca/bc-debate
Debate is at www.ndp.ca/debate
More info on debate and candidates:
- cbc.ca/…/ndp-leadership-candidates-debate-preview…
- cp24.com/…/ndp-leadership-candidates-face-off-aim…
Candidate sites:
- Heather McPherson - www.heathermcpherson.ca
- Avi Lewis lewisforleader.ca
- Tanille Johnston -…
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50 points | 13 comments
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/
EDIT: The original link is now a 404 because Ars Technica apparently fabricated quotes, or possibly even generated the article in an extreme case of irony.
Here is some…
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