Now I have a word for it… (Might also apply to politicians.)
https://www.bespacific.com/ai-and-semantic-pareidolia-when-we-see-consciousness-where-there-is-none/
AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None
Floridi, Luciano, AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None (June 18, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5309682 – “The article introduces the concept of “semantic pareidolia” – our tendency to attribute consciousness, intelligence, and emotions to AI systems that lack these qualities. It examines how this psychological phenomenon leads us to perceive meaning and intentionality in statistical pattern-matching systems, similar to seeing faces in clouds. It analyses the converging forces intensifying this tendency: increasing digital immersion, profit-driven corporate interests, social isolation, and AI advancement. The article warns of progression from harmless anthropomorphism to problematic AI idolatry, and calls for responsible design practices that help users maintain critical distinctions between simulation and genuine consciousness. It is the English translation and adaptation of an article originally published in Italian in Harvard Business Review Italia, June 2025.”
Is “I didn’t get most of the votes, therefore it must be rigged” sufficient to bring charges?
https://www.bespacific.com/justice-dept-explores-using-criminal-charges-against-election-officials/
Justice Dept. Explores Using Criminal Charges Against Election Officials
The New York Times: “Senior Justice Department officials are exploring whether they can bring criminal charges against state or local election officials if the Trump administration determines they have not sufficiently safeguarded their computer systems, according to people familiar with the discussions. The department’s effort, which is still in its early stages, is not based on new evidence, data or legal authority, according to the people, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. Instead, it is driven by the unsubstantiated argument made by many in the Trump administration that American elections are easy prey to voter fraud and foreign manipulation, these people said. Such a path could significantly raise the stakes for federal investigations of state or county officials, thrusting the Justice Department and the threat of criminalization into the election system in a way that has never been done before. Federal voting laws place some mandates on how elections are conducted and ballots counted. But that work has historically been managed by state and local officials, with limited involvement or oversight from Washington…”
No surprise.
New judge’s ruling makes OpenAI keeping a record of all your ChatGPT chats one step closer to reality
OpenAI will be holding onto all of your conversations with ChatGPT and possibly sharing them with a lot of lawyers, even the ones you thought you deleted. That's the upshot of an order from the federal judge overseeing a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The New York Times over copyright infringement. Judge Ona Wang upheld her earlier order to preserve all ChatGPT conversations for evidence after rejecting a motion by ChatGPT user Aidan Hunt, one of several from ChatGPT users asking her to rescind the order over privacy and other concerns.
Judge Wang told OpenAI to “indefinitely” preserve ChatGPT’s outputs since the Times pointed out that would be a way to tell if the chatbot has illegally recreated articles without paying the original publishers. But finding those examples means hanging onto every intimate, awkward, or just private communication anyone's had with the chatbot. Though what users write isn't part of the order, it's not hard to imagine working out who was conversing with ChatGPT about what personal topic based on what the AI wrote. In fact, the more personal the discussion, the easier it would probably be to identify the user.
Tools & Techniques.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-prove-your-writing-isnt-ai-generated-with-grammarlys-new-tool/
How to prove your writing isn't AI-generated with Grammarly's free new tool
… If you use Google Docs or MS Office and Grammarly, there's a new feature that could be of assistance. That feature is called Track Your Work, and it's now built right into Grammarly. Even better, the feature is available in the free Grammarly account.
Essentially, this feature automatically records proof of your writing activity for all new Google and Word Docs. It's important to understand that this feature is only for new documents. If you open a document that has already been written, you cannot enable the feature because, well, that document has already been written or is in the process of being written.
This feature is a part of Grammarly Authorship, which enables you to demonstrate your sources of text in either a Google Doc or Microsoft Word document. Once you enable the feature, Authorship tracks your writing process and automatically categorizes the source of text as you type.
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