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AI 'deadbots' are persuasive – and researchers say, primed for monetization

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5508355/ai-dead-people-chatbots-videos-parkland-court
3•iamben•2h ago

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kleiba•1h ago
> [A] bearded AI avatar of Chris Pelkey, the deceased victim of a road rage incident in Arizona, gave a video impact statement at the sentencing of the man who fatally shot Pelkey. Pelkey's family created the deadbot. "I feel that that was genuine," said Judge Todd Lang after hearing the AI generated impact statement. He then handed down the maximum sentence.

This is nuts!

xnorswap•1h ago
Some consequences of this was explored over 12 years ago in season 2 of Black Mirror, episode 1: "Be Right Back": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

I recently re-watched and it's held up very well.

A core theme was how the AI was trained on the public output which is very polished, so the companion didn't match well with the experience of those closest to them, representing instead the polished facsimile that gets put out onto social media.

quantified•54m ago
Inserted advertising will go the direction of product placement. Grandma will be touting dish soap that didn't exist while she was alive.

Proposal: CMake build support · Issue #8896 · ocornut/imgui

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/8896
1•adembudak•48s ago•0 comments

The Submarine

https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
1•bemmu•2m ago•0 comments

Speed Always Wins: A Survey on Efficient Architectures for LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09834
1•Anon84•2m ago•0 comments

Atmospheric Tide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_tide
1•thunderbong•2m ago•0 comments

Anthropic thwarts hacker attempts to misuse Claude AI for cybercrime

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/anthropic-thwarts-hacker-attempts-misuse-claude-...
2•c420•4m ago•0 comments

The Slow Hunch explores how big ideas form over long periods of time. [video]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBqLNYVORcqD6MxA1Pd-MOQ
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

State of the art for reducing executable size with optimized program

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/state-of-the-art-for-reducing-executable-size-with-heavily-optimized...
1•todsacerdoti•9m ago•0 comments

Delete Tests

https://andre.arko.net/2025/06/30/you-should-delete-tests/
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Would You Live Above a Costco?

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/hundreds-of-apartments-are-being-built-on-top-of-a-cos...
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

AI no good tool to learn about most misunderstood body part

https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100134755954006
2•rapnie•12m ago•0 comments

Apple Discussed Buying Mistral AI and Perplexity

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/26/apple-discussed-buying-mistral-ai-and-perplexity/
2•pseudolus•14m ago•0 comments

Partisan Gerrymandering After Rucho

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/171-partisan-gerrymandering-after
1•mdp2021•15m ago•0 comments

QEMU 10.1.0

https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/10.1
22•dmitrijbelikov•25m ago•8 comments

No time to spend with your kids because you're busy coding?

https://storybook.baby/en/chat
1•hesongworkmail•25m ago•0 comments

Pig Lung Transplanted into a Human in Major Scientific First: ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/pig-lung-transplanted-into-a-human-in-major-scientific-first
2•signa11•27m ago•0 comments

Fixing an old .NET Core native library loading issue on Alpine

https://andrewlock.net/fixing-an-old-dotnet-core-native-library-loading-issue-on-alpine/
1•ingve•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Autofill forms with mock data for testing

https://www.mockfill.com/
1•shadabshs•28m ago•0 comments

John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
5•throw0101c•29m ago•1 comments

Wolves Reject £55M Newcastle Bid for Strand Larsen

https://www.jphfeeds.top/2025/08/wolves-reject-55m-newcastle-bid-for.html
1•joshuarblog•31m ago•0 comments

More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will surive

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/100_ai_chip_companies/
1•mdp2021•31m ago•0 comments

Popular nx packages compromised on NPM

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/popular-nx-packages-compromised-on-npm
1•jviide•32m ago•0 comments

Monodraw

https://monodraw.helftone.com/
54•mafro•33m ago•14 comments

India's Russian Oil Gains Wiped Out by U.S. Tariffs

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/08/27/indias-russian-oil-gains-wiped-out-by-u-s-tariffs-threateni...
2•geox•34m ago•0 comments

Framework Laptop 16 Gets a Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU Upgrade

https://www.wired.com/story/framework-laptop-16-nvidia-rtx-5070/
2•gsf_emergency_2•37m ago•0 comments

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence [pdf]

https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf
1•mastermedo•37m ago•0 comments

MIT's 95% AI failure rate is wrong

https://arnon.dk/mits-95-ai-failure-rate-is-wrong/
2•arnon•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Get Web Vitals metrics straight on the SERP

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/web-vitals-serp-analyzer/figfcohplbpbhkoaeneehoiikngpokgc
1•AymenLoukil•40m ago•0 comments

Harald Jäger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_J%C3%A4ger
1•keepamovin•40m ago•0 comments

Job Churn

https://seths.blog/2025/08/job-churn/
1•speckx•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: To To-Do – Collaborative Task Lists with AI and Dexie.js

https://totodo.app/go
1•bennieforss•44m ago•0 comments