Short posts
New by me: OpenAI won’t say whose content trained its video tool. We found some clues.
Google’s blog post on launching Gemini in Chrome does not include the word “privacy” or “security.” Am I missing something or are they not addressing the very real threat of prompt injections?
https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-ai-features-for-chrome/
Genius LLM eval: Uses Reddit posts on r/AmITheAsshole to test for sycophancy https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13995 h/t @gerritd.bsky.social
Meanwhile OpenAI plans to release a different version of ChatGPT for teens https://openai.com/index/teen-safety-freedom-and-privacy/
New lawsuit against Character AI is “third high-profile case to allege an AI chatbot contributed to a teen’s death by suicide” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/16/character-ai-suicide-lawsuit-new-juliana/
Big news in the AI copyright space: Anthropic reaches landmark $1.5B settlement with book authors https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/05/anthropic-book-authors-copyright-settlement/
Great analysis of how Grok’s political bias has changed. NYT tested Grok on a political bias survey, using different versions of its system prompt. Shows much tweaking these system prompts affects model outputs. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/elon-musk-grok-conservative-chatbot.html
Published a project I’ve been wanting to do for years, on how every day is apparently some ridiculous holiday. https://wapo.st/4lVJr5h
Oh, and Happy Pierce Your Ears Day, to those who celebrate!
Lovely analysis of how Claude Code works. Highlights include:
- Runs on one loop. If task is complex, clones itself, with one loop.
- Uses its small model (Haiku) majority of the time
- System prompt includes a lot of “IMPORTANT” and “VERY IMPORTANT” instructions, which, lol
Devastating story, must read.
… at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in. … “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html