The Tynan Files

Jan 11, 2024 | tynanfiles.beehiiv.com | Dan Tynan

Führer and friend. Source: Midjourney. Gab, The Social Network For People Who Were Dropped on Their Heads as Infants™, is hard at work trying to create AI chatbots that are just as racist, sexist, antisemitic, transphobic, Trumpy, and batshit crazy as the network's 100,000 active members. More accurately, it is busy creating a couple dozen AI chatbots, based on various personas and historical figures, including everyone's favorite embodiment of pure evil, Adolf Hitler.

Dec 8, 2023 | tynanfiles.beehiiv.com | Dan Tynan

It is Taylor Swift's universe. The rest of us are mere minions, grovelling at her cloven hooves. Source: Haunting Muse AI. When it comes down to a battle between Taylor Swift and Vladimir Putin, my money is on Tay-Tay. As Wired has reported, Russia is using faux quotes from Time's newly minted Person of the Year to spread anti-Ukraine propaganda, mostly in France and Germany.

Dec 5, 2023 | tynanfiles.beehiiv.com | Dan Tynan

Yasss, queens. Source: Midjourney. Just when you thought this timeline we're all trapped in couldn't get any weirder, allow me to introduce you to George Santos, video star. As reported by many outlets, the former Brazilian drag queen turned Congressperson from Long Island with a slightly embellished resume [1] has a brand new gig: Cameo spokesmodel. (FYI: Cameo is a website where you can send video greetings from D-list celebrities to your friends and enemies. It was big during the pandemic.

Oct 13, 2023 | tynanfiles.beehiiv.com | Dan Tynan

Elon as court jester. Source: Midjourney. The news out of Israel is heartbreaking and horrific. I honestly cannot bear to watch any of it. I end up following what's happening through the observations of people online. What I'm seeing is a lot of people clawing at each other, much of it over bad, misleading, or deliberately false information. And the service formerly known as Twitter is playing a big part in that.

Oct 10, 2023 | tynanfiles.beehiiv.com | Dan Tynan

People who write about the dangers of AI tend to drift pretty quickly toward scenarios out of the Terminator movies: Super intelligent machines decide they no longer need annoying carbon-based life forms and set out to exterminate them. While that scenario is theoretically possible [1], the more immediate danger is both less cinematic and more likely. Thanks to advances in AI, facial recognition has gotten really good, really quickly.