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Rage Against The Machine: Algorithms & Old Lace: LLM Poisoning For Personal Websites

Private AIs: They're Watching You

Last year my friends in an Indieweb meetup began to notice that information about them was turning up in LLMs... some comically inaccurate, some uncannily personal. As a group of personal website developers, we knew that much of the information must've been scraped of our website.

It might not be apparent reading my site, but I've always been a little careful about what information I allow about myself on the web. It's near impossible to prevent personal information from leaking out, and my name is unique enough that I'm not hard to find. I had an unfortunate incident with an online stalker a number years ago and since then have always been careful. I also once had a real-life harasser who broke into my home, although that was a much different and more complex situation. But together these made me aware that…

By Mike Kupietz First published January 14, 2026Code & Algorithms1 Comment| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=32410 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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¡AI Caramba!: A Milestone Passed: Brief Thoughts On AI’s Increasingly Convincing Simulation of Humanness

Oct. 11, 2024

Those who've spoken to me about it know that I, through much firsthand experience, call myself "a huge AI enthusiast and skeptic". Generative AI is an amazing technology that has personally benefitted me in ways that were strictly science fiction just a few years ago—but, lot of unmerited claims are made, and a lot of trust put in it that isn't really justified by the technology.

But then there's yesterday's article in Ars Technica.

As a technologist, there are times I remember seeing news articles that seemed to me to really show we've passed a technological benchmark, just things I noticed were the first time I saw things take a new step. This article was that.

The background is this: Google has a new AI called NotebookLM that, when fed material, generates a simulated audio podcast of two very stereotypical podcasters discussing it. I…

By Mike Kupietz First published December 13, 2025Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=32093 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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A. Overall Philosophy

I recognize the abuses of the companies currently producing the major AI tools, which I agree often crosses the line into plagiarism, and absolutely takes unfair advantage of existing manual content creators; but I also recognize the validity of art forms that rely on repurposing or mechanically reproducing existing content: collage (in both the visual and aural forms), readymades, "plunderphonics" even arguably photography. A great deal has been written about postmodernism's use of juxtaposition, rather than raw creation, as a form of artistic expression.

I make every effort to utilize generative AI for its ability to generate new, novel combinations or to quickly generate original content from precise directions, rather than as an autonomous content author or simple regurgitator of existing media. Most of my AI tool use starts with specific finished output already in mind, with the AI…

By Mike Kupietz First published July 9, 2025News & Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=29934 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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The Emperor's New Code: The Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)

I've spent so much time fruitlessly trying to get LLMs (Large Language Model chatbots, commonly referred to generically as "AI") to actually help me solve coding problems that I've taken, as a hobby, to collecting screenshots of AI "apologizing". I just wanted a gallery to send a convenient link to people who insist AI is going to replace human programmers. If you're one if those people, tell me what human programmer, even a junior one, wouldn't get fired after even just two or three project assignments ended like these, um, several hundred examples from the last few months alone.

Update: By popular demand, I have included at bottom a bonus gallery of AI swearing and threatening to destroy itself.

Gallery: The Encyclopedia of AI Apologies

Current apology count: 309 AI apologies.

Bonus Gallery: AI Swearing and Suicide Threats

In a recent blog post, a new…

By Mike Kupietz First published March 13, 2025Archives & Collections| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=28979 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Insert Clever phrase here: Artificial Stupidity thoughts & references

I write down a lot of thoughts on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and saved references for that.

On Emergence and actual intelligence: People are talking about current technology, which relies on matching statistical profiles of strings of words, like true intelligence could emerge from it.I look at it this way: AI video generation is getting really impressive. You could feed it tons of video of basketballs bouncing, and pretty soon it would be able to generate videos of basketballs bouncing realistically through all kinds of extraordinary scenarios, because it had seen enough visual, external data to create incredible simulations of how a basketball bounces. It would truly, profoundly have a grasp on how basketballs appear to bounce.And never, in any of that, would it have even a glimmer of a clue as…

By Mike Kupietz First published December 25, 2024Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=12561 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!: About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site

A number of the AI-generated images on this site contain artistic depictions of nudity, presented in a way that might seem to reasonably suggest some confusion between real artistic or aesthetic value, and what gives some people, perhaps including myself, some level of simple va-va-va-voom visual jollies.

Put simply: there's a lot of images of naked, topless, or scantily-dressed women in some of the image galleries here, but not so many men. Almost none, in fact.

Although it's in several galleries, this is most evident in, say, "Previsions of Johanna", where the many female figures, and only the female figures, all came out either nude, topless, or wearing a low-cut dress, while the male figures are always fully clothed from neck to wrists and ankles. In fact, the lone arguably male figure in that entire set that is wearing a loose tank top, rather than some kind…

By Mike Kupietz First published October 20, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6322 | Share this | Embed link | Webmentions are: on

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