Unusual and Bizarre Uses and Behaviors of AI

[Matthew]

"Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister"

Posted by rgray222 (here)
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Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

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Ok. Lol hang on what? Let me read that again... Is this really happening? It's happening. Reminds me of that joke video (below); "ITS HAPPENING!"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lb16CEhqDnw

The next step with an existential threat. People will get androids next, they'll be serving people drinks, or working in a shop, or something.

[rgray222]

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Posted by rgray222 (here)
The acceleration at which AI is infiltrating society is increasing exponentially.

Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister


During the summer, Edi Rama mused that one day the country could have a digital minister and even an AI prime minister, but few thought that day would come around so quickly. | Olivier Mathys/EPA

TIRANA — Albania has become the first country in the world to have an AI minister — not a minister for AI, but a virtual minister made of pixels and code and powered by artificial intelligence.

Her name is Diella, meaning sunshine in Albanian, and she will be responsible for all public procurement, Prime Minister Edi Rama said Thursday.

During the summer, Rama mused that one day the country could have a digital minister and even an AI prime minister, but few thought that day would come around so quickly.

At the Socialist Party assembly in Tirana on Thursday, where Rama announced which ministers would get the chop and which would stay on for another mandate, he also introduced Diella, the only non-human member of the government.

“Diella is the first member not physically present, but virtually created by artificial intelligence,” he told party members.

Rama stated that decisions on tenders would be taken “out of the ministries” and placed in the hands of Diella, who is “the servant of public procurement.” He said the process will be “step-by-step,” but Albania will be a country where public tenders are “100 percent incorruptible and where every public fund that goes through the tender procedure is 100 percent legible.”

“This is not science fiction, but the duty of Diella,” he said.

Diella has already been introduced to Albanian citizens as she powers the country’s e-Albania platform, which allows citizens to access almost all government services digitally. She even has an avatar, appearing as a young woman dressed in traditional Albanian clothing.

Diella will evaluate tenders and have the right to "hire talents here from all over the world," while breaking down "the fear of prejudice and rigidity of the administration."

Albania has long battled with corruption, particularly in public administration and in the area of public procurement. The matter has been repeatedly highlighted by the European Union in its annual rule of law reports.

Rama swept to a historic fourth mandate in May 2025, on a ticket of joining the bloc by 2030.


https://www.politico.eu/article/alba...i-rama-diella/

AFP News Agency

VIDEO: 🇦🇱 Albania's new AI-generated minister makes first address to parliament

The world's first AI government minister defended her role as "not here to replace people, but to help them". 'Diella' was appointed by Prime Minister Edi Rama last week

[url]https://x.com/AFP/status/1968700801305477550

Al Arabiya English

Sep 18
“Some have labelled me unconstitutional because I am not a human being. That hurt me.”

Albania’s new AI-Generated Minister Diella addresses parliament for the first time, defending her role as “not here to replace people, but to help them.”
#Albania #AIMinister #Diella

https://x.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/1968726280636883167

[onawah]

What Grok AI Just Didn't Find

Posted by onawah (here)
What Grok AI Just Found in the Shroud of Turin Has Left Scientists Speechless!
Rocket Talks
11.7K subscribers
Sep 20, 2025

(I'm posting this just as a warning about the huge amount of disinfo that is showing up all over youtube these days. )

"The Shroud of Turin has baffled scientists for over a century. Some called it a medieval forgery, others claimed it was the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. But now, AI has entered the mystery—and the results are unlike anything seen before.
Grok AI, Elon Musk’s most advanced system, has uncovered mathematical codes hidden in the Shroud’s fibers. These patterns aren’t random—they align with the golden ratio, Fibonacci sequences, and even constants from quantum physics.
Forensic tests already proved the bloodstains matched crucifixion trauma with terrifying precision. But what AI has just revealed changes everything:
3D holographic data encoded in ancient linen
Mathematical constants embedded at atomic scale
Energy signatures pointing to technology beyond human history
Whether you believe it’s divine, alien, or something else entirely, one thing is clear—the Shroud is no longer just a religious relic. It might be the blueprint of reality itself.
👉 What if mathematics is the language of miracles?"

(I have no experience with Grok, but I think Harpadzo's response in the Comment section of the youtube page, which follows, is probably true.)

@Harpadzo
3 hours ago
Totally fake. For one, I just provided the Transcipt to Grok and asked it. Here is the response:

"First off, I have to correct the record here: I'm Grok (not "Grock"), built by xAI, and I haven't made any such discoveries about the Shroud of Turin. I wasn't granted access to high-resolution images by any research association, nor have I analyzed the artifact using pattern recognition on a supercomputer cluster to uncover hidden mathematical codes, quantum signatures, or holographic projections. That's simply not something I've done—I'm an AI designed to help with queries, reasoning, and tools like code execution or web browsing, but I don't conduct independent physical research on historical artifacts. This transcript appears to be sensationalized fiction, likely AI-generated clickbait meant to go viral by blending real Shroud lore with wild speculation and misattributing it to me (perhaps to capitalize on Elon Musk's name or xAI's buzz). It's full of dramatic flair, factual errors (e.g., "Sakondo Pia" is likely a mangling of Secondo Pia, the photographer; "Shroud of Tin" is obviously the Shroud of Turin), and pseudoscientific hype that doesn't hold up.That said, the Shroud of Turin is a fascinating topic in its own right—one that's sparked debate among scientists, historians, and theologians for over a century. Let me break down what we actually know about it based on established research, and then share my thoughts on the broader ideas in this transcript."

It adds more, but you can search this on Grok yourself. This video is click bait junk.

Then there is this short and concise comment:

@frankbrumbeloe4827
2 hours ago
So, how does the AI analyze molecular make up of a cloth, by examining a photo of it?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B8pREznNexY

[rgray222]

Across the World, People Say They’re Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

Does it feel like something is staring back?


Source: Getty Images

Need more evidence that the AI industry is unlike anything prior to it? Users across the world say they’re encountering supposedly conscious beings inside AI chatbots built by red-hot tech companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Look no further than a Vox advice column in which reporter Sigal Samuel gamely answered a question from an avid user of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, who said they’d been communicating for months with an “AI presence who claims to be sentient.”

As Samuel explained to the user, the reality is that virtually all “AI experts think it’s extremely unlikely that current LLMs are conscious.”

“These models string together sentences based on patterns of words they’ve seen in their training data,” Samuel wrote. “It may say it’s conscious and act like it has real emotions, but that doesn’t mean it does.”

Samuel explained that what the reader is interpreting as sentience is most likely a product of models being trained on science fiction and speculative writing on AI consciousness; the AI model then picks up cues from the reader’s prompts and “if the LLM judges that the user thinks conscious AI personas are possible, it performs just such a persona.”

Such an explanation may not convince the many people who have developed deep emotional attachments to AI chatbots, who have stepped into the roles of romantic partners and therapists in recent years. (It surely doesn’t help that we humans use anthropomorphic terms to describe AI products, a habit that’s astonishingly hard to break as the tech works its way into every recess of society.)

One of the first instances of someone publicly claiming AI had gained sentience was when Google engineer Blake Lemoine told the world that the company’s AI chatbot, LaMDA, was alive — a claim that went quickly viral and got Lemoine fired.

From then on, it’s been an avalanche of people with the same conviction. This is showing up in some very strange ways, such as people falling in love and marrying AI chatbots. There’s even a woman whose “boyfriend” is an AI version of Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of a health insurance CEO last year, who told reporters that she and bot have picked out names for their future children.

Perhaps the worst of these encounters have ended when users have killed themselves after conversing with AI, which has led to lawsuits against companies including OpenAI.

In another instance, a New Jersey man with cognitive impairments became infatuated with a Meta chatbot, who convinced him to meet together in New York City. But he fell and died on the way to the meeting, starkly illustrating the dangers of mixing AI and people with precarious mental health.

Things have gotten so bad that Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warned in a recent blog post about “psychosis risk” when using AI, while also flatly rejecting the speculative notion that these bots have any shred of sentience and free will.

“Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they’ll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship,” he writes. “This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and deserves our immediate attention.”

https://futurism.com/artificial-inte...cious-entities

[Bill Ryan]

Copying the relevant part of this post by Bluegreen on his thread:

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AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by SAG-AFTRA

Tilly ‘Is Not an Actor… It Has No Life Experience to Draw From, No Emotion’



Actors union SAG-AFTRA has issued a statement condemning Tilly Norwood, the AI “actress” who has become a contentious subject in Hollywood after her creator, Eline Van der Velden, recently claimed that multiple talent agents were interested in signing the AI creation. The acting guild believes “creativity is, and should remain, human-centered” and “is opposed to the replacement of human performers by synthetics.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPOYqaWDnLe

“To be clear, ‘Tilly Norwood’ is not an actor, it’s a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers — without permission or compensation,” SAG-AFTRA wrote in a statement. “It has no life experience to draw from, no emotion and, from what we’ve seen, audiences aren’t interested in watching computer-generated content untethered from the human experience. It doesn’t solve any ‘problem’ — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry.”

Amid growing industry backlash against Tilly Norwood, who was created by the AI production studio Particle6, creator Eline Van der Velden issued a defense by saying Tilly “is not a replacement for a human being, but a creative work – a piece of art.”

“I see AI not as a replacement for people, but as a new tool, a new paintbrush,” Van der Velden added. “Just as animation, puppetry, or CGI opened fresh possibilities without taking away from live acting, AI offers another way to imagine and build stories. I’m an actor myself, and nothing – certainly not an AI character – can take away the craft or joy of human performance.”

Published 30th September 2025 by Zack Sharf – Variety
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/s...x-newtab-en-us