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Politics
- A candidate in the Presidential race in Taiwan gave out laundry detergent pods to potential voters. Some of them tried eating the pods.
- Republican governors in 15 states refused federal money to feed hungry kids over the summer.
- A Florida law now prohibits school libraries from carrying any book which "depicts or describes sexual conduct", so libraries started removing dictionaries.
- MAGA Republican who thinks the 2020 election was fixed took a job as an elections director — but resigned after 5 months because he couldn't deal with the even-more-crazy Trump supporters.
Business news
- Red Lobster discovered that offering "endless shrimp" for a fixed price isn't a good money-maker.
- Last month Boeing asked the FAA for an exemption from safety standards for the 737 MAX 7. This is unlikely to happen now that a door blew out of a MAX 9, and there will now be independent safety inspections rather than letting Boeing certify themselves as passing inspection.
Bad behavior
- A "parental rights advocate" threw an underage drinking party for her daughter, got drunk, and punched a kid in the face.
- A pastor in North Carolina tried to shove his wife's co-worker's head into a McDonalds deep fat frier.
- A nude man was arrested after a cannonball plunge into an aquarium in a Bass Pro store in Alabama.
- The Chancellor of University of Wisconsin – La Crosse was fired over porn videos he made with his wife.
Stochastic parrots
- The UK decided it's a good idea to let judges use ChatGPT to come up with legal rulings.
- A Chevy dealership put ChatGPT on their web site. It told customers to buy a Ford.
- OpenAI said they should be allowed to ignore copyright, because otherwise they can't afford to build their product.
- Amazon started selling multiple products called I cannot fulfill this request it violates OpenAI use policy.
- OpenAI quietly went back on its policy of not selling its products for use in warfare.
Crapto
- After a crapto hedge fund collapsed with $1.3 billion in customer losses, people started to suspect that the CEO might not exist. The actor who pretended to be the CEO then came forward and apologized for his part in the scam.
Science
- Scientists finally discovered why your pee is yellow.
- Your brain has two different ways to process numbers — one for four or fewer, a different one for five items or more.
- Finally, a chance to see Uranus in its real color.
- Yes, sea levels are rising, but also the east coast of the US is sinking, effectively doubling the rate of sea rise.
- An 8-year-old discovered that magpies are more likely to swoop at bald men.
Don't do this
- A woman died at a slap therapy workshop. Yes, slap therapy.
- Every time you drink bottled water, you're swallowing plastic particles.
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