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Oh look, Elon openly snuggling up to Nazis and "just asking questions". As if I didn't hate this clown enough.

(For anyone out of the loop: the AfD is a far-right political party in Germany and the spiritual successor to the NSDAP. They're praising the SS, advocate for legalization of holocaust denial and historical revisionism, removal of hate crimes from the code of law, and more. They're so openly Nazis that they got kicked out of the EU parliament's far-right ID coalition for being too fucking Nazi. There's no leeway. They're literal card-carrying national socialists.)

This fucking thread on HN right now.

OP is an enlightened freelance webdeveloper who is very scared about ghosts from their computer.

"I find myself in a unique position here, as my diverse background and experiences have given me a perspective that allows me to see the potential impact of AI more clearly than large parts of the society I'm living in"

Another poster is also very scared about ghosts from the computer and converted their entire net-worth into NVidia shares. Now that they are heavily invested in a company deeply entangled with ghosts from the computer the apocalypse basically has to happen. After all it couldn't be that they overreacted.

https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1796096718250950660

Prompt injection for actual fun and profit

CW:

spoiler

Dongs, Blood and Thunder, Victory at Sea, Child birth, Scented Candles

So yeah...remember that manly Roko post from last week where he manplained how much men don't need women? Oglaf did it first.

This is Roko's ideal future; Roko's Modern Life, if you like.

(NSFW)

https://www.oglaf.com/dark-miasma/ (part 1 of 24 lol)

https://www.oglaf.com/burningjewels/

But nature finds a way:

https://www.oglaf.com/honor/

https://www.oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/

https://www.oglaf.com/son-of-kronar/2/

" Nowhere is cultural acceleration more evident than in the movies. As Andrej Karpathy says, movies from before 1995 are slow, boring and naive."

(Well, this goes some way to explaining "AI" "art")

At last, a compelling reason to use Chat-GPT: https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1801360053045497942

iterm2 update, moving the shit out of the core application (like it probably should've been in the first place):

3.5.1

This release adds some safety valves to eliminate
the risk of private information leaving the
terminal via the AI endpoints. While an API key
and explicit user action were always needed to use
AI features, some users asked for an impenetrable
firewall for safety and regulatory purposes.

To that end, there are three relevant changes:

1. Code that communicates with AI providers such
as OpenAI has been moved into a plugin that you
must install separately. Enterprise system admins
can block bundle id com.googlecode.iterm2.iTermAI
to prevent it from being installed in the first
place.

See here for details:
https://iterm2.com/ai-plugin.html

2. In addition, you must manually enable AI
features in Settings. Doing so requires admin
access.

3. Enterprise administrators who wish to disable
iTerm2's AI access may set the user default
GenerativeAIAllowed to False in their MDM systems.

still never received a reply email from the author to my mail. wonder what they think/have learned of this experience tho

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631663

Orange site post with a bunch of people saying burnout is a learning experience and that its okay to be perpetually depressed because it makes you more disruptive.

I don't have anything clever to say about this.

shitty 4k upscales, coming soon for a favourite film near you! (via kottke)

New AdamSomething about tech bros reinventing the train but worse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5M7Oq1PCz4

https://www.404media.co/hackers-target-ai-users-with-malicious-stable-diffusion-tool-on-github/

Lawrence Lessig falls victim to the siren song of the blarney engines. Also, lol cnn

Many people refer to concerns about the technology as a question of “AI safety.” That’s a terrible term to describe the risks that many people in the field are deeply concerned about. Some of the leading AI researchers, including Turing Prize winner Yoshua Bengio and Sir Geoffrey Hinton, the computer expert and neuroscientist sometimes referred to as “the godfather of AI,” fear the possibility of runaway systems creating not just “safety risks,” but catastrophic harm.

And while the average person can’t imagine how anyone could lose control of a computer (“just unplug the damn thing!”), we should also recognize that we don’t actually understand the systems that these experts fear.

Companies operating in the field of AGI — artificial general intelligence, which broadly speaking refers to the theoretical AI research attempting to create software with human-like intelligence, including the ability to perform tasks that it is not trained or developed for — are among the least regulated, inherently dangerous companies in America today. There is no agency that has legal authority to monitor how the companies develop their technology or the precautions they are taking.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/opinions/artificial-intelligence-risks-chat-gpt-lessig/index.html

i ran the NVidia CEO's press conference through my ChatGPT based translator and it came out "lol this is gonna bomb in two quarters but holy shit it's fun while it lasts and i can def get a few scheduled insider sales done, now where's the coke"