antifuchs

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Here’s a pretty good sneer at the writing out of LLMs, with a focus on meaning https://www.experimental-history.com/p/28-slightly-rude-notes-on-writing

Maybe that’s my problem with AI-generated prose: it doesn’t mean anything because it didn’t cost the computer anything. When a human produces words, it signifies something. When a computer produces words, it only signifies the content of its training corpus and the tuning of its parameters.

Also, on people:

I see tons of essays called something like “On X” or “In Praise of Y” or “Meditations on Z,” and I always assume they’re under-baked. That’s a topic, not a take.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, three of the worst people alive today talking about how objects are indistinguishable from women.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Guess we’re doing stupid identity verification orbs now: https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/01/this-is-like-black-mirror-sam-altmans-creepy-eye-scanner-project-launches-in-sf/

Instead of this expensive imitation of a voigt-kampff test I would suggest an alternative method of detecting if a personoid is really a human or an instrument of an evil inhuman intelligence that wishes to consume all of earth: check if their net worth is closer to a billion dollars than it is to being broke.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

They insist on putting ever more important things (now it’s our souls and minds! lol and lmao) into ever more complex and failure-prone systems, none of these motherfuckers have built or maintained a computer in decades.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I’m sure whoever put money into that venture will see dramatically amazing returns, now there’s a founder that will not take the money and run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

It’s kind of a distinction without much discriminatory power: LLMs are a tool created to ease the task of bullshitting; used to produce bullshit by bullshitters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rødes of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Which also isn’t about either of those things.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

My favorite meme message board on the internet keeps putting out bangers, but this one is extra good and relevant http://www.b3ta.com/board/11416629

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Would you believe this prescient vibe coding manual came out in 2015! https://mowillemsworkshop.com/catalog/books/item/i-really-like-slop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Also he wrote borderline anti-woke stuff back when doing that could still appear edgy and icky.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Really wonder if his own pictures are included in the training set (as negative examples, of course)

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

 

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

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