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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Cars turned us—one of the best species in long distance running into couch potatoes.

Now llms are attacking our brains and making us stupid and insane. A species of slopheads if you will.

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[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No, I whole heartedly believe that the scientists who made the first LLM, before openai got involved, did not have malicious intent.

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

It was kind of impossible to know how far it could go anyway; seeing the pace at which it's been advancing, even despite all the hallucinations, has been blistering. I mean, look at me; I'm recording this partly via Whisper+ using an offline, open-source model by speech-to-text (manually cleaning it up after delivery, of course, but still). Even just 6 years ago, people would have been, like, "WTF?! How is that sorcery possible?"

Wasn't it even just 2 years ago that it struggled big-time with legible text and kept butchering hands and fingers on visuals of generated people? Even that already is a thing of the past, which itself was incredible to even see at all right after COVID times. The speed is bewildering...

Anyway, I digressed a bit. The book Empire of AI comes to mind in terms of researchers' intentions indeed.