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[–] samvines@awful.systems 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 17 hours ago

lol

Time is a dumb circle

[–] lurker@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

On a related note Mythos has been released and as pointed out, the original “GPT-2 is too dangerous to be released” post was written by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei and Jack Clark, who are all Anthropic’s founders. Same ploy, different model

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I’ve also seen mention of “Fable” and I’ve been too sick to go check up on whatever the fuck that is

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Mythos with extra safety dust sprinkled on top and they listened to The Safety Dance while writing the system prompt. Also a hand painted sign on the front that says "no chinese were serius"

Hope you get to feeling better fast!

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 16 hours ago

okay damn you o7 I checked

Claude Fable 5 introduces our 5th model generation for your most ambitious work. Tackle days-long, complex, and asynchronous tasks previous models couldn’t sustain.

folks, can I get a "please god pay us for even more tokens" for 500?

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

after calling the con about a super hacker AI the "mythos", now they're calling the next spiel "fable"? are they like, just taking the piss at this point?

[–] macroplastic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Claude v6.0, "Tall Tale"

Claude v6.1 "Big Fish Story"

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 15 hours ago

They want to invent the AI Named For Untruth from the hit Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Do Not Invent the AI Named for Untruth".

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 14 hours ago

just taking the piss at this point?

always-have-been.jpg

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

and they listened to The Safety Dance

not sure they're cool enough even to do that

Hope you get to feeling better fast!

ty! rest is helping, but why are sinuses

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's pretty good! The kids want to be influenza for dragoncon lol

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It’s on netflix in the states

their catalogue is notoriously variable across countries, and it's even worse in ZA (we are often-disregarded by various content cartels). but since all of these shitters just ran headlong for reinventing cable monopolies so rapidly.. I stopped entertaining the "you need to have 7 streaming services and 3 flavoured vpns to circumvent region-blocking" dance a couple of years back

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 1 points 10 hours ago
[–] samvines@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago

Let's all just agree that it's a beloved RPG game by Lionhead Studios and we'll leave it at that