antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And of all possible things to implement, they chose Matrix. lol and lmao.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it’s an anti-human project on several fronts.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Of course! The funnel must let something through, otherwise there’s no reason to keep the call center around.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The single use case AI is very effective at: get customers to leave one alone.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain liquid (a classic quote typically gifted anyone who wants to “time the market”, but generally very applicable to anyone these days)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better yet, bandcamp ban ai-generated music too: https://www.reddit.com/r/BandCamp/comments/1qbw8ba/ai_generated_music_on_bandcamp/

Great week for people who appreciate human-generated works

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

Discord have a new questionnaire up, to determine how their users think about “ai”: https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Breconstruction

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Imagine how many electrons those space air conditioners must be using!

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Sounds like a way to identify people who think of power requirements as energy going in, rather than energy that also has to be dissipated. Wonder how circular the Venn diagram of electron guys vs space datacenter guys is.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

I wouldn’t worry about it, they are bad enough to ignore. The whole “it feels bad to use but that’s why Unix is great” reactionary aesthetic doesn’t lead to great software, after all

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A pal: “I take back everything I ever said about humanoid robots being useless”

And… same

 

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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