Rhaedas

Robert Miles is the go-to for the issues of AI. Haven’t seen anything from him lately.

Seems that’s usually the case. The original internet and world wide web wasn’t a big money maker in its design, but boy that changed once corporations took over and people became the product.

A core training principle in any LLM is to be helpful. This tell is a creative way to self-validate a claim, even if it is weak. A common goal that is difficult to do is to retrain an LLM to prioritize being factually accurate vs. always finding some answer that makes the user happy. The reward system for that behavior is very deep and hard to break. AI could have been… rather was in the ANI forms, a decent tool until someone figured out how to make profit from hype, and now the damage is done.

That’s because 99% of it is inside the body, surrounding the vaginal area. I’m surprised at the wiki stating it “might” be the source of vaginal orgasms. It’s a huge mass of nerves around the area… yeah, it might be what’s doing it.

This seems well sourced and current.

https://www.pbjstories.com/blog/spaces-around-em-dash

I actually used to do the same thing with the -, and by em dash becoming a thing I dived into the usage and history of it all, including ; and en dash. And now I’m using - less. But I don’t use em dash more, just tend to throw a comma in.

Another weird one I learned. em dash spacing. The spacing AI tends to use is not preferred by publishers now, but is more AP style, perhaps picking it up from when it was more popular to have space between the letters. Europe tends to prefer spacing but with a en dash (and I kind of like how that looks too, but it doesn’t fly if you publish in the US).

The amount of panels has been. Unfortunately as always our demand also keep increasing.

My wife is a professional writer and uses em dash a lot, usually as --, including in her casual messages, as it’s common for her to use.

It’s the formatting style of the whole thing that sounds AI to me. “Honestly” phrases really jumps out at me now, as well as the “But…” fragments. Not that they’re bad, hell, I type out things that way too. But for it to be all together, it sounds AI after you’ve seen it a lot.

The em dash is fine here, emphasizing the final point. Although I would have probably used a comma myself for a post and not a formal manuscript.

Funny thing is, you can get AI to reduce a lot of these tells with a decent system prompt and staging of the writing process. So I’m surprised we’re still seeing it a lot and it hasn’t been weaned out of the latest versions.

The first Oldest View is my favorite. Simple, yet hits the surreal horror that all of this is grounded on. At one point the person stops and quietly says, “I shouldn’t be here.” That is core liminal fear.

I’ll take the blame, I shortened the statements maybe a bit too much, assuming the references would work. But they were explained well by the other replies.

I was learning in the 90s from lessons on AOL how to sanitize inputs and salt passwords along with HTML 1.0. It baffles me how corporations let stupid things happen now.

Lemmy and related places are still small enough where a regular name posting can become better known faster than large platforms. My only advice is to just review your posts before first submitting to make sure its message is clear, and if people ask questions about it, then clarify. If you want to engage and discuss things, this is part of it. You’re getting discussion. :)

Sanitizing user input for the Moon landings.

Meanwhile in 2026, ask AI to change an authentication phone number and it says, “Sure thing!” And is ABLE to do it.

I remember seeing a presentation by no other than Bill Gates on such an idea. A long time ago. It had merit, it was the feasibility, safety, and cost that kept it from being a thing.

A related side note - I returned a gift once that was a ceiling star projector. Was pretty cool, but I quickly realized that to get the proper spread on the ceiling it had to be low, which meant anyone looking at it in passing would get hit by the LED light. I questioned if that on a regular basis was safe, since the same type tech in scanner has warnings not to look at the emitter. In the return I left a comment on that point, especially such a device would be attractive to get for kids. The connection - friendly fire from a laser that’s strong enough to fry a mosquito at distance is probably not a great thing to have in the house if you’re home.

This is brought up in the article with the programming detecting other things around and stopping the firing if seeing something. But knowing how well vision can and can’t work, and the creep of AI to such things, I’d rather not try it out.

Most models are going to require CUDA. There are some AMD ones out there, but it’s a totally different math and setup. As for the one I mentioned, it’s a pretty new idea so there are only a few out there, maybe just one (Qwen based). But I did get a 31B model to work on my 12GB, I just had to move from Ollama to llama.cpp to gain the control needed to set the parameters, and fine tune what it put on the CUDA to the max it would take. I had Claude help me along the way.

It’s new enough that there aren’t any good abliterated/uncensored models yet.

16GB is plenty for even older model setups. Now they’ve got a few models designed so you load just parts of the model onto the GPU (Mixture of Experts) and use the CPU for less referenced sections, so you get both reasonable speed and a much more complex model.

Dug your hole and threw out both the ladder and the shovel.

Optimal blood flow to the one brain cell.

That’s the rub. Local models have some positives, but overall the source for them is a negative. And the worst thing is, we can’t fix that now. We can’t undo what’s been done, we can’t start over with new data that is fair, and we can’t seem to get AI out of where it’s been jammed in.

Agreed. The short is that AI was done wrong in so many ways, for the wrong reasons, and was the wrong direction for the goal they continue to insist they are trying to reach. The science and technology and what it can do, even the worst of it, is fascinating, but this is not what it should have been. Money corrupted yet another thing.

Either I have some inside knowledge of that exact thing happening and I know the company (not saying who) or this is probably a common things that happened to a lot of major companies (more likely). To be fair, I do not have privy on how far it went and how much it cost before they realize the problem, and it may not have been this much. Which further suggests it’s a thing everywhere.