LLMs don’t know anything. You’d have to have programs around the AI that look for that, and the number of things that can be done to disguise the statement so only a human can read it is uncountable.

  ##### #   #  ###   ####        ###   ####
    #   #   #   #   #             #   #    
    #   #####   #    ###          #    ### 
    #   #   #   #       #         #       #
    #   #   #  ###  ####         ###  ####
  
####  #   # #     #      #### #   #  ###  #####   
#   # #   # #     #     #     #   #   #     #  
####  #   # #     #      ###  #####   #     #  
#   # #   # #     #         # #   #   #     #  
####   ###  ##### ##### ####  #   #  ###    #  

Like here’s one. Another would be to do the above one, but instead of using # cycle through the alphabet. Or write out words with capital letters where the # is.

Or use an image file.

That’s what I’m talking about. We use the Degenerative AI to create a whole pile of bullshit Tlön-style, then spread that around the Internet with a warning up front for human readers that what follows is stupid bullshit intended to just poison the AI well. We then wait for the next round of model updates in various LLMs and start to engage with the subject matter in the various chatbots. (Perplexity’s says that while they do not keep user information, they do create a data set of amalgamated text from all the queries to help decide what to prioritize in the model.)

The ultimate goal is to have it, over time, hallucinate stuff into its model that is bullshit and well-known bullshit so that Degenerative AI’s inability to actually think is highlighted even for the credulous.

This is the danger of a “quick look”. It makes you look ridiculous when you talk about it later.

You don’t.

Most people lack empathy for self-inflicted injury, and the problem is that the perception of what is self-inflicted varies from person to person.

See, personally, I think anybody on any corporate social media verges on the self-inflicted by now, given that it’s been common knowledge for years that Facebook and Google and and and are completely and utterly unhinged in their lack of humanity.

Have you heard of the Butlerian Jihad?

My vision isn’t quite as extreme.

Quite.

Do you think we should still harvest fields by hands instead of using tractors?

That is absolutely not the issue and you know it. How do I know you know it? Because you’re not a moron, which leaves only “disingenuous”.

Your “harvest field by hands” thing isn’t even remotely close to the issue. AI isn’t a tractor making tilling, seeding, harvesting, etc. etc. etc. easier. AI is stealing, say, the wheat from other people’s farms and putting it into your silo and making bread with it.

Yes. Open source. So you give a few hundred lines of material so that people can steal millions to billions of lines of it.

A perfect exchange that is.

I’ve been tempted to go there a few times, but then I realized the only question I’d have is “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL Y’ALL!?” and decided that would be unproductive.

I think people just hate ai.

And yet you don’t take the further step of asking why people “just hate ai”.

Building a project around the mass theft of culture is a problem to me. Hence the downvote.

This right here is most especially tedious to me: all the “politics” discussion really meaning “American political obsessions”. There’s only 350 million or so Americans and yet they act as if their politics are all that matters to the remaining 7.7 billion or so of us.

They have become a lot more convincing, not a lot better.

They’re still misinformation amplifiers with a feedback loop. There’s more misinformation on most topics out there (whether intentional, via simplification, or accidental) than there is information. LLMs, which have no model of reality and thus cannot really assess the credibility of sources, just hoover it all up and mix it all together to return it to you.

You (the generic you, not you in specific … necessarily) then take the LLM’s hallucinated garbage (which is increasingly subtle in its hallucinations) and post it. Which the LLMs hoover up in the next round of model updates and …

Imagine trying to use history to support your point of view while steadfastly ignoring the history of AI.

Done. I wont’ be tagging it as satire, however, since the bridge’s refurbishment was actually based on Smoots with concrete slabs that were usually standardized at 6 feet wide being made instead 1 Smoot wide.

That makes it, to my way of thinking, a genuine use (if extremely localized) of the unit, not satire.

Just like the Spinning Jenny back then, AI is as bad as it’s ever going to be today. It’s only going to get better and jobs will be made redundant, I’ll put my money on that. It’s a real fear that many people have, whether they’ll admit it or not.

It’s also as good as its ever going to be today (or the near future).

Degenerative AI has already dropped off in usage to the point that major stakeholders in it are terrified. It’s going to go into the same winter that every previous “no really this time we’ve got it right” AI crazes went.

Translation from bullshit to English: “Gee I like to hear myself talk!”

Confirmed by Perplexity! 🤣

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/please-translate-the-following-d5OTWfjwRAWZK9.BSN6y8w

The links left me more confused, not less.

Huh. TIL that Proudhon was a Marxist.

/s ← In case it wasn’t abundantly clear.

Don’t confuse anarcho-capitalism with anarchism. The former are disguised fascists. The latter are not.

Obligatory Link: Property Is Theft