🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

I’m also suspicious that the ransonware attack had anything to do with AI, but I didn’t want to say so because going against the common consensus in threads like this gets me downvoted, so I’d rather not say it if people aren’t going to consider it (and then agree or disagree). heh

Then again, as a user of emdashes^[1] — I suppose I’m under suspucion of being an LLM as well. ;-)

Would you like me to compose responses to any other comments in this thread?^[2]

Well. It would be the zeroth law, first of all, but the three laws would most definitely not allow humans to die.

The whole point of I, Robot was cases where the three laws were circumvented in various ways.

Oh yeah, I assume it’s that level of stupidity. Idiots in charge with zero concept of laws or IT or security.

“half joking”

“half joking”

/hj

My brain always reads this as “/handjob” and it breaks my brain for a sec. :)

And that has what to do with anything I said?

Let’s have a bit of real talk here.

Why were flying cars a failure? Because on the ground, if something goes wrong, you can just stop. Pull over and stop. In the air, you have to have a trained pilot to handle problems and even then people still do occasionally die. So flying cars were never going to be a thing.

Self-driving cars, however, just requires time and research. We will get there, it’s just early. The tech is not ready for prime time yet. But it will eventually be.

And in fact, to wrap it back around to flying cars: At some point, we will have self-flying transportation of some sort.

Once the safety improves to something like 10x that of humans driving/piloting, it’ll all be self-driving.

We’re just not there yet.

That’s the thing - they are not driving them, they’re telling the cars where to go to get out of the situation. It’s not great, but it’s tired seeing the hype of “FERR’N PEOPLE DRIVIN’ CARS ON OUR ROADS”.

My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access. In turn, that sensitive material is viewed by more Alpha School employees than students and parents may realize.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I’m gonna stop you right there with a huge huge WHAT the FUCK. That is an incredible decision to have made. Stunning.

I saw that Alpha School maintains a spreadsheet which contains a list of student names, their grade, and an archive of their recordings which shows what’s happening on their screen, their remote tutor, and a video of the student taken via their webcam. This spreadsheet is not only available to anyone at the company, but is also shared in such a way that anyone on the internet who has the link can access the spreadsheet and the videos of students.

“If I wanted to, I could go there and just watch students. Anybody who worked in this capacity could watch the videos of students working on their laptops,” one Alpha School employee told me. “So many hours of just students’ faces […] I’m not sure parents understand exactly what’s going on with that data […] I don’t think that this is clearly communicated, because I’m sure there’d be a lot more opt outs if it was.”

Wonder how many pedos work for the company.

https://archive.ph/XO6Pn

Dunno if that’ll be better, but I created it to see if it helped :)

I did more skimming than reading of the linked article because I don’t care that much abou tthe topic, but I just want to say: We need more of this journalism. THIS is what journalists should be doing so much more of. Calling out lies and specifically this is a great format for that.

It shows you how insular these people must be. That ad was the result of meeting after meeting, plan after plan. They had convinced themselves that the public would eat it up. We would be like “Holy shit that’s amazing, let’s give you ALL our data and video and privacy!”. They actually thought we would go for it. lol.

Would explain why there were that many reindeer, though. lol

I suppose the real issue is paying for the servers. There’s already pushback against the datacenters needed to power LLMs as it is. I suppose the capital to build would have to come from somewhere.

It’s a pity we don’t have a good government for a project like that. That would truly be a public service.

Did some calculations recently. If we took the cropland on which we grow corn strictly for ethanol production and put solar on it, something like 5% IIRC could power enough EVs to replace ALL vehicles in the US. Which means we could use a little more land for solar to power datacenters designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible. A government-run LLM run for the public.

It’s a pipe dream because in our current reality, it could never happen. But like universal health care and a living minimum wage, it should exist.

I know, I’m straying from the topic again. ADHD gonna ADHD. heh

I suppose as long as we were able to regulate AI companies to make sure they were forced to be upfront, honest, useful… it would be a sufficient compromise. But I’m sure we can’t even have that little.

That would be awesome. :)

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I’m on board with wanting this :)

LLMs will get worse and shittier Why would they?

Not from the side of them gaining more knowledge but from the side of companies creating them monetizing and otherwise enshittifying them.

If we had a competitive open-source LLM…

So you’re not wrong, I agree; but I was speaking of a different angle. heh

My brain skipped over “herder” the first time and I was very very confused.

Precisely that one, yes :)

So kinda like an ethical LLM^[1]. I’d be on board with that.

I know it’s unpopular to say, but I’ve found the latest version of Gemini to be pretty useful. But you have to know what they’re good for and not. General knowledge? Generally pretty decent. But you have to ask for sources and check those sources, and don’t tell it what you think, ask it what it knows and to admit when it doesn’t know things. I wouldn’t put my life on the line, but for looking up random stuff, it’s pretty decent.

I know LLMs will get worse and shittier, which I think is a bummer, because they could be so damned useful.