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every single person booing or jeering here should have tomatoes thrown at them

*stares at the camera*

We didn't need a study to tell us this?

Truly though: thank you to @paleofuture.bsky.social for performing the now controversial act of Actually Checking Something, and we should be protecting the People Who Actually Check Things with every ounce of energy we've got

The only problem is that the citations go to papers that don't actually exist.

There is something so fundamentally telling with people who think that “reading a book” and “knowing what the plot is” is the same experience.

Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025 "This is the endgame of our isolation."

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

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I must be clear that AGI and superintelligence are a HUNDRED times stupider than the Metaverse, because the metaverse at the very least had virtual worlds you could point at. There is no proof AGI is possible. None. Zip. Taking it seriously - as in the concept - is doing free marketing.

I will also say that when the AI bubble bursts, I don't think the tech industry is ready for how many people are going to take genuine pleasure in it, even with the economic chaos that will follow. Never in my life have I seen such outright disdain for both tech and its executives

The second image works so perfectly with red!!! Great photos!

These things are not sentient and they are 100% deliberately doing this to make the world's most expensive encyclopaedia threaten to email your wife if you turn it off

"I'm so impressed and scared by this" - a person that could be terrified by peekaboo

Okay so whenever you read one of these stories about how models are deceitful or blackmailing, remember that a) these stories are from the model companies and b) that the model companies are the ones that program their models

Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit.

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Genocide? That’s just fine. But don’t you dare spray paint some military planes!

You can always get one of those reusable plastic cameras from harman or kodak for funsies too! I got one as a gift for my friend and she is loving it

Oh Ilford is doing great. Their parent company is now even branching out with some experimental film like phoenix and now red! Film is not dead🥹

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

JIRA deserves its own circle in hell tbh Dante just never had to work a 9-5 bless his heart

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen omg whoever made this I love you <3

Omg how did I miss this gem because I FUCKING HATE JIRA

I don't know if anyone has written about this, but the thing where Google's engineers have designed this software program to spit out text that simulates contrition, grovelling apology feels like something close to admission that they've designed a program they KNOW is fraudulent +are covering it up

On a related note: please *please* PLEASE stop doing the double-act of (a) anthropomorphising a sentence generation program and (b) erasing the actual real morally culpable humans who work at these companies and set these parameters from existence

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

Tried to watch his interview on TED a while ago, he kept saying whatever and looked bored the entire time like I find it so hard to believe he is this charming storyteller

Backlash is the only thing that works, here. Without backlash, automated, unstoppable lie generation will seep into and infect every single space that human-created information exists

Hahaha welcome to the club

Fossil fuel harm and Israel's genocide are linked in literal ways, but one of the more indirect links is how media outlets actively and consciously set out to defend, minimise and reframe the violence of the aggressors

Eg:

don’t forget: waymos and other robotaxis are surveillance devices on wheels that police are increasingly tapping for footage

As I've been saying over and over on our book tour for The AI Con, the inevitability argument (including in the form of "AI is here to stay") is an attempt to steal our agency. We don't have to accept that and I encourage everyone to refuse it.

Synthetic text extruding machines are power- (and water-)hungry, and they serve the interest of powerful people by attracting (even more) venture capital cash, serving as an excuse to collect ever more data, and (sometimes) serving as an excuse to punt on the climate crisis.

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