antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

It can be done (friends and I have tried around 2007, and saw minor success until the company ran headfirst into the financial crisis and our inflexibility regarding user privacy and choice), but it’s not easy if you don’t already have money and connections.

If you do have those connections, nobody will stop you from building the stupid company of your dreams tbh.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, one is tempted to search for a historical throughline here, an axis if you will

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

It’s only real fascism if the dev runs around the streets of Rome carrying a bundle of sticks, come on.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

So they made an AI restaurant! It has a manifesto!

It’s… a printer for QR codes. That a guy who is reallly not equipped for sticking QR codes to bowls has to peel and stick onto bowls. And then they get filled by hilariously imprecise cereal dispensers.

They’re building an empire, yall.

(Via Jonty)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh my god, The Guardian with the sneer:

Take a look at Sam Altman. I mean, actually do it. Go to Google images, where you can find countless photos of the OpenAI boss smiling in a kind of wan genius way, the humble lost puppy of Silicon Valley. But I urge you to simply cover the bottom half of his face in any of these pictures, and you will immediately clock that Sam has the sad-psycho eyes of the lost woman’s boyfriend who the police have asked to front the missing person’s appeal. Please come home, Sheila – we’re all worried sick and we just want you back.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

They sell adapters so you can attach dewalt batteries to your computronium fantasy.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Also, reading up on the recent nix community mess (more fun interpersonal steering committee member conflict!), I’ve come to one conclusion:

One day someone will make a stage play out of this whole thing and the play will suck.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Think I’ve taken psychic damage reading this about moldbug contemplating leaving the country https://fxbsky.app/profile/helldude.bsky.social/post/3m2hltni4422n

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

Good to know that she still has space on her war crime scorecard

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

The question on getting paid might give credence to the rumors that they’re running out of money and won’t make it (user-growth wise) as an ad platform. Which, lol and also lmao.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, exactly. The chatbot, no matter how helpful, exists in a context of dark patterned web design, incredibly bad resource usage and theft. Its purpose is to make the customer’s question go away, so not even the fanatics are interested.

 

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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