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[–] ebu@awful.systems 1 points 9 hours ago

and people get very defensive about this one too. like i'm pretty confident that coolboy004 on reddit is not giving a nuanced delivery on the ethics of a company running an ai-powered call center when he types "screws will not replace us" in all caps on /r/fuckai, and yet

i think it sucks that we're stuck with, say, bluesky engineers genuinely trying to pull the most moronic variant of "but what if the stochastic text generator might have feelings in the future too", but we still need to be able to talk about why people feel the need to make "clanka with the hard r" jokes (answer it's racism)

[–] ebu@awful.systems 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

from what i see, white people simply clamor for a context in which they're "allowed" to finally call someone the n-word, and are willing to accept substitute targets for their racism

add in a protective cloak of "it's ironic and a joke and YOU'RE the real racist for pointing this out" and you get a whole lot of people who are extremely okay slinging around barely modified racial slurs

[–] ebu@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

dictionaries are obsolete bricks remembers that they are useful that's why they're actually ai when you think about it

[–] ebu@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

replacing ChatGPT with a script that replies "Great, I'll finish that for you by ${Date.Now() + 86400}"

[–] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

stolen from cohost but i appreciate the succinctness of "capitalism make computer bad"

[–] ebu@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

and so i pass on the burden, like a virus, to all those who seek truth but must instead whip out their phone to scan a QR code and then get welcome-pinged 18 times in #general

[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago

50% success rate? sorry, all this for a coin flip?

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i needed this giggle, gods bless our dubbers

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

you have to scroll through the person's comments to find it, but it does look they did author the body of the text and uploaded it as a docx into ChatGPT. so points for actually creating something unlike the AI bros

it looks like they tried to use ChatGPT to improve narration. to what degree the token smusher has decided to rewrite their work in the smooth, recycled plastic feel we've all come to know and despise remains unknown

they did say they are trying to get it to generate illustrations for all 700 pages, and moreover appear[ed] to believe it can "work in the background" on individual chapters with no prompting. they do seem to have been educated on the folly of expecting this to work, but as blakestacey's other reply pointed out, they appear to now be just manually prompting one page at a time. godspeed

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"AI is just like smartphones" yes thank you for this statement that we definitely haven't heard dozens of times before

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ah, yes, i'm certain the reason the slop generator is generating slop is because we haven't gone to eggplant emoji dot indian ocean and downloaded Mistral-Deepseek-MMAcevedo_13.5B_Refined_final2_(copy). i'm certain this model, unlike literally every past model in the past several years, will definitely overcome the basic and obvious structural flaws in trying to build a knowledge engine on top of a stochastic text prediction algorithm

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