ebu

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[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it's hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things

[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

what if we simply took the output of the easily manipulated word salad generator and parsed it into instructions for the computers that are in charge of all our communication to follow

[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well over a year ago it was actually useful. [...] And it just doesn't come up with interesting stuff any more.

i have to admit i'm deeply curious what outputs you considering interesting enough for twenty bucks a month

[–] ebu@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i couldn't resist

Reddit post titled "The Anti-Al crowd is so toxic and ridiculous that it's actually pushed me FURTHER into Al art"

at least when this rhetoric popped up around crypto and GameStop stocks, there was a get-rich-quick scheme attached to it. these fuckers are doing it for free

[–] ebu@awful.systems 36 points 1 year ago

And yet, my opponents in discussion

good gods you're going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren't you

You aren't going to convince me of anything

this was a bit of a given

bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don't you

[–] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you do an excellent job of writing. several times reading this i had to mentally delete paragraphs of explanations for some of the rationalist thoughts and ideology because you have described it perfectly in just a sentence or two.

shared this with some of my in-tech-but-skeptical friends. you deserve a bigger audience

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

thinking "typewriter monkeys", but maybe that's too literal

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

...gods i miss n-gate

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

wow, that side-by-side is so obviously bad i'm surprised it even got posted. usually AI bros try to hide the worst of the tech, or at the very least, say shit like "this is only the beginning!!"

also, was not expecting to click that link and see FUNKe. good nostalgia

[–] ebu@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

simply ask the word generator machine to generate better words, smh

this is actually the most laughable/annoying thing to me. it betrays such a comprehensive lack of understanding of what LLMs do and what "prompting" even is. you're not giving instructions to an agent, you are feeding a list of words to prefix to the output of a word predictor

in my personal experiments with offline models, using something like "below is a transcript of a chat log with XYZ" as a prompt instead of "You are XYZ" immediately gives much better results. not good results, but better

[–] ebu@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (17 children)

it is a little entertaining to hear them do extended pontifications on what society would look like if we had pocket-size AGI, life-extension or immortality tech, total-immersion VR, actually-good brain-computer interfaces, mind uploading, etc. etc. and then turn around and pitch a fit when someone says "okay so imagine if there were a type of person that wasn't a guy or a girl"

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

oh fuck he's that asshole? the one that was so petty about a negative Polygon review for said game that he stalked the reviewer's Twitter page until he could find a quote to mangle into a recommendation to put on the game's Steam page? including the reviewer's full name, against the reviewer's repeated, explicit wishes for it to be removed?

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