Absolutely, every single one of these tools has got less interesting as they refine it so it can only output the platonic ideal of kitsch.

I kinda want to keep my job and ideally get a good bonus.

fuck you

That ChatGPT can be more useful than a web search is really more indicative of how bad the web has got, and can only get worse as fake text invades it. It’s not actually better than a functional search engine and a functional web, but the companies making these things have no interest in the web being usable. Pretty depressing.

To be honest, as someone who’s very interested in computer generated text and poetry and the like, I find generic LLMs far less interesting than more traditional markov chains because they’re too good at reproducing clichés at the exclusion of anything surprising or whimsical. So I don’t think they’re very good for the unfactual either. Probably a homegrown neural network would have better results.

you know you’re on a fascist blog when you see so many AI illustrations

I got stuck on the same sentence. What the hell was that?

I’m going to assume he thinks “person” and “thing” are synonyms.

Yeah, it’s always a combination of factors and I have no doubt the stress didn’t help, but the idea that OpenAI would put a hit on some guy no one’s heard of over his opinions on copyright infringement is laughable. Let’s not do that.

my personal theory is he refused makeup because it’s an unnatural affectation that could have compromised his bioengineered skincare immortality routine

WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE THAT

carbon capture you can eat

Humans can’t help but return to questions the presocratics already struggled with. Makes me happy.

One particular safety concern is that venture capitalists might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether venture capitalists have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the capitalist to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier financiers on a suite of six agentic evaluations where capitalists are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

Remilia are still going??? Why??

God I’d feel sorry for fascists if they weren’t trying to make our world as ugly, boring and miserable as they are.

Tangentially, I know about nothing of quantum mechanics but lately I’ve been very annoyed alone in my head at (the popular perception of?) many-world theory in general. From what I’m understanding about it, there are two possibilities: either it’s pure metaphysics, in which case who cares? or it’s a truism, i.e. if we model things that way that makes it so we can talk about reality in this way. This… might be true of all quantum interpretations, but many-world annoys me more because it’s such a literal vision trying to be cool.

I don’t know, tell me if I’m off the mark!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grosse_commission

Ah man, if there’s one thing autistic kids love, it’s the sudden and arbitrary removal of an object they depend on!

yupppppp

Yeah I really really hate the fanfic manifesto and people getting deep feels about it. Such a neat little narrative that conveniently references every authentic detail people have already dug up. It’s in such bad taste ugh.

this whole exchange is so beautiful i love these stupid fucking idiots WHY ARE THEY EVERYWHERE

What’s Kudu exactly? The tech bullshit I’ve been able to find was impenetrable to me.

Do we agree that

When students have questions about course material, they’ll have the option of asking Kudu for help. But unlike ChatGPT and other public large-language models, Kudu will draw information only from the resources Stahuljak has uploaded.

is a straight up lie? That’s not how LLM chatbots work. It’s going to be a kitchen sink LLM with some stupid “you’re a very nice and very smart comp lit professor” prompt engineering, right?