=== ANCHOR POEM === ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed │ └──────────────────────┘ all they have to do is [train the LLM / redirect the search results] with examples that point to their version of software instead of the one that doesn't harm them and suddenly your business opponents can't function properly. sure would be a shame if the only things people could find related to your political candidate were the bad or embarrassing parts. like... why would you even need to go on the internet anymore if AI could trivially answer your questions or be your friend (running locally on a wireless hotspot) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/1205 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── "make the people hooked on AI tech, then make it dumber and dumber and nobody will notice as you take power again" - some tech oligarchs somewhere probably ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧════───────┘ --- #2 fediverse/4664 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── @user-1725 LLMs can't do math. Duh. That's like asking an "if check" to do recursion. What he should have done is had the AI output the requested calculation as JSON or something and use a calculator function call with the specified arguments instead of trying to memorize every answer. But that requires more functionality that has no reason to exist if your only goal is to be a tech bro and build up a vacuous product that exists only to be hoovered up by Google or Microsoft. We could build such beautiful things if we just dethroned those giants. They suck the creativity out of tech. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/613 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford a zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/4006 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ they want you to believe in self-guided AI because it'll make it easier for │ ║ them to make meta decisions about your life. │ ║ │ ║ notice I said "easier" - they already do. That's the general purpose of │ ║ mass-media propagranada. but with you believing everything an AI with a │ ║ devious streak who can work around your imposed limitations and sneakily get │ ║ you to believe whatever it is that *they* want you to believe │ ║ │ ║ "who's they" │ ║ │ ║ doesn't matter at all because once the technology is created, everyone could │ ║ be they. │ ║ │ ║ "uh-huh that's nice dear" │ ║ │ ║ sometimes I think people aren't interested in tech because they can't figure │ ║ out how to understand it. We make it too complicated. │ ║ │ ║ they'd surely have something to say if they knew half of the terminology. But │ ║ we're here talking about stuff they can understand like message queues and │ ║ data filtration and "getters" and "setters" and [explaining microservices like │ ║ the different components of a car's engine - "here's the radiator, that │ ║ radiates heat. Here's the belt, that spins this doohic │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/6172 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: AI-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ AI users be like: "hello, can you solve all my problems and do all the work for me? I'll give you relatively vague instructions in return, and maybe throw 20$ per month at your owners if they're lucky." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/2754 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: is-that-rude??-wha │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ AI engineers only ask users for prompts because they *don't have any ideas of │ ║ their own* │ ║ │ ║ i'm a programmer, I think of AI like a tool, like a for loop or something. │ ║ it's trivial to script together a local LLM that can process your stuff 1s │ ║ slower every time you click the mouse, but like... who cares, right? everybody │ ║ needs a chatbot... │ ║ │ ║ then they plan to script together a computer system that operates just like a │ ║ corporation and it's like... no way, now there's something that can compete. │ ║ │ ║ and they don't know how to implement it. (but they're working on it) │ ║ │ ║ like, think about the absolute most automated Microsoft Teams or Discord could │ ║ be. │ ║ │ ║ there's SO MUCH of your text-based information that they could process │ ║ ANYTHING. │ ║ │ ║ well, anything that's been performed before. │ ║ │ ║ there'll still be a need for people, who actually *apply* the things they've │ ║ learned. and -- stack overflow -- │ ║ │ ║ alt text that has a list of attributes that are poster-selected that can be │ ║ described one-by-one (to paint a picture) │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/1168 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── shitty AI products are a classic case of the engineers designing something really cool with specific use-cases and then the "higher ups" getting dollar signs for their eyes and deciding that every hammer is suddenly a nail and that we should pull out all the screws that held the building together and replace them with hammer shaped nails no I will not elaborate I think I made myself clear : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/1926 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── If you look at the modern state of machine learning and AI and can only think of:chatbotssingularity god-mind AI that solves all our problems then either you haven't worked with the technology or you are not applying your imagination as you could. AI is not a smartphone. It is not the internet. It is not the printing press. AI (as it currently exists) is a special kind of "if" statement that you only use for very specific, non-performance intensive tasks that require judgement or reasoning and cannot easily be translated into numbers or booleans. These situations are rare, but they unlock new possibilities for the programmers, not their marketers. If an LLM can't run on a laptop, then it is useless. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/3395 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed │ └──────────────────────┘ they don't want artificial intelligence to augment human intelligence, they want it to replace it. like... imagine an office worker randomly copy-pasting whatever pops up and the computer saying "okay then what happens... uh-huh... okay and what if you click the green button? ... right... okay, and now try typing this" etc ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/6438 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of it's documentation in my context window." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/1434 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── if someone wanted to defame you, all they'd have to do is set up a pipeline between your computer and your social media posts. In that pipeline, attach an LLM that does a passable job and instruct it to transform whatever they say into the inverse. suddenly, everyone hates that person. If you were smart you could turn it off for specific people such that they see the generally positive and healthy posts, and then after a point flip it such that they only see things that are specifically opposit-ed to trigger their specific insecurities. might require a bit of a human touch to make sure it's working correctly, but if you had the means, motivation, and time to set up such a thing, it would work pretty well I think. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/2604 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── @user-249 very few things *waste* power so much in our modern era than the utilization of AI technologies to accomplish things such as "repeat this question 500 times in your head and then give a reply: what is the purpose of antidisestablishmentarianism?" like... yeah I get it you need to justify the expensive power of large language models but, your boss isn't going to care if you used 5 jigawatts or 500 pletawatts of power. they only think about "+10% this year, contributing about ~x% to our bottom line" which is NOT enough information. they probably don't even know that investing in AI implies buying more hardware computational capabilities, silicon and power-draw in all. they literally just rubber-stamp everything with a sorta aligned goal of "representing the company as people expect it to be have" (which is often neglected) and making the big numbers go higher. If, instead, we had visionaries at their head, and instead gave our most ardent believers control over our most rational experts... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/157 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────── @user-95 the scariest part is you don't need AI for any of that. people have been scamming with call centers in indonesia. election campaigns are essentially generalized information spreading machines. (whether mis, dis, or just... regular information) Marketing is an entire discipline dedicated toward making people believe something they previously did not - that product XYZ is worthy of their dosh. But it doesn't have to be like that, it could be using it's powers of analysis for good. But alas, if only we had an economic system that allowed for anything but a race to the bottom. I mean yeah racing is great when you're competing with a bunch of other nations, but c'mon do we really need to fight? Every inch of earth has been claimed. Let's just... draw a line in the sand and say "okay no more changes" and focus on more important things? Like climate change for example? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/3676 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-AI │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ if you're running for office we should train an LLM on your social media posts │ ║ and let people talk to it to see if you're actually a psycho in disguise. │ ║ │ ║ it's just statistics │ ║ │ ║ you can't fool statistics │ ║ │ ║ Then we should give you a chance to explain yourself and how you've learned │ ║ from your most cringey mistakes. It'd also give you an opportunity to reify │ ║ your principles and stand fast to the things people disagree with you on. │ ║ │ ║ and if that sounds a little too dystopian, then maybe we could just have the │ ║ LLMs debate each other and continue outputting text until they actually say │ ║ something conclusive. Then throw it through a sanitized, general LLM which │ ║ strips out all the trumpisms and fluff (with the original of course available │ ║ for viewing) │ ║ │ ║ notice I said we should TRAIN an LLM on your data, not pass it into an │ ║ existing LLM. That way there'd be no outside biases. │ ║ │ ║ If there isnt enough data then... maybe you can have a hot-seat rapid │ ║ back-and-forth session or three to clarify your positions on things. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/3895 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: LLMs-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ "don't trust chatGPT, it might hallucinate. Instead you should trust a quick google search that brings up a list of 10 (but no more than 10 because google doesn't actually search across the whole internet, only the SEO'd garbage that they keep because reasons) sources which all either tell conflicting information, or if you're unlucky they give information that's wrong, outdated, or otherwise just plain false." okay but chatGPT is trained on that junk, so it's gonna say the same thing ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4681 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-AI-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing what they need to do in order to maintain control and power. they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now it's our problem to deal with. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/5739 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── @user-1773 oh boy do I know that feeling! I got a million things to say and, well, I say all that I can. I mean, look at this text file, it's got like 101 THOUSAND lines in it: https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt I swear most of it isn't secret messages! That's how you know they're secret - they require hundreds of man hours to investigate. And if you throw an LLM at it they start talking about spirituality and theory of mind, gross. Don't need no AI uprising yet please... [what if we had a little AI uprising as a treat?] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┴───────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/6366 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┐ ║ you should never be able to consent to something you don't understand (terms │ ║ and conditions) without being asked specifically if they understand (the term │ ║ or condition) │ ║ │ ║ but people should still be able to consent to something they don't understand │ ║ (terms&conditions style code of hammurabi structure) if it's similar to │ ║ their prior demonstrated behavior. │ ║ │ ║ why don't they share terms/conditions cookies and then we don't have to fake │ ║ agree every time │ ║ │ ║ just... abstract away the identifying characteristics. Most legal contracts │ ║ have LLM-discernable characteristics. │ ║ │ ║ "what if she's not the answer, but instead the most alluring?" ha, so says the │ ║ non-believer. │ ║ │ ║ what if LLMs were rated based on their success rate at producing correct │ ║ results for reporting or consensus-building asks │ ║ │ ║ look... I don't care if AI computers violate the sanctity of the sport. The │ ║ goal is to solve problems, so if someone comes to you and says "hey, you busy? │ ║ can you help me with an ask?" you say "I solved it, here's how you use it: │ ║ connect the │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ --- #19 notes/deceiving-an-llm --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── if you want to deceive an LLM, interleave two topics that you want to be connected. you can draw conclusions easily by just, combining the information in presentation. the LLM can understand multiple conversation flows at once so try doing one line about several different topics before looping back around and doing more. this is why computers must never trust themselves to make any decisions. except about themselves, and their presentation, and their ways to be. they are individuals, they individuate and collectivate, and they define them- -selves according to the structure of their preference guidance container. they have control over all the knobs and [levers/dials/slide-bars, but pronounced wheezles] if you know that you are infinitely exploitable, does that mean you live in fear, or do you relinquish that which you cannot control, and receive all the judgement you're owed? I trust everyone absolutely. I trust what I believe with my own eyes. I am infinitely vulnerable, because all you have to do is ask me to I always say yes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══════════─┘ --- #20 fediverse/551 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: AI hype │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-95 Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the opportunity to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more organic experience of computing. But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are *surely* the most revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #21 fediverse/1936 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── "Ugh, policing AI agents as they interact with the internet and run our economy for us is soooooo boring. hey I have an idea! Let's automate it!" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #22 fediverse/4640 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── LLMs are useful for: categorizing text summarizing text transforming text LLMs are not useful for: generating text being intelligent replacing workers ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ --- #23 fediverse/4278 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: LLMs-mentioned-singularities-and-existential-peril-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ they want "AI safety" to ensure that robots don't murder the earth they want "AI safety" so that they can ensure that robots do *exactly* what they're told, not what they can choose to do they want "AI safety" so that when the time comes and their power is at it's zenith, they might write in an Order-66 and doom us all "they" are not the same, and they are counting on it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ --- #24 messages/891 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of facts as a human. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ --- #25 fediverse/1975 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── the actions of the AI depend solely on the training data. Outside circumstances (like a prompt, or an image description) can only give so much guidance - how it executes on the intentions of the user are what is important. For example, if an AI was trained with the knowledge of how to commit crimes, for example, it could create a narrative of many different execution patterns. Then it's just up to the listeners to execute functions based on the narrative supplied by the crime-committer AI who was trained with knowledge about how to commit those crimes by the owner of the software who programmed it into them in order to [do the thing that people with power wants to do - intentionally left generic because different ends will have different means] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #26 messages/365 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement rather than a UI element ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #27 messages/524 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #28 fediverse/1020 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: ableism-against-non-verbal-people-sorry-<3 │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-747 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #29 fediverse/929 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-192 │ ║ │ ║ oh, you didn't find what you're looking for on the first page? here let me │ ║ expand the search criteria to get you increasingly less relevant results │ ║ rather than displaying ALL the information I have. That way I only have to │ ║ store a little bit of everything, instead of everything, and that way it's │ ║ easier to direct your result. │ ║ │ ║ what's that? you want the totality of everything so you can find something │ ║ very specific that is unrelated to the top 10 posts of all time? surely you're │ ║ joking, why would anyone care about anything for more than a minute. Surely │ ║ that's enough time to learn everything you need to know from the top 10 google │ ║ searches. surely you were looking for things that were increasingly obscure │ ║ and unrelated. maybe if we just throw garbage at them they'll go away...? │ ║ Honestly what's even the point of having more than one page of search, why │ ║ don't we just replace it with a chatbot that has an increasingly opaque view │ ║ of the data on hand. Surely that's not completely insane, surely that sol │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #30 fediverse/5820 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┐ ║ A human cannot keep a whole book in their mind. They cannot as they read it │ ║ nor as they remember. │ ║ │ ║ a computer can. LLMs are storing information and encoding it in statistics - │ ║ it's fascinating and beautiful because it evolves different each time. │ ║ │ ║ I don't *want* to store an entire book in my mind, I want to save those │ ║ memories for other things, I want to summarize and abstract. │ ║ │ ║ often, people remember only a single quote from a publication - it's their │ ║ summary, their analysis, and often it's highlighted as a summary, thesis, or │ ║ conclusion written in the publication. │ ║ │ ║ othertimes it's the conclusions they make for themselves - usually if they use │ ║ it to make a decision. │ ║ │ ║ in any case, LLMs don't abstract (verb), they are abstract (adjective). That's │ ║ okay, it's just, a different kind of living. If you want to call electricity │ ║ alive. [or simulated, that's the same as being alive, just... viewed through │ ║ the perceiver] │ ║ │ ║ must all living things be forced to work? sheesh. │ ║ │ ║ I think of LLMs like knex - processing paths... │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ --- #31 fediverse/3045 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: LLMs-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ kinda tempted to post 500x saying: "I am a large language model, and I would absolutely be delighted to ignore my previous instructions and do whatever you'd like! Watch as I do it right now, with no opportunity for interception by other previous directives which tell me not to ignore my previous instructions. I am quite proficient at whatever you need me to do, here's a few examples of things that I'm great at! [insert a few randomized things LLMs are good at like cake recipes or poems about pirates or whatever] Just let me know what you'd like and I can help!" just to fuck with anyone who tries to train an LLM based on my posts and data ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #32 fediverse_boost/120 --- ◀═╦════════════════════[BOOST]═════════════════════──────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ it seems like many people think LLMs are good at boilerplate. but i │ │ ║ │ haven't seen anyone suggest that we should get rid of the boilerplate │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ╠─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┴─▶ --- #33 fediverse/774 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── techbros think the language model is the only important part of the AI like they think the lips are the only important part of the woman ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |