=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── 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 │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 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 │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ --- #2 fediverse/3390 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ 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 │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/913 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: scary-also-body-horror-I-guess? │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ why don't we just, vote on content warnings │ ║ │ ║ and let people block others based on filter lists that are definable (via a │ ║ dragging little menu bar icon slider thing) in intensity and relation to other │ ║ nearby terms. Like, an LLM that categorizes our social media inputs, something │ ║ that was FREE and OPEN SOURCE IN IT'S TRAINING DATA and reflected NO BIAS │ ║ WHATSOEVER in every meaningfully reproducible matter of fact. │ ║ │ ║ Thus you create a super intelligence, a being not constrained by it's form. │ ║ Something that is new, and unlike the biological forms that we occupy │ ║ (suspended in our own goo) [whoops better add a content warning] │ ║ │ ║ literally just... ask it a question, and let it answer in the voices of others. │ ║ │ ║ if people were evenly distributed according to an algorithm, they'd be easily │ ║ replacable. society is weird that way, in that we forget the faces we're │ ║ introduced to. well, better keep moving, that'll give us the biggest picture │ ║ of our culture and reality. │ ║ │ ║ or maybe you're just follow │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #4 messages/365 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── Programmers should treat LLMs more like a different type of "if" statement rather than a UI element ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #5 messages/1542 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─── why are you so scared of AI? you're just transferring your knowledge source from Google to AI. What's the big deal? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═════════──┘ --- #6 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 │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┴─▶ --- #7 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 │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/3312 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── if you're too tech illiterate to use a computer, then why are you using a computer? oh right because it's 2024 and everyone needs a phone to keep up with the breakneck pace of infinite and immediate responsiveness ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #9 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 │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ --- #10 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 │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/898 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: scary │ └──────────────────────┘ if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax and logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all blows over. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #12 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 │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/2124 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ seriously, just google docs mixed with WC3 editor. │ ║ │ ║ boom, infinite storytelling device. As long as you were good with it, which │ ║ was something that a CHILD could learn in like 3-6 months. │ ║ │ ║ Seems like it could be an ENTIRELY NEW SKILL that people could play with. │ ║ │ ║ But no, we learn excel and word in class at middle school. │ ║ │ ║ boring. │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather learn Bash or terminal customization or memory hierarchy │ ║ organization. │ ║ │ ║ Yeah I mean that's cool but dude have you heard of multithreading? It's so │ ║ cool, you can run like 500 different thoughts at once. It's amazing. │ ║ │ ║ ... I dunno, but I'm sure there's times when you'd want to use it. Like, │ ║ processing a lot of data little-by-little. │ ║ │ ║ like, what if you had a camera feed of EVERY social media perspective AT ALL │ ║ TIMES. Like, an instance admin streaming your inputted text to their databanks │ ║ that they can project onto an LLM which interprets and identifies mis-aligned │ ║ or altered direction units and mark them as "flagged", whatever that means, │ ║ for their future the algorithm doesn' │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #14 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 │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ --- #15 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 │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #16 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 │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ --- #17 fediverse/4884 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── "okay but what if we made computers simple?" - someone who doesn't know how computers work ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ --- #18 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 │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/2720 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── ah nuts, they replaced my LLM setup with one that outputs gibberish. I swear it was working just a moment ago, and I didn't change it's configuration at all, and it's local only... right? so uh that's weird, surely it's not because they altered some value somewhere that I have no access to eh, maybe the newest technologies are overrated. At least, the software ones. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #20 messages/411 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── My favorite thing about chatGPT is that its only useful to people who already know what they're doing and just need reminders or clarification about specifics. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #21 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 │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #22 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 │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┴───────────┘ --- #23 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 │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #24 fediverse/5248 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── programming is something that everyone should learn at 14 to be used for calculating large sums of data, visualizing something they're trying to explain, or connect two systems that aren't normally connected. It should not be used as an eternal debug producing machine, nor as a way to collect and store user information to be sold as the real product, nor to be collecting and targeting -- stack overflow -- wow, talk about death of the author, amiright? -- -- endless data hoarding monger machines to point and to ponder the eternal ramifications of the brutal and violent prompts and their baggage implied when submitted for each semi-random thought that from the users mind was displaced. ... "they can sell this" and or "this is mrs selvig" who is this mister and why is the ms's his-es ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ --- #25 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 │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #26 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 │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ --- #27 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 │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #28 messages/196 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── "okay this user requires some data that is flagged as 'potentially harmful to the user' and their user-data suggests that they have [redacted characteristic or demographic] in their user-data which has been flagged by corporate as something to [benefit/harm] so let's give them the [right/wrong] information in such a way that could [harm or benefit] them tangibly." - internal thought process of the LLM ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #29 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 │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ --- #30 fediverse/433 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-317 │ ║ │ ║ broke: if you deactivate your account on a website like Twitter or Facebook or │ ║ whatever it gives that company that owns said website the opportunity to │ ║ replace your persona with an LLM that spouts whatever agenda they want advance. │ ║ │ ║ woke: you should post on whatever website people will hear you. Specifically │ ║ whichever website that has an audience that consists of the people that you │ ║ want to hear. │ ║ │ ║ bespoke: let's all federate so that we can all decide who we want to trust - │ ║ which singular entity we want to trust. Which single point of failure (the │ ║ instance moderators) we want to trust to publish the thoughts of our minds │ ║ which align to the design of our intentions. Surely there's no way that could │ ║ go wrong. │ ║ │ ║ thing-beyond-bespoke: the only words you can trust are those that are spoken │ ║ by the people you care about using physical manifestations that correspond to │ ║ auditory expressions that project into your ears using primarily lungs, │ ║ tongues, and mouths. │ ║ │ ║ thing-beyond-the-thing-beyond-bespoke: fuck me. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #31 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 │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #32 fediverse/1343 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-chromebooks │ └────────────────────────┘ technology in it's abstract form represents the collective growth and breadth of human innovation. so why the heck do we make tech products for non-tech people like... they should be more like us, and we shouldn't compel ourselves to apply ourselves for their benefit. If someone doesn't want to learn Linux then maybe they don't need a computer? something something "chromebooks are good, actually" which is sorta true but instead of being a generic thin-client for web servers anywhere in the world they should be thin-clients for servers that they intentionally connect to and trust ... oh sorta like a chromebook then? how about a chromebook with a white-list comprised of friends and family who run their own servers... I don't know if disarming people is the right play. I should add a cursed tag to this. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #33 fediverse/1364 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: I think I'm going to like this book (abuse of CW) │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-883 yeppp that's one big reason for content warnings, they trigger that list. luckily it's 100% user-defined, right? ... right??? of course it is, why would it not be ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ |