BlueMonday1984

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

And sadly, it wasn't somebody's porn alt.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Wow Trannyporno really put that depraved woman in her place

That can't be a real username. That fucking can't.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

New thread from Dan Olson about chatbots:

I want to interview Sam Altman so I can get his opinion on the fact that a lot of his power users are incredibly gullible, spending millions of tokens per day on "are you conscious? Would you tell me if you were? How can I trust that you're not lying about not being conscious?"

For the kinds of personalities that get really into Indigo Children, reality shifting, simulation theory, and the like chatbots are uncut Colombian cocaine. It's the monkey orgasm button, and they're just hammering it; an infinite supply of material for their apophenia to absorb.

Chatbots are basically adding a strain of techno-animism to every already cultic woo community with an internet presence, not a Jehovah that issues scripture, but more something akin to a Kami, Saint, or Lwa to appeal to, flatter, and appease in a much more transactional way.

Wellness, already mounting the line of the mystical like a pommel horse, is proving particularly vulnerable to seeing chatbots as an agent of secret knowledge, insisting that This One Prompt with your blood panel results will get ChatGPT to tell you the perfect diet to Fix Your Life

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

r/changemyview recently announced the University of Zurich had performed an unauthorised AI experiment on the subreddit. Unsurprisingly, there were a litany of ethical violations.

(Found the whole thing through a r/subredditdrama thread, for the record)

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

Drake's a culture vulture, he doesn't understand taste

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago

Drake used AI to duo with Tupac in one of his songs

this is something different from what the article’s talking about, but also that sounds tacky as fuck

Also he did it in his dumbshit feud with Kendrick Lamar - you know, the one which ended with Drake getting the ass-whooping of a fucking lifetime

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Programming and supporting fascism - name a more iconic duo

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Against my better judgement I typed steve.ai into my browser and yep. It’s an AI product.

But is chickenjockey.ai domain parked

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This sounds like the setup for a deeply fucked up comedy skit, or a Filthy Frank episode, or some shit like that, but nope, its real, its actually happened, the tech industry has invented a new and interesting form of racism.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine a lotta people will be doing the same now, if not dismissing any further stuff from SciShow/Crash Course altogether.

Active distrust is a difficult thing to exorcise, after all.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Hank Green (of Vlogbrothers fame) recently made a vaguely positive post about AI on Bluesky, seemingly thinking "they can be very useful" (in what, Hank?) in spite of their massive costs:

Unsurprisingly, the Bluesky crowd's having none of it, treating him as an outright rube at best and an unrepentant AI bro at worst. Needless to say, he's getting dragged in the replies and QRTs - I recommend taking a look, they are giving that man zero mercy.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

New piece from Tante: Forcing the world into machines, a follow-on to his previous piece about the AI bubble's aftermath

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