BlueMonday1984
joined 1 year ago
If a human customer service rep [added charges without telling people and lied to them], it’d just be fraud. But being able to blame the computer, that’s the use case for AI!
Potential hot take: In situations where the company attempts to diffuse responsbility, the CEO should take the blame automatically.
It’s all gotta be in the models by now, but it’s gonna be a cool resource for something, right?
It'll also be helpful for helping the 'Net recover from the slop-nami once AI finally dies.
For once, I'm hoping a megacorp actively squeezes the infringer for everything they're worth. The looming threat of getting drained dry is the only thing keeping AI fucks from stealing anything they fucking want.
Dan McQuillian just dropped the text of a seminar he gave: The role of the University is to resist AI
Starting this off with Baldur Bjarnason sneering at his fellow techies for their "reading" of Dante's Inferno:
Reading through my feed reader and seeing tech dilettantes “doing” Dante in a week and change, I’m reminded of the time in university when we spent half a semester discussing Dante’s Divine Comedy, followed by tracing it’s impact and influence over the centuries
I don’t think these assholes even bother to read their footnotes, and their writing all sounds like it comes from ChatGPT. Naturally so, because I believe them when they claim they don’t use it for writing. They’re just genuinely that dull
At least read the footnotes FFS
If they were reading Dante for pleasure, that’d be different—genuinely awesome, even. But all of this is framed as doing the entirety of “humanities” in the space of a few weeks.
Exploiting software copyright could be profitable, but to my knowledge its an unproven method. At this moment, they're probably eyeing the fact that defense spending is ballooning worldwide and thinking "there's some easy money to made".
Either that, or put their money into defence and make a quick killing off of all the war breaking out.
Unlike any other work, code comes with its own built in, essentially irremovable “watermark” in the form of security exploits. In several thousands lines of code, there would be enough “watermark” for identification.
To give an example, Warner Brothers got sued by Bethesda for stealing code from Fallout Shelter when making their Westworld mobile game, with Bethesda pointing to a bug that appeared in early versions of FO Shelter as evidence of stolen code.
Although that does suggest a new dunk on computer touchers, of the AI enthusiast kind, you can point at that and say that coding clearly does not require any logical reasoning.
Considering how many actual programmers fell for botshit and autoplag, it probably never did. That's probably being a bit harsh, but I feel this bubble's shown that your ability to puke out computational word salad does not translate into having any sort of useful skill.
That ain't clickbait, Xe Iaso's personally-made anti-scraping measure (originally made to deal with Amazon overloading their git server) has ended up being used by the literal United Nations.
I recommend reading the full blogpost, its a wild ride.
Listen to a Geordie for five minutes and say that to me with a straight face. I fucking dare you. (Not you, the orange site member)