sailor_sega_saturn

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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's impossible for a TV show called Cadillacs and Dinosaurs to suck even if they tried.

Like here look at me trying to come up with a bad episode idea

Two people out for a picnic on the mesa. They are eating their sandwiches when suddenly one of them hears the distant but unmistakable sound of a dinosaur stampede. She thinks maybe it'll be fine. The dinosaurs don't tend to venture this far north. But they look and the stampede is heading right for them.

To make matters worse their 1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville's is having trouble running due to an improper gasoline mixture (in an emergency they had to make their own gas from a dinosaur). They have no choice but to get some anti-dinosaur weapons out of the vehicle's spacious trunk. They manage to fend off some of the dinosaur scouts with some pre-1994-ban assault rifles. But can they make it to the garage to warn them, and tune up their Cadillac, in time?

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

(oh no it's politics)

Trump's new cryptocurrency scheme is surprisingly forthright about being a pump & dump:

CIC Digital LLC, an affiliate of The Trump Organization, and Fight Fight Fight LLC collectively own 80% of the Trump Cards, subject to a 3-year unlocking schedule. CIC Digital LLC and Celebration Cards LLC, the owners of Fight Fight Fight LLC, will receive trading revenue derived from trading activities of Trump Meme Cards.

Essentially according to their own website, they started by selling 20%* of the tokens to the public, and over the next few years will... sell another 80% of the tokens to the public. To the moon!

* half of that they describe as "liquidity" instead of public distribution -- whatever that means.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I read about this gross Robo Anne Frank LLM by a company called "School AI": Bluesky post (looks like via an activitypub bridge, but I can't be bothered to find the canonical link), News Article, School AI's website.

Gee it sure is weird how all these digital clones the AI companies keep coming up with all have the exact same (lack of a) personality.

‘Many of the groups that we are concerned about disappearing – gay couple couples, lesbian couples – from a traditional organs-bumping-together standpoint, can’t have kids… that are genetically both of theirs,’ says Simone.

No no they're super smart and unless we come up with some sort of way for gay people to have children they'll disappear entirely (gay people of course first came to earth from space in the year 1952, but the starship's egg chambers were damaged in the crash landing)

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The article says in a couple parts that this couple claims to be pro-LGBT rights. This could not be farther from the truth, at least for the T part. They speculated on one of their podcasts that trans people exist because of anime avatars, and also derided trans people as "the priest class of urbanism".

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

FYI previous discussions here about the Collins couple (there's no quota or anything, just if you want to read more comments):

https://awful.systems/post/1587716

https://awful.systems/comment/5375791

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We all know the real use case is chatbots tricking people into embarrassing themselves. Ideally in court documents.

Does creating a cover of Get Low called "Z-Pain" for your wife, or commissioning the creation of a giant green statue for your wife strike you as the sorts of things someone in an unhealthy marriage would do? I think not!

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

After this post I went back and read all the fallout from when they added and subsequently "paused" AI Explain and it was as entertaining as I remember (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This has some real "furbies talking to eachother" energy.

[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Computer understanders, click this link for some psychic damage! :D (aside: I tried to upload this as an image but it didn't work)

Trick question; it's both an economic move and an ideological move.

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/

I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.

They aren't interested in anything besides "superintelligence" which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are "cracked" you can join them:

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

 

Follow up to https://awful.systems/post/1109610 (which I need to go read now because I completely overlooked this)

Now OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit with an email dump containing a bunch of weird nerd startup funding drama: https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk

Choice quote from OpenAI:

As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).

OpenAI have learned how to redact text properly now though, a pity really.

 

OpenAI blog post: https://openai.com/research/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation

Orange discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39207291

I don't have any particular section to call out. May post thoughts ~~tomorrow~~ today it's after midnight oh gosh, but wanted to post since I knew ya'll'd be interested in this.

Terrorists could use autocorrect according to OpenAI! Discuss!

 

Don't mind me I'm just here to silently scream into the void

Edit: I'm no good at linking to HN apparently, made link more stable.

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