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Jenniferplusplus profile picture
I hate that I'm going to have to forever wonder if a computer is just telling me what I want or expect to hear, or if it's an actual representation of something real. We're gradually replacing every bit of digital paper with one that will eagerly lie to us, rather than remain blank

This is an extremely shitty problem we've created for ourselves
Jenniferplusplus profile picture
There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit

Only rarely do their claims actually bear scrutiny, and those are only the mildest of claims they make.

So, anthropic is claiming that their new, secret, unreleased model is hyper competent at finding computer security vulnerabilities and they're *too scared* to release it into the wild.

Except all the AI companies have been making the same hypercompetence claims about literally every avenue of knowledge work for 3+ years, and it's literally never true. So please keep in mind the highly likely possibility that this is mostly or entirely bullshit marketing meant to distract you from the absolute garbage fire that is the code base of the poster child application for "agentically" developed software

You may now resume doom scrolling. Thank you
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fancysandwiches · 9w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7p7tcz5e5067ftpq4vqr22340xmtvrqqn44qn2u85qyt760u6jtqdd0c89 Open AI made similar claims about their model being so good it was dangerous and they weren't going to release it. In 2019. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-danger...
Jenniferplusplus profile picture
There are only a few places online where people can gather and interact that _isn't_ massively tipping the scales in favor of AI. But there's no secret cabal of terminally online posters coordinating harassment campaigns to keep AI fans out. (As a terminally online poster, I feel like I would know) It's just that they're not popular here. Which is, actually, extremely predictable. They are artificially supported everywhere else, so if course this space has a higher proportion of members who are less than interested.

So, if we're an unusually tough crowd, it's because they did a bunch of crowd manipulation most everywhere else. And if they can't handle a tough crowd, that is no reason to suggest doing that same crowd manipulation here. 🤷‍♀️
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Jenniferplusplus · 10w
And even just from a commercial, product perspective, why would you want to. The lack of that manipulation is mastodons only really distinguishing feature. If you take that away, it's just a crappy Twitter clone
MacCruiskeen · 10w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7p7tcz5e5067ftpq4vqr22340xmtvrqqn44qn2u85qyt760u6jtqdd0c89 Mastodon and the Fediverse aren't perfect, but for better or worse it's managed to retain a shred of humanity in how it operates. That's why we're here. The AI broligarchs want to take t...
Robert Kingett · 10w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7p7tcz5e5067ftpq4vqr22340xmtvrqqn44qn2u85qyt760u6jtqdd0c89 I've puzzled, or at least tried to, with what people have been saying regarding the, ahem, "slippery slope" of hating AI people on here but then that somehow leads to hating minorities a...