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Warnings about it being “early days” and “hallucinations” both anthropomorphise the bot and provide ready-made excuses for when one of its constant failures are noticed.

Three years later and the “early days” routine is still going strong. Who would have thought?

Same Apple and Google who say we aren’t safe unless we let them choose which apps are on our phones?

Yes, because AI boosters don’t themselves deal in facts. It’s a religiosity.

If you want statistics about how AI only is losing companies money, or how the finances don’t add up, there are articles for that too.

Because money only listens to money. Individual artists will never have the power to stand up to the corporations that are taking their stuff.

Kind of shocking the numbers above don’t say anything about viewership at all, really. Just that the titles exist somewhere.

But Facedeer is a notorious troll, so his big “gotcha” moment is apparently that people can’t tell or enjoy this stuff. I doubt it. Netflix trash definitely includes $200 million blockbuster flops that nobody knows about (have you or most movie fans ever heard of Fountain of Youth?), that are getting churned out from the back catalog of Skydance, owned by the son of surveillance king Larry Ellison.

If nobody wants a Guy Ritchie heist blockbuster with John Krasinski and two Star Wars alums including Natalie Portman, who’s to say they “want” anything worse from Netflix?

On several occasions, we’ve been exposed to folks that have been sort of lukewarm on our main offerings, but they really, really wanted to use AI to perform a natural language query on their data. And we thought “Okay, if you really want to see it, maybe we can caveat this appropriately and show you what it might look like.”

This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately. Every other consideration, including millions of dollars that we could plausibly help them achieve by non-AI means, was swept aside. It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands into their own chests, and presented their still-beating credit cards to us in grim supplication.

The writing here (and everywhere) is phenomenal, and this section echoes something I’ve seen Cal Newport say before, something along the lines that somebody with no technical knowledge sees one neat trick and suddenly assumes AI will turn into a superintelligence deity.

Facedeer is a bad faith troll and AI evangelist, in case anybody is wondering why he’s pretending to care about accessibility.

Not only is it limited in its scope, it’s also good PR for AI. (Not quite as good as “accidentally” leaked Slack messages or strongly worded letters, but close.)

Can’t wait to find out how big the investor subsidies were to make this model, alongside the subsidies for whatever it probably copied off (OpenAI? Anthropic?) It would be funny if it weren’t for the harm done in the process

> “open source”
> look inside
> no source

I’m sticking to the kratom analogy because it, unlike dynamite, is produced by a facility somewhere, nobody can tell what’s inside of it, the composition can be changed by surprise, and there’s no actual rules or way to figure out what responsible usage looks like. Maybe 10% of people will be fine forever with the mystery tool. Maybe their lack of addiction is the glitch.

At the very least, gun companies don’t have an anonymous suggestion box for who to kill, and they aren’t the ones sending out assassins to do the killing. And the assassin doesn’t live in a mansion funded by taxpayers and foreign interests.

We know the AI megacorporations are not profiting off it. Why would you pretend otherwise? Other you are very ignorant, or you’re being dishonest right now.

NSO Group co-founder Shalev Hulio travelled to Panama in 2013 on an Israeli diplomatic passport and told Panamanian immigration he would be staying at the Israeli embassy.

I can’t read the word Panama without thinking of the Panama Papers. And the journalist who discovered them and was subsequently assassinated with a car bomb.

The details of Hulio’s diplomatic passport have been revealed alongside new testimony from a former intelligence officer in Morocco that confirms the North African country had access to Pegasus — despite its claims that it has not used the spyware. The findings come from a new collaborative investigation into NSO Group coordinated by Forbidden Stories.

Kudos to Forbidden Stories for uncovering this corruption, because I didn’t expect it to be this international.

I wasn’t talking about the closed source models you use. I was talking about the cloud ones you were just discussing.

I read this Linus Torvalds quote out loud and my dog freaked out.

This is NOT some kind of " social warrior " project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit . Not fear of new tools.

It’s important to note that this man’s contributions to Open Source can be taken freely, and he and his opinions can be thrown in the wastebasket at any time.

How vague of a guess is that when people rely on those closed systems? We all know Corporate AI is hiding the actual costs with creative accounting while they enjoy abusing the environment…

Isn’t it curious how the utopian fantasy that’s promised by every AI CEO seems to contradict pesky reality? At some point, you might even get worried that AI appears to inherently erode critical thinking skills.

Maybe people could responsibly use kratom to create better output too. Who knows?

Thinking about AI being used in conjunction with insurance at all makes me physically cringe. If somebody was looking for a tool to remove responsibility for denying claims or applying bias, it’s the tool for the job.

I know that’s not the side that you’re talking about here, but still, I don’t think I trust a system that’s basically Giant Autocomplete to handle this

Stupid leftists think orange man and AI bad? Cringe! Updoots to the left!